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How tempting of a meal to the minions of chaos is a tyranid fleet? The tyranids make extensive use of psykers. As the fluff constantly states, chaos daemons are very much attracted to the psykers and use them to initiated invasions. Plus I remember hearing that lesser tyranids like gaunts had rudimentary souls or warp presence.

Shadow in the Warp: Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but the shadow in the warp effect is created by the massive amount of psychic activity of the hive fleet which creates a large disruption in the warp preventing ship travel or astronomican signals. Does this disruption provide some protection against warp invasion - because it seems to me that it would attract the daemons rather then repulse.

Tyranid intrusions tend to occur on the other end of the galaxy from the eye of terror does this distance provide some protection to the hive fleets the same way as the exodites?

Chaos corrupted hive ships were touched upon in the demon hunters codex. What defenses do tyranids employ to defend against daemonic invasion if any? Are they preyed upon as like any other pysker? And can daemons invade a hive fleet? Daemons are probably the only 40k entity (maybe Necrons) that could storm a hive ship successfully.

I was just thinking about how interesting a tyranid verse daemon conflict would be, and that led to my speculation about the likelihood of that kind of conflict.

Grunt13 wrote:
Chaos corrupted hive ships were touched upon in the demon hunters codex.

Choas nids FTW!
i guess chaos would attack nids, they provide alot of warp disturbance. and also the chaos gods would want to save themselves by protecting the races that power them (weird i know )

Daemons are probably the only 40k entity (maybe Necrons) that could storm a hive ship successfully.

Other than a Death watch kill team and a couple of Ultramarines in one of the BL books.

Brother Bartius wrote:

Daemons are probably the only 40k entity (maybe Necrons) that could storm a hive ship successfully.

Other than a Death watch kill team and a couple of Ultramarines in one of the BL books.

They snuck in to assassinate the queen. They didn't storm the ship with the intention of slaughtering all the tyranids. Plus the ship had already deployed its armies.

Joking aside Daemons are the only thing I can think of that can slay the billions of tyranids located in a hive ship. In a section of the Daemons codex, the "damnation of toreus", a daemonic invasion inflicts billions of casualties on an imperial planet in a short space of time. A hive fleet defending against a full blow daemon invasion would be an interesting event. I also really appreciate the ironic nature of the battle.

The Iron Warriors enslaved a hive ship after infecting it with the obliterator virus. (Storm of Iron).

I imagine the the Chaos Gods might see the Tyranids as a threat to what they consider their galaxy.

I, for one, would enjoy a full blown, all out battle between all the banded together Orks, a Hive Fleet and Daemons.

I kind of assumed that the shadows of the warp effect would be quite annoying to demon forces, and possibly prevent additional forces from crossing over in its vicinity.

i would feel te tyranids to be underpowered if they could be beaten so easily they are supposed to be his genetically engineered mysterious alien race that barely anyon survives to tell the tale and that would be ruined if daemons kicked there es

Personally I see Chaos as seeing the Tyranid as a new oppertunity. Direct them against a Khorne daemon army and let em rip. Then once the best of them are tried and true unleash them.

Chaos n Nids = kill on sight, no question.

Both are predators, one extra-galactic, the other extra-dimensional. In chaos held areas, tyranids have nothing to feed on as the immaterium spills over into realspace and things mutate beyond feasability to be assimilated. In the tyranid there is no lust, no frenzy, no despair and no treachery, the tyranid is a super organism with no desires other than a pure and unpolluted hunger, that's not good news for the dark powers. In the thick of a large hive fleet, the shadow in the warp would push back any demonic presence, it's like a spreading desert. Yes it's psychic but it's so vast and powerful and uncorruptable in it's intent that it isn't a meal for daemons, it's like a god in it's own right , it prevents the ruinous powers feeding and once it passes on, there's nothing left to tempt.

Now the advance heralds of the fleet proper would be the place to attack from chaos, the fat psyker lights in the warp from command creatures like zoanthropes and hive tyrants far enough from the hive mind to begin developing rudimentary thought (as has been stated in fluff if small vanguards get cut off, they can begin developing persona, albeit primative at first). I imagine smaller tendrils of the fleets and scouting forces would be the target of attacks from chaos, the briefly mentioned chaos infested tyranids would be examples of organisms cut off from the greater hive mind and therefore incredibly vulnerable to attack whilst lost in the warp.

I don't think you can say the Hive Mind is a delicious pysker apple pie for daemons, that's like a delicious apple pie the size of florida with powerfists and pms.

i love both teams but i have to say i think the tyranids are stronger

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I don't think you can say the Hive Mind is a delicious pysker apple pie for daemons, that's like a delicious apple pie the size of florida with powerfists and pms.

Good stuff!