Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7186329-20130329201743/@comment-3580035-20130502084453

Problems with luring idea

1. How do you lure them in the first place?

2. How do you ensure your ships can get into range into the first place? (make sure to consider shadow of the warp)

3. The Imperium doesn't randomly sacrifice and nuke planets. Contrary to popular belief, life-sustainable worlds in Warhammer 40k are rare and need to be preserved. Exterminatus is a last resort

4. The Imperium doesn't use nukes for exterminatus, as the long lasting radiation effects afterwards renders the world completely useless for a very long time.

5. Tyranids have been known to survive Exterminatus, namely in the Ariadne Effect (unsure if this was exact name, was in an old white dwarf shortly after the Planetstrike expansion was released).