Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-37.152.33.225-20131111163502/@comment-8881468-20131217140142

he would be given the chapter, not the legion ( difference is 1000 to ~ 100000)

the problem is that 50% of the primarchs could not be trusted to stay true to the imperium, so why should one of them be treated any differently than any o the other loyalist primarchs, who gave in into dividing their legiosn into chapters with the 2nd founding.

2nd sidenote: primarch has about the size of an ogryn or so (or that of one of the vat grown mechanicum heavy assault units as has been stated in deliverance lost), they tend to stand out a lot especially if you let such a  8 -10 (estimate on the height as canon make sthe comparison of primarchs to astartes= astartes to mortals) feet tall person person talk.