What happened to hive fleet Kraken?

Fortunately for Humanity, Hive Fleet Kraken did not remain divided into separate tendrils indefinitely and eventually began to coalesce into a single, massive swarm on Ichar IV, the Hive World whose large Genestealer Cult infestation had been the initial harbinger of the Kraken's arrival in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Is Hive Fleet Behemoth destroyed?

Hive Fleet Behemoth was the first major Tyranid hive fleet encountered and defeated by the Imperium of Man. The ensuing conflict became known as the First Tyrannic War. The hive fleet was eventually destroyed in 745.
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What happened to the Tyranids?

The Tyranids were defeated, barely, by the efforts of the Ultramarines Chapter of the Space Marines during the Battle of Macragge, although the Ultramarines suffered devastating losses that would take centuries to replace.
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What was the biggest hive fleet?

Hive Fleet Leviathan is the largest and greatest Tyranid Hive Fleet to invade the Galaxy.
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How many hive fleets are there?

The Tyranids are horrifyingly diverse, and now, you'll be able to build your army as dedicated to one of seven hive fleets (or their splinters). Each of these army-wide rules affects every unit in your Tyranids collection, from Rippers to Tyrannofexes, and each is powerful, distinct, and flexible.
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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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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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What is the biggest Tyranid?

Dominatrixes are the Tyranids' largest known Bio-Titans, and it is rumoured that they sometimes carry the Norn-Queens themselves into battle on their backs. They are armed with an immensely potent Warp blast weapon, Bio-plasma emitters, and their massive chitinous claws.
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Are the Tyranids running from something?

They came to this galaxy in 40K because they were drifting through the intergalactic abyss and the Pharos beacon illuminated the Milky Way as a prime source of biomass. If they were running from anything it was most likely hunger after consuming the other galaxies they'd encountered since their origin.
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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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Did the old ones create the Tyranids?

The Tyranids were in fact created by the Old Ones, either during, or after the War in Heaven.
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Are Tyranids based on Xenomorph?

The Tyranids of WARHAMMER 40000, based on the xenomorphs...
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Are the Tyranids evil?

Type of Hostile Species

Together with the Forces of Chaos (both human and demon), the Dark Eldar, Necrons and Orks, they are regarded as one of (if not the) most villainous factions throughout the entire 40k lore. Out of all the Imperium of Man's countless enemies, it is said that the Tyranids are the most alien.
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What Hive Fleet attacked Ultramar?

The first assault wave of the Tyranid fleet had claimed the mighty Battle Barge Caesar. The third wave saw the destruction of the better part of Ultramar's merchant fleet as a swarm of Void Fiends slipped through the perimeter breach caused by the Caesar's destruction.
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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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Are the Tyranids just scouts?

The Tyranids, if the current hive fleets really are "merely scouts" are a corner GW wrote itself in to; No possible pay off will work out. Pay off one: Yep, they do carry the biomass of several galaxies, and the ones we saw are nothing compared to the whole fleet, which is why they win.
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What drew the Tyranids to the galaxy?

The Tyranids were first attracted to the Milky Way Galaxy when the xenos communication device known as the Pharos was overloaded in the Battle of Sotha during the Horus Heresy. Indeed their very name is but a title given to them by the Imperium, named after the planet where they were first encountered (Tyran).
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How big is the bio-Titan model?

One of the largest Tyranid creatures, the Tyranid Hierophant Bio-Titan stands at around 10 inches (255 mm) tall. The monstrous Tyranid is built to counter plenty of war engines on the field. The Hierophant is the Tyranid's largest shock trooper.
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What is the largest Titan in Warhammer 40K?

The Imperator-class Titan is the largest and most powerful variant of Emperor-grade Battle Titan ever deployed by the Titan Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
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Who is the strongest Tyranid?

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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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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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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