He Can Only Do One Thing, But He Does It Better Than Anyone (Grimdark Month WIP) (Patreon)

Hello!

Grimdark month has kicked off and who better to start it than the Red Angel!  Angron is one of those characters that really puts the 'Grimdark' in 30/40K.  Out of all the Primarchs, he had the absolute worst starting point and things never got better.  Captured basically at birth, Angron was forced to become a gladiator in the fighting pits of Nuceria.  There, he and all other gladiators are fitted with a nasty piece of technology called the Butcher's Nails.  These supercharge the fighter's aggression and turn them into killing machines.  But the major downside is that it impairs all higher brain functions (seriously, Angron can barely form a coherent sentence.)  Worse, anyone fitted with the Butcher's Nails must keep on killing otherwise the Nails will just make the recipient feel more pain.  Mix all this with a disastrous reunion with the Emperor and you practically expect Angron to turn traitor at the first opportunity.

I've often been told that Angron is the only Primarch to make his legion worse and it's not hard to see why.  As a melee killing machine, Angron has no equal but he is utterly incapable of leading armies (you know, that thing all Primarchs are designed to do.)  His idea of leading the World Eaters is telling them to 'Kill everything' and 'Kill faster or I kill you.'  And after the legion received their own Butcher's Nails, the World Eaters lost all semblance of restraint and just wiped everything from existence in a mad orgy of bloody violence (This includes worlds that could have been successfully added to the Imperium).  The situation with the World Eaters got so bad that Leman Russ tried to knock some sense into Angron with a lesson in strategy and tactical objectives but it went nowhere.

All this being said, as a traitor Primarch, Angron and the World Eaters are probably one of the most successful.  Over the millennia, they have destroyed entire Imperial systems and caused the most destruction in sheer body count.  So maybe Angron was onto something with his kill everything approach.

Like the Big E, I needed to adjust some elements of his armour for GW reasons but I really wanted to capture his bottomless rage.  His pose will also be equally...violent.  I've been working on Lelith and the female Commissar as well and they will debut shortly.  Stay tuned!