Tyranids: Very Hungry Bug Boys | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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I'm surprised you didn't talk about how the admech successfully stopped an entire hive fleet tendril by itself by just staying far underground, remote controlling all of their defenses with zero biomass for years and entirely starved and fought them off with nearly no casualties.

"Nid fans are like a battered house wife." Beastmen: [Moos in depression]

I love Tyranid vs. Chaos matchups, because it basically amounts to both sides shouting: "What the fuck, I can't eat this?!" and it's basically a giant waste of time for both sides...unless Hive fleet Kronos is involved.

My favorite Tyranid story features big man Ghazghull himself. So when Ghaz was going on his Orky crusade to unite the Orks he stopped on one planet to recruit a Warboss there and his army. Well, when Ghaz arrived, the particular Warboss he was there to recruit was fighting a swarm of Tyranids, so Ghaz and his boys headed on down to the planet surface to help fight off the Tyranids but while they're fighting, Ghaz ends up getting swallowed whole by a particularly large bug, but when he was halfway down the throat of this bug, he just punched his powerclaw through the chest of the bug and just tore his way out, while all the other Orks were cheering him on.

Tyranids, bringing a whole new meaning to the term "live ammunition"

Fun fact, the ultramarines were so traumatized from their interaction with nids that they changed their structure so they have -i think it was like a tyranid specialist company, and to get an ultramarine to realize he needs to change SO BADLY that he ignores his primarch's big book o' rules, that is some MASSIVE blunt force trauma.

The theory is that Old One Eye actually is cloned for more psychological warfare or how uniquely strong he is.

MA, GET THE BUGSPRAY!

my favorite tyranid story is the one with deathleaper, a lictor on the imperial world of st. caspelan. deathleaper knew that killing st. caspelan's spiritual leader, cardinal salem, wouldnt weaken the defense of the planet, but bolster it as the people would see him as a martyr and fight harder to get revenge. so what deathleaper did was infiltrate any and every place the cardinal was in and kill everyone in the room but leave the cardinal alive, and he did this for like 9 or 10 days. knowing that this tyranid could be around every corner made him paranoid as fuck, but not understanding why it never killed him fucked even more with his mind, cause this creature had every chance but never took it and he couldnt understand why. and his broken, paranoid mind and the confusion he caused trying to hide from this monster was a bigger blow to the morale of the people defending the planet than his death would be. "It's there, I know it is, lurking in the shadows, stalking me like an animal. It's death itself I tell you, just watching me, waiting… Oh blessed Emperor, why won't it just kill me?" -cardinal salem

*slaps giant space whale* This thing can fit SO MANY BUGS!

Preemptive Lore Spoiler: Old One Eye ate a pack of croctilids and gained their ability to warp travel. That’s why he’s seen on different worlds despite “dying” several times.

One of my favourite Tyranid facts is when their fleets cover the skies of an Ork world, they cheer and party as the fight comes to them.

"'Nid players are like a battered housewife." Starting off strong, Brick XD

Nids are kinda one of those factions that have the problem where if the lore got expanded out too much, they would become boring. It's the mystery of their origins and the only-outside-perspective that makes them an interesting enemy.

The fact that we got an entire tyranids episode without a Blood Angels mention, and his claim that only an ultra marine had touched the hive mind (the Lord of Death would like to have a word with you) shows why we need an episode on the sons of Sanguinius.

This was great as a tyranid fan, but Im sad there was no mention of my boy, "the doom of malan'tai", a zoanthrope nid who snuck past the aeldari on a craftworld, ate their infinity circuit and then just destroyed the world and disappeared. He's great.

Tyranids be the only faction that could be lookin at an Ork Waghh like a *SNACK*

When you tap in the hive mind it's just a million voices saying 'biomass go BRBRBRBRBRBB'

The Pharos blowing up is, allegedly, what got the Nids' attention. At least that's what the end of the book "Pharos" suggests.

*sniffs air* *Gnashes teeth* *Sharpens claws* Oh yeah it's bugsnax time

I think you could explain the shadow in the warp like this: They are communicating with each other psychicly so it would be like trying to talk to someone at a party with people talking aroudn you everywhere. But it's inside your head and you can't go away

Reminds me of the bugs from lost in space. "A million bucks worth of weaponry and what I wouldn't give for a lousy can of Raid"

The average imperium citizen that knows about choas is generally dead.

maybe old one eye is the hive mind's "killroy was here" it's a meme for the sake of psychological warfare

I hope they don’t develop characters for hive fleets. Characters in hive fleets is how you ruin hive minds. The borg queen is a good example. Also Kerrigan from Star craft. If an individual is in control of a hive mind, then the hive mind has a weakness. That is one reason the tyranids are so hard to stop, they do not negotiate with food.

My favorite story from any Tyranid invasion is when they fought the Orks. During the Second Tyranic War, after having been exiled from the inquisition for condemning billions of imperium citizens to Exterminatus to slow the advance of hive fleet leviathan, Kryptman wasn't about to give up his fight against the nids. And he thought that the imperium has expending too much time and too many resources to fight the Orks of the Octarius sector, so Kryptman lured a tendril of Leviathan to the Ork held sector, hoping that one Xenos race would weaken themselves and annihilate the other... But both Tryanids AND Orks T H R I V E in wartime, and it was such a good fight, that it attracted Greenskins from across the galaxy to fight, but all that extra biomass just let the tyranids make more of themselves and it was such a good fight, that it attracted Greenskins from across the galaxy to fight, but all that extra biomass just let the tyranids make more of themselves and it was such a good fight, that it attracted Greenskins from across the galaxy to fight, but all that extra biomass just let the tyranids make more of themselves And... if I'm reading the Tyranid codex right, THEY'RE STILL FIGHTING EVEN TODAY

In Kryptman's defense... The planets in the Hive fleet's path likely have Genestealer Cults already embedded, if you evacuate the planters you spread the infestation to many more systems.

While fighting Trayzn, Orikan once jumped his consciousness into the mind shackle scarabs in Trayzns shiny new swarmlord. He instantly jumped back out, screaming as if all hell was on his heels.

21:39 "That sounds like the opening to Chaos Tyranids, right?" Me: *Flashbacks to the All Guardsman Party...*

When you find a frozen Tyranid and your first thought is to crack open a cold one with the boys.

Hive fleet scroteus is the hive fleet to truly fear

Hive Fleet Kronos eats the warp... let that sink in, they adapted a Hive Fleet to eat Daemons and warp storms. They could literally convert Daemons and warp storms into biomass to make more Tyranids.

This podcast made me realize I want to run tyranids as my main army, no politics, no racism, no hatred, just HUNGY

my dad has been playing cyberpunk recently. when he first started, he burst into my room and shouted, in a very panicky way, "My man doesn't have nippels!"

I require more Kryptman in this episode. The fall of Tyran is actually pretty interesting

"Remember - SHOOT THE BIG ONES" Page 163 of the imperial infantryman's handbook (Revised edition published in 945.M41)

Mawloc in lore- One swallowed Ghazghkull, who then proceeded to shoot and power klaw his way out.

my friends on why they picked their faction friend 1: I picked the tau as I really like their mech suits, and also that they give the illusion of being good guys, but are super twisted on the inside friend 2: I chose space marines as they are all ways getting updates and I enjoy the sheer amount of lore friend 3: WAAAAAAAAAAGH me: Hongry

One of my favourite theories is based around the fact that they keep the genetics of anything they consume. The theory is that the old ones created the tyranids in an attempt to fight the necrons, because the ctan fed on souls they would kill everyone in the galaxy and thus starve the ctan out. Once the ctan and necrons were gone they could repopulate the galaxy. Ctan: "We will consume your souls!" Old ones: *furiously making tyranids* "NOT IF WE DO IT FIRST"

The truly scary thing about the Tyranids is that each hive ship is just a single cell of some lovecrafian super organism about to just nom the entire galaxy as it passes by.

Kryptman was excommunicated because he would let the Tyranid invasions progress until the capillary towers went up and then crack the planet.

Man I thought that knowing Zerg quite well not much would surprise me, but these bugs had to have guns

Im only 3 minutes in, and as someone that has a Tyranid tattoo I fully agree that we’re battered house wives

I’d just like to point out the story where a planet was being invaded but they had excellent orbital defense. Well the tyranids were drop shipping the swarm because they couldn’t land and rushing the lines. The guardsmen were being swarmed but the cannons were so big that they didn’t care... until they stopped firing. The swarm flooded the barrels of the orbital cannons till they couldn’t fire. Tyranids

I played with an Old One Eye a few times. In a game against Chaos Marines, he proved his worth! He murdered 2 units of Berserkers, a Rhino and beat down Abbadon with some assistance from a Swarmlord. The Swarmlord did not survive that fight though. From that day I didn't play without him.

Kinda forgot to mention how they traverse space in the first place which is another nasty thing about them. While they move relatively slow, they achieve interstellar( or galactic?) travel by having special bio ships bend space in the direction of a located system, which causes natural disasters decades before the fleet of hive ships arrives. After an Invasion, the capillary towers serve the purpose of transporting all gathered biomass, including the ground troops, into these hive ships in the outer atmosphere.

There’s that Dorn quote from TTS about Kryptman, “He was *exiled* from the *Inquisition* for being *too cruel*”

Rippers are more like dog sized The gaunts are the size of normal humans

"Rippers are like the size of a cat, no more like a mouse." Naaah, cat is right, I think, just a bit more compact. As a result, Gaunts are actually about the size of a person, just with the old theropod stance that means they're a fair bit shorter but much longer. I actually have both models right here and can make a comparison, Tyranid Warriors *TOWER* over Space Marines, the Marine only reaches up to like the Warrior's upper armpit. "Carnifexes, which are like the size of cars," VERY BIG CARS, a Carnifex is like a bit smaller than a double decker *bus.* The wiki says they're 4.5m high at their tallest point and their main bulk is about as long as that and almost as wide!!! "No, more like a semi truck" Yeah, closer to that. Nids be Hueg.

I always liked the meme where gw invented tyranids to eat their mistakes

Theory: The smugglers were warhammer tabletop players doing everything to earn more money for minis.

One of my favourite Tyranid characters is the deathleaper, just how it drove a commander insane and didn't kill him, as then he would be a martyr. It just kept showing him that it could, but never did.

No one: Tyranid: C o n s u m e

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Old One Eye is basically a cryptid. But my theory is he evolved the ability to WARP TRAVEL kinda like a crotalid. Maybe he found a big group of them, ate them, and was able to incorporate their DNA into himself and yeah can now warp travel.

Chaos Genestealers are a thing and have been for a long time. They don't get mentioned often, but they exist.

"Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!"

You should’ve talked about Hive Fleet Kronos (a fleet that are specifically adapted to fight chaos) Edit: and also about how Ka’Bandha lead a legion of Khornate to Baal and fight the Nids

Funny ya mentioned Chaos ‘Nids, because back in the day genestealers were considered chaos demons, since the bugs weren’t a thing yet. Plus, looking at it from modern canon, the genestealers were an advance force so it sorta makes sense in a backwards way, as your average Imperial pre-behemoth wouldn’t be able to identify a difference.

Just imagine how funny it would be you took Johnny Rico from starship troopers and put him up against the tyranids, and on the other hand take a single Terminator put it up against the entire arachnid horde.

00:57 I just loudly said "oh my god" My wife thought something bad had already happened at work.

There's an interesting bit of lore from the Ciaphas Cain series where a 'Nid splinter fleet or scout fleet was buried under an ice planet that he accidentally freed. Inquisitor Vail sent them to a forge world that ended up backdating them to M37 or M38, implying the 'Nids have been probing the galaxy for some time.

There's a quote from the story Down Amongst the Dead Men that encompasses the glory and value of resisting to the bitter end: "It has already been calculated that you cannot win this battle, that is not your objective. Your objective is to ensure that victory costs the enemy dearly. The enemy's resources far outweigh your own, for every second you stand against his guns however, you deplete those resources; you make him weaker. The price of this achievement in return is only that resource most abundantly available to us and most easily replenished, the price is that which is already the Emperor's by right. Praise be our Father, our Guardian. Today you'll face defeat at the small cost of your worthless lives, but die bravely, die hard, and your meager sacrifice will help pave the way for His most glorious triumph in the future. Praise be to the Emperor."

The Swarmlord (Hive Tyrant), The Red Terror (Ravener), The Doom of Malantai (Neurothrope), The Parasite of Mortrex (Shrike), Old One Eye (Carnifex). Basically every named special character for tyranids is a suped up version of existing unit type. Definitely should dive into them if you do another episode. Especially the Parasite from 5th edition codex.

It’s implied that they don’t come from the sides of the galaxy, but from above, hence why the fleets appear out of sequence, but the above thing is probably even more terrifying then being surrounded.

You guys NEED to make an Ogryn episode

I feel like the tyranids left their previous galaxy heading in all directs, and it was during this journey they were attracted to the Milky Way for whatever reason, so that’s now they’re all converging on it and coming from separate directions. Also, don’t some imperial worlds contain organisms that are starting to be identified or speculated to have ties to the tyranids, even though they have exist for thousands of years, like on Catachan and the Fenrisian Kraken?

The Ultramarines detonating an emperor class battlecruiser to destroy the nids is more like burning your house down to obliterate a termite infestation, which is a perfectly valid response.

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My favourite thought about tyranids is that since they get their victims DNA and they have won some battles against space marine, in a way, there is a hive fleet out there with the Emperor's DNA in their databanks and that's scary af.

Bro that Tempesa Scion is like screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS" in like a panicked and quickened state like home boy is praying hard

Now if Bricky doesn't at least mention the Tanoth first and only in the imperial guard episode, feth it all.

Desert Raiders, Talarn guard regiment gets ripped apart fighting the nids, then they go to a planet that they wanna eventually colonize. Only for the nids to invade and kill them all, but hey, they beat the vanguard ship though.

I get the feeling Bricky doesn't really get what a hivemind is

> Multiple confirmed deaths > Falls down a massive ravine after it was defeated. *Old One-Eye is Joshua Graham*

BROTHAS! It has been awesome watching this channel grow. You grant us a moments peace to our daily battles.

The shadow of the warp is simply the sheer volume of the Tyranid communication, it's like trying to whisper a lullaby whilst standing next to the speakers in a motorhead concert

A tyranid swarm that losses the synapses are known to attack other tyranid

I just discovered you guys over the Orkz tank animation Papa bless upon you

Ogg the ogryn by Noman is a really good tyranid invasion story.

That Ogryn quote is a direct reference to Forrest Gump. Knowing little about 40K, it gives me a really solid idea of what the Ogryn are.

I wonder what would happen if the tyranids got their hands on a Primarch’s Gene template, or even the Emperor’s gene template.

Tyranids are basically a mixture of the following: - Xenomorphs from Alien - The Flood from Halo - The Marker Cults from Dead Space - John Carpenter's The Thing Yeah, they're fucking terrifying

Its official, Bricky is a psycher, that cursed sniffing is OP

41:05 "He[kryptman] was *_exiled_* from *_the Inquisition_* for being *_too cruel_* "Sir Adornable, Crusader of Useless Exposition"

The bug are the real winner in 40k

39:34 saying they're really big then comparing them to a medium drink at a restaurant almost killed me

Back when I played in 2nd edition, the Tyranids had a gun called the Devourer. It was basically a boltgun with sustained fire dice, which was firing ammo that was eating the target If it get a kill, the unit had to make a fear check.

I wish he talked about how Tyranids get biomorphs, which are living organisms that work with the Tyranid host. All of their weapons are living organisms as well, even their bone swords. A great example is a part from devastation of baal, in which a group (I guess a gaggle) of carnifexes were attempting to scale a fortification. Even after one of the carnifex's head was blown away, it's gun was able to control the host's corpse and still climb. Really Cool stuff

dude mephiston killed a load of tyranid on a space hulk by entering their mind and giving them the black rage. also tiamat are building some kind of beacon on a world and no one can get near it without tearing their own eyes out.

The tyranids are scary because even the books don’t know where they come from. Think about that, the things more powerful and knowledgeable than the emperor and chaos gods, who know every detail, don’t know where they come from. It’s like if the narrator was explaining an enemy and suddenly got stabbed and fucking died in a show

I think the most unsettling scary thing about the Tyrannids is that they may have devoured every other galaxy in space and we may be the very last vestige of life.

The quote by Norc is a Forest Gump reference. When Forest was asked by his drill sergeant what his job was, Forest responded: “To do whatever you tell me to do drill sergeant” then the drill sergeant aggressively complimented him, called him a goddamn genius.

-who would stand a chance against the tyrannide? -I dunno... Nurgle? Basically a mass of infected deseased flesh. Plus all that is rot empower Nurgle. So them just trying to eat any Nurgle.... anything really, it backfires and Nurgle might try to claim the hive mine’s warp power?

Orikan was also able to tap into the Hive Mind. He basically mind hopped into it, but he never said what he saw. He basically just screamed like crazy then popped out again lol

I think my favorite part about this podcast is how wrong they are on just about everything to do with the tyranids because we end up with way funnier bits then if they knew everything

I once got a squad of homagaunts into close combat and had to roll 90+ dice. One squad, one assault, 90 dice. My Zonethropes eat Terminators for breakfast. My Carnifex plays pinball with tanks. So much fun to unleash on unsuspecting players.

Not even a minute in and there’s bashing of Cyberpunk. God I love this podcast.

A couple things bricky forgot to mention: as tyranids eat organisms they can also absorb their genetic makeup and use it to improve their own. Like since they ate something that can fly they were able to grow wings. And when they are about to invade they will adjust what tyranids they are making to match the planet and defenses to crush them effectively. Also when tyranids invade a planet they usually outnumber whatever they are attacking at least 50 to 1. And on planets where there are 10 billion+ people... for example on the original planet of tyran they would clog the barrels and inner workings of their AA defenses with huge numbers of flying tyranids. Also bio titans are a thing.