Who Will Rule The Universe?

[ZergLord]

hivemaster07 said:

And i don`t think tyranids will ever rule the univers because without people or aliens to feed on they would just devolve.

That's the point of the story; there's a big difference between "rulling the galaxy" and "Destroying/eating everyone and everything in the galaxy".

It's pissing me off every time I see that almost everyone voted Tyranids on this poll just because they play them.

[hivemaster07]

well most people hear are biost

[commandervolfost]

two words Atmospheric Incinerators, when 'nids half consume a world, burn them all. Fire solves everything.

[Constantin Valdor]

Or in the words of Terry Pratchett, fire kills everything.

@ HM07 well duh, or there would be no arguments would there?

[romorini]

I don't think that it's mere bias that makes us beleive the Tyranids will conquer (doesn't hurt though). I've got many non-nid friends that agree wih the Necron-tyranid ending, and most feel that the necrons will simply wait for the nids to move on again. So, they bot technically win, though the necs won't get to harvest souls for another few million or billion years.

[Constantin Valdor]

Bias only means that we think a certain way about something. The only way you could not be biased is to have no view whatsoever. However its possible to have unfair or unreasoned bias, which is what your talking about i'm just being a pedant (no, its not for telling you how far you walked, that's a pedometer)

nids = overpowered

[carnogaunt]

commandervolfost said:

two words Atmospheric Incinerators, when 'nids half consume a world, burn them all. Fire solves everything.

The problem with that strategy is that there are a limited number of worlds in the galaxy that can sustain human life. Many, but limited, and the more planets they lose, the less resources they have to fight other enemies. Also, what if they invade Terra? Or Mars? Or some Space Marine homeworld (remember Maccrage?). The Imperium does not simply give up its planets like that.

Another thing: Many Tyranids are capable of surviving the process of Exterminatus, and even if you destroy most of their ground forces, they still have all of the ships in orbit. Ships that you also have to break through in order to get in bombing range of the planet in the first place.

[TheSwarm]

Also shadow of the warp keeps planets from calling for help.

TheSwarm

[mumbo12]

biotitan said:

whats this eldrad line i'm intruiged

It's on page 61 of the first Tau codex and goes like this.

"I have followed the myriad potential futures of the Tau with great interest. Though barely even striplings compared to us, I feel a strange protectiveness towards them. In time I believe they will exceed even our greatest feats and master the darkness within their souls."

Does that sound at all like an Eldar to you? I think the guy writing the codex got carried away with this idea of a "good" race. I've never heard of the Eldar giving a damn about anything other than their own race and in one instance, a pet cat.

[commandervolfost]

I canae see why the Inquisition (who see all, yes, even you) don't carry more salvoes of Exterminatus torpedoes to deal with obiting hive spatulas and then a couple to kill the 'nids on the ground with. Anyway, a hive fleet can't be that hard to detect, even if it is devouring a world.

[LictorsRule!]

mumbo12 said:

biotitan said:

whats this eldrad line i'm intruiged

It's on page 61 of the first Tau codex and goes like this.

"I have followed the myriad potential futures of the Tau with great interest. Though barely even striplings compared to us, I feel a strange protectiveness towards them. In time I believe they will exceed even our greatest feats and master the darkness within their souls."

Does that sound at all like an Eldar to you? I think the guy writing the codex got carried away with this idea of a "good" race. I've never heard of the Eldar giving a damn about anything other than their own race and in one instance, a pet cat.

This made me actually angry. No Eldar would EVER say that. At least by all the history I've seen of them. I don't know who it made me hate the guy that wrote it or Tau, cause I feel hate towards one of them now.

Eldar always have at least 2 insults when talking about any other race, it's obviously a fake because there's only 1 insult and it's not even very good. (plus there actually a COMPLIMENT )

[n00b1n8R]

i know the eldar are a bunch of arogent gits, but they also belive in what the old ones where doing, and one of those things was nurturing new races.

why wouldn't the eldar want to follow in thier foot steps?
n00b out

[Biotitan]

commandervolfost said:

I canae see why the Inquisition (who see all, yes, even you) don't carry more salvoes of Exterminatus torpedoes to deal with obiting hive spatulas and then a couple to kill the 'nids on the ground with. Anyway, a hive fleet can't be that hard to detect, even if it is devouring a world.

Maybe not, just no communications can leave from the area where the fleet is or has been, so the only way they would know is if they didn't get a return message.
Secondly the shadow in the warp makes warp travel practicaly suicidal for non tyranids.

[commandervolfost]

Clearly but I can't see why the hive mind (probably some guy in norfolk prime) craps up warp travel

[yoritomo]

I believe it has to do with all the psychic enegry it take to run the hive mind. It just kind of takes over the warp. I think you can still travel through it, it's just risky because the astropaths can't guide you through the warp. Kind of like driving you car at night without headlights.

Besides, even if you did get the call for help (which you can't), and made it to the planet (risky at best), then you would have to fight your way through the hive fleet's ships to launch your torpedos. This isn't a easy feat. It took the imperial navy and the ultramarines' fleet to stop Hive Fleet Behometh.