Originally Posted by
Charon
So then. What is their advantage over their loyalist counterparts who do have supplies, are all knowing badasses and super powerful who can fight fantastically at all times and have always full magazines of ammunition.
Would not work because we all know that if the Ultramarines would ever succumb to Chaos they would instantly fill their drop pods up with explosives, pile up their assaultcannons, Razorbacks, grav guns, Landspeeders,.. and crash their explosive filled drop pods on top of this pile. After that they rush to the next "rent-a-heretic" store to get their pre heresy equipment and a brainwash to forget how they used to fight before.
Shortly after that they split apart while the imperium still pretends that they are a threat while, in reality, they are just a sad bunch without any supplies hardly surviving at the brink of existance.
So what is the "reward" in this? Any loyal space marine joining chaos is actually downgrading himself in every single aspect. That alone could be a hint that there has to be some more to it than "lack of supplies".