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asimo77 wrote:What happens when a tyranid "eats" a daemon anyway? Also do daemons have souls to munch on when fighting nids?

The way I've always visualised it, is while they are solid, they aren't real. When they 'die', they disappear. Kind of like how demons disappeared in Doom 3. There wouldn't be anything for the Tyranids to 'eat'.

Personally I think Eldar and Tau would be the most likely. Whilst the Tau dont neccessarily approve of the Eldar and their 'empire'( if it can be eve called an empire anymore..), they do see the goodness in the race due to the different paths the eldar follow. Consequently there are alot elss questionable characters in the eldar than other races. Whilst some of their actions could be considered to be selfish, they are no worse than what others races would do. For instance the imperium would value the life of a man over that of any other race just as the eldar value their own races lives over that of others. The eldar dont appear to see the tau as bad either which is probably due to their purity as they are untainetd by the warp?

Eldar and Tau would seem more likely than most as they don't really have anything the other really wants or immediate hostile intent.

Then again, wouldn't take too long for some smug fish ead to tell the eldar to sign up to the new and glorious 'great leap outwards' tau expansion and how they could 'reinvigorate your ancient and dying culture, which has so unfortunately failed from what we have seen, by becoming a part of the Tau empire, all that has to happen is your 'far-seer' kneels in service to the Ethereal over there and puts on this 'communication helmet'...

At which point the thin veneer of politeness the pansy spaceelfs were affording this piteous, primitive and naive race disappears and out come the D cannons... You have to remember, the tau have evolved from cave dwelling troglodytes to a space faring race within eldar living memory!

Tau and Eldar for sure. As I recall Eldrad Ulthran actually kept an eye out for the tau cuz he figured they were some of the few decent folks left in the galaxy. Basically as long as the Tau are beneficial to have around, the Eldar will refrain from melting their brains.

Eldar and Tau, though I'd rather see Eldar and Imperium. Eldar becoming a protectorate species of the Imperium and the two joining forces to close the Eye of Terror. Would make for an epic story.

Imperial Guard and Eldar.

Then the Guardsmen leave the Eldar to their fate of doom!

Probably , they (IoM and Eldar) are two faction that have the same approximate response to chaos

"kill kill kill kill kill kill kill"

I reckon necrons and nids because neither have anything to gain from killing the other.

Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

Melissia wrote:Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

really? REALLY?? um...they would eat the nids!!! duh!

necrongod wrote:

Melissia wrote:Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

really? REALLY?? um...they would eat the nids!!! duh!

Firstly that's a bit rude
And secondly the C'tan need to eat souls and the 'nids don't have seperate souls but one big one (The Hive mind)

purplefood wrote:

necrongod wrote:

Melissia wrote:Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

really? REALLY?? um...they would eat the nids!!! duh!

Firstly that's a bit rude
And secondly the C'tan need to eat souls and the 'nids don't have seperate souls but one big one (The Hive mind)

firstly , sorry

secondly im pretty sure the c'tan dont. before they met the necrontyr they feasted on stars right?

necrongod wrote:

purplefood wrote:

necrongod wrote:

Melissia wrote:Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

really? REALLY?? um...they would eat the nids!!! duh!

Firstly that's a bit rude
And secondly the C'tan need to eat souls and the 'nids don't have seperate souls but one big one (The Hive mind)

firstly , sorry

secondly im pretty sure the c'tan dont. before they met the necrontyr they feasted on stars right?

Yeah apparently stars have souls...
I'm sorry i can't remember where i read it but there was something saying that everything has a soul which is why the 'nids were so freaky.

Oh feth all you guys. Chaos and imperial marines working grudgingly together to try and protect one thing they both need against overwhelming odds sounds like the most bad ass thing ever.

Eventually they start throwing each other bolter rounds, not checking over their back, and by the end they both sail off as allies working for humanity, or pulls apart at the seam and half heartedly fights a withdraw before flying off.

Orks and Chaos, assuming you mean a temporary sort of thing (joining forces for one battle, say). Eldar and Tau if we're talking a more permanent alliance (actually, that would almost certainly never work out; however, the chances of it working out are better than they are for pretty much any other match up).


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-Loki- wrote:The way I've always visualised it, is while they are solid, they aren't real. When they 'die', they disappear. Kind of like how demons disappeared in Doom 3. There wouldn't be anything for the Tyranids to 'eat'.

I would say this theory is supported by the old rules for Daemonic Instability.

purplefood wrote:

necrongod wrote:

purplefood wrote:

necrongod wrote:

Melissia wrote:Sure they do. If 'nids eat all life, the C'tan won't have any life to feed off of.

really? REALLY?? um...they would eat the nids!!! duh!

Firstly that's a bit rude
And secondly the C'tan need to eat souls and the 'nids don't have seperate souls but one big one (The Hive mind)

firstly , sorry

secondly im pretty sure the c'tan dont. before they met the necrontyr they feasted on stars right?

Yeah apparently stars have souls...
I'm sorry i can't remember where i read it but there was something saying that everything has a soul which is why the 'nids were so freaky.

I think they are only referenced as eating "lifeforce" which, like souls, is fairly ambigous; the latter is at least somewhat established in the lore. For all I know liforce could be bio-electrical signals which would explain why sentient beings are so yummy. Honestly though who knows what gives the C'tan energy :radiation, magnetic fields, other weird physics particles/fields/thingies, yogurt. The list goes on but I'd imagine whatever it is it wouldn't have much to do with the warp since the C'tan are so anti-warp, plus then they'd just be daemons.

Eldar and orks and marine...Watch the last stand of DoW trailers

Necron and Tau, they came togeather in Dark Crusade.

While I agree that necrons and tau did come together in dark crusade, I submit to you that tau and necrons also came together in dark crusade

Ennkay wrote:While I agree that necrons and tau did come together in dark crusade, I submit to you that tau and necrons also came together in dark crusade

And as such, another DARgument begins~!

How abo7ut thowse thexian elites and the barghesti then eh... EH?

Necrons and tyranids would lilely not ally. If the tyranids could have some purpose for the necrons then why is it that the necrons actually stopped killing blood angels and targetted tyranids instead? Theres also the little factor that whereever a tomb world seems to be the tendrils of the hive fleets mysterious navigate away from them? I reckon its because tyranids would devour the galaxy and even if the C'tan could feed on them, the tyranids would eventually leave the galaxy and go onto the next populated one. Its the whole reason why tyranids are in our galaxy.

Ork/Eldar and Orks/Guard HAVE allied in the past with the former being more a puppetmaster activity on the eldar side.

Tau and Necrons tried to team up in the Tyranid Codex. It didn't end well.

The correct answer is Tau and Necrons.

Put a period on that!

Monster Rain wrote:The correct answer is Tau and Necrons.

Put a period on that!

Tau and Necrons did indeed 'team up' against tyranids and would appear to be a 'correct' answer. The only problem with it is that after the Necrons helped the tau, they slaughtered them too. Just for good measure.

Eldar/Tau or Eldar/IOM or Tau/IOM duh!

Necrons, Eldar, and Imperium allied during the 13th Black Crusade.

Eldar and Dark Eldar ally to defend exodite worlds.

Eldar and Imperium allied during the 13th Black Crusade, Necrons just killed some stuff that happened to also be beneficial to the Imperium in doing so if the Imperium had tried to stop the Necrons they would have opened fire.

Dark Eldar and Chaos marines. I guess cause they like causing death and pain, but It depends on the Chaos legion and Dark Eldar Kabal/Wych cult.