Are there too many (imperial) armies?

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**Robin5t**

Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Please stop saying Astra Militarum you're givnig me a headache! Has respect passed away?

More seriously, rounding every Imperial factions in one book seems somewhat extreme. Aren't Imperial Guard (please let me this pleasure), SoB and SM rather different from each other? In my view they do deserve their own book.

I doubt making a huge single book of them would deal with the core problem: the armies which have no real reason to exist on their own because they're either not different enough from their mother faction, (ex: Scions and special marines chapters), or either because they're unadapted to standart sized games and so should either join a codex or the Apocalypse book (ex Arlequins, Imperial Knights.)

To cut it shorter: the matter isn't the characterful armies but the uncharacterful and secondaries invading Warhammer 40000.

As a Harlequin player, I feel the need to defend my faction, here. Since when were Harlequins not adapted to standard size games?