This is heresy……i like it.

@Clockwyrkke  
Dark Eldar have been the redheaded stepchild for a while.

@ManualReplica  
My hat’s off to you, for speaking the truth. Now if only the Guard wasn’t GW’s unwanted child as each edition progresses…

@Background Pony #E205  
It is actually a legitimate problem with WH40k writers.
 
Imperial space marines are portrayed too much like invincible heroic marry sues that never lose, especially against opponents like their chaos space marine counterparts, which are literally badass veterans that fought during the Great Crusade and for the ten thousand years following the Horus Heresy.
 
WH40k is plagued by the problem of everyone being “the best”, and that is something that is observable by just reading the Lexicanum, that straight up describes every legion and chapter as being amazeballs at something and lists some giant list of ridiculously overwhelming or impossible victories they have had.
 
It’s like the writers are afraid of giving the characters and armies they write about any kind of particular weakness or flaw. It’s always like, the ‘main characters’ of the story being invincible gods and some random opponent they just happen to choose at the time being basically star wars stormtrooper levels of incompetent, and then the next writer comes along and does the same thing in reverse.  
It’s incredibly rare in 40k for two groups to be written as being ‘equal’, or battles being genuinely hard fought/phyrric or even lost, or engagements where you don’t see bullshit like the one hero space marine killing like 50 attacking chaos space marines or something like that.
 
So in the end everyone just comes off as mary sues, with the meme being that the ultramarines being overall especially bad about it.

@ManualReplica  
Depends heavily on the author.  
Even the big E tends to be that way.  
If anything, Sanguinius is typically the guy everyone loves, though one could argue it’s a posthumous cult of personality.

I actually like Rowboat Girlyman, and him coming back. WH40k was getting a little stagnant. Ultrasmurfs forever.

@Sanguine_paladin  
Rowboat is a marry sue and will die a horrible death once GW gets bored of him

Hate to break the mood for Reppy, Rowboat is back and the Imperium is going to have the Primaris Space Marines (Space Marine Space Marines).

I didn’t know Reppy like Warhammer 40k.