5 Times Tyranids Were Beyond HORRIFYING!! | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@weshammer]

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[@xbox2130]

Is there a guy in 40k who have survived many war and he is a guardsman

[@dicebot9617]

imagine being like, im going to cut out the part where the guardsmen shoots himself to save himself the pain of dying in acid, thats too sad, everything else? yeah thats fine

[@tombirmingham7033]

I am a huge Warhammer 40K fan so I love digging into the root sci-fi that the Creator stole from I mean we're inspired by. And I come across the religious beliefs of Mr Steve Jackson and I find some very strange stuff by the way everybody should go and read a book called The Five Books of Mystery by John Dee. Very eye opening

[@xeronecross]

Your code is "expired" so it says on their website. Just so you know.

[@vignesh0208]

What is the lore source for the unknown prisoner.

[@MrObasiah]

The idea of the imperium guarding an empty cell at maximum security is hilarious to me.

[@-DA-ONE-]

But like since all the equipment is working well that means there's really something inside

[@MrObasiah]

@@-DA-ONE- he said none of the instruments could detect it, just the trap knew it was in there. Since it can phase it could have just peaced out and been chilling somewhere

[@andrewhopkins886]

@@MrObasiah Just an ultra-invisible 'nid hanging out in the rafters eating popcorn.

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

Yes. That’s the joke. It’s an empty cell that they refuse to accept is actually empty.

[@rebel3896]

It's probably totally empty too. I love it.

[@jeramahia123]

There's another instance from the Devastation of Baal where Dante himself also looked into the eyes of the Swarmlord and saw the Hive Mind... But instead of horror, he felt only pity for the Tyranids now. Dante was mad with the Red Thirst, and in that moment he realized the curse that drove the Blood Angels to thirst for blood was NOTHING compared to the endless hunger that drove the Tyranids.

[@josephpa05]

Damn thats badass

[@blacktemplarbarachel3387]

I fear for what the hive mind does for the blood angels to feel pity for them that is just sad and horrifying

[@nouhorni3229]

Dante really just wants to be done with life and die but folks don't let him. The fate of the hive mind consciousness is probably worse then hell to him.

[@sgtstr3am785]

@@nouhorni3229 "I'm in hell but your hell is WAY worse. I'd shed a tear if I still had tear ducts."

[@IgaTenzen]

@@nouhorni3229 Poor guy just wants to rest , as he is fighting as Chapter Master of the Blood Angels for like 1100 years … and these sons of bitches (Robot Girlyman and his ultramarines) want to make him a primaris ! Dante be like “ FUCK NO” !

[@RichardX1]

That last story shows why everyone in the Imperium's militaries should always keep their sidearms loaded/charged for at least one shot

[@toheekang174]

For themselves?

[@RichardX1]

​@@toheekang174Yyyyyup.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

If the bioship swallowed your ship hole, scuttle your ship, then. Not only do you get a swift death, but you take the bioship down with you.

[@kaiwinhall5199]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite the last story was crap because blow yourself up and take the beast with you is the common imperial doctrine in such situation....

[@TheCorrodedMan]

@@kaiwinhall5199At that point it was probably far too late. The ship was being dissolved, so odds are that the beasts insides were hardened against explosives to defend against that very possibility. Remember; the Bugs think of _everything,_ not just what we can see. Need a stronger ship? BAM, hardened carapace _and_ latticed, diamond hard bone structure.

[@zelpheon662]

17:30 I think getting the attention of the Tyranid hivemind itself to look directly at you is a feat considering it kills like this on the daily throughout the verse

[@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733]

Considering it looked at the water with apparent curiosity, I bet it's reaction was "da fuck is this" And I think that was the thing that made hivemind directly control that gaunt

[@shcdemolisher]

@@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733 Yeah a case of: "That isn't water, and WE both know what water is!"

[@unclekanethetiberiummain1994]

@@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733 Dude went into FPS mode in RTS/FPS hybrid game.

[@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733]

@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 in a literal sense

[@generalshock4359]

@@unclekanethetiberiummain1994 its like in the arma or the men of war games when you like "mmmmmmm lemme zoom in a bit yeah thats some weird shit."

[@johnsheridan6027]

That last story surprised me, I knew on some level what was going to happen, but the creeping dread the story conveys is horrifying

[@Higglebert]

it was probably how human it was, normally we see commisars shooting fellow men, unflinching or space marines trampling through humans but this showed the more realistic side, the human side of things.

[@Rcdvst808]

Whoever wrote it was in a dark frame of mind, it’s good though. And probably accurate. No wonder the ‘All is lost’ rule in BFG let’s you detonate your engines rather than suffer that nightmare.

[@epicsardines6440]

I think it’s cuz we all know they are going to die. But there is some part of us expecting for them to live. And it is just so realistic to how we all would have felt in that situation. One with no possible hope, no way out.

[@max16]

meh. it was not that bad. dont know why wes was so head buggered about it.

[@kennethwilliams543]

@@max16 He omitted some of the more visual details because I believe the acid and the bugs are only the first part. I believe he talked about this story before and the acid doesn't instantly kill the crew but eats away at there flesh slowly while the parasites burrow into there flesh like spoiled meat.

[@RabidlyTaboo]

I hate when SCPs get compared to everything, but the invisible creature in a possibly empty cell being guarded at max security gives me those vibes.

[@charlesbingham421]

100 I felt it

[@grav8455]

Sounds like scp 055

[@baldrodinnson4468]

The irony of the Eldar spending so long trying to preserve their souls to save them from being devoured by slaneesh just for them to be devoured by a tyranid is awful

[@markgallagher1790]

Universe just looked at them and said "No"

[@baldrodinnson4468]

@@markgallagher1790 I love the bugs but that's all sorts of fucked up

[@markgallagher1790]

@@baldrodinnson4468 aye

[@te9591]

With the splintering of their Craftworld it seems like there could be a variation of Exodites that kind of resemble the Dark Eldars plight but with Nids.

[@Nick-st4hb]

If it makes you feel better, That Tyranid probably just converted all those souls into pure energy while Slaneesh would likely toy with their souls for eternity so that's not that bad tbh

[@EmperorPylades]

I think one of the most terrifying things about the 'Nids is the simple fact that the very thing that lets you know they've arrived in system means that its already too late. Once the Shadow in the Warp falls over you, you can't evacuate, reinforcements have almost no hope of getting to you in time, and for an Astropath to even attempt to get as SOS almost guarantees that they'll die or go mad in the process.

[@SnibsnBibs]

That must be such an existentially, psychedelically horrifying experience for any psykers in the system at the moment of arrival. You're just browsing SlannHub on your frontal lobe, light of the emperor shining over the psychic vibes of everything, and then _the lights go out._ Like a cloth being removed from a tabletop at a moderate pace, darkness overcomes every speck of psychic light around you. You reach out into the mental darkness you've never seen in your life, and instead of gently feeling the pulse of the warp, the sea of souls, the collective unconscious of all living things that, if nothing else, the presence of which at least lets you know that the galaxy is still alive, still _there..._ you just feel the psychic deprivation chamber of the dead void. And you feel the creeping cold of something primal in your flesh recoiling, slowly, as if in line with the perceptive radius of some approaching unseen presence.

[@matiasnoguera461]

You have a little hope and that Is if they let you go,they sometimes let your ship or some some ships escape because they have a genestealer hide insiste so you have a few Centuries before the next invasión

[@XSilver_WaterX]

Nids feels like a perfect opponent for other Galactic Civilizations of other franchise like Star Craft, Trek, Wars and Halo. You just die when they start to hunt YOU specifically!

[@axios4702]

The Doom of Malantai should be a tyranid "character" like Old One Eye, recreated where the Hive Mind deems it to be needed most or to terrify Eldar warriors that encountered it.

[@weshammer]

That would be awesome! Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't done that yet. GW likes to release new character models every now and then. Rather than giving a whole new line of miniatures. I feel like it'd be pretty easy to design a unique zonethroape

[@xkriegor]

It used to be playable(I think it was around 5th edition), it's really2 strong.

[@demonelf2094]

@@weshammer At least we got Parasite of Mortrex resently.

[@baldrodinnson4468]

I don't think there's been new tyranid models in like 4 or 5 years so I feel like it's overdue, but I just bought old one eye so I don't have the cash to throw at GW at the moment lol

[@florians9949]

@@weshammer I fell something like the Doom of Malantai would be too powerfull fot tabletop. Seriously that thing was abble to solo an entier craftworld, sure a bit beat up but still. It would be the ewuivalent of bringing the Emperor of Mankind.

[@UserRedZero]

“Eyes of the Hivemind” You know, he had the _EXTREMELY_ rare opportunity to communicate with the total Tyranid hivemind one-on-one in a safe and reliable way there, assuming it could hiss some sort of speech.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

also assuming that the hive mind is capable of comprehending the world like humans (or space marines) can, and that it isn't so far above us that communication is on a completely separate level

[@SnibsnBibs]

The number of human beings they had consumed at that, and at pretty much any point, numbered in the literal gazillions. I'm not sure one Bambi moment with a timid little tyranid shuffling up cautiously to a big soft-hearted space marine's gauntlet and licking it will undo.... is there a word for infinite genocide? Infinicide? That sounds like when you kill a baby. Which they have also done a lot. I think they've made it quite clear what they'd be asking for at the negotiation table, which would exist for all of two seconds before being instantly dissolved in acid maggots. Acid maggots. L.A.P.D. would call that reasonable suspicion.

[@ThatsOk83]

Heretic! There is no “communicating” with Xenos

[@snufflebunny539]

Best Tyranid moment is the first mission in dawn of war 2 where the guardsmen start panicking because this weird bug just *Took Cover*

[@mzamethodman7134]

Everybody gangsta till the bug starts having a big *THINK*

[@callumfinlayson-palmer8393]

I know I loved the line and thought it was really badass and scary. You have these hoards of mindless monsters attacking like a swam of wild animals, then these animalistic monsters are suddenly performing well co-ordinate tatical moments and strategy equal or superior to your own.

[@mzamethodman7134]

@@callumfinlayson-palmer8393 Imagine a new group of tyranids enter the galaxy that when the battle starts, they are very basic, but as the battle progresses, they learn and adapt RAPIDLY by watching the stuff they're fighting, so at the start they're just zerging, and mid way through they're counting their shots, flanking, strategically taking out structures, and worst of all, communicating. Idk if this is already a thing in 40k im a newbie to warhammer

[@Enja_Near]

@@mzamethodman7134 Usually at the beginning of an Invasion, there are ALOT of little bugs and very few Synapse creatures. As the invasion progresses more Synapse creatures will be dispatched. From the Victims' perspective the Nids' behavioral patterns is exactly as you described.

[@aleccarroll7328]

@@mzamethodman7134 sorta hive fleet jormagander is my fav stupid effective

[@UGNAvalon]

“I’m going to omit some of the more graphic parts.” “He removed her hands from her face.” “Still she screamed.” Ah, so her face melted off. Lovely.

[@blank4227]

that doesn't sound lovely at all wtf is wrong with you

[@UGNAvalon]

@@blank4227 It's called "verbal irony", sometimes known as "sarcasm". The use of an underwhelming/inappropriate reaction (in this case, saying "lovely") serves to highlight just how horrific the scene would be.

[@blank4227]

@@UGNAvalon No it's called "boring"

[@UGNAvalon]

@blank Oh really? You didn’t seem very bored in your initial comment; in fact, you seemed downright horrified. 🙃

[@blank4227]

@@UGNAvalon I asked what was wrong with you and you said you were boring.

[@sirknightmonday9286]

Holy god-emperor. That last story was straight out of a nightmare.

[@undefinedvariable8085]

Raises the question: why don't they carry service pistols? That would've come in clutch; to choose to end yourself rightly before the horror takes you.

[@winspyy]

He omitted some things, I guess for the sake of youtube monetisation, because it gets even more graphic and horrific than that.

[@SnugCheetah36]

@@winspyy like how so?

[@KhronicD]

@@SnugCheetah36 I would assume more detailed descriptions of the horrific way the characters died.

[@prdurnion83]

@@SnugCheetah36 Like... have you ever had anyone describe what being dragged 15 miles on asphalt feels like?

[@sharklazerboy9529]

If The Doom of Malantai every got to the space marine's home world, I think it'll go like this: Space Marine #1: Hey, what's that big bug alone making its way to our outpost? Space Marine #2: Idk, send out some tanks to blow it up *Tanks blows up seemingly by nothing* Space Marine #1: Huh, send out a titan to see if it'll kill it *The titan is squished like a tin can, and falls to the ground* Space Marine #1 and #2: Fuuu

[@SkitariusNoKD]

This is why I love tyrannids, just eldritch horror from an intelligence that sees humans as nothing but food, I hope the hive mind stay unknowable, for any attempts to explain it would just diminish it.

[@mrcaterpillow9926]

It will probably get the Emperor of Mankind treatment which I am fully here for.

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

I agree completely - as Lovecraft himself said, the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest form of fear is fear of the unknown. GW should keep the Hive Mind as an unknown and unknowable alien gestalt consciousness, god like in power but so utterly alien that the Imperium doesn't even have a frame of reference by which to understand it.

[@raylenn4444]

That's impossible. Because eventually the setting will get closure one way or another

[@SkitariusNoKD]

@@raylenn4444 you can get closure of a franchise letting things unexplained, like the nameless thing in Lord of the rings. Also warhammer 40k getting closure sounds unlikely since it's GW biggest milk cow, but I would be down to a multiple ending finale were players choose what faction they want to win.

[@raylenn4444]

@@SkitariusNoKD that won't happen in 40K. Like they will have ti defeat the hivemind or at least confront it to give a climatcic conclusion to the tyranids. And you can't do that with a mysterious eldritch entity that seem unnatainable or uneplicable.

[@cnut7383]

I love that the deathwatch has such a variety of xenos that visible colours aren't enough to grade deadliness lol

[@Reddotzebra]

So the unknown prisoner is basically just trolling the Imperium at this point. "Oh, they sent in another guy. Guess I'll just sit here in my corner and watch them rip their hair out a little more."

[@Bukyru]

Or there really was nothing there and the trap had a issues they could find.

[@alejandrosalas3445]

@@Bukyru but then why weren’t there more disappearances reported from the world it was “captured” on

[@robertnett9793]

@@alejandrosalas3445 Maybe there were - and the Administratum is working as fast as possible to process the reports. You can expect them any decade now.

[@Aw-ev1mv]

Imagine if it's just a normal harmless animal like a frog that is somehow invisible and that's what has the imperium so terrified

[@idigamstudios7463]

@@Aw-ev1mv It's a single ripper, it's actually tried to attack the marines but it can't do much more than nibble toes. it's trying it's best though.

[@NinjaSkittlez]

The Tyranids having a deific presence which rivals or dwarfs the chaos gods, who themselves may be running from something infinitely larger than themselves, is lovecraftian as hell.

[@mr.revrac5602]

They aren’t running from anything

[@Endlessvoidsutidos]

the true trynid hive mind and endless nightmares endless nightmare deep in the shattered dark of the twisted cosmos

[@taddad2641]

nah i think its just dumb. just wann make it 'more grimdark' and nto really think bout it. Cause quite literally, this entity, would just make Slaanesh more powerful. we are talkign about an entire species of ravenous consumption. He'd match if not surpass this being and all the other chaos gods. but its not a serious work so plot holes be plot holes.

[@maryray4960]

@@taddad2641And just HOW is Slaanesh supposed to get a grip on the bloody thing?!

[@McChickenJOI]

@@taddad2641 i mean, the ravenous consumption part goes for the physical nids, who are basically animals no? with the hivemind itself not being affected by it and just controlling the different nids

[@BloopTheNoop]

I love hearing about the Tyranids. Your choice of music in the background is also amazing

[@Dead_Nettle]

The Hivemind's actions on Baal are incredibly interesting. It chose to express itself not through a greater synapse creature, but a humble gaunt that would otherwise be feral. It knew about the trap and intentionally exposed itself to communicate that it didn't care if it won or lost. It looked up at a clerical witness of the Emperor and said simply "I see." That is indeed pretty scary, but there is another aspect: Recognition may be the closest thing its alien mind has to respect.

[@RubberbandEntertainment]

Man does anyone else want more dramatic readings from Wes? Like shit let this dude record an audiobook for war hammer his enthusiasm for the books really gets you into it

[@thehermitman822]

Hell Yeah. A collab of other loremasters would also be great.

[@meric2]

You'd think they'd have a self destruct option in the event that your ship is being devoured

[@Tyranid_HiveMind]

Doofenshmirtz has proven that it's a bad idea

[@freekill1018]

Rather than self destruct why not massive electric charge around the ship to shock the monster eating the ship or massive flamethrowers

[@__-zo6qi]

@@freekill1018 flames be no good in space, and with the amount of time they had and what they had i'm going to go out on a limb and say they couldn't do the shock thing

[@freekill1018]

@@__-zo6qi what of emergency warp jumps while inside the tyranid

[@mattor300]

​@@freekill1018 shadow of the warp prevents warp drives, thing is the best thing you could actually do is have loads of explosives, it probably won't kill the ship, it mey even not damage it but at least you go out fast

[@shaderunner8220]

40k honestly makes for some of the most amazing horror content. And it comes in multiple flavors. From chaos demons, to drukhari... To the tyrarids.

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

I had read that last story before....AND IT IS TRULY THE DEFINITION OF GRIMDARK....I'm glad you featured it at the end.... It really drives the point home to anyone new to the Lore that DOESN'T UNDERSTAND JUST HOW GODDAMN TERRIFYING THE ALIEN DINOSAUR BUGS OF SLAUGHTER TRULY ARE!!!! ONCE AGAIN WES MY BROTHER, YOU HAVE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK WITH THIS ONE!! 🤘🏻😝👍🏻

[@shadow8928]

the death leaper short story is also a good one, both horrifying and strangely enough hilarious

[@callumfinlayson-palmer8393]

"We have no evidence there is anything there, all equipment has failed to detect anything" "So what your saying is this is the stealthy monster we ever encountered" "No we would have detect at least something so I'm fairly sure nothing there" "By the Emperor we cant let it out."

[@carolheward6479]

Malanthropes search battlefields for unique or useful biomass. They appear after battles are over and most of the time it would be absorbing dead bodies or bits of bodies rather than living victims. Good vid

[@ToadimusPrime]

This video came at a perfect time. Just got my Tyranids 40k MTG deck and I'm sleeving it up as I watch this

[@weshammer]

Oh that's awesome! I got mine in the other day as well, got a handful of games in already. The combos are nutty. I will say the gene stealer Cult lady works way better as your commander over the swarm lord

[@ToadimusPrime]

@@weshammer Yeah, she's insanely better. The Swarmlord is good but sadly doesn't work in the deck well. Hope you have fun as well, I can't wait to test the decks.

[@bryanchemini6221]

The First Tyrannic War card is nuts...I ended a game in one shot with a 42/42 Haruspex that was unable to be blocked because of another card. You can double your +1/1 twice with it.

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

@@weshammer yeah, they did ol' Swarmy dirty with the MTG Card. Definitely at minimum needed Trample.

[@pepperbunz9093]

As a Tyranid main who's getting back in after 4e (my army got stolen so I dropped it) I'm so excited to see lore videos about them. I love hearing about what happens

[@blaablup222]

Ouuff... i feel that pain as i can perfeclty imagine how expensive that stuff is. That and the fact that its dice based prevents me from taking warhammer up safe for the plentitute of games. Sad that the Tyranids arent featured prominently in a proper dawn of war game as well (like.. DoW1, the only good one, all of them even soulstorm)

[@atomicLord97]

That part at the end, where the station was swallowed whole? That gave me chills man! as well as ideas for the book I am writing, (not 40k related) that sense of horror has given me a few ideas.

[@cedo3333]

One of the truly powerful scare story is being devoured alive. That's instinct for you and since we don't dwell in nature that's limited in our psyche . I hope you will use this in your story that's powerful stuff there.

[@russgyuras7485]

You sir, are a master orator. Your retelling of stories and dives into lore have encapsulated me and I’m sure countless others. Thank you for your videos and your dedication to the lore, your content is amazing. Again, thank you.

[@weshammer]

Thanks! I can't take all the credit though, that last passage was read Basically word for word 😅 So all credit goes to the author on that one!

[@rebel3896]

@@weshammer I imagine the part you skipped was describing the woman taking her hands away from her face, yeah?

[@weshammer]

Ya that and then the last guy had a much more gruesome depiction as well

[@zacharyhawley1693]

I think the doom of milanti was most likely drawn into the warp at somepoint or it went there voluntarily.

[@will_f_j5638]

Mabye it managed to escape the Hivemind since it’s now powered by billions of powered souls.

[@headcrabo..2301]

@@will_f_j5638 doubt it, not even that would be enough much less would a Tyranid WANT to deny their master.

[@ddenozor]

@@headcrabo..2301 Yeah every Tyranid is essentially the Hivemind. And if Hivemind is an individual Tyrannid, I believe it might be above Chaos God levels of strength.

[@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733]

@@will_f_j5638 tyranids arent slaves of hivemind, they are it's body.

[@0ne0fmany]

Or maybe since it evolved to eat souls, and after the eldar feast it grew so strong, that it went into the warp to become a new hive fleet, challenging the chaos gods themselves... Hive fleet Morpheus

[@chupacabra304]

What a masterful combination of words that last part is. The first time I read it literally ruined my night & even now @Weshammer ‘s description gives me goosebumps.

[@ozymandiaz1002]

The timing is absolutely amazing! I am currently in the process of painting my very first miniature of warhammer 40k, after enjoying the lore for a bunch of months. Really nice to have a video to listen to while painting. Thank you very much wes!

[@ozymandiaz1002]

@Bob Bobinson i decided to buy the recruit edition starter set, since i dont have any form of opportunity to play against someone else who has an army. I have a friend who wants to get into the tabletop but cant really afford any miniatures of his own, so i bought the recruit edition for the two factions included, its enough for casual games. I am a huge fan of the lore surrounding the necrons, so i will expand on that side propably. The first model i painted though, was a space marine included in the set, to sort of practice before i start with the necrons. I painted one of the primaris marines, but didnt like the blue/gold. So i painted him with the color palette of the black templars (will use the primaris tactics propably).

[@ozymandiaz1002]

@Bob Bobinson well, i think i chose necrons because i just loved the lore the most. I started to get into the fandom by learning a lot about the lore of every faction, and the conzept of the necrons was just really enticing to me. What is your general army of choice?

[@therat9771]

@@ozymandiaz1002 general army choice: the one that you like the most 😎

[@pointly]

Tyranid: Die instantly in acid or fight and be devoured by insects? Your choice. Me: Swan dive for the Emperor!

[@BigBinky_Gaming]

That story at the end was pure horror and it was great. Also I'm super glad the doom of Malantai was mentioned.

[@benjaminpark5460]

This is the third video in a row with what I can only describe as flawless ad transitions. My man gets me every time

[@Channel-23s]

The unknown prisoner sounds like a Hidden horror imagine a Tyrnid Powers that rival the best or maybe it’s capable of passing it’s powers

[@gipsy6495]

Slanesh looking at The doom of Malantai eat Eldar souls: "Hey! Who ate my meal?!"

[@probablythedm1669]

If you want the full horror of a dramatization of the last story, look up "Flesh noose" by A vox in the void. I listened to that as I was going to sleep... not one of my best timed decisions, but it's really well done! I'm pretty sure that's the one.

[@romanquattrininunez9054]

thanks

[@thegametroll6264]

They've been named the great devourer for a reason. They are said to be a force more voracious than the fires of hell themselves. A friend of mine asked his girlfriend " would we survive a war against the tyranids the way things are now?" I couldn't help but chime in saying basically what I just said earlier. 😅

[@slinkerdeer]

They appear to be spillovers from a Galaxy that has been overrun. Meaning those we encounter are mere scouts of a kind, assuming it is but a single Galaxy they have so far consumed

[@jamesverone1244]

​@@slinkerdeertheory is they already have put solar systems surrounded and slowly closing in

[@lachlanfahy2429]

30 minutes of Tyranid lore hell yeah!

[@cobaltlance18]

Find the Nids player

[@omer-mo2ch]

yep and dark stories as black eyes of a shark love ever part of it(: especially the last 2

[@TexashasAIDS]

WOOHOO! I love my baby bugs

[@lunanyx8592]

Looking into "The Eye of The Hivemind" through the eyes of a single gaunt sounds terrifying. Just thinking about it gives me chills.

[@batolley7435]

By the emperor the amount of raw lore and stories this universe could produce countless movies and shows.

[@richardbradshaw7067]

lots of lore and still none of it makes sense lol. what true now is false tomorrow.

[@cedo3333]

Please no! not now! The industry in those days is crap so gonna produce crap so please not now!

[@Zombiewithabowtie]

Starship Troopers is the best Tyranid movie.

[@nightigal]

The only way I could see this working is if they took a Clone Wars style approach and jump between characters and story lines.

[@vincentlefur4490]

All these stories are why i love the tyranids. About the Unknown Prisonner, i believe it's a very advanced kind of Lictor that got trapped but managed to free itself without being spotted by the trap's sensors. It would mean that the trap is really empty but no one knows it.

[@PugMast3r]

That last story hit me hard, I don’t know if I will sleep tonight, Great Video as always though

[@weshammer]

Same. I was thinking about it for like a week after I read it.

[@kempolar9768]

That was with him redacting the worst parts?? Oh dear lord I see why you can't sleep Wes.

[@Big_Orc]

Guess I'm reading that book

[@ryandackiw9871]

What’s the books name ?

[@MagusFyre]

I think if I was part of that crew knowing we'd get swallowed by the ship, I would have just swallowed a live grenade before anything would have happened.

[@Heidao623]

Imagine if the unknown prisoner was actually the personal avatar of the Tyranid hivemind, that it uses to leisurely explore an area and carries the full might of its psychic potential to wander around on Dev Mode, no clipping on true invisibility. It might have seen the trap and "allowed" itself to be captured out of curiosity, only to be rewarded in being brought to the single greatest repository of genes from the most potent killing machines in this galaxy. Now it waits for the opportunity for any tyranid force to come for the harvest.

[@taddad2641]

which is dumb. i am sorry but warhammer has alwatys been a good bit dumb but that is extra dumb.

[@deron2203]

I love how vicious the tyranids are. All they want is to consume and they'll evolve efficiently to achieve that no matter what. It's just scary tbh there's so many and all they want is to consume.

[@elkpants1280]

Just like the typical American

[@AkselGAL]

We are not vicious. We don't want to consume all of you. Bad propaganda. We are just the white blood cells of the galaxy at work. ~Your friendly neighborhood Tyranids

[@Shadow30.]

Zergs that are (for my knolege) ispired by them are cute

[@FeedMeSalt]

Not all of them ;)

[@jeramahia123]

They don't want to consume... they NEED to consume. Dante himself said he felt pity for the Tyranids, because when he looked into the Hive Mind he knew the Red Thirst was NOTHING compared to the hunger of the Tyranids.

[@Slechy_Lesh]

13:45 Staring into the eyes of the Hivemind

[@neor473]

That last story was terrifying. I could imagine every part. Great job with that video

[@afryanmahendra2055]

Considering they were able to hold off the warp influence when the great rift manifested make my head full of wonder that the hivemind actually the true lovecraftian horror of 40K. I mean they were able to fight the unreality that split apart dimensions/space/time.

[@matiasnoguera461]

Even better they can force the Rift to clóse when a fleet big enought or one with enought synaptic creatures travels across it

[@MrNewber01]

the unknown prisoner is the perfect mc'guffin... A empt jar filled with paranoia LOL

[@ICryWhenICum001]

It’s crazy cool seeing your progression as a content creator I remember following you when you first started on TikTok to now getting hundreds of thousands of views per videos on KZbin, congrats man.

[@williamhart7942]

the unknown prisoner is definitely a deathleaper, a upgraded lictor

[@callumduckworth7490]

nah its definitely empty

[@crapparc]

There was just one Death Leaper, though.

[@Elmithian]

@@crapparc only one known death leaper.

[@dolphinerofachero3159]

It’s a virgin toaster

[@queencyrys6309]

@@crapparc there is never just one when it comes to Tyranids.

[@thenson1Halo]

Pro Tip: If your ship/station are about to be eaten by a Tyranid hive ship set all of your reactors to go critical and explode. You'll save yourself some agony and maybe even take out the hive ship and rob the Tyranid of a solid chunk of bio-material.

[@arandomsquidward7761]

Honestly been loving this more long and slow paced style of videos you've been making, your voice suits it.

[@grimmy2347]

The amount of details on the last one were soooo good, loved every second of it.

[@TypeJack]

I like to think that the unknown prisoner is just the trap has serious fucked up/a trick by tzeentch and that the imperium is putting all that effort in guarding an empty trap. 😂😂

[@Zombiewithabowtie]

Either that or Trayzn the Infinite has already half-inched it for his own collection.

[@Zenphoshen]

Fantastic video my dude! The Devastation of Baal is just an other prime example of why I love the Blood Angels. The last story just had me wondering if their station had any sort of self destruct capabilities. Also makes me wonder how much damage it could have potentially done. That Acid though, big yikes. Not a way I would want to go out.

[@zaer-ezart]

They do and it would've nuked the entire place, tyranid as well. But you run the risk of being sucked into the warp and end up with an even worse fate

[@Zenphoshen]

@@zaer-ezart At this point you're already dead so might as well take what just devoured your space station whole with you. If the space station had a way to go full critical meltdown into full explosion after it being swallowed whole, might as well hit that button and prevent others from suffering a similar fate.

[@zaer-ezart]

@@Zenphoshen Yeah but here's the thing. While being eaten alive is painful it will end at some point. But in the warp you don't even have the sweet release of death. Your soul will be raped for all eternity by one of the fucked up things roaming in the warp

[@Zenphoshen]

@@zaer-ezart If it's a self destruct system the Warp drive wont activate. It's just a really big nuclear explosion in the stomach of a big bug. No real threat of the Warp being opened. Would just be a big boom and potentially lots of dead Nids. It would be like a ship being destroyed in space it doesnt just automatically go into the warp it just goes Boom.

[@W1LYKAT]

Fantastic a little slice of Weshammer to brighten a Meh day, where I'm stuck working and not painting mini's

[@W1LYKAT]

Wait this isn't bright .....

[@weshammer]

It never is when the bugs are involved :(

[@grindamadurin]

Oof, that last story got me.. the hopeless terror of the entire situaton really felt like a drawn-out panic attack. The fact that they were all named characters made it feel like they were all real people that you never got the chance to know.

[@Ratat0skr0]

The irony of a food based sponsor when discussing Nids lol

[@TheRenolius]

I love how SCP foundation still exist in the grimdark universe of 40k trapping and containing everything from the most benign species to the most horrifying lovecraftian beings to the beastiarium

[@uncontrollablefire]

Before I start the video, Tyranids are my personal favorite aliens in Warhammer 40k, they're so unique and terrifying, and I *LOVE* it

[@sirsiriuss4010]

the last one was terrifying. Good job covering that, as always!

[@ToniFarious]

bro your choice of music is amazing. It creates the perfect atmosphere for these kinds of videos!

[@eliasmolck5566]

The day Ordamael looked into the eyes of a Gaunt and saw the Hive Mind looking back was the most traumatic and existentially terrifying day of his life. But for the Hive Mind it was just... Tuesday.

[@IgaTenzen]

And then the Hive Mind looks at The Silent King and his bony buddies and insta leaves chatt : *The Hive Mind has left the chatt*

[@joshuabeck7838]

15:00 imagine being a demon who had trained for 300 years … honing your skills and perfecting your crafts just to get killed by the super soaker 3000

[@boxdoge4030]

I absolutely LOVED this video! I know videos are difficult to make, but WH40k story and lore videos are AMAZING. Keep up the great work king! 👑

[@erikbuchanan4648]

That last story was great. The whole falling picture at the end is right out of a movie!

[@danielvasquez7951]

The unknown creature is the tyranid version of a false hydra

[@immagoingbacktobed1742]

That last story is exactly why you should pray to The Grandfather. Might not stop what's coming, but it's probably a better way to go

[@jillianschroeder9193]

18:51 moments like these, the deeply passionate, almost romantically expressed and deeply detailed explanations for everything and so clearly wanting each of us to know and fall in love with all of it as much and deeply as you do, is so amazing and some of the things + reasons that are what set you aside as a youtuber, and even as a fan... are among the reasons that you deserve every like, fan, bit of support, dollar, and so much more, that comes to you. I love watching each of your videos and learning and ***feeling*** the passion that you have for all things and all aspects of WarHammer..... Long live WesHammer!!!!!

[@weshammer]

Hey, thanks a lot I really appreciate that!, I'll be honest I wasn't having the best night. And this made it all better 🥲 You're an awesome person!

[@jillianschroeder9193]

@@weshammer glad I could help!! You have most definitely fueled both my and my partner's interest and turned something that, before you, was a vague interest, into one of our primary interests, and nobody we've come across really puts the same level of passion into it in a way a viewer can feel. Keep it up, you deserve everything good that comes your way and more!!

[@SickOfItAll1988]

Thanks for your content! I stumbled over your channel while watching a bunch of shorts while falling asleep. I play magic and bought the 40k commander deck, while doing research for it I watched some videos, do that's probably why the algorithm send me to you. Having one expensive & time consuming nerdy hobby is enough for me, but listening to you explaining the lore makes me want to buy some Warhammer books.

[@kethrill7223]

This was amazing! I never comment on anything. But I would love more stories like this. I am not a Tyranid player but this made me reconsider for sure.

[@doubleoof7907]

Hive Mind: *I AM A GOD* Blood Angel: “Bet”

[@Theotherone89]

Big props for putting all the sources in the video. More lore videos need to point us to which book it comes from like this does.

[@aaronlefebre5060]

Meanwhile, The Silent King is over here grumbling: "These damn bugs, eating up all the biomass I need to undo bio-transference. I should just gather them all up and shove them into the Eye of Terror before I seal it up..."

[@ethanandrew5121]

That last story was so chilling I visually see everything happening

[@ffwast]

And that is why you equip even your lowliest assets with a violent self-destruct function. If you can't defend it from them then let them choke on it.

[@Sunmourn]

Milanthrope looks like a Zerg overlord

[@thetwitchywitchy]

OKAYYYYYY… wasn’t expecting the last story be legitimately horrific. I can understand that little warning you gave before reading it

[@jordanwebb1543]

Yeah that’s definitely a Lictor Death Watch has. Who’s to say it’s not walking around that station just……watching

[@axios4702]

Honestly, I love to imagine the trap is just malfunctioning and empty and all this paranoiah is for nothing.

[@fluphy_cloudz7220]

That last story gave me much more insight about just how dark and grim warhammer 40k really is. It went into so much detail about their helplessness and agony the entire time without sparing a single detail. And if you say you left out some of the more gruesome parts, I fear to read it myself

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

I like to think that the Blood Angels story shows our power, not our weakness. After all, that Gaunt died and the Hivemind lost that fight. It shows that no matter how insignificant we are to it, no matter how small our entire species may seem compared to the power of the Hivemind, we still fight on, refusing to go quietly into the night. We’re the prey that bites back. And you know what happens when a zebra looks at a lion in the eye? The lion goes away

[@jadenepia5960]

replace lion with week old kitten, a lion would be a warrior or carnifex

[@joshuasimpson6374]

😲 I'm not often speckless, but that last one was incredible! Both story and how you made it fell Weshammer. Thank you for doing this.

[@kirostus6720]

Hello! I have been watching your channel for a long time especially the shorts (they are super funny and interesting) and today I decided to buy my first ever set! It's not much at all, it included 6-7 paints, a brush and 3 space marines to start/practice with. Without you I wouldn't have discovered this amazing hobby and I thank you for it! (ps your video about finishing a dethguard member was the one that made me go "yep, i'm definitely buying a set of my own)

[@weshammer]

Oh that's awesome dude! Good for you! Is hobby is wonderful and super rewarding! If you need help painting, there are tons of wonderful creators here on KZbin that have step-by-step guides that make it super easy.

[@kirostus6720]

@@weshammer thank you! Do you have any preferences with races/factions? Chaos space marines are my favorite by far (the raptor set is my fav)but idk if they are good to play with.Also can the chaos space marines be played together with a Helbrute?

[@uNhAzArDoUs]

i love how u tell the story. this gonna be my second fav story teller after mrballen

[@oodlesofnoodles1700]

I guess that Death Watch never watched the invisible man. Just throw flour or something similar in the cell. Can't be camouflaged when you're covered in flour or some other powder based substance. Imagine having all that tech and some asshat just grabs a sack of flour and ruins your whole plan.

[@Lionfromkrypton]

The codex astartes dont allow ''flour tactics"

[@renevil2105]

Or just use a flamethrower to burn the whole room.

[@Medved725]

Considering that it might be psychic camouflage, it might just trick your brain into thinking the flour landed on nothing.

[@Ruvaakjun]

Jesus. I knew where the last story was going, I knew how it would end. Just... the way it was told and the way Wes read it just made my skin crawl and my head itch. For just a moment, I felt something on my leg and I kinda freaked out.

[@Drakio95]

Well Weshammer you've actually conveyed Tyranids as quite disturbing. As Nid fan I'm pleased :) Btw. Doom of Malan'Tai is a character unit - a Neurothrope. I think it was mentioned in Shield of Baal campaign books where it was introduced. Also it does work similarly, siphoning life force during psychic phase and healimg itself and other Zoanthropes.

[@TheMagicalPinata]

It's an old unit from 6th or 7th edition that never had a model, so was removed before 8th ed. The Neurothrope is kind of a replacement, but nowhere near as deadly

[@thekrispiestkreme5609]

Everyone on board: *screaming horribly as they’re digested alive, hopes and dreams washed away in a tide of bile and mini disgusting maggots* Tyranid: yum.

[@arsenysobiev4656]

Speaking of blood Angels and Tyranids, there's a short story where they find a tech priest merged with a hive tyrant (with the priest seemingly in control) on a dormant Tyranid ship. Interesting short story.

[@Tyranid_Hive_Mind]

Bro, what?

[@UserRedZero]

“Perfectly invisible, possibly psychic camouflage” See people, this is why you need at least one Pariah on the rotor for Deathwatch.

[@Valysion]

The thing i don't understand about tyranids is why do they have to make it all so painful? They see everything as just biomass to consume. Then why do they kill so painfully? I don't think the hive-mind even has a concept of sadism yet they kill in the most painful and horrific ways possible.

[@captiancholera8459]

My understanding is that because the hive mind prioritizes coming out with a net positive in biomass from its encounters, somewhere along the line it figured out psychological warfare can make successful invasions easier. If you’re a guardsmen under attack by the nids, your commissar is dissolved right before your eyes, your comrades impaled on the spines of a larger bioform, others being eaten alive by the tryanids ranged weaponry and others yet cut to ribbons and relative safety right behind you. This type of pressure will break most people, and once an already set upon and suffering units moral breaks, it becomes a slaughter. Like seriously. To this day when an army retreats and is perused, it will tend to take disproportionate casualties compared to who they’re running from. And Seeing as how the tyranids are basically an amalgamation of the flood and xenomorphs on super steroids, they probably figured being scary and making shit really painful works pretty well.

[@qiushuang239]

Keep in mind the reason why the nids make your death painful is to most likely shatter the morale of your fellow men, it knows your fear and use it against you as it likely did against countless other galactic empires. Another example is the tyrant guards goes into a frenzy when the hive tyrant they are guarding is slain, they don't do this out of shame or anger, but to make sure whoever slayed the hive tyrant won't live to pass on the knowledge.

[@Diginixx]

It normally takes a lot to disturb me even a little. But that last one... I'm stunned for words. Thankyou.

[@bmorebread8993]

At first I thought the tyranid blood was some way to wage war against the thirst water on a molecular level lol

[@screamingcactus1753]

My guess is the the hive mind killed a couple gaunts to send their blood into the "water" to see what would happen, but when its host was killed its connection to that hive fleet was momentarily severed, driving the nids berserk and causing them to charge thoughtlessly into the trap. It probably recognized some novel form of life it hadn't encountered before and wanted to see it first hand. The larger nids who are a little smarter even without the hivemind knew to hold back and retreated when they realized all their cannon fodder was dead

[@tvw4951]

God I gotchills hearing you describe the blood Angel's encounter, that was wild.

[@Phobe_Ryaen]

but techinically speaking, the unknown prisoner might be a purple ork

[@MagusFyre]

I think that if I figured my ship was to be swallowed by a Hive ship, I would much rather swallow a live grenade before the screen turns black than go through what happened. Good lord.