Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130228113457/@comment-3258762-20140213161716

172.0.160.80 wrote: The xeno's would flee the planet intstead of staying and fighting. We are all missing the point of the xenomorph. They live to survive, whilist the tyranids live for war. A growing hive would notice the human population beginging to flee the planet the Nids are consuming. So would work to sneak their queen onto an escaping ship while they still could. The xeno does have a combat form for heavy armor, the ravanger, which can be born from a normal human. Sure it doesn't have guns, but it does have blades and it has the xenomoprh intelligence to work in concert with other members of it's hive to set up ambushs or mount an all out attack. WHich I understand would be only a delaying tactic so they could get their queen to safety.

ANother xeno type is a body burster. ALthough I have no idea how the hell it works, it can act like a dead zone creator for ground combat forms by leaving a trail of slime that causes organic beings, like humans, to explode. And if the xenomoprhs are all predaliens, fire wouldn't affect them. And they would be more cunning in battle.

And the movies have shown a xenomoprh giving live birth to a human hybrid, and multiable births from a single host implanted with more than one egg. So an already infested imperium world would have xenomoprhs numbering in the millions when a hive fleet comes knocking at it's door.

We also have no idea what the warp would do to a xenomorph. Although a demon xenomorph has already be done in The Darkness crossover. We have no idea if xenomoprhs would even be affected by the warp. Altough A pyshic xenomorph queen could be a force to be feared. As would a space marine xenomorph. Nothing you mention here would even barely halt a Hive Fleet. You say that an infested Imperium world would have millions of xenomorphs, but that's not an impressive number when compared to the Tyranids. The smaller bioforms can be mass-produced to outnumber the xenomorphs by a billion in a matter of days, and Bio-Titans would be completely invulnerable to anything the Xenomorphs have to offer.

For there to be a SM Xenomorph, a facehugger would have to lay an egg inside the Space Marines body, and even if it did succeed at that, there's no saying what would happen to the egg inside the supercharged immune system of the Space Marine. Even so, a new-born SMX would either find itself trapped inside a ceramite cage that it cannot get out of, and thus would grow and crush itself, or it would be birthed right into the arms of an Apothecary, who would snap its neck the second it emerged and then burn both of the corpses.

Meanwhile, the Tyranids would produce a bioform to combat a SM within hours, which they already have before, meaning the Xenomorphs, again, loose.

A Psychic Queen would be nothing compared to a Norn Queen and the Hive Mind. In fact, I doubt a Xenomorph Queen would be much of a challenge to anything more than one Zoanthrope.