White Scars - Legion Size: The White Scars were never considered to be among the larger of the Legiones Astartes, partly due to the tendency of its separate detachments to operate individually and the relatively low level of recruitment conducted by the Legion. In its early years, before the rediscovery of Jaghatai Khan, the Legion numbered around 80,000 warriors. By the later years of the Great Crusade, after the return of Jaghatai Khan, this number had risen to around 95,000 warriors.This left the Legion as one of the smallest of the Legiones Astartes, although slightly larger than Corax's Raven Guard and Vulkan's Salamanders, as well as one of the most widely spread on a strategic level. Of all of the Legions, only the Iron Warriors had more of its number attached to fleets and garrison posts thanthe White Scars.During the Great Crusade, and for much of the Horus Heresy, the exact size of the Vth Legion was often difficult to ascertain, due to the lax attitude many of its commanders held towards the filing of accurate and regular reports with the Divisio Militaris.Those numbers available in these latter years are mainly drawn from the personal journals of various khans and other officers of the Legion, and were not generally known in those last few years before Horus declared war on his father.As such, many of the Imperium's commanders often believed the White Scars to be a much larger force than it actually was, a fiction mostly attributed to the tendency of the Legion's various detachments to move from war zone to war zone as they willed, and the often confusing heraldry used by many of the brotherhoods.During the final stages of the Great Crusade, in the years just before the Istvaan massacres, the White Scars were spread across the galaxy in several dozen war zones, often in detachments of only a few brotherhoods. During the Ullanor Crusade, Horus called upon the Great Khan and his warriors, gathering several full hordes of the Vth Legion and their Primarch to his side -- the largest concentration of the Legion at a single war zone since the Kolarne Circle campaign.Following the fighting at Ullanor, those hordes that had been present, along with several others previously assigned to fighting in the southern fringes of the Great Crusade, were committed to the Chondax Campaign and were later involved in the Alpha Legion's treacherous assault against the White Scars. This left at least three hordes unaccounted for in the first years of the Horus Heresy, most assigned to fleets along the northeastern edge of the Great Crusade and far removed from contact with their Primarch.It appears that most of the Traitor detachments in this region were under orders to avoid engaging remnant White Scars forces, and in at least one incident, a Legiones Astartes force in White Scars colours is known to have fought alongside a Sons of Horus battle force in campaigns targeting Blood Angels' and Ultramarines' holdouts along the Eastern Fringe.Following the Chondax Engagement, there are few concrete facts regarding the main body of the White Scars and theirmovements are little known to Imperial savants in the years that preceded the Battle of Terra save as recorded above.