>lost 1st company to Chaos >lost 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th

>>51979667

Well a milenia is composed of 10 centuries, so you can say that these events happened in specific and convenient moments.

Or they were just lucky.

>>51979667

Depends. If a chapter is temporarily withdrawn from the field and has a wide recruitment pool they'd be able to recover much faster. If they are still in the field, the reduced strength means they'll be taking more casualties than normally, thus recovering much slower.

>>51979667
>Blood Ravens are still a force by the end of m41

Chaos Rising and Ret are in 42K. A decade into the new age.

The new game is also in 42K. They have time to rebuild.

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>>51979667
It was grim, but fear not! New genseed was gifted to the chapter by our friends from the Ultramarines chapter. As well as this sacred powerfist.

>>51979709
>42K
>Imperium isn't half collapsed by this point
>Blood Ravens still fucking around instead of racing to Ultramar or Terra

ehhhh I'm not digging alternative universe 40k right now

>>51979731
I really hope they get gifts in the Blood Raven campaign. Reading the descriptions was some of the best parts of the DoW II campaigns.

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>>51979746
>alternative universe 40k
>racing to Ultramar of Terra
Now point in doing so. Admiral "I'll black crusade up your ass, fuckboi" Spire probably BTFO'd Abaddon by this point.

>>51979746

>forgetting that girlyman is giving the armaments and new recruits for magnus chapter

>>51979746
>>51979709
>42k
What happened during the thousand years inbetween?
M42, bruhs

>>51979667
It's ovious, the other chapters gift them marines.

>>51979667
>Doesn't it take an Astartes Chapter a century to rebuild from the brink of destruction?

Depends on whether you take the Codex Astartes literally.

Presumably there's a relatively high failure rate for gene-seed implantation - you don't take 100 implantations and get 100 marines - so any sane Chapter is going to over-produce to try and play the known odds of survival in order to keep up to strength (the Raven Guard and Salamanders, ironically, might not understand this).

So long as you don't have vast numbers of marines kicking about you're probably never even going to get noticed by the Inquisition - and the older or more successfully active a Chapter is at defending the Imperium, the less shit it's going to get from Inquisitors anyway.

So you might end up with 1000 active marines and a war in which, knowing the enemy and the situation, you know you'll take 40% casualties; if your failure rate of gene-seed is 50%, and you're going to need 400 replacement marines, that's 800 recruits you need. In addition you're going to have basically 4 scout companies for a decade, but nobody's going to seriously care about that, or you could stagger it if you're worried so they come in tranches a few years apart (basically however long your scouts usually take to graduate).

But if you didn't take 400 casualties, you might end up over-strength to a significant degree; in which case, you just start dumping your active marines into more wars, because that's the best way to maintain the balance (and it's what you're for, anyway). By the time your scouts graduate, you're back to Codex.

>>51979667
Just posting this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgGVSdR8wc