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 kwah wrote:
i just had a evil chuckle id grab my sword go get my brother and his rifles and hand guns and make my way north looks like i found the best fighting on the planet!

Antarctica mate. Antarctica.

Alota dead ummies

 kwah wrote:
i just had a evil chuckle id grab my sword go get my brother and his rifles and hand guns and make my way north looks like i found the best fighting on the planet!

I believe you may get there quicker if you head south!

I would paint my self green and hide in the orks ranks.
They would never see through my brilliant disgise (I hope).

DA SPEED FREEK wrote:
I would paint my self green and hide in the orks ranks.
They would never see through my brilliant disgise (I hope).

You disguise is canon. Orks call the humans living amongst them "diggaz" and rank them somewhere between the grots and the yoffs. So if you are tough-as-nails and have a click for the general Ork philosophy, then I think you could make a living there.

If the Orks would really land on the anatartica, and the nations would really unite (LOL, the most impossible part), then I guess they would wipe out the initial Ork horde relaitvely quickly. But the spores would spread all around the planet and soon the Orks will reappear.

BUT. Unlike others, I don't think that these new Orks would go all-aggressive on us. Giving the (relatively to the IoM) open nature of our cultures, and the quite obvious advantages an Ork can muster, I think the Orks would find their way to our societies as "muscles". Just imagine a SWAT team of Orks - thats what I would call law enforcement team. And everyone would be happy until the Orks grow bored and destroy humanity from the inside.

 AtoMaki wrote:

DA SPEED FREEK wrote:
I would paint my self green and hide in the orks ranks.
They would never see through my brilliant disgise (I hope).

You disguise is canon. Orks call the humans living amongst them "diggaz" and rank them somewhere between the grots and the yoffs. So if you are tough-as-nails and have a click for the general Ork philosophy, then I think you could make a living there.

If the Orks would really land on the anatartica, and the nations would really unite (LOL, the most impossible part), then I guess they would wipe out the initial Ork horde relaitvely quickly. But the spores would spread all around the planet and soon the Orks will reappear.

BUT. Unlike others, I don't think that these new Orks would go all-aggressive on us. Giving the (relatively to the IoM) open nature of our cultures, and the quite obvious advantages an Ork can muster, I think the Orks would find their way to our societies as "muscles". Just imagine a SWAT team of Orks - thats what I would call law enforcement team. And everyone would be happy until the Orks grow bored and destroy humanity from the inside.

They'd be disgusted with how runty and yammering we are,

"not a good fightah among the lot of us cept dem irish boyz once they gobble their grog down they a gud fer a larf! "

If anything the orks would kill us and demand we unify so we could kill me.

"You runtz is too weak for a propah fight... tell ya wut we'll give ya some warning to be fair like right? We'ze stomp ya london place flat in 2 days! Now 'urry up and start giving us something to knock down already WAAAAGH!"

The real problem earth would run into is the fact that they would use WMD on orks and see almost no damage from radiation (more or less immune to the doses that kill humans), and then it would just impress the orks enough to want to find them... I imagine the US Capital getting swamped by orks who start crude public torturings of senators and secrtaries till someone gives them access codes... if not Im sure they'll find a way through

This is how we would figure out it was orks that landed into antartica.
1. US says a weather baloon crashed in antartica
2. Morgan Freeman goes in to be the ambassador
3. Oks crush the smushy
4. Armed forces attack
5. Recruiters start showing up at your local hobby shop
6. Army recruits a bunch of miniture gamers to help stratigize against the orks
7. We dont have rulebook or dice so we show our incompetence
8. We start to lose are foot hold and orks spread
9. At this point one or two things could happen either
A. Imperium shows up and deals with the threat and all 40k gamers poop our pants due to orks=chaos and thats really disturbing
B. Ordo Zenos shows up and executes Exterminatus
Either way we are screwed lol

You guys seem to forget how paranoid real world humans are.


On the first sight of trouble, they WILL be nuked so hard there wont even by a single ork cromozome left, let alone a fungus.

And real-world earth is FAR more armed then it "should" be in comparison to 40k tech, we have the firepower to lay an exterminatus on over ten solar systems-if we get the means to deliver the bombs, nuking artantica would not even take a major power, even a minor power like us (israel) could take care of it.


do you guys know how many nukes we humans have IN STORES? forget the potential to make more. we got continent-buster scale bombs just waiting for use, and I know of at least a few of these in existance, and probably hundrends of times more I DONT know of.

 Texx wrote:
If they all land on Antarctica, and its identified in time, my plan is simple:
1. Nuke everything there until there is no life...
2. Nuke the continent again every few months to make sure the spores don't get big.
3. Hope humans create practical mass space travel by the time we run out of nukes or other bombs

Yay for nuclear fallout and and a big global flood!

It all depends on the Waaagh! size. I think we could actually beat back all but the really big ones, though it'd devastate the planet.

lynxstrife wrote:
Tomahawk missiles? Our weapons don't scatter?

Best reply I've seen in quite some time.

But yeah, our tanks cant be glanced down by assault rifle fire.
Our aircraft zoom at mach 2+ and don't just sit a few dozen meters over the battlefield.
Our snipers shoot over distances measured in miles.
Our bombs and missiles don't have a pie plate that only hits 4 or 5 guys, they can take out city blocks that would be half the gameboard in 40k.

 motyak wrote:

 kwah wrote:
i just had a evil chuckle id grab my sword go get my brother and his rifles and hand guns and make my way north looks like i found the best fighting on the planet!

Antarctica mate. Antarctica.

woops well i supose it still works the orks will move north any way and me and my brother can set up resistance in canada.

Naval blockade then? Instead of nukign the whole place?

 Harriticus wrote:
It all depends on the Waaagh! size. I think we could actually beat back all but the really big ones, though it'd devastate the planet.

The Adeptus Minestorum classifies an orkish warband as full-grown Waaagh! once they number about 2.5 billion orks, which is about the time they start building their first gargants (number of orks equals technical progress). So, if a Waagh! comes here, we're boned.

Nuking them would only be an option if we have another planet to evacuate to. Melting the Antarctica, while probably breaking the tectonic stability of earth (=volcanoes and earthquakes everywhere) and blocking out the sun with immense amounts of dust and vapor from both explosions and volcanoes, with volcanic and nuclear fallout on at least the entire southern hemisphere will make earth a bad place to live. Just getting slaughtered by orks would be the less painful way of committing global suicide.

 Jidmah wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
It all depends on the Waaagh! size. I think we could actually beat back all but the really big ones, though it'd devastate the planet.

The Adeptus Minestorum classifies an orkish warband as full-grown Waaagh! once they number about 2.5 billion orks, which is about the time they start building their first gargants (number of orks equals technical progress). So, if a Waagh! comes here, we're boned.

Nuking them would only be an option if we have another planet to evacuate to. Melting the Antarctica, while probably breaking the tectonic stability of earth (=volcanoes and earthquakes everywhere) and blocking out the sun with immense amounts of dust and vapor from both explosions and volcanoes, with volcanic and nuclear fallout on at least the entire southern hemisphere will make earth a bad place to live. Just getting slaughtered by orks would be the less painful way of committing global suicide.

I can't believe it took someone this long to point this out. It's easy to pretend like just nuking a continent is a good option, but the fact that we have nowhere to go after we blow everything up means that all we'd be doing is melting all our ice and spreading tons of radiation. If the Orks somehow didn't get us, (which they would. They wouldn't all land in one place. Orks aren't that organized) they rising sea levels, high amounts of radiation and other consequences of nuclear attacks would. When you only have one planet, collateral damage like exterminatus isn't really an option.

The avengers show up kick ass. If orks are real why can't they be?


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Also as someone said if there's orks there's chaos which also means NIDS. If they show up then we are well and truely fethed

Jayo'r wrote:
The avengers show up kick ass. If orks are real why can't they be?


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Also as someone said if there's orks there's chaos which also means NIDS. If they show up then we are well and truely fethed

Would love to see a Warboss Vs. Hulk (I am aware hulk can't lose... NEITHER CAN ORKS!)

Because I think orks would overpower nearly every other avenger.

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Far as the whole NUKE ANTARCTICA thing... Earth would doom itself... If they nuked the orks back to the stone age they would litereally need to irradiate the entire continent SO MUCH that Nothing other than fall out would exist on the planet. Orks are barely impacted by radiation they exist on hundred of thousands of planets with radiation being one of the few minor complaints as opposed to things much much worse like daily flaming atmospheres, deathworlds, parasites, xeno infected worlds yadda yadda yadda.

the reason earth would be doomed is because killing all those orks would be a literal tidal wave of Orks which would be dispersed into the sky,... HIGH INTO THE SKY because of mushroom clouds into the stratosphere which would hit the jetsteams and every country of every world would become literred with orks everywhere and suddenly pure mayhem would break out within only a few days nowhere would be safe and the militaries would have to organize in all locations and no support or aid could be offered to anyone anywhere.

Do not meet orks with OVERKILL, we thrive on conflict and if you greet us with enough nukes to kill a waaagh's worth of Orks ... that would if for no other reason be why Terra declares exterminatus on Earth lol. In one foul action we would make earth an Ork World

In our codexes the only way to garantee ork spores cease to exist is declaring exterminatus. thus giving the spores no ground at all to take root.

Flamers work well too.

Alright, then, naval blockade with constant napalm bombing runs.

 Boneblade wrote:

AKA; F-22 Raptors, hereafter called the "Wobbly Gretchin". Hint, it has a BS 4 (because it's a Flyer!)

Just wanted to interject, The ork flier doesent go past bs3, Ive seen a few people try to argue that you can make it bs4, but you cant.

the orks will gradually take over the world...its a certainty...the only reliable way to take them down is to start the only other thing that will one day destroy mankind...

start a zombie apocalypse and watch the orks eat each other!

weed killer

 Hobowan wrote:
the orks will gradually take over the world...its a certainty...the only reliable way to take them down is to start the only other thing that will one day destroy mankind...

start a zombie apocalypse and watch the orks eat each other!

except they won't be opposed to chopping their own arms off to prevent infect due to nearly 100% organ transfer rate and their skin is supposedly as hard as concrete which would be a challenge for any zombie to cut through. Also we'd have to assume their immune system is much stronger than ours, i could see a bite making them carriers but not killing them. And for a proper apocalypse, that lethal bite is needed would do us more harm than good and it also promotes even if the bites are lethal (the few that could get through) while the orks are alive they are creating more orks, the death of an ork with this virus would be interesting though because emerging zombie orks would be hilarious. Not to mention I think gretchin are too small, smart and paranoid to get caught often by ork zombies or humie zombies.

All you need is a few orkses to be infected...maybe a sniper firing tranq darts here and there designed to penetrate rhinoceros hide as a vector...
once that ork bites another ork, it would be the start of a huge mass brawl in which countless other orks would get bitten - the results are exponential from there thered be no time for them to react quickly enough to be disciplined and identify and quarantine infected orks

The orks love of fighting eachother all but guarantees a spread and if it takes off, it would keep them pinned to that one continent as theyd lose the intelligence to loot technology and whatnot, and would become a meandering mass of the orky dead

of course theres one thing that would ruin it all for us - our own damned curiosity.

Guaranteed that us humans would make some "secure" facility in the middle of london or new york or somewhere equally ridiculous to study the orks and zombie orks, and at that point its game over as a breakout is inevitable and thus wed not only have a normal zombie outbreak to deal with but also a zombie ork apocolypse!

Jayo'r wrote:
The avengers show up kick ass. If orks are real why can't they be?
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Avengers in tights are way too cheesy to exist n the same reality as Orks!

 Hobowan wrote:
All you need is a few orkses to be infected...maybe a sniper firing tranq darts here and there designed to penetrate rhinoceros hide as a vector...
once that ork bites another ork, it would be the start of a huge mass brawl in which countless other orks would get bitten - the results are exponential from there thered be no time for them to react quickly enough to be disciplined and identify and quarantine infected orks

The orks love of fighting eachother all but guarantees a spread and if it takes off, it would keep them pinned to that one continent as theyd lose the intelligence to loot technology and whatnot, and would become a meandering mass of the orky dead

of course theres one thing that would ruin it all for us - our own damned curiosity.

Guaranteed that us humans would make some "secure" facility in the middle of london or new york or somewhere equally ridiculous to study the orks and zombie orks, and at that point its game over as a breakout is inevitable and thus wed not only have a normal zombie outbreak to deal with but also a zombie ork apocolypse!

you realize orks kill other orks right? a zombie ork is less a threat he doesn't use his choppa or sluggah or even act very orky and would be even slower than a standard boy. Not to mention zombies are nothing new to orks... they deal with it when chaos comes knocking it's old hat for them. a zombie plague has yet to wipe out orks and something stupid like humanity being able to engineer that would be stupid beyond reason, though given it's about as stupid as nuking antarica until it's a glowing mass of melted ice which floods the world

Key note of warfare, humanity has not and will not use a weapon which is more viable against themselves than the enemy is suicide. Humanity would sooner bend a knee to the Orks than unleash a Zombie plague... history proves this.

We could try to get them addicted to tabletop gaming though.

 Jidmah wrote:
We could try to get them addicted to tabletop gaming though.

Best bet for survival Unlimited battles! ... they might go "A Beautiful Mind" though.... oh god what if they learn propah strategy!?

Thats assuming all this nuking and ork carnage does not wake up Great Cthulhu and friends

Orks + modern day earth = A much greener Earth

Our soldiers are professionnal, but they are only one in what.... 10.000 people ?

Every single Ork is a big threat for non fighting humans. Sure we have tanks and planes big ships. But their medics have rotating saws attached to the arm, their gretchins fly planes and every one of them has the ferocity of 20 professional human soldiers.

After the first encounter, they would bastardize our technology, and we would see custom orkish navy ships, M1 Abrahams and of course pimped up limos.

And I, for one, would fear a warboss in a pimped up orkish limo.