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I have no idea what those two army reproduce with

Any ideas?

Orks - Spores
Tau - ?

Tau reproduce sexually as far as im aware, they have both males and females represented in the model range.

Waaa?Orks have female?

No, they are a fungal species, they release spores on death that grow from the ground into your worst case of mold.

No, TAU have females and males.

Orks are all neither gender and constantly release spores which grow into orkoid lifeforms (squigs, snots, grots and orks themselves) when they land on fertile soil and gestate, when an ork dies it releases large amounts of spores.

How could they be gay or lesbian if they allegedly don't have male/female counterparts? I think what you're looking for is "asexual."

Tau have at least two sexes but we don't know if they are mammals or reptiles or something.

I mean for all we know Tau females lay 20 eggs at a time which are incubated in shared nests giving them a formidable reproduction capacity. Or they might be like humans.

Orks are fungi. They are literally the fruiting bodies, like mushrooms, and produce spores which can grow into more Orks.

Really? Orks are fungi?

They are a cross between symbiotes and hybrids a fungi and a mammaloid in the same genetic code yet two individual systems.

WOW!We are getting our arses kicked by fungis,that is not cool!NOT COOL!
The Genetic altered super humans are getting owned by some mindless fungi?God,no,Emperor have mercy!

Why are we not experimenting with fungus and human DNA to make orks??? imagine the possibilities!!!!

Tony the guardsman wrote:WOW!We are getting our arses kicked by fungis,that is not cool!NOT COOL!
The Genetic altered super humans are getting owned by some mindless fungi?God,no,Emperor have mercy!

No its badly genetic altered super humans getting owned by some idiot savent 7 foot tall dispensable genetic altered fungi that reproduce in their billions and need nothing but themselves to survive,

1-0 to the old ones, better luck next time emperor.

Lord of battles wrote:Why are we not experimenting with fungus and human DNA to make orks??? imagine the possibilities!!!!

corpsesarefun wrote:They are a cross between symbiotes and hybrids a fungi and a mammaloid in the same genetic code yet two individual systems.

People accept this but they can't accept that humans and Eldar could cross-fertilize?

Kilkrazy wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:They are a cross between symbiotes and hybrids a fungi and a mammaloid in the same genetic code yet two individual systems.

People accept this but they can't accept that humans and Eldar could cross-fertilize?

It is actually possible to have orks, think of white blood cells.

White blood cells are produced by the body but run effectively independantly doing their job, replace this with microscopic fungi and your sorted for the fundimentals of built in symbiotes.

This slug is an example of this, after thousands of years of eating plants they developed photosynthesis

Watch what ya sez 'bout da Orkz! Dey outnumbas all da uvver weedy gitz in da oonivers! WAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read Xenology for the information.

Considering their warlike character, I would not say that an ork is a 'fungi' *boom-tish*









If anyone wants me I'll be in the corner, wearing the hat of bad-pun-shaming...

Leigen_Zero wrote:Considering their warlike character, I would not say that an ork is a 'fungi' *boom-tish*

Hummmm, so are you saying we should throw in the "TAU"owel on this discussion?






Ok, ok, ok, Ill go stand in the corner too.

Leigen_Zero wrote:Considering their warlike character, I would not say that an ork is a 'fungi' *boom-tish*









If anyone wants me I'll be in the corner, wearing the hat of bad-pun-shaming...

oh my, that took me three reads to get. I feel ashamed.


The way Orks reproduce, is why they are so hard to get rid of right?

I don't understand why they don't just land a few Orks on some different planets and call it done. I may be missing something, I really don't know much about Orks myself.

How do orks grow?
do they photosynthisis?
why don't the imperiam just kill the orks when the orks arn't fully developed?
what do undeveloped orks look like?

Lemming eater wrote:How do orks grow?
do they photosynthisis?
why don't the imperiam just kill the orks when the orks arn't fully developed?
what do undeveloped orks look like?

Quickly.
Maybe.
Because it's really hard to do?
Embryonic Orks.

As for T'au, they 100% do have two genders, though how they reproduce is a mystery. Given that the T'au hold no bias towards the female gender operating on the front lines, it might be possible that they use some sort of reptilian method of laying eggs, as this means that the females would not be out of commission for as long, considering that each caste is dedicated solely to their castes function, and it would be very inefficient if half of the Fire Caste were knocked up most the time.

YAH
Orks- spores.
Tau- presumably like humans (giggity)

what I want to know is how come it takes forever for an Eldar to give birth? I`d think they`d be like rabbits, always having children cause they have such a high metabolism.

eldarbgamer13 wrote:YAH
Orks- spores.
Tau- presumably like humans (giggity)

what I want to know is how come it takes forever for an Eldar to give birth? I`d think they`d be like rabbits, always having children cause they have such a high metabolism.

It doesn't take forever, they can, in fact, make about 8 babies per Terran year.

It's just they are all Poofs, and the women are just as bad (see: Howling Banshees).

if i didnt know any british curses, i wouldnt know what you were talking about. That is just DE.

Gwar! wrote:

eldarbgamer13 wrote:YAH
Orks- spores.
Tau- presumably like humans (giggity)

what I want to know is how come it takes forever for an Eldar to give birth? I`d think they`d be like rabbits, always having children cause they have such a high metabolism.

It doesn't take forever, they can, in fact, make about 8 babies per Terran year.

It's just they are all Poofs, and the women are just as bad (see: Howling Banshees).

Gwar! are you saying you wouldn't want a Eldar Warrior woman, Howling like a Banshee?!

You know, I have a friend who always makes fun of the Eldar, for being "poofs"

I still don't get why, it must be something I'm missing....

Sasori wrote:

Gwar! wrote:

eldarbgamer13 wrote:YAH
Orks- spores.
Tau- presumably like humans (giggity)

what I want to know is how come it takes forever for an Eldar to give birth? I`d think they`d be like rabbits, always having children cause they have such a high metabolism.

It doesn't take forever, they can, in fact, make about 8 babies per Terran year.

It's just they are all Poofs, and the women are just as bad (see: Howling Banshees).

Gwar! are you saying you wouldn't want a Eldar Warrior woman, Howling like a Banshee?!

You know, I have a friend who always makes fun of the Eldar, for being "poofs"

I still don't get why, it must be something I'm missing....

Because they are flighty, "pretty" and don't make babies. It's a dig at the last part. Eldar aren't dying out because they make babies slowly, it's because they don't make babies

Ah, well that makes sense. I just never thought of it that way. I know Jain-Zar would scare me into being a "poof"

(Sorry, First time I've heard "poof" used, think it's pretty funny.)

Does reproduction have anything to do with the game at all...

Kilkrazy wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:They are a cross between symbiotes and hybrids a fungi and a mammaloid in the same genetic code yet two individual systems.

People accept this but they can't accept that humans and Eldar could cross-fertilize?

Lichen