Chapter "Recovery Time"

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**SideSwipe**

Furyou Miko wrote:
The Imperium does not have the resources to let three hundred fighting-fit Astartes lounge around for a century.

Individual squads could be loaned out to other chapters to participate in their wars.

Bear in mind we've plenty of examples of multiple chapters being deployed together.

**Iron_Captain**

Grey Templar wrote:
Psienesis wrote:
True... which reminds me that the Space Wolves, after the Months of Shame and the Battle of the Fang, should have died out centuries ago. Fenris doesn't have the population to keep feeding to the Chapter, let alone to support a full Chapter-and-a-half of Marines.

Sure Fenris has the population. You wouldnt need very many people to keep the wolves supplied.

If you have a population of 300k people, and a population growth of 1%, that means there are 3000 people at puberty that you can choose from each year. Half of those will be women, so you are left with 1500 people a year to pick from. Maybe a third are fit. 500 left. 2/3 will fail the process. That means you get 166 initiates a year without effecting the population of the planet.

You forget that the Space Wolves only recruit legendary heroes who have accomplished great deeds. Now how many of those turn up each year?

According to our logic, Space Marine numbers and recruitment do not make sense. But the fluff clearly indicates that this works well, so it is just the way things work in the 40k universe.

**Furyou Miko**

On Fenris? Your average fourteen year old is a legendary hero if they make it halfway to fifteen.

**Grey Templar**

You are mixing up cause and effect.

The Wolves don't recruit only heroes. The people they recruit become heroes in local folklore because they were chosen by the gods, ergo they must have been heroes!