Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-46.162.84.254-20130704080553/@comment-14745711-20140706061510

Yes, if the humans dropped all of their religious rubbish, they'd be able to unite more effectively, and they'd probably see reason and be able to defeat the Tyranids for now at least, and beat back chaos to their limits. But the thing we're forgetting about the Tyranids is that only a tiny portion of them are actually here yet. The terrifying hordes we've seen are just the advanced guard, the scouting party, a bare fragment of the real Tyranid swarms that are coming. Thing is though, I'm not so sure the Tyranids are united; doesn't each hive fleet have its own hive mind? I don't actually know if I'm right or wrong about this so correct me if I am, I only say this because all hive minded creatures we know of in reality tend to end up competing with other hives for food. If this is so the various fleets will end up fighting with each other over food once the real swarms arrive. Thus their arrival will be both the doom of the first fleets if they can't move fast enough, as well as our own doom, as they begin squabbling over the valuable biomass. The first fleets are most likely the little groups that have managed to break ahead of the big hive fleets to get a good bite out of the new territory. The big ones are yet to come. Thing is the infighting that will consume the Tyranids may be the one thing that allows the other races (or even just the necrons) the time with which to destroy them. That puts the Tyranids both up the list as far as numbers go, and down the list as far as unity goes.