Which Faction was the Most Powerful During their Peak? | Warhammer 40k Lore

If GW had balls they'd let the Khainite warrior and the Krork out of Trayzn's Museum.... now that would be spicy. Become a Lord here : establishedtitles.com/MajorKill Or treat yourself like a Lord by getting a Majorkill Cosplay Calendar here : majorkill.com/

I like how necrons were so op that the celestial orrey, the most bullshit tec imaginable, was considered tame enough to not be destroyed by Szarekh

Keep in mind the only reason Humanity was able to beat the Men of Iron was because they also had alot of other Xenos fighting along side them and alot of Men of Iron simply did not rebel and kept fighting for them. Without those factors humanity would most likely end up losing

thumbnail The Krork, the Aeldari and the Necrontyr during The War in Heaven, a conflict so terrible and catastrophically devastating it made the Horus Heresy barely a blip on a radar.

3:00 "Death of Integrity" - a story about the A.I. ship who grieved for the unjust murder of her human captain and crew of the DAOT and killed the Imperials who tried to board her, disgusted at the Imperium before leaving the galaxy.

Just one thing to think about: Orikan the Diviner foresaw the rise of the Imperium when they entered the Great Sleep. Humanity is a calculated risk.

Whats scary about peak Aeldari is that they took the Krorks, a race consisting ENTIRELY of mega Primarch tier Orks, AND BOMBED THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE and drove them into near extinction.

a necron falling over and causing half the galaxy to explode

7:21. 12 meters tall? That’s equal to the height of Imperial Knights! Now that is a scary chunk of green that you don’t want coming after you.

I say you have to give it/bonus points to the Necrons because they actually made their cool stuff while the Eldar and Krorks got given their stuff by the Old Ones.

A video about non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be pretty cool ngl

I think you're selling the Men of Iron short. It took, as far as I recall, a galactic effort from all the major races to beat them. Also, those same races could've united against Golden Age Humanity, led by the Men of Gold and the Men of Stone, and DIDN'T. The arrogant Eldar didn't think it would go their way, and the genocidal Orks knew it wouldn't.

The key factor for the eldar empire is their millennia long orgy. In order for them to do that, they needed complete and total comfort with no external threat or distraction. To do this in the 40k galaxy means that their military forces (the automata they used) would need to be pretty much untouchable, acting as a massive wall around their worlds and preventing any threats from gaining entry. They would have to do this for a long time, so long that the idea of being threatened or going to war was forgotten and the eldar could party for thousands of years nonstop. This means that men of iron, humans, unchecked orks etc all could be fended off by them. You don't turn your whole race into a god orgy factory if they're distracted by external threats.

"every faction is a mere shadow of their former selves" The Tau beg to differ ... by that I mean there begging.

Krok, Aeldari, and Necrontyr... those guys were using weapons that could literally kill gods, and were masters of the entire galaxy during their peak

Regarding the Eldar, there was that one story that gave a glimpse to their former Pre-Fall power, which was an ancient artifact that could literally translate psychic energy into physical matter, and not just like making Wraithbone, but imagining something and the machine would literally spit it out in Realspace at record pace. The only reason that we don't have a particular Craftworld utterly dominating in some part of the galaxy bit by but by literally aging instant-win armies & fleets into existence is because for plot-reasons, the artifact was corrupted by Chaos.

It's funny that every faction in 40k could be the main villain of another sci fi setting Could you do a Primarch and his Legion vs Fantasy Part 2 with another Primarch?

Non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be a cool video ngl.

Three things: 1, while I won't argue that humanity ranks the lowest, they did have crazy insane overpowered weapons like black hole cannons, antiparticle beams (which were actually used by the imperium), adrathic weapons, chrono-weapons which could send targets back in time into their past selves , etc. etc. 2, the Orks/Krork could've just learned to stay out of the isolationist Eldar Empire's borders and remained a large threat to the rest of the galaxy, so I could've been humanity that finally put them down. 3, when people talk about the war against the men of iron, they seem to forget that members of the adeptus mechanicus are close to (and some are) completely mechanical . So humans could've ascended to become almost, if not just as, advanced as their AI.

I’m honestly surprised GW haven’t jumped on The War in Heaven as a full setting. But the again, one thing I like about it, is that everything is so powerful it’s beyond comprehension