Explaining TYRANIDS To My Girlfriend 

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Surprised bricky didnt yell at you for forgetting the necron macguffin was the fall of cadia

Let's not forget that Leviathan coming up from below was the 3rd tyranic war. The 4th is actually the nids coming from the western edge of the galaxy. Which is super scary. Besides the fact Terra (center of the Imperium is in the west) but implys that our galaxy is getting more and more surrounded by the nids!

I wanted to mention the patriarch, which is just a brood lord genestealer of a genestealer cult that can communicate through a cultist or a genestealer familiar to humans who want to make deals with gangs or to preach to the followers

​@@Engineer2G Yeah! Name came from 1st War, Came from East, wiped Tyran, then hit Ultramar nearly killing Marneus Calgar. 2nd was East Round 2. 3rd came from below hit Baal, 4th is from North/West. And Kryptman brought the bugs who were back and needing to kill to Warzone Octarius, which is where Ghazkul Thraka ended up going after the Second War for Armageddon after the Black Templars barely defended Armageddon with Commisar Yarrick and the Armageddon Steel Legion - which is where Ghazkul has been Krumpin and was the only reason the Nids didnt come back, but now Ghaz is in his teenage Sadboi Phase and found out that Angron coming through the warp above Armageddon likely killed Yarrick, hes out for blood and krumpin his way through the 4th Tyrannic war making deals with other factions helping Marines trying to find Angron to get Yarrick's skull back out of respect for the only Humie to go toe to toe with him - although Yarrick might have become a Starchild Saint like Celestine partially through the Orkz belief that Yarrick is unkillable if he stood up to Ghaz 1v1 cause they think Ghaz is the 2nd coming of Krump Jesus: The Beast

lol, that's me trying to remember the name of the unit I'm about to attack.

Me desperately trying to remember if it's a termagant or a ​hormagaunt. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️@@glrasshopper

I imagine they keep how he normally communicate but they don’t want to embarrass him or get themselves killed so they just tell the necrons some vague stuff

*The silent king trying to figure out how to defeat the Tyranids.* " . . . ! . . . ! . . . !" *"oh you Nincompoop... You mean Genestealers...?"*

Type 2 checks out😂

Non-Tyranid fan 2: hi cute Lil murder machine

They are just little guys!

I feel called out. I'm a Type 2 fan... I have been since 1993.

Type 3: here's 400 tormagaunts have fun

They are most definitely not friend shaped

Tyranid speech (If not snack why snack shaped????)

@@calebmangelson9776 HUNGY

Do NOT pet the FILTHY XENO 3rd time this century

Huh? I guess

i would like but i dont wanna change the 222

Imagine the book just cuts very not subtlety to something else entirely to kind of represent the swarmlord reincating into a battle that needs him more and him just not acknowledging it since that is just normal. Love the concept.

Tony Todd should voice him.

​@@DaveMcMuffinI'm sorry but what the fuck did you just say?

Which part?

@@Pragabondoh yeah. Every time a swarmlord shows up to a battle, it’s THE swarmlord, not A swarmlord. The Hivemind sees another battlefield as a greater threat and the swarmlord just says “ok” and transfers his consciousness to a body on said battlefield.

Xenomorphs, but they have a glock.

@@Bluecho4and the glock is alive

And a symbiote tongue.

@@Lancersilva And so is the ammo... in fact everything Tyranid is alive

Tyranids reserve the right to a well organized militia, and to bear arms.

Also strange thing that, the def lepper is one the tyranids few named characters... Why wasn't it in the named character part?

I heard "Deaf Lepper" :p Like the ultimate Lictor is a HEAVILY handicapped creature.

Exactly how I discovered the hobby too. Still got the issue of White Dwarf with the Advanced Space Crusade box art on the cover.

If your looking for recommendations for similar channels on Warhammer, Isyander and Koda are very similar and they are hilarious and fairly to the point on their topics... Plus you can vote for the next topic. Just a recommendation from one plastic enjoyer to another. 😊

I like to think the Hive Mind was like, "okay, we've had our fun, but this is getting tedious; send Our Boi".

Didn't Gaz also leave due to angron killing yaraik and Gaz being mega pissed he left a good fight

@@karlrichards7188 Gaz did popped up in Octarius, but he left with 5 millions ork ships to ravage the Imperium, long before Yarrick was rumored to be dead. He left before the Psychic Awakening, which means he was gone from Octarius before the Great Rift ^^ We don't even know who killed Yarrick, it could be Angron, or Ghazgull, as far as I know ^^'

@@Bluecho4”Deploy the boy.” “Boy deployed.” *unholy tyranid screech-roar*

Kryptmann: Oh I'll get the Orks and Nids to fight each other, it'll be great! Tyranids win and incorporate Ork DNA. Kryptmann:...Well....Shit.

Tyranids in the back of the car yelling "MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!"

Just (many) hungy little guys.

BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE!

awesome.

i agree with vulkan

Man I hate when unique characters lose their playable models. I played orks from 5th until 8th edition, and looking back into the selection of characters in old codexes really didn't feel good. Really only ghazgull and snikrot survived to today, and I wish some of the old characters returned (especially wazdakka gutsmek)

“It would be but a single boop on its noggin.”

The Red Terror could have been so good, a leader for a Tyranid Vanguard army would've been so nice now that Trygon Primes aren't a thing

I was looking to see if somebody had mentioned this.

Doesn't the Hivemind have what amounts to a personal hatred for Tigurius specifically?

​@@collecter343, how could you not? This puny THING just wiggled itself into what amounts to your grey matter. While you are aware of it, and it you, it deems itself worthy of you time. This roadblock to more snacks demands you attention rather than dying like it should! If a parasite wiggled into my brain, communicated with me, and continued to try to stop my development? Yeah, I'd have a burning loathing for it too!

Of course it was an Ultra Smurf…

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@@NUMBSKULLS Yeah, made the comment before that part lol

The red terror

They tried tyranid "farming" it didnt end well XD

"We'll call it a draw then?" -Papa Smurf from TTS

Silly Retcon that Calgar didnt defeat the Swarmlord by sacrifocing those limbs IMO, him getting beamed up at the last second was frustrating

I thought a guardsmen was the plasma that killed old one eye

@@TheDarkangelofshadow Its either a retcon, or the second time Old One Eye died then, because I know for sure one of its deaths was to our favorite Cato Sicarius.

@@Nostroman_Praetor It seems they've changed it to "an unremembered hero". I thought the old Tnid codex had it as a guardsmen, but I'm biased

or it IS the ONE SAME creature again, and again, like the hivemind is not making multiple carnifexes with that apearance, he reincarnates "Old One eye" in person to spread fear and "the legend" around the galaxy. Like the swarmlord can "reincarnate"

I majored in psych so the vocab immediately made sense to me - it was so cool as Ava was teaching me to realize that we both kind of understood different aspects of what we were talking about from different foundations! It made me super excited to keep learning more 🤩

Not necessarily true. GW's never really explained quite how the Tyranid hivenind functions/what exactly it is. If you take it's description from the book Wraithflight, it is described as a singular entity with it's own thoughts, plans, and dreams.

@@MortiefiedBear you act and think as one being, being simply a highly organized colony of bacteria. Replace bacteria with bodies and you will get the Hive Mind.

Ava here! This was before I showed Kari JoJo. We're on Part 4 right now!

Depending how you define “unoccupied”, then (technically) yes.

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You may have just cracked the code!! 🧐

Hmmmm... A Rogue God... Malal will one day make his return, or at least I hope so

We can only hope. Stupid copyright.

Also, didn’t that Hivemind immediately targeted that Ultramairne librarian for merely looking into its mind? As in taking a glimpse of the Hivemind?

@@apolloknight9521i believe it did, as (not sure this is direct quote but something similar) “It saw Tigurius,and it *hated* him”

It’s not that the tyrannids shouldn’t have been able to see the trap in general, it’s that the blood angels had carefully killed all of the nearby synapse creatures, thus the rest of the bugs should have been divorced from the hive mind and stopped being strategic.

That's awesome

Because it's not warhammer if even the faction comprised of ever hungry bugs isn't a bit of a d*ck

If doors is brains, and tyranids is brains, and tyranids is bugs, and shrimps is bugs, is shrimps doors???

Thank you for the paint scheme for my first tyranid army!

​@@thatwaffleguy4958hive fleet anomalocaris

TurboDork also make color-shifting paint.

HELL YEAH REPRESENT 🙌

I mean, the Rogue Trader era had "Vampires". Shapeshifting psychic parasites that could reanimate their dead victims as zombies.

And brains is doors. So bugs is doors.

Ok that sounds so freaking cool!!! We’d love to see them if you decide to post them online!! Also that’s awesome, I’ll definitely watch those videos! Thank you so much for letting us know 🥰

@@KarilynneDavies I send the information to the Explaining Warhammer To My Girlfriend tumblr account!

I need hive fleet goat man immediately - and I need them to loose a bridge to some kid named Shane

In the original 1st ed core book, the "Tyranids" were basically what 'Gaunts are now. Little six-legged guys who were master of bio-technology. Zoats, among other species, were kept in line through pheromones. The Tyranids were even said to walk around with harnesses made of leather or fur, to carry their tools. Rogue Trader era was WILD.

@@Bluecho4 my favourite part of 1st ed is that you could have your Genestealer Magus take the mark of Khorne. MAGIC FOR THE MAGIC GOD

Aaaaand it was mentioned. I spoke too soon

Praise be to the lore lord Brick 🙌🧱

Thank you Ash

Isn't this the actual in lore reason? The tyranids have a psychic presence, and there are so many minds at once (not just the organisms that are present, but also the entire hive mind) that the warp is flooded.

The tyranids do not have souls. It is more like the synapse smothers the warp.

I see it as the singular soul and psychic power of the hive mind ia so immense that its presence casts a shadow into the warp.

Thanks Archet

A single match in a cave made of food, revealing every delicious morsel around it to the mouth that never stops consuming.

Ohh this is great info thank you!!! I’m definitely gonna do some research! 🧐 💅

That does beg the question, does Doof play WH in his spare time and what faction? He is into modeling.

Mechanicus. Or high elves​@@alexmartinez5859

@@alexmartinez5859Ad Mech. He loves weird tech.

I came looking for this. I forget the book, but basically, humans set a trap with some hyper hydrophobic water that made anything that it touches dry up, shrivel and die. They filled a moat around the location and planned on making the swarm die in the liquid. As the swarm approached the moat, the commander watched as the swarm slowed to a stop at the moats edge, silent and still. One lone gaunt stepped forward to the moats shore, beheld the liquid, and looked the commander straight in the eye on the opposing shoreline. A sense of pure bestial menace and terrifying intelligence came to the commander from that lone gaunts eyes. In that moment, the commander understood that the hive mind itself was looking at him through the guant directly. Not a synapse creature, no thrope or commander species, the hive mind itself, in all its extragalactic horror, was focusing its attention on him specificly.