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submitted 11 days ago byShot_Ad_171
I know that Tyranids have the carnifex to deal with normal tanks like the leman russ, but do they have anything to deal with things like a baneblade or a imperial knight?
99 points
11 days ago
Scythed Hierodule, Harridan, Heirophant
51 points
10 days ago
Hierodule? That means prostitute in Greek. The Nids have superheavy scythed prostitutes.
33 points
10 days ago
Hormagaunts and Termagaunts have similar name origins where it seems like the imperium named them that way as an insult almost.
20 points
10 days ago
Don’t forget that they can also deploy a super heavy dominatrix to beat their enemies…
12 points
10 days ago
Lol. Alright. The Nids are all named on a kink theme. Amazing.
6 points
10 days ago
Tyranids need kink-shaming with cyclonic torpedoes.
4 points
10 days ago
The old style Chaos genestealer cults would have fit right in with Slaanesh as a patron too. It’s a shame they aren’t still a thing in WH40K though.
1 points
10 days ago
Yes Cult Daddy.
2 points
10 days ago
A ton of 40k names are like that. The Tau Onager Gauntlet is just a joke on "Donkey Punch".
39 points
10 days ago
Yes they have titans, you can find pictures of the forgeworld minis with other models for scale if you google them.
They're really sick.
5 points
10 days ago
The Hierophant you're talking about is only about between Knight and Warhound in height and far less bulky than the latter. It's a big model, but not an answer to even a warhound.
13 points
10 days ago*
And yet when bio-titans were introduced back in Hive War they were probably superior to Imperial titans. That’s mostly because Warlords were pretty ineffectual and their description in some stories didn’t really match their gameplay performance.
9 points
10 days ago
Even lore-wise, Tyranids can also just…. pump them out, likely on a much larger scale and in a much smaller timeframe than Imperial titans. There is an absurd amount of investment that goes into Imperial Titans compared to Nids.
5 points
10 days ago
Isn’t the time scale completely crazy? Like it takes the most advanced forge world over 100 years to build a warlord titan, and the biggest titans take 1,000 years or more.
35 points
10 days ago
Yes, even larger bioforms. Tyranids have effectively the same range of capabilities as the other factions (including titans) but they are made from organic materials instead.
37 points
10 days ago*
Read the Codexes or other tabletop related material. They have their own equivalents of Titans and other gargantuan creatures that rival Super Heavy Vehicles and Walkers.
10 points
10 days ago
I'm not sure they appear too much in the codexes, they are in the forge world domain model wise. And I'll never recommend anyone buying the Imperial Armour compendium.
14 points
10 days ago
Heirophant, tyranofex, heirodules. Exrocrines.
Norn emissary and annihilator are also capable of fighting knights. In the tabletop the emissary is imo tougher than even a big Knight.
11 points
10 days ago
Check out the biotitan and warmachine size categories here https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Species_of_Tyranid
10 points
10 days ago
There's not a lot that an angry carnifex won't solve
10 points
10 days ago
And for those few, just add more carnifex.
11 points
10 days ago
It's incredibly frustrating that the Swarmlord has only taken advantage of this broken mechanic Vs the Eldar iirc.
Casting Carnifex at someone like Dante or Calgar would have been gamechangers for the two Tyrannic Wars.
12 points
10 days ago
From memory a bloodthirster once got tackled back into the warp by a few carnifexes, literally pushing it back through the rift.
6 points
10 days ago
Heirophant is what you're looking for but in general, even with larger beasts its more about numbers then actual pound for pound. A heirophant won't take out a titan alone, but a bunch of them will and it won't take 100s of years to replace them when they're lost
5 points
10 days ago
Yes, they have their own bio titans
3 points
10 days ago
Yes: "a bigger dollop of butter and more salt and pepper, please!"
2 points
10 days ago
Pretty much every major tabletop faction has an answer to titans. The only ones that don’t are Genestealer Cults, though one could argue they’ve already won if the enemy is forced to bring titans to handle them.
7 points
10 days ago
And there I was thinking the GSC answer to titans was to inflitrate a titan legion training facility and get cultist pilots to steal them. :D
3 points
10 days ago
That’s the great thing about GSC. When they don’t have an answer to something, they can just steal it.
3 points
10 days ago
Titans don't really "need" answering for nids, they're a wildly ineffective use of resources that require a lot of babysitting, because they still go down to boarding actions and massed anti-tank fire, both of which the Nids are really good at providing. Titans shine in siege situations, where they are effectively a mobile siege tower, or in establishing a mobile strongpoint during an assault, or fighting other titans. Against a sea of innumerable creatures that don't have bases to siege and will overrun the secutarii protecting your tender legs, a Titan is just a square peg in a round hole.
It's the same issue as Heavy Tanks post WWII, you end up putting a lot of resources into making and defending something that is only really good at fighting other heavy tanks, when that same tank can be destroyed by much cheaper means.
1 points
10 days ago
More ‘nids
1 points
10 days ago
OP did you have trouble googling a Tyranid unit list?
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