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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 4180317" data-attributes="member: 893">Well there were 20 founding legions each with tens of thousands of marines, of those 10 (or so) joined with Horus.  After that the legions were split into 1000 chapters of approximately 1000 marines each.  The initial chapters that were founded came directly from the from the legions, for example the Blood Drinkers were an offshoot of the Blood Angels, they still used the same geneseed as the Blood Angels taken from Sanguinus but over the centuries it has mutated and become their own.  Since the Horus Hersey there have been (according to lexicanum) 26 foundings where new marine chapters are created.  The 26th founding took place in 738M41.  That isn't that long ago when you figure that the 40K timeline places 'today' at somewhere between 900M41 and 1M42.It also doesn't make sense (to me at least) that the number of chapters would remain static.  The Imperium is constantly at war, and although marines are damn tough they aren't invulnerable.  Chapters do die off, sometimes they get corrupted by Chaos, sometimes they are simply wiped out.  The surviving chapters splinter to fill the dead loss.  The PC's chapter could either be a late 26th founding chapter or one of the first new chapters created in a 27th founding.  *edit* actually looking more at lexicanum it appears that "13 chapters have been lost in the warp, 21 destroyed through irrecoverable battle losses, nine destroyed by gene-seed failure, four by inquisitorial purges and 16 lost through other circumstances." So it would appear at least that there is space for new chapters to be created */edit*You're right, scout marines don't own power armour and the PC's would begin the game as scouts but as the campaign progresses they're going to want better gear.  Heck, they'll need better gear since they're going to start physically outgrowing their scout armour.  A fully mature marine is generally described as being between 7'6" and 9 feet tall.As for the other equipment issues remember, the initial assault on the planet went very badly.  They won't have the support structure of an entire chapter of marines because most of their brothers have been turned into space dust in lower orbit or splattered across the countryside.  Their replacement gear is likewise either destroyed or inaccessible.  They'll find other survivors, and possibly crashed landing pods and the like containing equipment but that's about it.  Also when the new chapter first assaulted the planet they were far from full strength.  They were a single fleet, that was until that point simply a battlegroup belonging to their parent chapter.  It probably consisted of no more than two or three hundred marines.</blockquote>

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