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 Grey Knight Dillon wrote:
How can you say that legionnares(spelling) is better than codex? Each chapter has it's own unique history. You can't just throw them all together and merge them. I mean you can't just put blood angels and grey knights together and expect them to forget the past. Think on this please.

You have no knowledge of 40k history do you? Or you are trolling.


We are saying instead of having the Blood Angels divided up into Flesh Tearers and Blood Angels at 1k each. THey should never have divided up and have always been the Blood Angels at 2k men. This is far easier to control from a miltiary stand point.

This subject is a question??

I play a Black Templar army and they have operated as a legion forever. They are atoning for the sins of objecting to their numbers being throttled back but they are too busy taking the fight to the enemy to count members. If they get too numerous it is assumed that more serious fighting is needed.

 Talizvar wrote:
This subject is a question??

I play a Black Templar army and they have operated as a legion forever. They are atoning for the sins of objecting to their numbers being throttled back but they are too busy taking the fight to the enemy to count members. If they get too numerous it is assumed that more serious fighting is needed.

Good point; I don't know their exact numbers but AFAIK, they are well beyond Chapter-strength, and are probably the size of a small legion when at peak combat strength.

Iirc the closest thing to a reliable number that's been thrown around thus far is ~5000 marines. Much bigger than other chapters, but no where near legion size.

Huron's Red Corsairs on the other hand have been stated to be near legion size.

Good job, Codex Astartes. The Red Corsairs can kick the ass of basically any chapter in existence now because Huron doesn't play by your silly rules.

BlaxicanX wrote:
Iirc the closest thing to a reliable number that's been thrown around thus far is ~5000 marines. Much bigger than other chapters, but no where near legion size.

Five Grand Companies; that's about half the minimum (ten Grand Companies; the Thousand Sons had nine) of a Great Crusade-era Legion.

 Grey Knight Dillon wrote:
How can you say that legionnares(spelling) is better than codex? Each chapter has it's own unique history. You can't just throw them all together and merge them. I mean you can't just put blood angels and grey knights together and expect them to forget the past. Think on this please.

First off
and now:

lastly: Every chapters history is their legion, their founding. Codex restricts numbers and the way they fight. It wouldn't be throwing them all together and wth would gray knights and BA go together

 Admiral Valerian wrote:

BlaxicanX wrote:
Iirc the closest thing to a reliable number that's been thrown around thus far is ~5000 marines. Much bigger than other chapters, but no where near legion size.

Five Grand Companies; that's about half the minimum (ten Grand Companies; the Thousand Sons had nine) of a Great Crusade-era Legion.

If i understand you correctly, you are implying a legion is 10K? If so that is far short, I think the Raven Guard were 80k and the Word Bearers over 100k.

Must go read more fluff.

So they should have broken up the Raven Guard to 80 chapters?

Not refuting what was quoted but then I think they would go insane just trying to name them all. At least making your own chapter no-one heard of is not much of a stretch.

JWhex wrote:

 Admiral Valerian wrote:

BlaxicanX wrote:
Iirc the closest thing to a reliable number that's been thrown around thus far is ~5000 marines. Much bigger than other chapters, but no where near legion size.

Five Grand Companies; that's about half the minimum (ten Grand Companies; the Thousand Sons had nine) of a Great Crusade-era Legion.

If i understand you correctly, you are implying a legion is 10K? If so that is far short, I think the Raven Guard were 80k and the Word Bearers over 100k.

The Thousand Sons were the smallest of the legions, with nine Fellowships (Grand Companies) at the time of the Horus Heresy, though they originally started out with ten. Its logical to assume that ten Grand Companies would be the minimum strength for a legion.