Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-124.180.236.54-20121215084836/@comment-96.237.223.179-20141028173006

No it was over 2/3 of the legion. About 75% of the man power, most of their resources, their elite units, tanks, ships, and of course Primarch, were lost. The Iron Hands were decimated as well. Also AWC71. There wasn't 30, 000 Iron Hans at the end of the Heresy, nor by the time of the secondfouning. The Space Marines Codex states explicitly that they had two successors in the second founding (pg.68). So there were roughly 3,000 HH Iron Hands survivors at the second founding; Iron Hands (chapter), Brazen Claws, and Red Talons. The codex does mention that analogs of the second founding are incomplete, but that does not apply to the Iron Hands since it states specifically they had two.