Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-203.134.114.240-20130706042929/@comment-3258762-20130715121232

I think you are underestimating the Imperiums size. They can send billions upon billions of guardsmen (which will inevitably win due to sheer numbers) and it will not even seem like a loss if 99% of all of them die. No matter how fast the Covies can create things, the Imperium can create more simply because, if the Covies make 100 Scarabs on one world, then the Imperium makes 10 Leman Russes on a thousand worlds, which makes for a lot more Russes.

It doesn't matter how good their industry is if they are dwarfed by the other faction. An example of this is the Soviet Union: During the Cold War, many of the richer countries like France, Britain, Western Germany and the like wanted to attack the USSR, but they didn't dare simply because the only one who could match the size and output of the USSR was the United States, even if France and Germany at this time had an incredible industrial output (And since Germany was half a country AND stripped of a lot of their resources, this really speaks for Germanies industrial potency)

And the Imperium can technically create an Imperator Class Titan in a matter of months if it werent for the fact that making a Titan is not like making a tank. It's like the difference between the conscripting a Guardsman and creating an Adeptus Custode.