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Yeah, 'nids are the 'crons greatest fear.

It would seem the nids would ignore necrons as non-living matter. The necrons could in turn see them as being useful in the short term.

IG and Orks could become infected, but would likely only function as penal troops or gretchen.

I don't get why they didn't just say: "for fluff reasons, you can't take allies with nids, also for fluff reasons, we are halving the cost of all troop choices for the codex" or "tyranids may take 20% more points".

Then release a genestealer cult minidex in white dwarf.

Seems to me that Orks would be the nids greatest target, and also their greatest threat, my reasoning being:

- We know the Orks are capable of multiplying at a ridiculous rate, that's how Gorkamorka came about,
- So there's 2 of the biggest races against each other from the off, that can go toe to toe on numbers alone
- If the nids win, they consume gak loads of bio mass, if they ignore them, they have the threat of being overwhelmed by those numbers

Debatedly, Orks are the biggest "get me in to a fight" race out there. That then raises a question;

- Would the Nids care if the Orks wiped out all the opposition? The biomass would still be there wouldn't it? Just rotted in to the ground? Then there's the swollen, in fighting, Ork population to chow down on.

That opens up 2 possibilities;

- The Nids enslave the Ork race, enabling the use of Orks as allies
- The Nids simply wipe out every Ork they can find, taking advantage of a relentless supply of biomass (can't imagine them tasting nice though, as Smeagul says "filthy, nasty Orksis!"

We know the Nids need to consume, otherwise they'd just hang back and 'carrion bird' it on down to a post battle feast.

This is all theory and conjecture on my part, sorry the bullet point style post too, I just found it easier to pose my points and questions that way

Nid allies...wtf! the soul purpose of nids is to consume all biomass without thought to feed the expansion of there on race, they don't go to war they merely feed....ON EVERYTHING

it chesses me off that dark eldar and normal eldar are battler brothers. Tyranids suck sooooo bad in 6th in competive play. Id be happy with jusst frag genrades vs allies

It is totally reasonable for tyranids to have IG as allies they generally will infect Political figures , Arbites, Gang members, Civilians, Clergy and Planetary Defence Forces..Then they start building a psychic beacon for the hive fleet they start a rebellion and then the nids show up and clean up the mess and eat the Genestealer cult as well to absorb it into the fleet. I would use a guard list heavy with conscripts or heavy on infantry platoons or another option use the ork codex to represent a Genestealer cult Patriarch as a warboss , Magus as a weird boy, Commandos or Lootas to represent hybrid heavy weapons, Brood Brothers being not particularly well trained could be Grots, Buggies and Trucks as the cult civilian vehicles and limos for the boss.

the reason eldar and dark eldar are battle brotheres is cos for the eldar their dark "brethren" are still the next best thing from themselves.


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but the 'nids don't use military tactics, they just consume, the political figures are of more use as biomass

Oh totally agree once the nids find the link to the cult and the rebellion has started on the planet the cult welcomes there 4 armed lords and await to be consumed back into the fleet the cult is just put in place to throw the planet into chaos Duty calls ciaphas cain book has very good Genestealer cult fluff

Purger of the Unclean wrote:the reason eldar and dark eldar are battle brotheres is cos for the eldar their dark "brethren" are still the next best thing from themselves.


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but the 'nids don't use military tactics, they just consume, the political figures are of more use as biomass

The Nids do use tactics, have you read any of the fluff? It constantly refers to Tyrants and Swarmlords using tactics akin to military genius and whatnot. I'm not saying it's an excuse for allowing IG allies, I'm just saying it is erroneous to think that Nids are a mindless, unthinking eating machines (ok yes they're eating machines ).

When they are in feed mode, yea, kinda mindless eating machines....

Otherwise, cunning might be better. Ravners, Lictors, and Broodlords should excell at that yet Tyrants are far above them.

I wonder if they'll add a Dominitrix. She would own.