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blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:

EmilCrane wrote:

Remulus wrote:

blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:Doesn't shadow in the warp prevent daemonic incursions?

Hmm.. this brings up a new thing, if shadow in the warp prevents daemon incursions, then the chaos gods would be really worried about tyranids, so even the chaos gods themselves would want to send daemons at nids, not even an inquistor

The chaos gods aren't actually too fussed with the mundane world

As far as the nids go the imperium seems to be the most successful when they meet them in space.

But people dying in the material world would affect them. I mean if there's no one left to worship them, wouldn't they weaken?

The Warp is connected to every galaxy, across an infinite number of material planes. What happens in the Milky Way is of no more importance than a single tree is to the world. Which, hilariously enough, also distances the greater, more dangerous powers of Chaos (not just the Gods, but their higher servants as well) from anything the least bit relevant to the setting, making warpspawn much less of a threat than they could be.


More on topic, the most effective strategy for fighting tyranids is to simply field any appreciable number of decent troops and equipment against them. So Space Marines die like flies, but a few thousand/tens of thousands of Guard and a halfway decent Naval Picket stops them dead in their tracks. As they close in on areas of actual strategic value, instead of the isolated backwaters of the Ultima Segmentum, proper defenses will become more common, and the Tyranid advance will fall apart.

blazinpsycho&typhoon! wrote:That's called an exterminatus

Not really. Exterminatus usually involves a battleship launching virus bombs, cyclonic torpedoes or atmospheric incinerator torpedoes, but in this case the ship would be taken down by the orbiting tyranid ships or the torpedoes intercepted in some way.

What he is suggesting is basically a planet sized mine.

Which in a sense is still an exterminatus as the planet is still destroyed