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OK, I known that Failabaddon somehow got his hands on two of the Blackstone Fortresses, which can be used to destroy worlds and stars. Also, he used them in the 13th Black Crusade to wipe out both Imperial and Chaos troops on Cadia. My question is why he didn't use them to BLOW CADIA TO HELL!!! Seriously, he has weapons that can utterly annihilate a world, and yet he chooses to attack the most fortified planet in the galaxy head on rather than just destroy it and go on? Why the hell would he do that? It makes no strategic sense whatsoever. By just destroying Cadia, he'd not only cause the loss of all the (massive) Imperial forces stationed there, he'd also preserve his own forces and make it far more difficult for the Imperium to patrol the Cadian Gate, his way out of the Eye of Terror. It would be much easier to simply capture a more weakly defended system if he needed a froward base that badly.

Cadia also has pylons on it of unknown and ancient xenos manufacture (it is a common supposition that the C'tan or necrons had something to do with it).
It is theorised that it is these pylons that cause the safe harbour around the eye that is the cadian gate. They have a stabilising effect on the local warp. Without it, all warp travel through the area would be a lot more troublesome if not impossible.

If he destroyed Cadia, he would more than likely shut down his main way of getting reinforcements through the eye.

Yeah have to agree if he destroyed cadia it be serious set back for his Black Crusade, no staging point for further invasion into the Imperium and no access to the manufacturing facilities(if im not mistaken cadia builds it own stuff). And winning it and keeping it would be kinda big blow to the Imperium seeing how the population has some of the best guardsmen regiments in the galaxy and he could just keep training them as the Imperium did, just new master the chaos!!!

chromedog wrote:Cadia also has pylons on it of unknown and ancient xenos manufacture (it is a common supposition that the C'tan or necrons had something to do with it).
It is theorised that it is these pylons that cause the safe harbour around the eye that is the cadian gate. They have a stabilising effect on the local warp. Without it, all warp travel through the area would be a lot more troublesome if not impossible.

If he destroyed Cadia, he would more than likely shut down his main way of getting reinforcements through the eye.

QFT


Cadia IS stabilizing the passage. Without, the eye may become hardly accessable. The other possible passages arent capable of
transporting that amount of massive fleets with acceptable risk. Most chaos fleets would risk heavy losses.

Plus, we all know GW produces plastic cadians.....
so i cant believe theyre willing to drop their line of plastic IG to catachans only.

I think GW's goal with the campaign was a stalemate or imperial victory.

The realy interesting point is, the Eldar lost control over the blackstone fortresses ( machines of vaul? ) and therfore a lot of
fighting power against the necrons.
Maybe the whole story wasnt "more power to abby-the-brainless-butcher" but less threats to the plans of the C'Tan.
Would make a nice twist to add more necron menace to 40k.