Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130228113457/@comment-3258762-20131122135826

41.123.74.155 wrote: Just been going over this and realised no none seeemed to mention that the fact that Aliens can absorbed the charateristics of their hosts, meaning that the current batch of aliens we know are mostly based off humans or dogs, but if we take into account that the hosts could be tryanids,orks, or the genetically engineered space marines, the aliens birthed through could be a lot stronger and have a lot of different charateristics and abilities we have seen before. This could give a fighting chance against the 'nids.

Reaper Lets also note that Tyranids evolve to better fight a foe.

So we have a, say, Space Marine Alien going against an Anti-Alien Tyranid. Now THAT is a fight I'd love to see!