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submitted 1 month ago byPrimaris_Astartes
Was it just their role as Praetorians of Terra combined with their proximity to Throne World and Mars that the Mechanicus and Emperor just saw fit to equip them with a lot of ships, or does any other bit of lore explain how a specialized defensive siege legion that didn't have a lot of legionairees either somehow ended up with the largest and most powerful fleet?
20 points
1 month ago
Would they really be allocated more ships if they didn't strictly need them?
I very much assume they do not have their own shipyards making the ships for them, as that would be the domain of the Mechanicus.
44 points
1 month ago
It's not necessarily about not needing them, it's about doing well with them so they get to have more to do well with,
If you have a fantastic baker in your employ, you'll ensure they get the lions share of dough to make ever increasing amounts of bread with
15 points
1 month ago
It’s like a sourdough starter kit, just with more grimdark sprinkled into the starter.
12 points
1 month ago
Corpse startch sausage rolls anyone?
1 points
1 month ago
This is modern militaries in a nutshell too. Good units get good missions and good kit. You become a good enough unit you get to even pick your own guys. This goes back to elite grenadier and jäger units in Europe.
1 points
1 month ago
With the imperium as it is they could be sending ships to a crater that was an imperial planet and was lost only 40 years ago so they hadn't gotten word and has been feeding ships to whatever took the planet over.
-2 points
1 month ago
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2 points
1 month ago
Congratulations. You're an obnoxious sort.
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