What's the strongest W40k faction i just started to read the lore 1-2 months ago and love it, i belive it to be the Necrons educate me! :D (strongest in the meaning of technology, military might, ect)
What's the strongest W40k faction i just started to read the lore 1-2 months ago and love it, i belive it to be the Necrons educate me! :D (strongest in the meaning of technology, military might, ect)
No forgetting the faction that is most easily countered by leaving them alone...
aide from it actually being the only faction with no "leader"/unified command structure and thus not really per se stronger than any of the other races
Tyranids?
The Imperium is strongest because it is united. None of the other factions can say that except the Tau, who are much, much smaller yet can punch above their weight.
The Eldar unite from time to time but mostly stick to their craftworlds. Chaos isn't close to being united. The Necrons are legion but war among themselves. The Tyranid hive fleets attack each other on contact, well at least in 4th Ed Codex.
IoM united? Sorry if that were true, it would have been able to get shit done, fact is that it is stretched to far too thin and thus cannot meet all demands. case in point: damocles crusade: if it were not for the nids, the tau would have been wiped out. but nay, the IoM needed those relatively few forces elsewhere more urgently.
Necrons because.... in war anything goes and Necrons biggest strategy is their numbers. They don't need to eat, sleep or take pee brakes, what more could you ask for in a perfect soldier?
1. Imperium/Chaos
They got supremacy over the milky way galaxy.
There is no force that the imperium of man (or humanity) is not able to handle and it's operating really not at best efficiency since the heresy. Yeah it looks like a sinking ship all the time and yeah every human faction codex screams "no hope the end is coming" but let's face it many dangers are rising but they are still at the top and kicking.
Btw i do not see much difference between Chaos and Imperium because they are like two sides of the same coin.
2. Bugs, a lot of them (nids)
At the moment it seems they are the greatest alien danger humanity has to face. In fact they are much like the Orks only more in numbers, way more adaptable and not much is known about them. What is the reason why they are placed above the green menace. To be entirely honest though it's also possible that they are easier to eradicate once the mayor menace of the hive fleets is beaten but for now we have to assume they are worse.
3. Necrons
Necrons are without a doubt on the top 3. They possess incredible technology and are almost unstoppable if fully awaken. Their full might is by now not seens in 40k but they may be at full potential on the first place. At the moment though the necron threat does not make it on the top, although every awoken tomb world is even by now so dangerous even the nids avoid it.
4. Orks
Orks are one of the constants in the galaxy since the fall of the old ones. Nobody could really destroy them. Neither Necrons nor Enslavers, Eldar, Humans, Chaos or Nids. And if they got their asses up into a real full time waaaargh they can take on anything. Let's not forget that they were beside Chaos the only faction that took on the entire imperium of man in a single action and the emperor himself claimed them the greatest threat to the imperium. It's even uncertain were the power of the waaargh ends and should they all be united one day under one banner Gork and Mork could outmatch even the Dark Gods.
But although not erasable from the galaxy they are relatively easy to control at most. Thats why i put them under the other three factions.
Lore wise if the Necrons ever fully awaken they would be the strongest hands down. The only reason anyone can stop them is because they are malfunctioning, and are awakening earlier than they are supposed to. The other contender would be the Tyranids. They were designed by the old ones to cleanse that sector of the galaxy and out number literally every other race. If the God-Emperor were still a factor and humanity had secured the web-way they would be the dominant force, but because of the Horus heresy both them and the forces of Chaos are on a slow but inevitable downward spiral unless (insert dues-ex machina/ plot device here.) The Eldar are already doomed, and the Orks while resilient would be overtaken by the sheer numbers of the Tyranids, and the mechanical efficiency of the Necrons.
Of course I am thinking about this more on the lines of who will eventually beat every other force in this sector.
Currently in terms of supremacy the Imperium which is comprised of the Space Marines, the Imperial Guard, the Inquisition, the Sisters of Battle, the Mechanicum of Mars, etc Dominate the sector with every other force occupying small sections of the galaxy.
Chaos of course exists in the immateriam and are fed by entities which have a presence in the warp I.E. it depends on the Imperium, and things inhabiting material space to actually exist as a threat. So this means that chaos quite literally mirrors the materium in terms of potential.
However in the Long run more than likely the Tyranids will eventually swallow everything up, and the exiled Old Ones will return.
To all those humans who have love for other xenos . They are forgotten that they are humans and in wh40k if u are not supporting humans u are dead bcs necrons are trying to wipe u out , tyranids trying to eat u , chaos corrupts u with their false power so its better to stay with humanity and humans till the end of times But try to make out with tau they are dumb space communists