>>5257922That does make a lot of sense honestly. Maybe I am underestimating our Skitarii.
>>5257942IIRC unless I am wrong Skitarii are more like specialists, rather than the Admech's guardsman equivalent. More like Karskins or Stormtroopers. Forge Worlds have their own style of PDF/Guardsmen that have a name I've forgotten and can't remember.
"Except Skitarii is a fuck ton more expensive than solar Auxilia"
Well, my plan was to offset that by merit of having more resources and in that regard Lucius is doing spectacular. But also even if we can't mass produce Skitarii in the same numbers of guardsmen, there are other ways to bulk up our legion. Techthralls, Cyberneticae, Servitors and Cyborg Abhumans (Servitor Ogryns are very close to Astartes statewise).
To put it bluntly, for the 2nd legion it won't matter if we don't have as many Astartes as another legion, or even as many baseline human aux like the Ultramarines. If each Acillian is like a knock off techmarine, and we make ourselves capable of supplying them even with 1 squad of servitors, cyberneticae robot, or a group of guardsmen, we exponentially increase the size of our army. That's what I'm hoping to be the 2nd's big legacy, to be a legion known to be unmatched in the sheer weight of its mass and numbers, and to have perfect integration of Techmarine Astartes with vast quantities of auxilia and cybernetica forces. The truly industrial legion that Perturabo could only dream of. . .and we'll probably have to bankroll Perturabo a lot.
Add to this Lucius is only rich now because we've connected it to so many resource planets, but its not fully optimized. But we haven't even so much as touched increasing its efficiency. If Lucius is already more resource productive than Mars now, just imagine how much more it could be if Talos applies himself to it. We'd have more wealth than we know to do with and w can easily both use it to increase our army, fuel the great crusade, and fund our biggest research projects and the Emperors too.
QM has graciously gifted us with the vast quantities of resource for Step 1, now we just need to figure out the steps to turning those resources into our Legions benefit.
"Trying to streamline their process is the tricky part."
Yeah that's the main thing i'm hoping to achieve if it isn't already. "Can we ensure our Legion can do this for all knew recruits." If we can just produce high quality standardized parts in large number, and then rely upon our troops being able to customize them and upgrade into superior gear, that might be the way to achieve it.
Truly it all boils down to a simple question: "Is Lucius rich enough yet to afford making the 2nd Legion into a legion of Techmarines and what would it take"
