Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Astartes Legions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy, hierarchy and functions as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of ancient Roma and the mid-M2 general Krom's fragmentary "New Model" army that had survived in the hands of the tyrants of Old Earth down the blood-stained generations of the Age of Strife. The size of each Legion was fluid, with the numbers of combat-ready Astartes dependent on the number of new recruits, the inevitable battle-losses, the availability of potential recruits, and the administrative skills of the Legion's primarch and his officers. Even during the Great Crusade some Legions were very large, while others were not. A precise, pre-set formation was never truly achieved or maintained. The Legions were massive armies, and the size of each could vary tremendously. A Space Marine Legion was a frontline force of shock-infantry comprising tens of thousands of Astartes warriors armed and equipped with the finest wargear the Imperium could supply.Ī Space Marine Legion, unlike the 1,000-warrior Chapters of the present-day Adeptus Astartes created after the Second Founding, could number anywhere from 10,000 to more than 250,000 Space Marines. The Space Marine Legions, also known as the Legiones Astartes in High Gothic, were the original unit formations of the Space Marines created during the First Founding by the Emperor of Mankind on Terra in the late 30th Millennium.
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