Lictors are the Worst Tyranid

[@Yuug-Makuug]

Ork: (licks the Tyranid) "Well, dat ain't why iz called a Licker, it tastes zoggin awful!"

[@gavinboyer4634]

Iz called a Licker cuz it licks ya brain, ya git!

[@PYRO-TF2-REAL]

This comment is sadly underrated Boy

[@Predman1227]

I'm surprised the Ork is even able to lick it.

[@Master-Of-Mankind]

Ya git! Ya didn't cook it roit!

[@John-jc3ty]

if a lictor can steal your memories and you have deep depression... will it become depressed too? did i just discover their weak point?

[@LexYeen]

[concerningly enthusiastic Krieg noises]

[@invictarussuzerain]

I can picture it now. Marvin the clinically depressed lictor. I can infiltrate that base, but it won’t matter…

[@danniwantsfood]

send in the lamentors ez

[@7ElevenTruther]

​@@invictarussuzerainIt's a vastly capable infiltrator and terrifying ambush predator... but it's self image doesn't actually reflect that and it has a habbit of necking itself. 😂

[@YourLocalOverlord]

Memories are not emotions. So no. Memories are what you can recall about your life. Which can be falsified btw. Emotions are based in how you react to your perceptions of the reality you find yourself in. Like, the conclusion you came to. That monster can nom up those memories and remain objective np fs..

[@benclark3473]

Crack open a boy with the cold ones is one of the greatest one-liners I've ever heard

[@katathoombs]

I am here for this comment. Ahh, the good old boy, best to enjoy with the cold ones...

[@jamesf3871]

I only first heard that line just last night, and it became an instant classic for me. “I was going to have a quiet night. Crack open a few cold ones with the boys. Now, I’ve gotta crack a few boys with my cold ones.”

[@thepowerofluck]

​@@jamesf3871 Damn I just heard that the other, I forgot where it was from the tho

[@ThreeEyedMonkeyMan]

​@@thepowerofluck "I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord'" from the channel "Seals are Good" Stone-cold one of the best one liners I've ever heard

[@BigGunsNeverTire.]

In Warhammer Fantasy (and now AoS I guess?) the dinolizard mounts of the Lizardmen and Dark Elves are named "cold ones", so this line used to come up a _lot_ when declaring charges. A classic!

[@mfreed40k]

Fun fact, I live in South Carolina. I have several owls in my yard that have 5 or 6 foot wingspans. You do not want to be having drinks outside and FEEL f'ing Batman ghost inches over your head at night.

[@georgesulea]

So, if you battle a Lictor, and you beat it, does that make you...A Lictor Victor?

[@lynxia1464]

Inquistor Listor the Lictor Victor? 😅

[@be1394]

A Lictor licker

[@satch5471]

A Lictor Licker?

[@richardtaillon1616]

This comment is both underrated and I hate you

[@Yig_al_Gaib4242]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[@d180jnr]

> Lictor eats my brain > Is now depressed

[@sibdabdua965]

Get your self some help dog, for all of us

[@kristianfischer9814]

I love the Lictor. Between them and the Genestealers, it’s a minor miracle that the Tyranids actually have to fight when they invade inhabited worlds.

[@BarelyDecentProduction]

After eatin several blood angels marines, a lictor was later seen rampaging the other tyranid forces and some witnesses swore they heard it screamed something like "Borus" over and over before it was put down

[@John-jc3ty]

the wing serrated stuff is being tested in comercial airplane turbines to reduce their noise. maybe they got the inspiration from owls

[@hubertstepnik8645]

I think a video like "The silliest 40k units" would be awesome and an opportunity to talk about more nids. I personally find the Exocrine hilarious bc the idea of the gun really being in charge has me thinking like this: "Igor! I need to point that way. MOVE!" "Igor... move..." and the Haruspex being basically an overgrown frog that can yoink you in split second is pure slapstick.

[@rasplez9889]

my favourite part of lictor lore is seeing one infiltrate the Arx Angelicum on Baal to disable its defences. it talks in detail about how it perceives the battlefield as an individual but it doesn't regard itself at all. It is a suicide charge but shows how one lictor can not only nearly destroy the blood angels, but also a huge number of their successors. its very possible that if the warp rift had not opened and severed the hive fleets connection, the blood angels and a great number of successors, Baal, and the body of Sanguinius would have been absolutely destroyed, and allowed Imperium Nihilus to collapse. It cannot be understated how important the Blood Angels are to Imperium Nihilus, and likewise how powerful a well-placed lictor can be.

[@xavierscott954]

These bugs are absolutely terrifying! In fact if you wanna read about it, the book of the martyrs tells a story about a sister of battle who’s hunted by a Lictor as she tries to save an imperium outpost from other bugs. It really taps into the horror aspect of Warhammer and it’s a great read!

[@imurmothersluv2968]

“Did you know owls make to little to no noise when they fly?” *my thought* “what are you getting at?-.-“ *key in horrifying realization*

[@Gibbons3457]

I love lictors in that they are the Tyranid in microcosm. Self correcting, self adapting, self learning. For example. A lictor can be deployed by the Hivemind with no backup on a planet and within days quickly understand the entire makeup of that planet's defenses just by eating people. And it doesn't matter who they eat first, eating a lowly guardsman or civilian will give the lictor a whole smorgasbord of new targets, and then those targets will give it more targets; it's like a brain eating version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". This makes the lictor not only an absolutely preeminent assassin but also an incredible informant for the hivemind. I also like the way that the lictor gains an almost emotional repor with its prey, as it eats more and learns the flaws and phobias of its chosen victims, giving it many of the advantages a psychopath might, the ability to understand emotions but the choice of if to feel them or not.

[@Paint_it_Green]

"A boy with the cold ones" Comedy gold. I lost it.

[@Cmdtheartist]

Ash: "Yes, the perfect organism." David: "Magnificent creatures, are they not?" Bishop: ".......???..........fucccckkk, no wonder nobody liked me."

[@collecter343]

Bishop was a G throughout

[@RorikH]

Night Lords: I tip my hat to you, one legend to another.

[@BLOODKINGbro]

Was that before or after Slannesh ripped the flesh off their backs to make a skirt?

[@lurkingedge]

You just sent me down a rabbit hole. What could counter a lictor? How about Noise Marines? Eight foot tall demigods who have spent 10,000 corked out of their gords on spacs coke, to the point they can hear colors and see sounds, and have twitch reflexes so fast they look like time travel? The ships and fortresses of Thousand Sons, Death Guard and Khornates would all be quite difficult to hide in, or passively or even actively hostile to a lictor.

[@WhenGoatsWentBaa]

One of them almost managed to sneak up on Trazyn in his own Tyranid gallery. He only realised because his brain is effectively a computer and there was no record of a Lictor being in that spot.

[@randomomega9966]

Lictor? I hardly knew her! ...I'll see myself out now.

[@tomwarren5580]

My mind went to Lictor my balls instead.

[@wahbegan]

I FUCKING LOVE LICTORS I FUCKING LOVE TYRANIDS I am a simple man. I see exclusive Tyranid content, i become channel member

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

The thing that makes a lichtor more frightening than a xenomorph is that it always has a bigger overarching goal that just "kill all humans"

[@Phantasma3]

Baldemort made an awesome short story about a lictor. Its what kinda got me into them, aside from them one-shotting part of my squads in DoW 2

[@Mastercheap]

5:05 I mean, once you see it’s eyes (the round bit towards the bottom right of the tree for those that didn’t see it) you can clearly see the upper half of it’s head, though you have to look *very* closely to even have a guess of where it’s body is.

[@kelvin__klein]

Lichtors are the IRA of the Tyranids. No I will not elaborate further

[@LexYeen]

No need.

[@seangrey]

I cannot confirm nor deny the validity of this comment.

[@KCUFyoufordoxingme]

I thought you said "RNA" and thought you were onto something in a broader metaphorical sense.

[@Master-Of-Mankind]

What is a Lictor? One of the most annoying enemies in SM2.

[@davequinn2902]

I absolutely love the lore for the Deathleaper. It won't kill you, it just screws with you til you go insane!

[@heartduwang8268]

Somehow portion where you explain How Owls are silent assassins on top of the bgm gave me a foreboding dread. I got chills a bit...

[@paulellington1505]

Hell yeah Mr. Bones. Been riding with ya since the first video about the Dark Angels. It's great to see how far you have come and you sound way more comfortable and confident talking to people. Thank you for creating content like this for people like me and my little brother to enjoy

[@revanne5012]

4:00 went to an owl sanctuary a couple months ago, and hearing, or rather not hearing, owls as they could fly right over my head was pretty amazing

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

Crack open a boy with the cold ones is crazy

[@clovisursa497]

The Nids are up there as one of my favorite scary mindless aliens. The Xenomorphs, Chimera from Resistance, Tyranids, Symbiotes (yes they do have a hive-mind) and The Flood are all horrifying creatures. And we need more like them in fiction.

[@ZerberusKnight]

When a lictor fails a morale test, it's cause it remembers a bunch of cringe and embarrassing things from it's victims' memories.

[@Psyker_Unredactus]

Yet another video to add to my High & Sleepy 40k Playlist. Thanks for all you do, Bones.

[@800aspects2]

Man forgot my boi death leaper

[@Audios2010]

(Tyranids seeing the planet of Catachan): "BIO-MASS!" (Catachan jungle fighters seeing Tyranid hive approach): *"FOOD!"*

[@OneReallyGrumpyJill]

Me, when the flicker in the corner of my eye is real and eating my brains as we speak -> 🗿

[@Kiwi9552]

I kinda wish it's visual design would reflect what it is more. It looks so static and inflexible.

[@CousinJesse1]

They’d make for the perfect “graduation” test for Astartes candidates or neophytes.

[@RogertheCorgi233]

I managed to immediately spot all the hidden animals. I've also managed to be hit with a baseball in the eye socket. blind as a bat and about as perfect sight as possible

[@Heresy_Hound]

Lictor? I barely even knew her!

[@christianmauri8972]

Mr Bones your narration is getting so smooth. Love how you delivered “they will also not” at 9:55. Quality.

[@abe2826]

>Lictor eats my brain >Is forever haunted by what I watched in the past

[@jessegoodfellow6188]

As an added bonus to the biology examples to stealth: Did you know you will barely hear an elephant walk? On the underside of their feet are cushioned pads that act as a shock absorber, supporting weight and cushioning impact. This is on a creature that is 5 tons in weight that is not very stealthy. Now put this on a lictor that is meant to be stealthy and try to hear their their approach.

[@DemonicEngineer]

I still feel that the Hive Mind's hatred for Mephiston was more of a local thing. It could sense what he was doing at the time and hated him for being good at it.

[@Damien_N]

I like the idea that all of a given tyranid creature are precisely and exactly the same creature.

[@Kurze099]

Love the video bones. I know this probably isn’t in the horror category you’ve been diving into however if you could I’d love to see more on the tau. I’ve been a space marine player for a while but recently got into tau and it’s hard to find much info on them. Thanks and again awesome content bro

[@collecter343]

Huh, never thought about it but it does make sense that Tyrannids are not meant to last, just fulfill a task through quantity.

[@n_evermore8235]

I think that the lictor from devastation of Baal, while having a degree of intelligence and self sufficiency, at the point of it's suicidal attack on the void shield generators was dominated by the hive mind. The tyranids behave like mindless beasts when not in the presence of any synapse creatures that spread the will of the hive mind upon them, with the exceptions such as lictors that are able to carry on their task even without "being online". All life is trying to preserve itself and I believe that lictors are no exception, so when the hive mind needs a semi intelligent creature to sacrifice itself - shouldn't it just strip such creature of any notion of free will and intelligence and force it to do what the hive mind needs ? Something like that happens when a hive fleet invades a world with a gene stealer cult, doesn't it ? All hybrids that are more tyranid than man immediately succumb to the will of the hive mind.

[@Usagi33353]

Fun fact about Lictors: every single one of them is the same individual with the same memories and stuff

[@joshuawiese8446]

I love playing a lictor-centric vanguard onslaught in tenth.

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

As I remember Space Marines, can get at your memories by eating you too, not that I know of a story where that ability was used but they have a organ that is meant to do that!

[@jaketimusprime4634]

Remember lictors hunt alone especially during a lethal encounter

[@Crocodonk]

I have an old mid to late 90s White Dwarf magazine with a section about Space Marine Infiltrators and one of the pages says "Before you start, test your scouting skills and try to find the Tyranid Lictor in this picture. Write in and tell us if you find it". After all these years I still have not spotted the Lictor in the picture. I wish there was someplace I could upload a picture of this and see if anyone can spot it.

[@michaelmastriano7566]

I really liked the lictor parts in devastion of baal, it's a rare instance where we get tyranid perspective

[@esbenandersen2168]

Generally speaking a mutualistic symbiotic relationship is just beneficial to both parties. No negatives, or very minimal negatives.

[@AngryPaintbrushLicker]

The lictor lives in my basement and drinks my resin. I need to keep it fed. 🦑

[@jrockoclock7088]

if you can hop between cover with them on the tt they're also insanely strong. You can't really kill them and if they get into melee their stat line is just good enough to screw up almost anything else. plus they look cool as hell

[@bradrankin844]

GREAT VIDEO ONCE AGAIN!!👍 Keep up your awesome work 😉🙏

[@bradrankin844]

New to 40K…. But not new to your channel….That being said, I Always look forward to new videos you put out each and every week! You help me understand the topics much easier and I love your view on pretty much all your videos👍👍 So keep up your great work!

[@GavinMakesVideos-xm7dd]

The only reason I discovered lictors existed was because I liked their funny face tentacles and then I found out everything else and then I developed lictor based trauma

[@swidbald9751]

lictors are scary, but the deathleeper is a walking nighmere

[@Ninjaman176]

no, they crack open a boy with the cold ones

[@mp5284]

The sections in Devastation of Baal is fantastic

[@darcellhartshorne9939]

If a lictor ate a death company marines brain would it start to get memories of it being sanguinius aboard the vengeful spirit? If so that would be hilarious

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Imo genestealers are worse, but that’s partially because of their infiltration abilities. Lictors are way better by most accounts.

[@ludwigsvardh1112]

If you wanna talk about the worst Tyranid we can talk about the parasite of mortex. Literaly a flying Xenomorph that lays eggs in you.

[@Alpharius93]

Lictors are some of my top favourite Tyranids for all the reasons you pointed out, I'm definitely getting some for my army. Gotta love the Neurolictor too though, aka make-you-forget-you-saw-me bug. Perhaps inspired by how cuttlefish are said to hypnothyse crabs?

[@kamiwriterleonardo6345]

The Lictors and Deathleapers are my favorite bioforms in the Tyranid reservoir. They have a "Mind Flayer" style to them (only exacerbated by the flesh cape on the Deathleaper), and if I remember correctly, they are incredibly intelligent when it comes to understanding the best way to destabilize an enemy force. For example, thwre was a Deathleaper that was tasked with destabilizing a planet. The planet had a pretty headstrong governor, which the Deathleaper, upon collecting enough information, deduced that directly killing the Governor was not a good idea, because the people would only see him as a Martyr. What did it do instead? It broke into his residences, killed everyone present right in front of the Governor's eyes, allowed him to see the creature, and then left, not even touching the Governor. This repeated for a long time, the Governor growing more and more insane, and the people starting to lose their faith on him. Only when the Governor had no one left, alone and self imprisoned on a bunker, and only when the people fell into despair, that was the time when the Deathleaper killed the governor, and the planet fell to the Hivemind right after.

[@jonathanathor117]

In the marvel universe there's this alien race called the brood which reproduce in a very similar fashion to the genestealers but faster. unlike the genestealers where you need to take generations to get enough into the gene stealer cult the brood just immediately infect you with their embryo and the embryo basically assimilate you into the brood hivemind. Honestly the brood might be similar to john carpenter's the thing. It's an underrated xenomorph analogue because they can infect damn near anything. The only way to survive it is if you have a really good healing factor.

[@fishpop]

I like owls and that clip of one flying silently was creepy.

[@ConquistadoraDeLaEstrella]

cover eldar rangers and shroud runners. the whole idea of the "outcasts of craftworld society but not drukhari" is something that's rarely talked about

[@DaveMcMuffin]

Monsters and lictors are why I love the nids, as for other organisms to cover, My boy the swarmlord or the iconic carnifex would be good choice.

[@d3AdLyf3]

Worst ? Idk. I guess it's case by case. Lots of bad ways to go from a nidder, like the living munition burrowing in a chest/waist/back wound. The living spores that take root in your lungs turning you into a short lived furnace to expel gases to help break down biomass. The fear lictors can bring, by design is really terrifying tho. It's smart enough to cripple a planet by immobilizing its governor with abject horror as seen in a cannon event. I think I'd prefer a quick behead lol, than an acid bath but that's just me.

[@DrakonSlayer777]

I think tyranids are just awesome and really fit their role pretty well also also I don’t play that game, but if I were to choose allegiant space, I would choose the black dragons. Also, your outliers of the space marines video technically the entire black dragon chapter would fit into that video due to their horns retractable bones claws and wacky geneseed mutations I think they’re pretty cool. You do a video on them at some point keep up the good work👍

[@NecroGoblin-yl2fx]

Lictor - barely knew her :D

[@Blooming.Grove1]

Love these things. one of my fave units in the roster. I really think the stories of theme could be dialed up on the spook factor.

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

Candy is dandy but Lictor is quicker

[@DrakonSlayer777]

Please do more videos on the Tyranids as they are super funny and I like hearing bout the space roaches/locusts

[@paulosantos3073]

Mf posts a video on lictors just in time for my dark herasy 2E session, were my players are going to figth a lictor.

[@FyruHawk]

I was so excited when they announced the new lictor model because of how cool they are :)

[@beeno3487]

I hate stalkers in helldivers.

[@Scorch_062]

6:07 I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!

[@Captain40K]

I saw all 3 hidden creatures instantly in the vid cause I live in a jungle lol

[@Enigma..]

Hexagramaton wings are pretty cool to dive into

[@alienstar2088]

Lictors are my favorite species of Tyranid, mostly because I'm a Lovecraft nerd and oooo tentacle faces look like Cthulhu. Honestly, I want to make a Tyranid army but replace every face of every Tyranid with a Lictor's

[@okay8165]

Well they continue to get slammed in space marine 2

[@AngryPaintbrushLicker]

Lictors hunt alone….

[@sockenpuppe1057]

there is only ONE Lictor ..

[@ThisIsYourGodNow]

Lictors deathleapers and VRLs are absolutely the coolest nids

[@FnRenner]

Hello Arthur. I am Renner. Pleasure to meet you yet again. Apologies for taking so long to return your introductory salutation.

[@theoneandonlyweener]

Thank you for the cool video strange skull man

[@alexNicoleWa]

Too much eating of brains/flesh to learn or evolve in the setting. Marines (even tho they never do it), locators, kroot. I'm sure there's more.

[@fishstudies1656]

I wonder what tyranids taste like? I imagine the prep would be akin to crabs and lobster

[@michaelschroeder7953]

Mr bones 40k!!!! Take my bones

[@SumsieBun]

The lictor is my favorite bug by far and I run a lictor brick in every army I use, for better or for worse. They’re so good for 55 pts and when paired with leapers make a really intimidating back line distraction. Deathleaper is there but only because Vanguard onslaught requires it. I don’t like DL as much

[@inigo137]

so ... mindflayers, lol

[@nottegiew]

We prefer "Licta", Mr. Bones.

[@ExcaliburForge]

Lictor? Hardly knew her!

[@TheAgentmigs]

Lictor? I dont even know her.

[@evanfish4505]

Why not talk about "Old One-Eye"? Because a Carnifex that THE ULTRAMARINES have put on notice is certainly up for discussion Swarmlord too