For the most part, it's likely just the allure of roleplaying as the black hat, same as the GTA games. When some friends and I were really into Dawn of War for

For the most part, it's likely just the allure of roleplaying as the black hat, same as the GTA games. When some friends and I were really into Dawn of War for awhile, we often had a good laugh speaking to each other in the absolutist language of the Imperium. Perhaps there is also something a bit alluring in the fantasy of being a zealot, though. To be untroubled by the nuances of a complicated world, serving only as an extension of the Emperor's glorious might, has a certain perverse simplicity to it.