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What is the most dangerous race not portrayed on tabletop?

Is there anything from the Ghoul Stars?

The Slaugth?

In my opinion, the Slaugth.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Slaugth

They basically almost stopped the Great Crusade, and may have had a hand in the disappearance of two Legions, AND weren’t eradicated as there are still incidents in M40s.

That would be a toss up between the aforementioned Slaugth, the Bargeshi and the Rak'Gol.

hrud

It might have changed with the new necron lore, but as far as I can tell it is stil cannon. Although mostly they are used as a Deus-ex machina plt fevice to explain away a few things.

I suggest the enslavers. They where responsebol for killing the old once. They are highly aggresive once they get a foothold, brining more inn to mindcontroll even more people. Race does not matter, they are not picky eaters. During the end of warvin heaven the old once had relied to much on psyonic minnions and so the enslavers could wipe them out. Let us just hope there is not a big event with lots of psykers awakening!

While important for the backstory I always felt they where a bit dorky. Immaterium is where daemons live. So why the heck are these people there as well? Oh well.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Enslavers

Racerguy180 wrote:
hrud

This isn’t that far off either, the Perturabo book made them sound very disturbing to fight against, although apparently they aren’t really that aggressive unless you try and stop their migrations (but their migrationscan just passively kill whole planets of people due to their temporal distortions).

Megarachnids

The Legio Cybernetica.

The eldar. Because the poor excuse for what we've got now is nothing compared to what they should be, and what they used to be in 2nd ed....

I would vote enslavers, but the very nature of the topic means it is all rather vague. Maybe it's the gun-shrooms from the new artwork?

 Hellebore wrote:
The eldar. Because the poor excuse for what we've got now is nothing compared to what they should be, and what they used to be in 2nd ed....

What timeline have I ended up in? Those specialist bastards have been terrorizing me for decades. Hating Marines instead feels wrong.

 agurus1 wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
hrud

This isn’t that far off either, the Perturabo book made them sound very disturbing to fight against, although apparently they aren’t really that aggressive unless you try and stop their migrations (but their migrationscan just passively kill whole planets of people due to their temporal distortions).

Gotta third this - any other enemy you can get more armor, more ships, bigger guns, but no amount of ceramite or lance fire stops time.

 agurus1 wrote:
In my opinion, the Slaugth.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Slaugth

They basically almost stopped the Great Crusade, and may have had a hand in the disappearance of two Legions, AND weren’t eradicated as there are still incidents in M40s.

The Slaughth remind me of of the Legkolo/ Hunters from Halo.

The most dangerous race, Im not sure, but one of the creepiest are for sure the Rak'gol

123ply wrote:


The most dangerous race, Im not sure, but one of the creepiest are for sure the Rak'gol

See, I put them on my list simply because in universe (let alone, even ourselves as an omniscient viewer), we do not know what their agenda is. There is speculation, but even with utterly alien races like the Tyranids we know what their MO is (consume biomass ad infinitum). We know what makes them tick on a base level, despite not probably grasping the nuances of it.
The Rak'Gol OTOH are a complete enigma. What do they want? Do they worship Chaos? Do they just collect the artefacts just because? If they are the former that is what makes them so utter dangerous in my eyes. A race of Chaos worshipping land sharks with zero fear that is willing to destroy themselves if captured? They're like the perfect shock troops that the Chaos gods need and if they have their insidious grasp in them then it does not bode well.

I'm going to go chaos........
No hear me out we only ever really see Chaos Space Marines in the army books. We never really see the faceless masses, mutant montrosities and warped soldiers. I've alays fealt these armies should be the majority of what you see like their represented in the background.

 Llamahead wrote:
I'm going to go chaos........
No hear me out we only ever really see Chaos Space Marines in the army books. We never really see the faceless masses, mutant montrosities and warped soldiers. I've alays fealt these armies should be the majority of what you see like their represented in the background.

Yeah, I'm with you on this. I was looking to put together a heretical/ cultist army kind of based on the Dawn Of War: Winter Assault baddies, but was astonished to find it's ALL Traitor Marines! Hpw can that possibly work? There must be a few million Traitor Astartes at most, compared to countless billions of cults scattered throughout the Imperium.. this is something that needs more exploring

They had rules in 4th edition. Black crusade book where wulfen apeared. Also forge world has had heretics and mutants.

 Niiai wrote:
It might have changed with the new necron lore, but as far as I can tell it is stil cannon. Although mostly they are used as a Deus-ex machina plt fevice to explain away a few things.

I suggest the enslavers. They where responsebol for killing the old once. They are highly aggresive once they get a foothold, brining more inn to mindcontroll even more people. Race does not matter, they are not picky eaters. During the end of warvin heaven the old once had relied to much on psyonic minnions and so the enslavers could wipe them out. Let us just hope there is not a big event with lots of psykers awakening!

While important for the backstory I always felt they where a bit dorky. Immaterium is where daemons live. So why the heck are these people there as well? Oh well.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Enslavers

They aren't people though? There are plenty of things in the Warp that aren't Chaos and Chaos doesn't really gain anything from trying to kill them.

I move Hrud myself. When you mess with time by existing you aren't to be messed with.


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 Niiai wrote:
They had rules in 4th edition. Black crusade book where wulfen apeared. Also forge world has had heretics and mutants.

Ah the good old days of forgeworld armies.

 Eldarain wrote:

 Hellebore wrote:
The eldar. Because the poor excuse for what we've got now is nothing compared to what they should be, and what they used to be in 2nd ed....

What timeline have I ended up in? Those specialist bastards have been terrorizing me for decades. Hating Marines instead feels wrong.

Loyalist marines are quite strong right now so certin people kinda have their nose out of joint that their favorite prey is now the predator

BrianDavion wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:

 Hellebore wrote:
The eldar. Because the poor excuse for what we've got now is nothing compared to what they should be, and what they used to be in 2nd ed....

What timeline have I ended up in? Those specialist bastards have been terrorizing me for decades. Hating Marines instead feels wrong.

Loyalist marines are quite strong right now so certin people kinda have their nose out of joint that their favorite prey is now the predator

If GW decided to make your librarians and captains squad leaders and boltguns became pistols for over 20 years you'd be angry too.

People need to separate their dislike of poor game design from the armies that receive it. I don't think an eldar army should be 3 crimson exarchs (8th), or wraithknights (6th), or scatterbikes (7th) either. Having bad broken units in an army that is underpowered otherwise isn't representative or fun.

EDIT: If you like you can go trawl warseer and read the same argument I've made every edition. I stopped playing in 5th before the terrible shennigans really started because i was sick of the army looking like a joke, being eroded from the concept that drew me to it in 2nd.

Coming back in 8th I'd hoped to see some improvement as there seemed to be some more time spent on non marines, but it's really just more of the same marine favouritism,

Squats. All those bikes and trikes driving at high speeds over rough terrain. Sounds pretty dangerous to me,

I have a few ideas, and at first I was leaning towards enslavers, but after some thought I think it’s definitely Krorks.

I'd go with the enslavers too. Not much lore about them, but they seem to be at the "extinction event" level of dangerous...

I’d be tempted to say Krork.

All along the lines of the beast (and bigger) for sheer size and power.
Tech that was far more advanced than most, massively numerous and highly intelligent.
The beast and Ghaz caused enough of an issue alone.
An entire army comprised of creatures that make them look weak would be pretty hard to stop.

Slaugth or the Enslavers.

Lacrymoles maybe? Since they are able to metamorphasise in anything or anyone they fancy they are able to impersonate prevalent individuals to fearsome concequences.

Although they are nearly extinct so that takes them out of the race somehow.

Enslavers, the Rangdan, Slaugh and Rak'gol.

Rangdan even have mentions of things the Slaugh posses, so could be related to one another.

Men of Iron.

 Slayer6 wrote:
Men of Iron.

The men of iron were defeated