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[jlbdeath]

Adridos, on 03 December 2011 - 02:29 PM, said:

What exactly is "The Borg"? A cyborg? If yes, then Borg, if not, however, then Tyranids. They eat Zergs for lunch.

ok for the non star trek enlightened the borg are a cyborg hive technology incorporating (sorry about the ten dollar words) race what 1 knows all know so they can adapt to any thing by knowing the weakness of other races.

[Adridos]

jlbdeath, on 06 December 2011 - 05:45 AM, said:

ok for the non star trek enlightened the borg are a cyborg hive technology incorporating (sorry about the ten dollar words) race what 1 knows all know so they can adapt to any thing by knowing the weakness of other races.

Tyranids don't have any weakness, much like every army in WH40k.

Oh, and thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Miles Tails Prower]

Necron vs Borg.

Now that would be more interesting.

[Adridos]

Miles Tails Prower, on 06 December 2011 - 08:20 PM, said:

Necron vs Borg.

Now that would be more interesting.

If the Borgs only assimilate and don't have super weaponry, they would be screwed. I mean, you cannot possese (I didn't state that right) a Necron. It's just a pile of metal controlled by some spirit. Nanites can only destroy the metal, but the warrior itself would just take another body and kill again.

[Miles Tails Prower]

Borg vs Necron would be perfect.

Borg like cubes, Necron prefer pyramids.

Both have crazy technology that no one understands.

They're both generally on the slloooow side.

That'd be an actually interesting battle.

[Hanyit Greyhame]

'Nids. Have you seen how fast they assimilate whole PLANETS?!? Hours, days at the most, and you only have a hunk of rock left. Plus, they reproduce virtually at the speed of bacteria...

Regards,

Hanyit Greyhame

[Adridos]

Hanyit Greyhame, on 07 December 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:

'Nids. Have you seen how fast they assimilate whole PLANETS?!? Hours, days at the most, and you only have a hunk of rock left. Plus, they reproduce virtually at the speed of bacteria...

Regards,

Hanyit Greyhame

Finally someone who understands me.

Edited by Adridos, 08 December 2011 - 04:58 AM.

[Wil Scarlet]

K didn't ask about 'nids' not even really sure what they are and well.. that wasn't the question, by the way, ANYONE that answered 'nids' is a geek, plan pure and simple, you are a card carrying pocket protector geek... nothing wrong with it, but call an apple an apple

[Miles Tails Prower]

The Tyranids aren't a good match up because it isn't fair. It's more about looking for a good close battle to debate rather than talking about who would own the Borg hands down.

Besides, the only thing that can waste the Tyranids is probably Chaos.

[flessar]

Orks do a good job too, even the nids have a tough time fightin the fungus amungus.

[Alizabeth Aijou]

Hanyit Greyhame, on 07 December 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:

'Nids. Have you seen how fast they assimilate whole PLANETS?!? Hours, days at the most, and you only have a hunk of rock left. Plus, they reproduce virtually at the speed of bacteria...

Regards,

Hanyit Greyhame

The entire process for the 'nids takes a bit less than 100 days, actually.
And that includes the prelude to the actual invasion (dropping lictors/genestealers).
That's 50 days before the main hive fleet arives, their craft numbering some 1½ billion.
Day 100: Imperial Fleet arives to find a desolate wasteland devoid of biomatter, water and atmosphere.

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K didn't ask about 'nids' not even really sure what they are and well.. that wasn't the question, by the way, ANYONE that answered 'nids' is a geek, plan pure and simple, you are a card carrying pocket protector geek... nothing wrong with it, but call an apple an apple

You can't talk zerg without talking 'nids, afaik.
The entire concept of the zerg is based on the 'nids.

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Orks do a good job too, even the nids have a tough time fightin the fungus amungus.

Kryptman's gamble, yes.
Which is, apparantly, backfiring.
Orks get stronger from conflict, as do the 'nids.
Either way, the Imperium would have to face a vastly superior foe regardless of which side survives.
In my eyes, it is simply a matter of time before the 'nids finish eating all the orks in that region of space, before continueing to Terra.

[Adridos]

Alizabeth Aijou, on 09 December 2011 - 02:26 AM, said:

Kryptman's gamble, yes.
Which is, apparantly, backfiring.
Orks get stronger from conflict, as do the 'nids.
Either way, the Imperium would have to face a vastly superior foe regardless of which side survives.
In my eyes, it is simply a matter of time before the 'nids finish eating all the orks in that region of space, before continueing to Terra.

Everyone in the Imperium is well aware of that fact, yet, they hope victory of one of the sides will leave it weak enough for Imperium to deliver the crushing blow.

[Miles Tails Prower]

If the prophecy(or the "acuity" as it's called) is true, the orks and the tyranids won't even matter ultimately, since Chaos is fated to sweep the universe as a result of Horus losing the civil war.

Edited by Miles Tails Prower, 09 December 2011 - 12:22 PM.

[Nathan Explosion]

I go with Borg all the way ,too as for the battle vs the Zerg. Even if they assimilarte one drone thy can build complete Borg/zerg hybrid bases. Actually that's kind of a scary thought.

[mecheze]

I'd give my vote to Zerg. To me, they just adapt and mutate extremely well. Lol

[Thomas Covenant]

Tyranids did it first.

Zerg did it better.

Edited by Thomas Covenant, 02 March 2012 - 08:25 PM.

[Zakatak]

Replicators stomp the Borg.
Tyranids stomp the Zerg.
The Flood stomps them all.

Edited by Zakatak, 02 March 2012 - 10:57 PM.

[Adridos]

Thomas Covenant, on 02 March 2012 - 08:24 PM, said:

Tyranids did it first.

Zerg did it better.

Zergs have problems getting just a few planets under their control.

Tyranids, on the other hand, come from galaxies far beyond, which they completely eradicated.

[Polymorphyne]

The 40k Tyranids are really quite quick to evolve and adapt, even more than people realise- when Hive Fleet Gorgon encountered the tau, the adaptability of the tau caused the hive fleet to evolve at an accelerated rate.
Here is an example engagement between hive fleet gorgon and the tau-
Day 1- Tau forces have placed kroot auxilleries in a defensive screen through the forests on their flank. Tyranid hormagaunts are sent in to clear them out. The hormagaunts get entangled in the dense shrubbery and killed by the kroot.
Day 2- Second wave of hormagaunts sent in to forest. These hormagaunts have been changed to be lither and more agile, so do not get entangled. Kroot only survive through sheer physical combat power.
Day 3- Third wave of hormagaunts. Agile and lithe like wave 2, but with their claws and arm muscles perfectly adapted to kill kroot most efficiently. The kroot are overrun. The hormagaunts then continue from the forest to attack the tau across open ground- and get cut apart due to being lithe/agile and not tough enough to resist fire.
Day 4- Fourth wave of hormagaunts (and termagaunts) attack the tau position. These broods are almost completely immune to tau pulse weaponry, rendering the tau forces almost incapable of harming them. The tau are slaughtered.

Later, Hive Fleet Gorgons space fleet also became immune to tau weaponry- in this case the Ion cannons used by tau spacecraft.

Against the Borg or Zerg, who adapt much faster than tau do.... I shudder to imagine what the tyranid hive fleets could achieve.

Also, the tyranids harvest the biomass and dna of any organism they encounter- when they defeat the zerg, they would essentially absorb all of the zergs weaponry/evolutionary data/etc, and create/improve their own biomorphs with whatever zerg designs are good enough.

[GDL Rahsan]

Good to know that the MechWarrior community got their WH40K knowledge in line, and Adridos you being a WH40K fan I guess makes up for you being a bloody cappie.