Mykra

Any chance for some battle reports? Or have I missed them somewhere? Edit: And a list. Because I'm nosy like that. ;P

What we knew of the Custodes before the series, I might have accepted it as a possibility, but having seen them so far in the HH...I'd believe any of the Primarch's would smack around two or three of those guys. I was under the impression they spent some time repairing it before lifting off again. I mean, they went around the entire planet even collecting the spent bolter shells they could find so no trace of the Legion would remain on the planet. That had to take a little time. Yeah, I'm going to have to agree that was the writers fault. Going back to read their conversation with these bits from Swallow, I can see how he was trying to push that idea forward, but without them it sounds like they were more coming to grips with the fact that if they had to take Sang down, they'd never make it off the ship alive.

Well, the 'explain their presence' line threw me. Your follow-up does make more sense, in that it made no sense how they planned to accomplish it if they had to make a move. Edit: I looked on his website Red Flag, and saw no mention of the Space Wolves. Mind giving me a link so I can check out what he said, I'm probably just blind but not seeing it on the site or the Livejournal links.

Wait, why would he need a blog post for that? I thought it was made crystal clear in the book during their conversation inside the temporary rooms the Angels gave them upon the ship. Paraphrasing, but didn't one of them even say 'If Magnus can fall, then who else?', and then the talk about if they did kill the Angel, the rest of the Legion would kill them where they stood...one way trip and all that. I was more taken aback with the arrogance of Russ and the Sigilite thinking a couple of space puppies could take down a Primarch, especially of one the Angel's skills, than being confused as to their orders. Don't get offended Wolves - if we sent a Librarian and some Sang Guard to knock off Russ, I'd have the exact same reaction 'C'mon, no way are they taking him down with that'.

please tell me you have a actual source. WLK Russ could probably win a drinking contest, but that's about it with Horus. Sanguinius benefited from (suffered?) the fact that they could build him up into this near-perfect, golden Primarch that could have been everything great about the Imperium, because he was born to die at Terra. Horus was the same way as he had the 'best of us' qualities, because he was very obviously on the track to become the very worst of them all. So even if something a decade or two old surfaced saying he sparred well vs the Warmaster, I wouldn't read a single thing into it as Horus and Sanguinius clearly had to be the best of the best just to highlight how horrible the final battle was going to be. Not to take away from any other Primarch or add fuel for some insane A>B=C rankings. They were all awesome in their own ways. /Dune: The plot must flow. Back to the book though. Please tell me I wasn't the only one who laughed out loud at the Warden and his 'party bus'? Zipping around a Daemon World on a burned out Mastadon, big bumper sticker that reads 'We Stop For Killin'!', yelling and cheering through the wastes? Paraphrasing, but 'We didn't come to save you, we came to kill them!' Edit: Although I really enjoyed the book, I have to say the Blood Angels having 'preysight' irked me every time I read it. I don't mind them having that same thermal/electromagnetic vision modes, but the name just didn't seem to mesh with me.

My vote would be the scene of Loken pinned under the rubble, watching the virus bombs slowly erupt in the air above him. Something about that just screamed emotional movie moment to me. You could almost hear the Dead Island piano music, or LOST's 'Life and Death'.