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Talking to folks who are really excited about the new FW Horus Heresy expansion and are disapointed that Tyranids will not be able to be a part of it. The issue is the Codex talks about early splinter fleets that came into the galaxy both before and after the IoM. The most famous of these was the one that ended near the moons of Ymgaral. I belive anouther one was stopped at Catachan (a partialy consumed world, the organisms went feral after something killed all the synapse creatures).

Any other refrences or tidbits about early fleets other than the Zoats?

Not much TBH.

These fleets really didn't have any sort of major impact on the Galaxy. They were just scouts to see if the galaxy is worth nomming.

Their existance is only now known about because until the Tyranid threat was fully realized there was no connection between them. Even Genestealers took several hundred years to be cataloged as a Tyranid species.


The Nids as we know them today were still in the cold void between the galaxies when the HH occured. So unfortunantly you won't be able to take part in the HH.

Gloomfang wrote:Talking to folks who are really excited about the new FW Horus Heresy expansion and are disapointed that Tyranids will not be able to be a part of it. The issue is the Codex talks about early splinter fleets that came into the galaxy both before and after the IoM. The most famous of these was the one that ended near the moons of Ymgaral. I belive anouther one was stopped at Catachan (a partialy consumed world, the organisms went feral after something killed all the synapse creatures).

Any other refrences or tidbits about early fleets other than the Zoats?

They also made it to Fenris.

My older beliefs on the Tyranids was that they were the final plan of the Ancient Ones to hit the reset but on all life.

Once the Tyranids eat everything what's left? Tyranids. Being the perfect super-evolver they would need to break down the traits of everything they consumed to bring about a new eco-system in which they would be able to thrive.

DeffDred wrote:
Once the Tyranids eat everything what's left? Tyranids. Being the perfect super-evolver they would need to break down the traits of everything they consumed to bring about a new eco-system in which they would be able to thrive.

Or they strip everything bare and move on to the next galaxy....

DeffDred wrote:

Gloomfang wrote:Talking to folks who are really excited about the new FW Horus Heresy expansion and are disapointed that Tyranids will not be able to be a part of it. The issue is the Codex talks about early splinter fleets that came into the galaxy both before and after the IoM. The most famous of these was the one that ended near the moons of Ymgaral. I belive anouther one was stopped at Catachan (a partialy consumed world, the organisms went feral after something killed all the synapse creatures).

Any other refrences or tidbits about early fleets other than the Zoats?

They also made it to Fenris.

My older beliefs on the Tyranids was that they were the final plan of the Ancient Ones to hit the reset but on all life.

Once the Tyranids eat everything what's left? Tyranids. Being the perfect super-evolver they would need to break down the traits of everything they consumed to bring about a new eco-system in which they would be able to thrive.

Maybe they made it to Fenris. I don't really buy the idea that there are scattered remnants of early Tyranid incursions scattered all over the galaxy. Ymgarl I can buy because it's a barren wasteland, so I could see a Hive Fleet rolling in, dropping organisms, then somehow getting blasted to oblivion (and having the planet itself nuked) by, say, the Eldar, thereby leaving a few scattered surviviors on the moons' surface. Your average deathworld still has a functioning biosphere, even if it is only borderline liveable like Fenris, so I don't get how you could have enough of a Tyranid presence to create a species like the Kraken, yet not have the planet more completely tyranoformed and/or have it's biomatter partially syphoned away.

It just seems like Tyranids in 40k are so increadibly difficult to eradicate that anything beyond one or maybe two hive fleets requires a lot of handwavium to explain how the hive fleet didn't nom the galaxy but still managed to leave behind stranded critters.

Units left behind are easy to explain. Once there is no synapse they go feral. Without a grand plan they will just grow and evolve until they are the top predator. Once back in the shadow in the warp the hive mind will control again.

There is Tyranid DNA in at least 4 well now creatures in the IoM.

Oh and I am not saying they would be the Tyranids we know. It could be a Zoat list for all I care. (And that would be cool.)