What is the largest Tyranid Hive Fleet?

Hive Fleet Leviathan is the largest and greatest Tyranid Hive Fleet to invade the Galaxy. It attacked in 997. M41 from the galactic south.
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What is the best Tyranid Hive Fleet?

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 strongest hive fleet?

Kraken is widely considered to be the best due to max of 3d6 advance being super powerful. After that, I'd say that jorm, leviathan, kronos, hydra, and gorgon in terms of pure power, but hydra/gorgon are way less powerful than the other 3. Personally, I like running kraken or jorm.
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How many Tyranid 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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What is the strongest 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 is the largest Tyranid 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 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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How large is the Tyranid fleet?

Hive Fleet Behemoth invaded in a giant swarm of close to 1000 ships, and reached as far into Imperial Space as Macragge, the homeworld of the Ultramarines.
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Are there multiple Tyranid hive minds?

Far as we know there is one single Hive Mind; with the next level down being Norn Queens which are essentially the main power/brains/ control behind specific hive fleets.
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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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Is there a 9th edition Tyranid Codex?

If so, then good news – with a great thundering of chitinous feet, the 9th Edition Tyranid Codex has arrived, bringing improved datasheets, new tools and some terrifying combos to a tabletop near you. The Hive Mind hungers, and the prey had better watch out.
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Do Tyranid 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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Does Tyranids fight chaos?

Hive Fleet Kronos is a minor Tyranid hive fleet splintered off from Hive Fleet Leviathan in the Era Indomitus and adapted by the Hive Mind specifically to battle the forces of Chaos in an attempt to maintain the viability of the Milky Way Galaxy's biomass for consumption and prevent it from being corrupted by the Warp.
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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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Will there be a Space Marine 2?

Saber Interactive's Space Marine sequel was announced at last year's The Game Awards with a fancy CGI trailer that confirmed the return of Ultramarines hard man Captain Titus, as well as a few GIFs' worth of gameplay.
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Are the Daleks a hive mind?

The Pathweb, also known as the command network the Dalek galactic webwork, the Dalek hive mind and the Dalek galactic hive mind, was the shared intelligence of the Daleks, containing information on their history and experiences.
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How powerful is the Tyranid hive mind?

Because every Tyranid is an appendage of the Hive Mind, its power is very vast. Its mere presence can blot out all warp communication, suggesting that it may even be more powerful than the Chaos Gods, though it is entirely single-minded in its purpose of consuming all organic life.
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How big are Tyranid hive ships?

Well, according to this wikipedia entry (link) a Tyranid Leviathan Hive Ship is roughly the size of an Imperial Battleship, although they can get bigger. And according to this 40 wiki (link) an Imperial Battleship is about 8km long.
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Do tyranids have ships?

The Narvhal is a unique Tyranid bio-ship that allows Tyranid hive fleets to traverse interstellar space by warping space-time between the origin and destination star systems. Tyranid hive fleets do not travel through the Warp like Imperial starships.
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What creature on a hive ship spawns Tyranids?

The Norn-Queens are constantly producing Tyranid organisms, new bio-weapons, and starships from a planet's recently consumed bio-mass.
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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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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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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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