Quote Originally Posted by Cheesegear View Post
But they wont. Huge sections of the Ultramarines Chapter (previous to Guilliman walking) felt that to disobey the Codex was to commit Heresy.
Then Wraith brought up supplies. In a Codex-compliant Chapter, I agree that it would be extremely unlikely that they'd have over 100 Heavy Bolters in their Armoury. They just don't need that many. So why would they have that many?
That was why I called it a Russian Army situation. The limiter isn't the number of people capable of using the weapons, it's the number of actual weapons in their inventory. When a HB-equipped Marine dies, the nearest TacMarine can pick the gun up and keep shooting, at least until everyone runs out of ammo.