Drop pods fair for tyranids, but orks would be broken with them?

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**AlmightyWalrus**

Wulfmar wrote:
With all these forces arriving by drop pod, why don't they just stay in space and fight. It's a bit like saying 'Hey, rather than fighting here with the big guns, why don't we both drive over here and fight'.

Dumb narrative.

Presumably because whoever holds the planet can have anti-orbital guns shoot the stuff in orbit to pieces.

That took literally two seconds to come up with, I'm sure you could come up with a bazilion more reasons if you actually wanted to.

**AlmightyWalrus**

locarno24 wrote:
Wulfmar wrote:
Guns on ships would be more powerful than on a planet, plus they're not fighting against gravitational pull to get the shells to escape velocity.

You could make up stories for it, but it still seems sloppy

Depnds on the gun. Imperial anti-orbit batteries tend to be defence laser emplacements - which are a damn sight scarier than anything a ship can mount because they've got a hive cities power grid to fuel them and a planetary atmosphere to dissapate heat discharge into. See 'Siege of Vraks' for an example of why being above the horizon of a major ground emplacement ends badly.

This. You can mount a much more powerful weapon (not to mention Void Shields!) on a planet than you can on a ship. Even if we disregard the space required a planet can probably absorb the forces involved in firing some of the more over-the-top 40k weapons better than a 10 km long ship.