Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-92.97.77.182-20130321145115/@comment-25451195-20141004133222

Orks are at war with every one, them selves included, IF the orks could ever unite, they would overpower every one and every thing (that was stated back in 3rd ed) sorry sanguiniouslives, but your theory fact is just not on the money.

There are more humans then every other race (minus tyranids and maybe necrons) but humanity has been on the back foot sense the horus heresy, they are being attacked from all directions, external and internal, and the administratum is so large and unaccountable that a minor tasking error can decided the fate of a world (25 hours being an example, where a clerk got a digit off, that ended up sending a single company of IG on a world that was loosing a decade long war with orks)

additionally, not all humans are looking out for human kind, there are some that are bending their fortunes and power to their own desires, and not for the best of humanity (look at the navigators, who live in decadence, where a vast majority of humanity lives in hive worlds)

its only for the sheer fact that no two races ever work together for more then a cosmic heart beat to meet a mutual goal that prevents the balance of power from ever going in one favor... (example being Tau, who would have been utterly and titanically swallowed whole by Mankind, if it was not for the fact we had to engage tyranids that provide a more pertenent threat then the tau did at that time)

Orks also do titanic amounts of harm due to how they conduct war. when the invade a planet, they are going to crash land a ship on it, (doing damage to the planet it self) and they some how always land in the perfect spot to start their conflict (Space Marine, they landed near huge weapon systems that at a distance would have pounded them to bits, but they landed inside their minimum range if i recall properly)

Orks dont follow any structure of warfare as any one understands it either, (much to that one necrons serious anger)

and Ork numbers is a bit of a loose term, they dont populate like we do, and killing an Ork and not hitting the area with fire soon after will lead to a feral ork infestation in ten years (cuss their an Emperor forsaken fungus)