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in the long term it will just be the tyranids and orks krumpin eachother forever.

>>42426
Honestly the orks might actually win just off the basis that there is no way in hell that the tyranids can consume all of them

Apparently GW introduced a new green skin evolution, and the orks have at least enough knowledge to know how to make their gits automatic. That’ll be enough for a single ork boy or war boss to be able to take down a horde of nids. Now imagine the dakka of 8 quintillion orks and 144 quintillion grots all wielding rokkits and automatic snazz guns

How the fuck did you get these numbers

>>42432
Searched online for stats

The imperium has been growing for 10000 years since it first declared capture of 1 million worlds, and it was known that the orks had existed for millions of years before humanity existed in the 40k setting. I had to check a lot of community posts, worked with AI, and gathered information on casualty rates in various ork-human wars to create population ratio estimates. The estimates I got were based on the ratio of orks to humans, Gretchins to orks, and the lowest estimated number of humans (its huge due to hive worlds and terra being a planet sized city).
When you have to take into account that orks apparently are the second most numerous species (tyranids apparently are only around twice as large as them in terms of numbers due to the fallout of losing the tyrannical wars), and the map of worlds colonized by orks, and the consistency the books have with describing grots (gretchins, small orks) as more numerous than orks, and the fact that orks are apparently omnipresent throughout the galaxy, then the numbers work out to something that sounds plausible given the scale of 40k

>>42431
Hell even if Chaos beats them to the punch and turns the galaxy into a little hellscape, they're going to just keep on doing what they always do. They might not even notice anything has changed

>>42434
They never do. actually, the orks expanded their territorial gains significantly after the great rift opened. It’s been known that certain waaghs were strong enough to cause galaxy spanning wars and most factions legitimately consider the orks to be a headache than something you can easily just do away with.

The biggest strength the orks have is the robustness of their society btw. The fact that most of their tech and societal organization requires little planning or resources make it easy for them to expand their colonies anywhere.

could the sheer number of greenskins be the reason they are so concerned with having enuff dakka? is it possible for there to be so many Orks in one area that there simply isn't enough dakka to go around?

>>42425
>How the fuck aren’t they the strongest faction?
because orks are fucking stupid. i could kill a planet of them using a megaphone. all i have to do is tell them the air is made of poison and they'll all just fall over.

>>42453
Mekboys have produced some of the genuinely best technology purely off their genetic inheritance. I wouldn’t call these beings dumb, especially if they have practical reasons for fighting each other constantly.

>>42441
I should’ve clarified this, but ork numbers relative to other species are high but not comically high

Again, the estimated human population is around 1.6 quintillion. High estimates for necromancy numbers range between several dozen trillion or few quadrillion but most of these numbers are including the necrons still asleep. Eldar are around that number, but they can reproduce. Tyranids have well past a few hundred quintillion life forms on them even with losing so much biomass to the tyrannical wars. A tau planet was once found to individually contain several trillion people.

You guys are forgetting that we’re talking about empires, aliens, and societies with galaxy spanning influence here.

I liked the necrons more when they were just mindless killing machines rather than space Egyptians.

>>42459
It’s not impossible. Actually it’s rather easy, just take sample data off military casualties and generalize the findings to all the known or estimated colonized worlds and you get some pretty accurate measures.

Most factions have between several dozen trillion to a few quadrillion life forms, have hundreds of thousands to millions of worlds conquered, and their power level scales from lunar level to large planetary (except necrons and dark mechanicum, those factions are solar system level at their peak).

I remember reading something about 40k and it mentioned some research ship that's been flying through some sector of the galaxy for centuries and the only thing it detects are endless orks.

>>42475
There are plenty of other books detailing that whenever the imperium tries to expand it keeps finding more ork colonies