Space Marine 2 is less than a week away! (if you paid like $10 extra lmao) SO today I'm talking about the main enemy of the game! I swear to the emperor if they get replaced by chaos like the orks did in Space Marine 1 I'm going to go INSANE.
You going to play the campaign solo or co-op? Me and my friends share a single brain cell and all 3 of us ended up buying the Ultra Edition without informing one another and finding out days later
@@catcadev they coulda added more ork enemies if they went full greenskin, but ya I actually like the plot of SM1. But I’d be disappointed if they did the same exact thing for the sequel
Resident tyranid expert here: - The Tyranids were attracted because of Pharos' destruction if I recall, not it's activation. The death of the Pharos' powerful prisoner (spoilers) caused a huge release of energy which the Tyranids sensed at the edge of the void. While Tyranids are generally attracted to psychic stuff, they've actually shown an overall reluctance to hit Terra and the Astronomicon. Leviathan had the chance to do so when it came up from under the galaxy, but it appears like it's been taking detours and scenic routes. - Tyranids being solely motivated by hunger is both true and not true. "Hunger" for the Tyranids doesn't just mean eating worlds, it also means improving their biology by absorbing everyone's genetic material to create the ultimate creatures. The Tyranids view themselves as predators, not just dine-and-dashers. - It's worth talking about tyranid biology really quickly, because it's really complex. Tyranid bodies are generally composed of three main features: the carapace, the exoskeleton, and the muscle. The carapace is a dense chitin, roughly comparable to ceramite (5th edition codex, 6th edition codex) and is used as the heaviest form of armor. The exoskeleton ironically includes the internal skeleton as well as a dense layer of chitinous cartilage, with properties like plastic. Now at times this can be comparable to ceramite (6th edition codex) but usually it's not, it's just for holding the body together. Finally, tyranid bodies are moved by thick cable-like sinews, tendons, and muscles. And this is just the surface level. Trifurcated compound eyes and memory-eating tendrils are used by stealth forms, while self-regenerating, diamond-hard, monomolecular chitin swords are used by warriors and hive tyrants. Tyranid biology is built to fight against enemies with living metal and adamantium skin, and they're still winning. - Tyranid evolution actually isn't all that speedy. I mean yes, it's fast for natural evolution, but they don't usually evolve a counter to every problem within minutes. As noted in Warriors of Ultramar and the 5th edition codex, tyranid evolution comes at the cost of bioform size, since it can take months or years to grow a bigger monster that meets the newest standards. As such, gaunts usually test trial the latest upgrades and the Hive Mind will slowly implement them across the hive fleet. Still, the Tyranids aren't evolving to a perfect state, either. Per the 5th codex, Tyranid evolution can have notable side effects which means they'll never just "evolve" to be bulletproof. - Actually, there's a lot of evidence that tyranids themselves don't all throw themselves in the reclamation pools. While they sometimes do, tyranids get stronger with age (5th edition) and rippers have been known to be taken up directly to the hive ships themselves without being gooped (Imperial Armour 4, I think). In addition, all the way back in 1991 for Space Fleet (the ancestor to Battlefleet Gothic) the tyranids had troop haulers for ferrying ground forces up and down. They also grow eggs (IA4) and hive ships are notably full of fully grown, chemically comatose troops ranging from warriors to bio-titans (Codex 10th). - Devourers are apparently inspired by a fusion of fungi and missile pod (White Dwarf 495). So if you see an apache heli lighting up a target with a missile barrage, imagine that but the missile wants to eat you. - One gaunt that's cool to mention is Von Ryan's Leaper. It's a gaunt that is inspired by both the pack-hunting nature of hormagaunts with the ambush tactics of the Deathleaper. There's also the neurogaunt, which is an underdeveloped gaunt used purely to extend the range of synapse for commanders. - Carnifexes are most often called "living battering rams" and they're most equivalent to a dreadnought. As such, they're more like super infantry than tanks and this is reflected in their loadouts, which can be rather timid. - *Tyrant* guard are indeed suggested to be made using space marine DNA (they used to look a lot more like Astartes) but Hive Guard are not. Hive Guard are more like sentry turrets for nests and pools, and tyrant guard are the one's that defend Hive Tyrants. Tyrant Guard are suggested to be made from Astartes DNA due to their increased durability and fused ribcages. - To put into perspective how powerful the Tyranids are, Behemoth attacked the galaxy with one big fleet of a few thousand ships. Kraken, Gorgon, Jormungandr etc each had multiple fleets of thousands of ships. Leviathan currently has 4 big fleets of several million ships each, three of which (Nautilon, Promethor, Grendyllus) are now heading for Terra and the fourth one just finished mopping up Octarius (RIP the Baal Tendril, got hit by the Great Rift point-blank and then the Indomitus Crusade showed up. They're still around, just not millions-strong anymore). And the Eldar still claim in Warzone: Valedor that Leviathan is just a scouting fleet, and even Szarekh the Silent King of the Necrons thinks the full tyranid threat is beyond anything he's seen (and that dude uses a god to power his throne while wearing its skin as a cloak). Edit: Whatever you do, never let anyone convince you that the nids are running from something, they're explicitly not.
@@Uguguabbabaa We explicitly see the Hive Mind's perspective in the books Devastation of Baal and the tyranid's perspective in Pharos. Even amongst other gods, it sees itself as an apex predator without equal, but had already devoured everything else it found. It was content to just drift sleepily in the void until it learned that life existed in our galaxy, at which point it began it's approach.
I think it's also not true that hive fleet kronos can eat demons. That is quite likely the goal it seeks but currently it relies on other tyranid fleets to soften worlds up so that it can resupply.
I always loved the crackpot theories on what the tyranids were running from though. My favourite was that they were running from Dark Age of Technology humans that left the galaxy during that time period and are on their way back. The last couple of decades have been solidifying the lore too much maybe...
honestly one of the main reasons why I love the nids is that they are not only scary visually and have the lore to back it up. One of my favourite stories of the nids is "Hive Fleet Horror" and basically a low level psyker gets taken onto a bio ship and while hes basically waiting to die, He uses his psyker powers to tap into the fucking hivemind and learns that it knows of the concepts of honor, faith, fear, etc. but just straight up doesn't care and sees them as weaknesses. Making me think that they make their weapons and way of war in general is just to purely shatter a planets morale making it easy biomass.
Oh yeah the tyranid hive mind’s actually mentality is cool. I didn’t know of this story, but I think in another the hive mind thinks of itself as literally the best and able to defeat anything and then at Baal Dante peers into the hive for a bit and realizes the anguish of its constant hunger. There’s a pretty interesting and grim dynamic of an unbeatable apex predator never being able to hunt enough. Perhaps it does way with those things since it needs to eat. I like getting little glimpses into the hive but never full explanations, fits the eldritch theming. Thanks for watching!
When the Silent King of the Necrons, yknow the guy who shattered GODS and keeps them in Pokeballs to yeet at his enemies when shit goes sideways, says "This (the Nid fleet) is the biggest threat in the Galaxy to my people", yknow this is FUCKED. The Silent King literally came out of a millions of years long depression walk to come back and fight the Tyranids.
Right? The fact that there are untold trillions, and all they do is eat, and really, you can only delay or avert their endless advance is terrifying. Imagine, as a space marine chapter, even if they killed 1000 bugs per marine, that’s still 1,000,000 bugs gone… WHICH ISN’T EVEN CLOSE TO ENOUGH
Yeah, I also really like how they basically took the alien tagline of “in space no one can hear your screams” to a planetary level. That with their living weapons would make them one of the scariest things to fight imo. Plus that little thing where they drop a bunch of Nids and basically digest everyone or whatever. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk It doesn't help that a week before they showed up everybody started getting the heeby jeebies. And then half their bald friends stabbed them in the back when they arrived.
@@KrakDuk I also really like that while the main fleet keeps the planets defenders busy the rest of the swarm infects the worlds eco system on every level and starts devouring. Even if you win you will never be sure wether somewhere underground or in the oceans of the planet the sext threat is brewing. That combined with the insidious tactics employed by genestealers etc. will turn the whole ecosystem against you effectively creating a deathworld. Imagine an orc infestation but worse… It is quite funny that the desolate state of the ecology of most human worlds mitigates this problem to a degree but thriving jungle planets or former craftworlds are majorly f**cked if something like that happens.
I personally subscribe to the idea that the Tyranids have eaten most of the locally observable galaxies already, the Imperium just haven't noticed yet due to light speed lag and the encirclement is total. The lights have already gone out.
They’re also fantastically easy to homebrew. My Tyranid splinter fleet ate too many Death Company during the Devastation of Baal and contracted the Black Rage. It’s fun times for all involved.
I love my buggos. I think the reason they “always lose” is that any battle where we are reading is because that was a victory. Every other battle against the Tyranids no one survived to tell the tale and all records were lost with the planet. Besides, in Dante’s book the Blood Angels lose to the Tyranids and have to flee the system. They even lost a dreadnaught during the fighting
Ya I just think it’s a product of the nature of the setting. The Nids can destroy a thousand worlds but a lot of people will see anything less than eating the entire galaxy as a loss. The “not dying” goal of most other factions is a bit less ambitious than chaos and the Nids.
@@KrakDuk I think the main problem for many tyranid lovers is that you most often just get told how many worlds this swarm consumed but it is seldom shown in a novel that the defenders loose their actual main battle. The good guys win in the end which at least for me just doesn‘t scratch this grimdark itch. Subvert the expectations and let the chapter commander get brutally slaughtered by the swarm lord. Let lictors eat his brain and use genestealers to spread the dirty secrets of the chapter. Let the inquisition do the job for you and exploit the dysfunctionality of the empire. How cool would it be to get a beaten chapter turn renegade because of this just to become ultimate tyranid hunter zealots🤩 The hive mind is intelligent enough to turn their prey against itself just to reap the torn battlefield. Employing a tactic like this would absolutely terrify chapters like the blood or dark angels among many more. This is just an example by the way but I would love to not just get told how insidiously intelligent the hivemind is but to see it performing on the main stage.
Don't ever apologize for the tyranid jokes. The line cutting and the jean stealer bit feels like the purest representation of your channel. Aside from "this is no longer a circus, this is for serious"
3:12 I unironically thought that was my old house's kitchen for a split-second and it scared the shit out of me until I looked out the window in the picture.
Lmaooo sorry for the scare dude, I needed a kitchen pic and yours was on the way home😞 Joking aside that’s pretty funny, I just got a random pic off google
the really scary parts of Tyranids 1. they are most likely a single entity that splits into armies of beings (they collect biomass, including their own dead, to craft new tyranids that get sentients from connection to the hive mind) 2. they most likely have the entire milky way outnumbered (they've had several fleets enter the milky way through all 4 corners meaning they have us at least surrounded in space if not all the rest of space) and 3. the hive mind itself is a god level entity who can block influence from the warp on a massive scale from any position their fleet occupies even the emperor can't do that
Space Marine 2 is my first time getting into Warhammer and I am so sucked in! All i’ve been watching lately is nonstop 40k lore videos and yours are some of my favorites!! I love the animation that you use to go along with your lore explanations because I’m a big visual learner, so thank you a ton!😊
Tyranids are incredibly cool because of the endgame scenarios they create for the setting. Like the Necrons holding off the Tyranids besieging a galaxy-wide null zone for countless aeons until the last of their finite race dies for the final time. Or the Orkz doing an Octarius and becoming a very violent symbiote/biomass farm attached to the side of the extragalactic Tyranid swarm. Or the Drukhari hiding out in the webway, making increasingly risky raids into Tyranid-occupied realspace to grab what few specimens they can to live another day while the hivemind begins to peel back the layers of their fortress one cut at a time. I even have a little scenario in my evil brain where the Tyranids arrive ten million years early and have to contend with the Eldar Empire. Overall, 10/10, peak bug activity.
I think the Orks idea is going to screw them. If they get too much action they will revert to Krorks and become a far scarier enemy than the nids are prepared for.
Funnily enough in one of the books. There is a Genestealer Cult hidden in the Imperial Palace Underhive on Terra that links to an ancient webway gate deep underground. You can get to Comorragh that way. The problem is that Gaye is now flooded from cracks into the warp and a influx of Tyranid Genestealer Biophorms also flooding in. Did I mention they also managed to merc a Custodian and NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING PARTY.
I dont usually watch warhammer videos because all I know about it is when my dad would paint and I'd watch him and just ask random stuffs, but one of my favorites were always the Tyranids, thank you for this video! And I love the way you explain everything, makes it easy to understand :D
3:00 Sir I would like to point you in the direction of the caterpillars in Hawaii. They have evolved to be carnivores, they hunt other insects and have developed a claw like pincers to kill prey. Some have even started to use silk to create “traps” for other insects. It’s a wild ride.
Mate, I really enjoy all of your videos, your humour and animation in particular. Keep it up and without doubt you will beat a big 40k channel in no time. Keep smashing it 👍
Found your channel getting hyped for Space Marine 2. I’m new to the verse and have been binging your videos. I’m scared that new obsession is taking root 😂
Tyranids are cool. Unfortunately they are stuck with the chaos on the can't win zone because if they did the entire setting would need major rewriting. So the most of consequence our favourite buggy boys have done is nibble a bit on Ultramar and pose threateningly with their new meatball moon.
Everyone's so knowledgeable in the comments so I just want to share that, in spanish, hormagaunts and termagaunts are thought to be named after ants (hormigas) and termites (termitas). That's it.
hello! I am a new fan of 40k because of space marine 2 and have been loving this channel so far, it makes the super intimidating amount of lore seem really manageable :) thank you for that! If possible, could we get a video about the Horus Heresy? I don't know how big of a video that would have to be because it seems like a pretty huge thing, but it would be super helpful for people like me! Love the videos, keep it up :)
@@urbane6028 awesome! It’s cool how the new game is getting people into the hobby, glad you like my channel! Yes definitely sometime in the future! I’m not the most familiar with 30k since I like 40K more so it might be a bit so I can read some more books and research, but I definitely wanna talk about the heresy more. Thanks for watching!
Tyranids are a Biological STC. They have templates for different scenarios and create Nids to match that. The Evolution is less actual evolution but more the hivemind evaluating the current templates not working and making the next wave match the new scenario. There was a great Tau v Nid story where the tau won due to updating and cycling there tech quicker than the waves of bio forms could update
I really like the theory it’s the golden throne astronomicon that’s leading the tyrannies into the milky way cause 1 it’s the biggest beacon for warp travel in the galaxy and 2 the only way the imperium could stop more bugs coming would be getting rid of their most important and sacred thing
I like to think that they saw the war in heaven go down with all the reality-bending madness that went on there, and then took 65 million years to get here. Intergalactic distances are big, and I like the idea that the Tyranids we are fighting are the weak, prehistoric ancestors of what they have become in the time it took them to get here.
Adeptis Mechanicus after playing Halo: "We got a plan to stop the Tyranids..." Inquisition: "We like the religious symbolism and the killing. But does it have to kill everyone?"
Damn Americans have a whole day for that!? We just pump babies out naturally Is it like when the turtles crawl to the sea getting attacked by seagulls but instead y’all crawl to oil in the Middle East? Edit: I’m British, just saying this so you can tailor your response
Another awesome lore video! I just discovered your channel a couple days ago and I think your videos are really fun and captivating- keep up the great work!
So far as I understand it, there's two possibilities as to what the Tyranids entering the Milky Way are: a.) As mentioned in the video, possibly a vanguard force to much larger hive fleets. b.) The last legs of the Tyranids, which at this point are mostly just dead overused husks drifting in intergalactic space towards the Milky Way. Also, the only thing that keeps the other factions relevant compared to Tyranids is that no matter how OP the Tyranids themselves are, if any of the other factions completes their main questline, they will end up even more OP than the Tyranids could ever possibly be, and would wipe the floor with the Hive Mind.
Intro reminded me of how someone would describe scorpions to someone that doesn't know what a scorpion is. "Scorpions are mother nature's ultimate screw you to humanity by combining lobsters, spiders, hornets, and nightmares."
Imagine a bug that carries around another bug shooting it like a gun and the ammo is more bugs. Also it's the size of a gorilla with telepathy. Basically Tyranids.
Astropath: "hey I think that planet connections just dropped. Think it's just space comcast/verizon outtages again?" "Yeah maybe or it's Nids, let's send some guys to check it out" - no one ever
Splendid Work, Mr Duk. I also saw the Space Marine 2 Roadmap shows that new enemies will be getting added. Will Focus pull a Star Wars? (Somehow, Warboss Grimskull Returned)
Something really important to remember: The Tyranids never come from the same direction, much less location. The chances that the next Hive Fleet pops in right on top of Terra is just as likely as the other places they've appeared, they could already have surrounded the Milky Way and are just trickling in
Maybe evolution hasn't given anything on Earth gun hands... but is has given us a chemical flamethrower/explosive butt. See the Bombardier Beetle! It sprays a combination of two different chemicals from it's abdomen that when mixed together create an actual explosive reaction. It's an incredible feat of evolution.. as the chemicals have to be stored separately - so how did it even begin to mix them together and shoot them out without killing itself somewhere along the way in the line of evolution is fascinating. Anyway, awesome video! I love the art slides - very endearing in a universe full of grimdark insanity ;)
Xenomorphs are my favorite fictional aliens/monsters, so I tend to like anything that resembles them. When I was getting to know WH40k (thanks to TheRussianBadger and Bricky), I took one look at the Tyranids and said “those are my favorites”.
Tyranids are the reason i got into 40k, the’re my favorite faction, and I’ve been collecting them and basically only them for years, I find them a lot more interesting than the space marines, both visually, and lore-wise
I'm of the opinion that the Tyranids are one of those 'cool ideas' that didn't get thought through. Every one at GW was, "Wow! Aliens! But better!" They didn't realize that the 'nids were almost impossible to stop and they're really going to have to crank up the scriptwriter's intervention unless they have a 'Dead Galaxy 40,000' planned.
@@Red-Check-Mark That would piss the 40K fans off the charts. After decades of fandom and probably thousands of dollars spent on their hobby the fans would not react positively. (Imagine their heads spinning around and around while their brains fountain out of their mouths.)
@robgraham5697 This would happen with any faction "winning", so GW has written themselves into a state of impossibility. Eventually, Warhammer has to end. Nothing last forever.
Space Marine 2 is less than a week away! (if you paid like $10 extra lmao) SO today I'm talking about the main enemy of the game! I swear to the emperor if they get replaced by chaos like the orks did in Space Marine 1 I'm going to go INSANE.
You going to play the campaign solo or co-op? Me and my friends share a single brain cell and all 3 of us ended up buying the Ultra Edition without informing one another and finding out days later
Well I mean, the orks were getting a bit boring when Chaos showed up
@@catcadev they coulda added more ork enemies if they went full greenskin, but ya I actually like the plot of SM1. But I’d be disappointed if they did the same exact thing for the sequel
Guys, no one tell Krakduk about the 1k sons in the latest trailer….
@@warp-smithSHHHHH
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The Heavy Bug Spray.
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We heard you were talking shit brother.
The ammo container is a Giant can of raid
I'm bringing the _big_ can of promethium!
"What in the Emperor is that!?!?"
"A TARGET!"
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Resident tyranid expert here:
- The Tyranids were attracted because of Pharos' destruction if I recall, not it's activation. The death of the Pharos' powerful prisoner (spoilers) caused a huge release of energy which the Tyranids sensed at the edge of the void. While Tyranids are generally attracted to psychic stuff, they've actually shown an overall reluctance to hit Terra and the Astronomicon. Leviathan had the chance to do so when it came up from under the galaxy, but it appears like it's been taking detours and scenic routes.
- Tyranids being solely motivated by hunger is both true and not true. "Hunger" for the Tyranids doesn't just mean eating worlds, it also means improving their biology by absorbing everyone's genetic material to create the ultimate creatures. The Tyranids view themselves as predators, not just dine-and-dashers.
- It's worth talking about tyranid biology really quickly, because it's really complex. Tyranid bodies are generally composed of three main features: the carapace, the exoskeleton, and the muscle. The carapace is a dense chitin, roughly comparable to ceramite (5th edition codex, 6th edition codex) and is used as the heaviest form of armor. The exoskeleton ironically includes the internal skeleton as well as a dense layer of chitinous cartilage, with properties like plastic. Now at times this can be comparable to ceramite (6th edition codex) but usually it's not, it's just for holding the body together. Finally, tyranid bodies are moved by thick cable-like sinews, tendons, and muscles. And this is just the surface level. Trifurcated compound eyes and memory-eating tendrils are used by stealth forms, while self-regenerating, diamond-hard, monomolecular chitin swords are used by warriors and hive tyrants. Tyranid biology is built to fight against enemies with living metal and adamantium skin, and they're still winning.
- Tyranid evolution actually isn't all that speedy. I mean yes, it's fast for natural evolution, but they don't usually evolve a counter to every problem within minutes. As noted in Warriors of Ultramar and the 5th edition codex, tyranid evolution comes at the cost of bioform size, since it can take months or years to grow a bigger monster that meets the newest standards. As such, gaunts usually test trial the latest upgrades and the Hive Mind will slowly implement them across the hive fleet. Still, the Tyranids aren't evolving to a perfect state, either. Per the 5th codex, Tyranid evolution can have notable side effects which means they'll never just "evolve" to be bulletproof.
- Actually, there's a lot of evidence that tyranids themselves don't all throw themselves in the reclamation pools. While they sometimes do, tyranids get stronger with age (5th edition) and rippers have been known to be taken up directly to the hive ships themselves without being gooped (Imperial Armour 4, I think). In addition, all the way back in 1991 for Space Fleet (the ancestor to Battlefleet Gothic) the tyranids had troop haulers for ferrying ground forces up and down. They also grow eggs (IA4) and hive ships are notably full of fully grown, chemically comatose troops ranging from warriors to bio-titans (Codex 10th).
- Devourers are apparently inspired by a fusion of fungi and missile pod (White Dwarf 495). So if you see an apache heli lighting up a target with a missile barrage, imagine that but the missile wants to eat you.
- One gaunt that's cool to mention is Von Ryan's Leaper. It's a gaunt that is inspired by both the pack-hunting nature of hormagaunts with the ambush tactics of the Deathleaper. There's also the neurogaunt, which is an underdeveloped gaunt used purely to extend the range of synapse for commanders.
- Carnifexes are most often called "living battering rams" and they're most equivalent to a dreadnought. As such, they're more like super infantry than tanks and this is reflected in their loadouts, which can be rather timid.
- *Tyrant* guard are indeed suggested to be made using space marine DNA (they used to look a lot more like Astartes) but Hive Guard are not. Hive Guard are more like sentry turrets for nests and pools, and tyrant guard are the one's that defend Hive Tyrants. Tyrant Guard are suggested to be made from Astartes DNA due to their increased durability and fused ribcages.
- To put into perspective how powerful the Tyranids are, Behemoth attacked the galaxy with one big fleet of a few thousand ships. Kraken, Gorgon, Jormungandr etc each had multiple fleets of thousands of ships. Leviathan currently has 4 big fleets of several million ships each, three of which (Nautilon, Promethor, Grendyllus) are now heading for Terra and the fourth one just finished mopping up Octarius (RIP the Baal Tendril, got hit by the Great Rift point-blank and then the Indomitus Crusade showed up. They're still around, just not millions-strong anymore). And the Eldar still claim in Warzone: Valedor that Leviathan is just a scouting fleet, and even Szarekh the Silent King of the Necrons thinks the full tyranid threat is beyond anything he's seen (and that dude uses a god to power his throne while wearing its skin as a cloak).
Edit: Whatever you do, never let anyone convince you that the nids are running from something, they're explicitly not.
Neat
Where is it explicitly said the running theory is wrong?
@@Uguguabbabaa We explicitly see the Hive Mind's perspective in the books Devastation of Baal and the tyranid's perspective in Pharos. Even amongst other gods, it sees itself as an apex predator without equal, but had already devoured everything else it found. It was content to just drift sleepily in the void until it learned that life existed in our galaxy, at which point it began it's approach.
@@andrewdowns9047 Interesting, had never heard about this.
Kinda wish it was kept ambiguous, it made for a fun bit of lore.
I think it's also not true that hive fleet kronos can eat demons. That is quite likely the goal it seeks but currently it relies on other tyranid fleets to soften worlds up so that it can resupply.
I always loved the crackpot theories on what the tyranids were running from though.
My favourite was that they were running from Dark Age of Technology humans that left the galaxy during that time period and are on their way back.
The last couple of decades have been solidifying the lore too much maybe...
honestly one of the main reasons why I love the nids is that they are not only scary visually and have the lore to back it up. One of my favourite stories of the nids is "Hive Fleet Horror" and basically a low level psyker gets taken onto a bio ship and while hes basically waiting to die, He uses his psyker powers to tap into the fucking hivemind and learns that it knows of the concepts of honor, faith, fear, etc. but just straight up doesn't care and sees them as weaknesses. Making me think that they make their weapons and way of war in general is just to purely shatter a planets morale making it easy biomass.
Oh yeah the tyranid hive mind’s actually mentality is cool. I didn’t know of this story, but I think in another the hive mind thinks of itself as literally the best and able to defeat anything and then at Baal Dante peers into the hive for a bit and realizes the anguish of its constant hunger.
There’s a pretty interesting and grim dynamic of an unbeatable apex predator never being able to hunt enough. Perhaps it does way with those things since it needs to eat.
I like getting little glimpses into the hive but never full explanations, fits the eldritch theming.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDukare you talking about the death leaper or the Red terror?
When the Silent King of the Necrons, yknow the guy who shattered GODS and keeps them in Pokeballs to yeet at his enemies when shit goes sideways, says "This (the Nid fleet) is the biggest threat in the Galaxy to my people", yknow this is FUCKED. The Silent King literally came out of a millions of years long depression walk to come back and fight the Tyranids.
"Oh! The Nids passed by our planet!
Uhh... Oh... The Nids passed by our planet... " Guardsman probably
The concept of them showing up, being an inevetable death is the most grim dark concept out there.
Right? The fact that there are untold trillions, and all they do is eat, and really, you can only delay or avert their endless advance is terrifying. Imagine, as a space marine chapter, even if they killed 1000 bugs per marine, that’s still 1,000,000 bugs gone… WHICH ISN’T EVEN CLOSE TO ENOUGH
I got into 40k cause of tyranids and then read the lore only to learn they exist to get killed and beaten by space marines :(
Yeah, I also really like how they basically took the alien tagline of “in space no one can hear your screams” to a planetary level.
That with their living weapons would make them one of the scariest things to fight imo. Plus that little thing where they drop a bunch of Nids and basically digest everyone or whatever.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk It doesn't help that a week before they showed up everybody started getting the heeby jeebies. And then half their bald friends stabbed them in the back when they arrived.
@@KrakDuk I also really like that while the main fleet keeps the planets defenders busy the rest of the swarm infects the worlds eco system on every level and starts devouring. Even if you win you will never be sure wether somewhere underground or in the oceans of the planet the sext threat is brewing. That combined with the insidious tactics employed by genestealers etc. will turn the whole ecosystem against you effectively creating a deathworld.
Imagine an orc infestation but worse…
It is quite funny that the desolate state of the ecology of most human worlds mitigates this problem to a degree but thriving jungle planets or former craftworlds are majorly f**cked if something like that happens.
The tyranids don't wear pants because the jeanstealers keep hoarding them
Hungry bois get a lil nibbley every now and again, who doesn't?
polishing my heavy flamethrower as I watch this video :)
Excellent, we must learn this enemy to eradicate them
Sadly Heavy Flamer is only available in one campaign mission😢
Sadface tactical marines no get flamethrowers
This duck has single handedly got me from knowing barely anything about 40K to becoming a fan
@@TheDJZ123 Taking notes; Ducks turn people into Fans. Got it.
Hey dude that’s awesome to hear! Welcome to the hobby
Same. Just got into 40k myself. Learning as much as I can before I play it! ❤😂🎉
I personally subscribe to the idea that the Tyranids have eaten most of the locally observable galaxies already, the Imperium just haven't noticed yet due to light speed lag and the encirclement is total.
The lights have already gone out.
Well… that implies they eat the stars, which I don’t think we have seen them do?
They’re also fantastically easy to homebrew. My Tyranid splinter fleet ate too many Death Company during the Devastation of Baal and contracted the Black Rage. It’s fun times for all involved.
omg your nids are literally the meme of the hormagaunts screaming Horus!
You can tame nids?
I love my buggos. I think the reason they “always lose” is that any battle where we are reading is because that was a victory. Every other battle against the Tyranids no one survived to tell the tale and all records were lost with the planet.
Besides, in Dante’s book the Blood Angels lose to the Tyranids and have to flee the system. They even lost a dreadnaught during the fighting
The Ibram Gaunt joke, got me. well played.
Finally, the superior faction.
Perfect unity, perfect numbers, perfect adaptability.
Now if only GW wrote them like the threat they are.
At least they get to beat up space marines every now and again.
Ya I just think it’s a product of the nature of the setting. The Nids can destroy a thousand worlds but a lot of people will see anything less than eating the entire galaxy as a loss.
The “not dying” goal of most other factions is a bit less ambitious than chaos and the Nids.
@@KrakDuk I think the main problem for many tyranid lovers is that you most often just get told how many worlds this swarm consumed but it is seldom shown in a novel that the defenders loose their actual main battle.
The good guys win in the end which at least for me just doesn‘t scratch this grimdark itch.
Subvert the expectations and let the chapter commander get brutally slaughtered by the swarm lord. Let lictors eat his brain and use genestealers to spread the dirty secrets of the chapter. Let the inquisition do the job for you and exploit the dysfunctionality of the empire.
How cool would it be to get a beaten chapter turn renegade because of this just to become ultimate tyranid hunter zealots🤩
The hive mind is intelligent enough to turn their prey against itself just to reap the torn battlefield.
Employing a tactic like this would absolutely terrify chapters like the blood or dark angels among many more.
This is just an example by the way but I would love to not just get told how insidiously intelligent the hivemind is but to see it performing on the main stage.
Devastation of Baal did it pretty well
I like big bugs and I cannot lie. The swordsbrothers can’t deny.
When a bug walks in with its itty bitty waist, & a gun right in your face you get SWARMED.
This dude is one of the view reasons I got into Warhammer, I love the Militarium and I love them even more because of this dude
This video is one of the best, if not THE best tyranid videos. Which, as the name suggests, is a video about tyranids.
Don't ever apologize for the tyranid jokes. The line cutting and the jean stealer bit feels like the purest representation of your channel. Aside from "this is no longer a circus, this is for serious"
I love that the blank is jurgen :D
3:12 I unironically thought that was my old house's kitchen for a split-second and it scared the shit out of me until I looked out the window in the picture.
Lmaooo sorry for the scare dude, I needed a kitchen pic and yours was on the way home😞
Joking aside that’s pretty funny, I just got a random pic off google
the really scary parts of Tyranids 1. they are most likely a single entity that splits into armies of beings (they collect biomass, including their own dead, to craft new tyranids that get sentients from connection to the hive mind) 2. they most likely have the entire milky way outnumbered (they've had several fleets enter the milky way through all 4 corners meaning they have us at least surrounded in space if not all the rest of space) and 3. the hive mind itself is a god level entity who can block influence from the warp on a massive scale from any position their fleet occupies even the emperor can't do that
Space Marine 2 is my first time getting into Warhammer and I am so sucked in!
All i’ve been watching lately is nonstop 40k lore videos and yours are some of my favorites!! I love the animation that you use to go along with your lore explanations because I’m a big visual learner, so thank you a ton!😊
You have easily become my favorite 40k UA-camr! Fun and interesting videos. Keep up the good work, FOR THE EMPEROR!
lets go, here for my favourite faction
Hey Krak,
just wanted to let you know that you are super awesome and your 40k videos fit a perfect niche of funny and interesting. Keep it up King!
Aye thanks a lot dude glad you like em!
I appreciate the mix of retro design elements on the termagants.
@@Leofilmperson someone noticed😳🥳
@@KrakDuk I have some of them.
This Tyranid Explained video, as it's name suggests,explains the tyranids.
Tyranids are incredibly cool because of the endgame scenarios they create for the setting.
Like the Necrons holding off the Tyranids besieging a galaxy-wide null zone for countless aeons until the last of their finite race dies for the final time.
Or the Orkz doing an Octarius and becoming a very violent symbiote/biomass farm attached to the side of the extragalactic Tyranid swarm.
Or the Drukhari hiding out in the webway, making increasingly risky raids into Tyranid-occupied realspace to grab what few specimens they can to live another day while the hivemind begins to peel back the layers of their fortress one cut at a time.
I even have a little scenario in my evil brain where the Tyranids arrive ten million years early and have to contend with the Eldar Empire.
Overall, 10/10, peak bug activity.
I think the Orks idea is going to screw them. If they get too much action they will revert to Krorks and become a far scarier enemy than the nids are prepared for.
@@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63 that really depends on just how strong both Krorks and the Tyranids actually are, and we sadly know neither.
Funnily enough in one of the books. There is a Genestealer Cult hidden in the Imperial Palace Underhive on Terra that links to an ancient webway gate deep underground. You can get to Comorragh that way. The problem is that Gaye is now flooded from cracks into the warp and a influx of Tyranid Genestealer Biophorms also flooding in.
Did I mention they also managed to merc a Custodian and NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING PARTY.
I dont usually watch warhammer videos because all I know about it is when my dad would paint and I'd watch him and just ask random stuffs, but one of my favorites were always the Tyranids, thank you for this video! And I love the way you explain everything, makes it easy to understand :D
"They don't have an existential crisis in the kitchen and impulsively buy more models" I feel attacked
I loved that little Gaunts Ghosts reference you slipped in there. Those books are amazing
A Salamander: Oh... a duck! hey little fella how you doin?
Duck: *quotes this videos script*
A Salamander: *flamethrower noises* HERETIC!!!!!
I would love a more in depth video going into the various bio forms! This video was awesome man, keep up the great work
@@PotatoTickler thank you! I’ll definitely make one I love drawing nids
You make the Nids look adorable 🥺
3:00 Sir I would like to point you in the direction of the caterpillars in Hawaii. They have evolved to be carnivores, they hunt other insects and have developed a claw like pincers to kill prey. Some have even started to use silk to create “traps” for other insects.
It’s a wild ride.
"the Jean Stealer..who really likes denim" genuinely made me laugh 😂
"Basically life sucks, there is only war, and you're probably going to be eaten by Tyranids."
- John "TotalBiscuit" Bain
Mate, I really enjoy all of your videos, your humour and animation in particular. Keep it up and without doubt you will beat a big 40k channel in no time. Keep smashing it 👍
Found your channel getting hyped for Space Marine 2. I’m new to the verse and have been binging your videos. I’m scared that new obsession is taking root 😂
0:46 Standin' in the rain, with his head hung low...
This is now my favourite 40k channel
7:59 nice to see a Praetorian Guard reference
We've never see Krak's head cuz he a cultist too
WHOA SIR No I am a LOYAL guardsman through and through.
Well um, me too of course, I love the star emperor, him and his many arms of love👍👍👍👍
(Ur vids are also awesome)
Awesome video bro. I’m new to Warhammer, and when Space Marine 2 came out I was so excited to try it. Dropping a sub for the great content
Get all 40k lore from you. Love watching your videos! Keep it up man, really good stuff 🎉
rich person's store, everything is organic
Tyranids are cool. Unfortunately they are stuck with the chaos on the can't win zone because if they did the entire setting would need major rewriting. So the most of consequence our favourite buggy boys have done is nibble a bit on Ultramar and pose threateningly with their new meatball moon.
Everyone's so knowledgeable in the comments so I just want to share that, in spanish, hormagaunts and termagaunts are thought to be named after ants (hormigas) and termites (termitas).
That's it.
Obsessed with your videos dude theyre awesome. Dont stop making videos man, thank you for taking the time to put such good videos together
Just got into Warhammer through Darktide and Space Marine 2. Your videos are fucking awesome lore drops in an incredibly complex universe. Thank you.
People forget that they don’t really “lose”, they keep picking away ever so little until the Imperium is depleted
THE BUGS ARE BACK!
I love way you make Wh40k lore actually digestible without having to spend hours reading
Recently just got into 40k and your videos are super helpful and really enjoyable thank you for the awesome content and keep it up ❤
hello! I am a new fan of 40k because of space marine 2 and have been loving this channel so far, it makes the super intimidating amount of lore seem really manageable :) thank you for that! If possible, could we get a video about the Horus Heresy? I don't know how big of a video that would have to be because it seems like a pretty huge thing, but it would be super helpful for people like me! Love the videos, keep it up :)
@@urbane6028 awesome! It’s cool how the new game is getting people into the hobby, glad you like my channel! Yes definitely sometime in the future! I’m not the most familiar with 30k since I like 40K more so it might be a bit so I can read some more books and research, but I definitely wanna talk about the heresy more.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk I didn’t even know there was a 30k lol, still learning! Glad to hear you want to do something on it eventually though :D
Tyranids are a Biological STC. They have templates for different scenarios and create Nids to match that. The Evolution is less actual evolution but more the hivemind evaluating the current templates not working and making the next wave match the new scenario. There was a great Tau v Nid story where the tau won due to updating and cycling there tech quicker than the waves of bio forms could update
I really like the theory it’s the golden throne astronomicon that’s leading the tyrannies into the milky way cause 1 it’s the biggest beacon for warp travel in the galaxy and 2 the only way the imperium could stop more bugs coming would be getting rid of their most important and sacred thing
I like to think that they saw the war in heaven go down with all the reality-bending madness that went on there, and then took 65 million years to get here.
Intergalactic distances are big, and I like the idea that the Tyranids we are fighting are the weak, prehistoric ancestors of what they have become in the time it took them to get here.
@@aidan-h3p Ooooooo that’s soo metal
Love the writing and the art style. Cracks me up while im learning so much. Thank u!!
Ahem… akshewally… they aren’t gun hands, they are regular hands holding an oversized sphincter organism.
2:05 Bug enthusiast here, chitin is actually pronounced as "Kai-tin"
Adeptis Mechanicus after playing Halo:
"We got a plan to stop the Tyranids..."
Inquisition: "We like the religious symbolism and the killing. But does it have to kill everyone?"
"No species ever evolved guns" literally the bombardier beetle
HELL YEAH ANOTHER KRAKDUK VIDEO. It’s Labor Day, don’t you take a break? Your videos are rad.
Damn Americans have a whole day for that!? We just pump babies out naturally
Is it like when the turtles crawl to the sea getting attacked by seagulls but instead y’all crawl to oil in the Middle East?
Edit: I’m British, just saying this so you can tailor your response
Another awesome lore video! I just discovered your channel a couple days ago and I think your videos are really fun and captivating- keep up the great work!
i LOVE the buggy boys! i think i have something wrong with me... guard, orks, and nids! guess i love swarms. love your vids!
"let's all salute our kindred spirit Tiamet"
Krak's been genestolen :
Can you civer the fact that a bio-ship tyranids got kidnap by Iron Warriors to serve as a gunnery plateforme for hydra cordatus second siege ?
i am new to the Warhammer universe and your channel is a blessing lmao
I hope you cover genestealers, they are my favorite part of the tyranids. They truly show the dark inteligence of the hive mind.
Glad the Tyranids are getting some love!! love my Hive Fleet Myrmidon!
So far as I understand it, there's two possibilities as to what the Tyranids entering the Milky Way are:
a.) As mentioned in the video, possibly a vanguard force to much larger hive fleets.
b.) The last legs of the Tyranids, which at this point are mostly just dead overused husks drifting in intergalactic space towards the Milky Way.
Also, the only thing that keeps the other factions relevant compared to Tyranids is that no matter how OP the Tyranids themselves are, if any of the other factions completes their main questline, they will end up even more OP than the Tyranids could ever possibly be, and would wipe the floor with the Hive Mind.
your scripts are hilarious and your art is fantastic
you're going to be huge, keep up the great work
Intro reminded me of how someone would describe scorpions to someone that doesn't know what a scorpion is. "Scorpions are mother nature's ultimate screw you to humanity by combining lobsters, spiders, hornets, and nightmares."
12:18 HERESY!!!
“No animal has ever evolved gun hands”
Ever heard of a Pistol Shrimp?
Best faction. Don't care, consume all, get in any way, absorb, learn, improve, consume, repeat.
I like to think that old one eye is just permanently winking as if it knows it's just going to eat you later if not now.
The most hungry faction in all of sci-fi: Aliens? Nah. Flood? Nuh uh. Tyranids. Yes
If you have a Tyranid army... the Nord queen is you. That's who you are as you build, paint and base your expensive plastic
Love how you mention the swarmlord is used for some other character to kill so they can look badass. It’s not fair, let my swarmlord beat some ass
It isn't a true KrakDuk video unless we hear the classic line, "one of the most ___, if not THE most ___"
Imagine a bug that carries around another bug shooting it like a gun and the ammo is more bugs. Also it's the size of a gorilla with telepathy. Basically Tyranids.
It’s nom nom time fellas
Astropath: "hey I think that planet connections just dropped. Think it's just space comcast/verizon outtages again?"
"Yeah maybe or it's Nids, let's send some guys to check it out" - no one ever
Splendid Work, Mr Duk.
I also saw the Space Marine 2 Roadmap shows that new enemies will be getting added. Will Focus pull a Star Wars? (Somehow, Warboss Grimskull Returned)
They really gave these dudes every predator trait possible. They are almost too on the nose death machines
Tyr-tyr-tyranids; Tyranids, ultimate predators. Tyranids are SYNAPTIC.
Something really important to remember: The Tyranids never come from the same direction, much less location. The chances that the next Hive Fleet pops in right on top of Terra is just as likely as the other places they've appeared, they could already have surrounded the Milky Way and are just trickling in
Maybe evolution hasn't given anything on Earth gun hands... but is has given us a chemical flamethrower/explosive butt. See the Bombardier Beetle! It sprays a combination of two different chemicals from it's abdomen that when mixed together create an actual explosive reaction. It's an incredible feat of evolution.. as the chemicals have to be stored separately - so how did it even begin to mix them together and shoot them out without killing itself somewhere along the way in the line of evolution is fascinating.
Anyway, awesome video! I love the art slides - very endearing in a universe full of grimdark insanity ;)
Xenomorphs are my favorite fictional aliens/monsters, so I tend to like anything that resembles them. When I was getting to know WH40k (thanks to TheRussianBadger and Bricky), I took one look at the Tyranids and said “those are my favorites”.
“I really like the tyranids”
*boltgun shot sound”
My new head cannon is that genestealer cults are discovered by observing a hive city’s raised production of denim now 😆
"I hate a Tyranid as no man has before."
-Darwin, probably
Tyranids are the reason i got into 40k, the’re my favorite faction, and I’ve been collecting them and basically only them for years, I find them a lot more interesting than the space marines, both visually, and lore-wise
Silent king once went to check what lies outside our galaxy and it was Ooops all Tyranids!
2956 views in 37 minutes? nice job KrakDuk!
Video after video you get better and better. You started funny/good, now really really funny /great! 😊
I'm of the opinion that the Tyranids are one of those 'cool ideas' that didn't get thought through. Every one at GW was, "Wow! Aliens! But better!"
They didn't realize that the 'nids were almost impossible to stop and they're really going to have to crank up the scriptwriter's intervention unless they have a 'Dead Galaxy 40,000' planned.
Could reboot the series or start something new.
@@Red-Check-Mark That would piss the 40K fans off the charts.
After decades of fandom and probably thousands of dollars spent on their hobby the fans would not react positively. (Imagine their heads spinning around and around while their brains fountain out of their mouths.)
@robgraham5697 This would happen with any faction "winning", so GW has written themselves into a state of impossibility. Eventually, Warhammer has to end. Nothing last forever.