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I would say that nothing would happen without another UN Security Council vote.

Meaning that any of the 5 permanent members would be able to veto any decision while trying to steal technology / negociate with the warboss / backstab the first attacked country / duplicate weirdboyz / whatever...

We'd be fethed.

Pretty sure one Warboss + warband could take out most of earth in about 6 months and that would be factoring in how lazy him and his boyz would be from such lax fighting. Earth is not a hostile enough planet for it's weather to even really slow down orks and cause them to die of thirst or anything of the sort. I feel we would try our damnest to scientifically understand them after the first contact in desperate hopes to kill them more effectively, who knows maybe we'd learn a few things but I think by the time anything more prudent than "shoot them in the brain ... alot" we'd of lost a large portion of our population infact only through the use of Auspex or equivalent would we even learn how they reproduce so odds are we would make mistakes when we started biopsies or assume they are dead when they suddenly wake up and kill a doctor all horror movie style.

Earth would be dead in so many ways and i shudder to think but it stands to chance with how advanced 40k is a Big mek would consider all our toys and tech child'splay to tap into. *shudder* i don't even want to think would happen if Orks found 4chan.

Hail our new overlord.

If we are too weedy they won't bother to kill us. Will just be slaves.

Hell one ork is a villian sufficient of warranting a made for TV syfy channel movie. A Waaagh! worth would deplete our planet of all things shinny and dakka within mere days.

No big deal as we already have them here. They are called Soccer Fans!

 Marcch wrote:
No big deal as we already have them here. They are called Soccer Fans!

We'd have to hope nascar and rugby would be enough to appease our new green masters.

orks would krump, heck, if any 40k army landed on the planet they would win. We don't have enough technology/man power to stop anything in that scale.

I wonder if I can buy my way off planet with human teeth...

 sir william the bold wrote:
orks would krump, heck, if any 40k army landed on the planet they would win. We don't have enough technology/man power to stop anything in that scale.

Hmm what about kroot? what are their numbers like?

 Seb wrote:
Our soldiers are professionnal, but they are only one in what.... 10.000 people ?

Every single Ork is a big threat for non fighting humans. Sure we have tanks and planes big ships. But their medics have rotating saws attached to the arm, their gretchins fly planes and every one of them has the ferocity of 20 professional human soldiers.

After the first encounter, they would bastardize our technology, and we would see custom orkish navy ships, M1 Abrahams and of course pimped up limos.

And I, for one, would fear a warboss in a pimped up orkish limo.

Our soldiers arnt even up to the quality of Cadian soldiers.

The most elite soldiers on the planet, (pretty much all of NATO's infantry, Russia, maybe China) would have the same stats in every way as Imperial Guardsmen (Flak Armor, Lasguns)


The combined might of every single nation on earth in an organized fashion might be able to beat an AVERAGE size Waaagh but the cost would be crazy high and thats assuming all the nations are actually able to combine their might properly.

As pointed out before, an average sized Waagh! would probably outnumber humanity. And they are all soldiers, we are not.

 Riddick40k wrote:
I wonder if I can buy my way off planet with human teeth...

Human teef are puny and break easy thus the orks consider them worthless, a shark on the other hand!

Ultimately an "average" size orkish waaaagh would be completely unchecked by anything we have seen in modern wars short of WMD's Should the planet become that desperate it is probably already too late and as i said, it only compounds the issue. It's a basic fact of life even in 40k once orks land that planet will never know a time without war again.

 Harriticus wrote:
It all depends on the Waaagh! size. I think we could actually beat back all but the really big ones, though it'd devastate the planet.

Aren't all Waaagh!s "really big ones"? if they're weren't several million Orks, it wouldn't be a Waaagh!, it's be more like a "Weeeeee"

A fight between modern day Earth and an Waaagh would end with the Warboss getting sniped in the head and the warband collapsing on itself, while we vacate the area around where the Waagh is situated, and nuke it.

Considering that Thrakka's skin can't be penetrated by bolter rounds, I doubt that one of our bullets would do much more than draw blood on a warboss. Taking a bullet to the head is pretty much a nobz' rite of passage.

That is what XM-109 are for.

And IIRC you can get rid of Orks, its just a pain to do.

 Jidmah wrote:
Considering that Thrakka's skin can't be penetrated by bolter rounds, I doubt that one of our bullets would do much more than draw blood on a warboss. Taking a bullet to the head is pretty much a nobz' rite of passage.

I can see this posted on a tree: "Hey, yous gits...we haves dis ancient weapon called a 50 BMG...none o yous gits are ork enuff to stand ere and let a puny humie shoot yous in da noggin wiff it. Stan next to da burn pit so we humies dont have to drag yous too far".

 Galdos wrote:

 Seb wrote:
Our soldiers are professionnal, but they are only one in what.... 10.000 people ?

Every single Ork is a big threat for non fighting humans. Sure we have tanks and planes big ships. But their medics have rotating saws attached to the arm, their gretchins fly planes and every one of them has the ferocity of 20 professional human soldiers.

After the first encounter, they would bastardize our technology, and we would see custom orkish navy ships, M1 Abrahams and of course pimped up limos.

And I, for one, would fear a warboss in a pimped up orkish limo.

Our soldiers arnt even up to the quality of Cadian soldiers.

The most elite soldiers on the planet, (pretty much all of NATO's infantry, Russia, maybe China) would have the same stats in every way as Imperial Guardsmen (Flak Armor, Lasguns)


The combined might of every single nation on earth in an organized fashion might be able to beat an AVERAGE size Waaagh but the cost would be crazy high and thats assuming all the nations are actually able to combine their might properly.

Most elite soldiers on earth are Australian SAS! Not even being sarcastic.

 Zande4 wrote:

 Galdos wrote:

 Seb wrote:
Our soldiers are professionnal, but they are only one in what.... 10.000 people ?

Every single Ork is a big threat for non fighting humans. Sure we have tanks and planes big ships. But their medics have rotating saws attached to the arm, their gretchins fly planes and every one of them has the ferocity of 20 professional human soldiers.

After the first encounter, they would bastardize our technology, and we would see custom orkish navy ships, M1 Abrahams and of course pimped up limos.

And I, for one, would fear a warboss in a pimped up orkish limo.

Our soldiers arnt even up to the quality of Cadian soldiers.

The most elite soldiers on the planet, (pretty much all of NATO's infantry, Russia, maybe China) would have the same stats in every way as Imperial Guardsmen (Flak Armor, Lasguns)


The combined might of every single nation on earth in an organized fashion might be able to beat an AVERAGE size Waaagh but the cost would be crazy high and thats assuming all the nations are actually able to combine their might properly.

Most elite soldiers on earth are Australian SAS! Not even being sarcastic.

Besides the fact I disagree with you and I would have said British SAS I see I miss typed.

By the most elite I meant of the basic infantry, not our special forces. My bad. Im not even distinguishing between Marines and Army, I just meant the grunts of nations

 Galdos wrote:

 Zande4 wrote:

 Galdos wrote:

 Seb wrote:
Our soldiers are professionnal, but they are only one in what.... 10.000 people ?

Every single Ork is a big threat for non fighting humans. Sure we have tanks and planes big ships. But their medics have rotating saws attached to the arm, their gretchins fly planes and every one of them has the ferocity of 20 professional human soldiers.

After the first encounter, they would bastardize our technology, and we would see custom orkish navy ships, M1 Abrahams and of course pimped up limos.

And I, for one, would fear a warboss in a pimped up orkish limo.

Our soldiers arnt even up to the quality of Cadian soldiers.

The most elite soldiers on the planet, (pretty much all of NATO's infantry, Russia, maybe China) would have the same stats in every way as Imperial Guardsmen (Flak Armor, Lasguns)


The combined might of every single nation on earth in an organized fashion might be able to beat an AVERAGE size Waaagh but the cost would be crazy high and thats assuming all the nations are actually able to combine their might properly.

Most elite soldiers on earth are Australian SAS! Not even being sarcastic.

Besides the fact I disagree with you and I would have said British SAS I see I miss typed.

By the most elite I meant of the basic infantry, not our special forces. My bad. Im not even distinguishing between Marines and Army, I just meant the grunts of nations

Ah the basic grunts hmm then pretty much who ever is the best equipped with the most numbers I guess, so you're right with that it would be china, USA, etc. however as the australian SAS train the British SAS I don't think they could be better or they would train us!

BlaxicanX wrote:
A fight between modern day Earth and an Waaagh would end with the Warboss getting sniped in the head and the warband collapsing on itself, while we vacate the area around where the Waagh is situated, and nuke it.

Because we'd figure out a warboss = victory over the orks, a feral alien race. Ontop of that i am damn sure wherever the warboss goes pure war follows him. if you are going to say our modern day snipers come even close to 40k asassins Imma smack you upside yo head son. That gun Might... MIGHT be strength 5, eavy armor should provide pretty damn good protection against it not to mention i highly doubt sniping a boss in the head would to much more than piss him off Royally.

and considering how morally supporting earth is to orkish ego boosts, i would doubt any defeat would demoralize them long at all so much easy pickings

If we can a sniper close enough to spot the warboss, it means we can easily send a very accurate ICBM on said boss, should the sniping fails, plan B.

I for one would welcome our dark and terrible lords of chaos, they will deliver us from the ork infestation!

Nuke antartica. There's a smart idea. Melting the polar ice caps manually.

Meh, that or the Orks, we're fethed, might as well take the feth-heads with us, eh?

 Bobthehero wrote:
Meh, that or the Orks, we're fethed, might as well take the feth-heads with us, eh?

you sound like someone who doesn't pass background tests for firearms

 Jidmah wrote:
As pointed out before, an average sized Waagh! would probably outnumber humanity. And they are all soldiers, we are not.

I heard that Thrakas WARGHH on Armageddon was probably one of the largest Imperium has faced since it's foundation and as I understood it the Orks numbered from 2.5 to 3.5 million Ork boyz. That is not over 7 billion Humans Earth is having today.

CORRECTION: Maximum number of Orks during Armageddon engagement was 3.798.000 ( and that is if e count max number for every Ork in exactly 1266 warbands that were on Armageddon during 3'rd war ). And that is still not close enough our numbers today.

 Big Mek Wurrzog wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
Meh, that or the Orks, we're fethed, might as well take the feth-heads with us, eh?

you sound like someone who doesn't pass background tests for firearms

Well, apparently, my background was good enough to get me in the army, so, yeah, hush.

 Bobthehero wrote:

 Big Mek Wurrzog wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
Meh, that or the Orks, we're fethed, might as well take the feth-heads with us, eh?

you sound like someone who doesn't pass background tests for firearms

Well, apparently, my background was good enough to get me in the army, so, yeah, hush.

This is OT, but in Canada do you get asked in the psych eval at the start 'when you find yourself at the edge of a building or another large drop, do you feel the urge to jump?'

But on topic, we'd be rooted. Most of the ways to deal with them involve us destroying chunks of our own world. We would be doomed.