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Made in gb
Dakka Veteran





They are the coolest looking ones, that's it. Perturabo is the coolest looking Primarch too in his armour. Yeah I said it
   
Made in us
Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

Or there could be no joke.
Just a cool looking paint job by whomever painted the force GW 1st photographed.
I mean, you have to admit it's eye-catching.
   
Made in gb
Slaanesh Chosen Marine Riding a Fiend





I chuckled at the Warhammer Community article which stated they paint hazard stripes on everything to remind them not to trip over things.

Please note, for those of you who play Chaos Daemons as a faction the term "Daemon" is potentially offensive. Instead, please play codex "Chaos: Mortally Challenged". Thank you. 
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




From a lore perspective I dont much see the appeal either. IMO Pertruabo has got to be one of the absolute worst primarchs. Maybe the single worst. At least Angron had an excuse.

Pertruabo acts like a petulant child. He joins chaos literally out of resentment and spite. He has a "rivalry" with Rogal Dorn for no good reason other than they both kinda have the same MO. The rivalry seems extremely one sided, like Pertruabo obsesses over it constantly and RD barely seems to notice.

Pertruabo and IW lore claims they have bad assignments during the Crusade era. But did they really? Was pacifying the Hrud actually worse than wiping out the bug xenos race that the Luna Wolves fought, or conquering the ork homeworld? or the assignments of any other legion? We never get any perspective on this other than Pertruabo's. He feels like he got the short end of the stick, but really he was just asked to lead an army in a time of war, same as the rest.

And the lore suggests that never receiving an accolade or a thank you drove him to madness, but he was clearly already insane. Literally the first thing he did when he got his legion was kill 1/10 of them for no reason other than he was upset that he wasn't handed "the best" legion to command. Well the joke was on him because the second Pertruabo joined them they would forever be worse.

Pertruabo wasn't driven off the edge by a lack of respect from his father and his peers, he was just never a good primarch to begin with.

So I think people like the paint scheme, they like playing non-mutated chaos marines, and there is still some residual popularity from when they used to be overpowered many editions ago.
   
Made in ca
Librarian with Freaky Familiar






Like me iron
Like me artillery
Like me terminators
Love me trident
Hate emperors children, not homophobic or anything just dont like em.
Like breaking dorns castles.
Like being able to canonically have my space marines play warhammer within warhammer.

Simple as

To many unpainted models to count. 
   
 
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