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I assume one can "tame" a nid, if he can block him from other nids, then it's mind is fragile and weak enough to be manipulated as any animal.

A single nid is not much when it comes to thinking, the super intellect of the hivemind comes from having unspeakable numbers of such minds.

Naturally it should be a self-sustaining nid though, a simple gaunt dies within a few days at best anyway.

Of course you can tame a Tyranid. See?

The last game f Deathwatch i played was about and techpreist getting bitten by a genestealer and turning into a hybrid. Since he was more machine than human he was able to kill the magos and assume control on the local genestealer cultwhich was of course promptly eradicated by the afore metioned kill team

It'd be kind of cool to have "tamed" or controlled in some way tyranids as allies and then every turn you make a rule where they have to roll and if it hits a certain number then the tyranid instantly turn and attack the nearest unit regardless of whether they started as allies or not. I may actually talk to my group and figure out some house rules to give that a shot.

 illuknisaa wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Re Squigs.

*snip*

Nids are not tameable unless you have a means of suppressing their programming and the influence of the hive mind.

U uze gubbinz like me saw wiv mek boyz. U takes dem gubbinz an stick 'em real good on dem bugs 'ead. Gubbins will go green 'an everyting is go. If dem gubbinz aint green you legs it .

Yoov jus got ta 'ave enuff nailz fer iz 'ead...







and chaos can always infect them with the obliterator virus...

Could never be done within the range of the Hive Mind's influence, and even outside of it the only way to get them to do anything they're not designed to do (they're more killing machines than animals, most don't even have digestive systems because they have no need for them) would be to physically alter them. Cut out the brain, and turn it into a Tyranid shaped robot, which is not at all taming them, it's just making Tyranid servitors.

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Heart-of-Rage.html


The mechanicum tried this.


Also in one of the space wolf novels (IIRC)