What Does a Primaris Space Marine Chapter Look Like? (Update!)
Update: Given that much has happened in the two years since I first published this and it has gotten quite a few views over that time it deserved an update, scroll to the bottom for additional commentary! Earlier today Bell of Lost Souls hosted an article about all Primaris chapters and arguing that they just don't make sense. Now in actuality I agree with the author on several points. Essentially the typical organization of a Space Marine chapter does not fit the available Primaris units very well, the Primaris range is lacking in several areas to make it an effective stand-alone force and currently does not really fill out the traditional roles and company structures of a Space Marine chapter. Currently a chapter of Space Marines should stand at a thousand battle-brothers strong divided into ten companies of roughly a hundred marines each divided into ten squads of ten. The first company is the veteran company composed of Vanguard and Sternguard veterans and any Terminator o...