If any of warcraft's greater threats exised on our earth

[TayFarr]

Although all of It Is impossible as It Is fantasy make your own scenario of any force from this game Invading earth yes the earth we live In
Scourge:Nuke
Deathwing:Nuke
Sargeras:GG
Old Gods:Our greatest nations turn against us
Void LordsConsumed)
Nightmare:GG
Sha:GG
Burning Legion:Uh-oh
Titans:GG
Elemental Lords:GG
Black Empire:GG

[Deleted]

Scourge? Nuke them out
Deathwing ? launch a termal-guided nuke
Sargeras ? Nukes... a lot of them
Old gods ? Remember Tsar bomb ? yea... make a lot of them because they are NUKES


Nukes are basically answer to any threat

[Dark-Zarupia]

Hogger alone would destroy us

[valky94]

in most scenarios we would be fucked, Ragnaros-we fukd as the world gets overflown by lava and his fire elementals even worse if he is allied with Al'akir fom cata, then we would be double fukd by lava and storms, thay are basicly immune to any means of modern warfare (except maybe nukes), Deathwing and his old god masters turning us against each other with their their madening whispers, not even gonna mention the legion and their infinite army, lei shen and his mogu legions would prolly fuck us up too
probably the only one we could technicly deal with is the Lich king and the iron horde

[Qualia]

in most scenarios we would be fucked, Ragnaros-we fukd as the world gets overflown by lava and his fire elementals even worse if he is allied with Al'akir fom cata, then we would be double fukd by lava and storms, thay are basicly immune to any means of modern warfare (except maybe nukes), Deathwing and his old god masters turning us against each other with their their madening whispers, not even gonna mention the legion and their infinite army, lei shen and his mogu legions would prolly fuck us up too
probably the only one we could technicly deal with is the Lich king and the iron horde

I think that's a bit of overestimating the threats in WoW. Neither Rag nor Al'akir, even at their best (their depictions during / before the Black Empire) could overflow the world with lava or storms in any timely manner, and there isn't any indication that they are "basically immune to any means of modern warfare" either (unless you meant "virtually" instead of "basically, surely something that can be hit by stone or iron could be hit by bullets as well). They would definitely destroy whatever city or country they appear in, but unless they drop in middle of our major military powers, people would start nuking them real fast. Our real life nukes' destructive capabilities and ranges are already exceeding the Elemental Lords', or any character below Deathwing / Archimonde / KJ's level for that matter, as far as we know.

Realistically, in straight fight, we should only have issue with Deathwing or above level of threat with high mobility (Sargeras, Archimonde, KJ, *possibly* Titans' avatar). Can't really nuke what you can't hit, or what would destroy you before you get to it. If it's not a straight fight, the Old Gods might become an issue depends on how fast they can corrupt all the leaders, and perhaps Xavius / Nightmare Lord because we have no access whatsoever to the Emerald Dream / Nightmare. Leaving those big names asides, neither the Elements, the Black Empire, or even the Legion, would pose as much of a threat.

[valky94]

I think that's a bit of overestimating the threats in WoW. Neither Rag nor Al'akir, even at their best (their depictions during / before the Black Empire) could overflow the world with lava or storms in any timely manner, and there isn't any indication that they are "basically immune to any means of modern warfare" either (unless you meant "virtually" instead of "basically, surely something that can be hit by stone or iron could be hit by bullets as well). They would definitely destroy whatever city or country they appear in, but unless they drop in middle of our major military powers, people would start nuking them real fast. Our real life nukes' destructive capabilities are already exceeding the Elemental Lords', or any character below Deathwing / Archimonde / KJ's level for that matter, as far as we know.

Realistically, in straight fight, we should only have issue with Deathwing or above level of threat with high mobility (Sargeras, Archimonde, KJ, *possibly* Titans' avatar). Can't really nuke what you can't hit, or what would destroy you before you get to it. If it's not a straight fight, the Old Gods might become an issue depends on how fast they can corrupt all the leaders, and perhaps Xavius / Nightmare Lord because we have no access whatsoever to the Emerald Dream / Nightmare. Leaving those big names asides, neither the Elements, the Black Empire, or even the Legion, would pose as much of a threat.

yes ingame you can hit them with stones and bullets, but i was kinda going for real life physics here, you cant do much to a living tornado with rifle bullets and tank shells, explosions could maybe have an impact in that scenario

the legion is infinite if they sill have Argus to respawn, so they would just zerg rush us until we lose

[Verdugo]

the legion is infinite if they sill have Argus to respawn, so they would just zerg rush us until we lose

Not if they cant do anything during the zerg rush since they are incompetent.

[valky94]

Not if they cant do anything during the zerg rush since they are incompetent.

that depends on their respawn rate, can they respawn faster than we can make ammo

[Verdugo]

that depends on their respawn rate, can they respawn faster than we can make ammo

If some lawful stupid idiots can push them back with swords and fireballs, we can do the same with bullets.

[huth]

We'd have been wiped out long before we ever discovered fission tech, so nukes aren't an answer to any of those.

Of course, most of those threats would also require magic to exist, so the most likely result would be a completely different world that would at most feature the same distribution of landmasses, but not have much in common with ours otherwise.

[Daevelian]

I think most of them would outright end humanity at the very least.

The iron horde would be the only one we could realistically take out. Possibly Deathwing as well, depending on just how resistant he is.

People seem to assume the scourge would be easy to destroy with nukes, but as we saw from the WotLK pre-launch event, a few well placed sources of the blight is all it could take to end entire countries. You can't really nuke them if you don't where they are, and by the time they were found, it would be so widespread that nukes simply will not take them all out without taking us out with them.

The black empire COULD fall if we can figure out a way to keep the old gods out of our minds. Sadly, the current president is both stupid and weak willed, an old god would take him over without any resistance and force him to nuke his own people.

Most other threats would be too numerous in number or unconventional in approach that we simply would not have the nuclear firepower to wipe them out, leaving it down to normal warfare, which may or may not work if the enemy has any sense of strategy.

[valky94]

If some lawful stupid idiots can push them back with swords and fireballs, we can do the same with bullets.

dont think that we, as mere mortals, would have the plot armor that our characters get in wow

[huth]

If some lawful stupid idiots can push them back with swords and fireballs, we can do the same with bullets.

Swords and mages don't run out of ammo. Even the Azerothians only had a chance because the Legion couldn't make use of their massive advantage in attrition warfare against them.

[MrSaggins]

Sha would be the worst. Science can handle the rest.

[Arrashi]

Sha would be the worst. Science can handle the rest.

And willpower rolls can handle the sha.

[Qualia]

yes ingame you can hit them with stones and bullets, but i was kinda going for real life physics here, you cant do much to a living tornado with rifle bullets and tank shells, explosions could maybe have an impact in that scenario

the legion is infinite if they sill have Argus to respawn, so they would just zerg rush us until we lose

Well, I'm assuming that the enemies' corporeality works the same way as they do in WoW-verse. In-game asides (as it could be just a matter of game-mechanics), there are descriptions of fodders / grunts fighting the elements with arrows and axes just fine as well (i.e: in "Prelude to Cataclysm" short story). The Titanforged army (not counting the Keepers who were further empowered by the Pantheon) consists of essentially walking stones / iron bots as well. I guess that's where our opinion differs.

The Legion isn't infinite. "Being infinite" is just their bragging, even when Argus is around. The Legion have a certain size, and it takes time for them to come back (otherwise, we'd have seen something like Mannoroth running around, die, come back, die, repeat all over Legion) - time we can use to recover as well. Moreover, they better not have to rely on a portal to assault Earth like they did Azeroth, or we'd just burrow that rift inside tons of earth in no time flat.

All in all, I'd say that pretty much any threat that Azeroth manage to defeat (without having to rely too much on enemies' PiS), Earth can do as well. Our individual personal strength might not be the same as Azerothians, but our science and weapons far exceeding their levels. Powerful characters like Illidan or Khadgar is one-in-thousands-years-rare, but we can just churn out as many, for example, Tsar Bomba, as we want if needed (well, I guess it takes materials so we don't have infinite amount of nukes, but still...).
(Of course, as said in previous post, that's assuming a straight fight. When the enemies adopt a different strategy from "raggghh, puny mortals, I'm charging at you", it will become a lot more difficult)

[MrSaggins]

And willpower rolls can handle the sha.

You've far more faith than I. Good luck with that.

Regarding the rest of the thread, I'd like to point out loosing nukes in your own biosphere is suicide, and it stands to reason that if these forces visited Earth then that would mean we exist in the Great Dark of the Warcraft universe. We could use the void as well, or call upon the Light. One could learn Kalimag and consort with the Hydraxian Waterlords to banish Ragnaros; or create a Dark Portal to invite Khadgar and friends to our side. But perhaps this line of reasoning defeats your purpose.

[Billy Idol]

1.- Burning Legion. Can corrupt and swarm + the tech they have
2.- Old Gods, the corruption is big in the human nature. (see some actual leaders)
3.- Scourge with plague and swarm.
I think the greater threat will be old gods, cos we can't make a deal with them and with the legion we can give something in return

[Wildmoon]

Emerald Nightmare could never happen at least because Earth has no Emerald Dream. If it happens then it's GG because as far as I know none of us can navigate ED. lol

[Life-Binder]

Cata Deathwing was stated to be unkillable by physical means (even by all of Azeroth combined), only by the magic of the super-charged Dragon Soul, so GG

plus he flies quite fast actually, so good luck hitting that with a big nuke, and ordinarry missiles wouldnt do much, if anything

Neltharion should be killable though


OGs if they dont show themselves can mindfuck everybody, the same for Sha ?