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Thought it might be a DOOM reference myself.

locarno24 wrote:

* See Talon Of Horus. Seriously. If you haven't read it, go and buy a copy right bloody now.

Bit of a love hate relationship with that one. I like a few parts of that one. I couldn't get my head around Abaddon
Perhaps I should re-read that.
Either way, the Black Templars again rose to the challenge with

Now we are left in the 41st millenium, 10,000 ish years later and Abs is still alive and kicking whilst all the heroes of that age are long dead.
That's the ruined world that is 40k, but Captain Homebrew or Warlord Titan Expensivus Maximus nailing Abaddon on the tabletop will never have the same satisfying feel, entertaining as the Warmaster of Chaos getting drowned in conscripts or ambushed by plasmavets may be.
Similarly, if he were beaten by any other race- Chaos almost consumed the galaxy, but luckily, an Ork Warboss ran the Warmaster over in a Battle Wagon.

Plus he always teleports out at the last second- as Eldrad's beating him in hand to hand that one time shows.

The main victories these days seem to be SM Chapters killing craftworlds and psychic abominations offscreen.