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http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=132

According to that source, only Meridian remains as a recruiting world... and it's hardly ideal:

With only one recruiting planet, which hardly yields many applicants... and the HUGE losses taken in DoW 1, DoW 2, and various fluff campaigns... would it be safe to say the Blood Ravens are, pending further events in the fluff, F****d?

It is a sad day to be a Raven? :<

Well I hardly count DOW games as proper fluff.

Lord-Loss wrote:Well I hardly count DOW games as proper fluff.

But I'd hold the Black Library novels based on the games as fluff surely?

meh 2 space marine home worlds were destroyed by the nidz the kind just moved on 2 another planet also remember merdain is a forge world and has 40 billion could be trillion not sure either way its largee population compared 2 other planets

Ripister wrote:meh 2 space marine home worlds were destroyed by the nidz the kind just moved on 2 another planet also remember merdain is a forge world and has 40 billion could be trillion not sure either way its largee population compared 2 other planets

Hardly warriors though, discounting the street gangs that is.

The DoW games are certainly canon.

The Blood Ravens aren't a dying chapter, but they've taken heavy losses in the past, most notably during the Kaurava campaign, when the Imperial Guard were forced to fight them again. They won on Kronus though, after having to fight the IG as well as Chaos and the Xenos. However, in two of the non-canon endings of Dark Crusade, the Eldar and Necrons destroy all the Space Marine corpses, denying them their geneseed and crippling the chapter.

Henners91 wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:Well I hardly count DOW games as proper fluff.

But I'd hold the Black Library novels based on the games as fluff surely?

Not if it's more crap from C.S Goto