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>In theory, a battleship is a work of impossible artifice yadda yadda
I really, really fucking hate this shit that Warhammer always pull off. Everything is irreplaceable, everything is painstakingly handcrafted one by one, everything is immensely costly and rare and precious. No, they aren't. Battleships are still churned out at the rate they blow up, bolters aren't hand crafted otherwise you'd never supply the mehreens, terminator armor is abundant because terminators keep exploding when breathed on. Somehow more archeotech or dwindling weapons keep getting used abundantly. I could tolerate it in fantasy with "elves are a dying race. Btw every year the dark elves invade ulthuan and both sides take fifty trillion losses" but 40k just abuses it.