Board Thread:Critique and Advice/@comment-26120744-20161213032546/@comment-27830834-20161213063825

Honest opinion? Azunar and his various allied faction are kinda boring.

Clearly you've put a lot of work into fleshing out your various articles, and props to you for that, but here's the thing: from what I gather Azunar is essentially a zealous demagogue who commands an organization of Chaos Space Marines and all manner of cultists hellbent on "enlightening" the Imperium through the spread of their dark religion... so basically they're just doing the exact same thing as their Word Bearer counterparts.

What kept bugging me the entire time I was reading through your warband articles was basically the extraneous nature of their seperation from the Word Bearers. I know its stated Azunar left the fold because he challenged the Dark Council due to ideological differences, but the thing is even similarly organized CSM warbands, like the Black Legion for example, basically go off and do their own thing for the most part unless reigned in by a supremely powerful individual (like Abbadon, Bel'akor, take your pick). By this logic Azunar could have quite concievably stayed within the fold and done all the Dark Priesthood-ing he desired so long as he occasionally dropped by Sicarus now and then.

As for the man himself... Azunar honestly isn't a terrible character but isn't great either. He's a dangerously powerful CSM devoted wholly to spreading the will of the Ruinous Powers near and far, which is kind of a given with any Word Bearer character really. The problem is he doesn't appear to have any characteristics outside of this, which is what makes him bland in the first place.

So yeah. That's just my two cents regarding the matter. Do with it what you will.