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...attacked Sol System in the past 10.000 years?
And I mean literary attacked, not like Necron "hit and be vaporized".
Why Orks or Dark Eldar or Chaos Crusade has not been pointed there?

because its the most heavily defended System in the IoM.


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You mean in the ten millenia between 30k and 40K?

I suppose Sol and most neighboring systems are virtually armored against invasion. The IoM must have learnt the lesson from the Horus Heressy...

Revenent Reiko wrote:because its the most heavily defended System in the IoM.


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More the reason for Orks to launch a WARGHHHHH there and for Dark Eldar to sucsefully raid, or for Chaos Crusade... never mind Chaos they are still stuck at Cadia

Brother Coa wrote: never mind Chaos they are still stuck at Cadia

And I doubt anyone else would fare any better. It's pretty much impenetrable as is.

An Ork Waaagh would first have to travel from whatever system they originate in, like, say, the 'Undred 'Undred Teef of the Koronus Expanse, travel all through space to the Sol system, most likely encountering stiff resistance along the way, remain focused on the ultimate goal, not suffer any significant internal strife, and then attack the most heavily-defended system in Imperial space.

Not gonna happen.

Sometimes I wonder if Brother Coa is not a human but a sophisticated spambot drowning Dakka with random question threads.

Psienesis wrote:An Ork Waaagh would first have to travel from whatever system they originate in, like, say, the 'Undred 'Undred Teef of the Koronus Expanse, travel all through space to the Sol system, most likely encountering stiff resistance along the way, remain focused on the ultimate goal, not suffer any significant internal strife, and then attack the most heavily-defended system in Imperial space.

Not gonna happen.

You hummie ain't seein it right ya git! All dat defences aint ganna deter da boyz of ol' Gazzy and Iz 'Attle Waggon spam list all painted up in da red stuffz. We Iz even paint our bootz red to make dem fasta too!

So you hummie don give da boyz no lip, or we'l come ova dar and give you a good stomin!

Kroothawk wrote:Sometimes I wonder if Brother Coa is not a human but a sophisticated spambot drowning Dakka with random question threads.

Said by the man who is not Human anymore...
And since this is 40k site, and I can ask anything I want about 40k, I don't see what the problem is?
And this question is quite interesting. Enemies of man are known to hit hard targets ( Caida, Armageddon, Macragge... ), why not Terra all this millenia?

Because its a basically killing yourself and all your forces if you attack sol immedately

I don't think any faction currently has the power to break through the system's defences. If the Orks could organize a massive Waaaaaagh! they could do it, but it would take more organization than even Ghazzy managed to get. If GW ever advanced the story to the point where Necrons started waking up en masse, they could probably do it also.

It's a rather silly idea.
All the good chaps down at the Imperial Navy have all their shiniest toys in the Sol system.

Also if a Tyranid hive fleet managed to penetrate that far into the galaxy without being too whittled down they probably could.

MandalorynOranj wrote:Also if a Tyranid hive fleet managed to penetrate that far into the galaxy without being too whittled down they probably could.

Well there is one tendril of Leviathan going toward Terra now. Second toward Baal.
And most people agree that Tyranids would nom the Emperor...

Brother Coa wrote:

MandalorynOranj wrote:Also if a Tyranid hive fleet managed to penetrate that far into the galaxy without being too whittled down they probably could.

Well there is one tendril of Leviathan going toward Terra now. Second toward Baal.
And most people agree that Tyranids would nom the Emperor...

I hear the Emperor tasted like strawberries and whipped cream while he still walked the galaxy.

But all those years on life support have softened him up, so now he just tastes like french vanilla ice cream.

Mmmm, God-Emperor-flavored ice cream... :: noms ::

You know...he probably did taste like ice cream back when the Imperium was young...but now that hes a writhing carcass of energy...I'm not so sure he tastes that good

Why does everbody forget about the poor tau, they expand to terra. Someday.

LumenPraebeo wrote:You know...he probably did taste like ice cream back when the Imperium was young...but now that hes a writhing carcass of energy...I'm not so sure he tastes that good

Fine, we'll package some... hummus! flavoured ice cream as, "New God-Emperor-flavoured ice cream," and then when everybody hates it, we'll bring back, "God-Emperor Classic!" and make BILLIONS! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!

With their super slow interstellar travel, they really aren't much of a threat outside the Damocles Gulf and won't be for an extremely long time.

Most likley it will be the Tyranids that kill off the Emperor so that GW can reincarnate him again finnaly after 10,000 years. . .

I don't think many people realize just how fortified Terra is.

you have 2 Space Marine chapters based there(Gks and Imperial Fists),

it has an entire segmentum sized fleet assigned to its defense. Hundreds of Battleships, thousands of cruisers, untold escorts. Massive Space stations in their thousands, ground defenses.

then there is the defense forces of Mars and Saturn. Saturn's navel acadamy produces the finest Captains, Navy ratings, and best trained fleet in the Galaxy.

the the ground forces of the Mechanicus and the Terran PDF. Terras pop is in the hundreds of trillions as the most densly populated planet in the Galaxy. the PDF would match its size.

there is an entire Titan Legion that guards the palace. 2 Warhounds guard the gate into the Throne room.

and the Custodes, all 10,000 of them.




not to mention all the other imperial forces which would rush to the aid of terra in the event of an invasion.

For most forces, they'd have to fight every inch to Sol through some of the most heavily defended systems in the Imperium. Bare in mind that the Segmentum Solar is the most densely populated portion of the Imperium, and every step closer you take towards Holy Terra will have the Imperium resisting more and more strongly.

Even if you just appear in the Sol system you will be greeted by the most strongly defended system in the Imperium. The Adeptus Mechanicus keep the best tech for themselves, and the best ships that the Imperial Navy can offer, don't forget about the Imperial Guard and Skitarii and Titan forces on Mars.

And if you get closer to Terra, then you get the Terran defences themselves.

And this is BEFORE every free regiment, chapter, legion and fleet in the Imperium gets the distress call comes rushing to Terra.

The Necrons dropped 5 Shroud Light Cruisers (a very very piddly little fleet of some of their smallest ships) right through the systems defenses and directly onto Mars. The ships were vaporised during (for 4) and after (for 1) touchdown at the Noctis Labyrinth, which is where the Dragon is holed up. They weren't even caught up with bu the Martian defense ships until they were already in the process of landing, and the Admech are paranoid bunnies with good sensors

They were destroyed at a 'fearfully high cost', after having penetrated all the system's defenses all the way to Mars, and the very formidable planetary defenses of the IOM's main weapons R and D lab, Mars.

As they would have been met and engaged in space if they'd flown in it would seem to indicate that they can pop up without warning anywhere they please.

Now visualize an actual Necron fleet, not an escort squadron, showing up in low Earth orbit, let alone several of them.

Necrons are a bit of a joke on the tabletop, but in the fluff they are scary

I think mit was because they kept getting killed.

Ascalam wrote:The Necrons dropped 5 Shroud Light Cruisers (a very very piddly little fleet of some of their smallest ships) right through the systems defenses and directly onto Mars. The ships were vaporised during (for 4) and after (for 1) touchdown at the Noctis Labyrinth, which is where the Dragon is holed up. They weren't even caught up with bu the Martian defense ships until they were already in the process of landing, and the Admech are paranoid bunnies with good sensors

They were destroyed at a 'fearfully high cost', after having penetrated all the system's defenses all the way to Mars, and the very formidable planetary defenses of the IOM's main weapons R and D lab, Mars.

As they would have been met and engaged in space if they'd flown in it would seem to indicate that they can pop up without warning anywhere they please.

Now visualize an actual Necron fleet, not an escort squadron, showing up in low Earth orbit, let alone several of them.

Necrons are a bit of a joke on the tabletop, but in the fluff they are scary

thats actually accurate for their ships.

in BFG necrons are bloody broken. we are talking like 7th ed Fantesy Deamons broke.

But pricy as hades, and with only 5 ships available...

BFG is a blast

Not nearly pricy enough.

the Tomb Ship is easily 25% too cheap for its effectivness.

the other ships are better priced and can be dealt with, but the Tomb Ship just combines too many of the Cron's abilities in one undercosted package.

True, True

I find it ironic.

No-one plays Necrons in 40K (well, save for a few diehard masochists like me) but BFG has a far better Necron representation

Only fair, i suppose...

'yes, your ships are very impressive in the air, or in space, but right now, Mr Morden, they are on the ground...'

were are doing a campaign and were kicking around the idea of Planetstrike games to resolve invasions, but then realized that Necrons would totally own in space, but wouldn't ever take a planet

They don't need to.

They're totally fine with glassing it from orbit instead

Their pupils, the IOM, have learned that lesson well