Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-8881468-20140924172621

okay you little fool, do yourself a favor and read up on what happened in the isstvaan system, what happened on calth, what happened when DA faced NL and so on, do read up what warp mutation does to gene- seed and so on

1. most notable allies pre heresy: millions of guard and titan legions, skiitari and so on

2. problem seen by guilliman of space marines growing apart from mankiund thanks to their genetic upgrades, lifespan and so on.. aka we are the emperor's chosen great fighters that command fleets and millions of people around

post codex astartes, the marines are more specialised, while the imperial guard does the heavy lifting of combat aka: mankind defensding mankind, instead of relying on the astartes.

3. do you know what happened to the chaos space marines? I mean thousands of them died in the heresy, they have no pure gene-seed, aka cannot really bolster their ranks llike loyal counterparts

4. they have also nor eal access to supplies like terminator plate, plasma weapons and so on, they are still using their millenia old wargear.

5. nids: take out the node creature and you have fun with the rest. + most of their numbers are hardly armoured and canon fodder, they have weaknesses, so have necrons

i could go on but discussions only work if you are on an equal base of knowledge.