Which non playable faction has a chance to become really strong in the galaxy?

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**fluffstalker**

The French.

**Animus**

The Church of Dracolith, the Worldweave of the Noisome Reek, the Draxian Hegemony and the Uluméathic League; all have been mentioned in the same breath as the Tau. Though I think the Uluméathic had a run in with the Tyranids that left them a bit dead.

**Pilau Rice**

I would like to think the Hyper Violent Bhargesi, the Cythor Fiends or the Umbra.

**vizzle**

Zygo Warriors of Camgia

Found them to be intriguing ever since their small entry in the 6th edition rulebook

They must be pretty nasty to be able to keep the Imperial forces off of their planet for 500 years

**Happyjew**

The Cabal.

'Nuff said.

Or possibly the Slann.

**Perfect Organism**

The Thexian Trade Empire apparently has considerable influence over many other xenos races, including the Nicassar and the Loxatl. They seem like good candidates for an emerging threat on a par with the Tau Empire.

**Mr Morden**

TiamatRoar wrote:
IMHO sisters of silence should be an elite attachment to sisters of battle like harlequins or legion of the damned.

They have a very specialized role and given that the ENTIRE sisterhood is made up of pariahs, I doubt they have enough sisters to field an army. At most, they probably only have enough to use as attachments.

....that said, I believe Forge World said that sisters of silence will have playable fieldable units for the Prospero Horus Heresy book.

Sisters of Silence AND Mechancium - Forge World is making the models I actually want - (as opposed to Centurions)

**Roberkhan**

Squats have already been hated and loved in equal proportions? +1 for Squat lovers, anyway.

Well then. Eldar Exodites. They ride dinosaurs, dammit!!

That or Genestealer Cults. They were gorgeous when I was young. Most of them could even double as Chaos Cults. Or just stay as Miscelaneous Cults. Not appealling?

**Dark Apostle 666**

If the AdMech count, them...

the Barghesi sound nasty too, and the Hrud are pretty widespread - though they're not that threatening - more like vermin than anything else - an annoyance, rather than a great Galactic power.

**Ignatius-Grulgor**

Chaos Rising wrote:
The Wambles. Being able to live on the moon with no oxygen means they can float around through space if their ship explodes.

I think someone may mean the clangers not the wombles!

I've never even heard of some of these races, gotta love this thread for ideas for weird army additions through counts as if nothing else.

**Pilau Rice**

Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:

I've never even heard of some of these races, gotta love this thread for ideas for weird army additions through counts as if nothing else.

You can check most of these out here

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Minor_Alien_Species_and_Factions#.Ug3l523hfDc

**Ignatius-Grulgor**

Pilau Rice wrote:
You can check most of these out here

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Minor_Alien_Species_and_Factions#.Ug3l523hfDc

Well that's going in the bookmarks, thanks!

**Kain**

Exergy wrote:
TiamatRoar wrote:

Exergy wrote:

who says they wanted an entire planets population

they can strike where they want, when they want, to get what they want, and no one can stop them.

Even Dark Eldar that would love to have their own planet (exiles from Commoragh) can't conquer one. Dark Eldar are VERY good at what they do, but when it comes to straight up holding territory, I doubt they'd be able to do it if they hypothetically wanted to. The one time the Imperium was able to send a sizeable force to Commaragh, things went pretty badly for the DE (well, most of them. Vect was having the time of his life)

Admittingly, they did repel the Imperial invaders in the end. I suppose it's technically unconfirmed if they could beat the Tau in a straight fight or not if all their forces were matched against each other in a Ragnarok scenario.

The DE dont want a planet. They like hiding away in the webway, hidden from Slanesh. They could go out and get hundreds of planets, but to what end? Then they would be visible to their "she who thirsts" and vulnerable.

Commoragh is much larger than any planet, it contains several entire suns in it for lighting. It is described that Commoragh compared to a human hive city is similar to a hive city to an ant hill. Immeasurably larger. They want not for living space.

The only reason that they might want to colonize or conquer worlds is to get raw materials, but why go to the trouble of mining/growing junk when you can just steal it from lesser races?

It is never mentioned that DE want a planet, they have no use for them.

Anyway they are a playable faction, so I am sticking with the mechanicus

Actually there is a limited forgeworld Mechanicus list.

**DarthMarko**

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