New Operations Mission releasing in October brings us back to Kadaku, now in its late-stages of Tyranoformation with Capillary Towers rising out from the earth to feed the Hive Fleet in orbit. The new mission has the Astartes assisting the remaining Imperial Guard destroy the towers to halt the Hive Fleet from receiving the planet-wide biomass. I hope this means we'll get to fight some properly advanced bioforms. EDIT: THERE'S A HIEROPHANT
You could even argue the fact that we see the detonation but titus was unaffected means even in close proximity it does not guarantee death or even reaching all life as fast as the life eater. Perhaps they didnt want the genes of their most deadly virus to fall in the claws of the tyranids?
The speed at which Tyranids adapt is terrifying. The fact that a tactic or weapon you were using yesterday can be completely useless tomorrow is every general's worst nightmare. At best, the most powerful weapons in your arsenal will just buy you a little more time.
That being said, the adaptations take time to get rolled out to a new generation of 'Nids and the previous generation is toast. If you can keep them from consuming the remains of the prior generation, then they effectively throw two armies worth of biomass at you without gaining any. They also have a major weakness that the Hivemind is the only thing that allows them to fight cohesively, without it they're little better than animals. And the Hivemind is transmitted through a handful of particularly powerful Tyranids. Kill them, and their underlings go AWOL without another conduit to the Hivemind. Also, if they're severed from the Hivemind and you employ something like a bioweapon or an unconventional weapon or tactic against them and kill them, the main hive has basically no idea what you just did and therefore can't adapt to it
There’s only so many times that can be deployed against the Tyranids before they develop an immunity. Life-Eater is a supremely destructive weapon, and they should probably save those times when it will work for really dire situations…
And it's just two planets being assailed by a splinter fleet, not a FULL hive fleet. It explains why we only see some basic bioforms and not mid-late invasion stage creatures like Hierophants, Tervigons, Harridans, Trygons, Hive Guards, etc. Hell, we don't even see the newer Von Ryan's Leapers, Neurolictors, and Neurotyrants. Would love to see if they can add a future Operations mission dealing with a potential Genestealer cult on Avarax, even if they already had been tainted by Chaos.
That would've killed all life on the world. Might as well do an orbital exterminatus at that point. Though like the above comment said: If it's only a splinter fleet, there's always a chance Kedaku can be reclaimed afterwards. Which could never happen if they used the life-eater virus.
They bought about a day and a half for the Ultramarines to arrive. But even then, they abandoned Kadaku after evacuating important personnel. It still led to the Hive Tyrant's death on Avarax but we don't know how things are back on Kadaku.
@@DeepestDankestthe lost of the hive ship is a fatal blown and with luck, local regiments can hold up for a while until Ultrasmurfs done their business with Thousand Sons
Many in the comments seem to think that what they did in the beginning of the story is useless. First of all, did you guys just skip the cutscenes? The virus wasn't meant to kill them, it was meant to slow them down. The kill team dying was not in vain, it was literally their objective. And to those people saying that they should've used a life eater virus instead clearly did not watch the cutscene. The planet was priority Ultra (or whatever it was) it means that the planet is very important that using weapons that can kill the planet is not allowed.
You have to wonder if the Tyranids were some sort of bioweapon that got out of control and killed its creators. Would be the most logical explanation for their origins.
I don't want the Tyranids to retroactively end up like the "Xel'naga created the Zerg" thing. I like to keep them as extra-galactic threats encroaching onto the Milky Way, maybe even running away from something.
@@DeepestDankest Well just having them be a creation of chaos gods or some other BS thing would be kind of boring. Having them be some sort of human creation would be more fascinating.
New Operations Mission releasing in October brings us back to Kadaku, now in its late-stages of Tyranoformation with Capillary Towers rising out from the earth to feed the Hive Fleet in orbit. The new mission has the Astartes assisting the remaining Imperial Guard destroy the towers to halt the Hive Fleet from receiving the planet-wide biomass. I hope this means we'll get to fight some properly advanced bioforms.
EDIT: THERE'S A HIEROPHANT
I don’t care what they say servitor that shit!!!!
Was honestly expecting the virus to have been a minimal Life Eater, but the fact the planet was not entirely consumed put that notion to rest.
You could even argue the fact that we see the detonation but titus was unaffected means even in close proximity it does not guarantee death or even reaching all life as fast as the life eater. Perhaps they didnt want the genes of their most deadly virus to fall in the claws of the tyranids?
The speed at which Tyranids adapt is terrifying. The fact that a tactic or weapon you were using yesterday can be completely useless tomorrow is every general's worst nightmare. At best, the most powerful weapons in your arsenal will just buy you a little more time.
That being said, the adaptations take time to get rolled out to a new generation of 'Nids and the previous generation is toast. If you can keep them from consuming the remains of the prior generation, then they effectively throw two armies worth of biomass at you without gaining any. They also have a major weakness that the Hivemind is the only thing that allows them to fight cohesively, without it they're little better than animals. And the Hivemind is transmitted through a handful of particularly powerful Tyranids. Kill them, and their underlings go AWOL without another conduit to the Hivemind. Also, if they're severed from the Hivemind and you employ something like a bioweapon or an unconventional weapon or tactic against them and kill them, the main hive has basically no idea what you just did and therefore can't adapt to it
Should have used a life eater .....
There’s only so many times that can be deployed against the Tyranids before they develop an immunity. Life-Eater is a supremely destructive weapon, and they should probably save those times when it will work for really dire situations…
And it's just two planets being assailed by a splinter fleet, not a FULL hive fleet. It explains why we only see some basic bioforms and not mid-late invasion stage creatures like Hierophants, Tervigons, Harridans, Trygons, Hive Guards, etc.
Hell, we don't even see the newer Von Ryan's Leapers, Neurolictors, and Neurotyrants.
Would love to see if they can add a future Operations mission dealing with a potential Genestealer cult on Avarax, even if they already had been tainted by Chaos.
That would've killed all life on the world. Might as well do an orbital exterminatus at that point.
Though like the above comment said: If it's only a splinter fleet, there's always a chance Kedaku can be reclaimed afterwards. Which could never happen if they used the life-eater virus.
Essentially got invaded by 4th edition nids.
Which are the best kind IMO.😜
@Pemmont107 you would need alot more life eater than that one canister
So what your saying is our death watch brothers have died for nothing
They bought about a day and a half for the Ultramarines to arrive.
But even then, they abandoned Kadaku after evacuating important personnel. It still led to the Hive Tyrant's death on Avarax but we don't know how things are back on Kadaku.
the virus bomb basically brought enough time for Titus to wake up from this injuries + Rubicon surgery
@@DeepestDankestthe lost of the hive ship is a fatal blown and with luck, local regiments can hold up for a while until Ultrasmurfs done their business with Thousand Sons
That's Warhammer.
Deathwatch mission is about at least slowing the hive fleet down. Not fully stopping it
And their death is not in vain
Many in the comments seem to think that what they did in the beginning of the story is useless.
First of all, did you guys just skip the cutscenes? The virus wasn't meant to kill them, it was meant to slow them down. The kill team dying was not in vain, it was literally their objective. And to those people saying that they should've used a life eater virus instead clearly did not watch the cutscene. The planet was priority Ultra (or whatever it was) it means that the planet is very important that using weapons that can kill the planet is not allowed.
You have to wonder if the Tyranids were some sort of bioweapon that got out of control and killed its creators. Would be the most logical explanation for their origins.
I don't want the Tyranids to retroactively end up like the "Xel'naga created the Zerg" thing. I like to keep them as extra-galactic threats encroaching onto the Milky Way, maybe even running away from something.
@@DeepestDankest Well just having them be a creation of chaos gods or some other BS thing would be kind of boring. Having them be some sort of human creation would be more fascinating.
@@_gungrave_6802 They came from outside the galaxy. No one knows of their origins
Ulfar qwq you did the rogue trader proud
I don't think it's the same one. Real Ulfar has the stats to solo swarm lord (only slightly less powerful than Abelard and a certain three-eyed girl)
Why did they even need to go to the ground to deploy the bomb?
Precision also had it been dropped from orbit there’s a chance it would dispersed before it worked or mutated and killed everything on the planet
… but it wasn’t all in vain; that bomb bought like 40 hours more for the cadians.
Plus, we blew their ship didn’t we.
Kadaku is boned. It's entering late-stage tyranoformation.
Did the bomb even actually help at all
It allowed the rest of the game to happen.
buy time
So basically it didn’t do jack sh@t
tyranid evolve too fast
maybe the real reason was to collect the antibodies to cure someone infected with the virus .. .
It killed a lot of tryanids.
No, it gave them a day and a half of respite from the Tyranids and killed quite a score of them.
@@fernhausluv44 oh ok 👍