Should Chapters use the 1000 Astartes only as a rough guideline?

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**NinthMusketeer**

Hellebore wrote:
NinthMusketeer wrote:
I feel like tabletop numbers are representative by necessity. Yeah it may seem like there are 60 guardsman on the board, but that is representative of a battle against 300+ guardsman. The IRL impracticality of 300+ guardsman means that the game itself needs to have less of them.

You can look at it like that but it also multiplies the casualties. If you lost 30 marines, that's 150 by your multiplication above....

As in certain 'swarmy' troops are representative of greater numbers but elite armies like marines are not. So 30 marines is 30 marines, the same amount of guardsman is hundreds.