Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-27721925-20160301134447

Fine disregarding the gods and the emps. You still have the Nids that will swarm over the federation with the necrons that have tactical acumumen beyond imagining combined with technological advancement. The space marines can hold their own in a fight. Then you have the orcs and their wargghs. Like there was an Orc that would have strangled the emperor him self self with his bare hands and they can make weapons and vehicles simply with the thought of it will work. Like an example is the orcs believe that painting a yellow strip on a missle makes the missle have a bigger explosion. We know that's not true however the orcs think it is true so in turn the missle has a bigger explosion. Another example is Orc weapons are only used by orcs because the orcs believe it will work so it will work for them and not for anyone else. Taking out the "Gods" an Orc wargghs will probably overwhelm the federation. I mean a species that reproduces through spores is hard to extermiate. Let's say the orcs invade a planet and get defeated on death spores are released and more are birthed as feral orcs so that problem will persist indefinitely, and if another Orc Waarrgghh comes through then the feral orcs will join the other orcs and the process repeats. The. You have the Nids who are going to adapt to the circumstances. The are reports of the Tyranids gaining immunity to the taus weapons and also reports of the Tyranids getting bigger and harder to kill from the Octavian system. So you have to worry about these guys harvesting planets. Maybe if the federation gets an advantage and hits a Hive fleet before it gets to a planet but if they aren't careful a decimated hive fleet can easily dwarf the original in splinter fleets.