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We all know that the loyalist force was massive during the Siege of Terra. We all know about the Imperial Fists, Blood Angels and White Scars were obviously involved, and 40k wiki pages indicate there were three Titan Legions and even a handful of Imperial Knights were involved (as well as something mental like one and a half million mortal guardsmen).

So does anyone know which Titan Legions were involved (Apparently the Legio Ignatum were one, but does anyone know the others?) or if any Knight Houses were involved? Any information is greatly appreciated, thanks lads.

1.5 million is not mental for battle of that scale.

That's the size of a ww2 battle on eastern front. The Allied armies where larger.

150 million plus.. Now that's more a interplantery defence.

 jhe90 wrote:
1.5 million is not mental for battle of that scale.

1.5 million is incredibly pathetic for the Siege of Terra considering that the Drop Site Massacre involved something like a million astartes (8 traitor legions + 3 loyal ones), and that billions often die as consequences of these battles. They seriously need to bump the numbers for auxilliary forces. It's really annoying reading about battles involving several full astartes legions, then seeing the footnote for "1.5 million Imperial Army troops." On Terra of all places.

The Battle of Armatura (from Betrayer) does better, as apparently it involved a billion auxilliaries on the Ultramarines side (though that seems excessive, that number would be better suited for Terra).

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
So does anyone know which Titan Legions were involved (Apparently the Legio Ignatum were one, but does anyone know the others?) or if any Knight Houses were involved? Any information is greatly appreciated, thanks lads.

I think you'll have to wait for the FW book to get exact numbers or info on Titan Legions and Knight Houses. Plus it'll likely retcon anything that comes before. On the plus side, those books really get into the details and will likely have lavish depictions of the troops involved.