Why does 40k still have mass that isn't weapon systems?

>>54096315
What do you think Space Hulks are?

>>54096330
Too few?

>>54096315
Because turning the entire table into a unit isn't how you play wargames. Though watching two players pick up tables and start trying to beat each other would have some novelty value

>>54096543
>turning the entire table into a unit isn't how you play wargames
Obviously, you need to get better at wargames.

>>54096315
Because you don't understand the scale of a Galaxy.

>>54096820
Given the industrial powers at work here, it's pretty small.
I mean, the tyranids could convert the entire thing into bio-war machines in way less than 40,000 years.

>>54096315
You are vastly over estimating the forces at work as well as ignoring the fact that all forces at work are working towards stopping each other.

They are not Von Neumann machines with zero resistance. They are just people, fighting other people.

>>54096315
What is salvage?

>>54097062
>no von neumann machines in 40k
Fuck, that would be a real good new army.
Too bad nids sort of fill that slot.

>>54096315
>Weapon systems
Get out

>>54097034
thats a long time.

>>54097181
wha?

>>54096315

... Do you have any idea how much mass is in the asteroid belt alone?

>>54096315
>run out of planets
>in a galaxy

nigga you high?

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>>54096315
Do even understand the absolutely mindbogglingly massive amount of material that you can find in a single solar system? Just the asteroid belt in the Sol system alone holds approximately 2.8x10^(21) kilograms of matter. (28,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

The moon alone is twenty five times that.

If you just hollowed out an uninhabitable planet then you'd have more raw materials than the Earth could conceive of using in a long, long time. 40k has a lot of iron to mine yet.

>>54099235
Woops, that's actually 2,800,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Still a lot, but only 1/10th as much.

>>54099235
They're not only warring very well, then.

>>54099235
The mechanicus has already hollowed out a planet to fit a giant fusion reactor inside, it's the forge world Lucius

>>54096315
Because there's a lot more mass in the galaxy than civilizations without von neumanns can handle.

The average FTL space-opera space-empire spread over tens of thousands of worlds is actually smaller than 1 fully colonized hard-sf Dyson swarm.