Learning that Tyran was an ocean world suddenly makes me want aquatic Tyranids. I doubt it would ever happen because it can’t be made into proper models, but a story about giant killer fish and kraken nids would be cool.
Ya that would be super cool! I’m a sucker for aquatic themed minis. I think it could work, they did a great job with the deepkin models for sigmar. Thanks for watching!
There probably are Aquatic Tyranids, but just like we don't see Imperial Submarines, we will never see the Aquatic Tyranids because GW refuses to acknowledge naval battles.
Can't believe you didn't mention the hardest qoute in 40k. "Praise the sun that brings the dawn of our final doom." - Purported last words of First Captain Invictus
I like the idea that swarm lords are really important tactical assets since the hive mind at large is so busy with their untold wars in other galaxies that it's just not possible for it to focus on individual battles
How I understand it, every hive tyrant is unique, semi-autonomous and respawns, the Swarmlord is only named because he’s particularly smart and has a unique weapon choice.
haha you know Santa is a Salamander! he's just helping the boys in blue. He even gives naughty kids coal so they can learn to be blacksmiths it all makes sense now!
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Ive never forgotten reading about the BFM way back when i first started in late 2000's, and the part of the Northern Fortress. Im more of a Tyranid fan, but you cant help but feel such massive respect for the terminators who held out as long as they could in the last room. Really shows how much of a fucking badass you have to be, to be granted the honor of being a Terminator. Ive loved Terminators ever since.
Yo, clone wars 2003 was what got me into star wars, it was the shit. I still think about all the epic Mace Windu shenanigans from that show even now. But yeah, really getting into 40K lately and your videos are always such a joy to watch.
Watching your videos is always such a blast! The little detail, the comedy simple awesome! The tyrandis are one my favourite parts of 40k. The add so much to the setting the huge monster that don´t care about anything but biomass. Even thought i have to say they are a double edged sword. In Lore the posses such powerfull abilitys like terraforming plantets while they attack them or launching tyrandi micro organism onto the defenders what would be an insta win everytime if we are honest. So GW has to balance there powers, and as we all know GW is very skilled in balancing
Thank you! Ya I agree with those points fs. I think another thing that ironically hurts their character in story is the fact that they’re essentially immortal. Any character in the setting that can revive seems to get disproportionately beat in fights lmao. And ya a lot of factions would have insane OP abilities if they were just 10% more willing to properly use their resources. But planetside sword fights are more epic than those things so it all works ou😂 Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk The immortality aspect doesn´t even bother me that much. As you said in your video it basically gives them infinate retrys. I like the concept of them only being "defeated" when the hivemind desides that an attack is wasting more biomass than they would gain. As i said double edged sword for a narative if you make them basically unbeatable, Them showing up is an instant game over what make for unbelievably dark stories. But if the are beatable it makes for stories of great heroism, what works well for the guard.
One of the Terminators who died in the battle of the Polar Fortress was Lucian Ventris. Because of this honor, Uriel Ventris was able to join the Ultramarines. Now I want him to cover the Uriel Ventris story
I hope if you cover more of the Tyranic wars you bring up how a remnant of Behemoth attacked a forge world and a skitarii alpha had the idea of filling the sky with promethium then igniting it with his Dunecrawlers neutron lasers only for this strategy to be stored away and forgotten.
It's an actual 5000iq move, but now I wonder, would it actually burn for a long time? I have a feeling that all this promethium would just explode in seconds and do nothing.
@@zergrush_9704 If I remember right it was also mentioned that the flaming spores landed on the nids already on the ground. So a pretty effective strategy even if it is just one big explosion for a bit like you described. The actual quote is “set the skies ablaze” so hard to tell if they mean just a big series of explosions, or the sky actually being on literal fire for a while.
Since Space Marine 2 is about to come out and the blue boys are going to fight the ‘nids again, I thought we might get some references to this war, so thx for the vid Krak, and good job ya git!
As a fellow guardsman player I was already going to be supporting your channel, however the General Grievous bit has made me a loyal follower. Also FFFUUUCCCKKK Dave felony with the business end of a "function of a light saber".
Thank you! I love 2003 clone wars I liked 2008 clone wars in general, but it did add some wierd things to the setting I didn’t like. Filonis recent shows haven’t been that great tho imo. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk. To be honest the one really good thing about the 2008 show was the way the characterized the clones, and I mean that that was a genuinely good aspect of it and now I would say the show overall was mostly it mixed bag. And it had a lot of missed opportunity and under utilized concepts, like Darth maul being alive after he got cut in half made no sense, but if the night sisters going and recovered his body and capturing his sith ghost and reviving him through necromancy by sacrificing some of their people to bring them back, that would have been a lot better. . . . But as somebody who has been learning how to write for the last 5 years, I can tell when they either didn't give a shit about a character or were annoyed that they had to include them based off of the way they did things. And I wish I had an example to point too off the top of my head but I don't, and saying when you learn how to do something yourself from scratch it changes your perspective on a given skill or general topic, Isn't really a satisfying or conclusive argument but man I'm telling you it's there it's pretty easy to pick out if you know what to look for.
@@KrakDukppl want to praise him but Rebels was absolute trash. His design for Inquisitors are about maybe the worst thing in Disney cannon compared to superior Legenda
Yep! Tyranids are really cool I feel they get relagated to bolter fodder just because of their huge numbers and essentially immortal nature. Thanks for watching!
I remember the best clone. Saw grevious running down a building while they fled, said fuck it, proceeded to calmly load a rocket launcher and shot grevious while IN AN ELEVATOR.
and a fun fact... that the poster boys big struggle was effectively against 1%!!!! of the hive fleet.... the rest is killed by the navy and the IG legions before Macragge :D Just let it sink in :D
I will forever respect the tyranids for their almost supernatural ability to nuke space marine plot armour from orbit. First Macragge, then Baal. I hope some astartes ass gets kicked before the fourth tyrranic war reaches its conclusion.
I kinda like that out of all the chapters that dealt with the Tyranids the Lamenters are the ones that surprisingly survived them while on a penitent cruzade on minimal numbers They didn't even bother to call them for the devastation of Baal and they were still figthing the Tyranids on their own, It's almost as if they won plot armor only for the strict purpose of their suffering to continue
@@DisasterLord I mean for all we know they just haven't received the call yet and will get it hop in to warp drive only to arrive when bael is now relatively unprotected so they have to last stand it.
The tyranids can have some pretty plot armor moments too. That whole adapts to anything anytime anywhere gimmick has been more than once used as a cop out.
Supposedly, the Emperor himself fought the Tyranids during the Great Crusade, though it's never been really confirmed. The Legion of Ouroboris is believed to have been either an advance scouting Hive Fleet or was just an isolated Hive Fleet/were Genestealers. I'd love to see a video on that if there is enough for you to go on!
I love the ultramarines so much. I know others disagree sometimes because they get tired of seeing them and that’s totally warranted, but something about them just being incredibly sound logistical tacticians is so satisfying
Absolutely love 2003 Clone Wars. Still one of my favorite series for Star Wars. Great video as always. The First Tyrannic War is interesting since it was the smack in the face the Ultramarines needed that they needed to start thinking for themselves more and make changes to Codex Astartes, despite most of the chapter disagreeing initially with making changes
Isn't it cool and epic that old 40k battles actually felt pretty apocalyptic meanwhile the 4th tyrannic war is still ongoing and defeated the "last line of defense" planet and we hear zip zero nothing?
Ya the battle of oghram seemed pretty inconsequential lore wise. I’m wondering if they’ll actually do anything with it for the edition or if it’s just mostly going to be flavor like the necrons were for 9th. Thanks for watching! And happy Canada day to my Canadians!
The funniest part is that Santa is actually canon in 40k just he lives on Necromunda Also I miss Tyrannic war veterans, they used to have cool minis and rules as well as special ammo to choose from with templates
It's when I was 10 that I fell in love with the maccrage box The behemot color scheme is the best for Tyranids, no discussion allowed I remember I was fascinated by a particular illustration of a dark behemot Tyranid Prince in the rule book I miss this GW erea
My first 40K box was the 4th Edition Battle for Macragge starter set. It’s such a treat to see this period of lore getting so much love in the fandom lately. I recently got a bunch of secondhand firstborn ultramarines and touching them up while watching this video was a blast from the past for me. Thank you for your great videos! I’m glad I got in before the 40K mark.
KrakDuck: I love you more than GW loves the Ultramarines. Me: Thanks? 😅 No. There really isn't anything wrong with the Ultramarines. I just prefer Space Mongolia to Space Rome. Ultramarines go hard into Roman culture, like White Scars do Mongolian culture, or Space Wolves with Nordic culture. Still waiting for Jaghatai to return.
Ooh I love the white scars, I’ll never paint one but the lore is awesome. Salamanders are my favorite, but white scars are up there. Jaghatai is definitely a top 3 primarch. Thanks for watching!
The whole thing with your marines being usurped by the lore reminds me of how back in the day I made a colorful Necron army when they were all just silver only for them to add in more colorful dunasties in the next edition. Abd of course one of the main ones was almsot the exact color as my army I had come up with on my own
this might do you head in here, but the 2003 grievous is probably a better representation of a normal hive tyrant, and the swarmlord is quoted multiple times as such: "the swarmlord is to a hive tyrant what a hive tyrant is to a gaunt". they are absolutely INSANE. oh, and they are both 20 and 25 feet tall respectively, so the fact that they move as fast as they do while being taller then most buildings is honestly just as terrifying as their intelligence lol
Ya I eventually want to cover at least all the founding chapters and then probably some other fan favorite ones. It’s kinda just a matter of time and the fact there’s so many lore things I want to cover. Thanks for watching! Glad you like the videos!
@@cmtz2098 I may be missing something, but at lease the 1st, 3rd, and 7th company were confirmed to be there. However it’s likely more companies were also present, I don’t think the entire chapter was there though. Also keep in mind they had the PDF, navy, freeblades, and titan legions to help them. Most 40K battles have guardsmen or some other force doing the bulk of the fighting while space marines rapidly assault critical points of hold important positions. Marines are pretty terrible front line troops and are more suited for shock assaults or ship boarding.
