PalmerC wrote:
Exergy wrote:PalmerC wrote:I guess I will have to write something to explain that. Like the mechanicum repairing it. As I understand it some of the heresy era technology was the peak of Imperial tech. So I am guessing where you still may have it would be highly valued. I am mainly wanting a squad of the heresy jetbikes and possibly some of the terminator armor.
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Looks like the legio gryphonicus survived the tyranid invasion according to this info. They took part in defending Caria in the 13th black crusade. Hmm the plot thickens
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Legio_Gryphonicus
how about the admech learning about the hiveminds tactics and strategy and understanding that it targets organic material. Thus when the chapters homeworld and the forgeworld were destroyed a few transports could have made it out, if they were carrying no organic or minimal organic material. Perhaps they noted what happened after 1 evacuation and used what they learned on the second evac leaving them with considerable amounts of material.
Very creative! I just may need to borrow some of that! So i do not have a good grasp on Tyranid fluff. Tyranids sense and target organic matter? Not to digress but does that mean the Necrons are pretty much free of Tyranid threat?
'Nids consume organic matter(biomass) on a planet and convert it into the additional nids/fleet. when they leave a world, they have completely consumed all organic material on the world leaving it dead.
The hivemind is highly intelligent and often strikes at what is most valueable to the enemy, regardless of it's value later on but the number of minions direclty linked to the hivemind is limited. It is likely that many of the lesser 'Nids when undirected by higher intelligence only go on simple instincts (like presence of biomass)
So assume 2 transports are fleeing in opposite directions and there are only enough 'nids to stop and destroy one. One is a small slow transport full of powered down titan parts while the other is a larger faster transport full of rotting potatoes.
-if a intelligent 'nid was present, the nid fleet would probably pursue the titan parts, as they are clearly of more value to the enemy
-if only simpler less intelligent 'nids were there the 'nid fleet would pursue the potatoes, drawn to it's size, speed, or biomass signature.
now if there was an all out evacuation of a developed planet there would be hundreds if not thousands of ships fleeing in just about every direction. Some would probably make it while others would not. Later the survivors would be cataloged by a intelligence like the AdMech. Every detail would be collected, size of the ship, trajectory, speed, cargo, number of crew. They would analyse and note patterns. In a second evacuation strategies would be devised to fool the enemy and more high value cargo would escape at the expense of total cargo.
It might involve deception, telling a crew of a starship that they carry an incredibly valuable artifact from the dark age of technology, providing a fake escort, while actually packing the ship with defective old grain havesters while telling another ship they are carrying out of date steam engines while actually putting stores of turbo lasers on board.
It might involve removing or killing the organic components of certain cybernetic systems to allow them to pass the hiveminds keen eye.
Of course the hivemind is highly adaptive, so if the same idea was tried again against the same hivefleet the 'nids might deploy more intelligent hivemind linked nids to search out the high value targets.
It's your fluff, think desperate and be creative. Think about how in a long string of defeats against the 'nid invasion personal action led to small victories in men and material.
Tactical defeat but strategic victory
