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Shadowbrink was really cool and it shows that the Nids are so dangerous that eventually the entire galaxy will have to ally against them. With Necrons pretty much having dedicated themselves to the cause, and now even freakin' Daemons joining up, well... I can see everyone except Nids being battle brothers in 7th

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Shadowbrink was really cool and it shows that the Nids are so dangerous that eventually the entire galaxy will have to ally against them. With Necrons pretty much having dedicated themselves to the cause, and now even freakin' Daemons joining up, well... I can see everyone except Nids being battle brothers in 7th

And Grey Knight/Deamon armies will be the new cheese

 Kain wrote:

 JeffVimes wrote:
Not even talking about the gravitic FTL, but how are you suppose to invade half the galaxy in 200 years when you rely on a slower than light vessel to travel between systems?
Tyranids going in the warp just make more sense.

The Narvhal system says that the Tyranids create gravity corridors that let the Tyranids go faster than light. It's slower than warp travel, but it's still faster than light.

What you should really ask is how you mesh the Tau "near light" drives with their timeline which requires FTL all over the damn place.

Yes I get this point, but how is the Narvhal travelling faster than light to a new system, then? This is my main issue with this thing. At some point with this system, something has to move at a sub-luminic speed.
Tau are going in the warp, aren't they? Miniature warp travel, but still warp. And their expansion is nowhere near as comparable as the one of the tyranids.

 JeffVimes wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 JeffVimes wrote:
Not even talking about the gravitic FTL, but how are you suppose to invade half the galaxy in 200 years when you rely on a slower than light vessel to travel between systems?
Tyranids going in the warp just make more sense.

The Narvhal system says that the Tyranids create gravity corridors that let the Tyranids go faster than light. It's slower than warp travel, but it's still faster than light.

What you should really ask is how you mesh the Tau "near light" drives with their timeline which requires FTL all over the damn place.

Yes I get this point, but how is the Narvhal travelling faster than light to a new system, then? This is my main issue with this thing. At some point with this system, something has to move at a sub-luminic speed.
Tau are going in the warp, aren't they? Miniature warp travel, but still warp. And their expansion is nowhere near as comparable as the one of the tyranids.

...The Narvhal travels with the fleet and goes through it's own corridor.

I thought this was obvious?

My bad, my expectation was that the Narwhal had to be close to the system to "harness the gravity". Just reread the 5th ed codex and it is suppose to travel with the fleet.

Still not sure about how you are suppose to harness gravity from light years away, but lets not open this can of worm.