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hi this is my first topic and i was just wondering. im doing a tyranid army and ive got a box of genestealers, and i was wondering if tyranids can evolve into certain species if they consume alot of that species' D.N.A. basically you can guess from the title. my mate has some kroot parts and i was thinking about giving my genestealers kroot spines and stuff.....anywho critisms and explainations of tyranid eating habits are welcome as i dont read fluff as a general rule

It would work yes, and very good idea as well.

Welcome to dakka*2 btw!

*Tyranids absorb the DNA they think would be beneficial ,
(space marine for tyrant guards , orks for biovore etc etc )
so go for it! dont forget the beaky jaws if you want to do kroot dna though. (its a kroot thing , look at kroot ox , kroot hound , gnarloc etc etc )

i dunno how well it would work with kroot, iirc there was a fluff peiace abotu kroot who were stalkgin some nids, but they didn't eat them casue they could taste that they did the whole gene spliciing thing as well...

so i presume that that measn they calsh in someway.

iirc it was with the WD article on kroot mercenaries

hmm thanks for the response

erm if i was gonna do tyranid kroot crossovers how would i incorperate the beaks?
ive looked at the kroot heads and the beaks would be quite difficult to crossover onto gensetealers and my GS skills are embarressing (you have no idea how bad i can assure you) soooooooo any ideas?

Without knowing much of the fluff on tyranids, I think it could work. Don't Kroot normally eat their fallen opponents to absorb their DNA? Maybe something with the tyranids that allow them to do something simliar would make them be able to absorb and evolve a lot easier? Although from a biological standpoint, not sure their mouth would evolve unless kroot beaks are somehow superior for eating than genestealers.

ghosty wrote:hmm thanks for the response

erm if i was gonna do tyranid kroot crossovers how would i incorperate the beaks?
ive looked at the kroot heads and the beaks would be quite difficult to crossover onto gensetealers and my GS skills are embarressing (you have no idea how bad i can assure you) soooooooo any ideas?

Actually you will not need much GS for that, check out what I did a few years ago... both plastics work quite well.

http://buglands.moonfruit.com/#/kroot/4517418049

cheers

Oh my god that looks so cool! lol i wish i had that model XD ahh well hmm i was thinking about using the kroot head but was more or less thinking about chopping off the beak...doing it like that seems like such a better idea. well im gonna steal the sprues off my m8 and try and make one ill show you what its like when its done

I think that some kroot stealers would look pretty hot, I remember some one doing a conversion of the new bloodletters into stealers. Pretty sexy looking

nyaaa! its so difficult! ive already ruined a couple of heads :( ahh well 6 heads down a lot more to go

If you look at some of the old kroot fluff, they talk about the effects gained from eating certain races. And it mentions that no shaper will let their family eat tyranid, because those kroot who do so become very susceptible to the hive-mind; kroot are not strong enough to overpower such a mental force. (Although when you think about the force of the ships behind it, I don't think many psykers would far any better and they're sort of trained for that kind of thing.)

So you could have some kroot with 'nid bits in a 'nid army very easily, they're those that didn't heed the warnings and succumbed.

thats an awsome idea i might make some kroot-tyranid guys who have been mentally taken over...dunno if ic ould ever use them in games but still would be awsome idea for sure thanks guys...oh ive made my first one now, its pretty bad but ill get round to posting it some time soon

Great idea, ghosty. Keep at it, then post pics!

Are you using sharp-enough tools?

On fluff justifications: Kroot-influenced Genestealers probably wouldn't have anything to do with the Kroot prohibition from eating 'Nids. They would be the product of Genestealers infesting Kroot, like they do with everything else. It's probably Genestealers taking over Kroot DNA, not the other way around.

whoa gensestealers take over DNA?? lol sorry i always thought gensestealers stole enemies as they slept and took them to their nests to 'change' them. hehe i can see i may actualy have to buy the tyranid rulebook....and maybe read up on the dreaded fluff

Just to be clear, Kroot see the potential for eating Tyranid and becoming stronger, BUT the smart Shapers know that doing so will probably carry over some of the genes that make Nids obey the Hive mind (since its all over the genes), resulting in Kroot that arnt Kroot but Nids.