Hive Fleet Leviathan | Warhammer 40,000 

You are all mislead! The tyranids are the flesh of angels. They cannot be corrupted by chaos. Nor tempted by money, goods, power or lust of the body. They don't strife for individual might or glory. They are selfless. They are couragous, vigourous, willing to endure. Traits we would call noble. They even give hope to everyone. They purge the unholy. By consuming their sinful flesh. And from their flesh they are reborn. They are the angels, saints and sword of God in Warhammer 40k and they have come for the final days! 😁

The Imperium unable to work out why the Nids are aiming for Terra, a planet that spews a massive psychic beacon into space

I cannot describe my utter terror at recently listening to the Horus Heresy series and having the book Pharos end with "Slowly, glacially, the Great Devourer shifted its course." Nobody could've foreseen the actions of the Horus Heresy would cause something millions if not billions of light years away to shift its gaze and spend the next nearly ten thousand years making its way over to fuck shit up.

That last time is truly chilling. The idea that the Tyranids weren't even trying before would have me looking for another galaxy in the imperiums peace

Silent King, I think it's time to start that whole 'stop the Tyranids' plan.

Now might be a good time to call in that ancient, immortal army of skeleton robots.

The moment when you realize the tyranidis made the imperium and chaos work together it legit make everything scarier (probably the most depressing endtime that could be is the tyranidis just eat Milky Way galaxy and moving on )

>Few million Guardsmen told to hold planet as a bump in the road for Leviathan >Guardsman scared shitless >Tyranids start descending on the planet >Lizardmen with they super advanced Kroxigors pop out of nowhere and assist humans >Guardsmen can't explain it. Kroxigors just violate the Nids >Lizardmen don't say anything and just leave

Ah yes, my favourite: Eldritch horrors beyond my comprehension

One of my favorite stories that features the tyranids is the one where the main characters (a normal imperium ship crew) are tragically eaten by a tyrannid hive ship. Seeing their perspective of their ship being broken down with them inside was horrifying.

"We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it were the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and no one will build a memorial for us, so we will build our own memorial here. The Imperium might lose us and the galaxy may never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When the hive mind lay dying, it’s last thought will be of us. That is our memorial -carved into the heart of The Enemy. We cannot lose, loyal soldiers. We have already won."

That's how you describe the Tyranid threat, i mean as a former Tyranid player, now playing Necrons, it took the Tyranid threat to make The Silent King return. No threat except all Necrons awakened even comes close.

To be fair to nids, their end game is actually fairly stable if you just tweak it a bit. Biomass is a catch all term for 'easy to digest'. Canonically they can devourer the rock of planets and gas of stars too. They don't pause for that stuff, and now actively avoid it, because that's where they are weakest. They don't want the biomass only, they're after the matter, and that's actually something almost any faction short of Chaos and the Orks will eventually be after, the bugs just went first. Lots of options are possible once they have time to pick the Galaxy clean, but most obvious would be their own version of a swarm of red dwarf dyson swarms, which I think is called a Kepler Swarm? I forget though. Eventually, this collective masses into a black hole, but between their massive psychic powers to tap the warp for even more power to top off their galaxy+ of material to work with, hunger is the least of their worries as they have an effectively infinite energy supply. Combined with their canonical gravity control ships in the Nautilus vessels, even without warp travel they effectively turn the Milky Way into a mobile swarm galaxy hub, protected inside a galaxy mass black hole that only they can ever leave, and simultaneously will always have energy sources for them to consume. Hell, take it on long term, and so long as they keep tapping the warp for extra power, it's a plan that can survive the heat death of the universe, and continue to rescue the bits of the universe even in the end, dragging it atom by atom into the swarm ball and reversing entropy by applying warp power. Viewed this way, the Tyranids are just a biological super AI trying to escape the death and save as much of the universe as it can with it.

The angle I always wish people would explore is the that the Tyranids are not a "race" at all, and should not be referred to in the plural: The Tyranid is an organism. One single organism on an incomprehensible scale, which is composed of complex motile organisms in much the same way that a human is composed of cells. Even bioforms as huge, complex and tactically significant as a hierophant biotitan are, from the Tyranid's perspective, just corpuscles. It is one single beast. An intergalactic amoeboid. To try and refer to it as a "species" is to make the fatal mistake of trying to compare it to humans. It is nothing so wholesome, nor so identifiable. It is the Predator of Galaxies, the biological Von Neumann Machine that will devour all the universe before starving to death. And it is either already far too vast to defeat, or it is now on the very edge of failure and extinction: there can be no middle ground.

If WH40K isn't the slowest moving space opera in all of history, I don't know what is! Feels like it will take years for them to resolve any plots or move things forward in a meaningful way.

Calling it now: the end of Leviathan will come not at the hands of the Imperium, but from Chaos itself. The Great Game must come to a pause if the gods’ food is under threat.

I honestly can’t wait to see Lt. Titus fight Tyranids.

The Strategic Collective estimate that mobilisation levels will need to be increased by a minimum of 500% -- effectively including every able-bodied man, woman, and child on every world in Segmentums Solar, Obscurus and Tempestus -- to have even a hope of stopping the Tyranids...

I do hope after the fourth Tyrannic War wraps up we get a new hive fleet with a new strategy. It's so cool seeing each one get beat back and a new one take its place in the lore and model range. It does make them feel like they're evolving! I hope as well that the next one barrels into another faction, or, heck, at the Eye of Terror. Abbadon and Chaos have to fight off the Tyranids for once.

Ah, more on the tyranids. The big menace that just ended up just... being there.

Leviathan is terrifying, however: The Gaz is leading a 5 million strong ork WAGH! Constantine Valdor is at the head of a giant loyalist daemon army The necrons are waking up Angron is at the head of a huge world eater fleet Who knows what Vastor is doing And the emperor has woken up Nothing is lost, it's only just beginning

Gotta love how, in a setting where humanity's in space all the time, they had an alien invasion show up right in the middle of their turf because they forgot that space is 3D.

We cannot get out. The shadows move in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming. They are here.

When a demon prince says "No Cockroach is stealing my kill." And helps you, you know you are fucked

"You think the galaxy is finished now?... Just wait until that which hunts hive fleets arrives." - Gnosticum Mahorious of the mechanicums fourth intergalactic observatory.

Going to be interesting to see what happens when the Silent King wakes all of the Necrons and aims them at the tyranids

"They're here." That sent goosebumps down my back.

Wow, that end line was sufficiently chilling and depressingly horrific though that would send a shiver down the spine of any in the imperium. If true, it would make the Tyrannids, the most dangerous threat to and probable cause of the empire's eventual destruction, being the one enemy they face that gets harder and harder to defeat with every successive invasion of their territory..

Nice, hoping you cover all the hive fleets too!

"Is this gonna be a straight fight, Sir, or just another bug-hunt?"

My headcanon is that the Tyranids were created by the last of the Old Ones as a last middle finger to the Necrons and an unhinged method of defeating Chaos. If they consume all life the Necrons are stuck in their shells forever, unable to die, but only able to fight one another over nothing. Chaos dies because neither Necrons or Tyranids nourish the ruinous powers.

You know it's a bad sign when Chaos suddenly intervenes on behalf of the Space Marines just because they want the honor of destroying them first. And with the Fourth Tyrannic War erupting, I can only imagine if Necrons, Eldar, Tau, and even the Leagues of Votann will suddenly get involved. Anyway, I hope you'll do the other Hive Fleets somewhere down the line.

This is why I play nids. Great video! Just one error: @ 12:31 should be saying Leviathan, not Behemoth.

Each time I come across a lore segment on Leviathan specifically, it’s somehow more terrifying than the last.

One of the most terrifying theories regarding the Tyranids is that they are running from something, rather than just coming to the Milky Way to feed they are fleeing from a predator even more horrible than themselves...

What if Terra daily massive psychic release is extremely harmful to the Tyrannid species so they’re sending forces trying to shut it down? But along the way they need organic substances to remain alive, they attacked other planets and thus started the human-tyrannid war? What if their intention was just to politely asking Terra to stop flashing psychic light into their faces but was misunderstood for being the bad guys?

And since all the Tyranid armadas attacked from different sides of the galaxy... like whales tearing at a school of krill, even Leviathan might not be the true force of the alien threat... but simply another battering ram meant to break the gates while the true force still awaits in the dark.

Just started my Tyranids army. Leviathan will consume all

Imperium: How did you find us when theres like a million other galaxies? Tyranids: hmmm i wonder whats that JIANT PHYSIC BEACON SPITTING OUT NAVIGATION SIGNALS ACROSS THE GALAXY doing there?

In 40k years did humanity forget the advent of bugspray? Eh. Seems likely.

That was great, thanks a lot for this vid ; feels good to hear about Wh40K lore in such a way. Cheers !

The Necrons are a hard counter to the 'Nids and they don't want their only way to potentally return to life being gobbled up by a bunch of space bugs.

If the Tyranids caused this much damage in the milky way, I can't imagine what is to come lurking beyond the milky way. They are truly a space horror threat.

“Think of my actions as you will, but do not doubt the reality. The Great Devourer is here, and we are unable to stop it.”

Huh, I wonder why a hive mind which is basically a superpowerful warp god is directing all its forces at the galaxy’s largest lighthouse

Sounds like the Imperial Fleet needs to borrow some Tau Ether Drives to get around the hive fleets blocking of warp travel.

Warp based weapons to send them into the warp would end this problem real quick.

Damn, last time I was this early the eldar still had an empire.

I have a feeling Papa Nurgle is pretty upset that Tyranids are consuming bacteria as well.

The irony of the WH40k universe, unlike the Warhammer Fantasy universe, is that the Chaos Gods aren't even the worst threat to the Empire.

this is just an open question but is The Octarius War is still going in a sea of blood and violence, or have the Octarius system being reduced to a couple of pockets of Ork resistances against the Hive Fleet Leviathan, or have the Hive Fleet Leviathan won the war??? (Edit: I will definitely like to see a Templin Institute Analysis/Documentary/Details and current state on The Octarius War)

You know that the situation is fucked up with no alternative that even humans decide to cooperate with chaos

With every defeat, the Tyranids learn. With every victory, they grow. Either way, it seems like the rest of the galaxy's forces are hard-pressed to stop them.

*_Steps on a bug_* _I'M DOING MY PART!_ [would you like to know more?]

The Tyranids are nothing compared to the might of the Necrons. The Silent King shall see the Hive Mind on a pike before this millenia is done. Their biomass collection shall serve as the basis for the Necrontyrs return to flesh.

Very good work, one of most interesting materials about warhammer I've ever seen.

Tyranids vs Necron. Bio supremacy vs technological mastery.

12:31 The Institute made a bit of blunder here, shouldn’t it say Leviathan, even the subtitles do 🤓

Chaos is probably the best answer to the nids, Kabanda was able to temporarily kill the entire hive mind with a psykic assualt, (it recovered but it was the worst it had ever been hurt) imagine if all 4 chaos gods get concerned their favorite galaxy is gonna get nommed, their combined psykic tomfoolery would shatter the shadow in the warp like glass

Where’s the Queen of Blades when you need her?

Necrons laughing in boomer on nids

Yet Cadia still stands, and we shall tame the Tyranids when Space Marine II is introduced. Side question, does anyone know what the glowy spiraling construct at the end of Space Marine II new gameplay, is it like a giant tendril?

the imperium of man will die if they keep doing the old strat of throwing men into the problem until it gets solved. Tyranids will not run out of numbers, they can even outnumber the mushroom boyz

God, I can't wait for Space Marine 2

One of my favorite factions, and in my opinion...the end game boss.

Tyranid's chill is zero...

I know what Eric Cartman would be saying right about now in response 😂

Fermi Paradox mistake: Terra's psychic beacon attrac. Xenos attac

Factions I would like to see next: 1. The Authority | Rage 2. The Locust Horde | Gears of War 3. The Planetary Union | The Orville 4. The Drengin Empire | Galactic Civilizations 5. The Principality of Zeon | Gundam

They really gotta do the Dark Angels, especially now that Lion El'Johnson is back.

12:31 Did you mean Leviathan?

Let’s be perfectly honest with our self’s here. the only way the 40k galaxy is going to survive the tyranids is if all other factions ban together to beat them.

hope chaos is a big player in 10th edition against the nids, would make sense that the chaos gods would want to keep their food source (humans) alive

What are the chances that Leviathan coming in from below, but another unknown fleet coming in from above?

Another great video as always!

Next on Templin Institute Can there be a Tyranid chapter of the Space Marines?

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It kinda seems like the galaxy is going to be eaten from all angles by the tyranids, How or what could possibly even dent them?

I would love to see which is better/faster at destroying a world, destroyer infected Necons or Tyranids? Also would love to see Flayed Ones wearing nid skin!

that this point i dont think even big E coming back would solve anything

💜🟣 What sweet slaaneshi irony. All Dante's Circles of Hell start from the Second: the Sins of Lust and Pride! Fulgrim and Emperor's Children become Serpents, Konrad Curze and Night Lords become Dragons, Alpharius/Omegon and Alpha Legion become Crocodiles. What is the excessive power of the Emperor's Children, the Night Lords and the Alpha Legion under Slaanesh to have bodies of pure dark stone (the Ice Moon of Slaanesh)? Genestealers (Tyranids) and Beastmen can find excess only with Slaanesh! I think I've solved Slaanesh's Necromancy! Ghosts and Skeletons of Slaanesh are of Ice, moved by Lust and Pride. A pearl of Slaanesh please: Ice Magic of Slaanesh. Does it have a classic look or does it have a more snowy look? The (humanoid) Dark Kroxigor for Slaanesh? How can they be? Circle of Avidity is a hell of gold, Circle of Gluttony is a hell of blood, Circle of Carnality is a hell of sand, Circle of Supremacy (Paramountcy) is a hell of ash, Circle of Vanity (Vainglory) is a hell of water, Circle of Indolency is a hell of snow. But why is it called that and not simply Supremacy? Furthermore, the gold pearls of the Circle of Avidity must be Gold Serpents or Gold Elementals, i personally say gold pearls (the magic water that can turn everything into perfect gold). And shouldn't the Circle of Vainglory simply be called the Circle of Vanity (example the Princes of Vanity)? "Vanity, definitely my favorite sin." (The coral/seaweed Forest of Vanity) 💜🟣 I have an interesting theory about the V Circle of Seduction, Vanity (Vainglory). As Nurgle is nature on Earth, Slaanesh is nature in Water (example the sea gardens of the Laer). And by logic the fragrant and flowery Forest of Vanity is of perfect coral with spikes and seaweed with spines, dominated by serpentine Demons with spines. You like it? Sun Dragons in the Circle of Carnality, Moon Dragons in the Circle of Indolency, Fire Dragons in the Circle of Supremacy, Ice Dragons in the Circle of Indolency, Metal Dragons in the Circle of Supremacy, Ash Dragons in the Circle of Indolency, Earth Dragons in the Circle of Supremacy, Sea Dragons in the Circle of Vanity, Lightning Dragons in the Circle of Supremacy, Blood Dragons in the Circle of Gluttony.

Emperor snaps his finger and dusts the nids. Some force of space marines fights to the queen chamber, kills her, and the hive descends into madness tearing itself apart. Bioweapons/super virus that turns the nid mutation ability to 9001 which destroys them all. Super pheromones turn one of the hive fleets friendly and combined with the rest of the galaxy's might they take out Levi. Ender's Game supergun. Molecular disruption device. Time travel. Some really bad/overdone ways they could end this threat. Would it really be bad to have the nids win though? Let the galaxy as we know it end in the 42nd millennium. It's a big galaxy in both area and time, plenty of room to keep telling stories from before 'the end'. Plus it takes a long time to eat a galaxy, even for an organism nearly as big as said galaxy. Plus plus they could write amazing stories about/during the fall.

12:31 "Behemoth", I think that was a mistake...you mean "Leviathan" as Behemoth and Kraken were already talked about earlier in the video.

Ok, but have they tried a huge space-sized can of bugspray with a constant stream of oxygen, promethium and hellfire?

I am doing my part by wiping out Leviathan in Dawn of War 2 matches.

I wonder if Neurotyrants could shut down the Ork's power of belief. Could the tyranids make the orkish aircrafts fall from the sky or does the psychic powers of an ork work to differently from a human for that to work?

Nom nom nomnomnom nom nom nomnomnom nom nom nom nom - A random Tyranid Gaunt.

I like this man’s voice the best, he has a very narrative tone into his voice 😊

its not that humans cant think in 3d that made the invasion from the bottom so jarring its that every fight so far has been from inside the galaxy, so on the galactic plane warp travel itself, even if it doesnt follow dimensions at all, is still on the galactic plane combine that with intergalactic invasions coming from a diffrent side would mean they would need a very diffrent starting point its not peoples inability to imagine it its that it is unimaginable

Popcorn time!!

The Tyranids are the single greatest threat to the Galaxy. Not even Chaos compares. You can't have The Great Game without players.

Thank you the Video and the English subtitle.

The Emperor Protects

Just had a Nid army commissioned as my 5th army :-) hive fleet Lev of course

Did he misspeak at 12:31?

Inb4 GW takes a cue from Halo and has something equivalent to the Halo Rings.

Amazing work as usual

The Imperium should build an area for battles between Orks and Tyranids. The Tyranids get the biomass and the Orks get a good fight

Hey uh, probably the best time to get that AI thing started again and send some Men of Iron against the bugs eh?

Time to spin up and fire the Halo arrays ...