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Tabletop gameplay is not indicative of lore, that's just how all games play.

Do you think GW should amend the lore in accordance with player stats?
In 7th ed Eldar were everywhere, should GW have changed their lore to be a huge army that's all over the place? Then retconned that again in 9th now that they've fallen into disuse?

What about Imperial Guard? They're meant to be ubiquitous in the setting, but very few people play them.
Should GW change the lore? Make them super rare?


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Chaos are described as all fighting for their own agenda. They rarely work together, and when they do they only vaguely work to the same goal and often go about doing so in their own ways.
But they rarely actually fight one another.

This is better than the Orks, who will often fight one another for the hell of it, unless they have a strong leader and an enemy to be pointed at.

They fixed the 41k thing with just "oh the calendars are all wrong, we need to wind back the clock 100 years to correct it" mighty convenient that!

"Because it is" really.
Probably something about the neural interface.

I don't think much else in the Imperium uses such tech, they use plenty of neural implants in servitors and such, but they seem more or less permanent.

Only titans seem to use such 'plug and play' interfaces.

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Also you’d have thought in 10k years they could have improved the bolter and chain sword, free of the restrictions of the imperial creed.

I don't think chaos attracts too many scientists, engineers, and free thinkers.
It's followers are normally more interested in other pursuits.

We're also led to believe that STCs are very good designs. It's likely that there's no room for improvement unless you introduce crazy material science like living metal or wraithbone.

SoB aren't that numerous though are they?

Also the fact that they're the personal army of the ecclesiarchy means they have access to great wealth and a strong desire to show off the grandeur of who they represent.

Marines being used in specialised roles to bolster the line of Guardsmen is exactly how they're described.

They're not supposed to be depopulating worlds.
Although they are doing that in 30k, where even their ~100,000 is a bit non-sensical.