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Brikker
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That's a Baneblade from the cover. You can find them cheaper at other web stores but this is the kit below. It's not a space marine tank but imperial guard. Maybe there's other tanks in the book?
Actually if you want to troll your husband this is from the 10mm game out of print (about 1 inch long)
GW Warhammer 40K Epic Imperial Guard Baneblade Super Heavy Tanks | eBay
The price is for a single Baneblade Super Heavy Tank.www.ebay.com
$170 for a few bits of plastic, what the fuck?
Gankak
Vyemm Raider
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Muurloen
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Goonsquad Officer
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They suck it bare and leave like locusts. They aRe called tyranids because the first world they ate when they drifted into the galactic plane was called tyr or something like that.
Some inquisitor showed up at a previously lush world. Got out his microscope and marveled at its sterility. Eventually the nids hit a developed imperial world and they sorted out what happened. (The story was either in epic. Or the origional nid codex)
The epic tyranid source books detail how they do it. The nids kill everything then the bioships enter geostationary orbit. An umbilical is lowered and ripper swarms eat everything on the planet. Spitting it all into the biomatter pits, and the ships suck it all up to make more nids. I think they even destroy most of the tyranid soldiers rather than re using them.
Some inquisitor showed up at a previously lush world. Got out his microscope and marveled at its sterility. Eventually the nids hit a developed imperial world and they sorted out what happened. (The story was either in epic. Or the origional nid codex)
The epic tyranid source books detail how they do it. The nids kill everything then the bioships enter geostationary orbit. An umbilical is lowered and ripper swarms eat everything on the planet. Spitting it all into the biomatter pits, and the ships suck it all up to make more nids. I think they even destroy most of the tyranid soldiers rather than re using them.
Palum
what Suineg set it to
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I don't recall ever seeing this explicitly addressed, however, it is well established that they 'pack up' all the biomass left over after scouring it including all of their own creatures that can't be moved. They don't really have a reason to leave a scout behind, they don't really 'care' about strategy in the same terms as other races.
Daidraco
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I was thinking there might be a cuck type of strategy in the lore. As I'm under the assumption that terraforming planets is old news in the 40k universe. So basically abandon the planet, circle back around after theyve left and completely avoid the conflict. Since tyranids arent exactly checking back on desecrated worlds - seems as though if would be safe.
Everything Ive read so far just makes it sound like theyre the end all, be all, to the universe. Them and chaos, anyways.
Everything Ive read so far just makes it sound like theyre the end all, be all, to the universe. Them and chaos, anyways.
Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Well they are made out to be THE existential threat. Chaos doesn't like them at all because they all cease to exist if life in the material universe goes away due to the psychic bonds between real space and the immaterium.
I'm not sure how many lore cases there are of terraforming completely dead planets like that. The setting generally tends to imply planets are so plentiful they are used when found. Though it's clear there was a lot more of that sort of crazy stuff going on during the Golden age expansion.
Besides, it's not like the Tyranids wouldn't necessarily check systems they'd been to before, or that there aren't always more Tyranids wandering by. The impression you get from them lore is it's a sea of Tyranids ships streaming in constantly, not just like a group that drives through together.
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Phazael
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Tyrran was mentioned in the old second edition books. Space Hulk introduced Gene Stealers to the game universe first and they are a vanguard organism meant to infiltrate and sample a developed world and signal the local hive fleets for when its time to come in. They are basically an extra galactic locust swarm with no need or intent to settle on worlds, having turned into hive mind space faring beings at this point. Their telepathic hive mind does not actually control everything all the time, so some sub species have limited autonomy (Genestealers being the most known example) and all of them have instinctual behavior that they fall back on when out of contact with the hive mind.
Really what they are are hive minds in big bio ships and the individual creatures themselves are really just biological machines they use to harvest biomass. Some of their older codexes speculated on them being a doomsday weapon of some sort. But I think the simplest explanation is likely they are some sort of apex predator from outside the galaxy that wandered in.
Really what they are are hive minds in big bio ships and the individual creatures themselves are really just biological machines they use to harvest biomass. Some of their older codexes speculated on them being a doomsday weapon of some sort. But I think the simplest explanation is likely they are some sort of apex predator from outside the galaxy that wandered in.