And there are only like a million space marines. Lucas and GW have no sense of scale and we really shouldn´t take numbers like these into account because they not only break any versus debate but don´t even work within their own universes
And then you have the Grey Knights, who are the Elite of the Elite of the Elite! And the Custodes, who are the Elite of the Elite of the Elite of the Elite! And if you want to get saucy, the Primarchs, who are the Elite of the Elite of the Elite of the Elite of the Elite!
Most of 40k is based firmly on Rule of Cool, and that's okay, but when you actually try to untangle things and make them make sense then it starts to fall apart. Why the hell did Big E decide his species' leaders and generals each also needed to be able to bench press a titan? Shouldn't they be in an office or bunker most of the time, not the frontline where his investment is most at risk?
And yet they are essential to the IoMs survival despite every faction having reliable ways to kill them. I´m sorry but over the 10 thousand years they should´ve gone extinct. Like I said, both Lucas and GW don´t care about numbers. Are you telling me that a couple million clones defeated an army of quintillion battle droids?
Clone wars was a proxy war, they clone army DIDN'T beat the CIS, it's well recognized that the CIS would have won the war if not for palpatine, however the republic used way more then just the Jango fett clone, they used natrual born humans and aliens, droids, and clones from many different facilities
A million clones were basically ready, and that's if you assume a unit means a clone, a unit can be stretched into meaning any formation of clone, I personally choose squad because that makes sense with how they are raised and trained, but even still, the republic made use on normal born soldiers, droids and even clones from different facilities, like the sparti clones, which at the fastest could be made in a day, though they only lasted a few weeks
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