Ah yes, dying horribly in a never ending fascist war machine is so much preferable to orgies!
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They all think they'd be a Space Marine
They never think they'd be the scutman who dies because the planetary governor accidentally launched a viral bomb into their house
Not that chuds have ever been good at math.
James workshop is also very bad at scale in their own universe though. You'll have 100 year full scale wars over entire systems and the lore will say some shit like "3 million casualties of IG over the course of the war"; like that's probably not even in the top 10 casualties list of imperial Chinese rebellions.
Worse is their space marine treatment, where apparently a million known space marines is enough to serve as shock troops over the entirety of their holdings in the galaxy.
Rule of cool and all, but every time I see a 40k novel mention numbers I have to add two zeros to the end for it to actually make sense given the quadrillions of imperials and the other quadrillions of their enemies.
That is exactly why in Fantasy, they say "There are exactly as many Elves as the story needs".
(Even that doesn't justify though, the elves apparently being in such a population crisis that the death of even one elf is enough to be considered a tragedy for the race, yet hundreds of elves regularly die in battle, and every year, the Dark Elves celebrate Murder Christmas.)