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Updated the Answer and added few additional things that has happen in last two years too.The answer is a big Yes, Most of the people who answered here are either not residing in Andhra Pradesh or they aren’t aware of things happening in AP. Bare with me as it is a pretty big answer included what CBN has done in the past 5 years.This time CBN became CM for a state that doesn’t have a capital and with a government deficit of about 17k Crores.He has been converting crisis into an opportunity from Day 1 let me make you to go through the things happened in the state after he taking charge as CM in 2014.HUDHUD in 2014After he took charge in 2014 HUDHUD was an uninvited guest it was the biggest cyclone in Vizag’s history as a Viziagite i knew it personally, my parents witnessed it. When HudHud hit Vizag I’m in Hyderabad, When things restored i called my mother and she said how harsh mother nature was. AP under the leadership of CBN is completely prepared and CBN brought normalcy in a week. He brought most of the government employees to Vizag and made them work to get things under control. In our area power was restored in 3 days, in Villages it took 5–6 days. He is the first one to reach Vizag after HUDHUD hit Vizag, he worked in a bus and brought things under control. He gave stern warnings to telecom operators and made them to restore their networks ASAP.After 3 years recently this happened, Kudos to GVMC and AP Government.VizagHe is trying hard to make Vizag an IT Hub. The construction of Millennium Tower was completed a few months back and Conduent has started operations in it. They have even started Construction of Tower 2 next to it. There is even a lot of Pitching going on for promoting Vizag as a Fintech Destoination. Roadshows conducted in Hongkong, Bangalore, London, Tel Aviv, New York City and many other cities across the globe. To know more about it follow their twitter handle here[1]TU-142 is brought to Vizag and that is being made as a museum, there are even plans of bringing INS Viraat to Vizag the talks are still happening. New Glass domed train to ArakuGVMC will be the first Municipal Corporation in India to deploy a 100 mass electric two-wheeler mobility system. GVMC sanitary supervisors will be using these for their daily patrol and supervision.AP Med Tech Zone, VizagAdani group has come forward to invest 70,000 Crores in coming 20 years, They will setup three 1 Giga Watt Data centers in Kapuluppada Data Center park.Rise of AmaravatiAccording to me, Amaravati is the right place to be chosen as a capital it has got both the historical significance and the needed resources to be the futuristic capital of AP. Amaravati, a place with great heritage running back over 2000 years. Nowhere in Independent India, 30,000 acres of land is pooled voluntarily, it’s CBN’s innovative idea of land pooling that’s a win-win for both the government and farmers. Many states today are adopting CBN’s land pooling scheme for developmental activities in their states. Made Singapore Government prepare the master plan for Amaravati for free of cost.Appointed Fosters + Partners [2]as the architects for the government complex. Here is the master plan that was recently submitted to Government of Andhra Pradesh by Foster + Partners. By looking at it I am sure and confident that Amaravati will be India's and one of the world's best city. Brace yourself Chandigarh we are going to steal best city tag from you in two decades. This is the final design of our assembly building that is going to come up at our World class Amaravati.For closely working with people of AP he wanted to shift from Hyderabad, Within 197 days he is able to do this in AmaravatiTemporary High Court Secretariat and Assembly are up and now functioning, Seed Axis roadworks are happening in full Swing. VIT, SRM started constructing their campuses in Amaravati. AIIMS construction started in Amaravati.Singapore Government and AP Government signed an MOU recently. Singapore Government Consortium will develop a 6.58 Km of startup area which will be almost 16 times bigger and better than the Raheja Mind space in Hyderabad which was built when he was the erstwhile CM of AP.Vijayawada got it’s brand new Airport terminal in less than a yearCurrent status of AmaravatiMost of my friends feel that Amaravati is going at a slower pace, But according to me, it’s not, the reasons are In a country like India pooling 34000 acres of land in a year is itself an achievement thanks to CBN’s innovative land pooling idea. If you can check the status of land acquisition of some other projects like Navi Mumbai airport and even Modi’s Pet Project(Bullet train) land acquisition has become a big problem.And also people don’t realize the amount of effort that is being put for the trunk infrastructure like sewage, Electricity, fresh water supply, and other works as they are done underground and are not visible.Majority of Government Employees housing projects are in the final stages. Construction of Government complex towers has been started and are in full swing. A total of about 40,000 Crore works are being done in Amaravati.Check this Video for the status of Amaravati here[3] .Uplifting RayalaseemaRayalaseema getting most of the investments is a sign that CBN wants to lift people of Seema from factionism.Rayalaseema gets MI, Dixon, TCL, Zoho Hero, KIA, Apollo tyres, ISUZU, Mega Seeds Factory, Oravakallu Airport, Jairaj Steel plant and Kurnool Solar Plant.Do you know that Kochi Metro and Sydney Metro Coaches are Made in Andhra at our Alstom Facility in Sri City.Here is a video of Chittoor MI plant, the MI phone in your hand is Made in Andhra Pradesh.India’s biggest FDI after Modi announcing #MakeInIndia Kia Motors India entry to Anathapuram, AP. A Huge sum of 2 billion USD investment.When I have written this answer couple of years back the MoU was signed but today the plant is up and it has changed the face of Penukonda region. Kia’s first car will be out anytime soon. To know more check this out[4]The most important thing is People of Seema got water through Pattiseema.Power Reforms and Renewable EnergyAP started its account as a power deficit state, CBN mobilized and managed to enter Centers power for all scheme and today AP is power surplus state. AP added almost 4000mw of renewable power capacity to its grid after CBN taking charge. Today AP is 100% electrified state after TN and Gujarat. AP distribution losses are the lowest in the country.AP is the top 3 in the distribution of LED bulbs you can check that here[5]You can track power cuts, Power supply to your city and towns in AP here[6]One of world’s Largest Solar Park in AP in Kurnool 1000mw, This is bigger than the one in TN built by Adani.3Gw of Renewable Energy Projects are in Pipeline.AP govt has signed an MoU with Kia for creating electric vehicle ecosystem in the state[7]AgricultureThere is a myth that CBN never cares about Agriculture, but he is going shut all of their mouths with his work. He waived off about 24,000 Crores of loans for farmers, UP is going to study our loan waiver scheme. Almost 13,000 crores are done till now and the remaining will be done in the next couple of years. For the first time in the country, a special Budget for Agriculture was introduced.In the last 3 years, there are about 3.11 lakhs of Farm Ponds are being dug in AP. Data shows that the Center has built only 5,78,589 farm ponds. Andhra Pradesh has built 3,11,361 farm ponds, which is the highest by any State.He is planning to build 20,000 check dams in a year. AP government, along with ISRO, has prepared an action plan to meet drinking water and irrigation needs in drought-prone areas, the programme will be launched in Rayalaseema region soon.Rain Guns and innovative way of saving crop in drought is being brought in place. Subsidy on tractors, crop insurance, and farmer income support scheme of 15000 rupees(this includes centers Kissan Saman Nidhi 6000, State govt is paying an extra 9000 rupees)Special care for Polavaram the lifeline of AP, Made Every first day of Week Monday as Polavaram Day and inspecting it on the weekly basis after many years works are moving at faster pace, I’m sure polavaram will be completed under his leadership.When states like TN and Karnataka are fighting for Cauvery water he built a Lift Irrigation project called Patissema Lift and saved 100+ TMC of water to sent water to Drought hit Rayalaseema.AP is the first state in India to launch Plantix App for the farmers it can provide the information about the disease for the crop if any just with a photograph.Picture from training sessions to farmersStarted an amazing program called Manam-Vanam for planting trees and recently in recent ISFR 2017 rankings where India forest cover Increased by 1% and AP stood first with an increase of 2,141 sq km.One project that I like most w.r.t to the Agriculture sector is CBN is pushing farmers of AP into Natural farming. If you are interested to know more about it check it here[8]Healthcare:AP, first state in India to achieve Universal Health Security- Aarogya Raksha. It offers healthcare insurance to its citizens.[9]AP is the only state in the country to provide CT and MRI scanning free of cost at all district hospitals.Talli Bidda Express, A special Ambulance service for pregnant womenReforms in Education:A special organization named AP Janmabhomi was formed to connect NRI to its villages with 70% Government and 30% NRIS fund they are planning to convert 5000 government schools in AP to digital schools.For stopping girl child dropouts Government has introduced a special scheme to girl child's living in rural villages. Every girl child will get a new cycle for going to schoolTechnology in Administration:Our Chief is a big time believer of Technology here are some of the innovative things that make him so special. AP is the first state to have innovative dashboard[10] where we can track rainfall, street lights, groundwater levels and many more. It uses IOT first state in India to do so, many CMs don't even understand what IOT is. Many other states in India want to copy the same, recently Modi Govt launched similar kind of Dashboard on the occasion of completing 48 months in Govt.CBN is using Kaizala App to take feedback from it’s citizens. After giving feedback many of my friends got phone calls regarding the feedback provided in the App and how can they improve.We are going to take all departments online a project called e-pragati is floated and Microsoft is working with us.AP is the first state to have Skype Bot in Skype where you will be provided information about the AP Transport Department[11]CBN gave a Presentation about his vision for Andhra and What is trying to do in a Microsoft Event named Future Decoded if interested check that here[12].A citizen centric hotline has been started, dial in for 1100 and tell your problem, concerned team will look into it.AP Fiber provides the cheapest internet in India by a state government, Central government asked other states to follow AP Model. I have recently checked this in my hometown pretty impressed with the speed.You get 250 Channels, 5 GB of Unlimited internet and a Phone connection for 150 Rupees. The Box costs 5000 rupees which can be availed through EMI.AP disaster management is the first state in India to use technology that can locate the fall of a thunderbolt 30 minutes in advance. Citizens are alerted in that region via an SMS(Only for BSNL Network as of now)We have a technology for tracking the live rainfall, weather, etc. we developed that in association with ISRO.[13] Just go through the link you will love it.We have a Real Time Governance center for tracking the progress of all the departments.Real-Time Governance(RTG) center include Hitachi visualization suite for matrix surveillance and public safety first of its kind in India, Pentaho bi suite, for real-time data analytics, Barco video wall, the biggest laser-lit wall in India with 24 screens, Matrix camera analytics and data analytics from different departments are displayed on the laser-lit wall and processing in real time governance.Check out the Video by HitachiHitachi Resources - Search by Industry or ContentRecently Ambani hailed CBN for RTGCheck this out, Chandra Babu Naidu: Father of E-Governance a Video From DavosSmart Streets - A Pilot Project by Cisco and Govt of AP, First time in India.Don't Miss it, Have a look here:http://players.brightcove.net/1384193102001/NJgI8K0ie_default/index.html?videoId=5597494640001APIIC which has played a crucial role in getting investments to AP has its own tower now in MangalagiriCheckout the details of it here[14]Great Push to Tourism in Sunrise StateCBN always wanted Tourism industry in AP to develop right from his previous stint he is man who had vision to develop AP as most sought out tourist destination in India. 2000 hotel rooms will be added in AP in the next 2–3 years. Check out some amazing snaps of various places in AP here[15] .Recent Punnami Orvakal Festival, Festivals in Cities like Kakinada, Vizag and other places shows their effort in promoting tourism in APF1H20Kakinada Beach FestivalVisakha Utsav[16]Amaravati Global Music & Dance FestivalOrvakal Festival[17]Araku Ballon FestivalCheck out our Most beautiful Konaseema(AP’s Mini Kerala)[18]First of it’s Kind Nallamala Jungle Safari[19]Experience the Ooty of East Coast and Pristine beaches of Vizag[20]Indian Idol Revanth at recent Orvakal Festival.F1H20 AmarvatiFor more images of F1H20, checkout their official website[21]Araku Ballon Festival (Pic Credits: Suresh Gorantla)India’s biggest Marina is being developed at Amaravati in 3 acres of land with 60 berths.Building Smart VillagesModi gave a call for building smart cities but CBN has different vision he wants to make villages smart. A Pilot Project has been started and successfully implemented in a Village called Mori in East Godavari District. It’s one of India’s most hi-tech village. It’s 100% cashless, every house is connected with AP Fibre(Government Internet and Cable Connection), Water conservation, 100% ODF, Village is completely WiFi enabled, every citizen has a bank account and a solid waste management system.University of California Berkeley & Government of Andhra Pradesh has been working on it, Solomon Darwin (who is the director of Garwood Center[22]) a professor from UCB who hails from Andhra Pradesh is leading this project, Thanks to him and his team. Phase 2 works are going to start very soon now they are going to make 456 villages smart, I’m very impressed with this project and CBN’s vision of making villages smart.Some of the Investments that Came to AP after CBN taking charge:APP Sinar Mas (India’s Biggest FDI $3 Bn)KIA MotorsHero MotocorpMI, Gionee, Celkon, Karbon, Dixon, TCLMondelez International(Parent of Cadbury)ISuzu MotorsAsian Paints(India's largest plant in Vizag)Apollo TyresCEAT TyresMega Food Park in Kurnool500 Crores HCL Centre in AmaravatiXLr8 Andhra Pradesh[23]Several other Small IT & ITES in Vizag, Tirupati, and Vijayawada.Gamesa (Spanish Wind Turbine Company)Vijayanagara Food & Nutraceuticals Limited (India's first coconut processing unit in Vijayanagaram)Aparna Group is going to start a 320 Crore Tiles plant near Kakinada.Bharat Forge.GMR - Kakinada Special Investment Region: This could change the face of Kakinada in the coming days.Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone Limited: India's first medical devices manufacturing unit in Vizag.Zoho in ReniguntaFranklin Templeton, Vizag[24]Conduent, VizagPi Data Center, Mangalagiri (One of Asia’s largest Data Center)BR Shetty’s Medicity Project in Amaravati (Est Investment $1.8 bn)Jairaj Steels, Kurnool(Est Investment $0.5bn)Ashok Leyland, Krishna DistrictHolitech ($200 Mn)Lixil Group ($60 Mn)Cardlytics, VizagSaint-Gobain[25], VizagSuzlon Energy Ltd, AnathapurBerger Paints, AnathapurAs on 5th March 2018No of Industries that are grounded in AP are 531[26]Amount of investment in Rs. crores 129661Employment Generated (No. of persons) 264754, AP has the lowest unemployment rate in the country.You can track the investments and employment stats here.Welfare Schemes for Poor in AP:Pensions for Old people, Widows, Single Women, Transgenders, Handicapped, hand loom workers, Toddy Tappers and Fishermen.There is a special ambulance service for AP pregnant women i.e 102 Ambulance ServiceChandranna Pelli Kanuka: A Scheme has explicitly been implemented for the welfare of the brides belonging to the backward classes and below the poverty line.Ammaku Vandanam[27] is a new scheme wherein mothers would be invited to the schools on a specific day every year for the special function. This is aimed at paying tributes to mothers and respect motherhood.NTR Videshi Vidyadharana Scheme provides 10 lakhs scholarships for all the people who are unable to afford foreign education.Yuvanestham a special scheme for unemployed youth, they will get 2000 monthly allowance to pursue skill development courses and reduce the burden on the family.Anna Canteens (Similar to Amma Canteens in TN) are opened across AP, Akshaya Patra Foundation is helping AP Govt in providing the meals.Divya Darshan A special scheme for Poor Hindus wherein Poor Hindus are taken on a free trip to Temples in AP, Currently for Tirumala[28].As far as my knowledge AP is the first state where Brahmins have a separate Corporation. Where poor Brahmins can get benefited from the following schemes [29]Awards and Achievements in the last three years:No: 1 in World Bank Ease of Doing BusinessNo: 1 in Private investments in India for the year 2015–16No: 1 in India in energy efficiency by World Bank.Best state in India by CNBCSeveral Awards in Power SectorUSIBC transformative CM for CBNBest CM Award from Bharatiya Chatra SansadAP is No: 3 in tourism in IndiaAP is able to ground 129661 Cr worth of Investments and generated 264754 JobsSector Wise Awards for AP from the past 5 yearsAP has so far received 667 awards in past 5 years from Central Government majority of them are in infrastructure, Power sector, Panchayat Raj and Rural DevelopmentI can say no other state in India has achieved so much as AP did in the past 5 years. I might have missed some and left out few things as the answer has become too big.Note:This is for people of Andhra PradeshGet to know what’s happening in your state and then comment about the leadership and all, most of the people I spoke don’t even know what’s happening they just comment as there is a problem with CBN ruling the state. Problem with our people is vested interests drive our state people don’t like this man for no reason. Many other states people admire him so much and want him as their CM, people of TN would happily take him as CM if offered they are the one who knows it better about the leadership Crisis. Some people of our state feel an actor turned politician a +2 dropout can change our state. Some feel South India’s King of Corruption can change this state. Grow up people when we have a leader who can turn things around why do you people look for options.Thanks for the upvotes.Footnotes[1] Fintech Valley Vizag[2] Amaravati masterplan | Foster + Partners[3] Review on Amaravati Capital City Roads Progress as on 06 Feb 2019[4] Kia Motors Global | Sedans, Hatchbacks, SUVs & MPVs[5] NATIONAL UJALA DASHBOARD[6] AP Vidyut Pravah[7] Andhra Pradesh government inks MoU with Kia Motors to introduce e-vehicles across State[8] Home - Zero Budget Natural Farming[9] NTR Arogya Raksha[10] CM DASHBOARD[11] AP Transport Authority[12] Future Decoded - Chandrababu Naidu[13] Vassar Labs[14] APIIC Tower | to be Inaugurated by CM Chandrababu | at Mangalagiri[15] AP Tourism (@Tourism_AP) | Twitter[16] VISAKHA UTSAV[17] Punnami Orvakal Festival[18] Konaseema[19] NALLAMALAI JUNGLE CAMPS[20] Home page - This Summer[21] F1H2O UIM World Championship[22] Home - Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation[23] XLr8 Andhra Pradesh[24] Franklin Templeton gets 40 acres to set up tech campus in Vizag[25] Saint-Gobain setting up glass unit in Vizag[26] http://164.100.47.190/loksabhaquestions/annex/14/AU1434.pdf[27] Andhra to introduce 'Ammaku Vandanam' in schools [28] దివ్య దర్శనం[29] ABC Schemes

Cohortes Urbanae of Etruscis:Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. - Colonel Caesar, Siege of Alesia, 599.M38.History:Planet:An orbital view of Etruscis, 746.M30Chopix III, informally known as Etruscis to the inhabitants, is a hive world located in the Chopix system of the Forsarr Sector of the Segmentum Tempestus. It has a current population of 79 billion, of which 1 billion are part of the PDF and around 180 million are part of the Cohortes Urbanae. The Imperial Tithe is paid in the form of 250 billion tons of carapace armor and flak armor per year and the 30000 guard regiments in service of the Astra Militarum. This puts Etruscis at the tithe grade of Exactis Extremis, the highest level in the Imperium. The primary export is armor and shielding, which goes to everyone from Bullgryns to the Raven Guard Space Marines of the nearby moon of Deliverance, and the primary import is plasteel, ceramite, and food.Forsarr Sector. The Chopix System is in between Kastorel, Magdelene, and Lycaeus.Originally colonized during the Dark Age of Technology, this Hive World was the second greatest producer of materials in the area. During the Age of Strife, Tech-Priests from Kiavhr quickly annexed the world and enslaved to population to produce good for their own means. The oppressive rule of the Tech-Priests continued until the revolt of Corvus Corax. When the minerals from Lycaeus stopped coming, Etruscis fell into a long civil war that only ended when ships from Kivahir proclaimed the fall of the Tech-Guilds and the leadership of Corvus Corax. During the Great Crusade, Kiavhr and Etruscis quickly became the Raven Guard’s main suppliers. During the Horus Heresy, the Dark Mechanicus launched an invasion of Etruscis that was primarily composed of various Traitor Titan Legions after the battle of Ravendelve. Kiavhr and the Forge World of Gryphonne IV responded in kind by deploying portions the Legio Vindictus and Legio Gryphonicus respectively. The resulting conflict lasted 4 years and was only relieved after Raven Guard and Therion Cohort coming back from assaulting the Perfect Fortress managed to cripple the enemy with a flanking maneuver. The resulting battle left heavy casualties on both sides, and the beleaguered reclaimators left behind a lot of equipment, particularly Secutarii weapons and shields.1st Siege of Etruscis.After the Horus Heresy and the death of over half of the population during the 1st Siege of Etruscis, the citizens quickly militarized and formed the planet’s first planetary militia and Imperial Guard Regiments, supplied by the factories of Kiavahr. Although the population recovered to the pre-Heresy levels by M34, the impact of the siege resulted in a highly militarized Hive World where the Imperial Guard and the PDF were seen as the pinnacles of society, and public office required service in the Guard. However, there was nothing notable about Etruscis’s Guardsmen aside from the better-than-average morale of the units until the 2nd Siege of Etruscis in 724.M35.Reinforcements liberating the outskirts of a hive, 2nd Siege of Etruscis.The 2nd Siege of Etruscis was a critical point in the foundation of the Cohortes Urbanae. In 724.M35, another Dark Mechanicum fleet attacked, this time under the control of Archmagos Anníbas Bárkas with the traitorous Legio Frostreaver Titan Legion. At the same time, multiple Chaos Cults, various criminal organizatiosn, and other scum launched an attack on every Hive Cities. The local PDF and the Adeptus Arbites were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the cultists and were forced up the Hive Cities, ceding valuable positions such as arsenals, factories, and storage facilities. In the chaos (pun intended), the Dark Mechanicum quickly landed and took multiple Hive Cities.Seeing the crisis, the planetary governors ceded control over to Colonel Marius, the commander of the only Imperial Guard Regiment currently on the planet. However, the reason that the regiment was on the planet was because it was waiting to be refitted, and was woefully under-equipped as a result. In a stroke of inspiration that came to be known as the Marian Reforms, Marius gave his troops Mag-Inverter Shields from Secutarii Hoplite remains to supplement their lack of armor and sent them to reclaim the capital Hive City. The shields proved to be highly effective and could be used while marching with a laspistol or in 2 person fire-teams where one guardsman shields another person with a lasgun.Beleaguered PDF forces joined the regiment and were likewise equipped with a shield. The gangs and cultists frequently did not have enough firepower to penetrate the shields, and the well-protected fire-teams easily suppressed assaults. This processed repeated itself over multiple contested Hive Cities and the Regiment swelled from 3 companies to 10 companies as the PDF joined the liberation force.Mag-Inverter Shield. They can absorb the energy of a blast and use it charge weapons. Typically found on Secutarii Hoplites.The style of urban warfare hampered the traitor Titans’ movements as cultists were forced back and the Titans could not support them in the small corridors of the Hives. As such, the PDF and the Imperial Guard held off the attackers for over a year until reinforcements from Kiavahr finally drove off the attackers. The resounding success of the regiment during the siege impressed even the Segmentum Command, and they order Marius to restructure the Imperial Regiments of Etruscis. Although there was some backlash from the Adeptus Mechanicus trying to reclaim their Secutarii tech, a compromise was reached where the Adeptus Mechanicus reclaimed the Mag-Inverter Shields but provided Etruscis with information on how to manufacture smaller Bullgryn Slab shields, which provided a similar role at a similar effectiveness. The Marian Reforms converted a relatively normal regiment into a unit held as the pinnacle of defense and urban warfare among the Astra Militarum.Organization (Post-Marian Reforms):Individual:Typical Guardsman Layout without a laspistol: Gun, Combat Knife, shield.Guardsmen of the Cohortes Urbanae have the following equipment: a lasgun, combat knife, a laspistol, and a Slab shield. The lasgun typically is for long-range combat and is normally used in 2-person fire-teams in the open field, one holding a shield and the other with the lasgun or individually with the shield attached to the back or planting the shield in the ground. Knives are typically very straight and are meant for stabbing actions while taking cover from the shield. Laspistols are used while marching or when a shield is needed as they are less cumbersome than the lasgun to use in conjunction with the shield.Typical individual firing formationThe Slab shield is a notable part of the typical guardsman and its greatest advantage. Typically used by Ogryn abhumans, the legion has adapted the shields for use by the much smaller humans, but the concept has remained the same. The shield can interlock with other shields to provide a uniform wall, and the shield can also be planted on the ground to be used as a temporary fortification. A shutter has also been added to the viewport as to fire from a protected position. As normal shields are very heavy, the strongest guardsmen go in the front with larger shields to better defend the unit, and thinner shields are distributed to the rearmost members of a platoon.Slab Shields. Typically around 10 feet tall, the shield has been reduced to 5 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide to be more portable. The shields also lock together, forming an impenetrable wall that can stop anything short of a tank shell.Armor is typically Carapace armor as it provides greater protection and is a major export of Etruscis, making it easy to obtain. Each guardsman is equipped with a full enclosed helmet that also doubles as a short-range vox reciever and gas mask.Typical helmet.Carapace armor on a Cadian Guardsman. Carapace is made up of various plates of ceramite.Heavy weapon squads typically field lighter armor and do not have a Brute Shield. In addition to combat gear, every guardsmen carries a 9–70 Entrenching Tool, 2 weeks of rations, 2 frag and 2 Photon Flash Grenades, sleeping pack, lamp pack, and the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer in a rucksack.Platoon Level:Each platoon is 1 out of 4 that form a company, and they are divided into 6 squads of 10 people. The first 5 are normal squads with 10 guardsmen. The 6th squad is a logistics and medical team, and they are equipped with larger vox-casters, medi-packs, and surveyors. There also are 1 special weapons team - typically equipped with grenade launchers or snipers - and 2 heavy weapons teams normally equipped with Icarus-pattern lascannons or mortars. Finally, there is the command squad, which consists of the Lieutenant and 4 veteran troopers. In total, there are 75 troops in a platoon.Organization of a Company.Company Level:4 platoons plus a command squad with a Captain make up a company. 20 companies form a regiment, which means there are typically around 6,000 men in a regiment, making the Cohortes Urbanae regiments some of the largest in the Astra Militarum. Each company is in a increasing order of prestige, with the 1st Company of each regiment being the most elite regiment. Colonels lead regiments and have a command squad with 10 veterans in them. There are also around 30 commissars, 25 enginseers from the Adeptus Mechanicus, 20 pyskers, and around 200 men from Ministorum in each regiment, making a total of 275 auxiliary personnel. No abhumans have ever been part of the Cohortes Urbanae due to the absence of any in the Forsarr sector.Formations:Typically it is up to the Colonel’s discretion on how to deploy troops, but there are preset formations that have been proven effective time and time again. On a platoon level, there is the Testudo. The first row has their shields facing forward, and the rows behind keep their shields up. This provides maximum protection from direct and arced incoming fire. Occasionally, the sides of the testudo lower their shields to protect from sideways fire. This formation is typically used when marching under fire. A variant where the 2nd line has lasguns peeking out of the formation to provide fire is frequently used on the battlefield. This is used both in urban combat and on the field, allowing for a stalwart defense or a systematic march with minimal casualties.Testudo Formation.On a regimental level, companies are typically deployed in 2 lines. The 1st to 8th companies make up the first line, and the 9th to 16th companies make up the second line to act as reserves and supporting fire. The 17th to 20th companies make up the reserve and rearguard. Heavy weapons teams are placed in the back to provide supporting fire, and special weapons teams are normally deployed on the side or directly behind their company.Standard Regiment Formation with the numbers of the companies. Artillery consists of heavy weapons squads with mortars or heavy weapons from an armoured regiment.Every regiment has been drilled to quickly build roads and defensive fortifications called castrum. Roads can be built as fast as 3 miles an hour by a legion and can support even the heaviest tanks. Castrum can be built in a quarter of a Terran day and are notoriously strong fortifications. In one instance, a mob of Orks captured an abandoned castrum, and despite being outnumbered 10 to 1 by the Guard, it stood for a week before the besieging guard just gave up and ordered a planetary bombardment of the castrum.Role: The Cohortes tend to focus more on urban combat and sieges, but they can be deployed to any battlefield while still performing very effectively. Their versatility allows them to be a general jack-of-all-trades, but they need to be supported by lighter elements due to their own lack of mobility.Special Forces: The Cohortes have their own version of elite stormtroopers called Praefectus Urbi, which are used as shock troops to break through heavily contested points. The Praefectus Urbi are selected from the first cohorts of other regiments and assigned to a nominal Praefectus regiment. Although they are called a regiment, these elite units frequently get broken down to companies or platoons, which are then attached to other regiments who need them. Their equipment is also much better than the normal regiments, replacing lasguns with hellguns and hellpistols, as well as the addition of the very rare refractor fields to officers of these units, which were hoarded by the Tech-Priests who used to rule Etruscis. Out of the 30,000 regiments of Cohortes, there are only 30 regiments of Praefectus.Hellpistol.Armoured Regiments:The Cohortes Urbanae do not field many armoured regiments, and the few they do frequently serve as artillery support and troop transports rather than MBTs to the regiments that they are with. The armoured regiments always consist of the following: 3 companies of 10 Chimeras with modified Siege Shields, 2 companies of 10 Centaurs towing Heavy Mortars, 1 company of 10 Leman Russ Annihilators, and 1 Leman Russ Command Tank. There also is 1 recon squadron consisting of 3 Sentinels each and 1 anti-aircraft squadron with 3 Hydra Flak Tanks. Doomhammer super-heavy tanks are fielded as anti-Titan and anti-armour support.Armoured Regiment OrganizationSiege Shield Dozer Blade. These have been modified to fit on a Chimera chassis rather than the traditional Rhino chassis and provide a greater measure of defense.Heavy Mortar and Centaur Tank.Leman Russ Annihilator. The 2 lascannons can quickly melt most tanks’ armor.Chimera Transport without Siege Shield.Hydra Flak TankSentinel WalkerDoomhammer Super-Heavy TankTypically, the armoured regiment is interspersed within the infantry regiment with the Heavy Mortars serving as artillery support, Annihilators and Doomhammers serving as anti-armor vehicles, Flak Tanks serving as anti-air support, Sentinels serving as reconnaissance, and Chimeras providing additional firepower and shielding in urban warfare or initiating flanking maneuvers on the open field. Like the traditional company, an armoured regiment is headed by a colonel and each company is led by a captain. It is also important to note that Centaurs can be used independently of their mortar, providing a light carrier or transport supplies.Recruitment, Training, and Advancement:The Cohortes Urbanae are the apex of Etruscis society, and their training reflects that. Candidates are chosen from the best of the PDF and undergo a rigorous physical and written test to determine their skills. The highest scoring candidates are admitted into officer training, where they are rigorously trained in leadership and tactics. The remaining members undergo physical training and drilling that perfects the iconic formations of the Cohortes. When the training is finished, recruits join the 20th company of a regiment. Eventually due to field losses, guardsmen will move all the way up to the 2nd or 1st companies and new recruits will fill the gaps in the lower companies. Sergeants tend to be veterans from the 1st or 2nd Companies who are placed in other companies to stiffen morale and provide leadership. On extremely rare occasions, Sergeants can be promoted to Lieutenant when there is a lack of capable officers or they have done something extremely meritorious. Lieutenants are the first commissioned officers, and they stay with their platoons unless reassigned by the Captain or Colonel to replace another officer. Captains follow a similar command hierarchy as the guardsmen, with lowered-numbered cohorts being more prestigious and the Captain of the 1st Company being the next in line to the position of Colonel. Command Squads operate separately from the rest of the regiment and work directly under their commanding officer. They are handpicked by the Officer from the group they command.Societal Impacts:Etruscis has a very militaristic society after the devastating 1st and 2nd Sieges of Etruscis, which wiped out much of the civilian population. Military service pays extremely well, and it is mandatory for many jobs to hold a prior military position. In fact, only 4 planetary governors have not been a Colonel or higher in the 5 millennia after the Marian Reforms. its 1 billion-strong PDF is one of the largest and best equipped in the Segmentum and is frequently deployed across the entire Forsarr Sector, particularly during the recent WAAGH of Garaghak and the subsequent reclamation of the Hive World of Forsarr.Interactions with other organizations:Adeptus Astartes: Most of the chapters that were spun off from the Imperial Fists tend to like the Cohortes Urbanae due to their specialization in urban warfare and defense. Many of the most famous campaigns of the Cohortes have been fought alongside Imperial Fist chapters such as Heraclea, Alesia, Teutoburg, and many others. They also get along with the Raven Guard as their quick and surgical style of warfare complements the defensive Cohortes, allowing for hammer-and-anvil strategies. Also, the Raven Guard are the closest chapter to Etruscis and their Primarch, Corvus Corax, helped liberate their planet millennia ago.Imperial Navy: The Imperial Navy occasionally requests the Cohortes for ship security and boarding action due to their shields and specialization in close-quarters urban combat that is useful while boarding or being boarded.Officio Prefectus/Commissars: The life of Commissars working with the Cohortes tends to easy, and they mostly devote themselves to keeping an eye on any psykers working with the regiment. The rigorous selection tests weed out most of the cowards, and the officers take great effort to discipline their unit. In fact, officers have been known to inflict punishments harsher than the Commissars, such as the time Colonel Aurelian caught a squad of Cohortes who deserted, and individually tied each of their limbs to 4 different Centaurs that subsequently tore each of the deserters apart.Ecclesiarchy: The Ecclesiarchy and the Cohortes have a relatively hostile relationship in the present after the fall of Magdelene IX during WAAAGH! Garaghak. The Cohortes and Etruscis’ PDF decided it would be more pragmatic to fortify their own planet before it was overrun rather than aid the Imperial Shrine World, and the Ecclesiarchy has hated the Cohortes ever since.Adeptus Mechanicus: Many of the Cohortes’ most famous campaigns have been against Traitor Titan Legions such as Zama, the Pyrrhic Wars, and both Sieges of Etruscis. Due to fighting against these titans as well as their former enslavement during the Age of Strife, many of the guardsmen are suspicious about any Mechanicum influence. In the Mechanicus’ eyes, the original regiments during the 2nd Siege of Etruscis attempted to take Mechanicum technology and use it for their own means, so both sides distrust each other.Notable Campaigns:Pyrrhic Wars (016.127.M36-417.127.M36):Less than 500 years after the Marian Reforms, 9 infantry regiments and 1 armoured regiment were sent to the reinforce the system of Tarentum, which was under attack by Traitor Imperial Guardsmen and Titan Legions. There, the Cohortes were assigned to the central position of Siris, where they weathered 7 attacks before having to withdraw when the less-disciplined guardsmen on their flank broke. The regiments then fell back to Asculum, where their stand was the first among many legends. Arrayed against insurmountable odds, the Cohortes managed to stand against multiple attacks and managed to take down all Titans committed to the attack. Eventually through sheer fore of numbers, their position was overrun, but the casualties incurred by the Chaos forces forced them to withdraw from the planet.Siege of Qart-Hadast (Hadast IV) (239.289.M37-417.318.M37):Initial Deployment during the Battle of Zama.In 280.M37, a warp-jump accidentally led to the discovery of a Dark Mechnicum Forge World in the Segmentum Solar. Another fleet from the Mechanicus surveyed the world and discovered it was home to several Traitor Titan Legions and Archmagos Anníbas Bárkas, who had previously besieged Etruscis. When the Planetary Governor, Scipio Africanus, recieved word of this discovery, he immediately lobbied Segmentum Command to deploy all possible Cohortes regiments to assist in the invasion. In the end, over 500 regiments (3 million guardsmen) of the Cohortes were redeployed to help retake the Forge World. Supplementing the force were Imperial Knights of House Raven, several Skitarii Legions, a company from the Hammers of Dorn, and around 200 other Imperial Guard regiments. After an uncontested landing, a primary push was made towards the central manufactorum, and the Dark Mechanicum forces met the spearhead at Zama. During the battle, Archmagos Anníbas deployed his 4 Traitor Titan Legions in front of the main force of Traitor Guardsmen and Skitarii to attempt to disrupt the enemies’ lines. However, Scipio prepared for this and set his formation so that there were empty spaces in the Titan’s field of fire. In these spaces, he placed the various Tank-Hunters of the armor such as Doomhammers and Shadowswords. As a result, the titans were not able to heavily disrupt their lines and were quickly eliminated. However, Anníbas still had the advantages of numbers and ordered a charge against the main line. The Cohortes stood their ground long enough that the armour and Knights on the flanks were able to envelop and annihilate most of the Chaos forces. Although most of the Dark Mechanicum’s forces were destroyed, it took over 20 years to finally recover the Forge World.Parthia System Campaign (637.723.M37–107.730.M37):Harlequins cutting through an Imperial Guard Regiment.In 723.M37, an Eldar Craftworld of an unknown name appeared in the Parthia System of the Segmentum Tempestus and immediately attacked the system. Several regiments of Cohortes were sent to reinforce defensive positions, but the lack of mobility and range against the Eldar quickly hindered them. Attempts to move into lasgun range resulted in the Eldar rangers simply retreating and the vaunted Testudo formations were devastated by artillery and Harlequins. In the end, after incurring 80% losses and only managing to kill a handful of Eldar, the regiments retreated. The punishment inflicted by the Planetary Governors upon hearing of the humiliating defeat was legendary and became known as the decimation. The surviving guardsmen were forced to beat a tenth of their comrades to death, and the colonel in command of the force, Colonel Crassus, had molten gold poured down his mouth for his incompetence. Reinforcements were later sent, but all they managed to do was hold a small series of forts on the main world of Parthia Prime. Eventually, the Imperium withdrew after 7 years of no progress and heavy casualties, leaving the Eldar to their own machinations.Gallic Wars (874.527.M38–789.600.M38):Raven Guard fighting in the streets of the Ork Settlement, Siege of Alesia, 599.M38.Around 200.M38, an unnamed Ork WAAAGH! overwhelmed the Gallic Sector, which is right next the Forsarr Sector in the Segmentum Tempestus. It was also home to a relatively large Armoury World and 2 Feudal Worlds. After decimating the Imperial garrisons, the WAAAGH! consisting of billions of orks broke into numerous warring factions. The Departmento Munitorum obviously wanted to retake the armoury world, and in 527.M38, they successfully petitioned the Astra Militarum to launch a crusade. Unfortunately, the 9th Black Crusade was currently underway, so the Crusade primarily consisted of Cohortes rather than the more renowned Cadian Guardsmen. However, the Estruscis did respond in force, sending 10 million Cohortes and 50 million PDF. Other regiments from around the galaxy were also pooled together, including famous regiments such as the 81st Cadian Armoured, the Armageddon 9th Steel Legion, and the Praetorian Vth, bringing a total of 120 million Guardsmen. In addition, the Raven Guard and the Knights of Dorn also joined the Crusade, along with a sizeable detachment from the Imperial Navy. The Crusade swept through the sector with significant force, and the divided Orks were too busy fighting amongst themselves to be of any significant resistance. By 574.M38, 3/4 of the sector was liberated, leaving only the Armoury World, Alesia, and its surrounding systems to liberate. However, the Orks managed to reunite under a Warboss called Vercingetorix, and the subsequent WAAAGH! nearly ended the Crusade. However, the current planetary governor, Caesar, decided to take command of the expeditionary force. He decided to head straight to the Armoury World, Alesia, and eliminate the warboss. After landing, his forces plowed through the Orks, setting up hundreds of Castrum to defend supply lines to the landing zone. Eventually, they reached the Ork settlement and began to besiege it. Dozens of Castrum were set up, encircling the Warboss with a series of forts, camps, and batteries. The fortifications bore fruit when a relief force consisting of nearly a billion Orks on the planet assailed the besieging force along with a sally led by Vercingetorix. The Imperial Guard held steady, and the web of trenches around the city successfully repulsed the attack. After 2 years of bombardment and numerous failed relief attempts, Caesar led an attack into the settlement. While the Cohortes cleared out the streets in concert with the other regiments, a Raven Guard strike force managed to kill Vercingetorix, ending the WAAAGH! and reclaiming the Armoury World. For his leadership during battle, Caesar was promoted to Lord Commander of the Segmentum Tempestus, but he was assassinated shortly after by one of his advisers who believed he was corrupted by Chaos.WAAAGH! Gharaghak (170.936.M41-Present):Progress of WAAAGH! Garaghak/In 170.936.M41, a small warband took the world of Thoria III completely by surprise and captured it. From there, the WAAAGH! began to evolve into a large horde, with thousands of Orks joining by the day. At Tallarax, it was believed that 5 regiments of Cohortes would stop the horde, but bad intelligence meant that they were outnumbered nearly 100,000 to 1 and were subsequently annihilated. As the Orks gained momentum and smashed apart any attempt at defense, the Planetary Governor of Etruscis, Hadrian, began to consolidate his forces. The PDF was doubled in size, and he attempted to gather every single Cohortes regiment back to the planet. The WAAAGH! then smashed through the defenses of Forsarr, which included a 100 Cohortes regiments and nearly 2 million other Guardsmen. Hadrian then decided to keep his forces on Etruscis to fortify and to not aid the Shrine World of Magdelene IX. This decision infuriated the Ecclesiarchy and ruined the relationship between them and the Cohortes. However, the time was well spent. Major roads between the Hives were fortified with a Castrum at every mile, and a complex network of trenches stretched the gaps between each fort. Hives were turned into fortresses, with choke points established at every corner and many buildings turned in strongpoints. Defense lasers were even further fortified to the point that they could withstand a siege for nearly a decade. This network of defenses was known as Hadrian’s Wall, and it was guarded by much of the planets billion-strong PDF. At this point, the fortifications were one of the strongest in the galaxy, only being surpassed by Cadia and Holy Terra itself. The 20 million Cohortes Hadrian could amass were designated as reserve so that they could reinforce areas that were under heavy attack while still having the mobility to respond to other threats. The Crimson Fists lent a company of Space Marines that further improved on the network of defenses and were a key part of the siege, leading strategic sallies to blunt assaults and saving many defenses from an overwhelming tide of Orks. After all the preparation, the WAAAGH! arrived and landed in 148.999.M41, besieging the planet. Currently, one hive has been lost, and 2 others have been encircled and will soon fall, but more Astra Militarum forces are on their way with the Revilers, Aurora, and Death Eagles Space Marine Chapters coming to end the WAAAGH on the planet.

The Imperium of Man, no doubt.Size"It is a given fact that through the might and valour of the Imperial Navy, the raging tides of foul aliens and vile heretics that infest the galaxy have been stayed from overrunning the millions of worlds that over the millennia have come under the Emperor's beneficent rule."-p.1, BFG Fabric of the Imperium"They were the best troops the millions of worlds the Imperium of Mankind could produce."-p.4 Ragnar's claw, pdf ver."It was only one world but there were millions of such worlds in the Imperium, separated by thousands of light years of distance. He had heard it said that if a man could visit one new world in the galaxy every day of his life, he would not have visited a thousandth of the inhabited worlds by the time he died."-p.23 Ragnar's claw, pdf ver."The Imperium is a mighty conglomerate of millions of worlds spread over unimaginably large distances."-p.2, Inquisitor's Sketch book"It was merely one of many such worlds that floated in the space around that huge sun. And in turn the Eye of Russ was just one of millions of suns that made up the galaxy and around many of which orbited other inhabited worlds."-p.105, Space Wolf, pdf ver.The Imperium is a galactic civilization spread over the entire Milky Way galaxy. Even at absolute lowest ends, it has a minimum of 1 million worlds."The Covenant, also referred to as the Covenant Empire[7][8] or Covenant Hegemony,[9] was a massive religious hegemony of multiple alien species that completely controlled a large portion of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way Galaxy for thousands of years.[10][11]"Taken from The Covenant - Faction - Halopedia, the Halo wikiLinked to these sources:Halo 2: The Official Strategy Guide page 40Planetary Operations Manual Covenant - OverviewAs you can see, the Imperium has more worlds in its control than the Covenant. The Covenant is utterly, pathetically small compared to the Imperium of Mankind.IndustryThe Imperium's industrial capacity and ability to pump out war material is… staggering, to say the least."Unwilling to even enter into any negotiation on the subject, the Emperor had demanded Kelbor-Hal’s oath, and he had had no choice but to agree. That had been the end of the matter, and two days later the Emperor left Mars to begin his conquest of the galaxy.”- Mechanicum"The alliance of Terra and Mars was complete, and the Mechanicum had outdone itself, building fleets of ships to allow the Emperor to take to the stars and complete his Great Crusade of Unity. The skies over Terra were thick with starships, hundreds of thousands of them organised into more than seven thousand fleets, reserve groups and secondary, follow-on forces. It was an armada designed to conquer the galaxy and that was exactly what we set out to do."- A Thousand SonsAssuming 300,000 ships, which is a reasonable number:300000/2 = 150000 ships per day. From a single Forge World.Tell me, how could the Covenant even hope to match that?ManpowerI don't know much about the population of the Covenant, but it is most probably smaller than the Imperium as the Imperium is larger and has more worlds, thus having more inhabitants and citizens under its rule. Although some like John Light insist that the Covenant has a population in the quadrillions, I have yet to see sources of that.Source:Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Codex Page 114–115, Dark Millenium: Worlds of the ImperiumFrom this, we know that:There are 32380 Hive Worlds in the Imperium.A hive world is home to many hundred billion citizens.This gives us a lower limit of:32,380*100,000,000,000 = 3.238e+15 = 3,238,000,000,000,000 people in the Imperium from Hive Worlds alone.That is approximately 3.2 quadrillion citizens, rounded down to the nearest thousand trillion.We have an upper limit of:32380*900,000,000,000 = 2.9142e+16 = 29,142,000,000,000,000 people in the Imperium from Hive Worlds alone.That is approximately 29 quadrillion citizens.On the Covenant's side…I did some digging and this is the best source by far on the population of the Covenant.Source:According to the video, the Covenant has a population of around 71.5 billion. Even if we multiply that by 10, 100, or 1000, the Imperium still outnumbers the Covenant. By orders of magnitude.But how about troops?According to the video, the Covenant has 3 billion troops."When the tithe ships arrived with a hive-world’s demand of a billion Guardsmen, all they found was a dead planet.”-Redemption CorpsSummary of the materials I posted:The Imperial Guard is the top 10% of the PDF.There are billions of regiments of Imperial Guard in the Imperium.Each regiment has thousands of Guardsmen.The average tithe for a Hive World is 1 billion guardsmen.I have produced 2 calculations concerning the amount of troops in the Imperium.Finding out the number of guardsmen using the tithe numbers.1,000,000,000*32380 = 32,380,000,000,000 = 32 trillion guardsmen.This is equivalent to 320 trillion PDF, amounting to a total of around 352 trillion troops total.Finding out the number of troops using the regiments’ numbers.Assuming 1 billion regiments and 5 thousand Guardsmen in each (very, very low - end):1,000,000,000*5000 = 5 trillion guardsmen. Amounting to a total of 55 trillion troops (+PDF)Assuming 9 billion regiments and 10 thousand Guardsmen in each (a more reasonable number):9,000,000,000*10,000 = 90,000,000,000,000 = 90 trillion guardsmen and 900 trillion PDF, amounting to almost a quadrillion troops.The Imperium heavily outnumbers the Covenant.Power (Space)40k BIGGATON macrocannon calcs3.3 teratonnes for a single macrocannon, amounting to almost 475.2 teratonnes from a single broadside. That is over 47 times more powerful than the Super MAC that the UNSC Infinity boasts.A single macrocannon would utterly and literally obliterate Covvie vessels."Fusion motors unleashed the tiny suns at their cores and pushed the craft away, climbing the acceleration curve in a glitter of void shields and displaced energy. In moments, the vessel was rising towards one-quarter lightspeed."Pg.725 Nemesis"Four ships, one of them very large. And they were moving. Point seven five light at least, cutting straight towards Herodor. They did not slow down. They were moving at cruise speed. Attack Speed."The Saint, Page 893Within seconds, an Imperial Warship can accelerate to speeds comparable to the projectile of a MAC cannon.“In the depths of space, such fights took place at ranges that would swallow a star system, ships hitting ships beyond each other’s visual ranges.”-Pg. 91 Deus SanguiniusImperial ships can fight beyond ranges of Covenant ships by orders of magnitude.Just how big IS the Imperium of Man? My calcs...Imperial ships number in the tens of millions.Do I need to say more?Power (Ground) - InfantryI would say that in terms of mechanical warfare, the Covenant can stand its ground with Scarabs and such. That is why I would be evaluating infantry. Not like the quality would make any difference when you enemy outnumbers you by orders of magnitude…First up, the humble lasgun.The wall behind him exploded in a firestorm of light and vaporising bricks. Two fierce blue beams of las fire punched into the room and sliced the man into three distinct sections before he could move."First and Only"If you watch the armour flashes as General Grizmund has suggested, they form a rough line, like a contour. Compare that to the fall of shells. The edge of the shortest falling shells - you can see that from the explosions and from the smoke fires - approximately matches that line, with a break of perhaps a kilometre and a half between armour and line of fire. That is the space we might expect the infantry, advancing before the armour, to occupy....Lasguns, sir. So many lasguns firing over each other that their individual sounds have become one shrieking note."Necropolis"The lasgun is similar to a modern day assault rifle in power. Not a 50 cal, which is a misconception many has. Let me repeat that. A lasgun is not a full auto 50 cal. A lasgun only reaches that level or even beyond with charged shots, like what happened in the first quote - obliterating a wall.A lasgun is both deadlier and longer - ranged than a Covenant plasma rifle or even carbine!9/6/2007 11:56 AM PDTThe Particle Beam Rifle has a range of 1500m as per "Halo: The Essential Visual Guide". A measly 1500 meters. Thats around the range of a lasgun.A Lasgun is a powerful, versatile, and deadly weapon. It should be more than enough to make up for the training and armour gap between the Covenant infantry and Guardsmen.In my opinion, the Covenant infantry would be slightly more powerful because of their superior armour (covers a lot more body area) and superior training, but ultimately loses because of their weak weapons and miniscule numbers.TL;DR: The Covenant is weak and would be crushed by the Imperium. The Imperium has more territory, more manpower, more ships, and would win in both naval and ground engagements.