28,000 Points of Tyranids Showcase - Why I Love Ep 3

Not only does Matt show off his massive studio collection of the hive minded aliens, he also delves into the lore of the Tyranids and talks about his favourite parts about the army.
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[@Blackthorn0451]

Brother Titus.... Get the heavy flamer.

[@cactuscoe9096]

"no, not that one, the bigger one"

[@williamtimonen6814]

”You mean the inferno cannon right?”

[@flatheadgg2443]

You mean the exterminatus right

[@magnos_decimus]

"No the even bigger one"

[@williamtimonen6814]

Meta_Melcan ”Im just gonna go and steal the Planet Killer.”

[@zerolarge61]

Loved the description "this could just be the fingertips of a hand, of an arm, of a body" attacking the known universe.

[@TB-ps6wc]

Good beginner army there.

[@miniwargaming]

Hey, I'm working on it! :P

[@treyday6387]

@@miniwargaming TYRANIDS FOREVER!!!

[@reyines]

jajajajajajajaj

[@atheistmando4976]

Beginner army? Those are just the scouts

[@blackhawkuh-6026]

J.R. Clark scouts this is 1/100 of a scout force

[@Art-em8uy]

how many points will an exterminatus cost?

[@tadhgconroy8828]

Art 111 gotta roll ten +1s

[@josav09]

Yes, I feel the same way. From zerg to nids, so-so models, lore.... I also feel like Tyranids is one of the most expensive armies so I find them hard to collect but it makes me so happy to see them in the table. I also painted mine purple and brown, zerg style

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

Make Dave do the Tau Showcase

[@patrykkanarkiewicz1775]

he would not be able to say "i love tau"

[@pedrogonzalez5340]

This NEEDS to happen !

[@dezzy2357]

As a fellow Tyranid player I agree with everything you said. Now let us consume some pitiful organisms for the hive mind.

[@tylerm9509]

I think the Tyranid models mostly look good, but I agree that I wish the weapons looked more organic to the model and less like something they picked up.

[@theswampus670]

it is a more efficient use of Biomass to grow different weapons for the Bio-morphs to use interchangeably rather than Reclaim and grow an entirely new Warrior because a Death-Spitter is an unnecessary amount of Biomass to deal with Guard. Honestly i just love the Models and they are what got me into 40k.

[@Bastmod-hw4nb]

Same

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

The first time i noticed that they were actually holding swords and weapons, i was terrible dissapointed in some way. I thought it was just connectes to their arms. Obviously the dissapointment was short since the nids are fucking awesome, but it is what it is.

[@dantheultimate2497]

I totally agree with your oppinion on the models, I really love the lore of the Tyranids and that's why they are the first army I got, but the models never really clicked for me, and that's why I don't really enjoy painting them. GW should totally redo alot of the models, especially the Tyrannofex, all the Gaunts and Hive Tyrants. The Hive Tyrant and Swarmlord should be bigger and more menacing (Hive Tyrants should also be 1 unit per army, but to compensate, they should be very tough, like in the lore).

[@brightestlight9462]

year old comment but whatever. in addition to those changes, i think the swarmlord needs to be portrayed as the primarch level being it first seemed to be back when it first THRASHED marneus calgar and his honor guard

[@notarussianspy3457]

man i love the lore but the models are just... so incredibly great i love them so much

[@Takin329]

Haven't actually watched this video yet, but I have been waiting for it since you guys started doing these.

[@shredarsrageoffire]

I've only just started collecting these, and wow it'll take me a life time to do what you have done

[@jacobb.9181]

This army must've taken alot of valuable.... Time

[@lopezcarlos24]

Tyranid codex was the very first warhammer anything I ever bought. And i haven't looked back since.

[@GoingRampant92]

same for me! the 3rd? edition codex i think it was

[@DYspartan]

The time and effort that goes i to making these is incredible, never been a board game player yet warhammer is soemthing I've always found absolutely sick.

[@AllbinP]

Go for 40k points of Tyranids now :D

[@brokenrooster4338]

Love this series hope you guys come out with the next one soon

[@harpknight5817]

Tyranids are my favourite, you pretty much hit the nail on the head in this video XD I agree with all the points you made

[@TheStronggeek]

this is just the way i got in to tyranids. My friend who wanted to play 40k with his space marine... "did you know the tyranids is the inspiration for the zerg race" (him knowing full well i'm a zerg main and like painting warhammer) 3 months later i get 1000 point of nids for my birthday :D

[@TheHej2]

Who would win? 10 000 gaunts or one foot of an emperor class titan

[@miniwargaming]

In 7th edition the titan (since they cannot hurt it). In 8th edition the gaunts (since 6+ to wound hurts it). That's why I like 8th edition better. :)

[@williamtimonen6814]

miniwargaming To be fair we dont know what rules an Emperor Class titan would have. It might have both a 2+++ and a reroll sucessful wound rolls rule.

[@nevs0917]

Even in the lore gaunts have taken down a Titan. If it's an Emperor Class idk

[@billybones956]

There is lore out there about Titans on Macragge getting dragged down simply by sheer numbers, various Nids climbing the titan and weighing it down.

[@jacobkingsford447]

Yeah you say that but a lasgun isn't going to get through the 5 metre thick armour and neither will a gaunt scratch so I think they should change it

[@willbournerv2259]

I really like the models, in fact it was the models that caught my eye and made me want to play them

[@Haroith]

Absolutely love the style of old genestealer cults. Those cadillacs, those luxury high characters... They are amazing!

[@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016]

Girls with pink robots:The bois won’t win round 1 Boys with killing slaughtering parasite creatures known as the tyranids: you dare to approach us u girl germs :) *shows grin smiles and smuggled faces* (In an real scale battle)

[@s.k4713]

the broodlord with the plague drone head looks so cool.

[@deadlywangy77]

That is just the fingernail of Matts Hivemind fleet about to hit the galaxy.

[@bellportbattlebunker4682]

Impressive! Thanks for sharing.

[@arnevanlamoen123]

excellent stuff - the hive mind would be proud

[@esaiasthetraveler6934]

Can't wait to see Dave's!

[@croicullagh7530]

All the other armies fight for a oppressive regime or a dark god. The Tyranids just like soup.

[@esadous]

The intro with Luca....priceless!

[@ConquererCraig]

I've been waiting for this :)

[@6ismus384]

Best one so far!

[@Dar2Jee]

The closeups ...the details... and that on this enormous mass ... all the painting mustve taken ages

[@grumbo8634]

The army is impressive from far away but, uh.. the painting is really not that great at all on close inspection.

[@Siathuan]

I'm halfway there, and rapidly running out of room in my room! ... and I actually have you beat for Warriors! 63, mon amis!

[@thepigerians7634]

Personally I kinda like how their weapons look kinda like organic copies of the other race’s weapons, but as a whole I do wish they had more variety because all the models are roughly the same general shape and you’d think they’d have a little more variety than armored hunchbacks given their evolutionary standards. Lorewise I wish there was something more than “they ate this world and moved on”, while still keeping that mysterious extragalactic entity feel. Gameplay wise I have little experience as my only opponent can’t afford an army and a local store is almost a laughable concept. I’m generally the hit hard and fast while tanking damage kind of player so they seem to fit well. I’ll no doubt move into Genestealer Cult once I reach 2000 pts of nids as the lore and models generally are more attractive to me. Haruspex and the Goliath Truck are my two favorite models I’d say. My biggest disappointment with nids is how the Swarmlord is supposed to be our most elite bioform model to date in the 40k lore yet and in every major battle he shows up in he wounds a chapter master and dies. I feel like he should have learned to take them out indirectly through some trick or kamikaze of another organism by now. There’s plenty of creatures in a nid invasion surely they could overwhelm him easily if they focused on him. Plot armor is only so thick right?

[@Zergboy2]

Nice The Zerg I had The same story and oinions, and reasons for being drawn in

[@Mozer331]

This series is great

[@CrankyOldGamer]

That is officially insane.

[@striderfox71]

Love this series

[@muigichannel7825]

the opening comment I though you was talking about imperial guard for a second

[@gggfx4144]

Back in the day, around 3rd ed I guess, Tyranids were among the more 'inspired' models you could say, with clever shapes and textures and what I felt was a simple and well rounded core list; plenty upgrade options yes but you always knew what your go-to unit was for a particular army concept. And it's something really *different* from the other races which, if we're being honest, are mostly humanoid bodies of some sort. I still somewhat pine for them (sold mine). I'm sad though the models haven't moved on; with what GW can now achieve sculpt and moulding wise Tyranids could look *insane*

[@tatujuntunen7668]

You have the same reason to love tyranids as me XD

[@tacky4237]

I wish I could be as enthusiastic as you are about the bugs

[@zamba136]

that are beautiful, i want a collection of them at least as big i would like the Tyranids to be more Dino-bug-like, incorporating the guns more into their biology, rather than looking like they are holding a gun. i know that the funs, and even the bullets, are their own living beings, but still. i like the entire idea of a cast system of dino-bugs. more like bugs from SST or the Zerg.

[@redgreen09]

yes cool like it will see more

[@briancripps496]

5m26s ".... how they gain so much more flavour...." I see what you did there....

[@notabot785]

Waiting for one of these on Drukhari

[@guts8909]

Thats one Big hive mind!

[@ha2vard27]

Back in black.. Templars

[@Vortklox]

Good talk

[@TheChadwokie]

any chance matt you can do a sit and talk or a separate vid going into some of the fiction of nids ie your favourite books?

[@robloxplayer0003]

Ah hwll naw you're gonna hit em with that downtown trafic.

[@christopherpeery7436]

Is this it?? Is this all you can conjure, Matt??

[@TheSushiandme]

I love Zerg, why i love those guys.

[@Lilrockerdude13]

Just went Deathwatch but I still love my Nids. Hope that I can get the wife into the game (lured her into AoS) and we can double team our Nid collection!

[@TheHammerOfRogues]

The Utgard infestation is still one of the best campaign's :)

[@jprp999]

Apparently the Hive Mind is a herald of Galactus.

[@GrumbleGombol]

Loaded up. Saw Matthew. Clicked out.

[@flatheadgg2443]

And here I come in with my five gaunts

[@erikbrown1827]

I wonder if they will play against Dave's Chaos Marines? That be a fun game. ;)

[@gavinmaher4337]

Wish I could get the Wrecking ball Carnifex

[@Troommate]

Would be awesome to see all this against smaller groups of Spacemarines or Imperial guard controlled by different players and see who lasts the longest XD "Its a bug planet!"

[@timspencer3185]

Wowzers

[@AidanBlant]

Is there an actual list of all the units? Tried to parse some of it via your comments and just counting as it went, but would be amazing to have the list.

[@skatatataatje]

All those crabs and lobsters make me hungry.

[@newtonianromance]

Def tyranids for me!

[@N0TS0uh]

Fuck that shit, im going back to the warp.

[@brightonbegole5459]

4:18 how did you DO that with the mouth?!

[@timspencer3185]

Brighton Begole amazing details! Woooo

[@Lucas-rz3vl]

My guess is some sort of liquid greenstuff, string it around and model it before priming and painting.

[@brightonbegole5459]

Lucas quite the job well done. Thanks!

[@LordKingKamiGuru]

@@brightonbegole5459 It's just UHU glue mixed with some paint.

[@tea1w480]

Nice patrol group

[@leanderschuster3196]

BUUUUUUUUUGS! WE GOT BUUUUUUUUUUGS!

[@TDZPearson]

you should battle all of these in one 100 turn assault of a space marine base

[@shamrockboy21]

Could anyone tell me where they found that old 80s image of the genestealers at 7:44 in the video?

[@josav09]

Apparently is from early 1990s, I found it at the bottom of www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/09/40k-rumors-genestealer-cult-new-kits.html

[@shamrockboy21]

thanks!

[@SeanChristieMallon]

cool video bro

[@FortuneFaded2006]

I'd love to play against all that.

[@lecryingseal9866]

Space marine fans: brotha get the flamer... the heavy flamer

[@aidanbauer6049]

brother get the heavy flamer brother we are ovverunbrother

[@MightBite]

What is that beast in front of the biotitan? in-between the two hieradules.

[@Jade_the_jaded]

It’s like the Zerg from Starcraft

[@daleperry1026]

It’s a good start buddy, I’m at 37-42k depending on load out. 1,741 models in my swarm

[@knugen1612]

Sounds like you have a decent mid sized army! Keep working on it :)

[@febuary1497]

Do a why i love Drukhari !!

[@jonguardia]

Do one with grey knights !!!!

[@worldofazeroth]

crazy

[@alduin9694]

You should make a battle with all these vs some other faction.

[@6543dann]

Most thematic faction hands down

[@chocolatesunday4798]

I wanna get into warhammer. Is there a number of points that you start off with. I’ve never played but I love the warhammer lore

[@anonymous-jw7lj]

I just love xenomorphs

[@pythonking16.59]

How do Tyranids get off of a planet once everything is said and done? I assume some of the lesser organisms are consumed or left behind, but what about Hive Tyrants, Warriors, Exocrines, etc. Are they all just left to die if they can’t fly back to the hive ships by themselves?

[@grumbo8634]

They're compelled by the hive mind to throw themselves into digestive pools or are eaten by rippers which then throw themselves in those same pools. Digestive pools are connected to capillary towers which extend upwards towards space and into the bioships in orbit. Not a scrap of of digestible matter is left behind.

[@gabrielcaban7108]

No Hive Guard?

[@JustinDynamicD]

For me its all the claws, teeth and tendrils that make a good model. Example of a bad model would be the tyranid warriors. They just look like guys in weird armor. I hate that synapse is such a rare trait that these guys tend to pop up just to supply it. The worst model though: Termigaunts. It hurts an extra amount that they are basically superior hormegaunts. Good model for me? Venomthropes. A mass it tendrils and thorns. Wonderfully alien with big sacks of ...stuff on their backs oozing poisonous clouds. Carnifexes as big as a tank with slashing claws. I like my alien critters ... alien. I think the newer monsterous models have gotten good with that.

[@jastat]

requires wider angle lens :)

[@user-vl3kr8gf7g]

Это круто 👍

[@jakeofalco]

im really curious what makes a person collect this much?like how many more models do you need :o

[@miniwargaming]

For me it is wanting to have variety in my battle reports and narrative campaigns. I get bored of playing the same thing, so I need more in the collection to have variety. I need 200 Termagaunts for those few times that I want to play with lots of gaunts, and 100+ Genestealers so I can play all Genestealer lists. You could look at it as a lot of armies combined into one, that just all happen to have interchangeable parts...

[@jakeofalco]

Good point, i would love to be able to make crazy lists knowing that i have no restrictions!

[@silkaverage]

I'm getting starship troopers vibes........BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS!!!!!!!! please do a nid vs Guard huge battle!

[@kilaliam671]

ELDAR!

[@mitchel5362]

That’s like $10,000+

[@mitchel5362]

but honestly I bet that’s what it would look like if they invaded a planet

[@brightestlight9462]

does matt have a genestealer cult army?

[@idanben8457]

This dude probably has an ant farm

[@thegreatdevourer1020]

Hive fleet kraken

[@ionceateapinecone]

depressingly few ripper swarms from what I can see :(

[@rockdrakesawtooth777]

How many pounds(money) is that army worth?