Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-87.104.181.191-20160131190756/@comment-86.175.209.137-20160209183653

if you look at the page for ragnar blackmane and add up his listed great company it comes to 188. if all the great companies are that big thats over 2250 as a total chapter and that doesnt include rune priests, wolf priests and iron priests. some companies may be bigger or smaller but that is no way near 1000 per great company, maybe in the second founding it was, but these days they probably cant get enough recruits to maintain that, the whole they used rediscovered primarchs to expand gene seed stocks (grabiyas theorem page) so without leman russ their stocks have probably diminished and slowed the rate they can create them/ battlefield losses of gene seed exceeding rate of harvesting new stable pure ones in the last 10000 years