Talk:Tyranid

Clean up

Im going to be reformatting this page and cleaning it up. it is seriously a mess with a ton of info that years old and not relevent anymore. --Kapow (talk) 07:56, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

nsfw

Do we really want NSFW material in this article? --Myomoto 23:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes. We want NSFW material EVERYWHERE. Fatum 23:40, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Seconded in the name of fa/tg/uys everywhere. - Ahri 23:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm so gonna end up getting fired from this you guys ;_; --Myomoto 23:43, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Just as planned. - Ahri 23:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I believe the promotions article has a comment relevant to your situation. --Carcer 23:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I think we should leave it there now because the article is so small nobody cares anyway. If somebody ever gets up and makes a good nid article they should delete.

this needs more promotions adding promotions now

promotions are relevent to ALL topics. Wiki needs more.

Thing is there's not much character to nids anyway. They Nom, and people blow them up. That's it. If we seen them with monocles, then we're in trouble. And yeah, the pr0n is still nasty.

High magnitude bullshit

The actual mass lost as a result of chemical reactions to produce energy in biological organisms is incredibly tiny, especially if you're a fantastically efficient genetically engineered super-organism. You won't get a perfect 1:1 ratio of new warriors to old corpses, but you will get near enough; the energy they expend is a tiny fraction of overall mass. --87.194.31.223 11:12, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

While that could possibly make sense, I find it's more fun to complain vocally about things you enjoy.

I remember reading somewhere that part of the Tyranid's consumption of planets involved tapping out lots of their geothermal energy. I imagine that a lot of the self-replicating structure-organisms burrow into the ground and use tempeture difference between layers of the crust to power the rest of the process, transmitting it through the miles of arterial tubes that connect things like capillary towers. -- 63.249.15.43

Red Terror

Can we have an article on the Red Terror, I mean, if the dice facor you, that one model could theoretically swallow hundreds of models. Including Necron Warriors, which I think would rather cause indigestion. --71.229.74.0 20:51, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

If you can A.) Pull up the stats, B.) Bitch and moan and say its overpowered, and C.) Make the article relevant to /tg/, then by all means make one. Ragnasal 23:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Even if there are no stats I think we could still have an article on the fluff. If you want to have a Red Terror page, and are not willing to make it yourself, make any mentions of you find to it links to the non-existant page so it will show up on the Wanted Pages (at least thats how I think wanted pages works). Assuming it has stats, I would like to see mentions of its utility on the Tactics/Tyranids

The Swarmlord

I think he's totally deserve his own article - Swarmlord is major badass ada one of the only if not the only tyranyd character with some personality. And he's pwned Papa Smurf in both tactics and one-to-one combat, which is always good. On the other hand my English is terrible and a hope someone could do it better then me.

• It's already been done, look him up and enjoy.

info on prior versions

the articale has usefull info on the 2 newest iterations but nothing on prior versions which is a problem when those prior editions are refrenced in the descriptions we already Tuypo1 (talk) 05:06, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

What would the Tyranids if they wipe out all life?

If they succeeded in wiping out all life (and maybe the Necrons too) what would they do. They've completed their goal, so what then?

• Move on to the next galaxy, just like they've done Emperor knows how many times before. - Biggus Berrus (talk) 23:54, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

No, all life. In every galaxy. Then what?

• The heat death of the universe happens shortly after. Because it takes a VERY long time to travel from galaxy to galaxy. By the time they ate it all it's only a matter of time before they too are gone and everything dies. - Biggus Berrus (talk) 20:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

The Tyranids' MO kind of begs the question about why they don't just eat a small enough amount and go into hibernation until those worlds regrow, allowing for "sustainable eating." Real-life swarming locusts do eat everything in sight but don't do so all the time. However, given that the question of why the Tyranids targeted the Milky Way for a roadside snack has already been answered in the Horus Heresy novels, we should eventually get some answers as to the origin and history of the Tyranids, as well as perhaps whether or not they're actually running from something too. --TheDiceDon'tStopRolling (talk) 20:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Re: Kronos & Chaos Corruption

I don't want this to degenerate into an edit war, so let's hash it out here.

I don't think that one story cited is sufficient justification for the party pooper added-on-at-the-end sentence those anonymous jerks insist needs to be there, and there are three reasons for that. 1. It's about the Genestealers, a single strain of the Tyranids who are pretty different from the others and specifically designed to be so. 2. The Genestealer cult in question was formed by the Genestealers combining their DNA with that of humans, who above any other race in the setting are vulnerable to Chaos corruption. (Try and deny it, they're the most common and numerous servants of Chaos not to be Daemons.) Who's to say that wasn't the key to their corruption? 3. They didn't wind up in just any Warp-covered end of the galaxy, but the fucking home plane of Nurgle, and suffered at the hands of the Plaguefather himself long before they were re-released to the material plane. Being in the presence of a large Warp energy spillage is to the personal attentions of a Chaos God what walking home from work is to running a triathlon. In summation, I posit that this line is spurious to requirements and should just be removed. Is it just me or does anyone else think that too? --Panthera Awesome (talk) 02:45, 14 July 2018 (UTC)