Can The Tyranids Actually Be Defeated? | Warhammer 40k Lore

The Tyranids are potentially the greatest threat to the entire Warhammer 40k setting - so that begs the question, can they actually be beaten?

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Video Lore Sources :
Tyranid Codex (All Editions)
Battlefleet Gothic 2 (Video Game)
Tau Codex (7th Edition)

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[majorkill]

TLDR : Just throw Sly Marbo at the Hive Mind and wait 30 seconds....

[drunknnirish]

Vulkan comes back with the galaxies largest can of raid.

[seasonallyferal]

I've always thought artillery filled with negatively charged black stone powder would kill the psy connection of the nids.

[RedXlV]

The Nids will always have an unspecified but immense "main fleet" outside the galaxy so that regardless of how many Ws the other factions score, the threat will still be looming. After all this isn't Peacehammer 40k, the war is never meant to end.

[memeboi]

Or the necrons just go these things are messing with the balance if the galaxy." And suddenly poof goes the nids and the entire tenth if the galaxy their in.

[heeman]

the problem argument that the tyranids are OP if their main fleet arives is that every faction is way more OP once it achieves a certain goal.
I don't think the tyranids want their main fleet to arive after; Orks turned back into Krorks, Eldar including drukari and harlequins get a complete Yinead, Necrons unite under the silent king, Chaos reaches Terra again, or the imperium successfully heals the emperor, and brings him back as a true god or at least is put in a position where it can focus on one threat at a time.

[grimreape]

>Extremely heat proof tyranids
Somewhere out in Tiji Sector, Hive Fleet Nidhoggr collectively laughed.

[poodlescone]

The Imperium needs to pull another Kryptman and lure the Tyranids into Commoragh. Then shut Commoragh off from the Webway.

[metroplextitan]

As long as dark king plays poker I think he's chill

[raisnaix]

"It'd be easy if everyone pulled their heads out of their asses ... which in 40K isn't possible." -Majorkill, 40K quote of the year.

[mikewaterfield]

Two things in my head cannon,
1) Necrons, can destroy the nids by themselves. They have the orrery after all.
2) They are really a Ctrl, Alt, Del, protocol from a surviving old one. Eldrad convinces the space toad to chill, and the nids get Ctrl, Alt, Del instead.

[tastysnacks]

If the Tyranids are as vast as is often implied, defeating them is pretty much impossible. But it should be enough to bloody their nose time and again until the hive mind decides the milky way isn't worth the effort and looks elsewhere for snacks.

[ICXR]

Guilliman plus the Lion?
Surely the galaxy has a solid chance

[greasybumpkin]

"let's destroy the warp so all beings die and the Nids starve to death"

Forerunners: bro you're not gonna believe it, but we have just the tool for this exact scenario.

[Martyr]

The super model comparison was hilarious. 🤣

[anonenormous]

Ayyye. Maybe if you were Henry C. You'd be able to pick a super model up with your warhammer collection.

[daverage]

Arm the biggest Titans with massive cans of bug spray.

[generalnawaki]

My moneys on no, but we can deprive it of so much biomass that the hivemind realizes that its going to hit a negative return on biomass so it leaves our galaxy alone and goes and finds a galaxy less able to defend itself.

[Cryptic]

I would be willing to wager that the greatest threat to their existence is the fact that they don't sell very many model kits.

[ChuckleFuks]

Just hit those space bug with a “no means no!” They can’t kill you if you dont consent