Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7186329-20130329201743/@comment-7186329-20130417191111

If the Imperium, Tau and Eldar form an alliance they would be able to hold them off, and posibly cause major damage to one of the three Fleets. Throw in Chaos and the Necrons, and we could talk about victory. And with the adittion of the Orks, which i hope will attack the bugs, then they actually might be defeated. The Old Ones and the Cabal are also possible alies.

The thing about the Tyranids is this. The Orks are by far the most numerous species in the Galaxy, there are probably a dozen Trillion of them. The Tyranids outnumber the orks by several to one. In the case of SM, then several trillion to one. I do no agree that several nids could take down a Space Marine. A single SM kills thousands, and in some cases milions of enemies before he dies. It would take many, many bugs to bring down the `average` SM, and the Tyranids have the numbers for it.