If the only thing that matters to Orks is a good fight, why don't other factions just decide not to fight them...

If the only thing that matters to Orks is a good fight, why don't other factions just decide not to fight them? Won't Orks just get bored and continue infighting among themselves if they realize no other race is willing to fight?

It's kind of difficult to "decide not to fight them" when they invade your cities, continents and planets with unending numbers.

They also like blowing stuff up and might just do that to your planets instead.

Orks are willing to smash stuff and loot stuff even if you don't fight back. After all, Orks gotta eat and Waaagh! need slaves and material to fuel it.

Orcs love fighting so much that they go after other races so they can fight so many different people and see so many different kinds of WAAAGGGHH

The problem is Orkz go looking for a fight, even if every planet did a full exodus at the slightest rumor of a greenskin invasion, the Orkz would still fight amongst themselves. This can still lead to them becoming stronger and bigger, and if enough Orkz converge on a place, it becomes a "green hole" with the pull of a good scrap drawing in Orkz from across the sector, this unchecked growth would be disastrous to any other species and so the best way to deal with them is to nuke the shit out of them before they can start fighting

Ever read Deff Skwadron? Orks NEVER get tired of fighting themselves, nor anyone outside themselves.

The race that got closest was the Tau, whose long range weapons and disdain for close combat earned them a reputation for not being proper fighters. And the Tau cut their teeth on Orks so much that they've developed it into an artstyle. Farsight pulled CREEEEED levels of Tactical Genius in order to wipe out the Orks from every planet of his own Enclave.

>half the Imperium is genocided before the scattered orks finally realize the next planet isn't going to fight back either
>orks fuck off
>"it was totally worth is guise humanity is win"
>go back to fighting everyone else again, only now with a tenth of the power
>orks come back since stoopid 'umies have begun to fight back again

Are you Canadian by chance?

I don't think your shit works in the 41st millenium, Gandhi.

Can't other races just hunker down and wait it out until they get bored? I'm assuming 40k Orks operate in the same way Fantasy Orks do, and in Fantasy there's a story of some Warboss who couldn't be bothered fucking with Dwarves because they just sit in their fortresses, which is boring.

The Orks will still kill you, even if you "Hunker Down." For that plan to succeed, BILLIONS would have to die before they "got bored."

No, Billions is too low. Hundreds, maybe even Thousands of PLANETS would have to die.

Fortress walls which can't be destroyed are no fun. You can't build impregnable walls around thousands of planets.

>get bored
Ork wither if they don't fight.
They will never get bored; if anything they will fight each other and you'll be collateral damage.

Besides, they take slaves to sustain their warmachine. So even if they don't kill you because you don't fight back, your life expectancy is still significantly reduced.

>y there's a story of some Warboss who couldn't be bothered fucking with Dwarves because they just sit in their fortresses, which is boring.

Greenskins have been besieging and raiding Dwarfs holds for thousands of years, mate.

Didn't Farsight get outsmarted by Orks?

For fuck sake.

Orkfags being the little desperate NPc little shits harp on this all the time.

Yes, Farsight underestimated the Orks and got himself ambushed. He lost a battle to them.

Afterwards he got his shit together and spent the entirty of the war curbstomping the Orks out of Tau space. The Ork Waaagh! was broken and Farsight personally chased down the Ork warboss and turned him to ash. Ash which he put inside a glass ball and kept around as a trophy.

Orkfags conveniently leave this bit out.

I mean it's not like Orks getting wrecked is at all unusual. Most Waaaghs end up doing a decent amount of damage and then getting beaten when the Imperium gets around to mustering a large enough force. Farsight kicking the shit out of them isn't all that notable since the Imperium regularly does the same shit on a larger scale, if you can't stop a what is the equivalent of a galactic scale vermin infestation you can't really call yourself any sort of galactic power.

And Orks surprising seasoned commanders on occasion is not that notable. Orks are unpredictable even in the best of situations. But Ork fans think that this is holy grail of their fluff and a eternal blackmark on Farsight's career when the guy hasn't lost a single war against the Greenskins.

Also way to miss the point and try to turn this into Imperium vs Tau pissing contest.

Good idea, but unfortunatly, Orks would still chase other races, and since Orks reproduces like mushrooms, they wouldn't get extinct...

Then they bring the fight to them.

>Can't other races just hunker down and wait it out until they get bored?
>Ork Mechs build big shooty Deffguns that absolutely murder your fortifications.
>Kommando's sneak into your fort and open the gates for the rest of the mob.
>Ork warbosses use their fuckheug strength to literally rip open your fortifications.
etc. etc.