The Tyranid Warrior! Elite Special Forces Soldier And Officer Of The Swarm! Warhammer 40k Lore

[@civosborne]

"Sir! The Tyranids have acid blood!" "Deploy the Adeptus Litigones"

[@ThePrime262]

i am a carpenter, and so most of my Analogies relate to tools. the Tyranid warrior is the adjustable wrench of the Tyranid armed forces. an Adjustable wrench is practical for a wide number of applications and capable of addressing an even wider number, but all applications tend to have a more specialized bespoke counterpart. for the hive fleet it may not always be practical to boil up the exact solution to every problem, and many problems can be resolved by warriors. but much like trying to rebuild your car's engine with an adjustable wrench would be a nightmarish waste of time and effort, the Hive fleet will happily bust out the Lictors when large scale and bespoke infiltration is needed. but when it just needs a little scoche of infiltration on the side for one stubborn strongpoint, throw some warriors at it. are you really gonna go dig out your socket set to change one nut? ofocurse not. get the adjustable wrench.

[@Xaxp]

This is an excellent way of putting it. "Sometimes good enough is perfect", as Tex Talks would say.

[@TypeZeta2]

As a Tyranid player I believe the warrior is a must for any army. In my opinion the best ranged options are Deathspitters and a venom cannon followed by boneswords.

[@bobross268]

in 3rd I would make these things called Aquilan hunters with claws and wings I love them they are the best part of the tyranids

[@TypeZeta2]

@@bobross268 those sound really cool. I kinda wish I could see them

[@bobross268]

@@TypeZeta2 yeah I wish I had done something with them but I haven't I remember how terrified the space marine players were of them because rending claws were the equivilant to power weapons you could make your own bugs back then too if you ever look up the nids 3rd codex I'm glad I think shrikes are coming back but I haven't and probably won't touch tenth

[@MasouShizuka]

Venom Cannons are fantastic. Warriors are a step up from the spam of gaunts.

[@bobross268]

@@MasouShizuka Which edition or are you talking about the big guns in general because if in general then I completely agree they are 1 part disgusting 2 parts effective

[@garrettharriman6333]

My favorite, probably apocryphal, quote about recon by fire during world War Two: If you shoot at them and are met with machine gun fire, you've found the Wehrmacht. If met with well aim rifle fire, you've found the British. If met with all of the above on top of artillery and air strikes, you've found the Americans.

[@richardcowling7381]

There's another quote as well from a German soldier,... "When we shoot, the British and Americans take cover", When the British shoot, we take cover", "When the Americans shoot, Everybody takes cover!!"

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

God bless America 🇺🇸

[@iulian943]

Sometimes I think a self sustaining space station would be the perfect refuge from the tyranids because it has nowhere near enough biomass to justify attacking it. But then I remember what else you might find in that galaxy ...

[@KamikazKid]

Perfect refuge from tyranids, perfect target for corsairs.

[@cousinzeke4888]

No reason not to attack it, they can recover every one of their losses. Tyranids embody the 99 percent casualties meme.

[@thormoney]

They just fill the station with acid theyve done it before ... horror short story

[@PressA2Die]

The same thought accrued to me but with small ships. Like how hard would a hive fleet chase a ship with less then 50 people on it? 100? 1000? At some point they would burn more calories just chasing the prey than the prey has in total.

[@saltyshackles5227]

"Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's Tyranid Warrior".

[@MrPlainsflyer]

The swarm is getting smart and making the synapse beasts harder to identify. God emperor help us all, we need more bug spray!!

[@H_Hold]

There is a solution to this; BRRT Harder and BRRT more frequently at them. If they have made the synapse nids more difficult to identify then we simply kill them all harder and faster. Watch the commander in plain clothes matter when they're all dead anyways

[@toddwilliams8128]

That technology was lost when the good people at Raid were judged as heretics and executed appropriately

[@thexenoist3493]

Naturally evolving tyrranids would not necessarily starve to death if confined to a single planet, the hive mind could produce forms that could harvest energy from sunlight and geothermal vents to maintain itself.

[@leobuana7430]

It's more surprising they don't develop similar ability,since green skin have something similar

[@p-leif630]

The question is why travelling between galaxies is cost Benefil for the tyranids

[@thexenoist3493]

@@p-leif630 It might not be that costly, during transit they might be able to convert most of their mass to 'dead' matter to be reconsumed when reaching a galaxy so wouldn't need to expend much relative to total mass. There are also stars between galaxies that they may be able to top up at.

[@brianpembrook9164]

Plus... the first planet ever! Was likely consumed over centuries at the fastest with more garden worlds in system to practice on. I am of the outsider theory. They already consumed at least one galaxy and we are seeing them millions of years of practice and evolution at work. In 3e (the first codex I owned) was quick to point out the new types of creatures evolved in this galaxy after some victories. Zenothropes are eldar based. Somewhere out there is a dead galaxy that REQUIRED warriors and tyrants and carnifexes to consume it. Those strains are only going to get tougher in this one. I also don't believe that they are near starving or we wouldn't have splinter fleets; they would have all died after Macragge. Sure... never full but also the bioships are never truly empty. Some troops are living on a timer but not the ships and queens.

[@thesuminer]

I love the Tyranids, absolutely horrific yet simultaneously fascinating. And I agree Arch, there is no way a species like the tyranids reaches the level of organism it is without having been artificially created.

[@thesuminer]

I also imagine the Swarmlord might be able to pull off that perfect swapping of warrior loadouts to meet each threat as it was capable of tactically keeping up with Calgar.

[@ОлегТурчев-ц4ш]

My personal theory about tyranids is kinda neither. That are not natural. They were not created. They are VERMIN. Parasitic thing on some super xeelee style civilization from a galaxy far away

[@icigokurosaky5394]

It could if the progenitor is spaceborne and the nids are just tools or later development

[@ForgottenHonor0]

The only good bug is a dead bug!

[@chrisbingley]

I'm doing my part.

[@Salchooq]

"Service Guarantees Citizenship."

[@GetsugaTensho85]

​@@hemidas *Desire to know more intensifies*

[@Kyeudo]

I'm doing my part!

[@jesusisherelookbusy]

*”NUKE ‘EM, RICO!”*

[@taurianurbie453]

Arch: "Brains would be a significant investment for a Tyranid hive fleet. As it, essentially, exists at the brink of starvation at all times." Tyranids: *makes Zoanthropes, a psychic artillery unit with brains bigger than the rest of their body*

[@Xaxp]

Something they do sparingly because they are so energy intensive, if I recall.

[@Neoprenesiren]

They make only a few per fleet, they make billions and trillions of other units. That really tells you something (and those zoanthropes can devour biomass in field to make up for their cost.)

[@SamuraiHonor]

Phenotype would be a probably decent swap for '"chassis" when discussing living creatures.

[@binarysurfer5066]

Ah a giant apex predator bug that lots of smaller bugs gather around. 'Click of selector switch': 'Laughs in Hellfire Heavy Bolter'

[@cameronwixcey9692]

Feel the tau would be the nid's favourite enemy. By constantly abandoning land, the nids would have an easier time eating the planet. As the Tau slowly get boxed in by the swarm.

[@robertnelson9599]

However the Tau are the most adaptive after the Nids. They even beat a splinter fleet with an artificial virus.

[@cameronwixcey9692]

@robertnelson9599 2 points. Tau dislike attrition which is how you fight the nids. If they abandon half a planet then they lose half a planet. As for the biovirus that is a 1 trick pony and could they develop enough virus' in advance to take on a full on hive fleet?

[@konradcurze939]

So did the Imperium ​@@robertnelson9599

[@Graven-Ash]

The picture on screen at 26:00 looks like a Necron. Those shoulders are very Necron + the posture + the beam gun. I know it is a tyranid, but it seems like the skeleton of a necron warrior was used as the base for the image.

[@iang257]

Wow, an Arch video where he doesn't bitch about the current setting. What a fun video.

[@Fireontire]

I do love my Tyranid lore, keep up the awesome work Arch you glorious man.

[@iamblade7862]

Finally some more Tyranid action...keep em coming 👍

[@spike.strat1318]

The mechanicus need to develop a giant can of “RAID”. Perhaps a huge swatter or a Tyranid motel.

[@Jack_Stalker]

The Tyranid Swarm is a toolbox that contains almost every tool imaginable. The Tyranid Warrior is the Swarms Swiss army knife

[@akuinator6350]

You know, given that they can reincarnate on demand and thus basically accumulate practically unlimited martial experience in a very short period of time, these guys really should be given more narrative respect.

[@andreykuzmin4355]

I guess being literally spawn killed by a Tau railgun or Imperium battle cannon is the main reason why we don't see that "snowballing warrior's experience" more in action.

[@SexyMonsterLover]

The only Nid known to carry over knowledge between deaths is the swarm lord. Everything else just dies.

[@andreykuzmin4355]

@@SexyMonsterLover and that's a good thing!

[@akuinator6350]

@@SexyMonsterLover Nah, all synapse creatures do that. The Kill Team fluff says that Warrior teams accumulate experience over multiple lifetimes. Sometimes even non synapse creatures do, like Old One Eye.

[@zergrush_9704]

​@@SexyMonsterLoverno. All synapse creatures.

[@izzymosley1970]

I think there are some interesting parallels between the Tyranids as a whole and a single human both of them use their senses to gather information and resources in the most energy efficient away available to them but the big difference is that us humans have stockpiles of food which means we have a lot of leftover energy to do other things where as the Tyranids are constantly starving so they are forced to keep looking for food but that means they're very good at getting food because it's the one thing that the hive mind focuses on just like specialization in humans.

[@migrivp2672]

Tyranid are equivalent to cancer in the galaxy who is the human body why do you think big E made us the rule of it

[@topgun9686]

Couldn't help but notice you failed to mention Tyranid Warrior Primes which are the warrior type you described at the end

[@freddykingofturtles]

A cool thing about not telling your captains the full strategy is they can treat every attack as legit, which tricks interrogators, confuses spies, and generally let's you perform probing attacks as probing attacks without unnecessary punishment. Can't do that with hive tyrants, you need a separate lower rank commander to do it. Also the Tyranids don't need to take every fortress, just surround the strong points and suck the organic resources and water up before leaving. This is what Warriors are best at. Keeping enemies in cities and letting you take what you came for and leaving the nuts that aren't worth cracking in a wasteland. Because siege defenders aren't going to launch cross continent raids when advanced pseudo-generals are engaging them in a faux siege. It's an exceptionally convincing sock puppet used to trick you while an intergalactic invader steals your lunch, your girl, and your dog. But it leaves you alone. Unless? OwO.

[@victxbr]

Please Arch, it's 1 Year since the Last Aspect Warrior Video, I can't wait anymore, the Aspect Warrior series is my favorite

[@Leobelial239]

Notification Squad, reporting for duty!

[@PheonixRising2988]

You apes want to live forever!? Let’s go!!!

[@alzheimergirls6397]

The tyranids are the only faction I can see truly winning 40 k

[@richardcowling7381]

Here's a thought... There was the war in heaven in our galaxy, between the Necrons and the Old Ones and we know the Old Ones created various races to fight the war, the Eldar, the Orks.. What if there was a "War in Heaven" in another galaxy, and the Tyranids are that galaxies version of the Orks? Or what if they were designed by an ancient, Dark Age AI, one that fled into the interstellar void during the machine revolt, and designed the Tyranids to eliminate the predicted threat of Chaos that sparked the revolt

[@malaficus]

I do love how the hive mind works. No weakspot to attack. No keystoned to take out. Rven synapts units are expendable.

[@Loweves2]

Another vid to keep the mind alive while cleaning the house. Just wonderful

[@maddlarkin]

My pet theory on the 'Nids 'evolution' isn't so much they were made by the old ones but a bi-product of the aftermath, formed at the tail end of the enslavers plauge. With the psychic food source the enslaverers depended on dwindling a portion of them adapted to feed on the physical biomatter instead as if the sentient were culled there was plenty of non-sentient bio-mass, maybe all those Elder they'd eaten made them smart enough to reform themselves, becoming the bio-ships and spawning hordes of lesser creatures to gather the bio-mass for them.... Its a half assed theory based on little more than a Bio-ship looks a bit like an extremely large enslaver but given the timing of the enslavers plauge and the hints that 'Nids originated in or at least passed through the 40k galaxy previously it makes a certian sense

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Keep spreading your message. It’s a good one.

[@fenrirthedreadwolf3448]

I would think the hive mind wouldn't want many higher thinking critters since they would start to more and more think individually and have there own ideas. The hive mind can't have that. It would derfore have to spend more and more mental tax to keep control over each higher thinker they have. Or at least they is my theory why they can't and won't make and do all the tactics that arch suggested

[@jacobhouse6505]

Another instant classic by Arch! Keep up the good work man!

[@nathanfremin6467]

I've been waiting for you to cover more of the bugs. Thanks.

[@shadowofhawk55]

Love Nyd Warriors and Primes. So freaking hardass!

[@TypeZeta2]

Agreed. I’m a Tyranid player myself. Every list I have will always have 1-2 squads of warriors with deathspitters and a venom cannon along with boneswords but it depends on the army I’m facing

[@1998topornik]

One of my favourite tyranid units.

[@error-4057]

So the warriors are basically nco´s? Jack of all traids, master to none. But still the backbone of every army till this day :D

[@FenrirStriker]

I don't think the tyranids were made to fight the necron, I do like and support the theory of them being made by the old ones . I think, however, they were created more as a cleanup race for a reset after the war in heaven, I mean what was the plan for the eldar and krork after the war, they were made by the old ones to serve as soldiers but what about after the war should the old ones have won ? I see the tyranids potentially having being made as the clean up crew and archivist of all bio matter

[@Xaxp]

Maybe they're like the Orks, something that worked on paper but because they don't have an "off" switch they kinda went rogue without new orders.

[@angry_zergling]

Have president for that too in the setting - After the Thunder Warriors did their job, the Emperor had them culled. It's speculated he would have done that to the Space Marine legions as well. Killing off your bio-engineered weapons after they achieve their goal is a documented thing in the lore.

[@theshatteredsaga3965]

Arch had a video years ago that he posited that the Nids were created by the Old Ones as a sort of Dual purpose weapon for use against primarily the C'tan, not so much the Necron. The Nids would act as a sort of Fire Break against the C'tan, cleansing world of life before the C'tan could do it first. Plus, the Nids would store the genetic data of all they ate for retrieval by the Old Ones later.

[@millennialtree6101]

Keep it up arch! makes my day when I see a new upload!

[@fruithat2756]

Will you do a video on the gangs of necromunda, like one on the van saar or delaque would love to hear your theories on them

[@AkiKii519]

"tyranids always hungry" duh. But... somehow, hive fleet Tiamat has managed to set up a sustainable cluster.

[@benrevell4876]

Id love it if arch did more imperial guard regiments (like the catachans) or more battle areas (like vraks and the badab war)

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

He has an entire series on Vraks and Badab.

[@benrevell4876]

@@JimmyStiffFingers I've seen them in full I meant for him to do others like them and I also know he did the Armageddon wars too but I'd like to see more battle area ones like them

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

Ah, ok. Well, he said he was going to do a series about the Sabbat Crusades in the future.

[@benrevell4876]

@@JimmyStiffFingers I wonder if he would do some battle that happened during the great crusader, the heresy or the aftermath up to the war or the beast

[@Thisguyisright]

You know a really sick RTS game would be playing as the hive mind where you can only really see through your synapse creatures.

[@NewGuy2534]

Let's see how many Dropship Troopers references we can put in. I'll go first: I'm doing my part.

[@malaficus]

Do you want to know more.

[@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286]

You don't want to be here.

[@yagsipcc287]

Aw hell yeah just on my way to do my first night shift of the week. This will be on my list to listen to tonight 😊

[@tarkusvontortellini1877]

Leutin and Arch in the same day? Praise be to the Emperor, for today is a blessed day!

[@juliusmalcovsky4092]

Doing chores become a relaxing activity with you providing the entertainment. May the Emperor bless you Arch :)

[@013wolfwarrior]

Judging from Dow2 these thing arent too big of a deal, thought with Venom canons they fuckup squads quicks, it will alway be infamous for for brunging Davian Thule down and forcing him in a Dreadnaught.

[@skorza212]

Super off topic, but does anyone know what happened to arch’s “command: modern operations” videos? I enjoyed them so much I wanted to rewatch but they seem to have been scrubbed. Seems like a lot of videos have been hidden as well, are they a patron only thing now? Fair enough if they are, but the modern military tech insights are worryingly becoming a lot more relevant given recent events!

[@UGNAvalon]

I was also wondering about that for a while now. Unfortunately for me, I’d even forgotten the title of the videos/game, so thanks for that!

[@skorza212]

@@UGNAvalon No worries man, misery loves company 😁 Well, mild disappointment loves company at least, outside of the 40k lore epics those are probably my favourite videos arch has done. Would love to see them again but I can’t seem to dig them up. Hopefully they get reuploaded at some point!

[@midshipman8654]

could be to reduce the amount of “cooks in the kitchen” as it were. its a known fact that the more people have a say in something the less likely a singular distinct vision comes out. of course, they are all part of a hivemind, but their conclusions may turn out different as different subsystems within a larger gestalt intelligence.

[@justinfrazier9555]

I been playing a LOT of Aliens: Dark Descent on PC. And I have been killing a LOT of bugs. "What did I teach you marine? Salute!!"

[@micheal5973]

Been kit bashing my warriors and guards lately. Made some squads of venom and neuros and have a ton of heads lying around. And they make for some kick ass shields. Just waiting now for the new nid units to be sold separately at my store so I can go on a painting spree again

[@Sky-wt5nm]

You know the only burning questions I have is if there was a enemy that would force the nids to focus on 1 on 1 scale? Or match them in their near limitless capacity of soldiers and that being said how would the nids react to a enemy that can go toe to toe with them? And how far would the nids go to conquer a enemy of that kind of power and near infinite adaptability.

[@ОлегТурчев-ц4ш]

Necrons easily

[@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286]

You mean orks?

[@alzheimergirls6397]

They already did that with the orks, it’s called the Octarious war, tyranids basically won

[@oldered5663]

08:00 - You mean a weapon of the old ones to wipe out the orks... Unless you mean they wanted to starve out the C'Tan whey made the Necrontyr their puppets and before the Necron rebellion against the C'Tan.

[@MalikethMage]

Would also think, using your AI comparison, they wouldn't want to make too many versions that 'think' for themselves on a strategic level, lest they realise how expendable they are...

[@Dctstampede88]

I despise the bugs. Because I’m an orc player

[@mp5284]

Ah the best channel posts again.

[@trixus4768]

Tyranid warriors are just simply a jack of all traites, yet master of none. They are not the strongest, they are not the most intelligent, but they are strong ENOUGH and intelligent ENOUGH, so you can throw them at the enemy as a first wave of the attack and figure out, what does the enemy pack. They are basicaly a tyranid equivalent to an Imperial guardsman, imo...

[@RedFourth]

Given that we got new looks for death leaper and lictors, what does arch think of them?

[@inquisitionagent9052]

I am still traumatized of the fanart he showed of "Death Leaper Chan"

[@johnnylams3948]

And once again, I fail to understand why the galaxy has not fallen yet to this guys. Nids are so powerfull, hungry, smart, numerous, well coordenated... what more would the nids need more to just win everything?

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

bc the point of the story is to have a setting of places for fights. Like the Orcz vs Nids cage match in Octarius.

[@fnors2]

Because they travel slowly through space. Iirc, all the hive fleets are basically just tendrils of the main force. And, well, old 40k has a nihilistic feel: the galaxy was fucked and you could only try to delay things as much as possible. The nids were one of those inevitable galaxy ending threats.

[@L_ZeD_117]

10:01 Slaanesh approves of that whip

[@tunes1702]

We are going to need a bigger bottle of head and shoulders...

[@mikemccoy7931]

Painting up some nids now and enjoying it, thanks for the vid

[@monsterhunterrivi6303]

y'all seen the combat report for the Shadow over Oghram? and the new Tyranid units? yoooo Leviathan done got some new shit to throw at the Imperium....and we ain't gonna be none to happy about it XD

[@CantusTropus]

Fun fact, lads: GW is currently running some kind of contest where people who buy the new 10th edition starter box get a code that lets them vote on which side (Ultrasmurfs or Tyranids) will win the current war in canon - and bugs are actually slightly in the lead, for once! Of course, this being Geedubs, they could always just decide to completely ignore the voting if it doesn't go the way they want, but still, it would be nice for the Bugs to actually get a significant win for once. GW really needs to treat the non-Imperial factions better, if only to have more credible opponents.

[@zergrush_9704]

Lore is secondary, one planet in lore doesn't change anything, tyranids will get reviele of their models first if they win!

[@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286]

@@zergrush_9704 I hope they delete the Ultramarines.

[@Llangion]

Some blessed calming incense for your machine spirit (Algorithm)

[@nightingale4632]

I love the nids, they feel like the universe's immune system.

[@UGNAvalon]

Pretty sure immune systems don’t scour entire organs of life. :P

[@nightingale4632]

@@UGNAvalon well your immune system will launch itself at outside bacteria without thought for it's own "life".

[@wouterffs8655]

Great video as usual. Btw are you going to continue working on the horus heresy lore breakdown?

[@hadeishadeis7462]

If only David Attenborough was here to narrate these videos.

[@Blood.Angel.]

LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD!!!!!!

[@hadesdogs4366]

Agreed I believe that they’re used as both as a sort of battlefield officer ie a captain where if they encounter resistance that’s too difficult for ordinary gaunts to deal with, then a single or even a trio of warriors is far far more viable than sending in a swarmlord where if a warrior dies, it’s a bit of a loss, but isnt that bad of a loss than losing a karnifex all the while having the ability to have a pinky finger in a given area, since it stands to reason that you wouldn’t send in a general or any high ranking officers to deal with anything too problematic such as operation chariot where several British commandos raided a German port and blew up its dry docks to prevent a German super battleship from being able to make any repairs, in which case it would be pointless sending in say field commander burned Montgomery, or Winston Churchill vs a captain and several dozen soldiers

[@vladmods]

What a pleasant surprise! we do need MORE TYRANNID VIDS. :D

[@NetMoverSitan]

2:20 - So worse than Xenomorphs? 6:10 - Don't you mean abominable intelligence?

[@Evansripoffs]

Video idea, lore video about the Soul Drinkers, lots of nuance and situations to really grit into

[@comentnine1574]

Say Arch, what are your thoughts on Corvus Belli‘s Infinity table top game?

[@jasonsantos3037]

I love these big bug monsters in 40K.

[@saberz6615]

Lovely video for those who don't know arch is talking about 9th ed warriors when they were scary and very much in lore. Not there 10th ed form where they so laughably bad they cant even hurt a transports or any toughness 6 elite units.

[@daniellindsey7025]

Come on do you wanna live forever, we gotta crush these bugs.

[@MegaSubzerro]

Watching this after Space marines 2 came out, LETS GO!

[@inquisitionagent9052]

Oh boy! Another lore video about what it's like to live in Australia

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

40k has space whales so life doesnt need to start on a planet and evolve space flight

[@LanceTheAutobot]

Happy swarming noises

[@wesleyhungwe7951]

Yay Arch!

[@katathoombs]

[libationes deis algorithmi]

[@marcusmcclendon6681]

10:45 there is nothing natural about these predators!

[@duaneepps7346]

Awwww yes, Tyranid content!

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

Always preferred the look the original plastic models had from space crusade

[@cop154]

Hey Arch what would happen if a full Hive fleet would try and invade one of the 7 prime worlds of the Space Commies? I know the Imperium considers them a waste of time an recourses but would a Hive fleet have a HARDER time with craking that nut open? and would a Hive fleet gain MORE or less Bio mass form their prime world?

[@moxtordoki96]

Problably the tyranids would attack all 7 world at the same time, fucking the commies for they will not be able to supply all 7 wolrds at the same time

[@migrivp2672]

Robot and range make the tau less appetizing for the nid not only you lose biomass before reaching the sweet source of food the only thing you encounter doesn't have that much biomass in the first place

[@Kyeudo]

That is a nightmare scenario for the Tau. Tau fight best when they can maneuver and use hit and run tactics. They like being able to give up ground now to retake it later. Any ground that you do not defend, however, the Tyranids will literally eat. There will not be a later. Further, the swarms of Tyranid bodies are like walls, gradually closing in around the planet's defenders, strangling movement options one by one. The Tyranids force the Tau to fight on the Tyranids terms and a blueberry vs a Hive Tyrant isn't a fun matchup for the blueberry. The one time the Tau fought a hive fleet, it was as fragment of a fragment. Hive Fleet Gorgon couldn't field the normal numbers of organisms as a true hive fleet and so lacked tactical options. It still massacred worlds before the Tau could finally concentrate enough of their forces to kill it.

[@fnors2]

Realistically? The Tau would get eaten. It might take a while, but it's happening. The nids definitely have more bodies to throw at the problem than the Tau have bullets. But since GW really seem to love their blueberries, the Tau would win by plot magic.

[@micheal5973]

And with the slow speed of tau FTL there’s just no way to get enough boots on the ground to even make enough space to use their mobility. They’d just be swarmed by gaunts covering every inch of ground. Tau pretty much had to change their entire doctrine of war just to deal with the small splinter fleet that ended the Damocles gulf crusade. We got the lovely storm surge out of it and the taus doctrine of moving walls and slowly fall back and fire everything until there’s just no more ammo left or no more ground to fall back to. Then gtfo and hope reinforcements have made it to the next planet in line.

[@malicant123]

Can we send Tyranids to California?

[@topkek996]

They already have pox-zombies there, is it necessary?

[@hemidas]

Send Necrons.

[@Bar_Steward]

i think that would count as animal cruelty.

[@malicant123]

@@Bar_Steward I disagree. Size 22 Sue would keep a lictor fed for a month.

[@CharlesRichelieu-hv7sn]

Nids are not canonical in 40k. They are just to retcon things.

[@shadowofhawk55]

Because Warhammer is a inconsistent universe the Tyranids may actually just be humans trying to stop the Imperium’s Nazi slavery trail of tears. - Templin Institute

[@joseg.6187]

This was great!

[@sadwingsraging3044]

📝😳 **note to self** MOAR Raid🏴

[@steelgreyed]

Ma latest timeline head canon. So.... During the War in Heaven, the Old Ones decided it would be a good idea to search "outside" their galaxy to find allies. What they found instead was the Tyranid. (still annoyed they didn't make them) This TERRIFIED the Old Ones soooo badly, that in their shock and dismay the "Enslavers" were accidentally crapped out. (Funny how they resemble certain Tyranid bioforms.....) The Old Ones "also" knew they had been marked by the Tyranid and simply could not use the warp anymore or they would "show the way." In response, they "ended" the War in Heaven, more on that later, and proceeded to seed the Galaxy with as many War-like races as Toadly possible, and then either "offed' themselves or hid in a warp tunnel... I'm betting on the latter as they are the only ones with the Krork "off" button. Bad News, Big E's lighthouse either uses energy "from" that particular warp tunnel or the whole thing is more than likely just one of the toadies' left over power amplifiers. Both potentials lead to one result. "Dinner Bell...." Good news, we've been undergoing a Big E and Horus based Warp Revolt for 10,000 years, so bad even the Krork and Necron are getting roused from their "this is boring" slumber. You go and write down every single thing you could possibly think of to insult the Warp and make it Government Policy, kill all their followers, and have their own half-warp-born and brainwashed children do it for you... This was a Gauntlet hurled at the Warp, and for 10k years the Great Game spilled into real space, just long enough for the Nids to show up. The Old One's "delayed" the Tyranid wave, but we've also been prepared to the point even the "Warp" is Anathema to everything the Tyranid represent, if not almost a galaxy wide manifested intent on, "no you are not going to graze here, that's our job...."(at the very least) Which amusingly enough includes the Krork and Necrons in that attitude alone. As a galaxy we are prepared to fight, with, "or without" the Warp, or even against it. Name your flavor we got something designed to simply destroy it... Not many Galactic Empires can boast that, as the Eldari at their prime would have been NERFED once Nulled.... ...also proven not particularly good at fighting against it.... We needed the fire of urgency, and nothing can make you paranoid quite like the collective over-active imagination of a few bazillion humans made manifest...... We're so good we can even "adopt" other Species' God's. (which is why Big E tried to limit that exposure...) The Eldari had to literally effer around to find out how to make 1 and 1/2 effective Effective Warp Gods in 60 million years, as humans however we are quite literally capable of making it up, on our own, where we go, as we go. ** Side note The Old ones told the Necrons the Tyranid would be here in 65 million(ISH) years, and without warp tunnel access they chose to dirt nap, even their own farseers had issue seeing past the present storm. Think less Justice League, more "Get off my Lawn!" They along with the Krork are more fire-shield allies as even the Necron are offended by "flesh" winning anything... much less the best Krump in 60 million years... Its not coincidental both are in the process of pulling out their old school weapons and Primeorks. As the Old One's knew the Tyranid "shadow" can null entire planets, they were like "we got nuttin, even de-boned the Eldari are at least fast, Peace Out...." The Old Ones "knew" the Warp also had to be turned into a sea of boiling angst in order to even have a chance of surviving regardless... As "I'm walking here!" is better than "oh no not again (poof!)" Again nothing the Old Ones could either endure nor enhance through hanging around. On that.... How do you broker (temporary) peace with the Warp Gods as they stand now? Korne is easy. "You want skulls? They are coming my red skinned friend, they are coming to take your skulls cause they say you are weak, so weak you can only watch them take your skulls away from you forever and melt them down to nothing..... The Hive Fleets represent the "end" of the Great Game, and that simply can not happen." ** Last note, the Maladictum will do wonders for channeling Hive fleets into "zones of preferred food." Something an Inquisitor was censored for trying. And Big E's plan for "preparing" us for this War, answers EVERY Bad Dad joke I've seen so far. Big E didn't want a kinder gentler Angron. "Butcher Nails? Nice. I'm not your real dad, go kill something in that direction you tactical failure." Job achieved.

[@steelgreyed]

(Very bad mental image of Imperial Guard defending Psy-amplifiers while Bloodletters and Eldari stalk its perimeters....)

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

you underestimate the intelligence of lictors

[@ckennedy1973]

The Emperor protects

[@cjwars2828]

So they co-mangers of space bugs

[@chillax319]

Yeah Tyranids either were made to be weapons by Old Ones or some other race or at some point some reace turned themselves into the first nids. There is no way anything like that evolved naturally. Also how it is with orks and nids? I'd think the nids would absorb plenty of orciness and become more shroomlike too.

[@jakupsundoe6226]

Come on, do the coat next. Talking about how tyrannids chose planets is interesting

[@AlukardTheDeathknight]

"KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL" *Murita Rifle gunfire intensifies*

[@galling2052]

in 40k the bugs have the supersoldiers