Sisters capable of shrouding GK with their blood

[Lone Scout]

IMO it is crap fluff writting. Not only is it not logical but it doesn't fit with the purity of the gray knights....the emperors own. One doesn't slaughter the innocent for any reason (spacemarines this is not chaos ect) and I could garentee that Graham McNeil would agree. You would never see Ultras doing this...ever so why the supposedly more pure GK. What I like to do in the instance of really :cussty fluff writting is put it down to rouge imperial scolars trying to corupt the loyal population with bull:cusse. Chaos propaganda is what it was nothing more ....

[TheFacelessMan]

it stands to reason that the GK task force dispatched knew exactly what and how to deal with it upon arriving. This probably wasn't a split second decision to just murder some sisters.

 

So it wasn't an "AMG! We're all doomed! Quick do something DESPERATE!" decision. But rather a course of action they *already* knew they'd have to take, before the Prognosticators sent them there.

 

And that's, better?

 

:/

 

GK-BC: "GAIS, We're going to a world where our Daemonic resistant Aegis Suits (with Truesilver lining!) and Psychic prowess are no match for a Bloodthirster. But it's ok, I've already made sure there's an Order of SoB sent there, so when we arrive, we can kill them for their blessed blood!"

 

:rolleyes

 

Why don't the GK just keep some SoB on tap back at Titan, so they can coat themselves before going out on every mission?

 

Edit: This post isn't aimed at you Faceless, in any fashion. Purely at Ward. No matter how you try to spin his fluff, you cannot make it palatable. :(

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Maybe they didn't get their shipment of blood of martyrs in on Titan due to warp storm? I understand that some just don't like the fluff, but I think it's a little unfair to Ward when other writers have made other chapters and characters do even worse. Is it the best fluff ever written? Not by a long shot, but it's still enjoyable for what it is.

 

It might not be better, but it's more grimdark. Plus Emperor's Gift showed that the Aegis was only particularly effective against lesser daemons. Anything with enough oomph isn't going to be shut down by it, maybe made uncomfortable, or even hurt if it comes into direct contact itself, but not a bloodthirster.

 

Plus you have to take into account that the entire population of the world was either dead and exsanguinated or blood crazed by the time the GK got there. That's a lot of blood teeming with bloodtide and new cultists to cut through before even making it to the bloodthirster.

 

I think a lot of people get hung up on the sisters without realizing that the GK's did much worse in the aftermath of Armageddon. And that's just one example. They've obliterated worlds because of taint rather than fight a losing battle.

 

As much as Ward might have added a distasteful act to the recorded history of the GK's, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what else they've done. I love the GK's as much as anybody for their hold the line, last defense of humanity, best and bravest reputation, but I can also appreciate how much they have to sacrifice to hold that line.

[Aleax]

Hi.

 

You would never see Ultras doing this...ever so why the supposedly more pure GK.

IMO folks make Ultramarines what they are not. Yup admitely here we have something extrem, but Ultramarines are not exactly the "purest" of the Chapters around even if they can be respectable, and simply put, generally are...

 

Grey Knights also, are with the Inquisitors. And we all know that the Inquisitors are for the most part not puritans, but ya know, use the End justifies the Means. This is this story.

 

As of this specific designer, Matt Ward is not the only one to blame, if there's one to blame at all :P . See, these excalations (thanks Thade for the precise word) are what Children want....and the fluff follows the rules, always more and more shiny and extreme lol.

 

Also Matt Ward didn't wrote the SW codex for instance IIRC, but this is the same vein. Wolves riding Wolves anyone?

 

Cheers.

[thade]

Now that we've bridged off to the land of "Not only do we hate Ward, but - srsly - what's with these Space Wolves" we are safely and solidly departed from any topic that's related to the OI. <3 The original topic was examined at length. :) Let us move on with our lives now.