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Are there any known battles between orks and dark eldar?

Read DE codex.

I don't have one.

Well, you have computer, tou have internet, you have piratebay and you have adobe reader. Go figure the rest yourself.

In short, thre are two "battles" between DE and Orks in the codex - first, where ledy Malys baited some Orks to attack forgeworld and then attack it himself when Orks killed most of the deenders. At the end Malys need to battle ork Mekboss for the Panacea STC she want (only to impress Vect). She win.

Other battle was when Ork Waagh invaded Cammoragh through open wepwey portal (I bet it was some Archon tying to copy Vect's Salamander gambit). DE was all too happy that their prey come at them and went safari on orks evenrually hunting them all down, turning most into slaves and gladiators..

Short answer - lots - Orks are valued for the arena and as a race that will just keep fighting back, durable and resist toture - os they can play longer..........

To be fair the attack through the warp gate seems to be a miscalculation and some large scale destruction was done - although eventually the Dark Eldar regain control and have some fun.............

The Orks and Dark Eldar fight alot Why wouldn;t they

Hey, why would an ork not fight some pansies in tights? But major battles are few and far between - the Dark Eldar don't do that stuff. An Ork stronghold has nothing the DE want besides a few more ork slaves, and Comorragh is well hidden from any ork warlords that would like to sack it for loot.

Then again, Dark Eldar make no sense to begin with. They fight to take slaves but how often does a DE force even have a vehicle to drive home after a battle? The craftworlders have Fleet because they're fast, their dark kin have it because they always walk home.

Spetulhu wrote:
Hey, why would an ork not fight some pansies in tights? But major battles are few and far between - the Dark Eldar don't do that stuff. An Ork stronghold has nothing the DE want besides a few more ork slaves, and Comorragh is well hidden from any ork warlords that would like to sack it for loot.

Then again, Dark Eldar make no sense to begin with. They fight to take slaves but how often does a DE force even have a vehicle to drive home after a battle? The craftworlders have Fleet because they're fast, their dark kin have it because they always walk home.

To be fair most of the DE come home as fingers to be regrown into a DE again.

Additionally how do you think a Hellion is created? He is one of the survivors of a blown up raider. They divide the parts and make their boards...

@OP
There are lots of small scale conflicts between DE and orks. There are just not a lot of big DE battles in general.

 Mezmerro wrote:
Well, you have computer, tou have internet, you have piratebay and you have adobe reader. Go figure the rest yourself.

In short, thre are two "battles" between DE and Orks in the codex - first, where ledy Malys baited some Orks to attack forgeworld and then attack it himself when Orks killed most of the deenders. At the end Malys need to battle ork Mekboss for the Panacea STC she want (only to impress Vect). She win.

Other battle was when Ork Waagh invaded Cammoragh through open wepwey portal (I bet it was some Archon tying to copy Vect's Salamander gambit). DE was all too happy that their prey come at them and went safari on orks evenrually hunting them all down, turning most into slaves and gladiators..

Oh i do hope you are not advising our friend here to go to pirate bay and download *Illegally* the Dark Eldar codex. I'm not sure the mods would be to happy about that.

Yes there have been battles, but mainly skirmishes and raids the Dark Eldar initiated and the DE won. The Orks simply don't have the brains to defend against a DE raid or protect there supply lines and they simply don't have the patience to try find and chase down the Dark Pansies for a krumpin'. So unless the Dark Eldar really underestimated the Orks i cna't see many times the Orks would win.

And ofc, seeing the ork mindset they probably don't see a slave raid as a loss. No proper ork would have been captured by pansies in tights, right?

ansacs wrote:


@OP
There are lots of small scale conflicts between DE and orks. There are just not a lot of big DE battles in general.

 illuknisaa wrote:

ALEXisAWESOME wrote:

The Orks simply don't have the brains to defend against a DE raid or protect there supply lines and they simply don't have the patience to try find and chase down the Dark Pansies for a krumpin'. So unless the Dark Eldar really underestimated the Orks i cna't see many times the Orks would win.

This is kinda off topic but you know you are talking about a race that almost killed horus, mortarion and dorn (emprah barely saved them, extreme emphasis on barely), a race that strikes fear to tau high command with its' battle tactics, a race that the greatest tactician of all 40k (stormbringer) regards as the the one opponent he can't beat, a race that holds the highest record for the amount of deamon worlds conquered (orks 7, everyone else 0)...

To be fair the dumb comment is off topic as grots are seriously intelligent. The patience comment is probably completely on target though as I have never heard of a patient ork. In fact I think that is probably why they conquer everything. No patience for the eventual fall from decay of everyone but the mighty ork empire.

I think Lady Malys leads the Kabal of the Obsidian Rose (don't quote me on it), which is like a very dark bronze colour scheme.