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It's pretty poor. Bear in mind I've not read 'Nid fluff since 2nd ed but :

The Tyran invasion is really sketchy and not nearly as good at conveying the sheer scale of a Nid invasion. Was much better in the older versions. Unsure why they changed putting the data codex into space too.

The Hivemind is now much more of a calculating, intelligent being, whereas before it was literally just a term for the Nid superconciousness, that didn't think about much other than eating.

The Swarmlord is a stupid piece of fluff, its meant to be a race of anonymous swarms, there should not be some character that magically gets "reuploaded" every time he died and spawned out again, its stupid. The Nid's don't have a supreme commander, thats the while point, its a hive.

They removed all mention of Nids adapting using DNA from our galaxy (Biovores being made from Orks, Zoanthropes being made from Eldar , Guard being made from Marines), none of these bio-forms are supposed to exist until after the Nids have had a chance to accrue biomass from our galaxy.

They removed the fluff about Genestealer cults emitting a psychic beacon which attracts the Nids. Now they lurk in the sewers and don't do very much. They also fail to mention that Genestealers were around way before the rest of the Nids showed up.

I never got that bit about Chaos only being in this galaxy. The Warp doesn't just exist in the galaxy alone, so surely sentient life in other galaxies must generate their own Chaos Gods...

Xyptc wrote:

 Stormphoenix wrote:
I never got that bit about Chaos only being in this galaxy. The Warp doesn't just exist in the galaxy alone, so surely sentient life in other galaxies must generate their own Chaos Gods...

Also, who's to say that although the Warp is a parallel dimension of sorts, that its scale is the same as our universe? Perhaps the Warp is like a blister on the skin of reality, and the blister only covers our galaxy? It's never been stated one way or another.

I can't remember which book its from but it clearly stated that realspace is a bubble in the sea of warp space, which suggests that the warp is everywhere.

 Formosa wrote:
The shadow doesn't affect deamons at all, it's when the nids work out that warp energy and big guns can kill deamons they start to lose, the deamons up to that point are crushing the nids, the interesting point is that nids consider deamons a rival predator that competes for a food source.

Seems the thing to take from this is that if the deamons can maintain a stable warp rift then the nids simply cannot win, and on the flip side if the nids work out how to destabilise said warp rift deamons can't possibly win.

I wanted some fluff where they invaded a tomb world, that woulda been fun

I doubt they'd bother. Not much organic life to be had on one of those worlds.

Nahh I know what a Gellar field is I think it was 3rd edition Chaos? It stated that the Gods are not in any particular hurry to take over the galaxy as the warp was there before the bubble of the material universe appeared and will be there after it's gone.