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Reply To: Serious and honest question here…

October 26, 2020 at 5:30 pm #1577306

greyhunter88

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Oh, 100%. Just like how silly it is that most worlds have a single climate, a single geography, or a single defining feature. It’s just part of making this kind of sci-fi accessible.

Imagine if every single world in 40k had to be as diverse and vast in scope as our own world? It’d be impossible to even keep track of. In 40k, “countries” are replaced by “planets”.

I always used to laugh when they’d write that “8 Million Guardsmen alone couldn’t hold the planet!”, meanwhile like… one country in ONE war on our planet lost that many soldiers, and somehow those guardsmen are supposed to subjugate an entire planet?

It sounds ‘big’ until you actually think about it. Heck… how are 1000 Ultramarines currently fighting every major war in the storyline? 10% of their number would be occupied just piloting the ships that take them around, another 10% flying the dropships… they’d run out of boots on the ground really fast.