Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-7186329-20130329183510

The hive mind may be `the greatest`, or the mind with the biggest `brain`s but it`s intelligence is not that superior. The intelligence of the Hive Mind is based on instinct. It does not think per se, it has an acute instinct, similar to that of an animal, or any organism, with the exeption of it being on a different magnitude than others. It chooses it`s tactics based on instinct and possibly previous experience, it does not sit down and consider them, as a normal commander would.

The Hive Minds` instincts are possibly a sort of combination. While tiny insects or large mammals may share some basic instinct qualities, such as feeding and survival they do behave differently, the Hive Mind is like a combination of both. It uses the tiny bugs instinct, ants for example, to overwhelm an enemy and large mammal one in other creatures, like bio titans.

The Hive Mind is not beyond comprehension because, as i remember, an Ultramarines librarian was able to access it, and even get a grasp on how it works. Perhaps you are overestimating the Tyranids.

Being separete means to deal with a problem, the tyranids, in different ways. This has proven to work.

The question of  `individual intellects` can cetainly be debated, but i believe there are none. Those creatures are simply a better conduit of the Hive Mind.

1-Tzeench  2- The Emperor 3- The Hive Mind 4- Eldar  5- Necrons  6-Primarchs(they should be somewhere on the list)