Yeah, the match up between Cruz and Gulliman+The Lion is just silly. One on one it would have been an even match, two on one it should have been over in moments.

Gulliman nearly getting assassinated by a single squad of Alphas also seems pretty lame.

But the worst thing about UE for me is just what an absolute chump Abnett made Vulcan into.

He is a frigging Primarch for crying out loud, he may be mad, but just look at bloody Argon, being mad doesn't make a Primarch less dangerous, quite the opposite! Yet Vulcan gets killed stupidly easily by just about every character in the book.

Abnett has a great eye for detail, and capturing insight into human nature. But he just doesn't get space marines, never mind primarches.

Abnett should really stick to human characters and leave the space marines and primarches to people like McNeil or ADB.