Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130228113457/@comment-26104048-20170116182357

I'm sorry Alien fans but even a Hormagaunt might be a fair match for a Drone.. I don't care if you love the movies and the franchise, 40K is just WAY WAY too much.. Hormagaunt seems to be a fair fight against a drone, and i can still see a drone losing and gaunt losing too, it is 50% because Hormagaunt has larger jaw instead of a tongue jaw.. Hormagaunt's chitin is thicker than Xenomorphs big crest and exoskeleton or that is what i can see, as a Tyranid's chitin is literally Tyranid's armour. a Xenomorph Drone is bigger than a Hormagaunt and has a longer tail... That's it, i truly can't find another pro for the drone because a Hormagaunt can have weapons, from multiple limbs of claws attached to it's back to basically a larger mouth... Tyranids can literally change things in their bodies at will because that is how they work i'll explain more about that later down this humongous post.

''' Tyranid Hormagaunt vs Xenomorph Drone. 60% '''

Tyranid Hormagaunt Xenomorph Drone
 * Scything Talons - These ridged, chitinous claws are the main weapon of the Hormagaunt. They allow the Hormagaunt to disable its prey before the feeding begins.
 * Toxic Sacks - These tick-like organisms inject virulant toxins which coat the Tyranid's claws and teeth.
 * Large Jaws - The Tyranids are mainly there to feed on any organism and thus even a Hormagaunts mouth is filled with razor sharp and highly venomous teeth that can rip a man's face apart with ease.
 * Adrenal Glands - Adrenal Glands are found on many variants of the front-line tyranids. The biomorph floods the creature with a host of chemicals and hormones which serve to speed up the metabolic processes, causing the Tyranid creature to enter a hyperactive state of frenzy.
 * Acid Blood - All the Tyranids possess acidic blood that can melt through Flak and Carapace armor, allowing a wounded Hormagaunt to make a devastating come back while also severely wounded.
 * Large Tail - Rock-hard tail is one of the few weapons that a Hormagaunt may use to bludgeon their foes to death.
 * Talons & Claws - Evolutionary Advantage, a Tyranid's weapon that is always there, highly venomous, a Hormagaunt can pick of enemies with patience if the Hive-Mind commands a skirmish-like attack, ripping and slicing at the same time, leaving their enemies that may still be left alive in a long agonizing and inevitable death.
 * Thick Chitin - A Hormagaunts armor is it's own skin, it's own blood and it's own exoskeleton. Able to fend of horrifying blows, a Tyranid's Chitin never stops growing which only helps a more older Gaunt.
 * Claws - Attached at the ends of both of its arms are a set of long fingers and shiny, black, and extremely sharp claws capable of slashing.
 * Tongue Mouth - A lightning fast executioner, the iconic Xenomorph Tongue Mouth is a Drone's short but very heavy piercing attack.
 * Acid Blood - Xenomorphs bleed extremely acidic fluid which is yellowish green in color and often referred to as "blood", although whether it's used to transport nutrients through the body and/or serves other functions is not clear.
 * Exoskeleton - 2 inch thick skeleton provides a young Drone enough armor againts their mortal enemies such as the Yautja.

Xenomorph Praetorian seems to be only combatant equal in size to a Tyranid Warrior and yet a Tyranid Warrior does not have limits while a Praetorian doesn't grow at will like a Nid Warrior can.. '''Warriors have the mental flexibility to employ a wide variety of bio-weapon symbiotes. '''



This is an average Tyranid Warrior and yet these warriors don't have real limits, they are not all clones of themselves but to make this fight fair i will have to evaluate the minimum of a Tyranid Warriors height and weight which is 7,87 feet (Larger than a drone but slightly higher).. Different kinds of weapons give a Tyranid Warrior an edge and the way a Tyranid can be different is also called in for a factor, you never know, a Tyranid Warrior might have a massive horn sticking out of his skull, who knows, the possibilities are limitless when fighting a Tyranid.

Deathspitter A  Deathspitter is a  Tyranid  Bio-weapon. It is a highly complicated, multi-organism symbiotic weapon which launches corrosive maggot creatures through muscle spasms. Wherever the maggots strike, volatile fluids splatter across a wide area and sear any flesh and melt any armour it comes into contact with. [That in itself is pretty OP but i'm done sugar coating xD)

Before this get's out of hand, i'll go over to the Xenomorph Praetorian.

Height: 10 Feet

Weight: Approximately