Personally I love the theory that the Nids are just regular galactic super predators, going about eating people normally, only eventually enter the thunder dome known as the Milky Way. I like to imagine that they came in expecting some disparate but normal alien food, only to find chaos and a bunch of other shot and are like “what the hell?”
Lol, that would be stupid theory. The Hivemind already fought different Races from different Galaxies, it's not like they were surprised by the resistance it would be like the Hivemind is expecting different form of Resistance from new Races of new Galaxies. 😂
@@deepdungeon8465 I actually like it. The Old Ones seem to have been limited to the Milky Way, and their war with the Necrontar is what caused everything to go down the drain. The Milky Way could easily be an extremely tough meal compared to other galaxies.
@@Oh-five-six-ninenot just a tough meal, but its that one rotten nut in the pack that will make you fear every other one in the bag :D Also, if GW says "life" isnt even the first big filter, living like a locust outside of the milky way might be super feasible, and milky way is the only galaxy that passed the later filters while acquiring the trait "self-consciousness", with all the horrible shit we see now (Chaos etc) accompanying it, while outside of here it was more like a wide-savvanna-situation.
That feels really stupid though. Like, there's a level of vast alien swarm that's big enough to kill everyone in a galaxy, there's a level that's so big that it has to keep moving between galaxies to feed after it kills everything, and then there's a level that's so so big that it would have to eat itself just to get anywhere near its destination.
@@RorikH "They're like locusts, they're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on. And we're next." Bonus points if you know where that comes from :P
it makes you wonder, what have the Tyrannids got planned for the Orks or the lovecraftian horrors of the Halo Stars. i also have a feeling the hivemind has no idea on how to fight the Necrons, and in fact the Silent king is working very hard to prepare for the hiveminds arrival in the Milky Way since it is rumoured that wen the Silent King traveled outside of the milky way he saw the main Tyrannid fleet and the hivemind
Yup, that 9th edition trailer that showed new Necron units units and the new model reveal of the Silent King... then GW did shit all with it except go back to focusing on Chaos. Wonder if 10th edition is the same, except this time there's *more* Chaos?
@@TheEmperorsLegion Sounds about right. "Bugs yesterday, bugs today, an' blimey, if it don't look like bugs again tomorrow. Sod dis, I wanna fight some hummiez."
@@aidansmith5093Understandable, but I do like the idea of a kind of “end of the world” faction that was chasing a comparatively smaller “end of the world” faction. And the absolute hell it would unleash.
Isn't there a splinter fleet that went insane and started hunting down other tyrannid fleets or am I miss remembering something. I know their is a fleet that hunts down tyrannid fleets whose genetics would be overall harmful to the tyrannids
Men of Iron pretty please come back and also I wonder if Nids are related to Necrons, since they seem awfully good at purging organics from tomb worlds (And all worlds)
To be fair, the Tyranids as a faction function far different compared to the others. War for the other factions would just be an experiment or test trial for the Tyranids. If they are encircling the galaxy and have consumed several other galaxies prior to this, they have every advantage to take their time to perfect themselves.
@@pillarmenn1936 The thing is, they shouldn't have every advantage to take their time. They're made of meat, meat needs food, and the longer the swarm goes without a good meal the smaller it should get, as it should have to cannibalize itself to keep going. I honestly think that could be much cooler than a galaxy sized swarm flying through space: A few hive fleets arrive to a Galaxy, they win and grow, and eventually they consume everything and become so big they have to leave for another galaxy. By the time they reach that Galaxy, they've had to cannibalize themselves so much that they're only at 1% of the power they had beforehand, and then they start to grow and feed and once again become an unstoppable threat, but they're not just running on perpetual motion.
@@adblue8955 Hence the existence of 10th edition. Besides, they do have some victories. The doom of malan'tai is certainly a good one. A tyranid singlehandedly destroying an Aeldari Craftworld is one hell of a feat.
@@adblue8955 Did you forget about the Octarious sector and how *much* biomass and evolutionary traits the Tyranids gained from that battle alone? Might be equivalent of a threat to the War of the Beast
Ok so after Leviathan first attempted to attack Baal the blood Angel's homeworld, I'm pretty sure they got diverted like they could have been splintered into smaller ones. but I think the main fleet went somewhere.
