DoW II

[babycatachandevil]

If they use nids in DoW II,(hopefully yes) wat kind of resource will they use?

[Folken]

Its a good question. Depending on how they want to play off how the Tyranids first got there ( ie a ship crashed onto the planet or its a splinter fleet). If they play it as a ship fallen to earth then I suppose that they could eat the ship...maybe not all of it since it house's (possible) a Queen, but maybe parts of it.

Though I doubt this would happen. On the other hand if its a splinter fleet then there would be millions of spors preceding any Tyranid landing that would create a nice little kill zone. Then you can factor in other vanguard organisms and you in bussiness.

Or, and I hope they do this, we could see a large Fleet, like Kraken attempting to take this planet. Now that would be cool.

[babycatachandevil]

good point i dont think that 'nid can crash land unless getting shot down or the hive mind connection got messed up (not likely) and the things that move them are disabled
i do like my poll tho

[hivefleethydra]

I think that the Rippers would collect biomass from dead bodies (Like the kroot eat dead bodies), and bring it back to their hive ship. Though, to compensate, rippers would be relatively weak and the 'nids would have a very high income for their HQ buildings.

[babycatachandevil]

i guess but rippers would have to be dirt cheap

[hivefleethydra]

Maybe free... or at least very cheap like gretchin but then upgradeable, but you should be able to have a lot of them.

[babycatachandevil]

or maybe the will invent a new kind of unit cause it says in the codex that there are many different types except rippers are the most common, i think

[sonofmakuta]

I envisage Tyranids as getting two 'resources', Biomass and Evolution Level. (This is thinking from DoW 1 gameplay, I don't know whether DoW2 will even have Strategic Points.)

Biomass is gained by:
- harvesting bodies, or just killing the enemy
- dying
- building spore chimneys or similar, and listening posts
and is used to build stuff.

Evolution Level gradually increases as the game goes on; its rate of increase goes up when you build listening posts. This defines what you can build, or your squad cap, or something (a la what the Necrons have).

Something like that.

[babycatachandevil]

thats interseting never thought about spore chimneys tho it will most definently be bio-mass
do u think it will be like soulstorm and be multiple planets?

[hivefleethydra]

They said somewhere that it was going to be something like you are in command a space marine battlebarge protecting a sector of the Imperium... you would choose what planets to aid and you can choose between saving civilians and getting better armor. They also said they would have a "Space" multiplayer campaign.

[squidy]

I hope they eat bodies! If they did, all Tyranids would have to gather. If only rippers gathered, think about it. The rippers would have to go all the way over to the bodies and go back without dieing. If all Tyranids could gather, this would mean all you would have to do is send the just fed tyranids to your base.

[babycatachandevil]

maybe after the rippers eat they get leaping or u can make digestion pools in certain places maybe there are transports that rippers go in like a harridan and they get transported back to the digestion pool

[hivefleethydra]

But, fluff wise, not all tyranids gather...

[ErA | zoe)ender]

I heard that DOW 2 is not going to have bases, so it will be much like Mark of Chaos. (then technically there wont be resources)