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Manchu wrote:No banhammers being pulled on you here, my friend.

Back on track is: the Bloodtide story in the GK dex is

(a) reasonable and ties in with previous fluff, evidencing Matt Ward's excellent grasp of 40k,

-OR-

(b) over the top nonsense, evidencing Matt Ward's defficient grasp of 40k.

My opinion remains that Ward's story is a good one that makes great sense and reminds us why the Grey Knights are not called the White Knights.

It's also possible, of course, that Mat Ward could understand 40k perfectly and hence why some of his stuff is ridiculously over the top.

I don't really understand all the hate either. I thought the blood tide story was really good. I think it comes down to people thinking the sisters were butchered, but I'd imagine they're pious enough that they'd all kneel down and allow their own throats to be slit. Or maybe they'd do it themselves?

OTT is the only logical progression for the fluff. It's how the backstory in ANY universe is handled. Challenges have to become progressively harder to keep an audience entertained. If it hadn't gone that far, people would have complained that the fluff was unremarkable as in the IG codex.
Who would want to keep reading about the same characters accomplishing the same things? If every book at them staying at Super Saiyan level 2, people would lose interest.