History YMMV / IronKingdoms

* TheWoobie: Subverted, You'd think Nayl would be one, considering he's a purely unemotional killer whose very existence is loathed by his people and who literally lacks a soul. But it seems he may be developing a personality, or at the very least understand the concept of Love, in terms of "Nayl Loves Learning How To Kill. Nayl Loves Killing More''. If he does develop a personality, all signs indicate that it's going to enjoy the constant carnage that defines his [[strike:life]] soulless existence.

* MoralEventHorizon: The skorne, who had already been established as cruel and pain-obsessed (if not outright sadistic), were given the Agonizer, an infant pachyderm abused to the point that it's now a sore-covered walking psychic nexus of pain and torment. [[FlameWar Opinions were divided on how tasteful this was]], and [[InternetBackdraft even now]] some people [[SingleIssueWonk are still touchy about it]].

* CompleteMonster: Toruk is the MonsterProgenitor of the dragon race, although he considers his progeny the only thing that might pose a threat to him and desires to [[OffingTheOffspring destroy them all]]. To accomplish this he becomes an OmnicidalManiac against every other race. He turns a whole set of island nations into a mix of undead and mutants to serve as his army, all with the intent of slaughtering as many of the inhabitants of the mainland as possible to make a bigger army.

** Epic Haley's amazing feat and strong spell list make her an extremely difficult opponent.

** Cryx gets this the most. With cheap, nasty horde units, hard to counter abilities, and a "weakness" largely compensated by the design philosophy of the game, Cryx is the most dominant faction in competitive play. Many players actually come to tournaments with a "normal" list, and an "anti-Cryx" list geared entirely towards fighting them.

** The changes to Skorne in Mk. III were panned by a large part of the player base. The designers have even admitted that they need to give the faction an overhaul.

** The Legion of Everblight, their ''Hordes'' counterpart, which ''also'' benefits disproportionately from the game's aggression-friendly design philosophy. You ''know'' a faction's got problems when it's got some of the best infantry in the game, but no one bothers taking them because their warbeasts are ''just that good''. Between Eyeless Sight allowing them to ignore half the rules in the game, an incredibly-strong ranged game, and some of the most powerful feats in the game, the only reason the Legion isn't more hated than Cryx is that it's not quite as popular.

** In the RPG, humans have an almost hilariously-disproportionately large number of career options compared to everyone else.
* TrueNeutral: All Reclaimers oddly.

* CanonSue: Haley gets this flak a lot from the fan base. Stryker used to be labelled until he went DarkerAndEdgier
* CharacterAlignment: In keeping with the setting's D&D origins, each of Immoren's gods personifies one of these.

* GodModeSue: Hierarch Voyle becomes one when he invades Caspia. [[DrunkWithPower The power goes to his head]], and he's defeated by the sword carried by his CrystalDragonJesus.

* TheWoobie: Subverted, You'd think Nayl would be one, considering he's a purely unemotional killer whose very existence is loathed by his people and who literally lacks a soul. But it seems he may be developing a personality, or at the very least understand the concept of Love, in terms of "Nayl Loves Learning How To Kill. Nayl Loves Killing More''. If he does develop a personality, all signs indicate that it's going to enjoy the constant carnage that defines his [[strike:life]] soulless existence.
* TrueNeutral: All Reclaimers oddly.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After fan complained about Cygnar becoming a FailureHero the Iron Kingdoms rulebook went into details about how most of its army is still intact thanks to use of TacticalWithdrawal and was planning a counter attack before the Cryx threat forced them and Khador into a EnemyMine.

** Cryx gets this the most. With nasty units, and hard to counter abilities Cryx is the most dominate faction in competitive play. To the point that everyone must have a "normal" list, and an "anti-Cryx" list geared entirely towards fighting them.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Warmachine Mk II is a welcome update or a D&D 4th Edition level travesty depending on who you talk to.
** Negative opinion of Mk. II has gone ''WAY'' down since they released the officially finished rules, so you could call this case an aversion of the trope.

** Epic Asphyxious' feat had to be nerfed twice. Let that sink into you.

* TheWoobie: Subverted, You'd think Nayl would be one, considering he's a purely unemotional killer whose very existence is loathed by his people and who literally lacks a soul. But it seems he may be developing a personality, or at the very least understand the concept of Love, in terms of "Nayl Loves Learning How To Kill. Nayl Loves Killing More''. If he does develop a personality, all signs indicate that it's going to enjoy the constant carnage that defines his [[strike:life]] soulless existence.

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidalManiac who turns a whole set of island nations into a mix of undead and mutants to serve as his army, all with the intent of slaughtering as many of the inhabitants of the mainland as possible to make a bigger army, so he can use it to aid in killing his children that are the only thing he sees as a threat.
** His children are just as bad as him, they all have the same goal of eating each other, and beyond that, their only aim is destruction. Everblight manages to give his old man a run for his money though, having turn the Nyss elves into a SlaveRace to serve as part of his army.

* CrazyAwesome: And don't even get us started on the CrazyAwesome that goes into warjacks like the Deathjack or the Avatar of Menoth.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lich Lord Malathrax. He's only appeared in stories that come with the books, and yet many are the fans who want him to have a model of him, or at the very least a picture of him so they can see what he looks like.

** His children are just as bad as him, they all have the same goal of eating each other, and beyond that, they're only aim is destruction. Everblight manages to give his old man a run for his money though, having turn the Nyss elves into a SlaveRace to serve as part of his army.

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidalManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead. (Except the other dragons; he wants to eat those. And they are effectively his kids)

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidalManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead. (except the other dragons he wants to eat those. oh did we mention that they're effectivly his kids)

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidalManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead. (except the other dragons he wants to eat those. oh did we mention that there effectivly his kids)

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidalManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead.

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidialManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead.

** Of course, given Privateer's rather tongue-in-cheek attitude, many of these are [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar probably not accidental]].

* CompleteMonster: Toruk, an OmnicidialManiac who wants to turn the whole world into the undead, and pretty much entire Skorne faction.

* * CanonSue: Haley gets this flak a lot from the fan base. Stryker used to be labelled until he went DarkerAndEdgier