Editing Hive Fleet Dagon (section)

== Strategy of Dagon ==

Hive Fleet Dagon has kept a very fast pace when it comes to attacking worlds. Focusing on planets instead of void stations and ships, Dagon makes extensive use of vanguard drone ships, seeding the planets with psychic bioforms like [[Lictor]]s or [[Genestealer]]s. Once the planet has been infected, it moves on and repeats the process elsewhere. These drone ships have proven to be a particulary nasty thorn in the Imperium's side due to their speed, their ability to go undetected until its too late and the fact they unload their infiltrating bioforms in multiple planets, dividing the military's forces between multiple planets simultaneously.

Once in orbit, Hive Fleet Dagon uses a very safe approach to their invasion. First swarming the planet with massive [[Mycetic Spore]]s and lower-class bioforms, more easily produced and disposable. However, when Dagon finds itself against well entrenched forces that the Hive Mind considers it would take a considerable efford to take down, they usually retreat to other, less defended objectives. This behavious meant that many planets were able to hold off the Tyranids' advance by deploying great amounts of militar personnel. However, this has a negative side: by keeping large amounts of forces concentrated on a planet, the Imperium leaves other outposts undefended, which is used by Dagon to attack them. This, combined with the fact Dagon usually launches its forces in multiple planets, means the Imperium has to choose which planet has to save, assuming the ones less defended will be lost.