Tyranids will eat and shit out the Imperium.

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>>49389277

Get in line, fuckboy.

>>49389277
Agreed. Going by lore they are the biggest threat easily, even if GW insists Chaos is the big bad they really haven't got much done in comparison or anywhere near as fast as the approaching nids

>>49389277
Do tyranids shit?

>>49389277
>>49389300
It turns out the Tyranids record the makeup and configuration of everything they eat.

When they've consumed the galaxy the Chaos gods will starve and the Warp will return to its ancient state of calm.

Then the 'Nids will recreate every mortal they devoured as so that they may have a second chance. If they mess up and make chaos again, the Tyranids return to fix our mistakes once more.

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>>49389277
Leave the nids to us.

>>49389414
Even the recent necron lore states that if the "lesser" races keep accidentally feeding the nids, they will become too numerous for even a united necron front to stop

Necrons need to awaken and unite and get shit done FAST or nids are gonna steamroll the galaxy.. until GW decides chaos explodes outta nowhere and AoS the setting

>>49389277
I can't even imagine the sort of horrifying shits eating the Imperium would give you. The digestive tracts of the hivemind have my sympathy.

>>49389348
These are the real questions we need to be asking.

>>49390021
Ones that can reproduce will yes. Certain Gaunt species have been known to reproduce via eggs. Lictors and Genestealers likey do too. However regular gaunts or rippers lack any real digestive tract and die after a few days of being spawned

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>>49389277
So the Imperium survives?

>>49389277
I'd rather have them kill the imperium canonically then have chaos win.

I fucking hate chaos.
>hurrdurr w r d best
>justasplanned.jpg
>Horus losing wasn't the emperor being the anathema to chaos but it was just tzeentch fuckery and nothing you do really matters
>there's no point in fighting because the only reason chaos hasn't won isn't because of the day to day sacrifice of the people of the galaxy but because chaos is just "too lazy to do anything"


Fuck it makes me mad that they have to retcon the entire universe to give these fuckers every single fucking possible advantage

At least the absolutely blow in the tabletop

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Can you guys post Tyranid paint schemes? Looking for some inspiration.

>>49389349
But that sounds gay, faggot

>>49390490
That's ok, Nids Orks and Necrons are fluff-unstoppable as well, and they're garbage on the table too.

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>LONG AGO IN A DISTANT GALAXY

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>implying mechanicum isnt to somehow acquire every single particle of the universe into the most glorious machine that is somehow going to decrease the entropy and finally put the universe into the perfect order for eternity

praise the omnisiah bich ass nigga

>>49389277
if tyranids shit you would be the result,and extreminatus bug shagger

>>49392964
What necron army have you been fighting? Necrons are somewhere between lower top tier and upper middle tier. Unlike a lot of codices almost every single unit in their codex is actually viable.

>>49389414
nids cant eat metal, and gauss flayers mean that nids cant recycle their own dead

necron also Return To Base when damaged for repairs meaning even a modest force will seem endless

>to defeat a titan we need a titan
>let them fight

>>49393837
I, Trygon, biomorph-changing master of deep strikes, unleashed UNSPEAKABLE melee units!

>>49389343
Every other enemy has physical and logistical limitations. Chaos lives in the warp mostly, Eldar has their world ships, Orks have biological spawning patterns, etc.

Tyranids are literally traveling barbarians ready to destroy your society. Add in the implication that the current Tyranids are scouting parties and you get an absurd enemy.

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>>49389343
>even if GW insists Chaos is the big bad they really haven't got much done in comparison or anywhere near as fast as the approaching nids

Chaos has literally infinite armies and in a single moment did more damage to the Imperium than what Hive Fleets can do in years or decades (picture related). Expect more of this as Age of Ending progresses and humanity enter their unstable phase of their psychic evolution, tearing more at the fragile walls of reality.

So Chaos has more force and is more destructive than the nids. This makes them the greatest threat and this makes you a smelly Nidfag that should kys.

>>49389349
No.

Your headcannon is trash.

>>49397251
Nids can most definitely eat metal.

They just can't eat metal that's atoms like to teleport around all the time.

Gauss flayers mean that they can't recycle whatever has been 'flayed' or atomized or whatever necron guns do.

I'm fairly certain that a gauss flayer doesn't melt a whole course into nothingness, just a big enough chunk for whatever is hit to stop moving.

Whatever's left is still fairly recyclable I imagine.

All that in mind, one would imagine Nids just prefer to not go to all the effort of fucking with necrons. Not to say that they can't.

>>49399805
>I'm fairly certain that a gauss flayer doesn't melt a whole course into nothingness, just a big enough chunk for whatever is hit to stop moving.

Gauss Flayers atomize whatever they hit. If a Necron Overlord is familiar with the Tyranids, then he will order his legions to keep firing until all Tyranid corpses are rendered to scattered atoms.

Also you are forgetting the Cenoptek Scarab. These things break down anything they can get their mandibles on to energy and then use that energy to fuel the Necrons or shape it into new weapons and constructs for the Necrons. Necrons use these Scarabs to clean the battlefields and areas they are in. So the carpet of Tyranid corpses that will litter the battlefields will be broken down and then re purposed to fuel the Necron momentum.

In the end, there will be nothing for the Tyranids to eat to get back their losses in biomass.

>>49399805
Nids actively avoid and go around necron tomb worlds.

tell me son, if you were a nid hive fleet, would you try to pick a fight with those metal fucks?

>>49399909
>>49399912
>>49399805
Basically, Spess Robot Cthulhu beats Bug Huns.

Chaos and Orks are already winning

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>>49393807
Who even is that guy? A servitor?

tyranids are a lame army idea.

they should have just stuck with genestealers.

>>49399945

Actually if the Tyranids "win" then Necrons win in the long run.
In the book Valedor it's said that if the Hive fleets in that book survive then they'll go on to cleanse the galaxy but then move on to another. Chaos would pop up in areas left untouched but fizzle away and then the Necrons will rebuild their empire and exist until the end of time.

>>49389277
>smaller Tyranids will then eat shit
>waste not want not

>>49400087
>the Necrons will rebuild their empire and exist until the end of time.

As soulless machine which they don't want to be. The reason why they want to get rid of the Tyranids is because they want flesh around so that they can transfer into it at some point.

>>49392964
Didn't Incholestrol win a major tourney as Nids, then switched to CSM and just won a major as them?

>>49400030
looks like titan crew

>>49389349
faggottalk

>>49399909
>locust bugs broken down into raw material by robot bugs
the irony

>>49400181
They're probably more concerned about factional infighting until the end of time, assuming they can somehow rebuild their empire but not uncover the secrets of cloning or genetic engineering given a literal eternity in a galaxy incapable of bothering them.

If they're incapable, that is. Given their level of technology it would be surprising if there were no Crypteks with the ability to just wish up some meat bodies out of hydrogen made into more complex chemicals via tech-fuckery.

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>>49393807

>>49400208
referencing the first part of your post, some are more concerned about the whole infighting/politics amongst the various dynasties, but as a whole, the necrons want the nids gone.

Whole reason the Silent King came back and started waking up tomb worlds was so that he could get a fighting force going and so that the necrons could get shit done, because no one else is bothering to fight the nids.....except the tau, but the tau hunt nids for sport like the crazy blueberries they are.

>>49400030
He was an objective in a previous box, an Imperial Officer of some kind.

>>49400290
>because no one else is bothering to fight the nids.....except the tau, but the tau hunt nids for sport like the crazy blueberries they are.

Wat.

You on crazy pills?

>>49400087
But then who will worship the Necrons? Who will build glorious statues and kneel before such perfect metal beings? Necrons don't win until every living thing in the galaxy bows and accepts the Necrons as their infallible metal overlords.

>>49399912
Yes? That seems to support my theory.

No.

I wouldn't.

Like I (quite) literally pointed out, kid.

: ^ )

>>49399805
Of course, notice I mentioned 'whatever's left'?

Yea, that's cool and all but that's in the case of a necron victory, THEY get to do the cleaning up. (scarabs as opposed to rippers, I guess.)

Like, I get that Necrons are cool and can into atomic restructuring but all that shit isn't free energy, just as with the Nids.

I wish I could decide on a Tyranid paint scheme, guess I just have to look at pictures of insects until something clicks.

>>49400536
I have an altered Behemoth scheme, if I can be fucked to upload this Zoanthrope I'm working on, it will be up shorty.

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>>49389277
Tyranids are weak and I don't respect them.

>>49400610
no u

I have a question, what were tyranids inspired by?

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>>49400536
>>49400601

Needs more highlighting and base etc but this is the general sceme.

Red carapace, green exoskeleton. Purply/pink squishy bits.

>>49400632
Aliens. (the movie)

Also, Tyranids and Zerg are very closely related for a reason.

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>>49400633
Not bad anon, thanks. Also I always find it a bit dumb they have to give the psychic ones exposed brains just so we know they are psychic.

I cannot remember, did the 3rd edition model have its brain hanging out?

>>49400708
Well, as far as Zoanthropes go that would be because they have an energy field surrounding them for protection.

And it sort of did, but i'm pretty sure the brain did hang out the back still. There was just more frontal protection. I think they walked too, so the whole floating deal with current zoanthropes highlights that fact that it's encased in an energy field.

>>49400632
>>49400639
Genestealers were inspired by xenomorphs. They didn't start out as part of the Tyranids. Tyranids were originally a race of six-limbed aliens who made heavy use of organic technology and frequently conducted raids on other races for slaves to make more biotech. They weren't a hive mind of all-consuming hunger, and in fact had a slave species called "zoats" who were in charge of diplomatic relations with other species. Genestealers didn't have a hive mind either; they had a psychic link and an inborn loyalty to the species, but they were all individual sentient beings, and had no connection to the Tyranids.

WH40k has changed a lot since it's early days. That's why the modern Tyranids are noticeably more Zerg-like than they were originally.

>>49400744
No, that was the 2e Zoanthrope. The 3e one was the first of the floaters. It had a different shaped crest.

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>>49400773
Oh that's right, I forget about that little inbetween period of the walkers and the current iteration.

That was the spiky floaty, rather than the walky spiky.

Here's a picture of some of my favorite little critters. I have a bad camera and bad lighting.

>>49399912
They don't avoid them, they just show no interest as they pass through and don't seek them out. The only thing the Nids have actively avoided is the Outsider's prison.

>>49401264
Don't lie. Tendrils of Behemoth made alteration to their flight path so to give the Tomb World of Trazyn a wide berth. Source is the Nid 5th ED codex

You are actively lying to us. Why?

>>49401303
Just Trazyn?
Trazyn the master troll?
Trazyn the collector of strange fucking things?

This isn't surprising. He would have something that tells nids to fuck off and not eat his collection.
Everywhere else though? Straight through like always.

>>49400838
Oohh. Rogue Trader Hunter-Slayers. Got a few of those myself. 8, I think.... actually, I have an RT nid army... I just doubt it will ever see paint.

>>49401337
I have 80 Metal Hormogaunts.

I cannot WAIT to muster up enough effort to paint all of these, maybe when I get my Airbrush set up again.

6 2nd ed Screamer-fexes too, other than that though everything else you would expect is current edition of models.

You wouldn't consider... selling some/all of these RT nids of yours?

Trygons > carnifices

>>49390490
I agree wholeheartedly.
I hate chaos snow flakes so much better and important than anyone else.
I'd like to know why chaos is the bad guys, when chaos means "chaos", not "evil"

They're supposed to be fighting amongst themselves as much as against anyone else, totally disorganised because the chaos gods like a good laugh rather than winning.

>>49400030
you don't recognize the guy from the previous starter box of 40K, the one with the crashed aquila terrain pieces, spess derp and a few tyranid gribblies?

>>49392964
>Necrons
>Garbage on the tabletop

U wot m8? They're not top tier mind you, but easily upper middle tier.

>>49389277
how is the imperium holding up right now

>>49402235
Well.. they are. IIRC the only one that actually can get any kind of shit done is Abaddon (and we all know how little that is thanks to GW). Next to the BL there are only a handful of semi organized forces left. Red Corsairs who like muh Huron and pirating, Word Bearers (but occupied 99.9% of time with praying) and GWs new special snowflake, the crimson slaughter. Everybody else is just in it for their own little plans. Guess thats what you get when the daemon primarchs just like to sit around with a thumb in their butt until they are bored enough to start some small skirmish against their old rivals.

>>49400184
He does well in tournaments, but I don't know if he actually won any. Judging from the last batreps I've seen he plays mechanicum now though.

That said I still like his Tyranid against Dark Eldar batrep. He got assfucked on turn 1 so hard they both agreed to restart the game.

>>49389277

Allow me to subject that claim to some rational analysis.

Now, the first thing we should remember is that 'Nid fluff is made is bullshit and plot armour. Numbers don't actually matter. Logistics don't actually matter. Even weapons, combat capabilities and technology don't actually matter. The numbers, logistics, laws of physics and all those other things are, in this case, purely cosmetic.

All that matters in the fluff - with Tyranids even moreso than with any other 40K army - is what the fluff writers on the matter decided to do. If they decide that the 'Nids win, then the 'Nids win, and then Trygons will chew through a cubic kilometre of adamantium in seconds, whole forgeworlds disappear without even so much as a call for reinforcements, and a single bioform will eat an entire Craftworld.

And should the writers decide that the 'Nids lose, then they lose. Even if it's all of Hive Fleet Behemoth facing off against nothing but Marneus Calgar with a broken toothpick and an improvised loincloth to protect his dignity, then the Tyranids will lose, and all of Hive Fleet Behemoth will be dead, irrecoverable, and forever lost to the Hivemind.

And, to get to the meat of the matter; Holy Terra is central to not just the Imperium, but to the entire setting, and therefore its plot armour is second only to that of Ultramar.

So if/when the 'Nids get a go at Terra, they'll just get railroaded into an 'epic' oh so predictable battle that will bring the Imperium 'to the edge of defeat' - and then the Imperials will win anyway, and all of Hive Fleet Leviathan will conveniently die horribly in the process.

Because GeeDubs can't make money off a setting that got eaten by space bugs.

>>49403060
or you know cause a massive collapse of the imperium while the tyranids collective mind is fried by the psychic feedback of the emperor dying

>>49399635
It's been 10,000 years since the Heresy and Chaos has failed to bring down the Imperium, they're not going to suddenly do it tomorrow.

Leviathan has been around in setting for LESS THAN A YEAR and the Imperium has had to destroy more of THEIR OWN planets just to slow it down than they've lost in any campaign since the Heresy 10k years ago, and that's not counting the number of planets Leviathan destroyed itself.

>>49400765
The modern incarnation of Tyranids with a Hive Mind and incorporating genestealers etc. still came years before the Zerg, bruv.

The Zerg are copying more and more from the Tyranids because the guy who invented and designed Tyranids now works for Blizzard's writing dept.

guess what all faggots in thread
lore never changes
forever in the final year of 41st millennium so nothing will ever happen
ever

>>49400030
It's Lieutenant Varras you uncultured swine. He's a Chapter Serf of the Ultramarines who was trying to evacuate geneseed off of Ultramar during the Battle for Macragge in case the planet was eaten.

>>49403119
because leviathan amassed a huge single assault from below the galactic plane which closed of a huge chunk of space
also what other shit was going on at the time of leviathans assault that the imperium couldn't marshal its forces to fight it
PS losing all those planets was because kryptman went so extreme with scorched earth he was excommunicated

>>49403167
That's the point, it baffles me people want GW to advance things. Especially since every time GW does a story event lately its retarded.

>>49403189
He also literally saved the entire setting. If Kryptman hadn't done what he did Terra would already be a husk.

>>49403189
>they only did that because they used effective tactics that the imperium couldnt deal with so it doesnt count
>if chaos were just competent like tyranids they'd be a threat too!! duh!

>>49403206
Dunno if this is still canon or not, but the tyranid tendrils avoided a sleeping cthan, I doubt they would attack sol as long there is biomass elsewhere.

>>49403307
They also attack forgeworlds, though - even though those places have very little biomass or genetic diversity.

You'd think they'd at least go for the jungle deathworlds like Cretacia or Catachan, but hey.

>>49403453
Even Tyranids know to stay the fuck away from Catachan

>>49403453
The hive mind has enough intelligence to know that its prey sharpens their claws at these worlds of only rock and metal.

>>49403498
If the hivemind were truly intelligent, it'd have realized that it could've gobbled up half the Imperium without anyone on Terra even noticing.

Seriously, all the Imperium's defences focus on highly polluted worlds (forgeworlds, but also your average hiveworld) that the 'nids logically shouldn't want anyway. The 'nids would be so much more successful if they'd just avoid these major confrontations.

>>49403453
They attacked Forgeworld because they are packed with the worker populations and the biological filth they produce.

>>49390490
I agree with everything here. HH especially is one big Chaos wank.

>>49403119
Why do you insist on being an asshole who doesn't read the fluff? Chaos hasn't been trying to bring down the Imperium. The Chaos Gods are more concerned with their Great Game. It's only now at 999 41K that they finally decided to end the galaxy. The Walls of reality is about to break flooding the galaxy with an endless tides of daemons. This is straight from the fluff.

Now tell me which is the greatest threat that the Imperium is focusing on in the End Times aboce all other threats? The 13th Black Crusade. Not Leviathan, not the Necrons, not the Orks, Chaos.

Are the Tyranids more a threat than Chaos? No. Are the Tyranids more destructive? No. But lets ignore that because bugboy love to act a fool.

>>49403119
>had to destroy more of THEIR OWN planets just to slow it down than they've lost in any campaign since the Heresy 10k years ago,

Source this. I want an exact statement from the fluff.

>>49389277
Actually no they won't, because the timeline will never advance. No one will destroy anyone else.

>>49401321
How would the nids know that solomance is Trazyn's home world. At that time they had never encountered trazyn so they wouldn't just avoid him. In the Nid's codex it makes special mention on how the only worlds they avoid are tomb worlds other than that its fair game.

Also Trayzan isn't that powerful for the necrons yeah he has some great gadgets but other cron lords like imotekh have much greater forces.

>>49405240
This. It's not just the Gauss or returning legions or lack of biomass or even sentient metal constructs that would really fuck up the Tyranids.

It's the Necrontyr's disturbingly easy access to the best WMDs in the setting and absolutely horrifying fleets. Tyranids can't do well without reaching the planets first, and against Necrons they'd have a massively tougher time getting to any planetary body than with the Imperium.

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>>49402253
I actually have the figure, I just got him in someone else's bits box and didn't know what he was for.

>>49404557
Bombing the fuck out of a planet from orbit with hellfire destroys a lot of potential Biomass.

One can cripple Hive fleets this way, as hopefully the fleet would have invested quite a lot of biomass on just capturing the planet in the first place.

>>49400290
Eldar, Spess/xeno hunters and Orks looking for a fight say hi.
The only race who can come in contact with the Nids but don't really care are the Dark Eldar but even them would get angry when they find less and less slaves

>>49389277
everytime i see this thread i see
tyranids will eat the shit out of the imperium
and i am sick of it

>>49407722
Keep your sick fetish in /d/ you pervert.

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>>49389277

>>49400290
But why do he care? They are the most advanced species in the galaxy and the nids naturally avoid them. Why not just gather the best samples of all the races in the galaxy, wait until the nids fuck off and then make new bodies and worlds out of the clones of whatever they have stored left over in their stasis vaults? There is zero reason to get involved.

After encountering the orks I think the nids would modify their Lictors to land on inhabited planet, spread some of spores around, and then stow away on a ship and do it on another planet. Rinse and repeat. Then the spores would grow into tyranids that secretly amass strength and then over throw the planet, perhaps coordinating with a fleet the same way genesteeler cults do. Also they'd create more modified lictors go stow away onto other planets as well.

Who would win in a fight?Tyranids, Zerg, or Chtorr?

>>49413744
Well, Tyranid's aren't fungus.

They already terraform planets from orbit, also laying down a blanket of spores that fuck with organism's that aren't tyranid.

>>49413805
What about eggs then?

>>49413800
depends on the writer

>>49413851
They already do that....

Nigga read some fluff damn

>>49413856

What would happen depending on the writer?

>>49404557
4th edition Tyranid Codex, do you even read?

>>49413805
>Well, Tyranid's aren't fungus.
This is technically correct, but misses the point.

Tyranids aren't plants, animals, fungus, bacteria, or any classification of life we know - they're all of them at once, in whatever combinations are most effective for creating the particular organism geared towards whatever purpose they need at the time. There's plenty of Tyranid strains that grow from spores just like Orks do, but they don't use those methods on their vanguard organisms because the vanguard are supposed to remain lowkey and stealthy, instead of forewarning the prey world that the hive fleet is coming and robbing them of the advantage of surprise when they can bring all their forces to bear at once.

>>49413800
Because of how all these factions assimilate other life they'd transform so radically and drastically from encountering each other that they'd become completely different afterwards.

I'd say whichever faction could most quickly and effectively assimilate the other side's biological technology would win. My bet would go with the Tyranids most able to assimilate and put into production new DNA.

I think a better question is if the Borg would beat one of those groups. Borg have an entirely different nanobot based kind of assimilation and technology based on robotics and not biology.

>>49414539
Why would the chtorr win?

>>49413959
Where does it say that Imperials more of their world since the HH?

>>49412801
Because they want mortal slaves and because they might miss the race that's more fitting for them.

>>49397251
Tyranids eat metal, they take trillions of tonnes of earth and minerals from planets. Pyrovores are also stated to melt down rocks and metal for other organisms to eat.

>>49399909
>>49399912
>>49399945
Yeah, necrons are the best counter to the nids, the gauss weapons means even if nids win they cant regain as much as with any other foe. Though they are more than capable of eating the necrons. The fact that necrons are tough, have gauss weapons and most their worlds are relatively dead make them a less than favourable choice for nids

BUT as>>49389473 stated the silent king thinks that if the tyranids keep eating other races that the necrons wont be able to beat them

>>49416477
Last time a species tried to eat the Necrons, it didn't end well.

>976.M41 The Feast of Steel
>The Sautekh Dynasty expands into Tau space and invades the Kroot-held world of Caroch. Though the Kroot win the first engagements, their attempt to dine upon the living metal of their victims has hideous results as a nano-scarab plague sweeps through their ranks.

Also Tyranids during the harvesting of a world would destroy the Necrons only so that they can harvest in peace. They don't bother eating the Necrons.

>>49416520
>They don't bother eating the Necrons.

Source? They eat almost anything

>>49416674
Shield of Baal : "Word of Silent King" and "Extermintus".

>They eat almost anything

They leave behind destroyed tanks and structures of cities.

>>49416698
Sounds like an error on the novelists part since they strip most of the planets crust and remove all the natural minerals in the ground

>>49416775
Probably in their search for biomass.

And "Exterminates" is a campaign book.

>>49416831
How much biomass are they finding a km below ground? Or once everythings dead they drain the atmosphere and oceans. Pyrovore entry even says it melts down rocks and metals for the other digestion creatures to eat

>>49416847
>How much biomass are they finding a km below ground?

Bacteria, perhaps other alien lifeforms that dwell there. Tyranids are after genetic material as well.

>>49416865
This whole thing is stupid,matter is matter,the tyranids with their physics fuckery would have no problem eating anything

>>49416878
Yeah, but at a certain point they might start expending more energy than they're gaining.

>>49416878
If matter is matter and energy is energy, then the Tyranids would harvest stars as well.

>>49416937
Yes,that is correct,they should if this would follow the logical conclusion

>>49417060
This is a discussion that's been had many times.

Basically there's not much reason for tyranids to just say, bioengineer or cultivate photosynthesis functions on their ships and whatnot.

Few jumps forward and they don't need to harvest biomass much, could probably just eat worlds.

That's pretty boring though.

>>49417247
Yeah,Ik what you're saying,there have to be some some boundaries in order to preserve a cohesive identity and individuality of a faction in sci-fi.
For example with the imperium,the boundary is clear in their dogmatism,which prevents them from just becoming ubernecrons or something
On the other hand you have the necrons,which in their current incarnation theit whole raison d'etre suffers from incredible retardation.
Tyranids are somewhere in the middle,the only thing stopping them is this preconveiced notion that biotech somehow can't into quantum mrchanics n shiet.If they would make a little more sense they would probably just eat stars,and this thing leads to a whole nother can of implications

You guys are dragging actual science and logic into setting that has none of either...

Aeonic Orb is a whole motherfucking main sequence star, stuffed into a battlefield-portable jar.

The mere existence of this fucking thing would make Necrons absolutely, utterly unbeatable in more ways than I'm gonna bother to list.

They would be utterly out of the ballpark of all other factions combined and multiplied by 10 power-level wise, no matter how many of the old skellingtons managed to wake up.
Battles against them wouldn't be battles but completely one-sided roflstomps in their favor.

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>>49400536
I'm experimenting with this at the moment, very unfinished, needs a lot of cleaning up and detailing.

>>49417765
Oh god thin those paints, son, what are you DOING.

>>49417810
I did though...

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>>49393807

>>49390490
>Fuck it makes me mad that they have to retcon the entire universe to give these fuckers every single fucking possible advantage

they get everything but a winning codex.

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>>49417765

I'd go with orangish talons but then you'd end up with a sub tendril of Leviathan.

Always been a fan of Jormungandr myself, the bigger the bug, the more yellow.

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Kraken looks so much cooler than Leviathan.

>>49419515
Do Mawlocs have >10 attacks or does 'one gulp' mean multiple turns of combat?

>>49422020
They're a large blast template on a stick when they come out of the ground.

>>49422020
>he's never played with/against a Mawloc
What, really?

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>>49419493
Any love for Eumenides?

>>49422071
Maybe he has been getting duped by his nid "friend"

>>49413744
I'm still confused as to why Tyranids haven't and Kroot haven't assimilated Ork biology and steam rolled everything yet

>>49400208
They had their magic tech before the C'Tan, and yet they couldn't cure cancer, or make an anti radiation shield, or just move to planets that aren't constantly being irradiated. Necrons cannot into biology, I guess.

>>49392929
Just like in my cartoons

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>>49389277
groovy

>>49422323
Necrons can into biology and have their mind manipulation technology is second to none.

Also the Necrons are currently researching their way back to flesh. Progress is slow but they are making progress nonetheless.
>just move to planets that aren't constantly being irradiated.

They did. The curse of their homestar followed them even as they spread across the galaxy.

It might not have been ordinary cancer. The reason their home star was emitting a lot of radirion was because the Nightbringer aka the God of Death was feeding on it. So it might have been a super Eldtrich cancer that no science can fix.

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>>49422384

Tyranids will always be the best army fluff- and model-wise

Too bad the crunch isn't really that great

>>49422991
It literally pains me to look at these, although I think this style would look really good on Orks IMO

>>49422186
Whose hive fleet is this again?

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>>49422991

>>49422323
>>49422831
While the Necrontyr did have advanced tech, I'm fairly sure the ridiculously advanced stuff (Æonic Orb, Cadian Gate, Biotransferrence ect.) came from the C'tan.

>>49426201
The necrons turned them into pokemon, though, so they're automatically better.

>>49400030
It's the dude from Battle for Macragge. Fucking kids, man.

>>49390490
Well not to annoy you further but I believe there was lore about Khorne having a sword that could destroy the universe or something like but he doesn't use it because that would end war. Also I remember a thing about Tzeentch at one point being the lord of all creation but because that meant he'd already won it also meant he had no reason to make plans so he turned a ton of his knowledge into scrolls, spread it out all over the universe and had 'The Blue Scribes' go looking for it all and hopefully take a long while doing that so that Tzeentch can keep making his schemes.

As for the Horus thing I think it's fair for Horus powered up by the Chaos Gods to ultimately get wrecked by the Emperor but I think you're missing the point. By leaving the Emperor not quite dead but injured beyond recovery the Chaos Gods have kept the galaxy in constant state of war, death and indulgence. That being the plan. I don't think Horus was ever going to beat the Emperor but I also think the Gods knew that.

The Chaos Gods don't want to win they want to keep on doing what they've always been doing because winning would mean their end as well. By beating humanity and the eldar, ect there would be no more war, no more death, no more indulgence, no more need for schemes and most importantly no more chaos. So why the hell would the Chaos Gods want that?

>>49390490

>Horus losing wasn't the emperor being the anathema to chaos but it was just tzeentch fuckery and nothing you do really matters

I don't know where people are getting this.

Current lore is that Horus was handing the Emperor his ass until the Emperor realized that the Horus he knew was seemingly dead and then he hit Horus with a psychic attack that caused the gods to pull back and Horus to regains his senses, realize everything he had done, and beg for death since he could feel the Chaos gods trying to to come back.

>>49404460
>Ignoring hive worlds
>Billions of tones of metal and resources
>tens to hundrends of billions of people
>A critical valued point in the imperium infrastructure

If they have the numbers to take it and win.. why not?

>>49389277

>>49389277

That's very interesting, because if humanity dies, eldar die too and the Eye of Terror would diminish and chaos would again have only presence in the warp, not in realspace

However, Orks will fuck up Tyranids, as they are another fuckhuge swarm.

And Tyranids cannot eat necrons, which are awakening.

The future of the galaxy is probably nids vs necrons

>>49389349
Out of all the dumb 40k fan ideas that this board has shat out this is by no means the dumbest, It's still holy fuck levels of stupid though.

>>49389349
Sounds like Age of Shitmar
Stop it.

>>49431276
>Current lore is that Horus was handing the Emperor his ass until the Emperor realized that the Horus he knew was seemingly dead and then he hit Horus with a psychic attack that caused the gods to pull back and Horus to regains his senses, realize everything he had done, and beg for death since he could feel the Chaos gods trying to to come back.

That'a not current lore. That's outdated lore pending a rewrite.

>>49426201
The C'tan just gave them eldritch knowlede which was pure data. The Necrontyr had to turn that into equations and then engineer it into technology.

>>49433275
>Orks will fill fuck up Tyranids
>The future of the galaxy is probably nids against crons
What?

>>49433373

Because necrons are not organic

>>49433393
No what I'm saying is that the first line of the post seems to set up for the conclusion that it'll be crons v Orks but then it isn't

>>49433275
>And Tyranids cannot eat necrons, which are awakening
Never stated in any fluff anywhere, yet it is stated that nids can eat metals and minerals and even rocks

>>49422991
they look comic booky

>>49433275
>That's very interesting, because if humanity dies, eldar die too and the Eye of Terror would diminish and chaos would again have only presence in the warp, not in realspace

That was ONLY a possible outcome during the Horus Heresy. By 40k its far too late for that to happen. If the emperor died and humanity was exposed fully to the warp then the galaxy becomes a giant eye of terror and everyone dies.

Only if Horus killed the emperor, then grief killed the rest of humanity in that moment then chaos would be fucked, instead they slowly fed the gods for 10,000 years of Imperium and basically turned the galaxy into a giant time bomb.

What's the cruising speed of a tyranid ship? They can't into warp so they're too slow to matter.

>>49389277
>>Thinking Tyranids are anywhere close to the real threat

4th edition was a long time ago anon, the threat of the nids have been so overshadowed now they almost are irrelevant.

Tyranids can eat all they want but the fluff is clear, the minute the emperor dies every human becomes a warp rift, the walls of reality break and the galaxy becomes a giant Eye of Terror and the Dark Gods rule over it all.

The Nids, along with everyone else, are fucked. Because Horus didn't kill the emperor and the Imperium fed the chaos gods for thousands of years the galaxy is pretty much just a ticking time bomb. Once it goes off everyone is fucked.

It sucks because nids used to be scary as fuck in the setting, a rival for the BBEG Chaos and Necrons in the setting, then they nerfed the fuck out of the Newcrons and made Chaos THE big bad.

>>49433518
Cuckranids canonically are so scared of Necrons they don't even try to fight them. The last thing that tried to eat Necrodermis got a bad end, too.

>>49420427
leviathan looks better on a more 3d looking galactic map
also krakens strategy was also pretty cool showcasing the cleverness of the beast
while leviathan is more like a giant orginisim trying to bite out a chunk of the galaxy

>>49426201
The World Engine, a Death Star 2 on lots of steroids were created by a c'tan, at least that's what it claims, but it's believable enough after what it does later in the story.

source: the world engine spess mehreens novel

>>49433953
My bad, I meant the paint scheme. But then I also liked the Tau from that era more, maybe I just dislike white.

>>49434588
You're on the wrong website then
Don't worry it's just a joke

>>49433518

Most of the times you get 2 types of rippers, ones that eat flesh (said to strip down warriors to bones when their purpose is done) then when the bones are left the rippers with crusher like teeth come along and eat them too.

Doubtful they'd be capable of eating and crunching down metal not to mention living metal. Then you get the eater beasts which are huge and are basically, mouth, holding tank and legs that eat rocks and minerals and all that shit above the bedrock, then they hop off to the digestion pools to be melted down along with whatever they ate. These beasts aren't for combat and only appear once the nids think they've won the planet.

So unless some crons find themselves in a digestion pool or wake up to a giant set of chompers removing soil from above them I doubt crons would be successfully broken down.

>>49433518
Stated in Word of the silent King. Tyranids only attack Necrons if they are attacked first or by mistake. On general, Tyranids avoid Necrons because they are not "fodder for their fleets".

That's why it's hard for Necrons who are hunting Tyranid fleets to get the Tyranids to engage them. Necrons rely on using biomass bait to lure the Tyranids in to be destroyed.

If Tyranids find Necrons delicious, then why aren't they the ones hunting and engaging them? Like the anon said, the last species that tried to eat Necrons found themselves in big gruesome trouble. The Kroot who ate Necrons were infected with the nanoscarabs that form the living metal. Thanks to the mouthful of Necrodermis, their population were stricken by plague of replicating and matter warping nanomachines that wreaked havoc on them.

>>49389277
Not as long as space marines are the best selling product.

>>49434978
Pyrovores (while being shit) are described as shooting white hot plasma that melts rocks and metals for other nids to eat. I see no reason why melting necrodermis such a scale wouldn't have a similar effect since pyrovores are capable of killing necrons

>>49435583
You cannot melt nanomachines.

Necrons even if rendered into liquid form can reform again. In fact, "But Dust in the Wind" has a Necron portal vomiting liquid Necrodermis and from that liquid Necrons formed and rose.

So yeah, drinking Necrodermis sludge is an incredibly bad idea.

>>49435633
Also in, I think, Damnos, damaged Necron bodies had some its parts liquefy and move around looking other pieces of themselves.

>>49433818
Last I heard they us a dedicated type of ship and pseudoscience to jump between gravity wells relatively quickly. Once they are in system their ships are quite slow and mainly rely on numerical superiority, tearing apart anything that gets close, and their ability to repair on the fly. If I remember right tho, their fleet isn't anything to write home about. Or it wouldn't be, if not for the hive mind

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>>49391010
Ok

>>49433518
>>49434978
>>49435583

I think the issue here is that 'eating' is really two different things for the Nids. Eating for food (i.e. biomatter), and what is basically their way of mining for minerals.

As far as the latter goes, i can totally see the Nids being able to break the Necrons down - with severe difficulty - in order to use their materials.

But its the former that is most important for the Nids. They use organic technology. Its presumably strengthened with metals and minerals and other things, but its still organic and needs to actually eat.

In this respect, they're not getting jack from the Necrons and would almost certainly avoid them like the plague.

The whole point of the Nids is to be a consuming locust horde, stripping a planet of all biomass and fucking off. But the necrons A) dont have any biomass to eat and B) will require huge effort and energy to defeat (in other words, lost biomass).

In Nid terms, the Necrons are a negative calorie meal. They're freaking celery. It takes more energy to digest them than they could ever get back.

Of course, if the Necron world was a garden planet it would still be totally worth it.

>>49422991
Looks like something out of Borderlands

>>49400610
That's right I just have sex with them.

>>49393807
I do like that little ripper at his foot. Hasn't even started nippling on his leg.
>lol idk

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>>49389277
Get in line ya grots.

>>49439378
>>49422991

Yeah, I kind of like it.

>>49433310

It's from Visions of Heresy and I doubt they're going to stray too far.

>>49417524
It's a fragment of a star.

And it's called a Tesseract Ark now.