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What would happen if an average sized ork waaaagh invaded present day earth that we live in (not warhammer 2k earth whatever that was like). They land in Antarctica and set up camp. Reporters are on the scene to investigate and are promptly krumped! Earth unites to face the orks! Outcome?

Tomahawk missiles? Our weapons dont scatter?

Orks win. Game over.

Land in antartica? Blow the crap outta e'm

Odd place for them land but OK.

A whole Waaaargh would be unstopable if they have access to Roks, spaceships etc.

If they are planetbound - I guess they could be nuked into oblivion - but only if the threat is recongnised before they start spreading across the world.

Present day armed forces are powerful but really not that numerous - how many jet fighters and tanks do we have? We would may single engagements - but unless we kill every Ork every time they will thrive on a decent enemy.

 Zande4 wrote:
What would happen if an average sized ork waaaagh invaded present day earth that we live in (not warhammer 2k earth whatever that was like). They land in Antarctica and set up camp. Reporters are on the scene to investigate and are promptly krumped! Earth unites to face the orks! Outcome?

According to the fluff, even if we nuke Antartica into swiss-cheese, the spores would linger on and give rise to new Waaagghs!! which would have to eventually gain a foothold somewhere else. And, as soon as it spreads off of the somewhat containable continent of origin, the 'disease' would become unstoppable. That's using YOUR scenario, and pretending they didn't land across the entire planet more or less at random using Roks and ships, like most Waagghhs!! normally would.

Also bear in mind any technology they get their hands on will be bastardized into an illogical, physics breaking but still totally functional device.

AKA; F-22 Raptors, hereafter called the "Wobbly Gretchin". Hint, it has a BS 4 (because it's a Flyer!)

The spores would have nowhere to grow if we blast thing.

Also read somewhere that since they're all fungi, they're very vulnerable to poison and viruses tailored to kill them, as they're unlikely to evolve in time.

Lady Malys did use a virus against them but never heard of anyone else succeeding ?

 Bobthehero wrote:
The spores would have nowhere to grow if we blast thing.

Also read somewhere that since they're all fungi, they're very vulnerable to poison and viruses tailored to kill them, as they're unlikely to evolve in time.

Read Imperial Glory.



Seriously, Primitive Orks are still really really fething Dangerous.

I doubt we'll be able to create a poison to kill all of them in time.

Do they wipe out the continent leaving nowhere for the spores to develop?

If they all land on Antarctica, and its identified in time, my plan is simple:
1. Nuke everything there until there is no life...
2. Nuke the continent again every few months to make sure the spores don't get big.
3. Hope humans create practical mass space travel by the time we run out of nukes or other bombs

We would be boned.

Spores, in actual science, are one of nature's most resilient forms of life. These things can survive the vacuum of space, freezing temperatures, total lack of moisture and other extreme conditions. That is not to say a spore would survive and be viable after being at ground-zero of a thermonuclear detonation. . . . but the effective kill radius of a nuke in regards to humanoid sized targets is much larger than the diameter of thermal damage, which is what is most likely to destroy the spores.

tl;dr

Just because the nuke kills Orkz doesn't mean it would kill all Ork spores

And because Orkz are awesome, it only takes one..

 Far Seer wrote:
I doubt we'll be able to create a poison to kill all of them in time.

We have all types of weapons ready now believe you me.... america didnt get 13 trillion dollars in debt from buying cookies

Nuclear fallout too?

Also, there's a lot of mention in universe of people burning out the spores, so you could probably send another bombardement wave after the first to wipe out the spores.

 Boneblade wrote:
Spores, in actual science, are one of nature's most resilient forms of life. These things can survive the vacuum of space, freezing temperatures, total lack of moisture and other extreme conditions. That is not to say a spore would survive and be viable after being at ground-zero of a thermonuclear detonation. . . . but the effective kill radius of a nuke in regards to humanoid sized targets is much larger than the diameter of thermal damage, which is what is most likely to destroy the spores.

tl;dr

Just because the nuke kills Orkz doesn't mean it would kill all Ork spores

And because Orkz are awesome, it only takes one..

We would also use neutron bombs which just kill all living things within a certain radius (spews neutrons everywhere like small spears killing cells) also your telling me the main thing thats killing those spores is heat and not the intense radiation? You sir do not know enough about atomic bombs... in fact much of the death from hiroshima and nagasaki was the irradiated survivors who got cancer and died, how much radiation does it take to kill fungus? certainly not more than it takes to kill anything else.. the dna in the cells is mutated by radiation and you get cancer or extremely mutated individuals and orks as well as humans do not have any defense against that

Orks win. We couldn't just nuke the crap out of Antarctica like it's a no brainer. That would significantly raise the sea levels and we'd lose many large cities to flooding alone. If the races of 40k find Orks to be a damned tough opponent . . . humans in 2k . . . toast. I personally would try to join the Orks by offering to brew them beer and growing them . . . houseplants.

Some folks ought to read war of the worlds.

 60mm wrote:
Orks win. We couldn't just nuke the crap out of Antarctica like it's a no brainer. That would significantly raise the sea levels and we'd lose many large cities to flooding alone. If the races of 40k find Orks to be a damned tough opponent . . . humans in 2k . . . toast. I personally would try to join the Orks by offering to brew them beer and growing them . . . houseplants.

damn that rules napalm out rofl

If the Orks crash landed on earth we'd be in for a problem. Once the Orks we're able to leave the continent through mining and crafting ships and aircraft we'd have a real fight on our hands. Since orks have been able to survive normally something as instantly fatal as decapitation for as long as 30 minutes and have organ acceptance rates that far outreach even the potential of any other race We'd struggle to harm or incap a ork very long with most things short of heavy weapons platforms and tanks. Even the mighty Ak-47 is nothing more than a Auto-gun which is less than optimal but capable of killing an Ork but i would imagine it would probably take nearly a full clip in chest and face to bring them down. Grenades would barely cause injuries worth note.

I think the worst part would be that once the orks were challenged by tanks and aircraft it would only be a matter of time till looted technology came about. Within a decade i think earth would be wiped out.

To get there they'd of had to have space craft, instant game over for us.

Okay, so they land, we nuke it, twice.. then as everyone's been saying the spores would keep on going, lets then place there a worse virus to kill them all off? Lets go with anthrax, all orks dead due to nukes, all spores dead due to anthrax, at least anthrax doesn't evolve into a big, green, primitive creature which is out to destroy. so we can deal with that over time.. win?

 madman12367 wrote:
Okay, so they land, we nuke it, twice.. then as everyone's been saying the spores would keep on going, lets then place there a worse virus to kill them all off? Lets go with anthrax, all orks dead due to nukes, all spores dead due to anthrax, at least anthrax doesn't evolve into a big, green, primitive creature which is out to destroy. so we can deal with that over time.. win?

whats this "we" that anthrax would leak to Australia and nz!

It would probably be something like this:

1. U.S. Government is trying to cover it up by saying that USAF weather balloon crashed in Antartica, after that they would probably send a tem to check it out.

2. After the time was massacred they would send a lone F-22 Raptor to nuke the Orks.

3. After that they would send teams to see the results. They would report that many Orks survived nuclear strike, after that U.S would send armed force to deal with them.

4. Orks would eventually overrun the armed force and only after that would we start using napalm, B-2 spirits, A-10's, missile launchers from battleships, and a large armed force. By that tiem they woudl probably tell other world powers liek Russia, China and EU what is happening.

5. As people previously stated Ork spores would get off Antarctica and spread across the globe via wind and the rest of the Orks would dig their way to other continents.

6. The end result would be extermination as majority of our race are civilians. Orks would slaughter their way trough unarmed populations while our small militaries wound try to hold them off. And the Orks will eventually start to loot our tanks, planes etc... and that would be just one more nail into our coffin.

7. After three years since original Ork fall onto Antarctica Mankind is exterminated from Earth and Earth became just another Ork colony.

Alternate way of how this would end:

-Assuming that we are lost Human colony after several weeks of fighting Imperium comes to rescue us by sending IG and Astartes.
-Assuming this is our Earth ( Holly Terra ) the Emperor simply goes alone and kill all the Orks.

In every other scenario we are dead.

Orks win.

The big question I have to ask is... 'What kind of cowardly grot is their warboss, landing in the most desolate and sparsely populated continent. Thought he was coming for a fight.

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:

-Assuming this is our Earth ( Holly Terra ) the Emperor simply goes alone and kill all the Orks.

That's a point. I'll change my vote, the Emperor protects!

 Eetion wrote:
Orks win.

The big question I have to ask is... 'What kind of cowardly grot is their warboss, landing in the most desolate and sparsely populated continent. Thought he was coming for a fight.

Someone told him the best fighting was in America as they got the best stuffz to loot but unfortunately Orks don't know how to spell and so they ended up in Antarctica.

i just had a evil chuckle id grab my sword go get my brother and his rifles and hand guns and make my way north looks like i found the best fighting on the planet!

I for would would welcome our new brutal dictactors and freely sell out Humanity for the lawls.