Tyranid house rule

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**Sideways**

My friends and I have made this house rule where necrons and tyranids are allies of convenience, what do you think?

**SoloFalcon1138**

Why would the devourer of worlds ally with anything?

**Schwarmfuhrer**

Tyranids do not ally with anything, they cant resist devouring

**Ma55ter_fett**

Its a house rule so... why not?

If it makes you happy and you have fun games useing it then by all means continue to do so.

**Kain**

Weirder combos are already part of the matrix, so why not?

**SoloFalcon1138**

For a house rule like this, I like to refer to the old Apocalypse allies matrix. Anything Tyranid fell under "better have a really good story".

This is why I don't like the allies rule. Too many people not playing to strengths, just plugging weaknesses with GW's illogical fixes.

**Sideways**

Well the tyranids and necrons have the same goals kill all life.

**Kain**

Sideways wrote:
Well the tyranids and necrons have the same goals kill all life.

Even the Oldcrons wanted to set up a soul farm rather than exterminate life altogether.

**SoloFalcon1138**

Sideways wrote:
Well the tyranids and necrons have the same goals kill all life.

Same goal, different style of execution.

Again, no.

**DerangdFlamingo**

IG and nids would work better *cough*genestealercult*cough*

**SoloFalcon1138**

DerangdFlamingo wrote:
IG and nids would work better *cough*genestealercult*cough*

This is the only alliance I would allow for Tyranids. Now where is my Patriarch and his limousine?

**The Dark Muse**

Amazingly Enough, I did not make this image for this post......

**roxor08**

Ewwwwww

**Kain**

DerangdFlamingo wrote:
IG and nids would work better *cough*genestealercult*cough*

Orks, Tau, and Eldar are all susceptible to Genestealer infection.

**Tyranid Horde**

Nids actively avoid necrons, it says so in the codex, so no, they can't ally.

**ImotekhTheStormlord**

Tyranid Horde wrote:
Nids actively avoid necrons, it says so in the codex, so no, they can't ally.

This.

The necrons loathe the nids above everything else.

**zaak**

Nids avoid necron worlds because there's no biomass to consume. I support the houserule as I have nids and necrons.

**Stormbreed**

Necrons could have a problem with a near by Orc planet and when the nids attack they help out ?

**some bloke**

the big problem is communication, there's no real way they could set up an alliance. it'd accept the house rule as a special scenario, allowing nids to ally with most things but saying instinctive behavior applies to the allies as well (IE the gaunts have been let off the leash), so you can ally but woe betide you if the enemy kills your synapse...