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Sorry if this has been asked recently, but I was reading Imperial Armour 2 the other day, which suggests (p. 9-10) that each battle company within a Space Marine Chapter has its own Rhinos, Land Speeders, Dreadnoughts, and Bikes, with heavier armor drawn as needed from a Chapter-wide armor pool. How many vehicles do you think each company would maintain for its own use? I would think they'd need at least one Rhino for each squad, with perhaps two in reserve, but what about the speeders, bikes, and dreadnoughts? Thanks.

Codex: Space Marines 3E had a Table of Organization and Equipment for the Ultramarines that listed 129 Rhinos. The individual companies had anywhere from 7 to 15 Rhinos per battle company, but that also was supposed to be factoring in at the moment battle losses that hadn't been replaced or repaired yet. 5-15 Land Speeders, 13-30 bikes and 1-4 dreadnoughts (same caveat of losses). If you want to represent a full strength battle company, I'd go with the top end of those numbers.

But it will be very rare for a company to be at full strength, marines barely take a break.

Yeah, but they refill their numbers from the Reserve companies. The Battle Companies will typically be close to full strength unless immediately returning from a deployment. Otherwise it's the Reserve and Scout companies that are going to bear the brunt of the casualties due to getting fished for replacements.

I think it would be safe to say that a Battle Company heading into an engagement fresh would have at least enough Rhinos to transport all the ground squads. Obviously Assault Marines really wouldn't need a Rhino for transport. Beyond that it would be probably up to a dozen Dreadnaughts and Predators and maybe a little more of bikes and Land Speeders. Really it would be whatever fits into your force's fluff within reason.

Centurion Cajun wrote:I think it would be safe to say that a Battle Company heading into an engagement fresh would have at least enough Rhinos to transport all the ground squads. Obviously Assault Marines really wouldn't need a Rhino for transport. Beyond that it would be probably up to a dozen Dreadnaughts and Predators and maybe a little more of bikes and Land Speeders. Really it would be whatever fits into your force's fluff within reason.

Assault Marines have a Rhino assigned anyway...

There is 2nd coy Ultras in current codex over two pages 124-5

8 rhinos for 6 tac squads and 2 dev squads and a razor for the capt and his cmd squad.

There are other vehicles, TFC etc, however I dont think they are part of the coy but rather are attached like 1st coy veterans are.