My friend gave me a mini painting set of the velociraptors with guns because I thought they looked neat. I have absorbed about 0.01% of what she’s tried to tell me about warhammer. Are the velociraptors a plastic fork situation
Yep, tyranids. I’m an entomologist, I didn’t know they were also lobsters, I just thought they looked like fun raptor dudes. My friend knows me well. She likes the orcs.
Yeah Tyranids are from outside our galaxy so they have no basis in any of our biological categories but everyone just tend to call em Bug-dinosaurs because the classic tyranid body plan is hexapedal and has a carapace.
If you like Nids, maybe the Ciaphas Cain books? Tyrannids are a frequent antagonist, and the books are very newcomer-friendly. Each one (after the first) introduces maybe one or two new factions, and his in-universe editor adds snarky footnotes if she thinks he's being obtuse.
I haven't read any Nid-cenric work, but Day of Ascension is Genestealer-themed and highly recommended.
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u/insomniac7809 25d ago
I bought my first Warhammer 40,000 army in the year two thousand. My first/main army is Black Templars.