I'm less worried about Herb these days and more worried about the dude that laid out the WoR and a lot of the Jihad story lines.
Herb might nuke you, but Ben will nuke you, gas you, ortillery you, bio-weapon you, create secret cabals on you, turn you into a lab rat, create a virus designed just to kill YOU, obliterate your favorite faction/planet/mech/character, and then create some fuzzy new clan creature to name a new clan after.
I miss Herb! ;D