So I was reading Siege of Vraks last week, and it was great. I come to the end of the book and see the total number of dead for the campaign-20 million, both sides. And this is supposed to be one of the bloodier conflicts in an epic, futuristic and overblown setting.
So here's the general question-could the setting do with adding a few zeroes to all combatants' numbers? Starting with the Imperial Guard and other massed armies and all the way up to Space Marines, I reckon making fluff numbers ten or a hundred times bigger would be a nice touch.
After all, even 10,000 Astartes is a tiny, tiny number on a galactic scale, but it might avoid galactic conflicts boiling down to a squad of Space Marines chainswording through a slightly larger gaggle of demons or orks.
So here's the general question-could the setting do with adding a few zeroes to all combatants' numbers? Starting with the Imperial Guard and other massed armies and all the way up to Space Marines, I reckon making fluff numbers ten or a hundred times bigger would be a nice touch.
After all, even 10,000 Astartes is a tiny, tiny number on a galactic scale, but it might avoid galactic conflicts boiling down to a squad of Space Marines chainswording through a slightly larger gaggle of demons or orks.