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augfubuoy wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:@augfubuoy: Like I've said (somewhere) that particular piece of information was a prediction by a certain Bio-Techpreist or something on what it would take to defeat the 'Nid threat. It's actually hardline, GW approved and accounted for, evidence.

Not in any attempt to start a flame war or anything, I just need clarification: How is that not a "GW approved and accounted for" piece of evidence? What would qualify as an indisputable piece of evidence?
Look, you might have a point here, but I need to know what you consider evidence, not just what you consider as conjecture.

A statement, like "upping troop production 500% will destroy the nids" vs. "upping troop production 500% might, if we're lucky, just maybe stop the tyranids for now."

augfubuoy wrote:Am I the only one that remembers in the last Tyranid Codex how, if we assume that the Hive Fleets are mere "scouts", then the Imperium would need to up conscription by 500%? Seems to me that we just do that and we're fine, oh, and BTW, there are more races than just the Imperium who can kill loads'a 'Nids. 'Nids are a threat, a serious one, but not OMG!!!!1111 IT"S ALL OVER!!!!!!1111

Upping conscription by 500% won't do jack, other than if a series of disasterous battles happen--wiping out 500% more troops than it would have at the same level.

And those numbers are something the Imperium need at other battlefields, other industries, etc. Not to mention the fact that it will wipe out almost an entire generation of the Imperium's fighting capacity, and even moreso...do nothing but provide MORE biomass for the Tyranids.

Which in turn would be something like a 500% increase, pretty instantly, in the Tyranid's forces given that Tyranids are ready to fight right from 'birth', while it requires 14 years(minimum) for the Imperium to even begin training your basic Guardsmen, and something like 18-20 for training/creating new Astartes.

ive been heering that the necrons control the tyranids

Wait... Huh?

Someone's gravely misinformed and confused, methinks. Unless you have an interesting theory? I love theories.