Editing Scale Inconsistency (section)

===Lore Numbers===
In a more abstract sense, it's often been noticed by people that GW does not have a clue about how big armies are supposed to be. To explain what we mean, lore tells us that there were roughly 4,000,000 or 4 million Orks at the third war for Armageddon, a supposedly 'gigantic number' that the imperials barely managed to stop putting all the effort and energy they could to stem the green tide: over 4.5 million Allied soldiers died in WW1. 4,833,404 to be wiki exact. An apocalyptic win at all cost war for the fate of an entire planet, involved fewer Orks then the number of soldiers who died on one side of an early 20th century war. 

Space Marines are another example of this misunderstanding of scale. There's (supposedly) 1,000 space marine chapters which average about 1,000 astartes each meaning there's 1 million Space Marines meant to defend a galaxy with threats at every corner across roughly 1 million worlds. Context: there were 16 million US soldiers in WW2 alone not counting anyone else. With the introduction of [[Primaris Space Marines]], it makes this unlikely due to the sheer amount of specialist units that would need more than 10 dudes in a chapter along with the firstborn who still have old weapons they revere as relics. Not only does one company typically make a scout company (meaning 100 of that 1000 are all backups) but specialist formations and first company terminators and veterans. Even excluding the various specialist roles like Apothecaries, Dreadnoughts, Chaplins, Librarians, Techmarines, etc., that's not leaving a lot of room for people who drive the Rhino or operate its turrets, let alone the Primaris units like Infernus squads, Desolation squads, the elite Vanguard forces, Inceptors, Aggressors, Eradicators, Hellblasters, and the various flavours of Intercessors which all assuredly carry more than a handful of men each at any given time. The Great Crusade is actually worse with us expected that a single legion could take a planet, when it took eight million men, 5 years to fight over one sub-continent of old Earth? Perhaps Geedubs will fix this by having old Bobby G write a Codex 2.0 that multiplies everything by 10 like the old fan rule of thumb says, but only time will tell - especially because this is GW we're talking about.

A particularly funny one is the Imperium is said to consist of 1 million worlds over 100,000 lightyears of space, making it the largest empire in the galaxy. Except, the Milky Way Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars across that same 100,000 lightyears with an estimated 300 million-5 billion estimated habitable worlds with current technology. So not only has imperium and humanity during the Dark Age of technology failed to colonize most of the habitable worlds, they outright chose to colonize the hellholes like the tidally-locked [[Mordia]] where life is much more uncomfortable. Given the Imperium also still has some terraforming technology, this seems a little bit silly given the entire state of the galaxy. Even considering the quarter of the galaxy consumed by warp storms and other factions, the comedy from the Imperium being constantly restated to be so massive yet in canon is comically small compared to our own real-world makes 40k being very conservative with its numbers really, really funny.

It's often advised to just treat the numbers given as unreliable narrators and to add a zero to every number given to us. It was not 4 million Orks but 40 million, a much more respectable number, albeit one that less than half the total number of soldiers in WW1 but getting closer.