Who is your favorite primarch in PRE-HERESY?

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**TheAngrySquig**

daveNYC wrote:
TheAngrySquig wrote:The wet leopard thing is bad. And I agree that Russ would wreck almost every other Primarch in a fair fight. No psychic eldar trickery

You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people? I think ADB had it right when he said that the Primarchs are all equal to each other in battle. Not equal in every given situation, but there is no one primarch that is head and shoulders above the rest. The fight in Savage Weapons is a good example.

How is Savage Weapons a good example? KK is about to choke Lion to death, but that guy stabs him in the back

**SomeRandomEvilGuy**

TheAngrySquig wrote:
How is Savage Weapons a good example? KK is about to choke Lion to death, but that guy stabs him in the back

First because the Lion is a better tactician.

Secondly because the Lion was winning until Curze started the brawling aspect of the fight (i.e. the Lion is better in the 'duel' style the fight started with, Curze in a brawl).

Thirdly because the Lion's death was still not assured by that point.

**Remulus**

Wow Alpharius/Omegon is more popular then I thought.

At least Sanguinius is top!

**TheAngrySquig**

SomeRandomEvilGuy wrote:
TheAngrySquig wrote:
How is Savage Weapons a good example? KK is about to choke Lion to death, but that guy stabs him in the back

First because the Lion is a better tactician.

Secondly because the Lion was winning until Curze started the brawling aspect of the fight (i.e. the Lion is better in the 'duel' style the fight started with, Curze in a brawl).

Thirdly because the Lion's death was still not assured by that point.

Ok, fair points. In barfight style combat, I would say Kurze, Russ, or Angron would win

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Remulus wrote: Wow Alpharius/Omegon is more popular then I thought.

At least Sanguinius is top!

I was just as surprised by that as you, and made happy by Sanguinius at the top

**el_groovatore**

I've always had a lotta love for Perturabo. I think I can relate to him the most - cold/logical, tends to shy away from social contact, grasp of technology, works harder than everyone else but gets utterly overlooked. Perts and his Iron Warriors are hardcore. I certainly wouldn't say he was the strongest or best in a one-on-one fight, but he's a tactical genius, and I just like the fella.

**TheAngrySquig**

Perturabo is pretty handy in a fight iirc. But anyways, yeah hes another favorite of mine

**Crystal Geyser**

Fulgrim, because he rapidly goes from a noble, beloved hero to a decadent wastrel, a truly tragic loss for the Imperium. A good reminder as to why chaos is evil and a textbook example of why religious intolerance and xenophobia exsists in the imperium now.

**TheAngrySquig**

Perturabo is up there for mainly the same reason, he is a hero who had to much gak and gave up his faith in the emporer

**Samus_aran115**

Almost no one voted for lorgor. Our magnificent and omnipotent primarch, blatantly ignored.

**TheAngrySquig**

Because he wore a dress

**Samus_aran115**

TheAngrySquig wrote:Because he wore a dress

Where?

**TheAngrySquig**

First Heretic, it doesn't portray him well

**The Son Of Russ**

Trolol he glows gold

**TheAngrySquig**

Hes whiny in it though

**TheAngrySquig**

And keeping in time with my milestone posts, I'll spend 1500 making fun of Lorgar. He was the second in everything, and gets completely overlooked because of it. Second best tactics, second shinyest, second biggest legion. The glowing gold primarch takes the silver

**BlaxicanX**

Pretty much all of the Primarchs are either boring and stupidly serious (Dorn), or tools (Fulgrim).

So Sanguinus get's my vote. Though, Angron is so damn entertaining. He's like a parody of a character.

Also lol @ Rowboat Girlyman in the poll. No love for the man in blue.

**81Northman**

Leman Russ's attitude of ' No-one's gonna tell me what to do with my legion is quite funny'

He's also very loyal and very nails, so this makes him appealling to I suppose.

I think Ahriman sums him up when he meets him for the first time.
He compares his presence to that of Magnus and where Magnus is Calm and Soothing, Leman Russ is Powerful, Hard and Aggresive, but Controlled.

I also think the story of how the Emperor first meets him is quite funny too.

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I also like the fact that other than the Lion and

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No-one else has knocked him out.

I am completly biased in this poll, however I also like Vulcan, Ferrus Mannus, Corax and Angron

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BlaxicanX wrote:Also lol @ Rowboat Girlyman in the poll. No love for the man in blue.

Rowboat Girlyman...lolololol, stop, it's hurting now, tickles me everytime someone writes it

**TheAngrySquig**

The person who started this poll is unfortunately the most biased

I am a Sanguinius fanboy, so I am so happy that hes been in the lead for almost the entire poll

**Melissia**

Mortarion until he got pissy at the Emperor about his murderous unrepentant uncaring necromancer "daddy" being killed over his disgusting behaviors, and never grew to accept that it was necessary to save the planet and all its denizens... constantly brooding and whining over it.

Had so much potential, but then like most of the CSM primarchs failed utterly-- a great concept, but poor execution, making his later turn to chaos far less tragic than it should have been.

**TheAngrySquig**

I thought Mortarion got pissy when he saw that the emperor did something he couldnt

**Durza**

Mortarion got pissy when mere humans were put in charge instead of primarchs.

**DoctorZombie**

Mine used to be the Lion, but after reading Fulgrim where he and Ferrus Manus have that faight and he breaks the Fireblade, I think it's Manus.
Vulkan is cool too.

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TheAngrySquig wrote:Because he wore a dress

Fulgrim makes Fulgrim seem a little... well.. gay.

**AtariAssasin**

I've always like Konrad Curze alot. Really brutal but not necessarily a bad guy. Kinda reminded me off the Punisher, plus he dealt with his death well, and that gets props.

**BTNeophyte**

While Mortarion and Russ are awesome, I would have to say Dorn would be my favorite pre-heresy. I love the Fists and Templars, so what I would do is run Dorn as a terminator captain or Lysander, and use a captain with relic blade and some sort of shield as Sigismund, or use the EC model for him.

**Nakor The BlueRider**

I do like Magnus the most but that might because I enjoyed the book, A Thousands Sons. Sure he was arrogant, had a ego the size of the planet and then let his sons die while he was being emo but he created a very impressive army, a legion of Warrior Scholars which could of lead the IoM out the dark ages.

**TheAngrySquig**

Speaking of books, when is sanguinius getting his?

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

TheAngrySquig wrote:Speaking of books, when is sanguinius getting his?

YEAAAAHHHHH when's he getting his??? I still waiting to see a preheresy Curze, Mortarion, well basically i'm waiting for a lot of pre-heresy primarch novels

**TheAngrySquig**

Yeah, every primarch gets one right?

**Durza**

Most of them seem to have detailed the fall of traitor primarchs or made the loyalists seem like jerks. There's not going to be a novel about pre Heresy Angron, for example, even if it could be interesting if handled right.

**TheAngrySquig**

So they are only making traitor books? No Sanguinius?