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ever what the seasoned none dead tyranids do in their free time? do they hibernate or hang out at the strip club?

Barbecues with the Imperial Guard.

They get digested into the biomass reserves of the Hive Fleet and re-born when they need to be sent to devour a new world.

Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

Anything learned can be uploaded into hive mind, experience is not lost even if the creature that found it is recyled into biomass goo in a holding tank.
New adaptions, mutations based on what there facing. The mind learns, individual tyranoids do not matter

It depends on the Tyranid.
For example, Pyrovores moonlight with the Adepta Sororitas. And Salamanders.

Now I want to build a Salamander/Adepta Sororitas/Pyrovore army with Fuel Lines.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

Tyranids have FTL.

They eat Macraggeroni and cheese!

This is really a thing? This thread?

That sound? That was the bottom of the barrel being scraped.

Long walks on the digestion pool beach. Quiet nights with a long legged Hormagaunt in a dark sphincter (of the Hive Ship, not the Hormagaunt's). There's some very riotous games of Blood Bowl too but the Carnifex team normally wins.

Genestealers can eat and such, they implant humans and start Genestealers cults.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Genestealer_Cult

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Genestealers

They were one of the more unusual 'gangs' you could play in Necromunda.

 Tyran wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

Tyranids have FTL.

Sources vary. I recall BFG suggesting that they just move very fast at sublight but they retcon these things all the time and I may be misremembering.

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Tyran wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

Tyranids have FTL.

Sources vary. I recall BFG suggesting that they just move very fast at sublight but they retcon these things all the time and I may be misremembering.

5th edition codex gave us the Narvhal, which is slower but more reliable than Warp.

being unable to move at FTL speeds would make Tyranids a joke, not a threat. the IoM would have so much time between 'nid attacks they'd be able to concentrate forces and turn attacks aside with very little effort

BrianDavion wrote:
being unable to move at FTL speeds would make Tyranids a joke, not a threat. the IoM would have so much time between 'nid attacks they'd be able to concentrate forces and turn attacks aside with very little effort

like tau?

 koooaei wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
being unable to move at FTL speeds would make Tyranids a joke, not a threat. the IoM would have so much time between 'nid attacks they'd be able to concentrate forces and turn attacks aside with very little effort

like tau?

Tau have FTL travel. they're slower but they have it. understand that if the 'nids ONLY traveled at the speed of light it'd take them likely a decade to get from one food sorucer to the next. giving the IoM sufficant time to fortify to such a degree that the 'nids simply would be unable to win

They take classes on stuff like painting, pottery and baking delicious little pastries. Sometimes they hang out at coffee shops and wait for open mic night to start.

Imperial detection devices aren't that good, BrianDavion. They can only detect a Hive Fleet incoming about a year before they actually arrive, and that's because their astropaths suddenly all go dark. With no way to get out a plea for help, all the fortification building and preparation in the world won't save them from the 'nids.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
This is really a thing? This thread?

That sound? That was the bottom of the barrel being scraped.

Are you Greir? Because you seem impervious to fun .

Reproduce...

And after a week-long orgy they get the munchies and go in search of another world.

I'm pretty sure Tyranids don't have free time. Every tyranid organism has purpose.

If a Tyranid organism has nothing to do, they throw themselves into a digestion pool.

BrianDavion wrote:

 koooaei wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
being unable to move at FTL speeds would make Tyranids a joke, not a threat. the IoM would have so much time between 'nid attacks they'd be able to concentrate forces and turn attacks aside with very little effort

like tau?

Tau have FTL travel. they're slower but they have it. understand that if the 'nids ONLY traveled at the speed of light it'd take them likely a decade to get from one food sorucer to the next. giving the IoM sufficant time to fortify to such a degree that the 'nids simply would be unable to win

You overestimate the Imperial bureaucracy. It will take years before the information of an approaching Hivefleet reaches the proper decisionmakers at the Administratum, years to gather the neccesary forces to confront the Tyranids and then pray the Warp is in a good mood and all forces will actually arrive when and where they are needed. And of course it is always possible the reports of the Tyranid attack are lost somewhere in the bureaucratic chaos.
Not to mention that the Hivemind shutting out astropaths does not really do wonders for communication either.

The Imperium is so sluggish that the Tyranids could eat an entire subsector before the Imperium even knows it is under attack.

On a sidenote, this is also why Space Marines are so valuable to the Imperium. They can react quickly and marshal forces without all the bureacratic hassle (unless they are the Iron Hands of course )

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
This is really a thing? This thread?

That sound? That was the bottom of the barrel being scraped.

Are you Greir? Because you seem impervious to fun .

Nope He is just one of the more sensible persons in this thread

Greir has multiple accounts on Dakka .

 Great White wrote:
They eat Macraggeroni and cheese!

It's only January 6th, but this is already the post of the year.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Great White wrote:
They eat Macraggeroni and cheese!

It's only January 6th, but this is already the post of the year.

Now only to feed macraggerni forceful on an ultramarines....

Awesome quote is awesome (Great whites)

Anyway:

Genestealer cults as already mentioned.

They sit around arguing about the meaning of life and there own personal philosophy. Also they smoke tons of marijuana cause we all know there are great spots to grow on a hive ship.

 Tyran wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Tyran wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Tyranids don't have free time. They don't have digestive systems, they're created as need be and re-absorbed into goo when not necessary.

That said the hive ships don't get re-absorbed and with no FTL they must spend a lot of time playing space license plate bingo wandering between edible star systems.

Tyranids have FTL.

Sources vary. I recall BFG suggesting that they just move very fast at sublight but they retcon these things all the time and I may be misremembering.

5th edition codex gave us the Narvhal, which is slower but more reliable than Warp.

Of course that means that the Nids aren't really a threat..."Oh noes! The Nids are coming!" "When do they get here?" "Er...7,000 years." "Seriously, you woke me up for that?"


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Broly wrote:
I'm pretty sure Tyranids don't have free time. Every tyranid organism has purpose.

If a Tyranid organism has nothing to do, they throw themselves into a digestion pool.

Alternatively (and more energy efficient) they just go into hibernation until awakened for the next party.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 koooaei wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
being unable to move at FTL speeds would make Tyranids a joke, not a threat. the IoM would have so much time between 'nid attacks they'd be able to concentrate forces and turn attacks aside with very little effort

like tau?

Tau have FTL travel. they're slower but they have it. understand that if the 'nids ONLY traveled at the speed of light it'd take them likely a decade to get from one food sorucer to the next. giving the IoM sufficant time to fortify to such a degree that the 'nids simply would be unable to win

You overestimate the Imperial bureaucracy. It will take years before the information of an approaching Hivefleet reaches the proper decisionmakers at the Administratum, years to gather the neccesary forces to confront the Tyranids and then pray the Warp is in a good mood and all forces will actually arrive when and where they are needed. And of course it is always possible the reports of the Tyranid attack are lost somewhere in the bureaucratic chaos.
Not to mention that the Hivemind shutting out astropaths does not really do wonders for communication either.

The Imperium is so sluggish that the Tyranids could eat an entire subsector before the Imperium even knows it is under attack.

On a sidenote, this is also why Space Marines are so valuable to the Imperium. They can react quickly and marshal forces without all the bureacratic hassle (unless they are the Iron Hands of course )

no I don't over estimatge the Imperial Beucracy. belive me, my comment was taking into account the beucracy, however it was more noting the sheer size of the galaxy. if one assumed the Tyranids traveled at lightspeed, it would likely mean decades of travel from one major world to another. yet it would certinly take time, and they might lose a few minor worlds, but the IoM would easily martial sufficant force to defend the first major world it was obvious they where headed to