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Zomjie wrote:Necrons would for 4 reasons:

1. they controlled the galaxy before but went into stasis so their "cattle" could repopulate the galaxy

2. they never are destroyed, they are phased back into their tombs to be rebuilt and sent out to kill again

3. what we see currently is only a small portion of the full necron empire, many planets beyond imperium explored space have yet to be awakened

4. the C'tan are Gods, what other race has gods fighting for them?

Tyranids would win for 5 reasons:

1. They are claiming the universe planet by planet and nothing they have aimed for has been denied to them.

2. They can never be destroyed, they are simply turned back into the ooze pits and reformed as new tyranids aboard there hive fleet ships.

3. what we see currently is only a miniscule portion of the possibilities of the full tyranid force, most of the galaxy beyond the imperium belongs to them.

4. The Hive mind is an omniscient god, and yes almost every race in the 40k universe has gods on their side.

5. they are fast and spread like wild fire across whole sectors, not even the full force of the imperium could defeat them if they put any effort into concurring this universe.

Hezekial wrote:

Zomjie wrote:Necrons would for 4 reasons:

1. they controlled the galaxy before but went into stasis so their "cattle" could repopulate the galaxy

2. they never are destroyed, they are phased back into their tombs to be rebuilt and sent out to kill again

3. what we see currently is only a small portion of the full necron empire, many planets beyond imperium explored space have yet to be awakened

4. the C'tan are Gods, what other race has gods fighting for them?

Tyranids would win for 5 reasons:

1. They are claiming the universe planet by planet and nothing they have aimed for has been denied to them.

2. They can never be destroyed, they are simply turned back into the ooze pits and reformed as new tyranids aboard there hive fleet ships.

3. what we see currently is only a miniscule portion of the possibilities of the full tyranid force, most of the galaxy beyond the imperium belongs to them.

4. The Hive mind is an omniscient god, and yes almost every race in the 40k universe has gods on their side.

5. they are fast and spread like wild fire across whole sectors, not even the full force of the imperium could defeat them if they put any effort into concurring this universe.

READ THE OP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hezekial wrote:

Zomjie wrote:Necrons would for 4 reasons:

1. they controlled the galaxy before but went into stasis so their "cattle" could repopulate the galaxy

2. they never are destroyed, they are phased back into their tombs to be rebuilt and sent out to kill again

3. what we see currently is only a small portion of the full necron empire, many planets beyond imperium explored space have yet to be awakened

4. the C'tan are Gods, what other race has gods fighting for them?

Tyranids would win for 5 reasons:

1. They are claiming the universe planet by planet and nothing they have aimed for has been denied to them.

All previous fleets have been destroyed, their objective has been denied time and time again.

2. They can never be destroyed, they are simply turned back into the ooze pits and reformed as new tyranids aboard there hive fleet ships.

Destroying the Hive Fleets kills them, and that's happened plenty of times.

3. what we see currently is only a miniscule portion of the possibilities of the full tyranid force, most of the galaxy beyond the imperium belongs to them.

Potentially there could be many more fleets, key word is potentially. The second point is wrong.

4. The Hive mind is an omniscient god, and yes almost every race in the 40k universe has gods on their side.

The Hive Mind is not a God, it's a collective thought process like that of an Ant colony.

5. they are fast and spread like wild fire across whole sectors, not even the full force of the imperium could defeat them if they put any effort into concurring this universe.

Which they have, and been destroyed. Two large Hive Fleets destroyed along with a host of Splinter Fleets. They've consumed a whopping 0.2% of The Imperium. Good Job
All this is speculation and fanwankery. Wishful thinking is not a basis for fact.

iproxtaco wrote:

Hezekial wrote:

Zomjie wrote:Necrons would for 4 reasons:

1. they controlled the galaxy before but went into stasis so their "cattle" could repopulate the galaxy

2. they never are destroyed, they are phased back into their tombs to be rebuilt and sent out to kill again

3. what we see currently is only a small portion of the full necron empire, many planets beyond imperium explored space have yet to be awakened

4. the C'tan are Gods, what other race has gods fighting for them?

Tyranids would win for 5 reasons:

1. They are claiming the universe planet by planet and nothing they have aimed for has been denied to them.

All previous fleets have been destroyed, their objective has been denied time and time again.

2. They can never be destroyed, they are simply turned back into the ooze pits and reformed as new tyranids aboard there hive fleet ships.

Destroying the Hive Fleets kills them, and that's happened plenty of times.

3. what we see currently is only a miniscule portion of the possibilities of the full tyranid force, most of the galaxy beyond the imperium belongs to them.

Potentially there could be many more fleets, key word is potentially. The second point is wrong.

4. The Hive mind is an omniscient god, and yes almost every race in the 40k universe has gods on their side.

The Hive Mind is not a God, it's a collective thought process like that of an Ant colony.

5. they are fast and spread like wild fire across whole sectors, not even the full force of the imperium could defeat them if they put any effort into concurring this universe.

Which they have, and been destroyed. Two large Hive Fleets destroyed along with a host of Splinter Fleets. They've consumed a whopping 0.2% of The Imperium. Good Job
All this is speculation and fanwankery. Wishful thinking is not a basis for fact.

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I know that, but I like countering the fanwankery that goes on.

Hezekial wrote:

Zomjie wrote:Necrons would for 4 reasons:

1. they controlled the galaxy before but went into stasis so their "cattle" could repopulate the galaxy

2. they never are destroyed, they are phased back into their tombs to be rebuilt and sent out to kill again

3. what we see currently is only a small portion of the full necron empire, many planets beyond imperium explored space have yet to be awakened

4. the C'tan are Gods, what other race has gods fighting for them?

Tyranids would win for 5 reasons:

1. They are claiming the universe planet by planet and nothing they have aimed for has been denied to them.

2. They can never be destroyed, they are simply turned back into the ooze pits and reformed as new tyranids aboard there hive fleet ships.

3. what we see currently is only a miniscule portion of the possibilities of the full tyranid force, most of the galaxy beyond the imperium belongs to them.

4. The Hive mind is an omniscient god, and yes almost every race in the 40k universe has gods on their side.

5. they are fast and spread like wild fire across whole sectors, not even the full force of the imperium could defeat them if they put any effort into concurring this universe.

You two can argue all you want ... Imperium is still winning

To bring the thread back to where it was I think that at this moment the eldar should win. IOM has lost it's sense of direction so unless they change back to the way they were they should lose. Eldar would in my opinion take place of the old ones in a way. They have come so close to falling that they know what their mistakes are as with age comes wisdom. They aslo don't actively exterminate other races unless they will become a threat to theirs. If they had power they would sheperd the Tau and Humans, not necessarily Imperium into more prosperity while actively fighting against choas Nids Orks and Necrons

it's not fanwankery, it's my interpretation of a number of collective fictional texts, therefore there is no basis of fact involved in any of it unless somehow the human race really does find aliens and they are exactly like in this game :S then you can tell me that the tyranids shouldn't win

Hezekial wrote:it's not fanwankery, it's my interpretation of a number of collective fictional texts, therefore there is no basis of fact involved in any of it unless somehow the human race really does find aliens and they are exactly like in this game :S then you can tell me that the tyranids shouldn't win

It doesn't matter that argument had no place on this thread if you voted tyranid tell him why they should win not why they will win if you don't feal like doing that then there are atleast four other threads that are why they will.

i did originally post why they should win then desided to ruin someone elses post about why necrons will win by giving why tyranids will win, as the necron one was complete idiosy and i basically copied it for tryanids and everyone has a go at me for basically immitating someone elses which was simply to prove them wrong.

Melissia wrote:Basically Orks have already won.

Mother of God, they have everything they want..............


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I think Tau should win largely because they aren't 'XENO MUST DIE'.

Now for who would win I would be inclined to say necron due to the fact that once Nids eat the organic stuff theyll just drift off to another galaxy, and Necrons can easily wait for more life to evolve from carbon molecules

What noone realises about the Necrons is that they're actually animal rights activists that tried to preserve the species of C'Tan, and they turn people into Pariahs because otherwise they'll be killed by the nasty other races. Buy your "I'd rather wear metal than my own blood" t-shirt today.

Imperium is gonna win! No more Heresy!...even though I play both tau and necron...

Scarey Nerd wrote:What noone realises about the Necrons is that they're actually animal rights activists that tried to preserve the species of C'Tan, and they turn people into Pariahs because otherwise they'll be killed by the nasty other races. Buy your "I'd rather wear metal than my own blood" t-shirt today.

Necrons should go to another Galaxy and bring a gak load more C'tan back since there's pretty much a C'tan for every star except in our galaxy because our four ate the rest and the Outsider is still having a bad tummy ache. And since Necrons could technically field a ridiculous amount of C'tan, they should win.

Hezekial wrote:i did originally post why they should win then desided to ruin someone elses post about why necrons will win by giving why tyranids will win, as the necron one was complete idiosy and i basically copied it for tryanids and everyone has a go at me for basically immitating someone elses which was simply to prove them wrong.

If you did i failed to find it the only other post I saw was also a would, but if I'm mistaken my bad.

On a different note I've come up with a reason for necrons. This is just a speculation for why they are an option doesn't change my eldar vote. The necrons winning would be a basic restart button for the galaxy the races in this universe are so messed up they should just be exterminated and new species allowed to regrow like the crons did last time

King Pariah wrote:Necrons should go to another Galaxy and bring a gak load more C'tan back since there's pretty much a C'tan for every star except in our galaxy because our four ate the rest and the Outsider is still having a bad tummy ache. And since Necrons could technically field a ridiculous amount of C'tan, they should win.

Just because the C'tan exist in our galaxy, doesn't mean they exist in others. Could they even retain sufficient energy to transverse the gulf between galaxies?

considering C'Tan feed upon the "essence" of biological life forms, and necrons have been know to sterilise planets to feed there masters, wouldnt nids pose an almost "unlimited" supply of food for the stargods?

also i think orks should win, as stated before they have everything they want and if they get bored they just start a no holds bard Saturday night fight and since for every ork theres a few hundred/thousand spores and the ones that survive get bigger stronger and darker green (without limit) they will just keep partying on (albeit i love the orks as a race, i just dont play them).

and yes, but until someone gets there finger out gets some innervation out there ass and fixes the golden throne so the emporue can come and knock some sense back into his people, to get them back onto the correct paths instead of the warped one the greed of the council has created the IOM (admittedly how much i love being human) will fall and die, its just a matter of time im afraid

orks it is!

SomeRandomEvilGuy wrote:

King Pariah wrote:Necrons should go to another Galaxy and bring a gak load more C'tan back since there's pretty much a C'tan for every star except in our galaxy because our four ate the rest and the Outsider is still having a bad tummy ache. And since Necrons could technically field a ridiculous amount of C'tan, they should win.

Just because the C'tan exist in our galaxy, doesn't mean they exist in others. Could they even retain sufficient energy to transverse the gulf between galaxies?

It says that they were born with the Big Bang so that would imply that they're everywhere and may possibly be born with every nova.


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and if they have enough power to spawn random black holes at whim, why not?

Only the Imperium of Mankind shall win because they are simply too awesome to put into words, plus they super-humans who are also awesome, and finally anyone who says otherwise is a heretic thus untrustworthy to give a worthy answer unless they repent and join the side of the Imperium

nice one avondale couldn't have put it better myself

One word: Ynnead.
Once all the Craftworld Eldar die the big old shockwave of death kills everyone.

I remember reading somewhere that the Eldar think that the end comes when all the craftworlds simultaneously return to the Eldar homeworld at the centre of the Eye of Terror. Then there's the Rhana Dhandra, then you're all dead. Unless you happen to be an Eldar or Chaos slave. If so you die in the Rhana Dhandra. I think that means the only survivors are the Tyranid fleets outside of the galaxy.

I'd prefer the Craftworlds won, then those sexy sexy fire prisms can survive.


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avondale wrote:Only the Imperium of Mankind shall win because they are simply too awesome to put into words, plus they super-humans who are also awesome, and finally anyone who says otherwise is a heretic thus untrustworthy to give a worthy answer unless they repent and join the side of the Imperium

Go die for the sin of so obviously playing Space Marines. To Imperial Guard players I'm willing to be merciful.

TEMPERUS MAXIMUS wrote:One word: Ynnead.
Once all the Craftworld Eldar die the big old shockwave of death kills everyone.

I remember reading somewhere that the Eldar think that the end comes when all the craftworlds simultaneously return to the Eldar homeworld at the centre of the Eye of Terror. Then there's the Rhana Dhandra, then you're all dead. Unless you happen to be an Eldar or Chaos slave. If so you die in the Rhana Dhandra. I think that means the only survivors are the Tyranid fleets outside of the galaxy.

I'd prefer the Craftworlds won, then those sexy sexy fire prisms can survive.


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avondale wrote:Only the Imperium of Mankind shall win because they are simply too awesome to put into words, plus they super-humans who are also awesome, and finally anyone who says otherwise is a heretic thus untrustworthy to give a worthy answer unless they repent and join the side of the Imperium

Go die for the sin of so obviously playing Space Marines. To Imperial Guard players I'm willing to be merciful.

Oh my god it's should people not would why does nobody get the difference

I'm not going to lie, the c'tan should just rule everything. Or the old ones... But are they pushing the nids into the galaxy from afar? Yeah, other. C'tan cos they're all gods or the old ones cos they're gods... And I'm only ruling out chaos gods and eldar gods etc because these gods are infinitely better (as well as alive, something most of the eldar gods aren't). Or the laughing god, cos then the galaxy would be one giant circus with harlequins floating each other having inter-circus wars with jugglers and stuff! :L and clowns... Yes, I have come to the decision to vote 'other' because I think the harlequins and the laughing god should win!!

Should win? Tau. They are the only race to try and coexist with other races for the Greater Good. Diplomacy first, war as a last resort.

Will win? Necrons. The Tyranids will eventually run out of biomass and starve as the Crons merely sleep away a few million years or so
.Plus the Nids avoid the tomb worlds like a plague. Something to that.

Having applied logic to the question....Imperium will win of course

i like how no one has ever mentioned dark eldar...its because they suck...go imperium

Games Workshop will win.

From the distant reaches of the galaxy, a force of inimaginable size slowly crosses the vast gulf of space. Thousands of worlds are consumed, trillions die, and there is no end in sight to the onslaught. All resistance is crushed, and humanity trembles.

Their power is Cheese.

Their guidance is Ward.

Their goal is Profits.

Anyone who didn't vote for Chaos is going to be a skull in my skull chair after Chaos wins.

My summary of what will happen in M42:

The Tyranids will swarm over the Tau Empire and devour it all. The Void Dragon will awake and cripple Mars, but it will flee to gain strength. Abbadon will lead the 13th Black Crusade to Terra itself. Hivefleet Leviathan will swarm towards Terra. Every Imperial force that can return to the solar system will, and the Imperium will become a fortress in space. When the Golden Throne fails, the webway will be open onto Terra and the Dark Eldar will come through to enslave the Earth. The Orks will carry on as normal, but with all the attention on Terra many Warbosses will go to fight "Da Bigges' An' Bestes' WAAAGH!". With all the death and war, a warp storm will begin to swirl around the solar system, only being held at bay by the Grey Knights' awesome power. The Eldar craftworlds will pursue the Necrons and attempt to trap them in some way with their arcane magicks.

Scarey Nerd wrote:My summary of what will happen in M42:

The Tyranids will swarm over the Tau Empire and devour it all. The Void Dragon will awake and cripple Mars, but it will flee to gain strength. Abbadon will lead the 13th Black Crusade to Terra itself. Hivefleet Leviathan will swarm towards Terra. Every Imperial force that can return to the solar system will, and the Imperium will become a fortress in space. When the Golden Throne fails, the webway will be open onto Terra and the Dark Eldar will come through to enslave the Earth. The Orks will carry on as normal, but with all the attention on Terra many Warbosses will go to fight "Da Bigges' An' Bestes' WAAAGH!". With all the death and war, a warp storm will begin to swirl around the solar system, only being held at bay by the Grey Knights' awesome power. The Eldar craftworlds will pursue the Necrons and attempt to trap them in some way with their arcane magicks.

That is true awsome genius so no-one wins because the wars just change and alter, to be honest that is the most realistic as all life struggles with every last breath and ounce of strenght to survive. and with every force spread so drastically across the many universes and plains of reality that it would be impossible for one force to hunt down and wipe out them all. so the wars will continue ever onwards never ending and the combatants never changing forever the battlefields maybe ruined and destroyed the war will never end.
I think this concept makes the most sense and is nice an un-biast which i like

Orks are the Charlie Sheen of 40K...it's all about WINNING!!!