Why gks vs nids?

[drdotts]

Hello my friend plays grey knights and I play Tyranids and we were wanting to start a narrative campaign, the only problem is to my knowledge grey knights sole purpose is to fight off daemons. So I was wondering if someone could help me find/create a reason for nids and grey knights to be fighting. Thanks in advance!

[LordPathos]

There is a story in the codex about a planet that was consumed by Nids but it inadvertently opened a daemon portal. I can't remember the title of the section, but if you have it, you'll find it. Do something like that. GKs need to capture an artifact or need to halt the Nid advance to stop a full scale daemonic incursion. Pretty sure there was something like that in the older GK codex too.

[wcgnidz]

That was I THINK in the 7th edition codex. Some GK planet suppressing a chaos rift opening relic. Nids came down. GK had valiant last stand. Daemons came out. The fascinating point of that piece of fluff is the tyranids were apathetic towards the daemons implying tyranids understand warp energy isnt biomass.

Only when the daemons, infuriated by the apathy of the tyranids, attacked did a true conflict begin.

[acehilator]

It is the "Fall of Shadowbrink" story in the last codex. Leaders refused to evacuate the planet, GKs were there to protect a dormant warpgate, but were quickly overrun, and all the killing on the planet after the Tyranids arrived opened the rift. Nids won in the end because the demons were all like "screw you guys, feel some emotions" and couldn't sustain the warp portal.

[Hive Bahamut]

Grey Knights are tasked by an Inquisitor to kill a rogue Daemon running amok on *planet K177D34D*

When they arrive it is clear the Intel was from a subjugated Acolyte of the Hive Fleets, because it may be malevolent but it isn't Daemonic. It is *Tyrant Dy4urGlry* and the initial defenses have been dismantled by it's Cult.

Path A: Grey Knights care not for prejudice and kill all Daemons (materium or physical) while rocking out to psalms of abstinence and how temptation is the devil.

Path B: Tyrant Dy4urGlry probably still dies, but this way he falls on the Captain and Impales him.

*insert victor* rejoices by comsuming/"liberating" the other. Rinse and repeat.

[purestrain]

Gks kill bunch of daemons on a planet, psychic presence attracts nids during ends of battle. Overwhelming waves of gribblies poor onto the stoic motherfu....Knights, dying horribly and doing nothing all day then one round you roll four ones and then fail your morale test and run away from three gaunts and a one wound warrior, crying like the little bit....brave warrior you are.

You're the reinforcements that sniveling cowa... truly brave warrior besieged for assistance!

[jesses]

Some ideas for you:

1.) The Tyranids are assaulting a planet that has a shrine/artefact/relic/etc that is sacred to the Grey Knights.

2.) A Lord Inquisitor simply requisitioned them to fight because they were the closest Imperial asset, and the GKs grudgingly agree.

3.) The GK's are on-planet rooting out a daemon-infestation when a Hive Fleet appears. The Shadow in the Warp banishes the daemons, but it also prevents the GK astropaths from navigation leaving the GK's stranded and forced to fight for the Imperial Citizenry.

4.) The Tyranids are drawn to a GK fortress-monastery by the combined psychic trace of the GK's (Tyranids are drawn to psychic power, it is hinted that the reason they are focused on getting to Terra is that the Astronomicon itself is drawing their attention).

5.) The GK's, more prone to Xenos research than others (hell, they use Necron devices they've scavenged), want to study the Tyranids to understand how the Shadow in the Warp interferes with Chaos' ability to reach the material plane. A task force of GK's is dispatched to isolate a splinter fleet for research.

[NidNoms]

Oct 11, 2017 15:55:26 GMT LordPathos said:

There is a story in the codex about a planet that was consumed by Nids but it inadvertently opened a daemon portal. I can't remember the title of the section, but if you have it, you'll find it. Do something like that. GKs need to capture an artifact or need to halt the Nid advance to stop a full scale daemonic incursion. Pretty sure there was something like that in the older GK codex too.

yeah, it was 7th ed dex (gag) the planet was Shadowbrink, and they faced off 4 Greater Deamons, one of each Chaos god and there forces, it even tells how the Khorne Great Deaomon Hak'Vasha was sent back to the warp while still fighting 3 Trigons.

[LordPathos]

Jan 17, 2018 22:38:43 GMT NidNoms said:

Oct 11, 2017 15:55:26 GMT LordPathos said:

There is a story in the codex about a planet that was consumed by Nids but it inadvertently opened a daemon portal. I can't remember the title of the section, but if you have it, you'll find it. Do something like that. GKs need to capture an artifact or need to halt the Nid advance to stop a full scale daemonic incursion. Pretty sure there was something like that in the older GK codex too.

yeah, it was 7th ed dex (gag) the planet was Shadowbrink, and they faced off 4 Greater Deamons, one of each Chaos god and there forces, it even tells how the Khorne Great Deaomon Hak'Vasha was sent back to the warp while still fighting 3 Trigons.

[gman25639]

GKs trying to capture 'Nids to study how the Shadow in the Warp affects the Daemons, all out brawl ensues.

[Threeshades]

Warp anomalies are reported around a system and a nearby grey knights company is despatched to investigate for the potential of a demonic incursion. Turns out the warp anomaly was caused by an encroaching tyranid hive. The two sides come to blows and it soon turns out that the strange warp phenomena are part of a psychic presence the tyranids must have evolved to mess with reinforcements for prey worlds or perhaps its is something even stranger.