The Reapers (see: Mass Effect) invade the realm of the Space Marine (see: Dawn of War)!!
Can they defeat:
-The Empire of Man
-The Tyranids
-The Necrons
Their fleets battle above a ravaged Saturn-sized planet with an Earth-like atmosphere, topography and gravity. Their land forces land on opposite parts of the planet and meet in the middle for an epic war!!
WH40K races and Reapers are allowed all the resources currently available to them (for the Tyranid's sake, whatever resources that they have currently been able to bring to bear against the empire of man and the other races-resource books/novels included).
The only thing I know about the Mass Effect verse in combat is some bullet with the force 30 kilotons of TNT. If that's in any way comparable to Reapers then they'd probably win.
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The Reapers would be such a laughably insignifigant threat to 40k. This isn't even funny.
The only race they might have a chance of beating is the Tau.
Any decently sized Necron Empire could solo the entire Reaper race. The Necrons are much more advanced than the Reapers, have similar FTL capabilities, much greater firepower, faster non-FTL ships, more durable ships, they really hold most advantages.
There are handheld Necron weapons that could destroy a Reaper.
Like a handheld device called a Tachyon Arrow. It fires a little shard of metal at faster than the speed of light with enough force to punch holes through mountains.
Aren't there like tens of thousands of reapers? Seemed like it in the ending of ME2. Current Imperial fleet doesn't have that many large ships does it?
Smaller ships in an Imperial fleet are about three kilometers long.
50% longer than a Reaper.
At their largest, they are IIRC 11 kilometers long standard.
Necron ships are even bigger. There have been at least two Necron starships the size of planets. The World Engine alone would be immune to all Reaper weaponry, and has the firepower to glass the surface of planets casually.
Also the Turian military was effectively holding there own against the Reapers, losing yes but they were fighting back and holding on. It was taking them months to take it. Was estimated it would take them atleast a century to take down ME galaxy. Can't see Warhammer taking anywhere near that long.
But I think that's due to the reapers spreading themselves thin to make sure none of the other races manage to escape. From the game, it looks like they attack from all sides of the galaxy, closing in on the middle.
My info on WH40K is not all that complete, I only read a few novels and base my ideas on the WH40k wiki, but it doesn't look like the Imperial Navy has thousands of ships. Several dozen (less than a hundred) per sector. How many sectors does the empire have?
This is a spite thread. A severe spite thread. Average WH40K statistics are superior to Saxtonian Star Wars, which are in turn at least six orders of magnitude beyond Mass Effect's.
Well aside from the Imperium of Man having alot more planets they also have much better ships and weapons then the Turians, whose military took down lots of reapers both on the air and on the ground.
The asari were actually beating the Reapers for a while according to the Thessia codex entry, it's just the reaper population was too high for them. And bow for all their advanced tech the Asari have a tiny army. So imagine what a much larger much stronger force whose people won't be intimidated to fight will do.
They would have to spread themselves thin to mount any sort of offensive on the Imperium alone, let alone the Imperium plus the countless Hive Fleets plus the Necron Empires (There are actually even more Tomb Worlds than there are Imperial planets).
It's not a combined fight. It's if the reapers can beat each of the listed groups individually. :P
Trying to read thru the WH40k wiki entries, stats aren't clear on the size of the imperial fleets. But I remember reading the Ultramarine novels, the imperial fleets that was deployed against the Tyranids as written on the novels aren't nearly as impressive as what I'm hearing here. Or did I misinterpret it?
I'm a bit late to this thread but I thought this was a pretty cool topic being a big fan of both games. I think its pretty fair to say that any of the races in 40k would make pretty quick work of the reapers. In ME the turian fleet had about 36 capital ships and were the strongest fleet in the galaxy- and the combime galactic fleet went toe to toe with the reapers at the end of the game to at least some success- like someone posted prior the imperium has a million worlds at least so pretty obvious they'd be rocking a crap load more than 36 capital ships. On the ground Sheppard was pretty bad ass but Space marines are another story all together and there are a lot of them. Anyway the reapers might have a chance against Tyranida since the Nids m.o. Is consumption of bio-mass an what not. In ME's defence their concepts are a lot closer to the sciences we understand than 40k's are.
vs Imperium of Man: Reapers gets raped at either stage of the IoM's existence
vs Necrons: Reapers get raped before they know whats happening
vs Tyranids: 'Nids curbstomp, but it takes a while since they're painfully slow
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The Tyranids have scoured every scrap of usable nutrients and biomass including the atmosphere from entire planets in less than a week. :/ Slow they are not.
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I've read like 20 WH40k novels (mostly thru Omnibus sets w/c includes: the Dan Abnett war books) already, I have to seriously say that I've yet to see the "sheer power" that the Imperial Navy has vs what the Reapers have shown in game. :P
Not trolling, genuinely curious where I can books that showcase it a little better.
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