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 Melissia wrote:

Iracundus wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

Also not a population figure. A world with 1 Ork settlement of 10 Orks can still be classified as an Ork world.

Nothing more than desperate reaching.

In other words, you have no quotable proof.

Nah, I have it. I just don't care to respond to people who don't actually care about the fluff and just want to ignorantly bash Orks/whatever faction, like you.

I'm actually interested. Orks are a race GW seems to have given no number to, even vague numbers. Tyranids are quite possibly the most numerous considering the estimates given in the 6th edition rulebook (hive fleets made up of billions of hive ships, each hive ship carrying billions of Tyranid creatures), putting their numbers at obscene levels just per hive fleet.

With Orks, I've never even seen basic estimates like this, just even vaguer 'without number' type references (which Tyranids also get attributed).

Daemons do have physical form that can be wrecked to banish them back to the Warp; it's perfectly plausible that a couple of hundred Orks swarming a Bloodthirster could down it. If nothing else, check the game rules: every last little bit of fluff is a gross overexaggeration or piece of propaganda designed to exaggerate the virtues of whoever it's being written about (which is the only way things like Space Marines slaughtering their way through hundreds upon hundreds of Orks with no effort and Orks swarming Space Marines and chopping them to death makes any sense at all), but the game rules are a reasonable approximation of what actually happens in-universe (someone gets a lucky shot with a really big gun or manages to use the daemon's true name against it, thus banishing it after it's dropped enough Wounds).

No, there isn't quotable proof, because in many cases the fluff is blatantly contradictory because it's all propaganda and exaggerations. Look at the game rules to settle a 'who would beat who' match within 40k.

 Melissia wrote:

Iracundus wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

Also not a population figure. A world with 1 Ork settlement of 10 Orks can still be classified as an Ork world.

Nothing more than desperate reaching.

In other words, you have no quotable proof.

Nah, I have it. I just don't care to respond to people who don't actually care about the fluff and just want to ignorantly bash Orks/whatever faction, like you.

The thread's question has been answered. This conversation is becoming inane "my faction is better than yours" babble, so I think I'll find a different one.

agreed