Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24807021-20140517101815/@comment-24807021-20140613165754

173.25.47.250 wrote: Cylons, hands down.

Erm...

Reserves, loads of them. Even if you exclude the whole "Centurion army" thing, you still have the humanoids who can infiltrate the Imperium. And if that's not enough, all of that has happened before and will happen again.

Proof that Cylons have the numbers and firepower to be a serious threat to the million-world Imperium with kiloton/megaton battle Titans, teraton starships and several methods of life-wiping and planet-busting which they are not afraid to use if the situation becomes too dire.

And just because it's all happened before with the Twelve Colonies doesn't mean it'll happen again with the IoM, who might not leave any Cylons to start over...

Ressurection is a definite plus, considering as how the Zerg and Tyranids can't bring back their creatures from the dead with specialized ships. Or that their creatures can think for themselves.

Tyranids don't need specialized ships. They just consume their own dead (and the enemy dead if they're organic) in the field and in a few minutes or hours you're fighting the same Nids again but in a different form. And most Nids can think for themselves to a limited extent; Swarmlords and (I think) most starship breeds are fully sentient.

Sure, the Raiders aren't that special compared to a gunboat, but they're alive. There's also lots of them and they can become quite angry after multiple revivals.

Raiders being alive isn't going to save them from the Imperium's gigaton-teraton firepower.

A good deal of Cylon tech is technorganic, including their FTL controllers.

Just makes them more vulnerable to Chaos. Even if they were purely organic all it takes is one Centurion with Scrap Code...

Good old fashioned monotheistic fanaticism, with a tinge of resentment towards humanity.

Imperium has that too, and they hate AIs.

No difference at all with humans outside and I doubt the Imperium cares about genetics research enough to find out inside.

Not sure about the effects that point would have on either side.

Still, I need proof that the Cylon space fleets have triple-digit gigaton firepower because that's effectively the absolute minimum needed to survive against a 40K fleet.