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Just counted up for Drukharii and including all units in our codex, special characters, dedicated transports, counting all 4 models in the Court as separate units we just about have the same number of units as Ultramarines have characters. Counting the whole marine codex we aren't even close to our total units equalling the number of characters in the SM dex.

Which other armies are in this position? It seems mental to me!

GSC, Knights, harelquins, sisters and custodes for sure. Probably Greyknights too. I'm not sure on Admech with these new releases.

I'm playing Nurgle Daemons, so probably yes. But I admit that it's just a fraction of the larger daemons codex.

So, how many Characters do SM actually have?

Gave up counting at 30. Was already more than the units in my Dex. I was counting my whole Dex, including units that can't be taken in the same detachment. If I go with one sub faction it's close to Nurgle Demons having more characters than I do units

No, but it's honestly probably CLOSE, and I use a dex with a decent amount of options (Orks).

What I think is more frustrating is when they bin units that require conversions. Including your most iconic one (Warboss in Mega Armour), when I'm pretty sure a new, official non-Ghaz Warboss in Mega Armour would probably sell out a million times over if they bothered to make one.

Some of our most people HQs currently either don't have models available to buy OR datasheets (KFF Mek isn't buyable, FW Warboss on Bike has no datasheet). Beyond that, most of our HQs are mono pose, with zero sprue options or options period.

SM getting love is fine, but at some point, do we really need 9 different Primaris Lieuts models in different poses?

I'd like it if I could use all my official none converted models, but GW decided to axe a bunch of them, including our faction leader. I want to be able to use my vect party bus and not have someone ask what all the extra models on my ravager are for. There are also more primaries lieutenant sculpts than character sculpts for DE. When I was counting units I just counted unit entries. If I added sculpt numbers the disparity gets really insane.

I know may place, and won't complain, lest GW responds by folding all the Aeldari into Codex Ynnari and tells me it's a great thing cos of all the options I now have.

Well, quite a lot of SM chararacters are lieutenants, how many do we have now ? More than 10 ?

 p5freak wrote:
Well, quite a lot of SM chararacters are lieutenants, how many do we have now ? More than 10 ?

I counted all of them as 1!

Codex: Space Marine character datasheets:
26 generic
21 chapter-specific (including Gabriel Angelos)
28 forgeworld
16 legends
Total: 91

Codex: Orks total datasheets (including all open-play only releases): 84

Let's leave out forgeworld and legends. That's still 47! Geez.

And that's not even counting BA, DA and Space Wolves