Explaining TYRANIDS To My Girlfriend

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[@NUMBSKULLS]

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[@nycwaterfight]

Gym Leader Misty has left the chat. 🐛🦋 🌬️🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️

[@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

[@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

[@Marci.B]

THANK YOU BRICKY LMAO

[@BORB7]

i would like but i dont wanna change the 222

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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. 😊

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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"

[@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…

[@BaalFridge]

"All unoccupied planets, right" ? 😂😂

[@khylerbane4523]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

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

[@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]

💀😱🏃📲🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@adamevaskevich5528]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 🪲❤

[@shadowseeker24]

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

[@disardor]

Love the pillar men warrior

[@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!! 🧐

[@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

[@freefall945]

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

[@Scowleasy]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@TexasTaterSalad]

BUGS IS BRAINS

[@vigorouslethargy]

And brains is doors. So bugs is doors.

[@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!

[@FlutterSwag]

Slime Rancher but with Tyranids sounds AMAZING!!!!

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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!

[@GoodDaylea]

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

[@kamiya4700]

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

[@HaydenHaws]

My hive fleet is literally hive fleet Chimera 😂

[@KarilynneDavies]

HELL YEAH REPRESENT 🙌

[@cianoconnor1680]

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

[@namehere4922]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@excalibursaurusm5701]

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

[@Sonofgoku1]

Because of you guys I bought a tyranid Leviathan half for my roommate as a welcome back home present. It’s waiting for him for when he gets back home.

[@theforkedman3030]

You want ants? This is how you get ants.

[@user-yx2is7ew6h]

Thanks Archet

[@doom7ish]

Tiny Tyranid: YIPPEEEEE

[@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!!!

[@sethmilligan8833]

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'

[@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.

[@kayn9651]

*Snip* Okay, didn't wait 'till the end, Spade Hulk Deathwing was mentioned. On another note, though Tyrannids are definitely awesome, and if you weren't so much into the idea of "I wanna have 6 different armies" but just decided to have an army of tyrannids, painting them really fancy like that could be a long term project. Because that glossy like chameleon paint effect wouldn't require a whole lot of like "tiny details" like "I want 15 eyes in 15 different colors on each gaunt", but it'd just mean going in multiple layers? Could be fun.

[@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

[@Teethmafia]

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

[@RiffyJiffy]

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

[@h3r0ofhyrule]

Tyranids always remind me of the Flood from Halo

[@lordwarryl5712]

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

[@Historyfrek4ever]

Tyranids are basically Alien meets Lovecraft. For the record, there may or may not be a hive mind for each hive fleet or just one hive mind for the species. The fleets have a signal dampeners to use against each other. (Caiphas Cain book: Choose your enemies.)

[@Bluecho4]

I like the idea that the Tyranids might not be entirely on the same page. And that if it came down to it, the Hive Fleets would turn on each other.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

That may have been retconned, as we see Tyranid Hivefleets cooperating. (Hivefleet Leviathan leaving behind Biomass for Hivefleet Kronos, for example. Or entire digested worlds for Hivefleet Kronos.)

[@Stonecold300]

​@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Kronos is a special case as it specifically targets chaos which it can't get biomass from. So the other hive fleets help it out because it's doing all of them a favour.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@Stonecold300 It is still evidence of the Hivefleets cooperating, and therefore implies a greater Hivemind than each individual fleets having a separate one. After all, if each Hivefleet has its own Hivemind, why should the Hivefleet Leviathan care if Hivefleet Kronos slowly dies off, because it chose to exclusively hunt creatures that do not provide Biomass? Leaving behind worlds for Kronos to eat is literally feeding competition.

[@Stonecold300]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Because the hive fleets are smart and know that if Kronos _doesn't_ target chaos and _only_ chaos then it will become _their problem_ so they help Kronos where they can.

[@baerlyhuman1300]

Fucking bricky showing up broke me lmfao

[@KarilynneDavies]

Praise be to the lore lord Brick 🙌🧱

[@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?

[@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.

[@grantgreever5620]

I bet a fight between Ciaphas Cain and the swarm lord would be crazy, (swarm lord challenges him because it only knows the story’s of him being the hero of the imperium) (Cain crying on the inside) “I shall face you, for it is my duty as hero of the imperium”, (Quickly grabs Jurgen)

[@JimothyTheGreen]

Cool head canon: Squigs were indeed tyranids that had too much Ork genetics and became too orky to be controlled by the hive mind and instead were adopted by the orks.

[@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.

[@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.

[@mra4521]

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

[@user-yx2is7ew6h]

Thank you Ash

[@justinoverlock8652]

Been here since day one, stayed for this particular episode

[@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

[@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!

[@jefl3228]

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

[@evansketches]

59:56 "Nobody has ever been able to give a signal to them?" Tau: *insert monkey puppet looking away meme*

[@jetpilledmyron2056]

I always laugh at the idea of Szarek been there, floating away from the galaxy, maybe making a deep monologue of Shakespearian sorrow and regret, but halfway turns around to look at the void and see a giant mass of intergalactic bigs and goes "OOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOOOO" Joseph Joestar style

[@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

[@kingcorcio]

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

[@geoffreyprecht2410]

28:29 "Tyranid breeding game" actually made me choke on my cereal omfg

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

WAIT.... SINCE WHEN DO THEY HAVE STARBUG GENERAL GRIEVOUS???? I F*CKING LOVE GENERAL GRIEVOUS!!!! YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S A MURDER COCKROACH VERSION OF HIM?!?!

[@alyxtheexorcist]

Now I’m imaging an Exterminatus event where the inquisitors just spray a beam of bug spray at the planet.

[@koujow]

My favorite Tyranid faction is Hive Ouroboros. It is somehow partially trapped in a temporal anomaly, so part of the fleet is stuck in the current time period and part of the fleet is stuck in the exact place in space centuries beforehand. And they are simultaneously sending out fleets to harvest the nearby worlds in both time periods. They also have a cool black and blue color scheme.

[@Joseph_Drew_III]

The greatest evil in the galaxy

[@floricel_112]

22:27 "excuse me?" Oh yeah, they're not just xenomorphs, they're also NECROMORPHS, BABY!

[@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.

[@indomleon]

It is a disservice that we call Tyranids bugs. Bugs are cool, but i think to really sell them to people, we should be calling them what they really are. SPACE DINOSAURS BABY, DOESN'T GET SICKER THAN THAT

[@dhamon45]

I want Genestealers added to Darktide. I especially want factional warfare so that both Nurgle cultists and the Genestealer cult fight eachother and you simultaneously