Editing Vance Motherfucking Stubbs (section)

==The whole losing 100 Baneblades thing==
When facing the Imperial Guard at their stronghold in Dawn of War: Soulstorm, Stubbs's Commissar informs him that all 100 of the [[Baneblade|Baneblades]] that would have been available to defend had just been sent off to help the Imperial Guard elsewhere in the Kaurava system, and any more Baneblades that are needed will have to be constructed via a series of pieces sent out by supply Rhinos. This absurdity of simply "losing" 100 Baneblades has spawned a number of jokes amongst players, mostly associating him with being "tactically incompetent" as opposed to [[Creed]]'s "Tactical Genius". (Speaking of tactical genius, it may be worth mentioning that shortly after this incident Abaddon was run over by a column of Baneblades he found stuffed in his mailbox.) Also, it can be disregarded as Chaos Propaganda started by <s>[[Alpha Legion|Alpha Legion Chaos Marines]]</s> '''{{BLAM|<nowiki>*</nowiki>BLAM!!!*}}''' [[Chaos Space Marines|THOSE CHAOS SPACE MARINES]] THAT DO NOT EXIST!!

However, there have been rumors that the Baneblades never left, but they were hidden by [[Creed]], or perhaps taken by the [[Blood Ravens |Blood Magpies]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK5-uE5JFg| IT IS THE BAAAAAAANNNNEEBLAAAAAAADEEE]). Adding on top of this, Baneblades are supposed to be rare (with three per regiment being the average), made only at major Forge Worlds. Fortunately for the Imperium, the in-game background for Stubbs's Baneblades is that the invasions and mass destruction miraculously uncovered the rather terrifying (for the enemy) fact that at least half of the entire supercontinent city of Kaurava I is in fact built on top of a continent-sized manufactorum, probably from the Great Crusade, devoted to the mass-production of Baneblades.

This enabled Stubbs to roll out more Baneblades in a month than Forge Worlds (individually, of course) produce in a century. Best of all, the fact you can build more manufactorums in-game suggests that the Mechanicus could probably mass-produce the ''factories'', too. With the pacified Tomb World nearby to draw in the Mechanicus plus the carrot Stubbs now has with the Baneblades and whatever other STC data uncovered (maybe Fellblades and other awesome stuff?), along with Stubbs's clear care for the little people, it is likely he could convince/trade for the Tomb World being studied and Forgeworld-ified by various important Forge Worlds, giving him access to their unique data (such as Executioners and Vanquisher cannons). Sure, the individual Forge Worlds never share anything, but then, none of them have had the technological buffet on a scale Vance does to bargain with. That, and he doesn't seem the sort to give a crap about keeping tech to himself. Then he can happily send copies to every Forge World if he can pay captains to visit. Then the Imperium wins by default. Regardless, Vance Motherfucking Stubbs is seen as one of the most awesome Imperial Guard generals because of his calm, stern voice, even when his army is on the brink of defeat.

<s>Relic never bothered to announce who actually canonically won the Kaurava conflict</s> Scratch that; Orkz were the victors, see above. - only that it sure as the [[Warp]] wasn't the Space Marines. Hence, many players simply accepted the fact that Stubbs won the war because of his utter badassery that no other character was able to posses. And also the rumors that he found the 100 Baneblades again and used his variation [[Creed|taktikul jinyas]] to deep strike said Baneblades into the main bases of armies. We would have said [[Indrick Boreale]] was the canon winner of the Kaurava conflict - if only he didn't screw it up by canonically losing horribly.

Alas, as it turns out he wasn't quite badass enough to stand up to Gorgutzs' WAAAGH, which was able to defeat him and force him to retreat from Kaurava. Given the fact that Gorgutz got bored and left the Kaurava system for Acheron some time afterward, one can only hope Stubbs took advantage of the ensuing Ork civil war to reclaim the system, just as he swore he would.

But at least we know what happened to the 100 Baneblades: Gorgutz krumped them.