Your most hated bit of a Black Library book/Codex Fluff. [Possible Spoilers]

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**RisingPhoenix**

TheCyben wrote:the worst ever book released by the whole GW franchise was 'Mark of Chaos', a spin off from a video game (!). Sure, its FB, but still... In this tragic abomination a fiarly major supporting character (an elf) is killed twice by different people! Now, I know what you're thinking. Maybe a wizzerd dunnit? No - just plain old poor editing. As a SF writer meself this kind of garbage really steams my proverbial tortellini (that's not quite a dirty euphemism). Would any of the publishing houses I get rejection letters from put up with a plot hole so large that it's navigible by merchant shipping? Heck no!
Just to reiterate, a fairly major named character clearly dies TWICE in battle with two different warriors. Ouch.

I was going to toss some stuff up about how the orks always take a dive in any major fight outside of their own Codex (they basically exist to be worfed), and the entire HH series was an abomination, but yeah. This takes the cake. Ignoring absolutely everything about fluff, characters, everything else, that's just an intense level of stupidity.

**Emperors Faithful**

skrulnik wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:becuase the BA weren't keen to fight thier previous bestest buddies.

Internet Hyperbole, FTW

Come on, mate. It's not that far off from the truth and you know it. It was an alliance with Nercrons. Necrons. Are they super-cereal?

**skrulnik**

Not an alliance. An alliance would require communication between the 2 sides.

They just chose not to pursue one another after they dealt with the bugs.

Not everything is black and white. Lots of shades of grey in between.

**Genosaurer**

skrulnik wrote:Not everything is black and white. Lots of shades of grey in between.

The thing is, if you want a deep shades of grey relationship between two parties, you don't write one as "has a fanatical religious hate of anything not human" and the other as "desires nothing more than the complete extermination of all life in the universe".

Imperial Guard and Tau or Eldar temporarily working together towards a common goal, and parting amicably when they succeed? Sure, I can see that. Necrons and Space Marines? No.

**Emperors Faithful**

Genosaurer wrote:

Imperial Guard and Tau or Eldar temporarily working together towards a common goal, and parting amicably when they succeed? Sure, I can see that. Necrons and Space Marines? No.

Basically this.

Actually this reminds me of a certain comic.