What do you think is the most powerful evil army in SF and Fantasy

[Christos]

You’re probably thinking Sauron or The Emperor from Star Wars, no that’s too easy. Im talking about a specific army. Sauron has an army of Orcs but he only has 9 wringwraths, a couple dragons and other heavy hitters those are not armies. The Emperor has millions of Stormtroopers that’s an army but he only has about a dozen Sith. So that considered what do you think are the most powerful armies in SF and Fantasy. I say The Black Lantern Corps for SF and Voldemort’s army of wizards for Fantasy (sorry I can’t think of any other army of evil wizards)

[Trike]

I don’t think there’s any contest: it’s the Imperium from Warhammer 40k. You don’t conquer a million worlds and stay in power for 39,000 years by being bad at armying.

[John]

Trike wrote: "I don’t think there’s any contest: it’s the Imperium from Warhammer 40k. You don’t conquer a million worlds and stay in power for 39,000 years by being bad at armying."

Errrm, Trike, they are the good guys right ;-)

[Tamahome]

The Swordles and Laseries.

[Iain]

I think Voldemort's army could be taken out by some snipers in short order...

[Ruth]

Iain wrote: "I think Voldemort's army could be taken out by some snipers in short order..."

It always seems a bit puzzling that nobody in the Potter books - not even Hermione the muggleborn genius- ever seems to think “hey could we just, like, shoot Voldemort with a gun?” There’s probably a cartoon somewhere where Voldy tries his evil wizard schtick in Texas and just gets shot immediately.

[Trike]

Ruth wrote: "Iain wrote: "I think Voldemort's army could be taken out by some snipers in short order..."

It always seems a bit puzzling that nobody in the Potter books - not even Hermione the muggleborn genius- ever seems to think “hey could we just, like, shoot Voldemort with a gun?”"

A video from 11 years ago: https://youtu.be/q9v_MMB3yuA

[Trike]

Also, I’m reminded of a thing from the Funny SFF thread…

I would hope that Sauron doesn’t even make the Hot 100 for evil armies, because he’s terrible at it. He loses three times and is ultimately defeated by a couple shoeless midgets. 😜

Meanwhile, Thanos rampages across the universe for centuries going from success to success, beating a superhuman army *twice*, only defeated by an extremely unlikely series of events and the selfless sacrifice of a supergenius, the 1 in 14,000,605 chance.

I think Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars is a contender, too, certainly placing in the top 10, if not top 5. His tactical brilliance allows him to win every conflict he engages in and is never defeated. He’s killed by an underling who betrays him.

[Iain]

I think I would just take a few of the Culture’s General System Vehicles. They build a fleet of 80k warships in their spare time (just in case).

The Galactic Patrol under Kim Kinninson would be pretty lethal. The number of warships could well be over 80 million plus assorted supper weapons.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

MAGA hat dickheads.

Oh wait it doesn't count if it's their own fantasy world 😉

[Tamahome]