Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130228113457/@comment-6078851-20140214044248

xeno's live to survive, true. tyranids live for war, false. tyranids (as far as anyone can determine) also live to survive - all they want is bio-mass to continue their race, the problem is that to obtain their bio-mass they need to mass-produce bio-forms for war. they don't live for war, their abilitiy for war is simply a by-product of their adaptability for survival.

in general xeno's are not intelligent - drones have an intelligence analogous to dogs, but queens measure in above a genius level iq, and queens control all xeno's of their own brood by some form of telepathy so they're technically psychic, and if that bond is broken all drones revert to their dog-like intellect. and let's not forget that in aliens the queen didn't escape because the facility was going nuclear, she simply chased the puny insect that stomped on all her eggs :)

as for the multi-birth queen (i assume you're referring to resurrection?), 1) she was the product of human genetic engineering on xeno's, and therefore inferior to natural queens because 2) the 1st hybrid born killed the queen birthing it. (resurrection isn't a bad movie but i seriously dislike the womb-queen and flat-out despise the hybrid)

as i said at the start of this thread tyranids are my 2nd favourite sci-fi species after xenomorphs, but no amount of bias has me reach a conclusion of anything other than complete tyranid dominance. let's also not forget that even with inumerable queens all working in concert with the superqueen, their combined intellectual might, which would be significant, probably wouldn't even register as a threat to the hive mind. and it wouldn't be a threat.