Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140323173912/@comment-4851119-20140411152403

Counter 1: The Empire can still build ships the size of the biggest and rarest IOM warhsips in 10-15 years instead of centuries

Counter 2: The IOM has to spend plenty of time and military resources handling rebellions, minor civil wars and insurgencies.

Counter 3: The Empire has the Executor at 19km, which with its hundreds of 200-gigaton particle beams is comarable to an IOM warship of about 10km length. There's also the Eclipse at 17km and the Sovereign-classes at 15km; both of which have axial laser weapons suprassing any IOM lance battery and, again, hundreds of 200-gigaton particle beams and 100-gigaton ion weapons.

Counter 4: That's true...

Counter 5: We have no evidence on Stormtroopers, all we see in the films is law of narrative convention. As far as we know they're well-drilled and tough, much the same as Guardsmen.

Counter 6: We've never seen the entire Empire in action, for all we know they can more than match the IOM in that. If anything that's a problem for you because of all the fighting the IOM will be doing with it's 40K enemies in addition to the Empire

Counter 7: So? The Empire can easily update our equipment to make a single Stormtrooper regiment more than a match for the IG, whereas the IOM is stuck with what it already has due to AdMech stupdiity.

Counter 8: You're seriously overestimating how many IG troops you have on one average planet.

Besides, this will largely be settled by fleet battles as the Empire's orbital bombardment capability is sufficient to make conventional ground battles obselete except in certain situations. The Empire has equal ship-borne firepower to the IOM but with better maneuvering on ships and faster FTL, thus they can outrun and outfight the IOM for as long as they want.

'''Be lucky I'm not using the CORE or ARM from Total Annihilation. The IOM would really be screwed if I did, but in the sake of fairness I decided to pick a more even match, hence the Empire.'''