Explaining TYRANIDS To My Girlfriend | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@NUMBSKULLS]

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[@nycwaterfight]

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[@starlightpurrito7466]

Surprised bricky didnt yell at you for forgetting the necron macguffin was the fall of cadia

[@Engineer2G]

Let's not forget that Leviathan coming up from below was the 3rd tyranic war. The 4th is actually the nids coming from the western edge of the galaxy. Which is super scary. Besides the fact Terra (center of the Imperium is in the west) but implys that our galaxy is getting more and more surrounded by the nids!

[@Caligula759]

I wanted to mention the patriarch, which is just a brood lord genestealer of a genestealer cult that can communicate through a cultist or a genestealer familiar to humans who want to make deals with gangs or to preach to the followers

[@SeanHoltzman]

​@@Engineer2G Yeah! Name came from 1st War, Came from East, wiped Tyran, then hit Ultramar nearly killing Marneus Calgar. 2nd was East Round 2. 3rd came from below hit Baal, 4th is from North/West. And Kryptman brought the bugs who were back and needing to kill to Warzone Octarius, which is where Ghazkul Thraka ended up going after the Second War for Armageddon after the Black Templars barely defended Armageddon with Commisar Yarrick and the Armageddon Steel Legion - which is where Ghazkul has been Krumpin and was the only reason the Nids didnt come back, but now Ghaz is in his teenage Sadboi Phase and found out that Angron coming through the warp above Armageddon likely killed Yarrick, hes out for blood and krumpin his way through the 4th Tyrannic war making deals with other factions helping Marines trying to find Angron to get Yarrick's skull back out of respect for the only Humie to go toe to toe with him - although Yarrick might have become a Starchild Saint like Celestine partially through the Orkz belief that Yarrick is unkillable if he stood up to Ghaz 1v1 cause they think Ghaz is the 2nd coming of Krump Jesus: The Beast

[@AsheAbhorrent]

- Who's that Tyranid?! - It's Pikachu! - It's termagaunt - F@#%!

[@glrasshopper]

lol, that's me trying to remember the name of the unit I'm about to attack.

[@sadmageboi472]

Me desperately trying to remember if it's a termagant or a ​hormagaunt. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️@@glrasshopper

[@bboollll]

its not a leichter (spelling check off) those gits are horrible to face.

[@astreanightfang2622]

Jiggly puff as seen from above

[@Geneo1700]

I laughed unreasonably hard at this

[@zakk143]

Non-Tyranid Fans: These are gross giant bugs that destroy planets!! Tyranid Fans Type 1: I love the alien movies! These things are so spooky and cool! Tyranid Fans Type 2: AWWWW!!!! Lil' guy so hungy, he wanna nom-nom da whoooooole world!!!

[@skiadrum9029]

Type 2 checks out😂

[@robertshaw3203]

Non-Tyranid fan 2: hi cute Lil murder machine

[@tacosupreme6738]

They are just little guys!

[@Meteo1777]

I feel called out. I'm a Type 2 fan... I have been since 1993.

[@montecarlowithdawningornam1817]

Type 3: here's 400 tormagaunts have fun

[@dinokaz7829]

Imagine The Silence King gesturing like Courage the cowardly dog, when explaining the tyranids to the other necrons.

[@onionninja5554]

I imagine they keep how he normally communicate but they don’t want to embarrass him or get themselves killed so they just tell the necrons some vague stuff

[@Sillymanthatwearsabanana5]

*The silent king trying to figure out how to defeat the Tyranids.* " . . . ! . . . ! . . . !" *"oh you Nincompoop... You mean Genestealers...?"*

[@filipnassen9076]

He morphs his body to?

[@ethansolomon2126]

STUPID KING! YOU MADE US LOOK BAD!

[@khylerbane4523]

Being cpt Jack screaming “ALL HANDS ON DECK” after getting the black spot.

[@Attaxalotl]

A Swarmlord book would be fucking impeccable, and would actually allow for a Tyranid main character. Best of all, no plot armor would be required! They could just kill him whenever it's appropriate, because *he'd just come back* and they'd continue the book from there!

[@DaveMcMuffin]

Imagine the book just cuts very not subtlety to something else entirely to kind of represent the swarmlord reincating into a battle that needs him more and him just not acknowledging it since that is just normal. Love the concept.

[@mra4521]

Tony Todd should voice him.

[@Pragabond]

​@@DaveMcMuffinI'm sorry but what the fuck did you just say?

[@DaveMcMuffin]

Which part?

[@loyalhoodini4944]

@@Pragabondoh yeah. Every time a swarmlord shows up to a battle, it’s THE swarmlord, not A swarmlord. The Hivemind sees another battlefield as a greater threat and the swarmlord just says “ok” and transfers his consciousness to a body on said battlefield.

[@Flannel-Channel8837]

Tyranids: Xenomorphs with a brain larger then baseball, and thus allowed to use guns legally

[@Bluecho4]

Xenomorphs, but they have a glock.

[@Lancersilva]

@@Bluecho4and the glock is alive

[@mra4521]

And a symbiote tongue.

[@alexkohvaks4647]

@@Lancersilva And so is the ammo... in fact everything Tyranid is alive

[@calebkelly8221]

Tyranids reserve the right to a well organized militia, and to bear arms.

[@Marci.B]

THANK YOU BRICKY LMAO

[@BORB7]

i would like but i dont wanna change the 222

[@dylanahara7446]

@@BORB7 feel free to let it fly now brother.

[@BORB7]

@@dylanahara7446 thank you

[@krankarvolund7771]

Fun fact about the Swarm Lord, he's the one who made the Tyranids won against the Orks on Octarius, ruining Kryptmann's plans. At first it worked, they were in a standstill, then the Hive Mind reincarnated the Swarmlord on Octarius and the Orks were no match against good tactics XD

[@Bluecho4]

I like to think the Hive Mind was like, "okay, we've had our fun, but this is getting tedious; send Our Boi".

[@karlrichards7188]

Didn't Gaz also leave due to angron killing yaraik and Gaz being mega pissed he left a good fight

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@karlrichards7188 Gaz did popped up in Octarius, but he left with 5 millions ork ships to ravage the Imperium, long before Yarrick was rumored to be dead. He left before the Psychic Awakening, which means he was gone from Octarius before the Great Rift ^^ We don't even know who killed Yarrick, it could be Angron, or Ghazgull, as far as I know ^^'

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

@@Bluecho4”Deploy the boy.” “Boy deployed.” *unholy tyranid screech-roar*

[@ryanhampson673]

Kryptmann: Oh I'll get the Orks and Nids to fight each other, it'll be great! Tyranids win and incorporate Ork DNA. Kryptmann:...Well....Shit.

[@IneXtrikabul]

"The apex form of a lictor is known as a Def Leppard." *thanks, brain, that's definitely the line*

[@aliendilo3105]

Also strange thing that, the def lepper is one the tyranids few named characters... Why wasn't it in the named character part?

[@clementcate4730]

I heard "Deaf Lepper" :p Like the ultimate Lictor is a HEAVILY handicapped creature.

[@khylerbane4523]

Old One Eye and tyranid rippers: *growling in hunger and murderous intent* Vulkan: *Jamaican accent* “I would like to pet this creature.” Also He, Red Terror, the one Tyranid licktor that went predator and spared a guy to break his mind; the Deathleaper I believe, the Norm Queen, Doom of Malanti that killed an entire Eldar craftworld, Parasite of Mortex, the Malanthrope, Ygnarl genestealers, and the lost Swarmlord that got cut off from the Hivemind and seeks to return to it, among other such Tyranids should return as special characters for tabletop.

[@tariqshort4025]

awesome.

[@Cosmic-wg5gx]

i agree with vulkan

[@stefschouwenaars9562]

Man I hate when unique characters lose their playable models. I played orks from 5th until 8th edition, and looking back into the selection of characters in old codexes really didn't feel good. Really only ghazgull and snikrot survived to today, and I wish some of the old characters returned (especially wazdakka gutsmek)

[@alexmartinez5859]

“It would be but a single boop on its noggin.”

[@therexyogaming]

The Red Terror could have been so good, a leader for a Tyranid Vanguard army would've been so nice now that Trygon Primes aren't a thing

[@cryfasytighega5074]

Tyranids are a peak example of "if not friend then why friend shaped?"

[@AdeptusOrkstodes]

They are most definitely not friend shaped

[@calebmangelson9776]

Tyranid speech (If not snack why snack shaped????)

[@AdeptusOrkstodes]

@@calebmangelson9776 HUNGY

[@randyking2057]

Do NOT pet the FILTHY XENO 3rd time this century

[@simonrettberg4631]

Huh? I guess

[@starwoof]

Kari probably got how the Tyranid hive mind works faster than 95% of Warhammer players ever do. There's no central "over mind" creature like the zerg or something (that we know of), the entire Tyranid race is a psychic brain. I actually didn't realize how synapses work and I've got a better understanding of the Tyranids now after playing them for decades.

[@KarilynneDavies]

I majored in psych so the vocab immediately made sense to me - it was so cool as Ava was teaching me to realize that we both kind of understood different aspects of what we were talking about from different foundations! It made me super excited to keep learning more 🤩

[@MortiefiedBear]

Not necessarily true. GW's never really explained quite how the Tyranid hivenind functions/what exactly it is. If you take it's description from the book Wraithflight, it is described as a singular entity with it's own thoughts, plans, and dreams.

[@mikaela_red]

@@MortiefiedBear you act and think as one being, being simply a highly organized colony of bacteria. Replace bacteria with bodies and you will get the Hive Mind.

[@travislyonsgary]

​@@MortiefiedBear A very relative difference. The whole thing gets described as a multioganismal organism in more recent editions

[@zackolsen]

That “food?” At 8:10 killed me. It’s so cute and also surmises the Tyranids so well. This is my main army so super excited to see this happen. Well done!

[@jeremy1860]

These guys were my introduction to 40K back in the day. When I was a kid in the 90s, I was in town with my mother during a shopping trip, and we passed by a Games Workshop store. I saw a 40K magazine being advertised in the window, and it had one of these guys on the cover. I just had to know what the heck these things were, so I went in, and boom, 40K was in my life after that 😊

[@cappinjocj9316]

Exactly how I discovered the hobby too. Still got the issue of White Dwarf with the Advanced Space Crusade box art on the cover.

[@sadmageboi472]

If your looking for recommendations for similar channels on Warhammer, Isyander and Koda are very similar and they are hilarious and fairly to the point on their topics... Plus you can vote for the next topic. Just a recommendation from one plastic enjoyer to another. 😊

[@alexmartinez5859]

This video can be summed up in a quote from TheRussianBadger: “LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE TYRANNIDS.”

[@calebkelly8221]

BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE!

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

1: The one that gave Old One Eye the scar was Ultramarines Captain Cato Sicarius(Yay...) 2: When Chapter Master Marneus Calgar challenged The Swarmlord, it cut off both his arms and one of his legs. He only got away with the sacrifice of his entire honor guard.

[@flaccidweentheii6684]

"We'll call it a draw then?" -Papa Smurf from TTS

[@SeanHoltzman]

Silly Retcon that Calgar didnt defeat the Swarmlord by sacrifocing those limbs IMO, him getting beamed up at the last second was frustrating

[@TheDarkangelofshadow]

I thought a guardsmen was the plasma that killed old one eye

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

@@TheDarkangelofshadow Its either a retcon, or the second time Old One Eye died then, because I know for sure one of its deaths was to our favorite Cato Sicarius.

[@TheDarkangelofshadow]

@@Nostroman_Praetor It seems they've changed it to "an unremembered hero". I thought the old Tnid codex had it as a guardsmen, but I'm biased

[@MarineMonstersYT]

I love the idea that the reports of old one eye appearing in all of these different parts of the galaxy are ALL real. As it kind of suggests that the Hive Mind recognizes the concept of psychological warfare and just makes multiple Carnifexes that look very similar in order to scare prey.

[@Kenichi2002]

or it IS the ONE SAME creature again, and again, like the hivemind is not making multiple carnifexes with that apearance, he reincarnates "Old One eye" in person to spread fear and "the legend" around the galaxy. Like the swarmlord can "reincarnate"

[@gammothdraws]

"Deathlepper" bruh, also Deathleaper is actually a unique character like Old One Eye, the Doom of Malanti, and the Swarmlord

[@NUMBSKULLS]

57:18

[@gammothdraws]

@@NUMBSKULLS Yeah, made the comment before that part lol

[@gozolve]

The red terror

[@gozolve]

They tried tyranid "farming" it didnt end well XD

[@harrietr.5073]

Deaf Leper

[@khylerbane4523]

To clarify, the nids are mindless space bugs of death, but the Hivemind is not. It may be the closest thing to a Rogue God in 40k. Now that I think if it, with the Genestealer cults, it may be a minor God at this point like Vashtorr or how the concept of the Tau’va or “Greater Good” is now a minor god in the warp There was a moment at battle of Baal where a trap was set but the nids just stayed in place rather than charge the team of Blood Angels in front of them. This was odd because Tyranids *do NOT Do* this. When a Blood Angel looked into the eyes of a random gaunt in an effort to coax it to attack to fall into the trap. And what he saw wasn’t a mindless bug, but quote “something far greater and much more ancient” end quote. And it, what “It” was, absolutely horrified him. Spoilers, what he saw was the Tyranid Hivemind itself. And there was a way ultramarine Librarian that psychically looked into the Hivemind itself and nearly went insane from what he saw and endured.

[@azurehorizon6097]

Hmmmm... A Rogue God... Malal will one day make his return, or at least I hope so

[@khylerbane4523]

We can only hope. Stupid copyright.

[@apolloknight9521]

Also, didn’t that Hivemind immediately targeted that Ultramairne librarian for merely looking into its mind? As in taking a glimpse of the Hivemind?

[@gagetaylor54]

@@apolloknight9521i believe it did, as (not sure this is direct quote but something similar) “It saw Tigurius,and it *hated* him”

[@ultragilig1670]

It’s not that the tyrannids shouldn’t have been able to see the trap in general, it’s that the blood angels had carefully killed all of the nearby synapse creatures, thus the rest of the bugs should have been divorced from the hive mind and stopped being strategic.

[@andreykuzmin4317]

Your Trayzin the Infinite impersonation gives strong Hondo Onaka vibe. Which is so fitting, be it intentional, or not.

[@khylerbane4523]

Having recently met Dan Cumings at Fan Expo 2024 and heard his Hondo voice, I completely agree.

[@BaalFridge]

"All unoccupied planets, right" ? 😂😂

[@khylerbane4523]

Depending how you define “unoccupied”, then (technically) yes.

[@feuerling]

They were definitely unoccupied afterwards

[@Darkja]

You can quite literally paint your Nids carapaces in changing color paint called "shifters" like from Vallejo that do exactly what you want, shift colors. However, you have to base them (at least the parts you want with shifters) on glossy black (or it wont work properly) and then Airbrush the shifter on top in a couple of layers (dont use a brush, but Airbrush). So yeah, you can totally do it but those color changing paints do have quirks to them and its better to know them beforehand (like using a glossy black base and airbrush)

[@Bluecho4]

TurboDork also make color-shifting paint.

[@The0Stroy]

About communication with Tyranids - Ultramarines, Librarian Tigurius has seen Hivemind in Warp. He almost died and Hivemind got angry...

[@crabwalker01]

I was looking to see if somebody had mentioned this.

[@collecter343]

Doesn't the Hivemind have what amounts to a personal hatred for Tigurius specifically?

[@djchappell1726]

​@@collecter343, how could you not? This puny THING just wiggled itself into what amounts to your grey matter. While you are aware of it, and it you, it deems itself worthy of you time. This roadblock to more snacks demands you attention rather than dying like it should! If a parasite wiggled into my brain, communicated with me, and continued to try to stop my development? Yeah, I'd have a burning loathing for it too!

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

Of course it was an Ultra Smurf…

[@jujubeans32088]

Ava's excitement about Tyranids makes me want to continue building my custom hive fleet. It's colored so that the color match deep water fish and the color spectrum filtering the human eyes experience when they go deeper underwater. The focus on the fleet is live capture for genetic "study" and augmentation by the Hive Mind. Usually this is done by "recovering, protecting, and uplifting" Genestealer cultists during invasions into Tyranid bioforms. To add to this flavor, I'm custom kitbashing the fleet's Hive Tyrant so it uses an Armored Core 6 inspired Pilebunker / Bioinjector and a "Less than Leathal" Heavy Strangleweb Cannon. ALSO! Midwinter Minis and Tabletop Time both did videos on nail art and minis. One specifically did one for Tyranids!

[@KarilynneDavies]

Ok that sounds so freaking cool!!! We’d love to see them if you decide to post them online!! Also that’s awesome, I’ll definitely watch those videos! Thank you so much for letting us know 🥰

[@jujubeans32088]

@@KarilynneDavies I send the information to the Explaining Warhammer To My Girlfriend tumblr account!

[@generalinternet264]

i like the fact that the death leapers will often use psycological warfare, killing all but one of a troupe, wait for him to be reassigned, then do it again until he caves into madness before taking the info he needs, partly to get a bunch of diverse info, partly cuz its fun for it

[@NUMBSKULLS]

That's awesome

[@floricel_112]

Because it's not warhammer if even the faction comprised of ever hungry bugs isn't a bit of a d*ck

[@KarilynneDavies]

Welcome to Psych with Kari!! 🧠 Remember to stay home from class if you catch a bug so as not to spread it to others 🪲❤

[@breakingbasha]

they really just talk about super fast adaption/transformation without mentioning Kars only to then use copious amounts of Jojo poses

[@NUMBSKULLS]

Ava here! This was before I showed Kari JoJo. We're on Part 4 right now!

[@freefall945]

Ava growing progressively more hysterically excited through this series is the best part.

[@musicfromapleb9910]

tyranids are just the younger cousin to the xenomorphs going "can we conquer the galaxy together and get tacos later?" I know that's heresy, BUT LOOK AT THE LIL GUYS!!!

[@NUMBSKULLS]

Tyranids in the back of the car yelling "MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!"

[@Wildy333]

Just (many) hungy little guys.

[@kamiwriterleonardo6345]

1:06:04 Apparently the Doom of Malanthai has been reabsorbed into the Hivemind, and its genetic makeup has been used to create the Neurothropes, and maybe helped in the creation of the Neurotyrants and other "Neuro" variants of the Bioforms.

[@weaverreaver4448]

I was so happy to see carrie (sorry If I got the name wrong, there's so many ways to spell names XD) actually go into the biology of synapses. The whole biology aspect of tyrranids was actually a big reason why they got my interest as a faction.

[@monsoul777]

that sketch at the end has me wishing ya'll will do World of Darkness lore or at least Vampire the Masquerade

[@Bluecho4]

I mean, the Rogue Trader era had "Vampires". Shapeshifting psychic parasites that could reanimate their dead victims as zombies.

[@Coyote-pj8ur]

Another fun named nid is The Parasite of Mortrex. Imagine a flying bug the size of a nid warrior with owl like stealth flying that will insert nid eggs into its victims (usually Militarum soldiers) like a wasp that then burst out ripper swarms like chest bursters that start meal time on the other troops in trenches and fortifications.

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

Ah yes, Tyranids: One of two real good guys in 40K. The other is Da Orkz.

[@disardor]

Love the pillar men warrior

[@indomleon]

The headcanon I really like for the Tyranids is that the dead planets will later be seeded with tyranid life for the hive mind to functionally infinitely farm by just letting the all-tyranid ecosystem run indefinitely

[@supremefankai5480]

I remember back in the day, over 2 decades ago I first found 40k because a good friend had a dad who was an og fan, had a giant shed in his garden to play and he was really into the spinoff game of Space Hulk. So my experience of the Hobby started with Terminators versus Genestealers, a great combo. This was only reinforced by the PSX game, god emperor I miss those days!

[@Lionlord1000]

We know what the hivemind looks like. Its the tyranids. They are the hivemind. Every tyranid is like a cell of a single giant body.

[@samueltrusik3251]

At long last, the most united and practical faction of all, a true pinnacle of governance! All hail the Star Gods! Give yourselves to the great devourer! A lovely video! Keep `em coming!

[@jonathanryan9946]

Cause you mentioned Ghibli universe and Tolkien... just a fun fact. The 1977 Hobbit animation and 1980 Return of the King animation were done by TopCraft studios, the day TopCraft went bankrupt in 1985 and shut down... they reopened as Studio Ghibli. So Tolkien and Studio Ghilbi technically did a collaboration, and therefore could easily cross over between universes.

[@adamevaskevich5528]

Bricky Being Thrown through a Window is a Good little visual bit, 10/10

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Can't wait for the gene stealer cult video! Also, when you say that the hive fleets are all named after monsters or cryptids, I immediately thought: hive fleet mothman... 😂

[@KarilynneDavies]

I need hive fleet goat man immediately - and I need them to loose a bridge to some kid named Shane

[@Scowleasy]

The Swarmlord being general grievous is too accurate. Should be badass but gets clowned on too much :/

[@eyelesscargo9952]

9:25 i like to imagine the silent king used a mix of really aggressive sign language and charades to get his point a cross 😂

[@Stannyboyyyyyy]

💀😱🏃📲🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘

[@thet-bone6628]

No no neural typical people can't sell them well. Ive had a straight man sell me them in unsustainable amounts

[@KarilynneDavies]

You may have just cracked the code!! 🧐

[@cianoconnor1680]

I've got 3 big bug boys and I've already made fan lore around them and am so excited to paint them

[@shadowseeker24]

Bro…. After seeing the Hormagaunts design… I want it as like a plushie lol

[@jimmybane5352]

Wasn’t there a time where a commander looked into the eyes of a random tyranid, and saw into the the soul of the swarm queen for a moment, seeing only a endless hunger

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

How interesting that the thing which called the Tyranids acts like a lighthouse in the warp, while the Tyranids act like the exact opposite themselves.

[@GoodDaylea]

Love Tyranids. My girlfriend recently got me into warhammer and I immediately was sold on the Tyranid aesthetics. Chomp chomp. :3

[@FlutterSwag]

Slime Rancher but with Tyranids sounds AMAZING!!!!

[@GamerGrovyle]

My theory for the Shadow In The Warp they bring is that the Tyranids each all have a soul connected to the network. So when several trillion of them get together it manifests in the warp as just infinite dots blotting out all other psychic light sources.

[@stefschouwenaars9562]

Isn't this the actual in lore reason? The tyranids have a psychic presence, and there are so many minds at once (not just the organisms that are present, but also the entire hive mind) that the warp is flooded.

[@yadakakadu]

The tyranids do not have souls. It is more like the synapse smothers the warp.

[@robisnon1236]

I see it as the singular soul and psychic power of the hive mind ia so immense that its presence casts a shadow into the warp.

[@thekinginyellow5575]

Excellent Nid content, truly a snack in the galactic buffet. Also realized how close the relationship between Trayzn and Orikan is between Big D and Kevin thanks to the ending skit.

[@redgekko3966]

Fun fact: Tyranids used to be able to communicate (kinda)! Back during the Fucky Wucky times of 1st edition, they had a client race called Zoats who could use technology and communicate with other races (mainly as heralds of the hive mind demanding that the others surrender) but they were too prone to breaking off from the hive mind and instead the "get the other races to submit to our invasion" role was given to the Genestealers (who weren't originally a Tyranid bioform). Out of universe they were squatted because they just weren't popular and old rules meant you had to have around half your army be zoats (or something)

[@Bluecho4]

In the original 1st ed core book, the "Tyranids" were basically what 'Gaunts are now. Little six-legged guys who were master of bio-technology. Zoats, among other species, were kept in line through pheromones. The Tyranids were even said to walk around with harnesses made of leather or fur, to carry their tools. Rogue Trader era was WILD.

[@redgekko3966]

@@Bluecho4 my favourite part of 1st ed is that you could have your Genestealer Magus take the mark of Khorne. MAGIC FOR THE MAGIC GOD

[@ilshail153]

ooh, this is gonna be a fun watch! and, fun little story time, Tyrannids were what actually got me into 40k! Well, kinda. You see, I really liked playing Deep Rock Galactic (team game where you play as dwarves and shoot bugs in space mines), and a year or so afterwards I got into playing commander games of Magic: The Gathering. Well, one of the decks they made in a crossover was Tyrannid themed, and I saw the box and went 'oh those guys look like glyphids' (the little bugs from DRG) and I picked it up. It became one of my favorite decks to play, and as I kept seeing the little alien bugs I wanted to learn more about what they were and what they were from, and that led me down the road to 40k!

[@thedorklord1029]

I knew that the Swarmlord tore off Calgar's arms and one of his legs. I didn't know that it formed an arena and _challenged him to a duel to the death._ Your (Ava's) hype when saying that mirrored my excitement perfectly. THE FRICKIN H:TP TRAZYN-ORIKAN THING AT THE END SENT ME LMAO

[@lucyseverine9907]

The reason the Pharos Beacon in particular was important was because the Emperor, up to this point, has maintained the similar lighthouse in the warp, the Astronomicon, powered by just his own psychic might. But part of the outbreak of the Heresy was that this signal was cut off for a large chunk of the galaxy, which meant a) everyone navigating in the warp was suddenly blind in dark, deadly waters, and b) they no longer had that clear, unavoidable signal that the Emperor was alive and well. So Guilliman's response was basically, "I hope dad's alive but until we get confirmation on that, we need to set up a replacement lighthouse signal so that the loyalists have *something* to guide them, and we can set up a place to marshal our forces from." And his solution was, basically, getting the uncertain xenos tech the Pharos Beacon working for this purpose. Good plan, terrible consequences!

[@lordwarryl5712]

I can't 😵‍💫 I need to sleep and rest my eyes after my drawings. Will be watching this 1st thing in the morning

[@kingcorcio]

So excited for this episode. Love listening to you guys :)

[@TexasTaterSalad]

BUGS IS BRAINS

[@vigorouslethargy]

And brains is doors. So bugs is doors.

[@VerbenaComfrey]

Shrimps is bugs Bugs is brains Is shrimps brains?

[@namehere4922]

26:40 this mini and the Monster Hunter memes about it directly inspired my own space marine chapter of tyranid hunters

[@raptoranim911]

I just love how with every subsequent episode, Ava gets more and more theatrical explaining the most badass chapters/characters/episodes/scenes of the faction: it just fills you with this raw hype that makes you stop doing whatever you are doing and listen closely.

[@JakeTheBeastDelta]

There's a story that describes a space marine that somehow managed to see a part of the hivemind in the warp and he described it as a impossibly large shadowy serpentine figure that had what seemed like infinite tendrils and tails that winded around and toward other parts of the galaxy

[@deltarayquaza36]

If shrimps is bugs, and tyranids is bugs, is shrimps tyranids?

[@KarilynneDavies]

If doors is brains, and tyranids is brains, and tyranids is bugs, and shrimps is bugs, is shrimps doors???

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

Thank you for the paint scheme for my first tyranid army!

[@deltarayquaza36]

​@@thatwaffleguy4958hive fleet anomalocaris

[@HammboneBob]

​@@deltarayquaza36 Hive fleet "A shrimp fried this rice?!"

[@feuerling]

​@@deltarayquaza36 that's a _really_ abnormal shrimp!

[@uber_nerd-l7r]

I got a genestealer cult. a friend of mine plays nids and he painted them with a really cool white and metallic blue look, so I decided to make my cult be spawned from their army, the 'Cult of the Sapphire angels'

[@rpglover101]

Yesss the perfect thing to get me through leveling Viper. I hope you two are enjoying Dawntrail.

[@excalibursaurusm5701]

Hooray it's bug time! ❤❤❤❤ I love Tyranids. They are my favorite. Hungry hungry buggos.

[@jefl3228]

Awww you two are soo cute!!! I have no choice but binging your entire channel now

[@chrisharrison9403]

First box I ever got as a kid was the Battle for Mccragge starter set with ultramarines and tyranids, absolutely loved it. Then like 15 years later, I get back into the hobby 6 months before levithan drops. Couldn't have timed it better 😂

[@Akomarongg]

58:55 i agree with ava that they should make two 'tide' games where you play as space marines: 1) Greentide (vs orks) 2) swarmtide (vs nids)

[@theforkedman3030]

You want ants? This is how you get ants.

[@CharlesCranford-y9k]

Thanks Archet

[@mazeltovcocktail2.0]

Goobertown talks about how meditative painting minis is and he's so right. I paint while working and it really helps with my anxiety and then I have a bunch of lil robot guys decorating my desk

[@cybercoven6502]

I’ve been waiting so long for this video!!!!!!! The babies are just the best!!!!

[@rampage75_25]

About the tyrant marine, there is a comic dub about it and someone made a full on concept sketch on it. A while ago, i started writing a batch of joke-books for warhammer called "Apocalypsis Aquarius". It evolves around an Aqua-planet under invasion by hive fleet Leviathan. In part 3, War in the abyss, they show a former word bearer who was swallowed by the swarm and had tyranid shells fused into his flesh, looking like as if the tyranids had eaten one too many space marines. Jonas, nicknamed Brother Orouboris. I also picked up on other meme-tyranids such as the searanid (who 1v1s a black templar) and crimson-tyranids who ate one too many blood angels on bha'al and are now infected with the black rage. Funny times writing, love your channel.

[@tarnetskygge]

this sounds like a cool concept, I'm picturing subnautica leviathans as tyranids (the reaper leviathan has a lot in common with a carnifex now that I think about it...)

[@8ballentertainment.885]

IDK if it was mentioned, but Squigs used to be actually tyranids, in old lore they were ork dna that the nids modified, but the orks didn't want to take that, so they stole them back. Its funky

[@8ballentertainment.885]

Aaaaand it was mentioned. I spoke too soon

[@exchatche5823]

Near the end of the vid you mentioned mixing a bunch of metallics and contrasts for a shell that looks shifty. I'd recommend looking into shift paints, which are metallics that do that straight out the bottle. I find the best result come from airbrushing onto a black gloss primer, and my favorite brands are Turbo Dork, Game Stuff World, and Vallejo's Shifters color series, which has 3 box sets.

[@kaelvolcain721]

Fun fact, it’s theorized that most of the tyranid fleets that have reached the galaxy are scouts. For the rest of the fleets.

[@frederickbarham9362]

Hot take on Darktide sounds a lot like Space Hulk: Deathwing, a game released in 2018. Love you work keep it up!

[@RiffyJiffy]

Funny, how Kari's "Stardew Valley w/ Tyranids" idea is basically how Nurgle tests his diseases on Isha.

[@andreykuzmin4317]

I love your depiction of Doom of Malan'tai, bloated to Leviathan proportions on Eldar souls. Now it looks like this in my head canon. Only think we missing now is an old, insane Carcharadon hunting the White Zoantrope across the stars.

[@mra4521]

10:10 I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

[@CharlesCranford-y9k]

Thank you Ash

[@drewmatthews23]

Enjoyed the video. I've just gotten back into 40k (left at end of 8th having just started Nids) my colour scheme is vespid based so black carapace with yellow outlines to it. Kind of a hive fleet kraken skin tone. Super simple for my swarm bugs (to speed paint) but for the bigger more "special" bugs I am looking at nail foils to give a shimer/adaptive biology kind of feel to them. Don't know why I was so compelled to share this but I was.

[@phookaziz3]

“An apothecary that has a “herd” of tyrannids to harvest supplies from” Arbitor Ian has a great article on an actual game module that describes a tyrranid Jurassic Park scenario… on the surface it’s what it says on the tin. Monsters get out of containment action movie ensues. But begs the question how and why did the containment fail in the first place?

[@JackDespero]

I like to think of the tyranids as our cells, and the hive mind as our brain. You eat, and that helps you get the nutrients to basically renew your body every couple of years. Individual cells are unimportant. Nobody cries for the millions of death cells when one scratches a finger. And different cells evolved to play different roles. We have our warrior cells like the leukocytes, our synaptic neurons, etc. In summary, the Tyranids are the biggest being on the universe.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

The only issue I have with Tyrranids is that they're so hard to keep as pets!

[@corvaxblackfeather6529]

Damn thats cool ^^ I'm also quite sure you would LOVE the Tiny Tyranid Adventures ^^ PS : Played the Tyranids waaaay back in the past... sadly had no name for my fleet but i used to color them in a 'Xenomorph' Black with blood red carapace and stripes as well as biometalic claws and classic white teeth. Lorewise those Bugs learned how to convert metal and organic stuff together to create a kind of 'Biometal' coating on there claws, making them extra killy in meele. The fleet was mainly focused therefor in Meele and Overrunning the enemy as quickly as possible ^^ Back then i was proud of my Tyranids and still having a big fondness for my bugs hehe

[@h3r0ofhyrule]

Tyranids always remind me of the Flood from Halo

[@SnowySabreToothedLeopard]

That Hunter the Parenting bit at the end absolutely broke me omfg that shit was hilarious. Please do more of this I NEED MORE SASSY TRAZYN AND ORIKAN CLAPBACK DEBATES!!!

[@sookendestroy1]

Needs more bio titans. Also my favorite headcanon is that if the emperor was awake in the galaxy and the hivemind was coming, the hivemind would probably go "I see you, you are one of the only non insects in the galaxy"

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

A single match in a cave made of food, revealing every delicious morsel around it to the mouth that never stops consuming.

[@nimbo1496]

Thank you so much bricky for the death leaper clarification.

[@Teethmafia]

Omg it’s bricky from brad-eat-shit inc

[@nathanaelhavlik4293]

They should make the Swarmlord evolve a speaking ability to psychologically destroy its foes. Mockery, taunts, false diplomacy, clever conversations to unnerve opponents. Every voiced horror character combined. Terror Incarnate.

[@risensoldier]

Why would a predator talk to prey?

[@tirefish]

@@risensoldier Intimidation, mental abuse, etc. Pretty much just trolling

[@a_paperweight]

I don't like the idea, not because it's a bad one but because it would remove too much mystery from the Tyranids

[@junaugust2705]

57:18 bricky jumpscare

[@lordwarryl5712]

Its ironic how the production Evolves in the Tyranid episode. Love them even more

[@kamiya4700]

Bricky kool-aid man’ed through the wall caught me off guard ngl 🤣

[@jacobi5272]

I know it’s mainly found on Forge World and not an any local shops I know but i absolutely love the Tyranid Harridan. I love how it looks so much.

[@treydenwatterson2217]

There is a thing specifically for kids, Warhammer Adventures is a series of action-packed stories about brave heroes battling monstrous enemies and winning great victories against impossible odds in the far future universe of Warhammer 40,000 and the fantasy realms of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, thats what Google says

[@VerbenaComfrey]

I asked my local store if there was "Scufflemallet" for kids, and they said no. :(

[@maxschreck9988]

Has Ava seen 'Event Horizon'? Fandom meme holds that it is an inuniverse 40k ship training video akin to the splattergore driving videos.

[@Lumen_Obscurum]

The Shadow in the Warp isn't really a "no-no magic field", it's more like (Millenials and older understand) tv static. The Warp is your tv/radio station, and as the Tyranids come in it gets cracklier and harder to see/hear because basically all the Tyranids are using itty bitty tiny signals betwen each other that mean the Warp gets blocked out by the sheer volume of signals moving back and forth. Higher and higher amounts of noise until all you can see/hear is grating interference fucking you up.

[@Lumen_Obscurum]

Kryptman's plan could have worked! The problem was, he got stopped before he managed to finish the firebreak ahead of Leviathan. The part he hadn't reached before the Inquisition branded him as a heretic led to an Ork empire. The thing is, he was blowing up all these planets because he had seen like two or three systems go dark and was like "OH NO! NOT AGAIN!" And worked out that it was coming from below, headed towards Terra. So he robbed them of biomass to protect Terra. The High Lords were like "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BLOWING UP PLANETS!?" And he went "WE GOT SPACE BUGS! THREE SYSTEMS WENT DARK AND WE CAN'T REACH THEM! THAT'S BUG!" To which the High Lords were like "Wtf do you mean? Sometimes we just lose contact with half a dozen worlds. That's not enough evidence for you blowing up planets across the segmentum." And Kryptman, who had used his agents to confirm it was Tyranids is like "No, you don't understand. It's fucking bugs. We can't travel to the region where those planets went dark. It's just gone." Because the rest of the tendril was still moving in. So the High Lords went "Obviously you've been under a lot of stress, and you're jumping at shadows. Now, if you agree to stop blowing up planets we'll let you retire." Meanwhile, Kryptman is slamming the big red button on his desk. "WHAT WAS THAT? COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE CYCLONIC TORPEDOES!" So they branded him a heretic. Time passes, reports manage to make it in that oh shit it is bugs and Kryptman was right. They basically put out a notice saying "Hey, you're not a heretic. Help us stop the bugs." And Kryptman went "Finally, alright, so what's the status?" And noticed that the Tendril was near Ork space, specifically a set of Ork worlds that had been really fucking tough nuts to crack. So he went "Alright, lead the Hive Fleet this way. The Orks and them are gonna fight, and we'll have time to build defences." High Lords were like "Cool." Deployed forces, led the Hive Fleet that way and it worked! The Tyranids and the Orks were in a constant stalemate! Kryptman then goes "Okay, we've got a bit of time, now we need to blow up every planet between there and Terra, to send the Hive Fleet away." The High Lords look at him, look at Leviathan locked in a stalemate with the Orks, then go "Nah, and also, you touch a world again and you're a fucking heretic and we won't take it back." So Kryptman just saved Holy Terra from Leviathan, and the High Lords went "Neat. Those two problems are solving themselves." AND REFUSED TO PREPARE THE WORLDS IN THE PATH TO DEFEND THEMSELVES!

[@beanbag8449]

Love the hunter the parenting reference at the end there. For those that don't know it's world of darkness but with warhammer characters ported over. So that was big d (the emperor) arguing with Kevin (malcador) about the possibility of buying a blender for 99 pence