Dawn of War 2

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• The Tyranid Synapse
  By Teigen
• The Lictor Alpha
  By Dethdeala, Dawn of War 2 Strategy Moderator
• Tyranid Unit Overview
  By 13laded, Game Advisor
• The Hive Tyrant
  By Dethdeala, Dawn of War 2 Strategy Moderator
• The Ravenor Alpha
  By 13laded, Game Advisor

• The Bare Basics of Dawn of War 2
  By -Netput, Global Administrator
• YSelf-Improvement Part One: Replays
  By spydR, Dawn of War 2 Strategy Moderator

• TotW #1 - Cover
  By Ninjabutter, Dawn of War 2 Global Administrator
• TotW #2 - Infiltration
  By Ninjabutter, Dawn of War 2 Global Administrator
• TotW #3 - Space Marine Scouts
  By Ablitterator
• TotW #4 - Tank Kiting
  By Faze, Dawn of War 2 Ex Game Administrator
• TotW #5 - Countering Warpspiders with the Waagh!
  By DiMkA, Strategy Moderator
• ToTw #6 - Information is Power
  By Umpire1 -, Strategy Moderator
• ToTw #7 - Dreadnought Synergy[/b]
  By Ninjajoe-, Strategy Moderator

The Tyranid race is the collective term given to the mass of extra-galactic creatures whose sole purpose for existence is to roam across the universe in massive fleets, descending upon inhabited worlds and stripping them of every scrap of living matter. The Tyranids themselves are purely organic, using nothing most civilizations would recognize as "fabricated". Instead, the Tyranids are a highly mutagenic species, capable of evolving specific new traits at the whim of the Hive Ship that spawns them within a single generation, allowing them to evolve to survive in a hostile habitat or face a particular enemy millions of times faster than any other form of life. A Tyranid Warrior belonging to a fleet that first encounters the robust Space Marines will likely fail to be successful against them, but the next generation of Tyranid Warriors will be dumped from their spawning vats with more powerful weapons and stronger limbs to compensate. If this generation fails as well, the Hive Ship will continue until it produces a species of Warrior that is capable of meeting the Space Marines in combat and overcoming them. When the next species is encountered, the process begins anew.

The Tyranids scrounge every trace of living matter from a world before moving on simply to add to their ever-increasing gene-pool, literally stealing the most potent traits of their enemies and incorporating them into their own ranks. Casualties mean nothing to the Tyranid swarm - the individual creatures are no more "thinking" than the cells of a human's body. They exist only to serve the greater collective species, and will willingly walk into the arms of death if the Tyranid collective consciousness, generally referred to as the Hive Mind, deems it to be the best course of action for the species. This can lead to entire armies of lesser Tyranid warrior breeds running headfirst into static defensive positions simply to check the enemy for reaction times and weak points in their defenses. The Tyranids have no sense of "retreat" as most races know it - either they will bury the world in hostile organisms until the defenders are annihilated, and then consume everything organic, including their own vast dead, to be returned to the spawning vats, or they will be destroyed to the last creature in the process.

This page will detail the units that have been confirmed, in one way or another, to be present in Dawn of War II, and will update periodically as more information is made available.

For more information on the Tyranid swarms, both in and out of the Dawn of War series, check out the Warhammer 40,000 Tyranid Wikipedia page.