How the fuck are Orks even a threat? They are not as good at

>>50182204
they are too stupid for tactics resulting in one hell of a factor in terms of military resources management.

>>50182231
You are too stupid.

>>50182204
>Number of Nids
>Toughness roughly of SM
>Firepower of IG
>Literal reality bender
The only reason the galaxy isn't green yet is because these fuckers love to fight each other as much as they like to fight other factions.

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>>50182204
read the codex or any fluff at all for that matter. Doesn't seem like you know the first thing about 40k.

>>50182204
You're a fuckwit.
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cuz green iz best

Because the orcs are space aids for planets.

>>50182204
>They may not be as numerous as nids but they are tougher on average
>They may not be as tough as marines but they tend to outnumber them 1000 to 1
>They can take some serious punishment, and if you beat them back they realise you are good fight and will come back
>Once theyre on a planet theyre a constant drain of resources because they just keep growing and appearing all over the place
>They can take most wreckage or scrap metal and construct some form of weapon or vehicle from it

They are pretty good

They are mushroom people. It's hard to get rid of mushrooms.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>50182204
Rolling.

If I beat a DC of 18, you stop posting shit threads

>>50182460
Kek

>>50182460

Well shit son you'd better have one hell of a modifier

>>50182502
what modifier do I get for "OP Status: Faggot"?

>>50182506
Negative four. A faggot op is inclined to shitpost.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>50182204
The number of fucks I don't give is...

Orks are vermin. They infest the galaxy. They can survive and thrive on worlds with environments too hostile or resources too scant to support other races. On more favourable worlds, they are almost limitless in number. They are incessantly aggressive cockroaches.

>>50182809
Like cockroaches, their numbers must be kept in check. Eradication of the infestation is no easy task. Any long-term engagement with the orks becomes a war of attrition, one other races cannot afford, but which the orks were engineered to win. In the case of tyranids, selectively targeting the Hive Mind's influence will render the swarm directionless, more manageable and incapable of increasing in number. Meanwhile, every single ork you don't kill, and every single ork corpse you don't incinerate, is capable of spawning an entire ecosystem single-handedly. An ecosystem which can grow into an empire on a world you thought was dead.

>>50182824
Most importantly of all, every member of that empire wants to kill you. Not because it's crucial to their survival, not even out of hatred. They want to kill simply because it's all they know. The lack of a desire to fight, kill and conquer is unthinkable to an ork, they are gentically programmed to derive pleasure from warfare. They are unified not by a common cause, not by the will of a their commanders, but by an individual need to fight. Once this made them a trusty tool in the hands of their creators, now it makes them a thorn in the sides of every other civilisation around them.

>>50182835
So why not leave the orks to their own devices? After all, they are only an annoyance, why kick the hornet's nest? Why actively work to destroy them?

Because you must.

When ork numbers are allowed to grow unchecked, strange things start to happen. The orks grow more aggressive, in addition to physically larger. The technology levels climb dangerously high. Something unexplainable gives the horde a strength greater than the sum of its parts. All it takes is a spark of ambition, and entire worlds, entire systems, drown under the green tide.

>>50182204
They're not the best at anything, but they're okay at everything.

>>50182204
It's just GW showing some English patriotism, giving the faction based on the locals a shot as the underdogs.

>>50182809
At least they aren't humans.

>>50182204
>What is their niche?

Sheer numbers and unpredictability. Feral orks, freebooters, and an infestation in an asteroid belt are a nuisance. When they decide to band together and go on a holy war/pub crawl they become a threat

>>50182204
orkses are akshually da shootiest dere is

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>>50184037
Also, industrial capacity. When the Imperium builds a Titan it takes vast quantities of the finest materials and decades of work in factories that span continents. The orks build it's equivalent in 3 weeks out of the asteroid they landed in

Once a planet has orks on it they are IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of