Why do people play nids?

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**Baldeagle91**

Dakka Wolf wrote:
Baldeagle91 wrote:
Dakka Wolf wrote:
I got Nids as my secondary army because the idea of Jurassic Park in Space made me laugh...then I found out they were bugs not lizards...kind of wish I got Orks.
Oh and they make a great intro army because they're big and intimidating and easily beaten.

I think around 2nd they were more lizards and thus, lizardmen in space until they tried to get away from that idea. They even still had sentient and consciously independent slave races.

About the same time the Squats got...I'm not finishing that pun.

Didn't the squats actually get gobbled up by the nids leading up to their.... *insert the well known pun here*

**locarno24**

I do like them; the 'expendable swarm' feel is very satisfying, as is the other approach - broodlords and lictors have a very nice 'thing in the shadows' feel to them.

**Pouncey**

Voreaphilia fetish is another possible reason.

Because Tyranids reproduce by eating and digesting a lot of people.

**chrispy1991**

mrhappyface wrote:
I can understand why people choose tovplay a lot of factions:
Space marine if you like the super soldier army,
Imperial guard if you prefer the traditional army,
Chaos if you despise the imperium (or your edgy enough),
Eldar if you like a more advanced race,
Necrons if your a bit dead inside,
Tau if your too lazy to move your models once you've deployed,
Orks if your a bit... Well you get the picture.

You don't play Imperial guard because you prefer the traditional army. You play it because you find normal men and women fighting valiantly against a universe of super soldiers, high-tech xenos, and scary tyranid aliens inspiring, unlike those super soldiers that need fancy gear and geneseed to be heroic.

**General Annoyance**

Pouncey wrote:
Voreaphilia fetish is another possible reason.

Because Tyranids reproduce by eating and digesting a lot of people.

Would be an incredibly daft reason to spend a lot of cash on an army, no?

That alongside it being a really creepy fetish. Humanity never fails to startle me.

**Pouncey**

General Annoyance wrote:
Pouncey wrote:
Voreaphilia fetish is another possible reason.

Because Tyranids reproduce by eating and digesting a lot of people.

Would be an incredibly daft reason to spend a lot of cash on an army, no?

That alongside it being a really creepy fetish. Humanity never fails to startle me.

By itself, yeah, it'd be a terrible reason.

But it could be a consideration a few people give to their army choice along with the numerous other reasons in this thread.

**jasper76**

I have a Tyranid army, because it's the closest thing to the xenomorphs in Aliens, and I was obsessed with the Aliens franchise when I was young. So nostalgia.

The rules for them are horrible though :(

**SYKOJAK**

My son plays them for 2 reasons, the looks of the models, and the fact that they are the most exotic of all the Armies.

**60mm**

Aside from the aesthetics/fluff, they are the only non-human army.

Orks - Green humans
Eldar - Humans with pointy hats
IoM - Humans
Tau - Blue humans
Necron - Metal humans/Terminator Knock-off
Chaos - Humans

In the future . . . there are no aliens. Just humans.

**Selym**

60mm wrote:
Aside from the aesthetics/fluff, they are the only non-human army.

Orks - Green humans
Eldar - Humans with pointy hats
IoM - Humans
Tau - Blue humans
Necron - Metal humans/Terminator Knock-off
Chaos - Humans

In the future . . . there are no aliens. Just humans.

You forgot Daemons.

**60mm**

Selym wrote:
60mm wrote:
Aside from the aesthetics/fluff, they are the only non-human army.

Orks - Green humans
Eldar - Humans with pointy hats
IoM - Humans
Tau - Blue humans
Necron - Metal humans/Terminator Knock-off
Chaos - Humans

In the future . . . there are no aliens. Just humans.

You forgot Daemons.

Demons - Humans with demonic features, accompanied by dogs and various earth creatures, also with demonic features.

**jasper76**

I don't know....Tyranid Warriors look pretty human to me. Hell, the xenomorphs from Aliens look pretty human when you think about it.

**60mm**

jasper76 wrote:
I don't know....Tyrants WArriors look pretty human to me. Hell, the xenomorphs from Aliens look pretty human when you think about it.

Agreed. I should say that the Tyranids are the least human. At least they largely lack free will and emotion, which are more important to something feeling human than the number of limbs :-/

Xenomorphs are a totally different story and were made to be reflections of humans from the get-go.

**PyrhusOfEpirus**

mrhappyface wrote:
General Annoyance wrote:
You play Tyranids because you've probably watched the Alien movies and also want to drown your foes in mindless, carnivorous beasts, and flip tanks with Carnifexes

Pretty simple

And then get disappointed?

you mean just like everybody who dosnt play eldar, tau, or a space marine variant?

**Slayer-Fan123**

SGTPozy wrote:
"Necrons if your a bit dead inside,
Tau if your too lazy to move your models once you've deployed,"

A bit insulting isn't it? Generalising a group of people based on negative stereotypes. This is the sort of thing that leads to racism.

This is literally the biggest overreaction on this forum to a statement like this.

**Pouncey**

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
SGTPozy wrote:
"Necrons if your a bit dead inside,
Tau if your too lazy to move your models once you've deployed,"

A bit insulting isn't it? Generalising a group of people based on negative stereotypes. This is the sort of thing that leads to racism.

This is literally the biggest overreaction on this forum to a statement like this.

Really?

Wow, Dakka's a really calm and tame place.

But I kinda already knew that.

**Selym**

Pouncey wrote:
Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
SGTPozy wrote:
"Necrons if your a bit dead inside,
Tau if your too lazy to move your models once you've deployed,"

A bit insulting isn't it? Generalising a group of people based on negative stereotypes. This is the sort of thing that leads to racism.

This is literally the biggest overreaction on this forum to a statement like this.

Really?

Wow, Dakka's a really calm and tame place.

But I kinda already knew that.

Passive-agressiveness leads to flame, flame leads to hate. Hate leads to rage, rage leads to Trolling. Trolling leads to bans.

Bans lead to... suffering...

**Happyjew**

Selym wrote:
Pouncey wrote:
Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
SGTPozy wrote:
"Necrons if your a bit dead inside,
Tau if your too lazy to move your models once you've deployed,"

A bit insulting isn't it? Generalising a group of people based on negative stereotypes. This is the sort of thing that leads to racism.

This is literally the biggest overreaction on this forum to a statement like this.

Really?

Wow, Dakka's a really calm and tame place.

But I kinda already knew that.
Passive-agressiveness leads to flame, flame leads to hate. Hate leads to rage, rage leads to Trolling. Trolling leads to bans.

Bans lead to... suffering...

I'm not afraid.

**Pouncey**

Selym wrote:
Passive-agressiveness leads to flame, flame leads to hate. Hate leads to rage, rage leads to Trolling. Trolling leads to bans.

Bans lead to... suffering...

No, I mean that some of the other forums I go on have people who launch into hour-long angry, hateful rants about other countries simply for not using the same terminology their country does.

Seriously, compared to those other forums, Dakka actually is very calm.