Maybe I'm still too new to the universe, but I'm under the impression that Astartes are supposed to be relatively rare and highly valuable. At the same time, they're constantly being annihilated in swaths and it feels like there's an endless supply of them when it's time for them to start losing. Is the storytelling that unregulated, or is there's actually a lot of them but it seems small in relation to the bajillion normal humans?
They were rare in M41. There are plenty in M42 (the current fluff) due to Primaris and the event discussed took place in M31, in which the biggest problem in the setting was an oversupply of Marines.
A long time ago they split it into a weekly magazine and a monthly "art" one. But both pleased no one. Tbh I assume it is just boomer bait, but the second it becomes unprofitable then it'll be binned. Bundling warhammer + with a 12 month subscription might be in the cards. I do fondly look back over my 2010-13 issues time to time.
The numbers are whatever GW says they are, but there were more Astartes around during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Most of the Legions had at least 100,000 Space Marines at the time, and the Ultramarines had 250,000 prior to getting their shit rocked at Calth. If we look at the estimated numbers for each Legion just prior to the Heresy, we get between 1.9-2.7 million Astartes active during that period. In the "present day" there are somewhere around a million of them, given the existence of 1000 chapters with a nominal strength of 1000 Marines apiece and ignoring the outliers like the Black Templars. A million is a biggish number, but when you consider that that the Imperium's population is at least in the quadrillions, it becomes a very small one. Ultimately it boils down to plot convenience, though, so the Ultramarines can lose an entire company fighting Tyranids and be fine and dandy for the next campaign because that's how GW wants it to be.
According to Lexicanum, there were 40,000 Wolves at Trisolian, and most of those were killed; some of the great companies sustained 80% casualties. That and the losses they took at Yarant ended the Wolves as a Legion. They probably weren't much more than chapter strength by the end of the Heresy.
So really the LGBTPQ+ shit is just an attempt by a dying magazine to garner attention.
Which is so fucking stupid. I think he also was trashed for not knowing his full name was Horus Lupercal too. And just the idea of Sons of Horus instead of Luna Wolves too. And if you do a traitor legion as Primaris the easiest thing to do is Alpha Legion Primaris. More lore friendly, funny jokes. Good laughs all around by all. Which reminds me to finally finish painting my Alpha Legion Phobos kill team before the Nightmare box gets here.
I just immerse myself in the more niche setting, build /mydudes/ and stay away from things that’ll make me angry, like any novels by ADB.
Remember that the wokies sneak in anywhere they can and then start poisoning orgs where they land. It's entirely possible the editorial team at WD is a bunch of woke faggots, especially since woke faggots work for almost nothing -- they don't believe in money, they're "paid" in the ability to ruin things for normal people, and they think we're going to be a communist utopia before they ever grow old and need the money they didn't earn. See also: Black Library
With any luck, following the release of the Amazon show, Warhammer+ will become bundled with an Amazon prime subcription, akin to twitch prime or Deliveroo Plus.
Conflicting info from the Krieg book on this. In that the rifles carried by the Krieg after they returned to the Imperium are called 'Mk. 14 Laser Rifles' and colloquially called Hel-guns. They were originally las rifles modified by Loyalist forces in the Krieg civil war. The purpose was to make a rifle that encourage soldiers to conserve their ammo and take single shots in a siege situation expected to last years. Power pack was made bulkier and the charge increased to make up for the rate of fire. Likely produced by the Wolfram Munitorium.
Enjoying it. Like me some 'too old for this shit' Inquisitor and the implication da boyz not understanding the macguffin super weapon makes it even worse, because it would be left up to the mekboyz imaginations. Is this the book people got a bit iffed at because it gave the impression the Krieg are looking to die for the Emperor instead of being willing to accept much more causalities than most regiments? Because it kind of toes that line between suicidal and fatalistic.
Huh. So "you can make a clusterfuck of any number of legions, just make sure you put a small insigia to signify they're all part of the same force." That's kinda neat.
Shattered Legions and Blackshields are pretty much the old school “create a chapter” rules taken to an extreme
