TYRANID BIOFORMS: From Tiny to Chunky (Neurolictor is in this one) | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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I remember the story about deathleaper terrorising planet governor. For a few weeks it came to his office, sliced everyone who was protecting him, stared at a guy for full night and then faded away. This simple little trolling creature was committing every single day drove governor insane and later to a suicide

Somewhere in the UK, Ian Watson watches Reddit thirsting over the Neurolictor with a smug grin. At last, his vindication is at hand.

The Ripper Swarm, AKA hell's Roomba

17:03 it's quite possible you remember the mind control bugs from starship troopers 2, they look and function almost identical. However that movie, like all entries past the first one, was so bad most people tend to just forget about it so it's understandable.

Bricky's quote should have just been an ear splitting shriek.

The face hugger must have reminded DK of the Catachan face hugging thingy

At some point in the lore, weren't the Zoanthrope and co based on Eldar DNA, hence why one can do Big Brain Bullets, and one can make Druhkari level poisons

Love this podcast. I dno why but it's weirdly reassuring that Bricky and DK ignore the space wolves as much as GW do. I say this as a SW player, not butthurt, just chuckling

I believe the 4th edition nid codex allowed you to customize a gaunt, just starting with a very basic statline and attaching more stuff to them, to create a custom profile! Really cool if you liked to make conversions.

From Tiny to Thiccc is what you meant!

Deathleaper glow up has motherfucking build in jacket, I love it.

GW KNEW what they were doing with the neurolicktor model. Of all the the models we got recently, there was NO promonart for it, zero teaser art, wasn’t even leaked. They kept that shit under wraps, probably because they knew if they didn’t Ian Watson would pop a boner right at GW HQ. They KNEW what we’d do and hid this from us.

I don't think they yet seen the 3d printable model of the Neurolictor called the NeuroThicctor

that Neurolictussy so good it turned me into a genestealer

As a tyranid player I have been praying for this episode

Oh man, on the same day I started building the tyranids half of the leviathan box they post this episode. The hive mind is finally accepting me!

I just realized I know what the Tyrind leader is the Tyranid at the top of the pyramid is a cat that's owner wouldn't refill their bowl when it was 90% full

Venom Cannon Tyranid Warrior vs. Ork Bile-Squig Launcha. I want this. Also, "Deep Throping". DK, you are a treasure.

Deep Thrope needs to be an army comp

Its 6am, I've not slept in 2 days. The horse noise at the end scared the absolute shit out of me. Well done lamo

I really liked the old pyro/biovore model cuz they were derived from Orkoid DNA and basically weaponized their spores!

Neurolictor becoming a cultured poster is inevitable at this point , so can we just agree that for once they should stick closer to the canon design with the tyranid tentacle face , and just add abs , maybe nicely shaped chest chitin and ofc even further enhance the legs ?

Should watch the leviathan trailer to go along with this. I think it's the leviathan trailer, the one showing the ultramarines getting bodied by the nids.

22:58 HOLY SHIT SAME It was mainly the scene where a character slowly sinks into a massive swarm of beetles. Thats the only thing i remember from the movie. After 10 fucking years

Grubbly, Gribbly and GROOOOOBBBLY

DK lore and game balance are never intertwined.

while the hormagaunt looks and seems like just a gaunt type it is actually quite far removed from the normal gungaunt types for example the hormagaunts lack a digestive tract a normal gaunt has very low carb use and is easy to refill allowing them to patrol the ship hallwayveins but a hormagaunt burns calories like mad, so the hive mind found a way to solve it by making it so it cant eat, it will do its killing now, it also carrys with it the eggs for the next generation so that when it dies in a pile of corpses the eggs can hatch, the larva eat the corpses and grow up to be the next wave of hormagaunts everything unneeded is stripped from these creatures to make them faster and killier distantly related to gaunts, but a lot more distant then it seems by just looking at them, whats under the hood is just all different

The parasite of mortrex is originally from 4th ed (maybe 3rd). There was never a model released for it back then (a lot of things had rules but didnt have models back then) so I took a gargoyle and made my own, first custom model I had ever made, got it to the table once (if even) and then it was removed from the game till 9th ed.

me preparing for space marines 2 by watching Adeptus Ridiculous

Gotta say…I like the cape of the deathleaper like it doesn’t make a ton of sense…like why would it need a cape aside from aesthetics, but I think it’s cool.

I'd like to see an episode of them reviewing kit-bashing and 3d printed models like doge vandire

Tyranid warriors are one of my favorite models

I think the Lictor was in one of the Sisters books I read. They did a good job of making the thing creepy as hell.

I never knew I needed a tyranid pokerap

that warrior sculpt dates back to 2001, although they did receive an updated sprue back in 6th edition, the aesthetic didn't change

StarCraft was originally meant to be a 40k game which is why the zerg are so similar to the Tyranids

For the face hugger thing? Its seems very similar to the red leaf type creaters on catachan that drug the human host and use the host to spread seed/offspring

Idea: Microlictor It lives in your walls.

As I am listening to this all I can think is a video should be done showing how much Star Craft ripped off the nids to make the Zerg

I have the Neurothicctor as a mini in my army. :)

28:49 pain

Termigaunts are fucken velociraptors with AR-15s and nobody listens to me when I say they don't look like bugs.

1:01:17 Holy fucking shit I was about to go to sleep. THAT FELT REAL DAMNIT! DONT SNEAK HORSES ONTO THESE STREAMS, FUCK

Love seeing more Tyranid episodes

So on the subject of the facehugger he’s thinking about his he heard about the blood leafs and slimes and Medusa in the catatchan and abhuman episode which had ag least 3 face hugger monster

Tyranid Warriors are more equivalent to Commiserate officers, or Tempestuous Scions if used in groups

And now we wait for the sexy neurolictor poster

Bricky, are you going to make a video about the Dark age of technology/ Golden age of technology, sorry if you have already talked about it.

missed a cool part of the devourer worms they dont eat away at the body they specifically eat the nervous system and follow that up to the brain

So, some who you boys left out and I feel like should get some honourable mentions ; Von Ryan's Leapers got name-dropped but weren't really explained. Basically they are a slightly less advanced version of the Lictor, not really meant to be an infiltrator or assassin, instead a stealthy battlefield skirmisher which hunt in packs. Tyranid Shrikes got left out a bit, them being Tyranid Warriors capable of flight via wings. In the similar vein Tyranid Primes also never got mentioned, but they basically are just a more advanced version of the Tyranid Warrior. I saw that you boys were a bit confused with the role of the Warrior so think of it this way. The Warrior is a shock trooper / officer, the Prime is a battlefield general. The Prime also got itself a winged variant just now so there's that. Another thing which I reckon should've been mentioned since you talked about the Hive Guard are the Tyrant Guard. They are essentially a heavily armoured melee variant of the Hive Guard, their purpose being to guard key synapse creatures, and that's how they got their name, they are the Tyrant Guard because they guard the Hive Tyrant (hue-hue). Also Tyrant Guard are implied to have been made by using Space Marine DNA, hence the insane toughness and vengeful berzerk frenzy that they go into once the synapse creature they guard dies. Similar situation with other stuff, Purestrain Genestealers were created in their current form by using base human DNA, Zoanthropes by usage of Aeldari DNA and the Biovore by Ork DNA. Last would be the Neurotyrant and Malanthrope but I assume you boys see them as big enough for next week. Either way that's all.

Neurolictor deep thrope. Interesting......

I too, thirst for some tyranids

Time for a new poster

41:21 No bullshit, swear on the emperor, me and DK said deep-thrope at the same time when I listened to this!

Nuerogaunt aka Tyranid cellphone.

Neurolictor poster when

You forgot the Daemonthrope.

So combi-bolter episode when?

I wonder what happens if a norn emissary gets cut off from the hive mind?

DK would change his mind if its the Norn Queen from Guild Wars.

I have watched a ton of your guys episode, and I’ve only just realized where DK is in the animation…. I always thought there was just like a random red cloak there lmao I didn’t realize it’s supposed to be like his back (not cause the art is bad I’m just dumb)

Welp i see tyranids so here i go clickin again

Gw should not be allowed to use the word chitinous without the phonetic version kitenous . Brick listening to audiobook version means the va did it wrong too.

“Sex with Catachen women is like fist fighting a Licter.” That’s hot. That’s really hot.

Goddamn, I love DKs puns

Synaps creautures are kind of like wifi routers.

The Combi bolter..........

Ravengaurd when

Something something bug twitter colony something

I am once again begging everyone who speaks about dice to learn that "dice" is plural ONLY. "The die has been cast." Etc

So if understand properly, 10th edition has been a big W for monster fuckers

I love Tyranid episodes so much but every time they pronounce chitin as chit-in instead of kai-tun it hurts my soul

I never knew some people pronounced "synapse" like the first syllable was "sin" before now and it sounded so very, very wrong to me the entire episode, please help.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm neurothictor

A neurolicter in thigh highs will be the next poster.

The slow zoom onto the lichters thigh had me dying

All the Ed Grimleys…..

My favorite bit of lore about the venomthropes: The Battle of Hesp. Some Death Guard and Nids decided to try to out-poison each other on a planet. It ends up so horrifyingly toxic that nothing can survive on the planet (including the Nids and Death Guard) and it just get turned into goop. The Nids assume that means they won, and one of the bioships tries to start drinking the goop that's left of the planet. Its probiscis begins to melt as soon as it tries, and the other bioships nearby open fire on it to destroy it entirely. Yeah, when Nids and Death Guard decide to have a pissing contest over who can poison better they call it a draw, because it is somehow too toxic for either one of them.

The Tyranid Warrior isn't really gripping the gun with his hands. The Warrior is (at least) one bug, the gun is another bug, and the Warrior is connected to the gun through some tubes and sinews, not fingers on hands.

Swarmlord: "WAAAAGH!" Marneus Calgar: "No, you!"

I am now obsessed with the image of a lone, extra chonky, lil ripper. Struggling his way back to the reclamation pools.

Tonite for the last time ever on Ridiculous Gear: DK tries to smuggle a ripper swarm past a bunch of Space Marines, Shy becomes a Norn Emissary and starts crushing custodes to death as she is sick of all the ''little guy'' jokes and Bricky becomes a Zoanthrope and uses that bulbous forehead of his to channel the power of the warp

I’m really glad you guys made an episode on the Tyranid bioforms and I can’t wait for the next episode where you’re going to talk about the bigger bugs

Man.that orc in that picture with the ripper swarm bearing down on him. That's probably the only scenario where a 40K orc feels genuine terror.

If a gun is willingly attached to me, is it really a parasite? Seems more symbiotic to me

Not the combi bolter!!! 🤣

You missed Von Ryan's Leapers, Shrikes, and tyrant guard

Edit: Bricky accidently doing the PokéRap but with Nids has me DYING thank you Shy for editing that I cant wait for all the monster fuckers to come out the woodwork for this episode (spoiler, it's me, I'm the monster fucker. I want to *[REDACTED]* the Tyranid Norn Emissary ) You guys should totally do another Tyranid poster...

What we Learned today: A lot about Tyrranids, and more importantly, Shy is into Tyrranids

Wonders if it’s still canon that some of the Tyranid Biomorphs are based on the DNA of certain factions in 40k… Like how Zoanthropes were made using Eldar’s DNA or the Hiveguards were created using Space Marines’ DNA …. The new Biovore may have lost their connections to Orks I guess….

I'm going to be that guy. BRICKY!! You forgot about the Tyranid Prime and Tyrant Guard. There I'm done. Good episode. Love the tyranid pokerap

With the mention of warrior's being the Tyranids space marine equivalent, I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the Actual space marine equivalent, Tyrant Guard who were made with space marine DNA.

Who else remembers the Daemon possessed Zoanthrope from The All Guardsmen Party?

I don’t think I’ve heard Bricky sound this defeated before. You guys broke him with those last few bugs XD

Warriors are described as "greater than equal to a space marine". Theyre also quite a bit larger in the lore than they were depicted in the Space Marine 2 trailer, originally being depicted as twice the height of a space marine

Note to self, do NOT google Neurolictor until the codex is out Also, I assume there'll be a follow up episode for the big bugs, like the Carnifex, the Hive Crones or the Hierodules. The Scything Hierodule is one of my fav Tyranid minis, it's basically a Tyranid T-rex, only with huge scything talons instead of tiny little T-rex arms.

The quote should have just been unrelenting shrieking, quoting the Nids

43:25 Venomthrope Moments before disaster: "I've been slimed, Ray." >cue sound of 250 pounds of green custard splatting across the ground

I love how the new gaunts are just the old ones with parasites attached. Like the norn queens said “fuck it” slapped an “upgrade” on em and called it a day