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[SBDninja]

I know once you read this, you'll think i'm crazy because they would be hard as $h!7 to model but i'm gonna throw it out there...TYRANIDS!!!

i would not be able to model them i'm just making a suggestion (however, if i were to obtain maybe a modeling program of sorts, i could give it a whirl)

the sounds may not be hard to obtain (ie: starcraft, starship troopers, etc.)

as for the maps i shall do some research on the tyranid homeworld, get some textures made and maybe make some concept drawings of buildings done.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PLZ. I'M READY AND EAGER TO HELP IN ANY WAY!!!

Edited by SBDninja, 16 June 2006 - 03:40 AM.

[Boomerang Python]

You should really do some research on what this mod is all about.

We've already planned nids you foo'!

[SBDninja]

yeah but how in depth are you going to do the nids?

are you going to make them a playable race or just a "pirate race"

I definatly think they should be a playable race

-|show me some renders please|- lol

[Boomerang Python]

all of em will be playable at some point, but for starters nids and orks are pirates.

[SBDninja]

Yes but please help me understand how the nids can be pirates. they go to a planet, absorb any and all life, and then leave the barren uninhabited planet. doesnt sound like a pirate to me.

the orks on the other hand, they are the perfect pirate race. thats all they do is steal. fyi if you dont include the ability to steal a tank or vehicle i will be very dissapointed.

Edited by SBDninja, 16 June 2006 - 04:54 PM.

[Boomerang Python]

THEYRE NOT REALLY PIRATES, we just call em pirates cuz theyre non-playable, they'll skittle around the universe and devour as they should.

[Calamity_Jones]

wow... an un-locked thread

Anyways, I get what he means by their devouring ways. tbh I imagine the 'nids as moving in enormous fleets, not small scuttling groups. They don't infest a planet with 5 or 6 genestealers. They swarm it with billions and totally consume the planet before moving on.

Orks would be a better pirate race as they really are pirates, besides, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHH DAKKA!!! is far more entertaining than whatever battlecry the squiddies have

[Boomerang Python]

actually, nids would infiltrate a planet before an invasion with genestealers who would then plant stuff on people to control their minds and create an entire underground resistance.

[silent_lord]

To be more precise, Tyranids infiltrate a planet with genestealers, who then ensare human hosts via thier psychic powers and impregnat them `Aliens style` which then turn into hybrids, this continues until pure genestealers are born and a patriarch is born. The patriarch then builts an army of both pure-strain genestealers and hybrids, together with psychic-controlled humans to then distrub and start attacks while the patriarch blares out a psychic beacon for a nearby hive-fleet to home in and consume all bio-matter including the genestealers and billions of tyranid life-forms dropped on the planet, the Nids then leave making the planet unhabitable for thousands of years until the planet regenerates.

[Boomerang Python]

exactly.

[sam]

Guess no ones read warriors of ultramar then

Tyranids don't always send in genestealers first, infact they rarely do, most 'stealer invasions are splinters of the main hive fleet, the main fleet tends to just send down crap loads of critters, big and small, and spores which turn into plants which devour a planets atmosphere and yeah, not much lasts long normally

[Boomerang Python]

i knew that..

[essi2]

So basicly the "pirate" tyranids as they are planned at the moment will be "small" splinter groups from the main fleet or something like that

By the way keep up the good work

[Marinealver]

To be more precise, Tyranids infiltrate a planet with genestealers, who then ensare human hosts via thier psychic powers and impregnat them `Aliens style` which then turn into hybrids, this continues until pure genestealers are born and a patriarch is born. The patriarch then builts an army of both pure-strain genestealers and hybrids, together with psychic-controlled humans to then distrub and start attacks while the patriarch blares out a psychic beacon for a nearby hive-fleet to home in and consume all bio-matter including the genestealers and billions of tyranid life-forms dropped on the planet, the Nids then leave making the planet unhabitable for thousands of years until the planet regenerates.

I thought they evolved out the Hybirds, now on when a Human host is taken a pure geneseeler is born. THus the potencey of the evolution and asorbtion of genetic material by the devourer.

Well Tyranids if playable on the strategic scale should be able to asorb resources 10 times faster than every other race. Only thing is why they do that the credit value of the planet goes down till it becomes a rock. or asteroid.

Ships I think the Levathan should have some tractor beem type tentical attack. After all they grab enemy ships and eat them.

[Slye_Fox]

as for the maps i shall do some research on the tyranid homeworld

Well, that's impossable.

Because there is no info on the 'nids homeworld, seeign as they are from outside this galixy.

maybe make some concept drawings of buildings done.

Or you can goto Forge World and see the huge selection of 'nid structures there.

Look, i'll do it for you.

TYRANID SPORE CHIMNEY http://www.forgeworl...log/spchmny.jpg
TYRANID CAPILLARY TOWERS http://www.forgeworl...g/captowers.jpg
TYRANID BROOD NEST http://www.forgeworl...veent3store.jpg

Edited by Slye_Fox, 17 July 2006 - 09:48 AM.

[Boomerang Python]

Yep seen those.