Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-79.134.161.49-20130225232452/@comment-6078851-20130228155023

i agree that tyranids are the greatest threat to the chaos gods via the extinction of sentience. i also maintain that over a dozen galaxies worth of bio-mass gives them unbeatable numbers but, that's only my opinion :)

i can envision the gods coming to a truce amongst themselves to marshal their forces against the tyranids. i can even envision the gods coming to a ceasefire with this galaxy's sentient life in order to preserve their existence. the irony being that they would be helping the races survive for the gods to then resume torturing and murdering them. except possibly malal, from what i've read of peoples opinion of malal he'd maybe welcome the extincion of sentience.

the problems i see with this possible allience stem from the races of this galaxy.

for the sake of argument lets assume that every race is aware of the impending doom of all life from the galaxy and the only chances of survival were to ally with the chaos gods, who then would actually fight alongside chaos?

orks - i personally doubt  it as chaos offers too good an opportunity for a good fight. tyranids too, and i can see the orks loving the notion of being the only race left to fight them.

tau - i'm not sure but isn't their "greater good" belief in direct opposition to chaos? i know they would, and sometimes have, allied with most, if not all, races they have met. but their greater good is based on life, so they might allie with chaos.

eldar/dark eldar - not a chance. they fear chaos too much to allie with them.

the imperium - although their are radicals in the inquisition who do allie with chaos i think the magnitude of xenophobia from the rest would put any question of allience out the window.

necrons - i can't put my finger on why, but i think the necrons would allie with chaos.

and what about the cabal? they are actively seeking the destruction of the chaos gods so they are most likely gonna be helping the tyranids, obviously indirectly.

an allience between chaos and all sentient life to combat the tyranids is a cool/scary idea,but my belief in their numbers still favours tyranids devouring another galaxy :)

but as i say - it's only my opinion :)