• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    1 day ago

    Honestly I keep forgetting the Imperium supposedly controls over 1 million worlds.

    They really do have a problem with scope.

    Space marines are bad ass in a fight but there’s only 1000 per chapter if they’re adhering to the codex, but that’s nowhere near enough for an entire galaxy.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1 day ago

      Totally agree. Space Marines are demi-god, death machines however there would be no way a 1,000 of them could take an entire planet, as you correctly pointed an entire galaxy.

      My head cannon is that the Guard does all the work and their achievements are forgotten while the Space Marines get all the credit.

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      Well they don’t want to sacrifice all of their psykers. It is cheap, just a small part in the vast war machine.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      Even at a planet scale, 1k troops are not enough. Sure, each is worth 100 men or whatever, but that makes them always spread too thin. In a planetary invasion, which orks and 'nids often do, if they can’t trick the enemy into chokepoints, they’re fucked big time.

      The Armageddon war had, what, 20 chapters deploying marines there? And that’s with massive support from the local IG regiment, plus space navy