IMPERIAL GUARD FORTRESS v 5 MILLION TYRANIDS! | Warhammer 40K | MODDED UEBS2

[@TempestGhost]

A castle defense vs. a tide of teeth and claws like a mountain against a tsunami. This is a quality battle of epic proportions.

[@KalashVodka175]

Ngl I kinda wish BL’s writer had more similar story An hive city that is just an anthill made of guns vs an unending tide of tyrannids desperate to devour and absorb the mass amount of biomass inside, like two different hordes of insects fighting for supremacy

[@Lameyoutubehandle]

Is it even a castle defence if you stand in front of the walls with your gates open?

[@onlyoneball6256]

This is the only game that can truly show what a warhammer battle is like, I love your content and I can see you going far on youtube.

[@timothylyons5686]

Surely the tanks would have run out of ammunition.

[@thiccestboi5114]

@@timothylyons5686 Nah, the Machine Spirit provides. There will be no further context.

[@horusluprecal1144]

@@timothylyons5686 IMHO they would have been more effective just running the nids over at full speed.

[@shoother2257]

No game can truly show a warhammer battle

[@petrosgatis3831]

In numbers. Not on content.

[@voin5371]

I think the scariest part about this is that if you look above you can't tell if its more Tyranids or the new ocean of blood the defenders formed.

[@shikanawa]

To be honest I would love to see the aftermath of those battles, having a good look of what the battlefields looks like after the nuke drops ! (Also I find it very fiiting to have a nuclear explosion at the end of a lost battle for the imperium, I can here the last Imperial officer in the last bunker transmitting :"this is outpost 4656 of the Invictus 6 Defense Force, the tyranids have broken through our defenses, the battle is lost, I have activated our nuclear warhead, the Emperor protects ! Outpost 4656 out".)

[@ntfoperative9432]

Execute orbital bombardment

[@timothylyons5686]

Yer ain't gots me yet, got me one more surprise fer yas. Use da explosives. Da bomb you git da bomb. Always have yer tunnels dug an ready. 'Warlord Gorgutz Ead Hunter'.

[@DavidNash-r8t]

Imperium: loses Initiate the exterminatus

[@Zandre1126]

It's happened in the story before. Tyranids are basically unkillable unless you eliminate the entire fleet (until the next fleet). In this video, the hypothetical aftermath is the tyranids arrive, scrape everything biological off the planet, dump it in a vat, and make more tyranids. In short, all that tyranids and imperial biomass just gets remade not more. Only way to actually stop tyranids from expanding is to torch everything. Some characters have ordered entire planets scorched and destroyed simply to leave less biomass for the tyranids to consume. None of this even truly encapsulates the true horror of the tyranids, which is that they learn and adapt during the battle. Of course this game can't replicate that exactly but the tyranids would evolve in the battle to swim through the blood or redirect forces to certain flanks because they can see the strategies occuring. They would see the counter charge and develop something that could temporarily stop the space marines to allow the horde to jump them. They would of course develop more ranged weapons but still. The point is, tyranids are the most horrifying species in 40k and are virtually unstoppable. We don't even know where they came from, they just keep popping up leading us to theorize the worst of the worst.... They are the only living thing beyond our galaxy and they're pouring into the last galaxy remaining.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

@@Zandre1126 Actually, since there are no bigger bugs to command them, they would likely do exactly this (charge blindly).

[@robertcurry389]

I like it how you say this is a “small skirmish” and in the scale of Warhammer 40k, you’re exactly right.

[@SaintTay]

Dude lol it’s funny you say that, cause this IS a small skirmish in 40k standards, and shit like this happens so often, that this planet can go completely dark after the nids for a few decades, and MAYBE someone will notice the planet is no longer paying taxes, fuck 60 YEARS LATER lmao and doesn’t even try to send help lmao. They’re just like “eh, fuck it. Emperor protects.”

[@michaeltravers9866]

featuring walls being circumvented by piles of bodies, enemy flanks being denied by rivers of blood, rivers of blood being crossed with more bodies and soldiers choosing to drown in blood rather than face the tyranids.

[@Antidragon-nl7by]

1:54 Perfectly in character for the death corp to stand _outside_ of the defenses.

[@colonelturmeric558]

Nids creating a mountain of dead gaunts to the parapets is so in character, those pesky bugs

[@silent_stalker3687]

Decimation of Baal

[@Comicsluvr]

At 17:00 in the numbers were looking pretty good for the defenders. 800k dead for the 'Nids with less than 3k defenders gone. However, the big turning point was the various ramps of bodies...

[@ChaoticPinky]

Walls are great - untill the nids BECOME the wall xD

[@Dour888]

Im pretty sure it actually happened in lore that the nids deliberately used such tactic. I know for sure they used their bodies to plug the orbital laser barrels on their assault on tyran when they were firstly recorded.

[@markjones4225]

​@Dour888 indeed they did in the Devastation of Baal book

[@Googleisstupid-sk3hm]

Not many officer would be so stupid they wouldn't see or predict this happening. The fact there's seems no way to represent this in game make it questionable. Would love to see option where you can clear ramps,piles at a cost. A risk vs reward factor. Or else this is how it always ends piles allow swarm,enemy to bridge gap.

[@hecksnekinc.2750]

@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm I would think setting the bodies aflame would be an option, but for the amount of blood that would douse any flame. Tyranids may also not be as flammable as I think

[@deltarno7502]

Start of fight: Hmm, letting the guard shoot through the walls doesn't seem fair. Five minutes in as monkey brain actually sees what 5 million looks like: Yeah, they need it.

[@corvidcorax]

Funny how we underestimate how big a million is in the context of a battle, yet GW forgets how small a million is in the scale of entire planetary wars and campaigns.

[@ImXs1p3r]

@@corvidcorax In WW2 127 million military personell were mobilized in total, both sides. But you would never see such concentrations because the frontline spans across continents

[@midir-2]

I like the fact that this "tiny scouting force" is a canon tyrannids scouting force 😂

[@alastairsmith2173]

Guardsman: Don't do it, we have the high ground. Tyranid: Then we will just make higher ground with our bodies.

[@ntfoperative9432]

Ships in Orbit preparing a bombardment: “we have the Highest Ground”

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

@@ntfoperative9432 Tyranid swarm surrounding the fleet "We're in space. there is no ground. Also, the entire sector is Tyranids."

[@MRSupernova100]

A recon station with 5 full companies worth of Black Templars and 25k Cadian shock troops / Kasrkin... The numbers are so unapologetically over the top that it went from being kinda stupid, right back to being bloody awesome.

[@trueblaze84]

Fun fact; starcraft was originally going to be a Warhammer 40K game featuring the Humans, Eldar, and Tyranid however they were unable to work out the licensing so they came up with their own original story instead. Hence why the marines and Zerglings look so much like space marines and tyranids.

[@Naurfae]

Still an absolute shame, it could've been amazing. Especially seeing how GW is throwing around their license these days... (Not that I think more Warhammer stuff is bad, but they have such a big history of shutting down amazing stuff and now there's like a dozen crappy mobile games)

[@trueblaze84]

​@@Naurfae I actually like the way GW is doing their open licensee system right now. If I remember correctly they don't have to pay for licensing unless the game makes over a certain amount of money at which point they take a percentage instead of a flat amount and only have some moderate over sight to make sure nothing is lore breaking. Ya it means we're going to get a bunch of crappy mobile games and some low effort cash grabs, but those will get forgotten pretty quickly while games like Chaos Gate will get a lot more attention and bring more people into the fandom. Would be really cool if someone could make an actual starcraft type game with the the Warhammer figures tough.

[@Naurfae]

@@trueblaze84 That does sound like a very reasonable system. Yeah, I guess I'm just bitter seeing GW greenlight cashgrab projects after they brutally shut down so many amazing fan projects for years. But in general more Warhammer stuff is good for Warhammer fans, so it's probably a good change :)

[@Ilithandie89]

No. This is a common misconception. Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was suppose to be Warhammer Orks and Humans. Starcraft was a cheeky jab at Games Workshop. Warcraft was about 70% complete when GW pulled any additional funding as they didnt like how the game was going and didnt want it how the first PC game for warhammer to be.

[@horusluprecal1144]

@@Ilithandie89 I will never forgive GW for shutting down TTS

[@AVREL24]

This really feels like the Siege of Terra series. Just constant fighting, being aware that a victory is near impossible and endless hills of bodies. Love it. Can you do a multy layered castle defense? Loyalist vs Traitors

[@ChaoticPinky]

Going to be working my way through the lesser known battles of Medusa V first, if you have suggestions for particular campagins or battles im all for it !

[@tonyyul703]

​@@ChaoticPinkywe need Bainblade tanks, Imperial Knights, some Dreadnoughts, and titans

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

** -Last message of Sergeant Palleus, Honored Battle-Brother of the Black Templars

[@ChaoticPinky]

Love this ^

[@apexthebear8676]

Only in death does duty end

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

@@apexthebear8676 Ave Imperator

[@samduffy1636]

I love how you call all of these battles "Small Skirmashes" truly grimdark

[@knobjob2839]

To answer your Tyranid question on reproduction rate: it's more or less continuous. Different parts of the Nord Queen are all laying eggs at the same time. The swarm consumes everything including itself. It's common to cannibalize the dead and remaining troops to get better information on the battle and to create new bioforms.

[@ragnarian]

Hormagaunts also lay a batch of several dozen eggs very shortly after landing, which nature quickly, usually quickly enough to join the second wave

[@aleccarroll7328]

Yo that's wicked love the nids

[@ChaoticPinky]

Oh so the process is pretty much instant - as the first waves are crashing over the walls the nids at the back are already collecting bio mass and pumping more bugs into the fray !! Nids are truely terrifying beings.

[@knobjob2839]

Exactly 👍. Thanks for all the great content!

[@cardboardbox6690]

Did not realise it was instant goddamn, ngl the nids are truly terrifying because even if a world gave its all unless they win like on Ultramar where they drove off the tyranids wouldn't a defeat make all the efforts resources and loss of live and stuff completely pointless because the nids would simply reabsorb all their dead like a hoover then simply gain more biomass from the newly conquered world with possibly not even slowing down the hive fleet.

[@ryanclubb4815]

just found these UEBS2 40k videos. and im just loving them so far. especially the videos with the tyrnaids. How do tyranids assimilate all this Biomass? a few things are considered 1. the amount of Biomass. 2.the force that they will be fighting. 3. how far is the tyrnaid force from the main tyranid force. 1. tyrnaids in turn can consume any amount of biomass "including themselves". Tyranids in this instance have a number of feeder organisms that are ment to purely consume organic matter of any size. For large amounts of biomass like this battle they would either spawn hundreds of thousands of "Rippers: crawling serpent like beasts" or "Haruspexs: monstrous beasts that can eat entire regiments worth of soldiers in a single bite". these types of creatures would fallow or travel with the swarm to act as a mobile recycling force. they are often seen either at the back end of a swarm or in the middle of the force. depending on the situation. 2. since this was a scouting force of 5 million hormagaunts. it is pretty clear that the force would suffer heavy casualties in its victory, while at the same time as the force would be directed to to break down and destroy what fortifications that the defenders. so that the tyranids don't have to worry about that outpost in the future. 3. finally "how far from the main tyranid forces" since there were no larger creatures in the battle. it is safe to assume that the force was not that far from the main swarm. so the swarm of hormagaunts can all eat their fill and return to the main force for later battles or to be consumed themselves to add to the amount of biosmass that they return with. and later some feeder beasts can come by and eat up all that tasty biomass

[@randomaccessfemale]

16:18 The lone guardsman: 'At least I can fight from cover.'

[@trueblaze84]

"I wonder what's going through those guardsmen's heads right now" Me: I'm guessing a Tyranid's claw

[@cardboardbox6690]

No way, the tyranids begin sacrificing themselves to get over the lakes of blood.

[@MagralhoPT]

Actually its pretty accurate. If anything is the only thing accurate about the tyranids in this battle 😂

[@Legozanman]

Guardmans: Leman russ theres tyrnaids swarming up to the walls! Tanker: Thats not good then, driver go up the wall! Driver: Aye aye! 18:00

[@NtoTheM]

And if you imagine now that in the real combat scenario the guardsmen would've long been overrun cause of reloading/running out of ammo entirely. Actually, the main reason this fortress fell is because the Space Marines start pushing OUT when they get the chance. And by that they lose most if not all of the back-up firepower of the guardsmen they're tanking for, which leaves the Marines surrounded and then picked off rather quickly. And once that wall of defense falls the guardsmen don't have enough firepower to even out their squishyness. If the Space Marines held their positions close to the guardsmen they'd last a lot longer overall and kill MANY more tyranids.

[@christopherk10101]

Watching this felt like being in an Imperium drinks bar watching a live news report

[@Xenobears]

The defenders are literally drowning in the blood of their enemies because the gaps in the castle walls have been plugged with tyranid corpses. I wonder how much longer they would have lasted if the space marines had heavy bolters on the walls instead of just chainswords at the gates.

[@gilbertomartinez6579]

This can be classified as a ''normal'' Tyranid attack. Now imagine a full scale attack with all units Tyranids have to offer. Warriors, Zoanthropes, Gargoyles, Strygons, Biotitan, Carnifex, Biobores, etc. This was just a warm up...

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

For the imperium of man, this was a horrific battle that would go down in the annuls of history. For the Tyranids this was a trip to the corner shop.

[@gilbertomartinez6579]

@@RoxyGotMoxy. Not for nothing they are called ''The Great Devourer''. The Hive Mind does not concern about sacrificing a few millions of Hormagaunts. At some point, the defenders were going to be exhausted or overunned. That's how the Tyranids win.

[@OniFeez]

As an engagement this is pretty damn cool, but against a horde like this I'm sure they would use artillery strikes such as Mortars and Whirlwinds. If available I suppose. But I can't imagine a guard regiment on an outpost like this to not be at least somewhat decently stocked haha.

[@MagralhoPT]

I cant imagine tyranids invading any area with just gaunts. So yeah. It is what it is. Stop complaining.

[@OniFeez]

@@MagralhoPT such irony

[@MagralhoPT]

@@OniFeez i beg your pardon? Irony? Where?

[@randomnobody8713]

Yeah but they have too many Space marines for a "small outpost"

[@KanuckStreams]

And air. There is zero 'nid air, so the Imperials would have complete air superiority, and would ABUSE it.

[@harry33987]

Damn this was awesome to watch! And seeing the nids build those snaking paths through the blood makes me wish there was a flooded map with small islands just so any horde or swarm has to sacrifice their own to get at the enemy.

[@ChaoticPinky]

Always reminds me of ants crossing water, killing their own for the greater good of the colony

[@harry33987]

@@ChaoticPinky Yeah same. Gets me thinking of all the things that would likely be too difficult to do but would awesome. Like units being able to climb up walls, jump off things if it wasn't going to kill them, or scramble over the top of allied units.

[@spiggityspoo756]

⁠Fun ant fact, I know for fire ants at least, those ants are still alive! While a handful of ants is ultimately very little compared to the greater colony of thousands, they won’t needlessly waste their lives. They’ll build bridges or even rafts of their own bodies to cross chasms or survive floods, but once they’re no longer needed for that task, they’ll likely still be alive and ready to work on something else. It’s actually incredible to see how such little creatures can do such crazy things, it’s why I fell in love with the Tyranids in the first place!

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

I was also thinking all the exits to the castle have been blocked... as the Tyranids start going over the wall even if they die they will kill the Imperial troops. If nothing else they will drown them in their blood as the blood has no where to go.

[@madmartigan879]

i dont know the exacts, but in part harvesting of biomatter is going on during the battle. Ripper swarms gorge on biomatter and take it back for processing, they are basically just piranhas with no digestive system of their own, throwing themselves back into the bioprocessing system

[@MagralhoPT]

Rarely the harvesting happens at the same time. First stage of planetary invasion is removal of threats. Only after that the true harvesting begins. There might be rippers present and reclamation pools and capilary towers forming but most likely those are to identify threats and spawn effective bioforms.

[@anthonytamba7610]

just wanted to say you dropping content for people who appreciate it. thank you for making 40k content and i hope blessing into your career 🙏

[@ChaoticPinky]

Its comments like these that make it all worth it, thank you!

[@none62092]

@@ChaoticPinky it takes a while to pick up traction online, keep it up because I found you on my recommended which means you are probably going to get an influx of people soon

[@JurrasicChase]

Poor fellas did a hell of a lot better than I had originally thought haha. Good work to 'em!! Good work to you as well for giving such great coverage of the small excursion!

[@nobob8564]

The nids build reclamation pools of digestive fluid, that gets fed into "capillary towers" that stretch into space like a giant straw for the hive fleet to slurp up.

[@randomdude8202]

A fine example of what actually happens in a realistic 40k battle. Also ai surprised me when both sides actually used the walls.

[@corvidcorax]

If it were realistic then there wouldn't be nearly as many space marines present, the guard would have artillery support, the 'nid army would have a greater variety of troops even for a 'scout' force including airborne forms (Bad news for Imperium), the gaunts would have just scaled the walls immediately instead of waiting for a ramp of corpses to form, and the defenders wouldn't be able to magically shoot through walls 🤓☝ For real though, you're bang on in terms of scale. If you ignore everything else then it paints a pretty good picture of just how overwhelming large tyranid swarms are and how hopeless it must feel to fight against an unending tide.

[@randomdude8202]

@@corvidcorax fair enough.

[@Robbiepaintstoo]

This is the battle sim content I needed, definitely following and hope to see more accurate WH40K mods!

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Defenders held out longer than I thought. When I noticed in the first few seconds they rushed right up to the wall almost instantly I knew the Tyranid speed was pretty high and the Imperial troops dmg value was set pretty low. That said it really came down to the body piles in the end. I think if they had a few space marines with bolters they might of held out.

[@Nisenziart]

this is why fortress walls in warhammer are usualy ridiculously tall

[@Blazer4117]

This is the most lore accurate battle I've seen about Nids vs Guardsmen.

[@michaelmurphy2786]

This just makes me wonder what would happen if there were flamers in the game

[@Michael-po5uq]

Lmao they have turned the fort into a cranberry juice factory! Just look at all that vitamin c"

[@josephjohnson5415]

When nids attack they are followed closely by ripper swarms, fat grub like creatures with sharp mouths that eat everything dead, including their fallen. These rippers then jump into bio-pools of acid that digest them and everything they've eaten. This bio-slurry is then pump into capillary towers which hive ship drink like straws or to birthing pools if the attack is still going. Tyranid motto "lunch today, more of us tomorrow", the tyranids never need sacrifice any of them as they are all redigested so long as they win. But a lost can be very costly.

[@masongrae5010]

I feel like this could’ve gone a lot differently if the Templars were all placed on the front lines around the perimeter at the start since they could do no shooting at all and had to very slowly and sporadically wade through a wall to wall blockade of unmoving guards men. Like that one tactical placement of frontline chain swords with gun fire lines backing them up and heavy artillery firing over the walls would’ve allowed for better counter pushes and more efficient killing waves to hold the line

[@kitsunoyumi]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned yet, but the 'Nids would send in ripper swarms to gorge themselves on the dead, both 'Nid and Guardsmen, then return to a biopool and throw themselves into it returning their own biomass to the Swarm as well.

[@shizo66]

the riper swarms would come with a secondary force to collect biomass while the second attack occurs

[@grif16]

You say it's just a small outpost, but you don't commit 500 astartes to defend a small outpost. Something very valuable must have been there

[@ChaoticPinky]

I realise in lore that's half a chapter. But in the game even with high deflection, armour, block chance and block resist they die way to fast. Though tbf in the Dow game's hundreds died every battle :😜

[@MagralhoPT]

​@@ChaoticPinkyyou did a great job to match the numbers to a realistic level. Love that you picked black templars! The perfect choice!

[@VideoGameKillCounts]

I kill count games… but hot damn this is truly uncountable, so glad it has its own counters! Superb video, love to commentary… what a slaughter… imagine, just imagine a true Tyranid invasion!! 🤯

[@BigBinky_Gaming]

Your computer must be crying rendering all that lol. Also thats is terrifying! This guy said scouting force.... I can only imagine mawlocks, and tyranofex's

[@conan2096]

"attention xenos fith. please stop trying to bury us under your corpses its really gross."

[@Dark15801]

31:46 That would be Ripper Swarms, they eat enough biomass before jumping into the nearest digestion pool. Theres another thing but i forgot what it is.

[@plateau6451]

What I love in this video is the fact that after 10min when the castle is completly surounded you can't see a tiny bit of gras in the distance during large camera angle only a purple-ish see of thyranids

[@IchBinFreierGeist]

I just wish you could have troops on the walls to properly use the castle’s defenses

[@Cobalt57]

Seconded

[@MaxwelloftheClocktower]

I have just discovered your channel my man and I have to say, your narration style really reminds me of Craig Charles on Robot Wars. Not the nostalgia trip I was looking for when looking for 40k UEBS2 videos but im here for it regardless

[@ChaoticPinky]

Love Craig Charles, met the guy a few times :D

[@matthewfreeman4472]

Medusa V? Now that’s a trip down memory lane.

[@micahstrange2792]

imagine cleaning it all up even the best janitors would quit their jobs

[@chadmarx7718]

This has me convinced that in-lore the imperium should literally lose every single on-planet engagement with the nids. The imperial forces cannot shoot through walls, they get tired, they have friendly fire activated. They have limited ammo. Realistically, nids should always win in-lore, especially considering they have other types of troops as well

[@joshydarroch]

Maybe but remember that the Imperium has much more combat capabilities/assets and numbers than what is shown here during engagements with the Nids. It's unclear how effective just one Lasgun is vs Tyranid carapace let alone any other equipment within the Imperium war machine.

[@InquisitorPinky]

In Universe, they only “win” with combined forces. But they actually do lose most planets. You need orbital support, and that means a gigantic fleet. If you have that and enough fortresses, you may survive. See Battle for Macragge. Most defences against tyrannids are there to win time. Trying to delay the swarm. Making it too costly to advance further

[@randomdude8202]

@@InquisitorPinky exactly. It is all there for attrition, and imperium sometimes manages to win thanks to that. But Nids definitely win most of them.

[@LotionSoronarr]

realistically, nids should have no armor worth a damn. High-level nids should be a LOT worse. Their rate or replacement/growth rate should be a LOT slower. And their "space ships" should be utter garbage.

[@wellmanneredpsychopath274]

@InquisitorPinky has it right, once the nids touch a planet they are all but unremovable. Same with the orks. Any on surface fighting isnt to stop them from taking the planet, its to evacuate imperial resources and then nuke it from orbit. Only in the most extreme circumstances would the Imperium attempt to stop the nids from holding a planet, usually under the instruction of an Inquisitor or the High Council of Terra. And those circumstances are rare to say the least

[@calebcarroll7641]

And for the Nids, this is a total victory... They'll just mop up all of the organic material, including their own dead, and reprocess it all into new Nids. Near 0 loss. I say near 0, surely some of the organic mass was vaporized beyond capacity for reprocessing. Also, StarCraft was originally meant to be a Warhammer game. But it didn't work out. Blizzard still had all of their work, however, and so just repurposed it into StarCraft. A bit Nid like...

[@detectivelemaru2843]

Thw dispawned soldiers were the ones whose ships got lost in the warp and never arrived

[@DarronGA]

The Castle broke before the Guard did!

[@michelveilleux2075]

Ah yes, the Imperium of Man. 99% mortality rate; VICTORY 😂

[@Ready2pwn-kc5xp]

5:09 Space marine is having his best day reliving the cover of old boxes

[@shahman76]

Holy shit! Those black templars got turned into blood angels😮

[@1Individualist]

No one talks about your God tier PC handling this.

[@daibo0ne]

Imagine surving this and then your Commanders say, so guys, epic fight, but now You have to clean up. 😂

[@jimmyclyde]

Did I catch an exterminatus at the very end there? Inquisitor Kryptman approves.

[@chriswhite3692]

Memo: All recon outposts will include a complimentary nuclear weapon failsafe.

[@alfreddelcrow9941]

lol you saying 5mil is tiny just make it feel truly like warhammer 😀 I LOVE IT !

[@jaggedstar1537]

The Tyranids can assimilate a world within hours or at most 3 days if the world isnt very heavily defended. If the battle were to falter, then in the middle of the night, when the fortresses would be at its weakest, the Hive Mind might analyze the current state of its enemy and either A: deploy tunneling units such as Trigons to tunnel under and break into the middle, causing a distraction with a ripper swarm following them. While theyre doing that, other combat forms could climb the body mounds. Or B: If the fortress is still heavily defended, the hive mind MIGHT deploy one or two Heirophant bio-titans to literally shatter the fortress. Thats my take on it :)

[@GordonBennett1]

The true horror of the Tyranids realised...no wonder people lose their sanity

[@HighS-m7v]

This made me realize that it would be a necessity to have some weapons that could occasionally go off to vaporize the sheer amount of corpses when fighting the tyranids or orks. Otherwise, any defense walls will be breached due to the scale of the attrition.

[@keneund]

Just found your channel, immediately began binge watching all your videos, keep them up man

[@ChaoticPinky]

Thanks, Haha thats amazing!

[@TheHorzabora]

That’s very cool, there were some exceptionally cinematic moments in that video. Although, while I love the idea that the Guard only lost because they’re were buried under a mountain of bodies (and opened fire at about 10 feet range), I do feel the ‘mountains of gore and lakes of blood’ might have been turned up a touch high :-P

[@hattyc]

“The only good bug, is a dead bug.” 🐜

[@FunnyAnchorman]

500 black templars... for those of you that don't know.... is half the entire Black Templar Space Marine Chapter.

[@MentholMinty]

Shame really, if the space Marines didn't go for their suicide counter charges, they could've been around for the last stand and possibly survived in low numbers.

[@Yozzy22]

Not a Nid player, but a few intersting factiods: Nids throwing enough bodies to just overwhelm and undermine defenses in 100% canon. What's not canon is UEBS AI in their decision making process. They use burrowers, flyers, infiltrators... The Nids aren't shy about throwing huge waves of bodies at a fortress, but they're usually smarter and more varied in their tactics. A shorter siege means the quicker they ring the dinner bell. After a battle, the various bugs, ripper swarms in particular, flood the field and chow down. Then they throw themselves into a reclamation pool (think of it like an open stomach making a lake) and turn into chitinous, fleshy towers. Bioships then drop below orbit to suck these up for food. A "textbook" Nid invasion takes less than a hundred days to turn a planet into an airless, waterless rock.

[@n0denz]

Was sure nice of NASA to lend you one of their computers. 20:18 I was thinking more "It's Raining Men". The Adeptus Mechanicus needs to get right on a tool for rapid body removal - like a Bangalore torpedo for body hills.

[@desertwynd30]

36:08 'nipple to bits' or 'nibbled to bits'? Works both ways honestly.

[@ChaoticPinky]

Its now Nippled to bits, as that conjours some strange images in my head :P

[@viridisxiv766]

with true line of sight and a realistically limited amount of ammunition per soldier this would be over very quickly.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

1:10 that is a good view to give someone a good hint how most ones loses to tyranids , its not that you cant kill em for a while its that most times ...you flat out run out of bullets before they run out of bodies XD

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

also, now i want to see a open field battle ,possibly with a couple locations like these at the side , but PREPARED ones aka , mortars behind walls , heavy mortars in the center trenches infront of the walls , machine guns and anti infiltration space marines along it , along with the center forces clashing having not just marines , but titans massed armagedon armour etc , and that still should be a tough fight as to force nid swarm into a even close to fair ground combat situation mean the skies be dark with nid hive fleet ships and empire fleet trying to stop any splinters to escape from it ...or stop it from eating said empire fleet

[@jonathanvanschuyver9329]

“Only in death does duty end” a quote in the Warhammer universe

[@jonathanvanschuyver9329]

Also the base is slowly turning into a swimming pool of blood.

[@drakedrago6]

I feel like im listening to a sports announcer with this guy’s commentary

[@willofbarbaria]

I would've loved to see some lightnings armed with hell strikes come in. That shit would've been so cool. Definitely going to have to watch more of these videos

[@GiRR007]

This is a prime example why space marines would be the imperium's better attrition fights, they dont get tired, hungry, sleepy, ect, they can literally just fight for days on end with melee weapons so they wont run out of ammunition's.

[@BillTheTriangle]

I want to see this battle again, same numbers, but all the imperium forces are just different types of space marine, but the Tyranids also have some brood warriors and cardifex

[@BewareTheCarpenter]

46k space marines?

[@BillTheTriangle]

@@BewareTheCarpenter 40k extra brood warriors it is then

[@rancidhotmail]

this is so freaking epic! i swear its like the warhammer artwork where you just see seas of mobs and endless war

[@carbonation9093]

10:03 looks epic

[@TheHazCan]

I don't know if the lore is still the same, but if I remember correctly, I think it takes 100 days from the first spore to the complete death of the planet

[@MagralhoPT]

From a week to 3 months so yeah.

[@conrradotorres4653]

Space Matine: if we die, then we'll meet them outside!!!

[@struppi441]

The tyranids made their own high ground

[@Morionys]

In these situations they first send in the imperial guard and the space marines to see how fucked the situation is to see if it needs to get blown up, then they realize it's all fucked, let them die and then blow it up anyways

[@Antidragon-nl7by]

Among all the chaos, bloodshed, and tragedy taking place, I had only one question... 0:50 How the bloody hell did they get that tank onto the rampart?

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

They were... motivated :P

[@anselmetheo3266]

@ChaoticPinky, for the durations of a Tyranids siege, in the last Leviathan book the siege of the planet (Regium) take only 1 days as i have understand in the book x)

[@shadow_wizard__money_gang]

"A tiny scouting force"

[@SpaceHippy]

"Imagine defending this guard house!" ....*me, imagining the depths of soil in my pants*

[@dreamcastH]

Hmm that's a lot of BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@TheDemigans]

Should have brought a few Hans’s, then they would have won! Bring the flamethrower! Just imagine being somewhere at the back and thinking “I’m the safest one”. Then the blood starts rising around your feet.

[@RoadWarden]

It may have gone better if the imperials had some artillery in the fort.

[@MagralhoPT]

Might not if nids actually had any sort of semblance to a real invasion force. But it its what is is. Just a fun thing.

[@Xenotric]

around 10k guardsmen drown in blood >< and plenty of tyranids did too

[@Cobalt57]

It would be interesting to see when the Imperium had 2/3 of its forces remaining and 50% ‘Nids remaining, but outer wall was no longer a barrier, if everyone had pulled back to inner walls, moved Cadians up onto the parapets, and started using the buildings to funnel ‘Nids coming over the walls. Not sure how pathing to parapets works. Probably would have just ended in a blood lake drowning scenario… 😅