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These might be completely noobish questions but....

What size is a IG (and Space Marine for that matter) Company? (i realise, there are probably different company types, Tank, troop etc)
Would the Cadians ever 'induct' Death Korps of Krieg to fight alongside them?
Do Grey Knights have any successor chapters?

(now a more tactical question)
What would you put in a Stormraven (Blood Angel wise....)?

Think this is it for now I'm thinking of starting a IG army as a side project (Orks my main focus, but also will buy a storm raven or two when they come out, to go with my Marines), although i might wait until Grey Knights are out.....

Thanks!!

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SM Companies have 100 battle brothers and added attendant staff (chaplains, apothecaries, the captain and command squad.)

Ig companies are different sizes depending on the world they came from.

Cadians wouldn't induct but they would fight alongside each other.

Grey Knights do not have successors.

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Standard SM company is 100 Battle Brothers.

Some chapters like the Salamanders have 120.

For the Grey Knight Successors. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Exorcists

Depends on if you consider Lexicanum a source or not. Supposedly the GK's are their founding chapter.

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IIRC a marine chapter is roughly 1,000 marines & it has 10 companies so 100 marines per?

I'd honestly just convert / use valkyries, those storm raven models look like hideous flying garbage trucks.

GK have 1 successor I think. Though I don't know if it is an actual successor. The Exorcists.

Assault marines go in the flying garbage trucks.

Cadians can't "induct" DKoK but the DKoK could be ordered to help cadia.

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An Imperial Guard Company ranges in size depending on the planet it was raised upon, and it's focus. It can range anywhere from 10 heavy tanks, to a few Basilisk artillery platforms, to close to 100,000 foot-slogging infantry.

A Space Marine company is far more generic, but they almost always add up to around 1000 marines total. A codex-adherant chapter will number about 100 marines in a single company, then support staff (Apothecary, Techmarine, Captain etc.) However, this can fluctuate as well, for example the Salamanders number 9 companies of 120 instead of 10 companies of 100, the Space Wolves number 13 Great Companies, and the Black Templars, due to their spread out nature, are rumored to actually number close to 3000 marines in total.

The Death Korps of Krieg could fight along side Cadians, but they'd never be inducted as Cadians. One or two may be given some high Cadian honor for valor on the battlefield, but that's about it.

The Grey Knights have....one successor Chapter, the Exorcists, (In the story 'Headhunted' in Heroes of the Space Marines, an Exorcist Space Marine speaks of an ancient rite to send the spirit of a psyker in the throes of possession out of the reach of demons, known only to his chapter and the Grey Knights), but that's the only one I know of.

I've seen Furiouso Dreadnaughts in Stormravens used to great effect.

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Companies are generally a bit over a hundred guys all told, including support staff. In 40k scale it's perfectly practical to field a full IG infantry company but a Marine army is likely to be a partial company.

Krieg would not be directly inducted as part of a Cadian army but there are ways for Kriegsmen to end up in a primarily Cadian army. The first would be for them to be detached from their parent regiment to serve as specialist troops within a Cadian regiment. They'd still belong to the Krieg regiment but they'd be fighting alongside Cadians. The second major way would be for a Krieg force to fall below the strength necessary to form a viable body so it is disbanded and the survivors sent to reinforce other forces. In this case the troops would originate from Krieg but no longer belong to or serve in a Krieg army.

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It's debatable whether or not the Support Staff (including tank commanders and Techmarines) are included in the 1000 marine number. Officially it contains 100 Battle Brothers each, so assumingly only front line space marines are counted towards this total (whereas HQ characters, the librarium, armoury staff and apothecaries are not). Chaptermasters and their Honor guards are more or less outside of this number. However all of that only applies to Codex Chapters (of many of which are not).

Iron Warriors Grand Companies can sometimes number up to 1k in size, however this was pre-heresy and predated the chapter system. They likely maintained their numbers and could possibly have risen past the 1k mark. Same goes for the Hosts of Word Bearers. Space Wolf Great Companies are different from standard companies in that they too sometime come close to that of a whole SM chapter (or less than one, which varies from company to company).

Imperial Guard Companies just fly out the window. There is no set number for how big a regiment would be, as well as how many companies it should have. I distinctly remember in DoW the Liberators (or the one from DoW Soulstorm, from Karauva) had a 12th company, which would seem rather odd given that 10 companies would be easier to manage.

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Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.


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Norwich

Thanks for all your help guys, really useful. I really am a bit of a 40k fluff noob (need to start reading some books, whats good one to start with?)

Think i'm going to start a Cadian IG army (probably go more infantry than tank based as well, everyone uses tanks ), and then get some FW DKoK to go alongside them at some point!!

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