TYRANID HIVE FLEETS: SCOURGE OF THE STARS | Warhammer 40k Lore
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A hive fleet is a large armada of living, biomechanical starships created by the Tyranids for the purpose of gathering the raw materials and biomass necessary for the reproduction, evolution and expansion of their species. A hive fleet is used to attack and strip star systems of their biomass using the full range of Tyranid bioforms.
Only three primary Tyranid hive fleets and a host of smaller splinter fleets have ever come into direct contact with the Imperium of Man, but they have all brought devastating damage and loss of life.
Personally I love the lore behind Hive Fleet Tiamat. They are basically the hive fleet that said “Fuck this hunter gatherer shit, I’m starting a farm.
I will be a farmer Hive fleet said
“It ain’t much, but it’s honest work” - Hive Fleet Tiamat (probably)
The tyranids have entered the neolithic
Sorry to be That Guy but farming was normally worse than nomadic life. More work for less reward. People generally had to be forced into farm labour.
... so i guess this fits a grimdark future.
@@jacobvardy "people forced to be farm labors"
>Tyranids
Remember: Tyranids saw other race's field artillery, thought it was neat, then proceeded to make their own and apply it BETTER than some factions.
We🎉 the 😢😢😢
I love the idea that Jormungandr, the hive fleet that yeets meteors at a planet, is the subtle one.
I dunno why but I pictured their ships being giant cranky squids hucking rocks at the planet and it made it way funnier
I don't know if GW has changed it, but the lore I know makes Tiamet one of my favorite hive fleets. It has taken over a system of a few planets and periodically harvests life from those planets without stripping them clean. This life interestingly enough bears tyranid genetic markers. The hive fleet is using this harvested biomass to build some kind of tower. The tyranids are building something and nobody has any idea why.
Maybe the tower is going to be used fuck up chaos or warp bullshit or as a super beacon for all the tyranids to come or even Uber charge the hive mind in galaxy. Either way it’s gonna be BAD regardless.
The new codex still has reference to the Tiamet megastructure and everything 😀
Hmmm necromorph- type tyranid marker monoliths? Imagine zombie Tyranids
Hmm. Tiamet is a multi headed Dragon God(dess) in fantasy.
What if they're building a gigantic Tyranid bioform which the literal Hivemind itself can take direct control of and make manifest a direct avatar of its own will and presence? Not merely its favored servant and commander, the Swarmlord, but to create a personal physical avatar for the Hivemind.
The Tyranids through Tiamat [Fleet], the multi headed Dragon God, are preparing to create a new "head of the Dragon" for their godlike Hivemind. Even if you kill said being and cut off its head, just like Tiamat it still has more heads and it will simply regrow the lost head.
This creates the potential for the Hivemind itself (and by extension the Tyranids) to finally communicate directly with its enemies and give the Tyranids more character beyond nom nom. Think just like the Gravemind (Halo) or original Overmind (StarCraft 1).
Just like the escalation in the series through the Loyalist Primarch's return, the Chaos Primarchs resurgence, the Silent King's return, etc. for each of their respective factions, the Tyranid's escalation is the direct appearance of their Hivemind into the galaxy.
The presence of the Hivemind's avatar could also serve as an indirect beacon due to its psyker might, attracting Tyranids to the galaxy, as well as forming a massive Shadow in the Warp due to the Hivemind's direct presence in the physical plane.
@@HideyoshiKinoshita84 cool as that'd be I doubt that's the case just because that'd basically be game over for everyone else.
Welcome to PBS. Today, on NOVA, we will examine how these Xenos of invasive species explore the galaxy and absorb entire resources after devouring the planet. This is NOVA.
Why examine when you could be exterminating ? “Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean!!!!”
I can hear the NOVA theme song right now lol
@@Ikimono lucky I got national geographic in my head
@@Ikimono its alot easier to kill something that you know the ins and outs of
@@thetau4866 Sounds too heretical. *racks bolter*
It's all fun and games until Hive Fleet Hydra starts yelling "Hydra Dominatus!"
ALPHA LEGION!!! *Furiously shakes fist at space*
I like how leviathan has developed a particular distaste and foucess on the blood angels to the point some of the info we have on them makes it seem like it’s developing it’s own unique identity. Like it’s stated that and an paraphrasing here “they seem to have developed a grudge against the red clad marines”
the hive mind literally decided to take a 90° turn and head into a bunch of inhospitable, barren star systems that they couldn't replenish their losses from just to stamp out the blood angels because they were being annoying
Assume the nid hive mind had declared blood angels to be a major threat. Which is true since blood angels are only marines to push nids back and truly defeat them. No warp bubbles, no poison, just pure skill, which may makes this first time nids actually just...lost, no amount of adapting would have saved them, they just lost, which confuses the hive mind to hell.
So assume nids may see blood angels has their end game along with the necrons. Since fight blood angels is just a nageative.
The Red-Prey-Warriors.
Imagine what Leviathan's nightmare would be: Blood Angels and Necrons, as allies, killing 'nids.
Or they sense another apex predator and seek to claim their territory.
24:30 That was the Necron fleet of Anrakyr the Traveler, and he harvested the T'au colony on Ka'mais because it was a Necron tomb world, and he was like "Greetings. You are trespassing. Goodbye."
Read his wiki page, got a new fav Necron Overlord.
Quote time:
“I am not capricious, nor am I given to cruel acts for their own sakes. It is simply a fact that you and your kind have trespassed, and thus invited extermination. Curse you for putting me to this inconvenience.
One of the other terrifying things about Kronos, at least from the standpoint of Chaos, is that at one point Kronos stopped the Great Rift from spreading. The world of Shadowbrink was about to be consumed by the Great Rift but then Kronos landed and not only did their Shadow in the Warp stop the spread of Chaos on the the planet but it actually pushed it back. Think about it. The Great Rift is this nigh unstoppable tide of chaos energy that's consuming the galaxy bit by bit. And Hive Fleet Kronos, at least on one planet, went "Naw. Un-chaos your shit."
"Screw you *Un-chaoses your planet*"
@@alphafish4133 lol! Pretty much!
They really are pulling the Uno reverse card on chaos.
Kronos: because chaos just pissed off the hive mind.
People think the other races of 40k have Entomophobia but this is incorrect.
Its only a phobia if the fear is irrational.
Accurate
Honestly the rough equivalent could also be said about xenophobia for any sentient race that has had to evolve since the fall of the eldar empire or deal with the dark eldar
@@robrib2682 Yeah it's not xenophobic to hate aliens if every alien race you've ever encountered has attempted to exterminate you. That's just self-preservation at that point.
@colby1398 It does create a slight issue when you run in to the one or two races that was actually peaceful. Then again it is much easier to shoot a target standing still, and if there is no more aliens there is no more problem
You guys forgot to mention The Court of the Nephilim King! It's a splinter fleet of Behemoth that focuses on quality over quantity. Instead of flooding your enemies with termagaunts, they send in way fewer warriors and a bunch of monster units and then outsmart their opponents. It works especially well because their prey will prepare to deal with the typical swarming nids, but instead find that their weapons aren't that effective against the tougher bugs, and then they get outsmarted, which is not typical for nids.
"The court of the Nephilim King" Now thats a cool name, and the fact that it used that kind of strategy makes me think the Hive mind puts more atention on them
In relation to the Zoat things
real real old lore before the Tyranids were what they are now said the Tyranids used Zoats as diplomats, an enslaved species or one made for the job. The concept being they could probe out how valuable a species would be before they tried to eat them up. At some point they either were seen as useless and got eaten up or the nids just stopped making them altogether, which is in lore for why GW got rid of them. They've made a tiny return in Blackstone fortress as one of them is exploring the ruins of the fortress
also fun lore; The protein-rich biscuits that constitute the Zoat diet are known as Zoatibix
I thought some rebelled, with a few surviving to run away to the Tau, ect
Less diplomat more someone who bothers to communicate first to engage in some extra fuckery if it might be more energy efficient to do so. There's a rather neat old short story, I think for the Advanced Space Crusade game, about some space marine scouts who managed to get onto a dormant hive vessel, and they meet a Zoat whose not slumbering like the other creatures in the long voyages through the void, and is basically there to mess with their heads long enough for the hive rouse the actual combat beasties. Did like the bit where he notes that other marines in the Lambs have already become part of the greater whole of the Tyranids where of course he actually means the Lamenters.
1st edition is a strange beast. When the writers were just throwing in any ideas they had, and the lore hadn't been iterated yet into the form we're familiar with now. This was the edition where Space Marines weren't transhuman warriors, but rather just criminals and psychopaths given psycho-indoctrination, a suite of combat drugs, and got sent on their way. They were cops in power armor, essentially.
The Tyranids hadn't yet been written as these hive-minded bioweapons. A "Tyranid" in the Rogue Trader era were basically just smarter Gaunts that could use tools, albeit fleshy ones. The Zoats were among many alien organisms the Tyranids had enslaved, using pheromones to maintain control over them. Funnily enough, because a "Tyranid" was a narrowly defined thing, their rules stated your Tyranid force needed to be made up of mostly Zoats, in terms of number of units. As such, the army was less "managerie of bio-horrors all serving the hive mind", and more "big aliens serving their little alien masters".
For this reason, I wouldn't think too hard about how we got from there to the current situation. The lore is dramatically different, to the point where trying to make sense of it is a fruitless effort.
Zoats are (or I guess were) also in Warhammer Fantasy
@@Skitarii_Ranger no still exist in fantasy they have more lore there they are teachers of wood elf’s mages and are of a time before the old ones , and made a deal with them to take over the forest 🌳 while the old ones were in war with chaos
It also might be worth mentioning that Hive Fleet Hydra cannabilizes small splinter fleets.
This isnt live. They've already pre-recorded it
@@hmmyou2544 I'm aware, I only mentioned it for people who would find it interesting in the comments.
It's not live bruh
@@kylzepolaczkowaty2197 read what he said 💀💀💀
@@kylzepolaczkowaty2197 💀
Some interesting things about Hydra:
as mentioned in another comment, they actively cannibalize smaller splinter fleets. This has contributed to an unexpectedly rapid growth in both numbers and knowledge, as they subsume the strengths and knowledge of the fleets they eat.
They also respond to the psychic death screams of other hive fleets, effectively turning them into a cleanup crew for any battlefield that actually managed beat back the nids. There's an anecdote where the Imperial guard defeated a splinter fleet on this one planet, and in the middle of the planetary leader's celebration, the sun gets blotted out by swarms of Hydra Tyrannid spores.
Lastly, the way that they invade a planet is also particularly mean-spirited. They set up a network of spores in orbit around the planet they choose, but only send down one or two small groups of say, Termagaunts. As soon as even one of the Termagaunts is killed, a large portion of the spores in orbit descend on the location of the dead Nid, increasing the amount of spores with the amount of resistance they meet. That's why they're named after the Hydra, their invasion tactics are literally "cut off one head and two others grow in it's place."
"One tyranid or double it and give it to the next person?" "Double it and give it to the next person."
you know the hive fleets are a force to be reckoned with when their fleet paths are drawn as *tendrils*
*AND COME FROM DIFFERENT POINTS*
WH40K is tentai now
I wish you'd given some special mention to Ouroboros and Tiamat, since their lore introduces questions about the Tyranids' arrival in the Milky Way. Tiamat, as another commenter mentioned, doesn't eat its way through other species' territory but instead focuses on building some kind of gigantic bio-tower on its 'home' planet, for unknown ends. Ouroboros is odd in that there are (admittedly unreliable) legends of it showing up millennia earlier than the official date of first contact with the Tyranids at Tyran.
I'm a little saddened they didn't mention some of the quirkier events of some hive fleets. Like that Tiamet has settled down and become farmers or that Ouroboros came out of the Eye of Terror thousands of years before Behemoth arrived.
But yeah, Tyranids are dope. I still have some of the Battle of Macragge 'nids lying around. Maybe they'll grow into a proper Hive Fleet one day.
i cant remember the source but there's a story where Gorgon fought Death Guard and they left the planet so tainted that the hive fleet abandoned the world. Matter of fact one hive ship got greedy and went to reclaim the biomass and the other hive ships shot it out of the sky.
New headcannon: Hive Fleet Harbinger has an extra strong control over its various Tyranids and even Genestealers, so that when they come to a planet, they're extra organized since the Hive Mind is ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!
EDIT: Warlord trait: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL. In addition to this warlord trait, this warlord has one additional warlord trait chosen at random. When this warlord is destroyed, select another HIVE FLEET HARBINGER character, and generate a warlord trait for them, including this one.
ROSES ARE RED
VIOLETS ARE BLUE
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
THIS HURTS YOU
Their main nemesis lord commander Johnathan and Jane shepard.
Grrrrrs in M920 Cain
Direct Control them now! Not so cocky now, are you, stupid roaches!?
Did...did mass effect use this version of Harbinger because if that's the case I've been like a secret fan of 40k since I was like 12
You have a cannon on your head?
25:00 Tau: "The Tyranids are gone! You've saved us!"
Necron: "Oh we wouldn't say saved... more like 'under new management'."
Welcome to the history channel, tonight on ancient aliens we look at how the Necrons built the pyramids to fight back against the Tyranids. Up next PBS: eons looks at Tyranid evolution and why they are evolving into crabs.
Or are crabs the first step toward evolving into Tyranids?
Terrifying... and delicious
I played Tyranids in 2nd Editon. For most of the era, they didn't even have an actual Hive Tyrant model. But I got lectured by one opponent after crushing him in a battle using a strong ranged element.
He said I didn't "play properly." Tyranids are supposed to just charge and get into melee, not use cover and strategy! He was honestly angry, almost thinking that using strategy was cheating!
Bro, thats just dumb lmao
Hive fleet timestamps
5:57 - Behemoth
9:35 - Kraken
15:52 - Leviathan
19:23 - Gorgon
26:51 - Jormugandr
31:33 - Kronos
36:40 - Hydra
44:26 - Ouroboris
46:08 - miscellaneous (Tiamet etc.)
I was bored and rewatching
I am disapointed that they did not mention the fact that when they talked about tiamat, that tiamat is building something in their own star system (also called tiamat), like a super structur/creature, that is spanning almost an entire world. And that this hive fleet has been there since before M35
Meanwhile hive fleet of the zoats : be not afraid
Human: those tyranids speak , burn it up haaaaa
Zoat: that was not part of the plan
I think the tyranids are the biggest galaxy ending threat as we think, from the official art work we see the tyranids are swarms, like locust, coming up into the galaxy, they don't completely surround the galaxy like other art work does.
I think the tyranids are like the xenomorphs from alien. They find a host, which in this case in a planet, they then eat the biomass and move on, but what if they also lay eggs on other planets, so when the nids leave a galaxy practically empty, and the only surviors are few, the egg planets hatch and the new swarm consumes the remaining biomatter and move onto the next galaxy.
Wouldn't that be grimm dark, the nids impregnate a galaxy, and who knows how many they have done this too
To add, I havnt found much on anyone aggressively assaulting tyranid planets in which a native force wasn’t in some way present and succeeding
Why put biomass on a world without any thing on it when you can instead just take it with you to the next planet, you're leaving behind a literal rock that can't support life.
They don't lay eggs or anything like that. They scour every spec of biomass off a planet, break it down into goo, load it up in their living ships and move on. From that Goo, the Norn queens order up the creation of organisms to keep fighting in the hive fleet. That's all they do. Break down everything organic for every scrap of food possible to make more of themselves and spread even further. Very much a parasite on life.
But what you do describe on flinging out small sects is how Genestealer Cults are made. A single genestealer makes his own cult and eventually grows into a Patriarch to lead them when ready to call in a splinter fleet or an entire tendril.
Hivefleet Tiamet sits on a few planets around a star and left the natural jungle, there’s a bunch of tyranid feral animals and giant bio towers.. kind of ominous, could be tyranid end game or a communication node for the hive mind. Conspiracies abound
@@grahamstephens1117 mabye it's a supply depot. Say a Hive Fleet passes this planet with a bunch of Nids in it and they get there ass kicked and retreat they can now go to this planet and get fresh reinforcements. It's be scary that they then also leave the Native plant and wild life some what alone so that if Imperial ships pass by in space without landing nothing would seem out of ordinary because they know they can be exterminated and they can just ambush any small force that happens to stumble on to them
I really want to see a little short story (potentially fan) of the imperium finding a Tyranid speak for the first time. Imagine this.
They're in battle, and as they're trying to kill what is basically an immortal behemoth of flesh, only a single word exits its mouth-
"Run."
@@PodreyJenkin138 The reason I want the Tyranid to say that is because it could either be the Tyranids telling the people to run away, or it's the Tyranid hive mind's desire to run away FROM something else.
There was a tyranid lichtor that demonstrated a jurassic park velociraptor-like intelligence.
It would raid a nearby settlement and kill every soldier, except the commander. After which it would sit in the corner of the commander's bed chambers just staring at him throughout the night before leaving.
Every time the commander brought in new soldiers the lichtor would do the same thing.
He did this repeatedly until the commander went insane from the fear and stopped bringing in new troops to defend the settlement, after which he killed him.
Even the tyranids do a little trolling.
@@rutgerhauser2377 That's the Deathleaper from Leviathan, and it did this to the planet's cardinal, slaughtering all his guards before leaving him alone. It did this in spite of increasingly strong defenses to the point that it became flat out implausible. This drove him to insanity, which left the planet practically defenseless for the tyranids to effortlessly butcher the inhabitants.
Best ending of them all! It just ended just like that. Perfect end.
Plus Kronos is my favorite Hive Fleet thanks to how unique they are with how they're anti warp and anti Chaos.
12:35 "I don't like smart bugs"
Brain? Bugs? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!
Would you like to know more?
31:21
Dk: The Tyranids are sus, call the emergency meeting!
Genestealer: That's right they're sus!
Genestealer Captain: I got my bat, now where's the imposters!!
Was never a Nids fan, I prefer an enemy that thinks for itself, but I can’t deny their coolness factor. They’re great
Well that's the thing. The individual units have no meaningful intelligence or personality, barring unique units like the Swarmlord and Ol' One Eye, but the Hive Mind itself operates on a level only surpassed by the Chaos Gods. So technically speaking, the Tyranids think more than any other faction.
@@Brutalyte616 True, but I prefer the individuality of units when in an army. I like that every ork boy in my army have slightly different wants or needs compared to the boss, or that every guardsmen could have different lives off the battlefield.
@@bait4sale9001 Not to mention all that intelligence just goes towards eating. You can say the hive fleet is big brain you want, but it’s for one boring goal.
So do you find the thought of a bug that thinks offensive?
Starship troopers is always good for tyranid/imperial guard related quotes.
Genestealers think for themselves
Is Bricky becoming some kind of Nurgle spawn? He doesn't move around much, is sick all the time. He also seems way too happy for a sick person.
I love how the orks are immune to being disorganized by the tyranids because they are disorganized already.
You have not talked about the hivefleet that is GUARDING a star sistem and growing...something in it...that is cool
Growing??!! Not consuming??!! Holy shit! And some thing? As in a single thing? How huge is that tyrannid that it needs so long and an entire star system to grow??
@@PyrusFlameborn yes
What we know is that it's a massive something...maybe a psychic relay?
Everyone that tried to go take a look never came back
I like how you can just feel Bricky's hatred of the Eldar even when just having to mention them in passing.
I say as an Eldar player. Sorry Bricky.
EDIT: Tyranids are scary and bad ass. They need to actually win more in the lore, can't wait to get their current codex
Papa Nurgle has Bricky in his clutches today, boys.
Gotta love hive mind connected space insects that eat everything and usually operate as a swarm, gotta be my favourite gender.
Bohemoth is the fleet that avoids Ultramarine space now due to losing a Hive Queen, which holds the primary DNA strain that every single Behemoth past or future uses as the foundation for their form. Blueberries made a poison out of it that breaks down the dna chains rapidly of their hive.
Basically, they find tyranid then toss the bombs into the middle of them. If they are Behemoth, EVERYTHING DIES. Because of how tyranid function every single life form in the fleet has the same base dna chain no matter what the unit is. After that happened Queens are seen far far less as the queen holds the base dna unfiltered and uncorrupted or mutated and getting that dna chain is like having the keys to unravel an entire fleet. It is the tyranid's fatal flaw. When they lose a Queen it can end that fleet's entire survival.
It's old lore but I don't remember it ever being changed.
Bricky: *Wakes up*
God: You have lost nostril privileges.
"I don't have the numbers but I have the mass" -Hive fleet behemoth
Bricky, if you dont leave the house much that is primarily why you get sick more often. Firstly you need some sunlight, secondly if you are couped up inside your immune system does not interact with many threats for the bacteria and virus's within your abode are mostly homogenous. Your immune system can not be allowed to go lax. Thirdly pay attention to your diet. You may be deficient in vitam c or a number of other essential nutrients that is needed for healthy immunity. Get some echinacea tea. Last but not least, make your you have ample and a steady if not some what regular sleep schedule. Less sleep and or interrupted sleep can and will cause immune deficiency. I hope this helps.
Even with a fate of "get eaten alive", I do wonder where Tyranids actually rank in the line of terrible things to happen to a character in this franchise 🤔
Despite how terrifying they are, I'd rank them more in the middle... Especially with Chaos and Drukari being around. At least with the 'Nids you'll just get nommed... Beats a possible eternity of torment.
Would rank 'em less terrible than the Imp, tbh. They're just hangry, ya know 🤔
Their living ammunition is up there
They do eat you very quickly, to be fair. Getting cut in half by a chainsword or lit up by a flamer would be worse than dying to 'Nids, unless it was a ripper swarm going full piranha mode on you.
Low end honestly. Sure you get eaten alive and sometimes from the inside out, but they kill fast and have 0 cruelty. Better than almost anything else.
Leviathan are the ultramarines of nids and I wish GW would just use a different hive fleet sometimes.
Also Tiamat (and behemoth) supremacy gang
Leviathans just cooler
@@Pinkcactuz no
Behemoth has my favorite color scheme, plus they were the first ones. They should be the Tyranid poster boys imo.
@@MattManDX1 Tiamat has my favorite color scheme, but the first tyrannic war is some of the best Tyranid lore so behemoth has that place in my heart. Behemoth also has S tier colors
I've been running Gorgon since 3rd haha, I know the feeling
Been playing Tyranids since 2004. We haven't been top tier until now. I think we do need some points increases, especially for Warriors and Zoans, but God damn I am just happy we finally are a force to be feared. We've had crappy rules for WAY too long.
For far too long, we've been mediocre at best
@@SilverEXVII amen, my brother
Waiting for a story about guilliman running into the tyranids and how he deals with them
... Simple, he will CAST FIST!!! D^B(
he deals with them using salamanders on the ground
or just vulcan shows up and does what he did in the war of the beast.
Ok now I just want to see what auroboros would get for unique rules, of course some buffs for your flying units but I could also see them getting some aura/buff shut off abilities like the night lords. Could be really interesting.
i love that he said 'what they lack in numbers' for hivefleet behemont, as if they dont have a quitillion bugs
"My true voice would make your brain EAT itself!"
"You are SO COOL!"
"Yes, I know..."
Dam bugs aren't that tough all I need is a shovel and some Raid!
frankly i find the idea of bugs that think offensive!
I see that star ship trooper reference you did there
@@sayansengupta5791 what's a star ship trooper? is that in the new codex?
@@ArcturusMinsk it's a satirical movie about fascism directed by the same guy who made robocop, and it's great, you have the actor who played Barney Stinson dressed in an SS uniform.
Also, I am aware that might have been sarcasm, but it's the Internet you never know.
The true masters of Grimdark Paranoia don't ask "What can be done about these Tyrranid Horrors"... Instead, they ask "What are these New Horrors fleeing FROM???". [Insert... _"There's always a bigger fish "_ Meme here]
Ah yes, kind of like The Scourge in Stellaris, the end game crisis that can and will completely obliterate the galaxy if you don't stop it before it can get to an L-gate. That if you're psionic you can communicate with, who tell you that they're just collecting biomass in order to continue running...
Although if the Tryanids are running from something, then we do need to be terrified, because they've entered the milky-way from almost every direction, so whatever they're running from, is large enough that they surround a force that's large enough to surround an entire galaxy.
If the 'Nids are fleeing from something worse, our galaxy is *boooooned*.
Oh I can answer that, it's clearly [REDACTED]
@@crouchinglibcrab9527 it's not [REDACTED], it's obviously *[REDACTED]*
@@crouchinglibcrab9527
I disagree... It's clearly _{DATA EXPUNGED}_
People forget so quickly that GW used to do funny things that made no logical sense whatsoever when brought into later lore because they did that thing where they bought up a bunch of other unbranded mini sets and then started to produce them themselves, and then made kitbashes with them...
Anyhow, the Zoats, those horrifying lizard centaur things? They were supposed to be the DIPLOMATS of the Tyranids. Back when Tyranids presumably had more things to tell the rest of the galaxy than "Biomass: Om nom nom!"
back when GW had a ....odd sense of humour as it was stated that Zoats basically fed on squarish block of condenses proteins and other nutrients called Zoatibix which if your from the UK and seeing how GW started in the north of England they are certainly joking about Weetabix - a squarish wheat based breakfast cereal "biscuit" XD
I miss being able to stack Jörmungandr and chameleonic skin, but I also realise I was being an asshole with that cheese and probably deserved to lose it.
Bricky hasn't done the best job of emphasizeing that all Tyranid hive fleets are hyper adaptive, that's the actual true horror of the nids. Not that they have endless numbers but that they will learn and adapt and creat the perfect counter to what ever situation they find themselves in
Tyrannids are kind of a fridge horror in that while druhkari and chaos are pretty upfront horrifying, but you don't really think that hard about how scary the tyrannids are besides starship troopers-esque bug swarms. but then when you think of it you realize just how SUBLIME the horror of tyrannids is, because even the swarms we see today have only been SCOUTING fleets, meaning that they probably have more soldiers than all factions COMBINED, and convinced even the silent king to stop his exile. and not only are their numbers incomprehensibly vast, to the point they easily blot out entire *suns*, but they can even evolve rapidly to meet any threat and hide under plain sight. by the time you realize you're under attack all communication has been entirely cut off.
Oh tyranids…..not the riveting DK nail painting tutorial I was expecting, but that’s fine too.
My love for the Tyranids increases by the day and as of now what I like most about them is that they only speak through the words of there victims, survivors or not.
I'm very happy about this episode, as a brand new player to warhammer, as well as being DEEPLY interested in these bug boys
My favourite fleet is Hydra, just because of how they attack, the idea of killing one hormagaunt squad or warrior causing other nearby tyranids to attack the location means you can't just kill a synapse creature and flee in the chaos, since the attack isn't on purpose by the Hive Mind, it's instinctual
One of my favorite things I heard is that the Silent King, the Necron "leader", an ancient super advanced robotic race of Xenos, that themselves are terrifying. He is absolutely scared shitless of the Tyranids.
Jormungander is like throwing fremen from dune at any desert planet, gotta burrow for that cool fucking surprise moment
Deathwatch: “I cannot feel fear, but I have never felt more like prey.”
the nids arnt just swarms
them just being numbers is always the misconception
from how the parasite was originally was an assassin before the battle even started, having your hero character be replaced with rippers before he got placed on the table
to the doom of malantai, a creature that needs a episode on its own along with its eldar episode of how malantai was a hive fleet
nids are the only faction in 40k that plans its assault in advance
Zoats in earlier editions were “ambassadors” to the Tyranids to basically tell a planet “hey the Tyranids are coming you might as well not put up a fight and give them all your biomass”.
If I make a Nid army, I'm going for Hydra. There's no honor in "ranged combat", it's all about melee
I'd rather fight Salami in melee too
I've been watching this channel and Arches channel so much, during Lunch at my university my friend was talking about Orcs from LOTR and I said angrily, "f-ing Xeno Scum". I'm just glad that she responded something funny but its becoming a force of habit now
DK: "SICK!"
Bricky: "Ai amb"
The ONLY podcast to listen to while painting
I cannot wait for when the Tyranids make a fleet with strong enough synapse connection to overcome the Necron Nexuses.
12:09 bricky spontaneously becomes a skaven for a couple seconds
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Nids: Our numbers will blot out the sun!
Astartes: Then we will fight in the shade
Today I learned my first army should be Hive Fleet Gorgon.
"Alrioghty boiz, todays weathers gonna be moistly cloudy wiz a high chance of krumpin!!!!" Orc weatherboi on hive fleet oroborous
Tau: Hooray, it's the Necrons
Necrons: ...
Tau: Oh fuck, it's the Necrons
Yay! I am so glad they finally did Hive fleets! It's hands down one of the best aspects of the nyds!
13:23 "Luv me genestealer. Simple as." -Kraken, circa m41
Did you know that you got Luetin to say Doge Vandire? He cursed you Bricky... LOL
I love Gorgon. They’re such Little Guys
BEHEMOTH RULES! It was barely a question on how I'd paint my tyranid models, gotta go with the classic!
Aye yes only bugs i love because they don't exist
Hopefully
Jormangandr and Leagues are going to be natural enemies even though I think it was Kraken that ate their homeworld
Hive fleet gorgan is a fun one, i can't remember if it's in the Tau or Tyranid codex but they'res a great little description of there conflict and how both sides went into adaptive overdrive to beat each other
I like the thought of tyranids throwing an asteroid with orc spores on it and then youre even more fucked than before.
now imagine if nids came across Xeno morphs and a face hugger latched onto a nid... oh the horror
5:42
Talk about Nurgle while congested, talk about Tyranids while the house is being fumigated.
hydra also sends down beacons when they die and send even more tyranids to that spot the hydra regrow its head
it's a good thing the Tyranids are like a giant black spot in the warp because Nurgle would love hive fleet Gorgon.
Nids... Universal Bleach-Bit sent to wipe the Milky Way Server clean before installing _Milky Way Program 4.0_
I bet commander Sheppard served valiantly when batteling hive fleet Harbinger
Hi guys from Adeptus Ridiculus, it's been a true joy to find the channel after having rewatched countless times Bricky's videos on wh40k ! I've been binging the podcast for the last two weeks and really love the dynamic you three have. If a can afford a request, could you do a video on the grey knights ? I'm sure DK would love to know how they treat civilians...
What’s really ridicules, is that this channel doesn’t have at least 69k more subscribers
Kronos be like: "Frick melee! I am spawncamping your ass!"
the nids made a sentient poison that wiped out an entire plague company of death guard
Can confirm that nids slap on the table, my lovely necrons got bodied
Who else killed team mates in halo just to hear the word Betrayal in that epic voice?!
I would like to recommend Titanicus for the next book club, its pretty awesome. My favorite 40k book so far.
Leviathan is SC1 Zerg Cracklings. *_Literally_* Cracklings.
In reference to Hive Fleet Hydra, the "Monsters/Vehicles count as 5 models" does in fact apply to both sides - thats because Nids dont have Vehicles really, just Monsters, hence the ability naturally denotes both :)
(Also because it doesnt specify any particular side, unlike for example the new Imperial Knight Armigers rule that lets them count as 5 models)
Love all of these!
The way Bricky talks about Iyanden and Prince Yriel with the tone like they just killed his dog really does have me worried for the Craftworlds and Phoenix lord episodes...
That said, love you guys!
Youve been blessed by papa nurgle bricky, be happy.