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Is there any fluff on this bad aside from whats in the C:IG

Uh...tried Lexicanum? There was an article about him in an old White Dwarf too apparently. Now that I think about it, I don't think he even has any BL novels about him, for shame.

He was a bit of a nutcase.

purplefood wrote:He was a bit of a nutcase.

nutcase, yes, bad YES!!!!

Read any book on Alexander the Great

DEUS VULT wrote:Read any book on Alexander the Great

Heh, yeah essentially. Sept with laser guns and a few less elephants. Though their deaths are slightly different, at least based on accounts of them. Mach dies from an alien disiese because of his broken will after his crusade falters, whereas Alexander died from a fever after his conquest of Persia...or was assassinated with poison.

There've been quite the few articles on him, but maybe a search on the GW site.

Still, the Lexicanum probably has a lot of good info, as was said. 2nd edition IG codex, too, though that might be hard to find (I found my copy at home after it went missing 4 years ago).

Wyrmalla wrote:

DEUS VULT wrote:Read any book on Alexander the Great

Heh, yeah essentially. Sept with laser guns and a few less elephants. Though their deaths are slightly different, at least based on accounts of them. Mach dies from an alien disiese because of his broken will after his crusade falters, whereas Alexander died from a fever after his conquest of Persia...or was assassinated with poison.

That'd be India though, wouldn't it?

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Wyrmalla wrote:

DEUS VULT wrote:Read any book on Alexander the Great

Heh, yeah essentially. Sept with laser guns and a few less elephants. Though their deaths are slightly different, at least based on accounts of them. Mach dies from an alien disiese because of his broken will after his crusade falters, whereas Alexander died from a fever after his conquest of Persia...or was assassinated with poison.

That'd be India though, wouldn't it?

Isn't modern day Persia the Middle East?

Persia - Iran

The next questions is... is he gay?

Heheh... good question. I think he's got a page in the new Guard codex, though his sexuality wasn't mentioned...

Also, weren't Loron and Lorii in the "last chancers" clones of Macharius or something?

purplefood wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Wyrmalla wrote:

DEUS VULT wrote:Read any book on Alexander the Great

Heh, yeah essentially. Sept with laser guns and a few less elephants. Though their deaths are slightly different, at least based on accounts of them. Mach dies from an alien disiese because of his broken will after his crusade falters, whereas Alexander died from a fever after his conquest of Persia...or was assassinated with poison.

That'd be India though, wouldn't it?

Isn't modern day Persia the Middle East?

What I meant was that he conquered his way all the way to Indus. Your post implied that he didn't get further than Persia. If I misread this I apologize.

Dark Apostle 666 wrote:Heheh... good question. I think he's got a page in the new Guard codex, though his sexuality wasn't mentioned...

Also, weren't Loron and Lorii in the "last chancers" clones of Macharius or something?

Yeah they were, it turns out it wasn't genetics that made him great it was faith in the Emperor... That's got to count for something no?

The ultramarine terminator Hephaestion was macharius' lover. He was gentle.