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Talos states "I want them to remember the Legion they once feared". What happened in between, why aren't they feared when that's their specialty]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667085.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667085.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
Also they are a bunch of undisciplined murderers.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667193.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667193.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667208.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667208.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667261.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667261.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
The Night Lords have no discipline, no unity of purpose, and no driving force. They are bullies and cowards and prideful, shortsighted fools. If they had something to rally around, a unifying force, then they would indeed be something to be feared. (And they are hands down the coolest Chaos legion! )

About the Night Lords trilogy:
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That's what makes the Night Lord at the end of Aaron Dembski-Bowden's trilogy so frightening. He is, symbolically at least, the sum total of the characters we were reading about over the last three books. With all the scary aspects of First Claw bound together in a single mind, he could very well be the figure the Night Lords need to herd them all together and force them to work as a single cohesive unit again. It isn't that he possesses the equipment or the prophecies or any of that jazz, it's that he is the dominating figure that has what it takes to unite the Legion again.
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Other Night Lord warbands may be better or worse off. For example i recall there was another warband Talos and friends encountered who were much larger and more well equipped than theirs. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667664.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5667664.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5668837.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5668837.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5668863.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5668863.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
Void__Dragon wrote:Eye of Terror = bitch-haven.


That's all I got from that post, and it is the single greatest thing I've read about the EoT.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5669051.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5669051.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
It's never really been covered exactly how the Night Lords have persisted. Technically they shouldn't be immortal like the traitors that fled to the EoT or even the Maelstrom. But ultimately, the lack of logistical resources would explain why they are largely forced into piracy and scavenging.

Though again, like many others, I still think they are the coolest of the Chaos factions. Aside from the silly batwings all over the place, I guess. Would be cool to see some people who took that approach to modeling them, with battered, mismatched/patched armor.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5669091.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5669091.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
 Bloodecho wrote:
The nightlords legion isnt particularly less disciplined or more crazy than thier demon possessed bretheren, they operate on the same power structure (warbands and warlords) as most of the other legions. However when Cruze died he left no heir to his legion as he'd grown to hate them, so they have no real leader. Also they never stopped fighting the imperium, nor do they live in the warp and dont really have as much of that "the warp makes time make less sense" deal. so were as the word bearers may feel its only been 500 years since the horus heresy, maybe its been closer to 6000 years for the nightlords. you can find all this info in the short story compilation books in the horus heresy series, or the nightlords trilogy.


In the book Soul Hunter it is made clear for that warband that only a century or so has passed for them since the Heresy.

The Nightlords are as insane as their primarch and had devolved before his death, it is surprising that any of them are still around.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5675591.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5675591.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly
They are bullies and cowards and prideful, shortsighted fools.

The Inquisition aren't cowardly bullies when they use soldiers to fight their wars before sending to slave labor camps. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5682181.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5682181.page GMT Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5682274.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5682274.page GMT Re:Why are the Night Lords doing so poorly

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The Night Lords fighting alongside Abaddon the Despoiler unleash great terror upon the people of the Cadian Sector.[

From Lex


■13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - The Warmaster Abaddon launches his 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41 which is intended to finally open the way for the Forces of Chaos for a second invasion of Terra. As part of the united effort of the Forces of Chaos to overwhelm the Imperial defences of the Cadian Gate, shock troops drawn from the warbands of the Night Lords sow terror across the Scarus Sector, cutting communications and hanging the corpses of their victims from every building within reach. The Night Lords perform innumerable acts of terror, carry out lightning raids and cunning feints intended to slowly batter down the Imperial forces present in the Scarus Sector. Even those Imperial defenders who are strongest in their faith in the God-Emperor find their confidence shattered when they are forced into an existence of solitude, darkness and confusion by the Night Lords' operations. Amongst the psychological warfare operations carried out by the Night Lords during the 13th Black Crusade are the transmission of heretical communications claiming that the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines is in league with the Forces of Chaos. An Ordo Malleus Kill-team is despatched to destroy the source of the transmissions, but find only broken Night Lords bodies -- evidence of the Dark Angels' own wrath. During the 13th Black Crusade, however, the current Chapter Master of the Howling Griffons, Alvaro, diverted his Battle Barge Sword of Destiny from the war effort to pursue the Night Lords Daemon Prince Periclitor and earn vengeance for the death of Orlando Furioso millennia before. The Howling Griffons finally restored their honour when Periclitor was banished to the Warp at the height of a titanic space battle between the Howling Griffons' 1st Company and the Chosen warband of the Daemon Prince. Also during the 13th Black Crusade, the Night Lords' warleader, the Chaos Lord Tarraq Darkblood, has his Styx-class Heavy Cruiser crippled by the Imperial Navy in the Faberius Straits. A large force of Chaos warships eventually rescue the drifting starship and its enraged occupant.

From Wikia

So it looks like they did piece themselves back together.


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I guess I should change the question to why they WERE doing so poorly]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5689639.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/529670/5689639.page GMT