Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-4948356-20130818133646/@comment-7232811-20130818220706

I'm sorry Danny, but the numbers here are utterly prepsterous, even by 40k standards. Here are what the numbers ought to be (please frogive me...):

A few million cultists & heretics at the very most, as I doubt that there are even 50 trillion humans in existance.

10,000 space marines at the VERY most. There are not even ten million space marines in EXISTANCE. It says that there are 1000 chapters in the Imperium, & when you take into account all the losses that each has, the additional officers & specialist positions, & those chapters that have more than a thousand (black templars, space wolves), the total should be under a million space marines in the Imperium. As for all the traitor legions & turncoat chapters, warbands, renegades, etc, I would still make the total amount of space marines well under two million. & if you think that that's too small a warband for him, be aware that even 1000 space marines is still a formidable force. Besides, how on earth did he acquire them anyway? From the other traitor legions, & he simply wouldn't be able to siphon huge sections of them away like that. Besides, he's not the Warmaster himself, even if he is extremely powerful.

A couple of hundred obliterators, due to how at the time, the obliterators had not even come into existance, & how it was the Iron Warriors who had them first. Also, they are extremely rare, & tend to wander around in tiny groups of only a few individuals. Vulture could count himself lucky just to have one squad of them.

Not too sure about the daemon numbers to be honest, but I don't think even Abaddon could summon that many of them at once. Think about it, they need a warp rift to get into reality, & numbers that big would require something the size of the eye of terror.

& as for the titans & daemon engines...well, I'm sure you can see the problem there...

& as for the fleet numbers, think of them like this: the Ultramarines Chapter has three battle barges, eight strike cruisers, & twelve escorts operating at any one time (though numbers will no doubt vary between engagements). It does say that there are more on the wiki, but that is probably due to how many of them are in the naval docks at any one time. That is a large chapter fleet, & be aware that frigates are just another word for escorts, at least to the space marines, & that many other chapters will have a much smaller fleet than that.

Yes, I am aware of the fact that you like epic battles, but you don't seem to realise that the sorts of numbers listed above ARE epic battle numbers, or even smaller than that.