Do Tyranids ever win?

You know, I've seen Tyranid fans and the like saying that they're frustrated that the Tyranids never get any big wins.
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Can the Tyranids be beaten?

So far the only possible methods I have come across (besides Necron stomp or a massive WAAAGH!) is some kind of device that severs the Tyranid's connection to the Hive Mind and using the Tyranid's adaptive abilities against them by fooling them into evolving to defeat enemies that don't exist.
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What is the most powerful Tyranid unit?

The Swarmlord is a uniquely powerful Tyranid bioform based on the Hive Tyrant strain and it is the most powerful synapse creature ever created by the Hive Mind.
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What Space Marines fight Tyranids?

The Battle of Macragge was the greatest test ever faced by the Ultramarines Chapter of Space Marines when they confronted and defeated the first invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy by the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Behemoth in 745.
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Was Hive Fleet Kraken destroyed?

Minutes passed, then hours, and with a growing sense of wonder the Aeldari realised that no more Tyranid Swarms were coming – the assault was over. Hive Fleet Kraken had been dispersed; its coherence had been destroyed!
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Can The Tyranids Ever Fall To Chaos? - 40K Theories



What is the name of the Tyranid leader?

The Tyranid Warrior Prime (Tyranicus gladius primus) serves as a powerful synapse creature for Tyranid swarms and is a potent commander of Tyranid attacks.
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Is the Swarmlord a hive tyrant?

The Swarmlord is a powerful Tyranid Hive Tyrant that has existed since the dawn of the Tyranid race.
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Which Hive Fleet is best?

While Jormungandr can do a shooty build well, for sheer damage output, Kronos is still King. Overall, a solid Hive Fleet if you like to shoot, and swarms of Gargoyles and Termagants are going to do a lot of work in a Kronos list. In my mind, Kronos is probably the best anti-Tyranid Tyranid fleet out there.
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How do you beat Tyranid?

Five Foolproof Ways of Dealing With a Tyranid Infestation
  1. Destroy Their Fleet in Space.
  2. Study Them in Captivity.
  3. Squeeze Poison Out of Them.
  4. Blow Up the Planet.
  5. Ask Daemons for Help.
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Are Necrons immune to chaos?

It's often said that their lack of souls makes them invisible to daemons somehow, but servitors and the machine spirits of weapons still get possessed, and Chaos corruption is heavily implied to be why AI keep rebelling whenever they get created.
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Who is winning the Octarius war?

THE TYRANIDS WON THE OCTARIUS WAR.
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Did the old ones created the Tyranids?

The Tyranids were in fact created by the Old Ones, either during, or after the War in Heaven.
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Can tyranids warp travel?

Tyranid hive fleets do not travel through the Warp like Imperial starships.
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Can the Necrons be stopped?

As for the Imperium, with all their weapons of mass destruction, they have proven unable thus far to stop the Necron dynasties to carve out their own territories in space, and with the 8th edition coming up, it looks like the Ultima Segmentum will for the most part be lost to the Necrons.
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Are genestealers Tyranids?

Genestealers are a sub-species of the Tyranid race, and while they can be played as part of a Tyranid army, they can also be played as a separate army in their own right. This genestealer army has human-genestealer hybrids, who to varying degrees resemble humans.
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Are Tyranids parasites?

The Parasite of Mortrex is a unique Tyranid bioform, the result of a Norn-Queen's genetic experiments and tests to enhance its broods. Named after its most disturbing ability and the planet where it was first encountered, the Parasite of Mortrex is a bat-winged Tyranid creature evolved from Tyranid Warrior stock.
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How good is the Swarmlord?

Swarmlord is close to an auto-include, and the sheer force multiplier that it gives an army cannot be overstated, and while not able to go talon-to-talon with other big bads, Swarmy is still one of the best characters out there who can still do a ton of damage.
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Why do Tyranids avoid necrons?

Nids: The Tyranids need biomass to survive and grow so they rarely battle Necrons as even if they win the fight they would not gain as much biomass as they lost therefore just making them weaker either way.
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What is the Tyranids goal?

As a result, a significant goal of any Tyranid invasion is acquisition of useful new biological traits from other lifeforms. These are used by the Hive Mind to enhance the Tyranids' effectiveness in consuming new worlds to gain more of the necessary organic raw materials for further reproduction and directed evolution.
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Who leads necrons?

Phaeron. A phaeron is an especially powerful Necron Overlord, often the ruler of an entire Necron Dynasty, and thus are the true rulers of the Necron species.
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Are Catachan Devils Tyranids?

It has also been speculated by several Magos Biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus since the Imperium's first contact with the Tyranids in the late 41st Millennium that the Catachan Devils are the descendants of a long-lost Tyranid vanguard organism that has effectively become feral after being cut off from the Tyranid ...
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Do hive fleets fight each other?

Hive fleets sometimes do fight each other. But the reason they do it is to weed out genetic material, its a giant weapons testing experiment with no lost biomass. the stronger fleet wins and in addition takes the best genetic material from the loser.
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