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If two forces were to join in the warhammer 40k universe, who would they be?
Please awnser in the poll section below



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sorry, above

There is no "Other" option, so I decided not to vote. I would've voted space marines and Tau, seeing as they have allied in the past.

Well, I guess it would be all up to who they were fighting against in the first place. If the Marines and Orks were scrapping on a planet and the 'Nids arrived, they would probably join forces just to try and survive. *gives it some thought*......In that case my answer is Marines and Orks!

how many do i get to choose? cause there is historically more than one option in the fluff.

You left out Necrons and Blood Angels!

Their bromance means that in the extra Far distant Future only those 2 will survive and sit around for a nice spot of tea.

Eldar and tau are the most likely; but only if the tau empire were to willingly allow the Eldar to "do their thing", and the Eldar themselves realize that their best bet is to join the tau collective.

Eldar+Tau= A much more Far-ranging Tau Empire(gaining access to the webway) and an acceptance of most other races into the empire(Only Chaos, orks, and Nids would not even be asked to join; and if the Imperium would let go of it's xenophobia it could also ally).

Eldar, tau and IoM would make an excellent set of allies vs necrons, nids, and Chaos with the orks just becoming mercenaries in the Galactic War(after all orks is made fer fightin').

Necrons and Nids won't join anyone.
Orks may join temporary....
Demons, CSM and DE are the worst backstabbers...
The common joint forces may be Eldar, IoM, Tau. They could at least try to keep an agreement until the fight is over.

Eldar , Imperium Tau alliance

seems to be the ONLY possible lasting alliance(lasting means till the other side dies horribly, and with little hiccups from the alliance)

Eldar and Tau are the most manipulative species and each one is cockey enough to believe they are controlling the other in an aliance of any kind.

I voted eldar and space marines but I feel it would only last intill it became an inconvinance. Then the space marines would kill them and we all know thats how it would go.

eldar and tau! duh! i can see why some would say eldar and SM but the space marines and eldar have had some rocky relationships, whereas the tau are much more receptive to allies.

No other, but Inquisition and Eldar. Tyranids are never going to ally to anything. I like the SM and CSM option, basically more traitors or the Chaos Primarchs really are beginning to regret it!

I have read a few things where renegades turn good again in return for repentance etc but also i have read that the Blood axe orks are basically mercenaries who are willing to work for anyone in turn for weapons which they then use of their former employers.

I think tau and eldar because relatively speaking they are the least bat**** insane of all the factions.

Oh, no, Tau are also guano insane. If you think for an instant they're any less fanatic about "the greater good" than the Imperium is about the Imperial Creed, you don't know the faction very well

Also, why "Imperial Guard" and Eldar?

Why not just "Imperium" and Eldar? I mean Imperial Guard just do what they're told. It's the leaders of the Imperium that tell them what to do, and those are the governors, the heads of the Munitorum, the High Lords, and Inquisitors.

Perhaps you have a loose definition of sanity, because I'm sure as hell going to trust the guy preaching unity rather than, "BURN THE HERETIC! KILL THE MUTANT! PURGE THE UNCLEAN!"

Sure both are fanatical but at least the tau direct their zeal into less violent practices

Yeah Tau will let entire worlds die "For thegreater good" at least the Imperium has the decency not to pretend.

Well there's no heresy in the tau empire at least

Farsight?

That's treason

asimo77 wrote:That's treason

Still counts.
Anyway heresy is relative.

I'm not sure what that means, a religion describes X,Y, Z as heresy under its doctrine and there you go. Or conversely it tenets are A,B,C and defying them is heresy.

Because what's heresy to one section of the Imperium at one side of the galaxy may not be heresy to another at the other side. There are basic tenets, yes, but the specifics are often down to each individual world.

asimo77 wrote:I'm not sure what that means, a religion describes X,Y, Z as heresy under its doctrine and there you go. Or conversely it tenets are A,B,C and defying them is heresy.

Tau "Greater good" tenets:
Do what the Etherals tell you
Farsight betrayed that therefore according to your own definition of heresy he is a heretic although he wouldn't say so and neither would Eldar for instance but the rest of the Tau empire says he is. (that's what i meant about heresy being relative)

Fair enough, I guess my point is that it's easier to "do what the ethereals say" and not get murdered than do what the IoM wants. Even if you are an upstanding citizen/soldier of the IoM you'll probably end up dead anyway.

asimo77 wrote:Fair enough, I guess my point is that it's easier to "do what the ethereals say" and not get murdered than do what the IoM wants. Even if you are an upstanding citizen/soldier of the IoM you'll probably end up dead anyway.

Ahh well that's a fault of the general environment rather than the fault of the governing body... although it wouldn't hurt if the IoM wasn't so damn corrupt.

Tau and eldar are both races that will put differences aside to defeat a common enemy, so they would probably team up.

Tyranids and Daemons would be pretty hard, since the Shadow in the Warp effectively nullifies daemons in the physical plain.

What happens when a tyranid "eats" a daemon anyway? Also do daemons have souls to munch on when fighting nids?

Tyranid specifically avoid chaos taints

Tyranid is probably soulless, they have exactly one warp presence

Eldar and T'au.

the only Alliance that would last longer then a few weeks.



the IoM would never truly ally with any other faction. when they do cooperate it is usually nothing more then 2 forces ignoring 1 force to the exclusion of the other. once the bigger threat is gone they will begin to shoot again.