Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140323173912/@comment-4851119-20140411112523

They do not employ as many troops? There are trillions of Stormtroopers as opposed to billions of Guardsmen, which means thousands of times more Stormtroopers.

Fewer personnel on a ship is an advantage, it frees up more troops to fight.

Their ships are smaller but size doesn't always equate to deadliness in the same way, and they have better maneuvering. The Executor is the equivalent of an IOM Grand Cruiser by a long shot; the Eclipse and the Sovereign classes have similar armament as well as giant axial lasers comparable to the heaviest Lance batteries.

Maybe they don't have much on the ground that can take down a Titan but unlike the IOM the Empire is willing to innovate, use AIs and reverse-engineer enemy tech, and the Empire has far superior industrial capacity to the IOM which gives them a major, MAJOR advantage.

(CORE and ARM could still take the Empire :D)