Tyranid Page Reworks

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

As you may know the Warhammer 40k profiles, especially the xenos pages, aren't the best in terms of quality, almost entirely lacking scans, references, or even having inaccurate statistics. So, here are reworks for a few of the Tyranid pages, worked on by both @Roachman40 and myself.

• Tyranid Sandbox | (Old Profile)
• Swarmlord Sandbox | (Old Profile)
• Doom of Malan'tai Sandbox | (Old Profile)

 

[PsychoWarper]

Agree with the changes, nice job as always bois

 

[Roachman40]

Agreed

 

[Liquid_Bigb0ss]

I agree, but shouldn’t the tyranid hive fleet have FTL travel speed due to the narvhal?

 

[DaReaperMan]

"WaIt fOr SiEgE oF tErRa tO FiNiSh"

I agree

 

[Shmooply]

worked on by both @Roachman40

to the surprise of absolutely nobody
Looks good to me bossman, agreed.

 

[RealGashMashWeedStasha]

yeah

 

[Armorchompy]

Not familiar with verse, but seems ok at a glance

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

I agree, but shouldn’t the tyranid hive fleet have FTL travel speed due to the narvhal?

They still travel at similar speeds relatively, it’s just they compress space and push themselves via gravity. In my opinion, it would at most boost their speed to some unknown degree given they propel themselves with gravity and we don’t have a confirmed bioship speed so it’s kind of hard to say how fast it’d be.

 

[XSOULOFCINDERX]

I agree with this CRT.

 

[Stillwinston]

Looks good to me

 

[SomaKing13]

i concur

 

[Roachman40]

Aye, one major edit I forgot to add in.

I will be merging the hivemind with the nid page, the hivemind itself is just the collective consciousness of the Tyranid species and isn't really its own separate entity, they are pretty much one in the same.

Thoughts on the new edit to the sandbox would be appreciated.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Yeah that's fine with me, plus the old page sucked anyways. Now we gotta wait for more staff approval cuz now it's a tier 1 upgrade lol

 

[PsychoWarper]

Aye, one major edit I forgot to add in.

I will be merging the hivemind with the nid page, the hivemind itself is just the collective consciousness of the Tyranid species and isn't really its own separate entity, they are pretty much one in the same.

Thoughts on the new edit to the sandbox would be appreciated.

Agree obviously

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Not familiar with verse, but seems ok at a glance

@Armorchompy Would you be able to check over the sandboxes again given a few changes were added to them?

 

[PsychoWarper]

Btw the Doom of Malan'tai seems to have some wrong bloding in the tiers.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Btw the Doom of Malan'tai seems to have some wrong bloding in the tiers.

Sandboxes can’t have the tiering format where it automatically gives it the tier category so I just keep it as that so it’s easier to replace once it gets implemented.

 

[PsychoWarper]

Sandboxes can’t have the tiering format where it automatically gives it the tier category so I just keep it as that so it’s easier to replace once it gets implemented.

Ah right

 

[Sir_Ovens]

This CRT seems to be alright at a glance.

 

[Eseseso]

Looks good!

 

[Mr. Bambu]

I think the Hive Mind could get its own page as opposed to being lumped in with more general specimens, but the CRT looks good.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

I think the Hive Mind could get its own page as opposed to being lumped in with more general specimens, but the CRT looks good.

The Hive Mind does have its own page but like Roach said above, they are all technically the same linked entity so it would make sense for it to be attached to the Tyranid page itself and just merge the two

 

[Mr. Bambu]

Well yeah, but by that same logic aren't the other two technically the same entity, since they're all part of the hivemind

 

[DaReaperMan]

Well yeah, but by that same logic aren't the other two technically the same entity, since they're all part of the hivemind

True

Notable individuals should probably be separated TBH

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Well yeah, but by that same logic aren't the other two technically the same entity, since they're all part of the hivemind

IIRC the Swarmlord is slightly separate from the Hive Mind itself but fair enough. I'll make a quick sandbox for a hive mind page just swapping over the stats and abilities and such.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Made the sandbox for the hive mind and added in incorporeality to his warp key because I realized I forgot that

If everything goes through, I'll just add the Tyranid page without the hive mind stats

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Well yeah, but by that same logic aren't the other two technically the same entity, since they're all part of the hivemind

Okay being told that it's not the best idea for that considering that while the hive mind itself is connected to all tyranids, the swarmlord and malantai themselves are entirely unique entities/biomorphs, just tied with the hive mind which is why they should have their own profiles. Meanwhile the hive mind is less it's own unique entity and just the tyranids themselves which is why it'd be better to just place it under the tyranid page and remove the hive mind page.

 

[Mr. Bambu]

If the powers that be for Warhammer don't think it's a good idea, so be it, I am not a Warhammer man. I'm just saying from an outside perspective it seems odd.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

If the powers that be for Warhammer don't think it's a good idea, so be it, I am not a Warhammer man. I'm just saying from an outside perspective it seems odd.

Fair enough. I’m not a Tyranid guy so I’m just going off what they’re saying.

Do you think it’s fine to apply these?

 

[Liquid_Bigb0ss]

I also think that the swarmlord should have its own profile. It is a unique individual amongst the hive mind of the tyranids, and is pretty much the equivalent of a named character for the tyranids. There’s only one of them that’s able to be spawned at a time, and it’s different enough from a ordinary hive tyrant because each time it is respawned by a norn-queen it keeps all of its memories, knowledge, and experiences. It’s specifically said to have a level of autonomy to it that no tyranid has, and even sort has a “personality” of its own (which is mainly just the methods it leads the swarms of tyranids under its command and engages in combat).

 

[Roachman40]

aye, we aint merging swarmlord or the malantai-thrope profiles into the nid page, just the hivemind

 

[Mr. Bambu]

Fair enough. I’m not a Tyranid guy so I’m just going off what they’re saying.

Do you think it’s fine to apply these?

Yeah, aside from that formatting preference I think you did great work.

 

[Mr. Bambu]

I also think that the swarmlord should have its own profile. It is a unique individual amongst the hive mind of the tyranids, and is pretty much the equivalent of a named character for the tyranids. There’s only one of them that’s able to be spawned at a time, and it’s different enough from a ordinary hive tyrant because each time it is respawned by a norn-queen it keeps all of its memories, knowledge, and experiences. It’s specifically said to have a level of autonomy to it that no tyranid has, and even sort has a “personality” of its own (which is mainly just the methods it leads the swarms of tyranids under its command and engages in combat).

To be clear, I was rooting for the hivemind to get its own page as opposed to being included on the overall species thing, since while it is a representation of the species as a whole, it is also a singular organism (sorta). Just a funky situation, I'm happy to stick with what the Warhammer bros would rather.

 

[AbaddonTheDisappointment]

Okay, the pages have been updated

 

[Roachman40]

based

I suppose this thread can be closed now

 

[Liquid_Bigb0ss]

aye, we aint merging swarmlord or the malantai-thrope profiles into the nid page, just the hivemind

Was just saying my thoughts on it is all.