How do you refer to your nids?

[Tempests Wrath]

This is a random question.

But do you refer to your specific nids (normally any model representing a character) as male or female? Or are you boring and just say 'it'

Hive Tyrants are an example i have seen a lot. A lot of people refer to it as 'her' or 'she' when discussing it. Where I always refer to 'it' as a male. "He smashed open the tank.." etc.

For me:
Hive Tyrants: Male
Trygons: Female
Tervimoms: Female
Tyranid Primes: Male

[mhqvick]

all my tyranids are males (:

and when i refer to tyranids over all, I say wee ( I am actually a tyranid myself)

[scorpio]

Al, my Nids are male apart from tervigons. I refer to my swarmlord as 'Swarmy' as he may or may not be a male in that particular reincarnation.

[kenji10000]

All males.

My army as a collective a say "the bugs" or "my nids"

[wisdomseyes1]

Synapse creatures are female: they are the smartest most controlling of the Tyranids. They control the mindless drones with just a look. They get what thy want from their "male" counterparts, and aren't questioned. Ever.

Everything else is male: they are the drones that follow the females orders without question to please them. They will throw themselves in front of bullets to please the females of their superior rank.

That has been my logic sinse someone mentioned it on the hive an I liked it. It made sense ^_^ (that's why you will always see me say "she" on a hive tyrant, and once and a while call swarmlord "big mama" )

[greatescape13]

I refer to my 'Nids as both.

Usually in a game I am indicating a model, so often say "this one" or "that one" combined with pointing rather than "he" or "she", as usually when speaking about a particular model it is to inform my opponent of some action or quality.

Tervigon gets over-feminized due to "giving birth" to the termagaunts, around our game store my Tervigon is called "Mama" by a lot of my foes.

Cheers.

[Bot]

I don't give my Tyranids Genders as I see tyranids as an Asexual organism. Tyranids do not need females and males to reproduce. Although I might sometimes speak of my Tyrant as a he, but as, mhqvick, I normally speak of my Tyranids as "We".

[greatescape13]

I picture my Tervigon as Mama from Mama's Family, the old 80's sitcom.

Sort of like this:



She's always yelling for Vinton to fix the radiator.

[mhqvick]

my tervigon dont give birth to gants - it sh*ts gants
nor does it "dry out" - it gets constipated

so my tervigon is a boy/man too

[fleetofclaw]

Apparently they're all technically females, although I always referred to my tyrant as a he. Carnifex on the other hand I referred to as she, then I learned about them being female and the rest was history. Momma bug was a pretty obvious one though.

Oh, genestealers I still think of as males.

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[halos]

I'm with Widdomeyes; synapse creatures get female pronouns, everything else is either male or gender neutral.

Fits with the general insect hive feel, what with the 'queens' being the most important members etc.

[questioner]

Dinner

[wisdomseyes1]

Jul 28, 2012 18:53:30 GMT questioner said:

Dinner

You eat your Tyranids? 0.o

[questioner]

Jul 28, 2012 18:58:36 GMT wisdomseyes1 said:

Jul 28, 2012 18:53:30 GMT questioner said:

Dinner

You eat your Tyranids? 0.o

Sure beats them eating me!


I should point out that I don't actually have Nids. I was going to get them, and I still may, but not anytime soon, due to A) not having my Necrons/Chaos Space Marines/Grey Knights anywhere near sorted, and B) price increases. But I would refer to them as The [Insert Unit Name Here] of Hive Fleet Dinner if I had them.

[guns]

I try to type "it" when I'm making a thoughtful comment about them, because there's no indication in the fluff that they have any gender divisions or reproduce sexually.

However, in normal conversation I tend to slip into "he" due to habit and ease.