The Blood Ravens are in a sad state of affairs in Dawn of war 2 are they not? I mean they got somewhere around 11 marines fighting a three pronged war against 3 very hostile races across 3 planets in a star system and to make maters worse, they have to scavenge there equipment from the battlefield itself.

I'm not going to make this a full on review of the game, I'll leave that for people who get paid to do that sort of thing I just felt that the changes from Dawn of war to it's Sequel leaves for some interesting color commentary

Now this is of course not to say that the current state of affairs in DOW2 for the Blood Ravens is not of there own cause. Like our current Recession the blood ravens have made some rather dubious Decisions in the housing markets, don't believe me? well lets look at there dawn of war 1 exploits.

During the Tartarus Campaign the Blood Ravens under the command of Gabriel Angelos went on a Campaign aganst three hostile races in trying to rescue the people of Tartarus before the world was consumed by a warp storm. Now the planet was for all intents and purposes, fucked... So how many plots of real state did the Blood Ravens set up before the planet was consumed at the end of the campaign? Well you built a base in each of the ten missions so, Ten strongholds and ten barracks, and so on and so forth. considering that they went down with 100 Marines your looking at Ten Marines per base held in the campaign.

Fast forward a bit to Davian Thule's campaign on Kronus Where he led 3 companies to battle to take the world over from damn near every Warhammer 40,000 race in existence. Not only did he waste a startling amount of resources building up to 20ish Bases on the planet, But then he for giggles decided to piss troops away killing the Imperial guard on the planet who were supposed to be Allies!

Don't even get me started on Soulstorm, wasting half the chapter and not even winning!

I can see it now, Somewhere on Terra, The Emperors loyal Certified Public Accountant number 3,234,987 is over viewing Chapter expenses when he comes across the Blood Ravens expenses for the last few campaigns. In a slight almost inaudible gasp of mind numbing terror he reads on, billions spent on wars, and all in the last century, Probably spent 12 times as much as any three chapters combined!

In quivering horror this lone CPA reaches over for a red button on his console and pounds it with a cybernetic fist calling down the emperors holy Extermanius on the blood ravens annual budget! Before whispering

"God dammit! Don't they know there's a Recession on!"