Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-11526152-20191125171536

I will have to disagree on the enemies size that the IOM is fighting against. Both the Orks and the Tyranids are by far not smaller and less organized. On the planets number scale. Again, 40k may not have the numbers but the population of said planets are by no matters small. The difference in numbers is based on what type of planet it is in 40k. Take in Mind, that the IOM possess the servitor technology and yet they still have tens of thousands press gangs to load ammunition on their starships compared to the Empire automating the loading process.

On the size of the enemies in SW, the Rebellion was much smaller in size compared to the GE. Going by legends, the size of the Rebellion in comparison to 40k is just like any other rebelling planetary lords refusing to pay their imperial tithe. Even when the Rebellion became the New Replubic, their size still did not match the size of the GE. The only downside as to why the GE never fully crush the fledging New Replubic was because of all the Infighting among themselves.

On to Space Marine, yes bullets have damaged their armor, but not killed them. Also, the caliber of said bullets are much higher than those found in SW. Also, SW is all about laser weapons, and their power number is much lower than in 40k. Though, laser weapons in SW are more effective than 40k, it'll take a lot of shots to just penetrate and kill said space marine. Unless, you arm every single stormtrooper with a laser cannon, then sure every shot will penetrate and kill said space marines.

If the Space Marines, genetically engineered humans, couldn't hurt the superweapons. Then do remember that said super weapons were taken down/out by normal humans and aliens in SW.

Continuing with the losses, the rebellion is small to begin with and the loss they suffered are also transferred to the civilians that support them. The fact that the rebellion managed to get by during their war with GE until post Yavin was the fact that both 1st and 2nd DS had so many soldiers of the GE stationed on said super weapons and the loss of both DS together with the stationed forces allowed the rebellion to be victorious despite their small numbers. Coupled with the infighting stated above and no central powerful figure to unite the warlords, this allowed the rebellion turned NR to fight very selective battles where they outnumber the enemy.