Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130620224607/@comment-5452857-20130703003444

First of all Macharius was a far better Commander and tactician than any of the primarchs, yet he is simply a human.

Failbaddon has had 10,000 years to come up with a good plan yet he hasn't. The Imperium can't really watch Failbaddon like a hawk since he and his legion reside in the Eye of Terror.

Although the Black Legion has been depleted since the Horus Heresy, lets say half, they still have 35-65 thousand space marines in that chapter alone. Just right there that is more than all of the defending Space marine chapters combined (19,500 from 195 companies) in the 13th Gothic War. The Death Guard had around 95 thousand at the Heresy so lets say 45,000 were present. The World Eaters had 150,000 at the time of the Heresy but they die pretty frequently so lets say 5/12ths survived leaving 62.5 thousand marines. So 157.5 thousand chaos Space marines from the 3 main legions but 9 were present. The Chaos Legions had 8.1x as many Astartes and now only barely have a foothold on Cadia.

Huron had it even worse than previously described he had 4000 space marines at most and his the auxiliary PDF, whereas there were 7400-10600 Loyalist Space marines, plus a titan legion and Storm Troopers. Yet his forces won and he might or might not have escaped with his life.