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Orks.

Surtur wrote:Orks have never lost.

They lose battles, but in the eternal war of 40k, the Orks will never lose.

The enslavers. Every Race. Rightfully fears them.
The C'tan are also pretty bad. But Enslavers are worse. Warp Beings man they make every race look bad.

Asherian Command wrote:The enslavers. Every Race. Rightfully fears them.
The C'tan are also pretty bad. But Enslavers are worse. Warp Beings man they make every race look bad.

The Enslavers were never a threat to the C'tan, not in the old or the new lore.

Orks are not united because there isn't an enemy worth uniting up for, duh.

Same reason Gork and Mork haven't gotten around to stompin' the bawling chaos gods right-flat, they can't be bothered to.

rabidaskal wrote:Orks are not united because there isn't an enemy worth uniting up for, duh.

Same reason Gork and Mork haven't gotten around to stompin' the bawling chaos gods right-flat, they can't be bothered to.

This lad knows wot's wot I say!

Currently it is Mankind, but that might change in the future.

Orks - even if they are widespread they are not united.
Eldar - they are dying race, nuff said.
Dark Eldar - same as Eldar but a bit different.
Daemons - even if powerful as tanks or Titans they can't exist in our universe for long.
Tau - ???, nothing to do here.
Necrons - even if they have powerful technology they are not united. So same as Orks but instead of numbers having technology o their side.
Tyranids - this is a race that is very close to the top. But without more info on them then 3 major fleets and several smaller ones we can't say anything for sure.
Enslavers - even as powerful as they are they can be beat. Inquisition regularly fights against them and destroy them.

Makind is doomed to slow decline with so many enemies around her. Only if the Emperor returns can they have any hope of surviving in the future.

Man is having his time in the sun, but it's much past his prime and he will fall. The necrons however, I see possibly reestablishing they're empire and according to fluff it is prophesied that they will reverse bio transference and once more be flesh.

Tadashi wrote:

Surtur wrote:Orks have never lost.

They lose battles, but in the eternal war of 40k, the Orks will never lose.

Bro. Orks never even lose battles.

"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't niether, cos we can come back for anuver go see!"

Sovspot wrote:
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't niether, cos we can come back for anuver go see!"

Still sounds like defeat and running away to me

Dat's cos you'z a puny humie see.

Orks simply because they don't fight for survival like other races. Other races are merely clinging to exist while orks rule the galaxy.

War in Heaven ended when the enslavers came. Old ones died/went missing. Necrons hide by going to hybernation. Orks took over the galaxy.

Just to kill Ghargull Blackfang legions of Horus, Mortarion and Dorn were needed in addition to 1000 custodians and emprah.

Over 10 000 marines were needed to slow down Ghazkull's forces.

Tuska's (most badass ork name http://translate.google.fi/?hl=fi&tab=wT#fi|en|tuska ) small-ish WAAAGH! slaghtered through seven deamon worlds before finding himself at home. IoM defeated deamon worlds:...

Hivefleet only managed get into stalemate with one ork planet.

Orks are figthing everything including themselves and they still cannot be beaten.

Orks = Entropy. The universe flows towards entropy as its resting state...duh...simple physics. Orks win

Chaos Daemons, you can't kill them only strengthen them.

It should be pretty clear.

Orks, followed closely by Tyranids. These are the only two races with 'unlimited' resources, so to speak and whom lack any reliance upon any other large race. They consume and they regenerate endlessly.

rockerbikie wrote:Chaos Daemons, you can't kill them only strengthen them.

Yes you can. All you have to do is break its psyche, and it'll scatter in to the subsidiary warp energies that made it up.

Why is everyone talking about IoM, Orks, or Tyranids? The OP asked which race was the most powerful, not which species or nation.

I'll go with the Hive Tyrants from Hive Fleet Leviathan.

Melissia wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:Chaos Daemons, you can't kill them only strengthen them.

Yes you can. All you have to do is break its psyche, and it'll scatter in to the subsidiary warp energies that made it up.

That's what happens to most daemons anyway if they don't do enough to make their god bothered keeping them together.

Grakmar wrote:Why is everyone talking about IoM, Orks, or Tyranids? The OP asked which race was the most powerful, not which species or nation.

I'll go with the Hive Tyrants from Hive Fleet Leviathan.

Touche.

In that case; Squiggoths.

Or, hmm. Do they count as a race, or are they a sub-species?

Melissia wrote:Yes you can. All you have to do is break its psyche, and it'll scatter in to the subsidiary warp energies that made it up.

You say that like it's easy to do or something.

BeRzErKeR wrote:

Grakmar wrote:Why is everyone talking about IoM, Orks, or Tyranids? The OP asked which race was the most powerful, not which species or nation.

I'll go with the Hive Tyrants from Hive Fleet Leviathan.

Touche.

In that case; Squiggoths.

Or, hmm. Do they count as a race, or are they a sub-species?

Subspecies of ork, like regular squigs, grots and the fungus they live on. It all comes from ork spores

If we're sticking to just one race the IOM would lose the ratlings, ogryns, space marines, joekearo etc as they are not homo sapiens


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If we're sticking to one race, i'll still say orks

C'tan. At the height of their power, they have done things that nothing else in the Galaxy has been shown to do.

The OP asked which race will become the most powerful.

Ctan certainly were the most powerful once, but they'd need to be reassembled again to become that powerful in the future

I'd love to see it happen though. I like my Star-Gods whole, not broken

Tyranids ate the Orks.

Orks ate the Tyranids, with Squig beer and BBQ sauce...

"mmm Tastes like Stunty!'

Tyranid Codex: Hive Fleet Leviathan wrapped it's coils around Ghorala before it continued to Holy Terra.

broodstar wrote:Tyranid Codex: Hive Fleet Leviathan wrapped it's coils around Ghorala before it continued to Holy Terra.

-That is only one tendril.
-The battle is far from over, capital planet of the empire is still in Ork hands and neither side want to back off.
-Second tendril is going toward Terra and third one is going toward Baal.

Currently, Humanity but soon all will be eaten by the 'nids.

Orks. This is simply due to their current numbers.

It's not known just how large the tyranids are as a whole race.

I would say tyranids, because they never argue and work in harmony, and they are very numerous, and seem to be coming into the galaxy with more comming all the time. Also, with their extremely quick adaptations, they will likely corner everyone when they are at the point where they have evolved to become, literally, the perfect killing machines.