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[Tack]

Can't fuggin expect me to remember all these races.

It's simple man, just separate them into codexes.

Then there's only:
Space Marines
- Blood Angels
- Dark Angels
- Space Wolves
- IronScarBlackamanders

Disorder Vacuum Seamen
- Black Legion
- Crimson Slaughter
- Khorne Daemonkin

Imperial Guard
- Tempestus
- Cadia

Inquisition (+Jokearo)
- Deathwatch
- Grey Knights
- Sisters of battle
- Officio Assassinorum

Cult Mechanicus

Skitarii

Eldar

Harlequins

Dark Eldar
-Homonculi covens

Tau (+Kroot, +Vespids, +Ethereals?)
- Farsight Enclave

Tyranids

Genestealer Cults

Necrons

Orks
-Ghazkull

Squats

Barely any to keep track of.

[Kot]

Then there comes Imperial Armour and various other random pieces of rules and footnotes in lore, and suddenly you have to keep track of "very flat, very round, vaguely ursine-like" aliens that move giantic ships by their physic powers.

[Tack]

C'mon man, don't need your forgeworld flatbears in here.

[Neonivek]

Orks have about 5 races... (Ork, Squib, Goblin, Awesome Dinosaur, )

Wait is there a 5th? Lets see not Chaos orks because they don't exist anymore, I don't think Orks separate Cyborg Orks...

[Kot]

Barrels of monkeys are obviously much better.

Orks have about 5 races... (Ork, Squib, Goblin, Awesome Dinosaur, )

Fungus
Squigs (+awesome dinosaur)
Snotlings
Gretchin
Orks (+Nobz, Warbosses and so on)

[Tack]

Orks have about 5 races... (Ork, Squib, Goblin, Awesome Dinosaur,

Do you even want to start talking about the different species of tyranid?

[spazyak]

Orks have about 5 races... (Ork, Squib, Goblin, Awesome Dinosaur,

Do you even want to start talking about the different species of tyranid?

Tyranid species: too fucking many

[Tack]

They've all stupid scientific names too, like killicus mannicus

[spazyak]

They've all stupid scientific names too, like killicus mannicus

Congregandus tyranicus.

[Dorsidwarf]

They've all stupid scientific names too, like killicus mannicus

Congregandus tyranicus.

Biggus Chompus

[KingofstarrySkies]

Holius Fuckicus It'sicus Eating Fredicus

[My Name is Immaterial]

Holius Fuckicus It'sicus Eating Fredicus

But this is the imperium, where Fredicus is probably a real name. So it'd probably be "Holius Fuckicus It'sicus Eating Fredicusicus"

[Loud Whispers]

All tyranids are of the same species right?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Tyranids kind of defy our conception of species because of their directed evolution. Whenever they find an improvement, most if not all bioforms attain that improvement, hence the universal chitin and such.

That said, individual Tyranids can be massively different from one another. They might all be genetically identical and just have different activation, or they could all be genetically diverse to search for positive mutations.

It's just impossible to say, and it verges dangerously on the taxonomic black hole of making infinite divisions in-between categories to classify all comers more directly.

[TempAcc]

Nids can also evolve on their own as individual creatures if they get disconnected from the hive mind, also. Thats apparently what catachan devils are, anyway.