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Orks is number one. Withought horus the Emperor would be dead. Probably why he still dosent want to kill him in the end.
Also the lion is the duelist amongst the primarchs. Litteraly the only primarch that never lost a duel

tneva82 wrote:

guy that is threat to gods shouldn't be in danger vs orks.

Does that follow? Many sword and sorcery settings including 40k have some kind of holy/divine element and cleric or paladin attacks that cause huge damage to daemons or the undead but little or nothing to other opponents. They call him an anathema to chaos, it makes sense if he has Destroy Daemon and a very long term scheme that’s uniquely threatening to chaos gods, while being less distinctly strong against mundane opponents.

 techsoldaten wrote:
Stepping back from the particulars, the idea of an omnipotent Emperor is a lot less exciting than a mortal that faced genuine peril fighting during the Great Crusade.

Yeah

mrFickle wrote:
Why is it so hard to imagine that a waaaaagh big enough could rival the emperor’s psychic powers and reduce him to fighting for his life. Otherwise why was he ever in danger one on one with Horus, it all becomes ridiculous if he’s that untouchable.

Why did he need an army he could have just gone planet to planet completing the crusade himself.

The problems are, imo: too many people still see orks as a comedy horde army and we have never been given a working example of what orks become if their empires are allowed to grow big enough. Just rumours.

Next edition ghaz should achieve krork status

It would be good to address this more commonly. Like one the omnipotence is more meme than real in the text. More to the point if it’s true then there isn’t a point to having the setting at all.