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The Allies were only allied because there was a bigger threat. So if there was something bigger than half enemies it would work, maybe.

It won't be long before people have to ally with each other to take out the Nid threat, and it will be a proper one, lest it fail

Hey,everyone allies against nids or all are consumed biomass? Nice picture to have ancient foes fight alongside to survive.

It would be nice but it wouldn't work, Nurgle would smell out it's allies, Tzeentch would steal there food in crafty ways, Slaanesh would take all the Sisters of Battle and demoralise the normal SM and Khorne well he doesn't like to share killing.

Why should khorne care about shared kills? Every taken head he demands for his own,doesnt matter whos done the work.
Tzentch might not even now his own plans Slanesh never gets his hands on the sisters, this would destroy him
Nurgle needs victims, no interest in a galaxy full of healthy nids

Agreed, and whose to say the Chaos Gods would help others? they can survive without life in the full material universe, instead utilising those who live in the eye of terror and other warp/realspace overlaps. Chances are against the nids the Imperium, Eldar and tau would team up, whilst the Chaos and dark Eldar could strike some form of alliance, but one thats at odds to the Imperial one.

Imperium,Eldar and Tau may work alongside,no team but a hack the common foe group for the moment.

Don't see Orks in any team,maybe they change from one side to the other as the battle rages.

chaos is to chaotic to organize against nids,they will forfeit their followers and wait in the warp. :S

The C'Tan will fight nids,because they won't share this galaxy with anyone (not even cTan),but never be in a team.

Orks will always go to the side thats losing, you know for a better fight. Then changeonce they are winning. Choas will do the oppsosite as it is always after power. The C'tan have no scene of fair play so they will go after everyone, as will the nids.

Space_hoppo wrote:Orks will always go to the side thats losing, you know for a better fight. Then changeonce they are winning. Chaos will do the opposite as it is always after power. The C'tan have no scene of fair play so they will go after everyone, as will the nids.

Just visualizing chaos and orks running around to get to their desired side

C'Tan are the fairest of all, they really hate everyone at the same level.

nids are always hungry, but not interested in robots (necrons), will be their undoing.

Just to answer the original question, I remember way back in the mists of time, Rick Priestley did an interview with a UK-based non-WD gaming magazine (can't remember the title, sorry) and he was asked what the story was with the two missing Legions/Primarchs. His response was of the lines "We could only think of 18 cool names for the Legions, we figured that 18 was a strange number, so we bumped it up to 20 and just had 2 of them unknown."

So, there you go, the real reason that those two Legions were expunged was because Rick and the Boys couldn't come up with a name as awesome as 'Salamanders' or 'World Eaters' for them.

Now thats just a great story for why 2 primarchs are missing-and the lengths of lies GW made to cover it all up in the end! Thanks for sharing that it made me laugh at the folly of it all

Hehe sounds like something the GW brainboyz would do.

Brainboyz...ah the irony. Couldn't come up with an intersting plot twist if they tried

Not a hope in hell of a good plot twist.

Back in the thread someone was talking about grey knights, I don't remember where I read this but i think they were formed from loyalist marines who left their legion after they went chaos to warn the emperor about what was happening.

SPOILER


That's certainly heavily implied by the conclusion to Flight of the Eisenstein, GitD

1hadhq wrote:

Space_hoppo wrote:Orks will always go to the side thats losing, you know for a better fight. Then changeonce they are winning. Chaos will do the opposite as it is always after power. The C'tan have no scene of fair play so they will go after everyone, as will the nids.

Just visualizing chaos and orks running around to get to their desired side

C'Tan are the fairest of all, they really hate everyone at the same level.

nids are always hungry, but not interested in robots (necrons), will be their undoing.

Such intolerance!!!!

The deciever only wants whats best for you!!!

He only wants whats best for you until he gets hungry and stabs you in the back... besides how does he know whats best, hes been asleep for ages, hes probably just cranky having been woken up too soon

Benevolant Necrons will save you kids from the evil Tyrannids!!!

Throw bug bomb at the nids and the problem goes away. No need to get my Necron buddies involved

The nids already try to evade your necron buddies.

But I doubt thats possible to nids forever.So your buddies will have to play pest-control,if they like it or not.