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@xxbomba9780
Жыл бұрын
Pls do a video about StarCraft races in Warhammer
@channel_lurker
Жыл бұрын
cant believe this sponsor is still around
@trollking6315
Жыл бұрын
No.
@bottledgaming549
Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about at 32:30 comparing the lumineth to a hoard army? not trying to be demeaning but i really dont get the joke, do the models have a lot of fiddly bits or something because those 2 armies seem dont seem very comparable
@pancreasnowork9939
Жыл бұрын
@@bottledgaming549 what I meant is that the Lumineth are more difficult to carry because they have a lot of tall pointy bits on their hats. At least personally carrying Lumineth to places if a pain.
@kamiwriterleonardo6345
Жыл бұрын
Tyranid lore be like: > Be us > Hivemind on the cosmos highway > Driving our bodies to the old reliable restaurant 30.000 Years away > Suddenly see a flashing sign to our left > Smells food > "Sick, new restaurant just opened" > 20.000 years closer than the one we knew > Shift course > To Milky Way Dinner we go
@tannerbarnes7392
Жыл бұрын
This is a fine greentext, but the idea that there's some galaxy out there that the Tyranids frequently return to for food and haven't cleaned out yet is terrifying. What a violent place that would be.
@youwotboi9288
Жыл бұрын
>ok imma eat these bags o' flesh >damn, lamp worshippers got author favoritism
@adalsal816
Жыл бұрын
@@youwotboi9288>Damn these canned meats got hands (space marines)
@cookiecraze1310
Жыл бұрын
@@tannerbarnes7392I like to think it's a very peaceful galaxy that constantly gets wiped out by the Nids but through some act of the Old Ones life keeps popping up and propagating there. An endless buffet for the bugs. The 40K galaxy is just a gas station.
@isimiel3405
Жыл бұрын
nah this is it kzitem.info/news/bejne/yoR7y32VhJmKhJg
@sirunklydunk8861
Жыл бұрын
Tyranids think they're unstoppable until the Mechanicus find the STC for Bug Spray
@derpherpblerp
Жыл бұрын
IKR You'd think they'd have found the Raid composition in Terra by now and are 5 months away from scaling things up
@damnationdan5253
Жыл бұрын
They did that once - then forgot about it. Maybe Ryza
@phantomwraith1984
Жыл бұрын
Raid: Kills bugs dead
@danillo.eu.rodrigues
Жыл бұрын
they would probably evolve some bullshit that makes them invulnerable to bug spray and can use against us
@YatzeeWillWearAGreenHat
Жыл бұрын
Do you know this one video of a cockroach tanking an entire can of bugspray? That's Tyrannids the second time you'll try that
@InquisitorXarius
Жыл бұрын
Tyranids think they’re unstoppable until the Skaven show up with Verminmarines and Stargnawers.
@slimjim877
Жыл бұрын
I thought the imperium of man was the skaven stand in for 40k
@InquisitorXarius
Жыл бұрын
@@slimjim877 Lets just say things are going to get worse for the Imperium in the future a lot. Because a vile corrupt mirror image of them in verminous parody of Humanity will coalesce.
@josephpolk9660
Жыл бұрын
@slimjim877 no monsters
@BrBetim
Жыл бұрын
@@josephpolk9660 I mean, Imperial Guard = Skaven Slaves Space Marines = Clan Rats Custodes = Storm Vermins Council of the thirteen = High Lords (?)
@thadmeboy1129
Жыл бұрын
There are giant rats under the hive worlds and the inquisitiors dont want you to know about them
@epiccoolawesomegoblinguyre6520
Жыл бұрын
The motivation for the tyranids entering the Milky Way being “Hey look a big explosion” is peak god dammit. Peak
@UGNAvalon
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of those Finding Nemo seagulls. -*Sees distant burst of light* -“…. mine?”
@snickersbaja7706
Жыл бұрын
Isn't the Golden-Throne essentially acting like I giant lamp that is drawing them towards the direction of Terra like moths?
@mj91212
Жыл бұрын
@@snickersbaja7706 Nah, that was a theory in old lore but it’s since been confirmed that it wasn’t that.
@britishrex5515
Жыл бұрын
Look at the shiny shiny
@thewerdna
Жыл бұрын
@snickersbaja7706 yes and no. They are using it to head in the right direction, but it was Dantioch detinating the Pharos device during the Hersesy that first got their attention
@MoaRider
Жыл бұрын
12:35 I've actually always thought how fucking insane it is that our galaxy technically has a "bottom", yet it doesn't really matter. Space expands in all directions, so there is nothing stopping a extra-galactic empire from just showing up anywhere in the galaxy instead of just the edge's of it.
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
I mean, there is the complication that, having roughly the aspect ratio of a big dinner plate, you still have to breach a border, and travel a pretty fair distance, transversely (vertically? Direction in a 3-dimensional polar reference frame is hard...) with your necessary fuel source existing on a roughly planar space. Even if you do pop out of the floor or ceiling, you're essentially surrounded, where as taking that bite from the edges allows you to just worry about dealing with the leading edge of your invasion fleet.
@Alacaelum
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewamann2821 That is a good explanation, but the thing with the nids is... that for all we now, EVERY hive fleet we saw are just scouts. And the true accumulated "fuel" of the nids could wiped out the galaxy twice over and still have half of it. But I do like the explanation, in more conventional scifi stories it explains why outer galaxy invaders need to do it at its edges, I mean... if they had the resources to travel the entirety of cosmic void without needing to restock and be able to deal with being surrounded by enemies... why the hell even go with all that problem of invading?
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
@@Alacaelum You seem to be ignoring the fact that the hive fleets are incredibly slow-moving, when compared to peer forces within the galaxy. Tyranids, like the conventional Necron naval forces, and to a lesser extent, the T'au, are functionally unable to access warp space, or the webway, in any meaningful capacity. They also tend to generate their forces in relatively close proximity to the worlds they're going to eat, which makes sense, when you consider the metabolic needs of sustaining such a force. Everybody goes back to being a nutrient slurry after successfully scouring a world of it's biomass, because it's more efficient to not have to keep their forces from starving, en route to the next planet, and I would imagine that the conversion of reclaimed forces isn't lossless, either. So, their logistics chain can't work in quite the same way as a conventional military. Even if the current tendrils are just scouting forces, making all the Norn Queens, and the wholly necessary fleet security biomorphs, operating within the galaxy probably comes with a hefty caloric cost, in order to just secure their ability to safely exist, when compared against traversing the intergalactic void, where the density of everything, food and threats, are much more sparse. Your fleet doesn't need destroyers to protect your carriers, if there are no likely or active threats to your carriers, so they can carry all that mass as soup, as well. The real question is just how long the extragalactic segment of their forces can sustain itself before the scouts return with more food. If exterminatus of a few worlds is sufficient for the imperium to stall a tendril, we can assume that the metabolic resources attained by voring a planet are only slightly more than the resources required to do so. On such a wide scale, this isn't a big deal, to the forces, writ large, but how many failed incursions need to happen before the entirety of the larger fleet starves? More than one, clearly, but that number is probably less than the number of tendrils currently active in the galaxy. TL;DR: Tyranid logistics are grossly simplified, since their only major consideration is how many calories they have available to expend, but they are always expending those calories, at a rate directly correlated to how deep they have to roll to get a table at the Golden Corral.
@WK-47
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewamann2821 all good points. It's indeed hard to even speculate to what extent the hive fleets seen so far represent the total population of the species, which of course would be a ball park figure anyway since their numbers will be in flux more than any other species. It almost doesn't matter, in the sense that what's been faced so far has really tested the resources and tactics of the defenders. They have to ramp up their efforts while maintaining conflicts against existing threats regardless, and if the tendrils are really just a small vanguard, they don't stand a chance anyway. Re: relatively slow intergalactic travel in terms of logistics, we have to imagine that the Hive Mind places whatever bioforms are retained in between invasions into some sort of stasis to minimize biomass consumption. That said, I don't see the need for bioforms other than workers (for maintenance), agents (for surveying/infiltration), and of course synaptic creatures (for broadcasting info and commands) being kept around for very long outwith invasions. No need to maintain a standing army when you can organically 3D print them on demand, assuming you have enough proverbial plastic. Gotta love this universe.
@nutyyyy
Жыл бұрын
@andrewamann2821 Which is just utter nonsense that makes no sense because it would take them hundreds of thousands or millions of years to travel everywhere. They totally gloss over the Nids lack of FTL travel in the lore.
@adblue8955
Жыл бұрын
My headcanon is that the tyranids are just the material universes defense against warp intrusion. Whenever a galaxy breaks into the warp and starts making chaos gods the nids just show up and eat the people making the problem.
@noisemarine561
Жыл бұрын
I personally believe the Tyranids were created by the Old Ones to eat all their creations. And leave the biomass intact for them so they can start all over. -I like your idea better tbh
@augusta5567
Жыл бұрын
@@noisemarine561both of your ideas are crazy good I never thought of either 😮
@TherandomshitstormerCXVII
Жыл бұрын
@@noisemarine561my idea is that the old ones created the nids to fight a bunch of other threats and they sent a small fleet to the Milky Way to get the emperors dna so they can clone him and upgrade him
@snickersbaja7706
Жыл бұрын
I heard one theory that they are the creations of the last Old Ones whom wish to wipe the slate clean and start anew
@hisokamorow6709
Жыл бұрын
So, the white cells of the universe?
@blackout570
Жыл бұрын
The deathleaper story would point out that the tyranids are sometimes outright malicious.
@aprinnyonbreak1290
Жыл бұрын
I think all of the "character" nids are like that. If a constant consciousness is created by the hivemind, its main purpose is to learn and grow, and thus, they're kinda inherently biased towards playing with their food, and intentionally backing people into corners to see what happens. Because they respawn, and they have the basic confidence that they're going to win in the big picture anyways, their greatest victory comes not from accomplishing a material objective, but from encountering and learning from strange, strained circumstances they might encounter in the future, or in case they are ever in that position. That's what makes the Swarmlord in particular so interesting to me. The Swarmlord barely cares if it wins. Every time the Swarmlord gets its ass kicked, it's, by its metric, probably winning. You see this thing, and it doesn't even care about the circumstances of this fight, it wants to see the best you can do. It WANTS to be surprised, caught off guard, and overtaken. You come up with a brilliant, revolutionary way to repel it and save your planet, and it leaves the fight satisfied with a best possible result. You fighting for your life is its win condition.
@thejuiceking2219
Жыл бұрын
i don't think it was malice so much as it was a combination of psychological warfare and experimenting, kind of a 'i wonder what happens if we do this?' kind of thing
@blackout570
Жыл бұрын
@@thejuiceking2219 and that's the scariest thing about that in our eyes it seems to be malicious intentions but reality they probably poke and prod to see what happens because they are curious to see if it will be an advantage just to make the planet all you can eat buffett.
@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593
Жыл бұрын
@@aprinnyonbreak1290honestly this would perfectly explain why the swarmlord always loses without making it look like a chump
@KevinJohnson-cv2no
Жыл бұрын
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 The thing about the Swarmlord is that its existence, at the same time, lessens the overall threat the Tyranids pose immensely. Apparently the Swamlord is supposed to be the totality of the Hive-Minds experience, genius & bio-engineering prowess; the sum-total of billions of years of consumption & growth... yet he gets bodied by unnamed chapter masters on the regular & is little more than a juiced up Hive Tyrant. It kind of shatters the whole "cosmic abominations beyond comprehension" thing the Tyranids have going on, bc you know at the end of the day they can only keep sending more of what we've already seen. A major part of the horror of the Hive Mind is the idea that the tendrils we've encountered so far were merely scouts, and that the *REAL* abominations & horrors of the swarm lay outside our galaxy; a gallery of terrors we can't imagine, built up from the Tyranids consuming worlds & species we can't even think of. Yet the Swarmlord puts all of this to rest by proving that, in fact, no actually. Not at all. It's just more of the same waiting for us. And on top of that, it isn't even that over-powered. Just a huge blow to the threat the Tyranids pose in the grand scheme of things lol
@dboot8886
Жыл бұрын
Tyrannids after winning 40k: "We did it, we now we truly are all the 40,000 war hammers."
@Nofixdahdress
Жыл бұрын
Maybe the true Warhammer 40k was the friends we ate along the way.
@ethancudic4059
Жыл бұрын
This is one of funniest things I’ve ever read
@misanthropicservitorofmars2116
Жыл бұрын
Sanguinius: you did it Horus, you truly are the warhammer 40,000
@misanthropicservitorofmars2116
Жыл бұрын
@@ethancudic4059check out Dreadanon. The good boy Christmas special still cracks me up.
@theotv5522
11 ай бұрын
Maybe the real food are the friends we ate along the way
@THOMASTHUNDERPEEN
Жыл бұрын
Other Races POV: You are the shredded cheese in the fridge at 3AM (I am in your fridge eating it)
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
Clearly, you do not comprehend the truth and danger of The Shredded Cheese Man...
@Tortle-Man
Жыл бұрын
Necrons are the shredded cheese man in this metaphor.
@NecromancyForKids
Жыл бұрын
The tyranids are cheese? Because you wrote the pov is already other races
@THOMASTHUNDERPEEN
Жыл бұрын
@@NecromancyForKidsno
@abnegazher
Жыл бұрын
"I'm going to enter the galaxy over here... No one is using this corner! It will be easy!" -Hivefleet Jourmungandr before discovering why NO ONE goes to the Ghoul Stars.
@snickersbaja7706
Жыл бұрын
We honestly need more stories involving the Ghoul Stars
@thejuiceking2219
Жыл бұрын
@@snickersbaja7706 no we don't, keep them mysterious, once you start explaining it it loses it's value
@pillarmenn1936
Жыл бұрын
@@thejuiceking2219 It needs to be balanced. Too much then we'll get a Batman Who Laughs overexposure. Too little and they will be forgotten, even by GW themselves like the Sons of Malice.
@ronanoftheborealvalley4353
Жыл бұрын
The only people in the ghoul stars are the leftovers of the ithakas dynasty I'm sure they are having a great time
@thejuiceking2219
Жыл бұрын
@@ronanoftheborealvalley4353 and the Death Spectres
@Rahkshi500
Жыл бұрын
Another appeal of the Tyranids, at least imo, is the thrill and fun of playing as the sci-fi horror monster. Whether it'd be the Zerg from Starcraft or the Xenomorphs from AvP, the idea of being an incomprehensible space beast that you can't reason with and only wants to destroy and strike fear and terror in others is absolutely thrilling and hardcore. Reject humanity, return to dino-bug.
@voidwalkerbruh7426
Жыл бұрын
Yep
@mfreed40k
11 ай бұрын
AvP?!? Not Alien or Aliens, you pick the worst (at the time) entry into the movies? Lol
@everythingsalright1121
10 ай бұрын
Dinobugussy
@bigbellyjvlog7844
10 ай бұрын
@@mfreed40kit is not Rocket Science to assume that he is referring to the game series, not the movies
@Momofukudoodoowindu
10 ай бұрын
Much Agreed. I always played as the aliens in AVP and the Zerg in SC. There’s definitely a rush there.
@Blagaraga
Жыл бұрын
Barabus Dantioch: Sacrifices himself to prevent the Traitor Legions from gaining a massive edge during the Heresy. Tyranid Hivemind following the detonation: Lamp?
@shooey-mcmoss
7 ай бұрын
except they have no mothgirls oh well
@ImmortalSoul7756
Жыл бұрын
Just remember, if the Flood and Tyranids fight, everyone else is doomed
@Tortle-Man
Жыл бұрын
Flood would win, but I think the tyranids would become symbiotic with the flood and then literally all of existence would die.
@mcgunboat8339
Жыл бұрын
@@Tortle-Man nah, flood would tech up to a halo ring if the Gravemind has the balls for that. Halo rings can in fact fire directionally, too.
@cookiecraze1310
Жыл бұрын
@@mcgunboat8339flood would see the Nids start to adapt to them (like the Hive Fleet made to kill Chaos), say "Yeah, fuck that shit." and immediately go to ground 0. No more playing with their food after the last buffet almost wiped them out.
@alejandroelluxray5298
Жыл бұрын
DOOM's demons would beat the shit out of them at once, and that could probably mean demonic Tyranids Then again, nothing Doomguy can't handle
@voidwalkerbruh7426
Жыл бұрын
Zerg vs tyranid would be bad toreauges strain hive tyrant (the torragues starin of ultralaisk revives on death
@Renewablefrog1224
Жыл бұрын
"Probably the same naming geniuses that gave us the fulminator. Why don't you termagant some bit-" You sir, are a national treasure. Never change
@Unanimoustoo
Жыл бұрын
What I took from the last lore downside point: The Tyranids are like Nagash. If they/he win/s, there's no more game to play.
@shooey-mcmoss
7 ай бұрын
the war ends, the Longing ends, dammit what doesnt end?
@flavortown3781
Жыл бұрын
Its hard to make a nids book from their perspective, it would be like reading something like leaves of grass and would make you feel mental. Id be about it
@UGNAvalon
Жыл бұрын
That kind of storytelling has its own name: Xenofiction. The tv tropes page’s entries are all fascinating examples that could make for good inspiration.
@patches3555
Жыл бұрын
Just make a cookbook
@flavortown3781
Жыл бұрын
@@patches3555 actually kinda sounds like fun,
@MrKezzerdrix
11 ай бұрын
Naah mate. Just do a "reskin" of The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar.
@insidechaos4913
10 ай бұрын
I think they could do it but from the pov of a guardsman runing from the nids being chased by them and always getting away till the end and at that point the craft leaveing the planet gets taken out and you feel the dispare of that guardsman as they willing let a nid finish them
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
11 ай бұрын
27:01 "It's a lonely galaxy for the Hivemind so you best be fast with making it lonelier, otherwise the various denizens of the galaxy might realize that their only chance is to band together before you eat everyone in it." "Then it is an even fight." - Rtas 'Vadum, Nid appreciator.
@Mordikay211
Жыл бұрын
A minor note and maybe not important to the video but Belisarius Cawl has mentioned that the Adeptus Mechanicus has the technology to terraform planets harvested by the Tyranids back to life. Where he has the technology from or if they would even do it is another matter all together.
@UGNAvalon
Жыл бұрын
The Imperium has terraformed planets before (& even repopulated a Chaos-tainted Armageddon once the previous residents were wiped out), so it’s definitely doable. (Tho admittedly, terraforming/recolonizing a planet with a preexisting biosphere is much easier than making a barren rock habitable..) As to why they would want to…. it’s free real estate along previously-charted space/warp routes? 🤔
@zergrush_9704
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but it is hard
@rnlansdownemobile
Жыл бұрын
Unless a planet has strategic value, there's no reason why they would.
@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536
11 ай бұрын
@@UGNAvalonI mean there’s no real reason to since the nids take EVERYTHING there’s nothing left on the worth terraforming for there’s no ore left in the ground to mine and terraforming it into a food based world would take so long it’s literally not worth it and factories work also take to long to make
@UGNAvalon
11 ай бұрын
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 Storage depot along a trade route? It'd act kinda like an asteroid base/outpost, only bigger.
@asimovstarling8806
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for educating me on this. I now have something to say to every single space marine commander i meet. "My fleet is here because of you. You rang the dinner bell. I answered."
@motherreaper7287
Жыл бұрын
Space marines are like M&Ms, crunchy, and ultimately all the same flavour.
@Fly-the-Light
Жыл бұрын
Are the Salamanders not spicy?
@theotv5522
Жыл бұрын
I love Tyranids for this reason. Because every time you mention how Tyranids can easily kill off the Imperium, you draw out at least 15 Imperium fanboy in denial of how some random insects can kill their glorious yet autistic freight trains they call Space Marines.
@ebros5758
Жыл бұрын
Munch for the lunch god
@jonathanathor117
Жыл бұрын
I'm no munch
@TheEmperorsChampion964
Жыл бұрын
Noms for the noms throne
@wipidiz889
4 күн бұрын
Bread for the bread box
@Dragonage2ftw
Жыл бұрын
Tyranids are peak. They’re legitimately the only pure Sci-Fi race in 40K and that’s amazing.
@sirunklydunk8861
Жыл бұрын
I mean…. They got a few similarities to the Bugs from Starship Troopers.
@Drkon6
Жыл бұрын
Tau? They look like an advanced scifi civilization you'd find in something like Mass Effect.
@chipmo
Жыл бұрын
Not sure whether you mean they are the only that is completely original or only that doesn't have any fantasy analogues, but neither are really true (Tyranids are peak tho)
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean by pure?
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
@@chipmoThird for me. 1. Killiks(Star wars) 2. Vajra(Macross) 3. Tyranids(40k)
@Eschatonin6666
Жыл бұрын
"Will the Imperium survive?" "As long as the toys keep selling, Jimmy. As long as the toys keep selling"
@thomasaquinas1457
Жыл бұрын
My favorite was the battle of Graia . The Admech would send waves of battle servitors from their underground forges at the tyranids and after each battle a swarm of servo skulls would recover the mechanical bits and in this way they ground down the tyranids because they were killing more biomass then they were losing. I don’t care how evolved you are industrial indifference calculated to the 7th degree will grind you down 😂
@UGNAvalon
Жыл бұрын
But wouldn’t the amount of bodies available to turn into more servitors still be significantly less than the amount of bioforms that could be spawned by the orbiting hive ships? 🤔 Even if waves of Nids are getting killed by the battle servitors, all that biomass rotting on the battlefields isn’t technically “lost” so long as the harvesters can get to them in the end once the defenders stop bothering them.
@zergrush_9704
Жыл бұрын
This was admech world, this will be impossible to do on some regular world.
@emperorkiron3470
Жыл бұрын
Servitors are skulls, skulls are bones, bones are biomass. Metal can be converted to biomass. You cannot beat the Tyranids
@heitorpedrodegodoi5646
Жыл бұрын
@@emperorkiron3470 They recovered metal.
@mr.tatortot6469
Жыл бұрын
I'm of the personal belief that the orks effectiveness scales with how much conflict is currently happening. More war; better orks. That's why the krorks were so powerful as the war in heaven was so massive. So, as more tyranids reach the galaxy the orks begin to exponentially improve and become krorks again who hold off the tyranids for the rest of the story, eternally improving as more tyranids arrive in this neverending deadlock.
@voidwalkerbruh7426
Жыл бұрын
Epic
@gingermcgingin4106
Жыл бұрын
...Until the Hive Mind uses some Kork biomass to make a new bioform
@dukedevlan5457
Жыл бұрын
@gingermcgingin4106 then krok gets bigger
@paulenan9636
Жыл бұрын
That only works if they encounter the Tyranids early enough for them to make up a new front. Because the Tyranids have a habit of actually reducing the amount of war by simply rolling over conflicts and eating everyone. If they have reduced half a galaxy to biomass the Orks are going to sjrprisingly little conflict to draw from
@rnlansdownemobile
Жыл бұрын
That is only if the in initial contact the orks can hold the nids.
@dashiellgillingham4579
Жыл бұрын
I’m currently working on a fanfic where the Tyranids are actually one hive fleet in a fourty-thousand-year time loop trying to avert the warp-caused vacuum collapse.
@calebbarnhouse496
Жыл бұрын
Just make sure somehow James workshop is the big bad
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
REAPERS cough!
@NeoHellPoet
3 ай бұрын
The Geensteeler threat, if anything, is understated. How many of the Imperial Guards best officers are members of the cult? Remember, while the obvious ones are very obviously alien, many are perfectly normal looking people but with genetically enhanced inteligence and psychically boosted charisma. You could make a good argument that the Empire is dysfunctional because the cult invaded the Administratiorum and they're intentionally making the systems convoluted and stupid, but I personally want to go in the other direction. They're the ones keeping the whole mess together, because the Empire falling appart means lots and lots of biomass goes boom and that's just not acceptable.
@nanolathesteel
Жыл бұрын
So, I think the inherent "problem" with writing fiction for the Xenos factions, is that the ability of the writer to actually convey an alien mindset is likely not something many writers can do effectively whilst maintaining interest for the reader. Xenofiction is not particularly well trodden ground, even in wider Sci-Fi writing.
@scar6822
Жыл бұрын
I’m glad you finally made the Do or Don’t for my favorite faction in 40K
@theotv5522
Жыл бұрын
I love Tyranids for this reason. Because every time you mention how Tyranids can easily kill off the Imperium, you draw out at least 15 Imperium fanboy in denial of how some random insects can kill their glorious yet autistic freight trains they call Space Marines.
@jtjames79
Жыл бұрын
I want a novel about Tyranids written in the style of Raptor Red. Anyone who gets that reference, congratulations you are old, and a nerd.
@snickersbaja7706
Жыл бұрын
That would be interesting, you could even have different chapters or sections from the POV of different hive organisms as the main assault takes place Ascension Day did an interesting story from the point of view of a Genestealer Cult, but a proper Tyranid novel would be interesting
@scooterdescooter4018
Жыл бұрын
holy shit. that book was great. felt bad when her sister died tho. the old man terrasaur was a great character.
@Dragonagegearsofhalo
Жыл бұрын
God damn it i know what I'm doing now. Ive been craving the same thing. Think GW would play ball if I wrote it and said pretty please publish?
@Slick-Salamander
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I think a great method would be have a short story where the Imperium have a Tech Priest connect minds with a fallen Tyrannid to access the hive mind only to get lines of code showing how horrifically efficient it truly is. Have it so the Tech Priest is struggling to keep up with the mountain of information and translate it to reason while repeating lines like "Organics destroyed, extracting Biomass", "Hive Fleet lost, sending replacements", "Performing most effective combat maneuver", before noticing the Priest, saying something like "Intruder located" and he dies due to the sheer will of the Hive Mind or the amount of information just overloading his circuits, leaving all the supervisors shocked and with a lingering feeling of dread and a closing line how the project would be abandoned and all trace of it purged.
@Dragonagegearsofhalo
Жыл бұрын
@@Slick-Salamander that would be absolutely sick or even like diverting a tendril to that world. Or even perhaps a lictor or genestealer consuming the mind of someone perhaps a psyker and they basically become mentally trapped within the lictor and they feel its movements, its hunger and can better understand it and they barely even realize they begin to think more and more like the hive mind until theyre completely subsumed as a person body and soul
@TheXenomorphwarrior
Жыл бұрын
Fun thing that walking hive tyrants and swarmlord can take along with them is the tyrant guard as a body guard unit. You wanna fight the big kahuna? You gotta fight through 6 chitin armored, coconut crab clawed, silverback gorillas.
@BossEvasion
Жыл бұрын
Just what I need after playing a bunch of Aliens: Dark Descent, I do hope you’ll do a separate video for the Genestealer Cults.
@theonewhouploadsnothing1704
Жыл бұрын
I’ll be honest, my favorite part of the Nids is that they have no real story telling. A force of nature faction or creature or something is always my fixation upon discovering a IP. It is admittedly a little boring sometimes because the lack of spice. However the idea that a being is a pure force to endure not merely just outplay is entrancing. I sincerely hope that they never get some secret sentient queen that actually was pulling or tugging at strings all along and was somehow involved with a important leader character that we don’t know everything about at the moment… I’m still salty over RWBY’s Grimm going from a mysterious and baleful force of nature/supernature into nothing creatures that have to deal with being part of the most damaging divorce in the world.
@DeusExAngelo
Жыл бұрын
Maybe this is just my headcanon from misunderstanding the lore and art...but I believe there is in fact a single, possibly sentient mind behind the Tyranid. The so-called Hive Mind is actually the mind of The Great Devourer, with each Tyranid more or less being the cells that compose it's body. Because all the art for the Tyranids display the approaching fleets as the tips of tentacles all approaching different points of the Milky Way. Each tip composing an astronomical number of bioforms. I don't believe that is just artistic representation, I think that's GW telling us that those are actual tentacles. Also the fact that the Tyranids need creatures referred to as "Synapses" to coordinate their forces and become erratic without them. Not unlike the neurons of a multi-cellular organism. Then factor in the Shadow Of The Warp, which is supposedly made of all Tyranid minds in unison. Yet we see without the Synapses that Tyranids are arguably less intelligent than animals. Or the fact (if I recall correctly) that individual Tyranids don't have souls, but have some warp stuff/presence. To me that that suggests what the rest of the galaxy considers a "hive mind" is in reality the mind of a creature so massive in scope, that it's level of comprehension, perception, and even emotions are incalculable to pretty much any sentient creature in the galaxy. That is because this thing's physical mass seems to eclipse entire galaxies which it basically "filter feeds" from. This is The Great Devourer itself. Not a swarm, but a multi-cellular organism that moves between galaxies to feed. The reason said Great Devourer doesn't communicate to the peoples of the Milky Way Galaxy is one of two, utterly terrifying reasons: 1. The vastness in the scale of conscious experience is too vast and too alien for either to truly omprehend. 2. The Great Devourer is able to comprehend the minds of individuals in the galaxy...but does not care. It's hungry, and it needs to feed, so what do the lives of what are effectively chains of protein and carbs matter? Heck, this galaxy is already an awful dump full of suffering so it's probably doing everyone there a favor. This also kind gives the faintest glimmer of hope for the Milky Way in 40k. Since things like diseases and poisons can kill multi-cellular organisms. Which why it's only the faintest hope because.... *What kind of disease or poison can kill an creature bigger than a galaxy?*
@UGNAvalon
Жыл бұрын
Pre-queen Borg fans know your pain….
@wolfgangspiper
Жыл бұрын
It's impressive how badly RWBY handles the Grimm lol And civil rights plots xD
@Rawnblade13
Жыл бұрын
Not like the Grimm were even remotely threatening anyway...
@jahrusalem3658
Жыл бұрын
@@DeusExAngelo Well that's fucking terrifying. Thanks for the nightmares.
@youngthinker1
Жыл бұрын
Well, a counter lore points: In some of the novels, the different fleets fight each other, especially when a control creature dies or is not around. So, if they did "win" then it would turn into a huge brawl between the different fleets to create one super fleet, but wasting all of the materials gained in the galaxy in the process. I believe other novels hint that the dark elves hormonculi managed to tame Tyranids through their flesh shaping ways. So, that would be interesting to see them create their own splinter fleet only to watch it backfire in some Wile E Coyote manner. Plus, the Tyranids will always be the delete button for when GW does not want to support a model line. I expect all first born Space Marines to be consumed by them shortly, since that model line is being discontinued.
@zergrush_9704
Жыл бұрын
All hive fleets are connected, there were only 1 time when two hive fleets fight with each other and that was a mistake in hive mind.
@youngthinker1
Жыл бұрын
@@zergrush_9704 In a Kane novel, the Mechanicus found some nids from a different fleet and they fought against each other.
@mr.revrac5602
Жыл бұрын
@@youngthinker1yeah, cain? You know the book thats meant to be unreliable? That proves nothing, for one its a lost hive fleet, there an entire fleet dedicated to finding lost hive fleets (hydra). For two, Valdor also show’s fleets fighting and it’s explained that they are trying to combine into one. And for three, we have far more books that show theres only one Hive Mind than ciaphus cain which is supposed to be a silly book. Those books include, valedor, wraithflight, imperium godblight, devastation of baal, darkness in the blood, and every tyranid codex ever.
@zergrush_9704
Жыл бұрын
@@youngthinker1 this was that only time. In all codexes and other books it is clear that hive mind controls whole tyranid race.
@worldeater2414
Жыл бұрын
World Eaters 🤝 Tyranids *Eating Worlds metaphorically & literally* *Jobbing to most of the setting despite being more powerful*
@velphidrow
Жыл бұрын
World eaters aren't even the most powerful chaos legion
@theotv5522
Жыл бұрын
World Eaters teaming up with someone.... ...and other jokes you can tell yourself.
@worldeater2414
Жыл бұрын
@@velphidrow And yet everyone shits themselves when they see them
@worldeater2414
Жыл бұрын
@@theotv5522 *World Eaters teaming up with multiple other warbands, a legion and they themselves gathering back into their old legion to clap cheeks* Yes, totally
@velphidrow
Жыл бұрын
@@worldeater2414 people shit themselves whenever CSM show up
@philiphockenbury6563
Жыл бұрын
Personally I think that the Tyrannids should look more like a zoo of hyper adapted monsters that basically Borg all genetic material into themselves.
@idiom2805
Жыл бұрын
"Hive fleet Bay-a-moth" Bro, I can't.
@ZanaTheBatPony
Жыл бұрын
To be honest, I raised an eyebrow over how Pancreasnowork pronounced Behemoth, followed by a Vietnam Flashback, of how this Dragonborn guy in the main city of DnD Neverwinter pronounced Bahamut.
@EmmLoaf
Жыл бұрын
Was looking forward to this one, love them bugs. Your videos always make my regular train rides all the more enjoyable, thanks a ton!
@samuelrodriguez9801
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that it was stated in older lore by an Eldar Farseer that the best outcome for the Galaxy would be if Horus won the Horus Heresy because Horus' Imperium would destroy itself and then Chaos would no longer be a threat and that's why the Alpha Legion went traitor. This was later implied by Roboute Guilliman when he said that it would've been better that they had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than to live to see the current state of the Imperium.
@wyvrius
8 ай бұрын
- eats everyone - refuses to elaborate - leaves
@Predator20357
Жыл бұрын
Some Space Bitch Marine: “I can’t let Chaos have this thing! I’ll blow it up!” The Tyrannids: “Hold up, was that a dinner bell I heard?”
@reflectingdoggo278
Жыл бұрын
Ha
@TarotNathers
Жыл бұрын
I can’t believe you would slander Barbaras Dantioch like this.
@Predator20357
Жыл бұрын
@@TarotNathers Hey, this was me being kinder, the original was going to be even more slanderous
@theotv5522
Жыл бұрын
I love Tyranids for this reason. Because every time you mention how Tyranids can easily kill off the Imperium, you draw out at least 15 Imperium fanboy in denial of how some random insects can kill their glorious yet autistic freight trains they call Space Marines.
@Predator20357
Жыл бұрын
@@theotv5522 Facts
@wheelcha1rman2
Жыл бұрын
I really liked Guy Haley's portrayal of the Hive Mind in the Devastation of Baal. The Hive mind is mad at the Blood Angels & it feels like being especially cruel. In so far as it can comprehend such things.
@ernstbergerbrent
Жыл бұрын
Old one eye with 2 carnifexs has done a lot of work for me in my past 2 RTTs. 2x venom cannons, 1 with deathspitters and 1 with crushing claws. They can move towards enemy units that wound them in the shooting phase.
@Gonroamin
Жыл бұрын
Devastation of Baal did have some interesting glimpses into the hivemind. It does some pretty sneaky stuff during the course of the book, and out of spite to boot!
@Mechagodzilla128
Жыл бұрын
It also gave a glimpse into how dumb gw's writing can be. Tyranids winning? Fething Khorne shows up to save them along with the Ultramarines and their new Primarus marines to completely negate any losses the marines took.
@LordCrate-du8zm
4 ай бұрын
@@Mechagodzilla128 Khorne absolutely would go out of his way to spite the 'Nids.
@MMP-lj5xp
Жыл бұрын
I love your statements about not paying GW for breaking their promise and I absolutely agree with you. I still find that 8th is the best edition I've played and I'm even looking at learning and playing 2nd and 3rd since I have found like all the pdf docs I need for like most editions online.
@noblegalifreyan4551
Жыл бұрын
They didn't break their promise. They said the core rules and index would be free but that each army would get a codex still. Tyranids were the first so act betrayed is just because you didn't listen
@velphidrow
Жыл бұрын
@@noblegalifreyan4551yeah it's weird how many people didn't read and then got angry
@rnlansdownemobile
Жыл бұрын
And to add to this, GW is like Nintendo where they go around and threaten fan-made content creators for copyright infringement. I'm surprised nobody talks about this. Even huge series like the Emperor TTS got pressured into stopping.
@velphidrow
Жыл бұрын
@user-gr3yc3km1k no they didn't
@Mare_Man
Жыл бұрын
@user-gr3yc3km1k Literally everyone who so much as grazes the sphere of Warhammer talks about this.
@theotv5522
11 ай бұрын
Just a small tip for anyone wanna get into any army: Don't buy stuff straight off GW store with MSRP. I assure you there will be at least 1 3rd party online store in your country that sell what you're looking for at a cheaper price.
@Eru-Ash
Жыл бұрын
"Why don't you termagant some bitches" has to be one of my favourite lines that I will absolutely be using on my Tyranid playing friends.
@TheSchultinator
Жыл бұрын
Well, the bugs start coming and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, And they don't stop Coming, And they don't Stop Coming, And they Don't Stop Coming, And They Don't Stop Coming, AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING, AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING-
@scooterdescooter4018
Жыл бұрын
fantastic video. well thought out arguments. ill watch it later
@Historyfrek4ever
Жыл бұрын
GW can freely use tyranid 2443 to kill Abbadon. The whole community will cladly accept them as the main bad guy as a reward after that.
@TheGoodLuc
8 ай бұрын
Than Erebus next plus Kor Phaeron.
@Historyfrek4ever
8 ай бұрын
@@TheGoodLuc They were accidently stepped by biotitan.
@camarofan2008
Жыл бұрын
When playing against space marines, the mandatory music selection for deployment is Klendathu Drop from starship troopers.
@asimplenobody7797
Жыл бұрын
One option for potentially finding the most ultimate to date rules, for those interested, is battlescribe. They tend to get updates fairly quickly after they are released, and it's 100% free. Definitely worth a look if one doesn't want to pay the GW rules tax. It ain't perfect, for sure, but it is an option.
@jamescampbell4416
Жыл бұрын
Gotrek and Felix can beat the hivemind
@mysteriousstranger5873
Жыл бұрын
The tyranids think they’re hot shit until a single flood spore gets dropped on a backwater hive world and forms a keymind within the day
@alexrowe7063
Жыл бұрын
0:12 I'm gonna clip that and keep it close to my chest.
@CaptRedJack
Жыл бұрын
Fine video. Played nidz very successfully back in 4th. Carnifex distraction was very real. I had a 247 pt regenerating meat slab. He rarely made contact and str9 barbed strangler or not he made his points cost in kills about 1 time in 4. But if you shot at him-even with heavy weapons- the gaunts ate you. I know the rules for big creatures have changed but I once swarmed a wraith lord with 20+ gaunts and lost 3-4 per turn holding it steady. Massacred the rest of the army and came back to hit it with all my stealers and warriors at once so if you know how - and are willing to lose the lives it takes to do it. You can ensure big units aren't a problem till you decide to deal with them.
@Dirtnap12
Жыл бұрын
My love for tyranids is twofold. On the one hand I love unstoppable swarm armies, and on the other hand any facton who can fuck with chaos just by existing too hard gets my vote by default.
@Me6rimlock
Жыл бұрын
26:11 *Hive tyrant 50742 will remember this*
@ericsuper2258
3 ай бұрын
Ultrasmurf lorecels when the sigma gigchad tyranid player eats your codex.
@AlRoderick
Жыл бұрын
"Imagine what would happen if something ate the Amazon rainforest in the course of a month" That's actually the backstory plot of the horizon games.
@aprinnyonbreak1290
Жыл бұрын
So Is anyone gonna talk about the Tyranids and Slaanesh sharing like 60% of their aesthetic?
@Calvin_Coolage
Жыл бұрын
Only if you paint them as Leviathan really. But I'm sure Slaanesh and he/she/it's followers don't mind the idea of being eaten by weird looking space bugs.
@vitaliitomas8121
Жыл бұрын
@@Calvin_Coolageif you get eaten, you don't get to engage in depravity
@tenebrisnarud9738
Жыл бұрын
My strategy for Nids is to just bring a truck of hormagaunts and dice to a game and see if the opponent dies of old age from rolling the sheer amount of dice
@airraid1266
Жыл бұрын
Not a big fan of the Nids personally, such apocalyptic threats are either defeated or the doom timer hits zero, while I am happy for their enjoyers, I personally find them mote boring than learning their next release is Ultramarines (And I collect Dark Angels, who can use all of the Smurf stuff besides named characters)
@wikipediaintellectual7088
Жыл бұрын
I'm largely of the same mindset. And I don't like how they look. Zerg look cooler.
@Tortle-Man
Жыл бұрын
I was the same as you before a recent change. I heard a really good tyranids story, specifically the invasion of hive fleet jormungandr. I heard a really good reading of that story that just made for some super good sci fi fluff. If you don’t think you like tyranids, read a history of one of the tyranic wars. They are very fun and make for a good afternoon.
@wikipediaintellectual7088
Жыл бұрын
@@Tortle-Man I don't think we'd have the same reaction. The most entertaining part of tyranids is geneststealers because they're more human.
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
@@wikipediaintellectual7088 Do you enjoy the human element in transformers series?
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
@@wikipediaintellectual7088Also you might enjoy the vajra from macross delta
@solvdrage1456
7 ай бұрын
How dare you. Hive Tyrant 50,472 is the life of every digestion pool party he's ever been at. His cannonballs are the stuff of legends.
@monkeyinapanzer
Жыл бұрын
One big downside they are going to have comes from the fact they are the new hotness big bad threat of the edition. On paper that means they will get a lot of attention and actually matter; looking at the Death Guard and Necrons from 8th and 9th respectively what that actually means is the Tyranids will probably be forgotten by the beginning of next year as the other factions slowly get their books. Which is its own problem, yes they got their book first and got front loaded with cool stuff. But that’s probably all they are getting until at least next edition; weird gaps or imbalances in the codex are something that will just exist and balance will quickly run away from the nids once other armies get going and GW needs to push them.
@ashardalondragnipurake
Жыл бұрын
prefer when the nids came because of the astronomicon showed there was food to be found instead of just responding the the pharon exploding explosions happen, a continuing sacrifice of psychers shot beyond the galaxy thats something that shows there is a steady and abundant supply of food
@Calvin_Coolage
Жыл бұрын
You know for all of 10th edition's many, many, many, many, many, many flaws, it succeeded in making me want a Tyranid army. I love the rules they've given them, the new models, I'm all on board the Tyranid train and I'm planning to make them my first 40k army.
@much7395
Жыл бұрын
One of the scariest things I ever saw from 40k was a picture of Hivefleet Leviathan enterig the galaxy from BELOW, that image's size implications are distressing to me
@redluke8119
Жыл бұрын
I'm literally delivering a pizza to a guy named Matt Ward as I am listening to this video 😅😂
@The_Sharktocrab
Жыл бұрын
GW: "are you telling me the rules we're charging people for are freely available online?" The community: "always has been"
@Emidretrauqe
Жыл бұрын
Tyranids confuse and bemuse people because not everyone understands horror. Horror relies on fear of the unknown, which only the Tyranids have left. The Necrons and Chaos are both very humanized at this point and that turns them into villains, which will always be less menacing than a monster. You will always have more knowledge about a villain than you will a monster, and since knowledge is power that means you have more power to arm yourself with. Sometimes even the people writing them drop the ball and write things like "I saw into the hive mind and they hate us" or try to define the Tyranids with other human character traits.
@toothlesssal5598
Жыл бұрын
There are no Xeno "fans" only traitors to mankind.
@ikenosis8160
Жыл бұрын
Tyranids think they're unstoppable until the Terran Confederacy invented the Psi Disrupter. Oh wait...
@chyledebuser
Жыл бұрын
It's funny that they avoid Solemnace because they saw a whole Hive Fleet up and disappear around that area.
@fierylightning3422
8 ай бұрын
I love the fact that you use FTL: Faster Than Light music in your videos, absolute top tier
@strigoi_guhlqueen8355
Жыл бұрын
I love your does and don’ts. And I’m happy you covered the Tyranids. Your editing is pretty professional. (Though one thing stuck out at me as a Tyranid player. I don’t know where you got your info from but it seemed a bit of. Like a Tervigon is not a good shooting/melee hybrid. And the hive crone is an aircraft and moves minimum 20 inches and so on and so forth. It just doesn’t seem like you know your way around the faction. Wich is totally okay it just had me wondering sometimes what you were getting at.)
@Royalgecko-zp8zd
5 ай бұрын
my head cannon for specifically termagants that are outside of synapse isn't that they mindless creatures but are just dudes who want to gamble with their fellow gaunts but once are under snaps control go into kill mode.
@idigamstudios7463
Жыл бұрын
Edit: I love existential cosmic horror which is why I run nids and my two best friends who run 40K both played Eldar and Chaos (Nurgle) respectively. They are the two factions I've become the best at dealing with in my admittedly outdated info. So here's how you deal with the Avatar of Khaine as a nids player (admittedly idk if deep strike is still a thing I haven't touched the table top since like 5th or 6th edit.) But this still works overall. Throw a big beefy needs to die synapse on the board to bait the charge while pot shotting it with zoanthropes or similarly good anti-tank units. Then have the hive tyrant/swarm lord/whatever backhand the poor lil dear's broken body. Unless you roll like shit this will nine times out of ten win. Now for the reason I mentioned deep striking; that's when you reveal the unit of genestealers and lictors behind enemy lines and make the eldar player cry about all their life choices.
@ashardalondragnipurake
Жыл бұрын
carnifexes including one eye are pretty fragile in this edition they are basically the nids vehicles vehicles that have for other factions, changed their toughness cap to 15 from 10 while nids toughness still caps out at 9
@chrisdonahue524
Жыл бұрын
If there was a time to start cracking open the goodies stuffed away in the Black Cells deep below the Imperial Palace, now would be a good time.
@vitaliitomas8121
Жыл бұрын
Then they find out Tranzyn paid a visit
@Toto-95
Жыл бұрын
Hey buddy, you let my man Barabus rest in peace ! He was the goat ! THE GOAT !!!
@fcomolineiro7596
Жыл бұрын
26:27 there's only one time that I can recall where the tyrannids weren't alone and that was when a c'tan shard was getting to many pieces of itself Rare W for the C'tan
@TRETHEGAMERMAN
Жыл бұрын
I’m very happy to see this I was thinking that there wasn’t gonna be a Do or Don’t for tyranids because you made the fixing video for them I hope you do a Do or don’t video for the lizardmen/Seraphon
@GaijinGoombah
Жыл бұрын
Hey, they finally fixed the Tyranids (?)
@qwaku4907
Жыл бұрын
One writing bonus from the tyrannids is that they allow entire factions to work together despite literally fighting 10 seconds ago, imagine being a space marine and fighting alongside your chaos brothers betting who would get the most kills
@velphidrow
Жыл бұрын
The imperium will ally with xenos before chaos The xenos cannot help but be xenos The traitor *chose* to be a traitor
@crashedforeigncar
9 ай бұрын
Bro, imagine the opposite scenario. One second you're fighting a Hive Fleet, then a Chaos barge crash lands on the planet, then the next thing you realize you're a Space Marine riding a Carnifex bull-rushing Chaos forces, with everyone screaming. @@velphidrow
@rhymenoceros3303
Жыл бұрын
I think it would be interesting if down the line we do start getting Tyranid characters with their own distinct personalities. I don't mean to take away what makes them special as an oncoming hoard of endless hunger but to expand upon them by showing a more direct influence from the Hive Mind itself. Basically my ideal way of creating Tyranid characters would be to have the Hive Mind splinter off pieces of it's own consciousness into unique forms of Tyranids. This would be done as another attempt by the Tyranids and it's Hive Mind to adapt to deal with the powerful named characters of the WH40K setting. These knew Tyranid forms exist to help provide new perspective to the Hive Mind so it can further adapt and learn to deal with its enemies. These forms would still be essentially the Hive Mind but have a little more independence to try and craft new ways to overcome and defeat the Tyranids enemies. Not only would this give a sort of "face" to put to the numberless Tyranid hoards but it could invite unique writing opportunities and shake up to the setting. Like some of the Tyranid forms struggling with their new found independence, creating strategies that lets them begin pushing back against the other factions, rivalries forming between the new Tyranids, etc. It's probably a bit too outside the scope of what the Tyranids are meant to represent, a faceless horde and all, but hey adding more characters and characterization helped spice up the Necrons so I think something at least to a lesser extent would only benefit the Tyranids. But that's just my opinion and I don't play the table top so I don't really know how Tyranid players and fans would feel about including actual "characters" to their faction. So if there are any Tyranid players out there I would really like to know what you think, and if you're more than happy with where the Tyranids are at least lore wise.
@emmahagens
Жыл бұрын
isn't this mostly the lore for the norn emissary? big somewhat independent creatures made to deal with and learn about specific threats.
@snowtrooper1188
Жыл бұрын
One eye
@Funko777
Жыл бұрын
I don't play nids because I'm not a a garbo person (imp Gaurdsmen, get rekt lawlz) buuuuut, I sort of like the idea of the hive mind being this mysterious nearly omnipotent entity outside the galaxy. One who can a seeming keep chaos GOD'S in check or at least equal them individually to some degree. As happened with the Horus heresy to some extent the more you explain something (regardless of intentions) you take away one of the most powerful literary devices that exists in fiction: the ability to let the reader fill in the blanks. What we come up with will always be cooler, scarier, funnier, etc than anything a writer could most likely do. Plus, it creates controversy and encourages people to discuss 40k lore more thus adding to free advertising for GW. I would argue for keeping it how it is for now but to maybe do some more stories from GSC humans. It's still not exactly the same as what you're saying but at least it allows the nids to have more books. I just feel like humanizing the Hivemind in ANY way sort of betrays the thing that makes it so cool. Like wtf is it? What the fug does it want? Do it be T H I C C or have biggo tiddyz? I know the answer to that last one in my "head" cannon 😏
@aprinnyonbreak1290
Жыл бұрын
@@snowtrooper1188 One Eye getting a spruce up would be nice. More of these "grudge" type consciousnesses would be interesting. Every time the Tyranids have their ass absolutely handed to them by something on a grand scale, they whip up one of these kinds of guys to stalk them and learn what makes them tick. The Swarmlord already fills this purpose on a general scale, but there being more dedicated, refined observers tracking particular factions or guys would be interesting. Heck, you could even run them like you could the Imperial Assassins in the past. Cost them all the same, and you can take one, and tag it out during deployment, once they learn they're fighting, say, Orkz, and the bioform made to figure them out after Octarius comes out over one that's really interested in Daemons.
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
No, this sounds like bad fanfiction.
@adambennett1628
Жыл бұрын
GW went back on a goodwill promise to make money?! I've never been more shocked and upset in my life! 😢
@FatrickAteman
10 ай бұрын
The idea of all this lore and buildup just ending with the Tyranids mercy devouring the entire universe and leaving for the next one is kind of fitting tbh.
@عليياسر-ذ5ب
10 ай бұрын
The ancients would defeat these things easily 😂😂😂😂🎉
@xxbomba9780
Жыл бұрын
Pls do a video on StarCraft races in Warhammer 40k
@PobortzaPl
Жыл бұрын
Protoss are Eldar, Zerg are Tyranids and Terran are Imperial Guard but are using some of the equipment that's usually left for Corpse God's special boys.
@ssfbob456
6 ай бұрын
I'd argue you're not palying the villains, you're playing the monsters, there's a distiction to be made between the two.
@BaranZenon
4 ай бұрын
In that wh40k shooter called "Hired Gun" there is a segment where PC is going where Genestealers Cult resides. And even when the main guy (or lass) is a stonecold, ruthless bounty hunter that, at the end game, can run on walls, while shooting a heavy bolter with an aimbot installed, after his first dance with the actual Genestealers and his return to the hub area he was actually scared.
@westleytraynor1841
Жыл бұрын
Okay, i might love the guardsmen the most but...Tyranids are badass. Giant space cthulu's feasting on everything? Hell yeah
@TheSpicyLeg
Жыл бұрын
I find them very basic. It’s the same old trope of space monsters want to destroy everything. Other xenos races and Chaos have much more interesting goals, even if they are written as incredibly stupid while attaining them.
@myduckisonqauck7227
Жыл бұрын
@@TheSpicyLeg You might find the killiks from star wars, and vajra from macross a bit more interesting.
@westleytraynor1841
Жыл бұрын
@TheSpicyLeg oh yes, in terms of story lines? Basic as fuck. But in terms of how cool they are? How terrifying they can be? Oh they are superior to chaos, eldar everyone else. I love all of the factions, but the guardsmen and the tyrannids are my favorite from 40k. I hate the imperium though-
@jiado6893
Жыл бұрын
12:57 That's what the Imperium is SUPPOSE to be. It's not just that they're evil, they're stupid. Those two things are intertwined. But GW had decided to make all things Imperium the face of the entire franchise, which is why it will remain standing and fairly effective until the end of time. Besides that just being bad writing that misses the point of the setting, I'm afraid the narrative is making of made an unwitting Steel Man argument for the 'lesser' evil.
@tramsformers
Жыл бұрын
I feel like GW missed an opportunity to pull the fact that the tyranids won the Octarus war against the orks to the forefront with 10th edition to really beef up the tyranids narratively
@notoriousfew7814
Жыл бұрын
My boy Dantioch deserved better
@Tortle-Man
Жыл бұрын
I was honestly really mid on Tyranids until a KZitem video awoke me to the glory of Hive Fleet Jormungandr. The story of that hive fleets invasion of the ghoul stars is actually a really good bit of fluff. Plus their play style of vanguard organisms followed by burrowing beasts like trygons is really unique.
@codelicious6590
Жыл бұрын
Was that the bit by Attenborough Lore? I saw that the other day, I thought it was a really kind of different angle or perspective on the 'Nids -very good.
@OldSpaghettifactory89
4 ай бұрын
the right way to write a tyranid story/campaign is how battlefleet gothic 2 did it. make the story follow your meals freaking out as you show up
@elonwhatever
Жыл бұрын
I would love it when two hive fleets run into eachother they would start tearing eachother to bits. No explanation, no backstory. They just hate eachother
@mr.revrac5602
Жыл бұрын
They have fought, and its been explained. Its a way for them to combine into one fleet.
@SpoopySquid
Жыл бұрын
The only thing scarier than Tyranids is the possibility that they're fleeing something even worse
@brandonlyon730
Жыл бұрын
I’m personally not a fan of the theory since all it does is degrade the Tyranids.
@FredStack-b5w
Жыл бұрын
I almost like that idea ... balance in the universe ...
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