As for Chaos, they are a massive presence in 40k and I’m sure their time will come. Maybe they’ll appear as an unplayable menace as the Necrons did in Winter Assault. It’s unlikely there’ll be more than four playable races in one game so we’ll have to wait for the expansion packs.

Also – first sight of tanks in DOW:2, and with the shift in scale they look properly huge. Hopefully Relic will take some of the things that made tanks so fearsome in Company of Heroes and apply them to DOW2 to make them more … is ‘impactful’ a word? Okay, ‘more badass’ – yeah, let’s roll with that.

But the big stuff is going to be amazing.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38613.html

From everything I’ve heard about DOW:2 it seemed as though Relic were focussing on creating smaller more concentrated fights with a few squads that level up and grow independantly – which is completely opposite to the Tyranids, who favour overwhelming swarms and troops of mindless drones, slaves to a greater Hivemind. This means they’ll have to operate quite differently as a faction if they’re going to be playable, which opens up rather exciting possibilities.

Expensive armour and pretty loot aren’t going to mean anything to the swarm, instead -in line with 40k lore- I suspect they’ll be stealing the genetic material of their victims. A squad of Genestealers who take down some Terminators could harvest their genus, and perhaps mutate, becoming bigger and more adept at taking down heavily armoured foes in the future.

It looks as though they’ve nailed the look, and with the levels of violence present in DOW, and evident in the brief clips of DOW:2, the Tyranids are going to be terrifying.

I still like your idea better, but maybe this’ll make it a better option to switch.