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If took a 2000 point army of the race of your choice and made it real and had it attack your city on earth today. Which army would cause the damage before it was stopped by your countries military?

Zookie wrote:If took a 2000 point army of the race of your choice and made it real and had it attack your city on earth today. Which army would cause the damage before it was stopped by your countries military?

Whatever it is, it's gonna be really mech-heavy. Compaired to modern body armor, a Space Marine's Power Armor is rediculously tough, but even then, it won't survive a smoothbore 120mm round, or a Hellfire missile. If you've got a Land Raider, or Baneblade, though, where the most powerful conventional weapons avalible to modern man are barely dimpling the front glacis, that's another thing entirely. I'd go for three Raiders, two with Sternguard, one with tactical Terminators, and some 5-man tac squads in Razorbacks. Don't quote me on points, though, my codex is across the atlantic.

A 2k list of Nurgle...It wouldn't even be stopped. The world would be lost...or at least nuked.

How long do you think they would hold out for?

Zookie wrote:How long do you think they would hold out for?

Hard to say. I'd wager until the tactical nuke came in, and that could be a few hours, to days, to never, depending on whether the government in question A. Had the nukes, and B. Was willing to wait for an evacuation of civilians.

2k Draigowing army.

Um, BA. 3 Stormravens, 3 maxed squads of Sang Guard, Sanguinior, 2 5 man Assault Squads in LRR. Perform a DoA on enemies and wipe them out while the 2 Raiders beat enemy units in cover and unleash.melta toting marines against armour. Stormravens.perform seek and.destroy along with the TH Transporters carrying the LRs, flying fast than anything we bave, hovering, carrying troops, better.offensive capabilities. Sanguinior could take enemy squads by himself. Whoever was.in charge is dead.

A two-thousand point strong Kabal could level PG, All the surrounding smaller towns and maybe even go hit Vancouver and leave before the military could mobilize.

Of course they could...the army would have to come all the way from Edmonton...or you would have to rely on the reservists.

Orbital strikes, so master of Ordnance.

I would bring a couple of gaunts. The Swedish army would lose. Plus killing them would be considered racist and intolerant so the gaunts could just go loose without anyone doing anything.

Eldrad-led Mechdar vs the UK.

I don't like our chances to be honest.

My 2k Nids they can make more.

how many fex's, tyrants and tervigons can I fit in 2000 pts

An Imperial Guard superheavy Company.

3x Superheavies (of whatever type) and 500pts of supporting infantry mounted in Chimeras.

I live in Detroit. 2k worth of conscripts with squad level heavies. Take about 6 hours, as that is how long it takes to walk across the city

Pretty sure it's no contest: common sense suggests that Daemons or Nids will win this. Do we have any weapons that can actually cause serious hurt to Daemons? Probably not. Nids? They'll just grow more and run practically without numbers-2000 points allows for a lot of tervigons and gaunts.

timetowaste85 wrote:Pretty sure it's no contest: common sense suggests that Daemons or Nids will win this. Do we have any weapons that can actually cause serious hurt to Daemons? Probably not. Nids? They'll just grow more and run practically without numbers-2000 points allows for a lot of tervigons and gaunts.

We have our undying faith in the god-emperor. That will see off any foul warp beasts

I think the Average 2k Tau list would give the US a run for their money.

An Army that uses similar tactics, but MUCH better gear.


but really in the end, I think One Land raider Redeemer with Termies would be too much for Most Countries, Barring WMDs.

You guys are being ridiculous. There's nothing that a coordinated airstrike couldn't immediately blow up with no damage taken in return. The only serious entry here is nurgle, but that's just because all you need is one plague bearer to hypothetically kill off the whole world with disease (hypothetically).

The only way that a small handful of future soldiers would be able to survive is if they had absolutely no way of being detected. For example, 2,000 points of lictors might do the job, as they are undetectable by contemporary means. Likewise, an army of 2,000 points of Marbo could do it, because no matter where you try to attack, they're always right behind you.

Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

Be interesting to match up one of those 2000 point titans, of course I'm a fan of giant robots terrorizing the japanese, like always.

Honestly Tyranids would do the most damage. A 2k list of tervigons that chain spawn more of them would do a ton of damage before stopped. However 2k points worth of genestealer cult would take the planet.

It also depends where this is happening. Some say that 2k of tervigons and gaunts would be rolled up with missile strikes...But what if the hive ship arrives, crashes, and they are in tunnels under the ground? Burrowing and digging their way towards the centres of biomass (our cities) before erupting from the sewers in a tide of chitin and violence, consuming all before them? It'd be easy enough to deal with these things if they appeared on a plain out near the Great Dividing and started moving towards the nearest city, but thats not how it would necessarily play out.

Ailaros wrote:You guys are being ridiculous. There's nothing that a coordinated airstrike couldn't immediately blow up with no damage taken in return. The only serious entry here is nurgle, but that's just because all you need is one plague bearer to hypothetically kill off the whole world with disease (hypothetically).

The only way that a small handful of future soldiers would be able to survive is if they had absolutely no way of being detected. For example, 2,000 points of lictors might do the job, as they are undetectable by contemporary means. Likewise, an army of 2,000 points of Marbo could do it, because no matter where you try to attack, they're always right behind you.

Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

Ummm... You mad, bro?

Regardless, that's a matter of personal interpretation. Do you think conventional explosives can bust through bonded adamentite, thermoplas, and Emperor-knows what else they use as armor in the 41st millennium? If you do, it's no skin off my back, but I'm mostly lead to believe not.

Ailaros wrote:
Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

I disagree, only because Baneblades routinely survive 40k orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and nuclear detonations. All of these things possess far more joules of energy than a mere cruise missile.

Unit1126PLL wrote:

Ailaros wrote:
Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

I disagree, only because Baneblades routinely survive 40k orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and nuclear detonations. All of these things possess far more joules of energy than a mere cruise missile.

How about a bunker buster instead :3

LunaHound wrote:

Unit1126PLL wrote:

Ailaros wrote:
Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

I disagree, only because Baneblades routinely survive 40k orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and nuclear detonations. All of these things possess far more joules of energy than a mere cruise missile.

How about a bunker buster instead :3

Perhaps if that bunker buster generated the same number of joules as a particle-beam from space* then it might be able to at least penetrate the armor.

*It doesn't - 40k Lance batteries often are used to break open the crust of a planet.

Chaos daemons, they appear all of the sudden, slaughter thousands before the military arrives, and even if they are defeated any survivors who fought them may very well be corrupted.

Unit1126PLL wrote:

LunaHound wrote:

Unit1126PLL wrote:

Ailaros wrote:
Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

I disagree, only because Baneblades routinely survive 40k orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and nuclear detonations. All of these things possess far more joules of energy than a mere cruise missile.

How about a bunker buster instead :3

Perhaps if that bunker buster generated the same number of joules as a particle-beam from space* then it might be able to at least penetrate the armor.

*It doesn't - 40k Lance batteries often are used to break open the crust of a planet.

wait wait, does baneblade have force field?

LunaHound wrote:

Unit1126PLL wrote:

LunaHound wrote:

Unit1126PLL wrote:

Ailaros wrote:
Meanwhile, a squad of baneblades is three tomahawk missiles away from a tragic end, and eldrad and his fancy ride would be ended with a single patriot missile.

I disagree, only because Baneblades routinely survive 40k orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and nuclear detonations. All of these things possess far more joules of energy than a mere cruise missile.

How about a bunker buster instead :3

Perhaps if that bunker buster generated the same number of joules as a particle-beam from space* then it might be able to at least penetrate the armor.

*It doesn't - 40k Lance batteries often are used to break open the crust of a planet.

wait wait, does baneblade have force field?

No, unless stupidly thick armor counts.