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I know that,nukes are used as last resort.I wonder what would happen if the orks started believe that shootas are powerful as tank main cannon.

Emperors Faithful wrote:It would depend on the amount of orks. A single rok (while cuasing chaos on a continent) would be relatively easy to contain and defeat. They have no ships in orbit, no air superiorty and very few vehichles to start off with.(Infestation that grows after is a different story, that'll be around for a while)

If it's a full blown Waaagh on the other hand, it doesn't look so good for us.

Despair against filthy greenskin?

No need to. Orks are too desperate to fight, bait them and kill them off.
Plus we do still research. After the first cleansing, orks may become our new favourite fungi flavor....
imagine the possibilities.
Or we just invent a fungizid, get rid of them here and infect the fleeing orks too.

So please let it be orks.

I do agree that against orks we stand the best chance, but if they have a fleet, we're pretty much screwed.

I think we'd be ok with the Imperium, till the guardsmen call in Exterminatus or Astartes show up.

1hadhq wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:It would depend on the amount of orks. A single rok (while cuasing chaos on a continent) would be relatively easy to contain and defeat. They have no ships in orbit, no air superiorty and very few vehichles to start off with.(Infestation that grows after is a different story, that'll be around for a while)

If it's a full blown Waaagh on the other hand, it doesn't look so good for us.

Despair against filthy greenskin?

No need to. Orks are too desperate to fight, bait them and kill them off.
Plus we do still research. After the first cleansing, orks may become our new favourite fungi flavor....
imagine the possibilities.
Or we just invent a fungizid, get rid of them here and infect the fleeing orks too.

So please let it be orks.

Unless the orks end up in the amazon rain forest. Then we never fully get rid of them...

To be honest orks would probably have the upper hand being able to teleport living things from a distance. making those and using it against other races might work so much better (using enemy pows and being really accurate.)

you all forget area 51!
We have technology that even the military is still testing.
Don't say no no its true we have technology that we can't imagine. Hell stargate could of been based on real life events XD.
That or we fight till we die! THAT IS THE TERRAN WAY!

Emperors Faithful wrote:I do agree that against orks we stand the best chance, but if they have a fleet, we're pretty much screwed.

Orks cannot resist to and will not stay in orbit.

And were screwed anyway if 40k becomes true.....

It’s difficult to compare but I’d say an Abrams Tank is far better armored (and armed) than a Landraider.

^^^^ thats the most ridiculous thing ive ever seen .... a land raider could probably take a near direct hit from a nuclear weapon and keep rolling forward and dump termys out that have no problem with the radiation in their insane armor.

Yes theyre in a dark age, but they have tech that was made a loooong time before that dark age, slowly failing and not quite as good as when it was made, as they can only repair and patch problems, but still waaaaay superior to us.

A railguns range is balanced for game mechanics, by fluff theyre range would be orbital probably lol ....

mon-keigh slayer wrote: It’s difficult to compare but I’d say an Abrams Tank is far better armored (and armed) than a Landraider.

^^^^ thats the most ridiculous thing ive ever seen .... a land raider could probably take a near direct hit from a nuclear weapon and keep rolling forward and dump termys out that have no problem with the radiation in their insane armor.

Yes theyre in a dark age, but they have tech that was made a loooong time before that dark age, slowly failing and not quite as good as when it was made, as they can only repair and patch problems, but still waaaaay superior to us.

A railguns range is balanced for game mechanics, by fluff theyre range would be orbital probably lol ....

You cannot compare Abrams Tank to the tank which has adamantium hull,lascannons which punch through everything,advanced computer which can pilot it after the crew is dead etc....

i wasnt, i was quoting out something form page 2 i think it was .... he tryed to say abrams was > land raider in armor and weaponry .... like wtf O.o

Then that guy who posted it is terribly wrong.

i think against the 40k universe, basically any of the races could best us (besides Dark Eldar maybe....)
orks= run up and axe you
tau= super guns
nids= holy crap eat your face off
necrons= metal zombies w/ guns
IG= too many men and too many tanks
space marines= don't even get me started
Chaos SM= holy crap the same as before but with demons!!!
sisters of battle= okay... we could probably beat them too

game over, man... sure we'd fight but we'd probably lose.
our military is good, but against such odds?

I'd say we'd be well and truly screwed. As an earlier poster stated, in the fluff, a Space Marine chapter is enough to bring a higher tech and more highly populated world than ours to it's knees.
Orks would just drop roks on the place, come down and spread spores from Hell to breakfast.
It wouldn't take a lot for a space faring race to destroy communication satalites or use emp blasts to mess up electronics and weapon guidance equipment, and that would just be the openers.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Ketara wrote:We're talking about a single space marine chapter here. With whatever they can bring with them. So no new supplies and initiates. What gets expended, stays expended. What gets killed, stays dead. And to be perfectly honest, even if you include a spaceship of pen-pushers, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't last long in a country that doesn't want them there. They're not soldiers after all.

Why are you assuming that the Marines are without support?
It's not like their supply lines have been cut by the ninja-astronuats that are floating around the 2k world.

The thread is ONE chapter with it`s supplies vs Earth. And 1000 is just +/-

In the 40k universe, even a pen pusher can have some nasty tricks and skills.
I'm kind of reminded of an earlier thread where people were posting opinions of how they stacked up physically in a 40k setting. A lot of people were rating themselves as strong and tough as an Ork or marine, or as dextrous as an Eldar.
This thread seems to go along the same line.

Also, people seem to be ragging on the mass infantry charge ig is so fond of. Saying wed just bomb them or whatever, not realizing that ig would have complete air superiority with lightnings instaraping our crappy feeble tech jets.

When you have half a million guys running at you with artillery going off nonstop and tanks rolling up and theyve shot down all of your planes and can take down your missiles almost instantly with hydra batteries ... not lookin good ....

It must be said, sides aside, the general level of ignorance in this thread with regard to modern weaponry, strategy, and tactics is astounding.

Ketara wrote:It must be said, sides aside, the general level of ignorance in this thread with regard to modern weaponry, strategy, and tactics is astounding.

I agree. It's like a little kid saying he's could take Brock Lesnar in a fight because his mom just gave him a new set of boxing gloves as say Earth could stand up against any of the 40k races if they existed in real life as presented in the fluff because we have jets and satellites.

wow thats an epic ohsnap pic .... *saves* lol