WHAT A TYRANID INVASION LOOKS LIKE & WHY THEY ARE THE END OF EVERYTHING

[@IsyanderandKoda]

In an odd twist of fate the legion has grown to the point that there are telegram scam bots infesting the comments on every video we upload. Monkeys paw and all that. I am working diligently to try and purge as many as possible but it's a game of whack a mole unfortunately new accounts keep popping up. For your own safety please please please do not click on any telegram giveaways in the comments. Nothing of the sort is being run at the moment and if I was it would be explicitly mentioned in the video with detailed instructions. Stay safe friends

[@whowhatwhenwatch]

nurgle lost in a virus fight to nids...fun facts about our buggybois

[@theknave1915]

Scam bots are gene-stealers. Purge them.

[@Scrublord96]

Buggs buggs buggs in the comments

[@debacofzomb9889]

Why do they need a whole Primarch? Couldn't they just give them some Primarch juice? Or maybe one eats a hand and then POOF!

[@ucmooreart]

So It's thematic for the video then...

[@Chirpysemperboy]

Tzeentch, at least, feels conflicted about the Tyranids. Because, on one hand, here is a race of creatures who CONSTANTLY change and improve for WHATEVER they go after. On the other hand, these same creatures are making it REALLY hard to convert others to him, specifically, since they keep getting merc’ed and bodied left right and center.

[@Scrublord96]

Korn does not care where the blood flows as long as it flows

[@nightlordnorris4446]

The Tyranids present the idea of embracing change to survive, Tzeentch changes things JUST because. He represents endless possibility, but if the Tyranids devour the galaxy then their is no possibilities left to ponder. I would actually think Tzeentch would find that offensive and want them burned to ashes. Plus their shadow in the warp is dangerous to psykers, something tzeentch loves.

[@niceguyofgames9490]

@@Scrublord96I would say more, does not like for the purpose of “These bugs are taking my shit I would much rather prefer to fuel the machine of war myself”

[@brain772]

@@niceguyofgames9490they also completely end all conflict on planets they eat permanently so its a total net loss for khorn

[@morelstrike]

Tbh, their shtick gets old after their third meal. They always do the same thing, deviate a little depending on the enemy, but ultimately they always do this so they can eat. They are the most boring race for Tzeentch.

[@LAHFaust]

My favourite bit of Nid lore is that Genestealer Cults sell the belief that the fleet is a sort of messiah coming to liberate them from the Imperium's tyranny. It isn't until the battle for the planet is won that they learn that they're going into the decomp pools just like the guardsmen and dead bugs.

[@oniemployee3437]

If I may add something to this: i remember reading that those who are part of the cult "get the Veil lifted" when the invasion is in the final completion stages. When the bugs come down and deliverance seems near, cultists regain their composure and collectively think *"what's happening?! Whats going on?! What have I done?!"*

[@jaiclary8423]

@@oniemployee3437 Just off the top of my head, it makes sense that controlling the cultists might actually require a lot of psychic effort, and once the invasion has begun that effort needs to be put toward controlling the *real* Tyranids. Though it also makes the genestealers a tragic victim. They never "chose" to serve the Tyranids - their free-will was psychically co-opted.

[@rootsnootthnute8598]

Some cults just work alongside the Tyranids, so for them the promise isn't hollow, it depends on what strain of Nids shows up.

[@sixgunsymphony7408]

@@oniemployee3437 I read that the hive mind takes control over them so they come out of their hiding places to jump into the pools.

[@brightestlight9462]

@@oniemployee3437 there's lore that contradicts this. it varies by cult/hive. sometimes its getting the veil lifted and being horrified, sometimes they walk in willingly, with or without the veil, and sometimes the hive fleet lets them live and sends them out as vanguards

[@Sevenlynnn]

I REALLY wish you went into the named characters for the nids. Deathleaper, Swarmlord, The one Terror who singlehandedly ate the souls of a forgeworld. There's such great stories

[@azakranos8100]

The Doom of Malan’tai, yes

[@LovelyCenturibear]

It amuses me that Tyranids employ DDoS attacks

[@MrJacobkoh]

Hahaha, oh right. Blocking the warp comms.

[@AJB4D]

I'll not lose faith that Papa Nurgle will find a method to set them back for longer. Perhaps with an illness that initially seems to be beneficial because of some healing or regeneration component made in conjunction with his fair little lady.

[@requiem6775]

So like….cancer on steroids for the ‘Nids

[@thegraveyardcommunitychann4512]

Bro accidentally just wrote a Tyranid book.

[@DboWalker05]

These videos are the best part of my work week. I put them on and work flies by. You guys rock.

[@sherlocksmartass4784]

Now I want a video that is just a deep dive into what Trazyn has in his collection

[@BovineDesigns]

Isyander is an amazing story teller, dude knows how to create ambience and tension. I know it's all from 40K, but even so it's how he tells it that makes it great.

[@wisdomneeded1487]

I’m hankering for these long vid deep dives on each faction. The lore and analogies used are only complimentary to your dynamic duo’s charismatic ability. Hell yeah guys I’m loving it!

[@bean1127]

Koda’s singing and editing note made me so happy for some reason, never change friend

[@Taldoz]

Someone clarify something for me, if y'all don't mind? If a Norn queen gets murderated, do 4 more "show up" as in 4 of them move from place A to place B and *ensure* that the job gets done extra crispy style? Or do 4 more show up as in *BOP* 4 entirely new queens have entered the hivemind?

[@fl00fydragon]

I actually have an idea on how the tyranids could eat a primarch and yet not get a massive boost: they acheive this buuuuuut the unit they try to make with the genetic material from the primarch retains the massive downside of a primarch's ego. Making it uncontrollable/ contest the hive mind and thus unusable. In fact, imagine if the newly made tyrarch now is a constant struggle between a tyranid unit and an independant being, possibly bearing the original personality of what was eaten.

[@thomaswilson9712]

Holy crap u guys are so close to 10k, keep it up, I love it!!!!

[@bw040690]

Everyone has had the feeling of what I call the sixth sense, that feeling that comes from "the guts", the back of the brain scratching, intuition, whatever you want to call it, it's just as real as the first five, but harder to explain and quantify so isn't acknowledged by science, but it kept human beings alive thru many many apocalyptic situations we shouldn't have lived thru. We ignore it now days to the point of silencing it, well I don't. The huge vast majority of people do though. That feeling has saved my life more than once and has pulled me out of bad situations before they even happened. The itching in the back of the brain that says "something is WRONGGGGGG". Listen and build it like a muscle and it will serve you well.

[@thesarkicadvocate6072]

We've been trying to reach you about you Orks extended video

[@SkyKingAzure]

WarHammer's Tyranid: . . . StarCraft's Zerg: . . . _" . . . cousin . . . ?"_

[@beastboolemu333]

Dam, I thought the tyranids farted through space?

[@omega1549]

Wouldnt the Catan (the gods of the necrons) be a good counter, even better than the necrons themselves, against the tyranids. Because when you described them on their conquest against the universe and the old ones you said they thrive of souls and biomass and what other does the hivemind posess than truckloads of biomass and a collective Super Soul

[@crim1188]

C'tan didnt eat biomass, merely energy, with souls being far more juicy and tasty than stars. They would counter Nids the same Crons do, just more and bigger. Non-organic body and absurd bullshit space powers capable of deatomasing whole fleets and planets.

[@jaredmogg7937]

Please please pleeease I need a episode about Mortarion and his story about him training on the mountain to kill his father

[@RaptieFeathers]

That thumbnail hits HARD

[@memeboi2096]

How I hope it goes down is Dante tells guilliman the silent king is a reasonable person and guilliman goes to meet him. And humanity and the necrons make a temporary alliance to destroy the tyranids, or at least give them the hardest belt whopping.

[@youtubesucks3490]

Respect the Shoutout to the main man Trazyn, gotta love em!

[@Lukegunter19]

Love the idea that Trayson has a car collection that would put Jay Leno to shame

[@kartoffelofdoom2461]

Good Soup Today! From Germany

[@inokainemis]

gonna put out a theory about the ork vs. tyranid fight. orks were engineered by the old ones. the hive fleet that won the fight was decimated and had to rebuild using ork biomass. having used that biomass now the hive fleet is more orky, less likely to follow orders from the hive mind, and may even start infighting with other hive fleets to gather biomass the way orks infight to feed themselves. hivefleet waaagh may rampage across the galaxy before encountering gaz, and if the tyranids are orky enough gork and mork might add their waaagh to gaz's waaagh. side tangent: i know the patches will never be re-released so the people who were here early have something special. would you ever release the patch designs as small enamel pins so the rest of the fanbase can enjoy the art and show our support, while maintaining the special nature of the patches?

[@randomomega9966]

Just imagining Tyranids at a business meeting being like "Biomass is down, too many Nids have been expended. Our ROI is just not looking good here. Got to move on to new investments."

[@ocde5395]

I thought Trayzn DID have a hive fleet in his collection. however Trayzn had to get rid of all of them because, even though they were being kept in a stasis cell. They. Kept. Getting. OUT

[@BigBinky_Gaming]

Tyranids ~ the nightmare fuel of everyone, real or fiction. ~ Could you imagine if Tyranids evolved a Waaaagh! effect!?!?!?! It would be INSANE! Lol love how Trazyn has a copy of damn near everything. In "The Infinite & The Divine" he has Tesseract cubes "super pokeballs" with entire armies in them and it goes over what he's got which is nuts. His collections is at least a planet in size if not more.

[@nrgdrinkenjoyer8762]

I wonder if a psyker like MALCADOR could go through the static, thatt would be cool to know, you should do an episode on him

[@iagosenhorinho1662]

tha bugs?com´n lads grey ones fam come blud a fucking bug?love isyander and koda salutes from brazil bro

[@ZakuInATopHat]

Imagine a book from the perspective of the Tyranids. Every character is an individual, but every part of the hive is described as parts of the same body. The whole book being inner Monologes as they strip planets clean. The hive minds perspective as the imperium shows up to stop them. Them weighing options on what worlds to eat. It could be a fascinating practice in dehumanization & creative writing.

[@sovietowl4389]

I just imagine the Silent King coming back, waking up other Nekron Dynasties while yelling "BUGS BUGS BUGS BUGS THE BUGS ARE COMING THE BUGS ARE COMING!!!"

[@jaiclary8423]

Honestly? Hats off to governor Stooge. He responded competently. He didn't tuck and run. He tried to help people. He prioritized when things got crazy. When the scope of danger became clear, he swallowed his pride and tried to call for help. And when the time came, even when all hope was gone, he gathered his armies and took to the field, fighting to the end. The Emperor would be proud.

[@sonofalich1825]

28:27 fun fact: my mom has like 200 tabs open on her iPad at any given point, so I know if she’s home if my internet runs decently. My mom’s IPad is the Shadow of The Warp.

[@Grimmance]

My head canine is that the tyranids are the chaos infested creatures from a galaxy that fell to a chaos God of hunger and predation. Hence why the shadow in the warp provides warp powers and protection.

[@hansjohannsen6722]

Never been so happy for a tsunami! Lol. "Song "over

[@davidfogler3079]

Can you guys do a video on Sanguinius and the bleedy boys?

[@theamazingandrew30]

Way to keep the orange shirt buttoned at the collar like a pro, not slumming it in a hoodie like the side kick.

[@farright118]

Alot of the tyranids strategy would 1 not be possible and 2 humanity wouldn't fool for

[@mikemeyer300]

When i voted Grey knights were up by a few but tyranids are awesome too! Love the channel guys

[@grimreapergames]

As much as I want to vulcans respawn to end and then him not get killed right away... they could have them eat vulcan and he would eventually come back still.

[@ikhcabat]

But does Trazyn have the moves?

[@Sentientcap]

Just had a thought. If the Deamon Gods of the warp are in Galaxy and arw concerned about the happenings in Galacy what if there were other kinds of Gods and warp space in other Galaxies. What if the Teranid Hive mind was another kind of warp god from another Galaxy encroaching into this one for, and there are others out there?

[@SwiftFate]

I really do want to see a new generation of Warhammer. They have been stalling the galactic war out for so long at this point, with so much shit happening left and right.. What about a new era? The Tyranids are the perfect catalyst for it too. For example, what if they finally hit that 'no return' button and finally get something valuable like you said. The rest of the factions realize how screwed they are and decide..Ya know what? Time for an exodus. New galaxy a'hoy!!! Seriously, mass exodus of the galaxy itself. They..run. That would be an insanely cool story and a way to even introduce new races if they move to a new galaxy entirely.

[@scareborne]

Great video. Florida USA here Requests: 1. Grey Knights 2. Black Templars 3. Death Watch

[@shawdcummings2160]

Imagine if all the factions decided to team up against the Tyranids just to wipe them out

[@charlietedora2446]

Imagine if they ate clonegrim! A good way to close off that story and get what you want!

[@explosivooo]

Thought I will say that Nids fighting Khorne is kinda like Orkz fighting Khorne. Because any direct fighting you do against Khorne is only going going to make him stronger. So it ends up being like the Loony Tunes where each guy is just bringing out a bigger gun. Nids adapt, Khorne gets stronger from those adaptations, Nids adapt to those guys, Khorne gets stronger from THOSE adapted Nids. The only way that Nids could fight Khorne and win would be to adapt to a totally ranged, totally psycher attack style to beat any Khorne units, and that's just not how Nids roll.

[@reaperaf9511]

They did have that one psyker nid that wiped out a eldar craftworld... Ate souls too. If the nids deployed those, they might beat khorne.

[@explosivooo]

@@reaperaf9511 Thing is that it's not that Khorne is weak to psykers, they just piss him off immensely. So rather than a fair fight, tactics, strength, willpower, type Khorne, now you get to see Khorne at his true powr

[@crim1188]

That... is precisely what they do. Of course that is how they roll. Nid MO is adapt regardless of what it looks like, they dont have a preferred style, they just do whats needed.They employ melee units because they work just fine against most enemies. Hivefleet Chronos besides speccing hard into shadow in the warp, has far more ranged units than other fleets.

[@explosivooo]

@@crim1188 Right MORE but not entirely. And with an increased shadow in the warp it makes them more easily susceptible to being overcome by the warp. They may be Nids but they are still limited in number by fleet and a huge warp presence like that would attract the infinite number of Khorne to come after them AND they would be fighting Khorne in the warp.

[@Bobbb-f3i]

Also Maginot line was a construction of forts, machine gun posts, obstructions etc built in 30s to force Germany to funnel their vehicles and so make a kind of "hot pass" killing ground where the french could concentrate their firepower from behind well fortified concrete bunkers and constructions and stop the Germans entrenching their country but the Germans bypassed it by attacking from the low countries and passing it to the north. This should have been prevented but Belgium was scared that if France built the Maginot line all the way, Germany would just steamroll over Belgium and utterly destroy them and then turn round and hit France from there. So they left a gap towards the English channel and the Germans fully exploited it, the Maginot line covered Frances border with Italy,Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and I think Switzerland, but cos of Belgium's fears they left that gap The French were expecting another grueling trench war after the last war, but Germany had much better land vehicles now and with the Luftwaffe and their blitzkrieg style of war were able to rapidly circumvent the line almost completely. The Maginot is now a french metaphor for an expansive undertaking that makes you feel better but ends up to be useless"that huge storm drain that cost £1,000,000 but flooded after the first rains was just a Maginot line, wasn't it?" Not a very good example but I think you'll get it

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Tryzen actually had a Hivefleet iirc.

[@kingivan9701]

Night Lord bros its so over

[@jeffrobagman2834]

Newest Xeno faction: the 'nid hunters, the ones that *chased* them from their previous galaxy!

[@bronyman1016]

They could just get the material they need from the missing primarchs of the second and the eleventh and still make it very interesting

[@troyskeete8372]

Feed them Cato Siccarius... I apologize on an universal level 😅

[@Creolelite]

I would pay to see Tyranid vs Zerg!!!!

[@johnredcorn8533]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

[@tspanks9902]

The story at the beginning, is that a book or something because I need to read that.

[@Invictus828]

Since greyknights teleport by using the warp, and Tyranids create the shadow in the warp. Can a greyknight teleport while in near proximity to a Tyranid swarm?

[@Djf0909]

Do you guys have a discord? Really loving the content and my first ever model I painted was a lonely hormagaunt

[@Tangy_Emotion]

Listening to this while I’m cooking dinner in Florida USA and started giggling at you saying “the us is too much” and thought historically, you could just count us as 3/5 a vote…. You know. As a compromise! 😅 I’ll see myself out

[@That1greykight0666]

When the nids show up and there’s no main characters on the planet 👀🫠

[@BollasGrande141]

What if nurgle finished his masterpiece in the big pot would that be able to kill the bugs?

[@GigaHoLLiday]

I really wanna get into the lore, where should i start with the books?

[@BigMason]

....what if the Nids that won against the Orks picked up Ork waaagh magic.

[@meat5069]

So yeah if they got a hold kf a kqork itd be bad. Byt what if they got a bite of trazen's enslaver?

[@unratonb5894]

if im not wrong he has a funy number of tyranids in his colection

[@jayduncan8994]

maybe if maginot was pronounced with a little more french and less anglo your partner might have recognized it.

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

Would've been cool if we just got the normal camera, lack of focus be damned

[@michaelcoward1902]

20:10 It's pronounced more like "Mah-shi-no line"

[@midnightdragon67]

Lol listening to this while making shortbread

[@haywood3622]

Okay hear me out. What if one of the 2 banished primarchs from the legion were already eaten by the tyrand army and that tyrand is the one controling them and that is how they are able to track the emperor and the other primarchs.

[@LOLTacoFace223]

Yet another reason to hate bugs Also, greetings from Canada

[@jameswhite-pv3sq]

tyrranids eat Vulcan. become immortal and learn to make tech

[@albertor.6635]

Wait until all the tyranid factions come together like captain planet and use all their combined genetic adaptations and biomass for the ultimate hive fleet.

[@kobracrakeranonymous7725]

Were you thinking of old One Eye for the named tyranid?

[@darkestcarving8735]

If they got ahold of Angron's DNA it wouldn't make them the angriest. It would make them empaths. As Angron was designed to be the emotional anchor for the other primearchs. He lost his primearch abilities when he got the nails implanted in his skull. He was able to put his fellow gladiators at ease, and give them peace between battles.

[@Shadow952013]

So now they can psychicly make you OK with them eating you

[@kieranadamson3224]

​@@Shadow952013 I can kinda see them finally getting a hold of Angron and the mutation causes the fleet to gain individual sentience. Even if they still remain a hive mind there's a fixed number of minds that just keep getting given new bodies. Hell, they could even become a monstrous version of the T'au.

[@aristogan]

Were his sons also empaths before the nails?

[@Shadow952013]

@aristogan Unfortunately, records on the 12th before Angron took command are sparse. Books have them placed in the pacification of a few Hive Cities at the Emperor's command, but mostly held in reserve to train and build their numbers. There is speculation as to why this was, but Big E himself named the 12th as his Warhounds, which of course would be their legion name till the arrival of Angron.

[@SuperRegic]

Eerily quiet and calm tyranids who know just how to emotionally unbalance you. I’m imagining guardsmen hearing the anguished wails of their devoured families from the maws of the creatures charging their lines.

[@ryojimata3708]

Funnfact. Both chaos and tyranids tries to invade catachan. The populace and wildlife was so unbelievably dangerous and violent, that the chaos invasion was stomped out before a indomitus fleet could arrive and the tyrids were wiped out by the wildlife before the fleet could make its way there.

[@christopherflores6541]

Which planet is this? And where can i learn more??

[@RaydoBaconslayer]

@@christopherflores6541 Catachan Jungle Fighters

[@alvarizimo]

It was an Ork and Chaos invations. No Nid attack on Catachan exists in the official lore.

[@smokeydom9338]

​@@alvarizimoall information about the events of the cstachan earthquakes is heresy!

[@EvilDMMk3]

@@alvarizimothat’s a retcon then, Catachan Devils were supposed to be feral Nids

[@LichDoktor99]

The only good bug, is a dead bug.

[@ikhcabat]

I'm doing my part.

[@baseheadfitness6062]

Do you wnat to know more?

[@Halobeast10000000000]

Cmon you apes, DONT YA WANNA LIVE FOREVER?!?

[@doom7ish]

Would you like to know more? (Yes). (no).

[@zemajlopez]

RICO'S ROUGH NECKS!!!

[@gmanplaysgames256]

the new Tyranid lore that came along with 10th Edition and the Leviathan book is insane. Whole segmentum gets sandwiched between 2 new tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan, one from above and one from below the galactic plane. A couple of Imperial ships manage to escape by the skin of their teeth and get far back to one of the main worlds where Lord Solar Leontus happens to be, they get word to him just as the Shadow In The Warp begins to fall onto the planet and Lord Solar rushes to Terra to muster a defense force (which costs his Navigator and Astropaths their lives). They create the "Solblades", rapid strike forces consisting of Space Marines, Custodes, Sorroitas and whatever other forces they can get, and they start hit and run attacks on the 2 tendrils while evacuating less defensible planets and fortifying the stronghold worlds. This works well for a while until a THIRD tendril comes rocking up and gets to the main core planet in the sector they're defending. This place is a fortress beyond measure, there's an asteroid ring full of ships and battlestations and even the Imperial Fists' space station fortress, the bugs force their way through, there's even a VERY graphic description of the crew of one of these stations being digested alive when a massive hive ship just swallows the entire station. On the ground they hit SO hard, but Leontus and the Captain general of the Custodes are holding out, until a trio of Norn Emissaries show up, one wrecks a major command station but the last living guy insdie blows the place up and kills it, another tears a hole in a defensive line after going up against 20 Dreadnoughts by itself before fleeing (after killing most of said Dreadnoughts). The third one sneaks up to the mountain top above the fortress, waits for Leontus and his half-mile long retinue of guards and attendants to come into the courtyard as he makes his rounds directing and inspiring his troops, and leaps down onto them and is only blasted aside by a Custodian gunship mere feet from crashing down onto Leontus. It STILL manages to smash Leontus' retinue to a pulp, tear said gunship out of the sky and kill most of the Custodians that it dropped off before Captain General Trajann Valorus deals a killing blow to it, the 2 leaders BARELY survived this. At this point the tide seems to be turning, the Imperials are driving back the Tyranids. Then the story cuts to a Solblade led by a Raven Guard Shadow Captain, who is caleld to the bridge of his ship and the navigator points him to the viewscreen, coming into view between them and the core fortress planet, is what at first seems to be a moon, but the Captain is confused for a moment as his carts show no moons in that area, and then he sees it begin to move, and writhe. It's not a moon, it's the biggest Tyranid organism ever seen and it's heading for the planet.

[@ronaldomontora2449]

Noooooooo!!!😢

[@lornbaker1083]

Ah yes The father orbs. Each ship is controlled by a norn queen A mother to her swarm. But each one of them is commanded by a father, orb, a living flesh planet of tyrannic matter A giant floating beacon and also production factory. the imperium always wondered where we came from. But we didn't come from anywhere. we brought our home worlds with us. And now your galaxy shall be our new home. Until all life is eaten and we decide to move on.

[@ronaldomontora2449]

@@lornbaker1083 Oh the only you goofy xenojerks are eating are these IMPERIAL CLASS DIVINE L'S!!!! NO GALAXIES FOR YOU!

[@darkwaterstag7068]

Fucking hell

[@Lugubrious69]

What book is this?

[@kalebproulx9624]

I love this channel and I binged every damn episode and I will continue to. Also the bugs are probably the most terrifying faction and truly pity those guardsmen

[@MadCowsMinecraft]

I’ll be honest, when I ran my Nids I had made them a Tendril of hive fleet Kraken. The Tendril I ran was based out of a water world, who heavily used their Genestealers, and even had heavy influence with Cultists, and I loved making the story for them. Even had custom color set for them that would make them look like sharks, and even had barnacles, sea weed, etc growing on them.

[@schmlondaysxd9504]

do u have any social media where you've posted them?? would love to see!

[@MadCowsMinecraft]

@@schmlondaysxd9504 unfortunately the guy I commissioned to paint them stole one of my carifexs and never got back to painting the rest of my army.

[@chriswigmore5610]

God damn. That sounds amazing

[@calus7958]

Also The Tyranids are no longer coming from one direction. In The Fourth Tyrannic War, Leviathan is coming into Segmentum Pacificus in The Galactic West. We are surrounded.

[@bookkeeper1995]

You might not realise but space has more than two dimensions homie

[@calus7958]

@@bookkeeper1995 of course, But if we are speaking in terms of the Imperial Map of The Galaxy then it would be from the west. The Imperium designates each part of The Galactic Plane and also which directions their Segmentums lie. Segmentum Pacificus lies west of Terra, Therefore they emerge from The Galactic West. They even call it "The Galactic West" in the Lore.

[@bookkeeper1995]

@@calus7958 I wasn't debating the finer points of cartography, I meant the remark about being surrounded 😅

[@calus7958]

@@bookkeeper1995 Well my point still stands since Leviathan is coming from beneath the Galactic Plane aswell you stickler >:3

[@bookkeeper1995]

@@calus7958 The galaxy is a circle bro

[@Not-The-Plan]

Just gonna put this as a fan theory in-universe reason for why tyrannids get bodied on occasion, but then the ultimate creature biology proves itself elsewhere in 40k. Its just cause they ate almost every Lamenter, and their horrible curse got transferred out to the tyrannids that were in the galaxy at that time.

[@gman7497]

Something like that 😂 in all seriousness though, as far as the lore goes the Nids are ridiculously strong. Idk how any other race has a chance, short of happenstance and plot armor.

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

⁠@@gman7497I hate the tyranids as a concept because while the orcs are at least comedically interesting and are at least a society the tyranids are literally nothing but consumers. The reason I hate this as a concept is because it doesn’t leave anything for exploration it’s just what it is.

[@gman7497]

@icecoldpolitics8890 there's nothing to them, they're just a swarm of things to fight. Admittedly their psychic abilities and different bioforms are kinda interesting but there's no real depth outside of that. It's not like there's a tyranid 'hero' with an interesting backstory.

[@mr.billytearjerkerjr6424]

​@@gman7497Necrons are probably the only thing that stands a chance because they are basically robots that provide no food for them.

[@sookendestroy1]

Ork tyranids just manifesting things into reality, making red rippers which are faster, the core of the fleet is a colossal tyranid form because the biggest bug is the boss

[@michaelroy7754]

Tryazn has a tyranid hive fleet in his collection. I think it escaped during thec13th black crusade

[@youtubesucks3490]

The best character by far, like 'The Collector' from Marvel but way better!

[@batolley7435]

Haha of course he does

[@B6937]

It was Bile that crusaded for centuries to collect the materials to make a perfect non chaos Fulgrim clone. Then he got upset with it and traded it to Tryzan.

[@sgtreznov6525]

They escaped inside his museum and royally pissed him off. Broke a lot of stuff. He decided pictures of them is safer.

[@lornbaker1083]

He collected them like pokemon Till some escaped and wrecked up his museum. He still wants to collect them, and he won't be happy until he has a sample image and dna code of every single possible tyranid mutation that has ever existed. Which to a mortal might seem impossible. But remember it's trayzn. Time is the one thing he has plenty of. Also, don't forget he has usikar creed in his museum. Not in stasis but actually alive and wandering around. Because he likes the company of cadias' most famous madlad.

[@DeceiverIX]

Dude... Nids coming back via spores from Orc dna is 100% possible. And absolutely awful.

[@dakotawharton]

That is absolutely horrifying. Octarius Nids making it so that warriors and gaunts just spore respawn on battlefields instead of being dragged back to spawning pools and reborn then re deployed saving biomass and time.

[@gajeel9798]

Holy hell how bout noooooo spore nids sounds like a mega problem

[@SelkieTears]

you know what gets me about the tyranids? we often see them from an astartes superpower galaxy-wide perspective and so we see them at a macro scale. we kinda forget EXACTLY how horrifying they are cuz the dudes fighting them are SOMEWHAT more equipped to deal with them. they're still scary, but their terror lies in their sheer volume and adaptability. in one book, i think it's one of the ravenor ones iirc - baseline humans (albeit of the inquisitorial type) encounter ONE tyranid. ONE*. and you see them from a normal-ish human perspective, and its like having to fight a fucking xenomorph. it's bigger than them, it's got all the tyranid gnarliness, its faster than them, its absolute nightmare fuel. and you kinda remember that oh shit, yeah, these bugs are something else entirely. and thats what's so, SO good about them *feel free to fact check me on this, its been a while since i've read any 40k books

[@anthracis1871]

Found you guys 2 days ago and binged all of it, even made it onto Patreon. Keep doing what you do, love it.

[@darmocat]

Wait, so is the Tyranids only weakness that if you attack them hard enough in the scouting phase; they'll decide it's not worth it and move on to another world? Because being slow to maneuver doesn't seem like that bad a deal when you can just adapt to whatever you're fighting against.

[@halfknight2310]

Well. Sometimes they will keep trying. But if you fight the war of attrition for long enough. There is a chance that they will just leave. If they see that the cost to Benefit ratio isn’t right for them. Eg, battle with necrons vs tynarids. The current 4th tyranic war has already began. And the high lord of terra, lord Liantus managed to repel 3 hive fleet tendrils. Barely. He made the tyranids so angry, they sent a norm emissary to kill him. The norn emissary killed 6 custodians on its own. Also, we are also in trouble. Cause now. The tyranids have their form of a brother moon from dead space.

[@damianbouras]

The thing is, we don't know the size of the true Hive fleet and the time scales at which the Tyranids plan because they are so alien. What seems like Victory against the Tyranids might just be a first phase of invasion defeated, now they know what they're dealing with so they send in the big bugs, arriving 1000 years later having that time to adept new bioforms. Or 10000 years, or 100000 years. We have no way of knowing when or if we were safe when the enemy comes from far outside the galaxy and we can't leave that Galaxy

[@idigamstudios7463]

@@damianbouras They are running from the only thing that could scare them: an empty universe they've already scoured.

[@nimander5483]

There is one way to seriously harm a Hive Fleet. Wait until the Hive fleet has started the full invasion of a planet, then Nuke / Virus Bomb / Any other Exterminatus available the planet. This massively weakens the Hive Fleet because it expends a lot of energy without being able to recoup the loss.

[@Taldoz]

@@halfknight2310 I'm sorry they have a *what*

[@TheInfernion]

This is an amazing description of the nids, havent seen any explanation even touch the terror, confusion, and bewilderment this does. The way you explained their method of fast speed travel combined with the shadow in the warp messing with the planet followed by the hopeless nature of the invasion, the subtle hints at genestealer cults and the sabotage. All in all it was incredible. You need to write and dictate 40k stories, properly terrifying.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The overloaded beacon signaled the nids to approach, but astronomicon keeps them coming. I think that the tyranids hunt by waiting for a galaxy to get so full of life it becomes a natural astronomicon, the sheer ammount of souls blazing out a beacon. The explosion drew them in early, but undercooked food is still food. Edit: i said souls but i meant warp based mental activity, the chatter or living biengs reflecting and echoing through the warp drawing in the predators

[@Typhoonatlas]

Assuming that the life have souls - tau, animals, etc might not have souls

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

@@Typhoonatlas tau do, just dimmed to prevent chaos corruption like the Votann. Animals also have souls, its just the human/eldar souls are very reactive with the warp, making them appear much brighter.

[@Typhoonatlas]

@cthulhluftagn3812 what happens to animal souls? What about loyal imperial subjects? Do they default to slanesh?

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

@@Typhoonatlas animal souls most likley dissapate into warpstuff, imperial souls are.. well we dont really know what happanes to a soul not touched by chaos. To my memory we have never seen evidence of a afterlife, as we would understand one at least. The only souls that default to slaanesh are eldar btw, they where jusy that horny..

[@BT293HG]

Which beacon?

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The tyranids have only been in the galaxy for 200 years. This means that, thanks to the size and complexity of the imperial beaucracy, the majority of the emperium dosent know that tyranids exist.

[@Thiccremoch162]

Awww yeah, the Tyranids are one of my two favorite factions. The Tau are my other favorite, so I’m excited for y’all to talk about them soon!

[@s.s.swankking67]

I watched a lot of movies and shows about getting invaded and honestly getting invaded by Tyranids is just downright terrifying

[@brabdonleishman4411]

My favorite theory on this is that they are either the last of the old ones or the product of the last one that fled the galaxy and are returning to start everything again from nothing

[@mr.revrac5602]

They didn’t care about the galaxy till the pharos beacon told them there was food

[@warboss3686]

@@mr.revrac5602 that’s another theory that has the most plausibility

[@mr.revrac5602]

@@warboss3686 its not a theory. Its literally stated in the book pharos

[@warboss3686]

@@mr.revrac5602 yeah and the Eldar stated that they were created by the silent king and one of the codexes states the possibility of the Tyranids are running away from some greater…welcome to Warhammer Lore where consistency means literally nothing

[@mr.revrac5602]

@@warboss3686 where do the eldar say that they were created by the silent king. Nothing treats them running as an actual possibility. There’s absolutely consistency some ideas are repeated over and over again and others aren’t. Just because one outlier contradicts mountains of evidence does not disprove it. If you don’t understand that I cant help you.

[@Heidao623]

I wanna imagine that after the Doom of Malan'tai became a proven concept of high end psyker combat and soul eating, they're just waiting for an opportunity to offload a shit ton of it towards anyone important, like the Emperor or the Primarchs

[@vinccool96]

Doom of Malan'tai also needs to feed on psykers, so maybe they're sending psyckers to repliscas of it

[@AmaiarAiramand]

I always thought that Tyranids lose in all the stories they appear on, because those are the only stories that can be passed around: the ones from survivors. When Tyranids win, there are no witnesses. No stories to be told...

[@lornbaker1083]

You are one hundred percent correct. The only stories of tyrannids come from their defeat. When they win no one is surviving to tell the tale.

[@itsmefirefox]

That's Crazzy to think about

[@HTWW]

Same sentiment is expressed with regard to Necrons. In 'Caves of Ice' (Ciaphas Series), for one example.

[@atriumgamesmore4336]

MICHIGAAAAAAAN (Midwest). I love this show

[@ikhcabat]

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