I recall that Inquisitor Kryptman tried to have Orks and Tyranids fight each other in the Octarius War but it ended up making the situation even worse for the Imperium.
Maybe not. If the orks win then they might develop an addiction to fighting tyranids and leave the galaxy en-masse to hunt down more. Tuska the demon killa is more or less a precident of this, an ork who decided that demons were better to fight than humans and made a beelive straight for the eye of terror.
Perhaps if the Orks win against the Tyranids, they’ll evolve back into Krorks, and go on a Waagh unlike anything the Galaxy has ever seen. The Necrons, having faced the Krorks before will see this and go “OH HELL NO!!!” And will side with the Imperium, and somehow get the other xeno factions like the Eldar and Tau to temporarily unite against the new green skin menace.
@@drkittyphd6205 This actually makes a lot of since, didn’t think about it but you’re right, in comparison nothing else other than necrons are worthy foes
In fairness they ate most of the Blood Angels, Baal and the successor chapters. Only got hammered when the Cicatrix Maledictum opened and Guillimans Crusade Fleet turned up.
Yeah its like say "Sad that you are out for a duck but atleast you swinged the bat". They have killed no major character and lost more times than they actually won. Even a single custodian shits on swarmlord which feels like an absolute joke.
"Tyranid lore isn't exactly the most fleshed out." They're bugs. The anthill in my backyard has similar lore: They invaded the garden, so I peed on them every day until they left, then they invaded the cable box, were I put poison. Now they're in the compost. It isn't very exciting.
I mean, I commit war crimes on my ants. Boiling hot water on any and all areas they come from. All while humming and whistling WWll German marching songs
Eldar a lame race worthy of no new content besides functioning as literary cannon fodder devices. The necrons deserve to be the forefront of war hammer.
Imagine if the space bugs turn out to be part of an intergalactic civilizations construction process. Spreading nids out to unexplored galaxies cleansing all bio matter so they can terraform the planets to meet their specific biological requirements and expand their territory
@@somethinglikethat2176 That's my personal Canon for them that they were a way to preserve the genetic make-up for all life But being 40k it all went wrong
@@thecheechoftheages yup but it also fits being a warped version of the old ones goals I'm also pretty sure the idea has been done long before mass effect
Well, think about this. Today we don't have enough scientific knowledge to assess whether "Tyranids" would be possible irl, though it seems unlikely. But if by chance it turns out they can exist, then they do already exist somewhere in the universe. Tyranids are less of a "race" and more of a natural process, like a disease or a natural disaster is. They kinda just "are".
I think a fix would be to have these fleets be the only ones out there. Have the Tyranids consume a galaxy, only to end up with nothing to eat. Then, the Tyranids either turned on each other or simply flew out into the galaxy to find something. Hence, while most of the Tyranid Species are dead in space, there are stakes still in defeating the relatively small numbers: if they can consume an entire galaxy, they will do so to the Milky Way. So they need to stop the Tyranids, or else the cycle will repeat and end with the galaxy lifeless.
@@mightbeapersonmaybe8379 Older lore suggested that the Tyranids aren't actually invading the Milky Way... they're _fleeing_ from something _much worse_ in a different galaxy, something that is probably _following_ them right to us.
If another fuck-off huge force of any race (besides eldar and tau because reasons) showed up at terra like how chaos did during the horus heresy I would not call it a safe space.. actually I wouldnt even call it a safe space now, just cause it hasnt seen action in centuries doesnt mean its not safe... space bugs, space mushrooms and metal egyptian space dudes seem to be the most likely contenders. The biggest guns will attract the biggest enemies...
@@MrThatpersonthatguy The Necrons will never be a threat to anyone ever. They will never unite, every Phaeron wants the head of the Silent King. Every dynasty is in war with the other. As for Orks, they are in open belief that the Emperor is indeed a God and nothing can harm him. Over the last 11000 years, every single asteroid, moon, planet in the Solar system has been weaponized. Not counting the literal thousands of warships, millions of Astartes, billions of guards, forge world's running over time, the entirety of the Mechanicus, the world ending DAoT that are hoarded. And this is just the first line of defence. There's also mobile Fortress world's like Phallanx, the Rock, etc. And then you have Terra, with Custodians, Sisters of Silence, Sisters of Battle, a world that has void shields that'll can be replenished for years, able to take orbital bombardment like it's nothing, a moon that has been weaponized. The list goes on and on. Terra is not falling to a "fuck all army" as easily. The only reason the Horus Heracy did so much dmg was because it was basically the Imperium vs it's half. And the traitor half were playing from the shadows most of the time, and even when all out war broke out, most legions didn't know who was traitor or loyalist. The only ones who are a genuine threat are the Tyranids, but all hive fleets have been destroyed already, and only splinter fleets linger on.
@@vinayvenkatram8535 Didn't know those things about orks and necrons. They could always introduce more hive fleets to the universe though. But from this information it sounds like the prophecy of the imperium falling into stagnation and ruin after the horus heresy was wrong. If Constantine valdor is able to find the emperors true name and resurrect him then everything will not be as grimdark as this universe purports itself to be
It is very fitting that the most dangerous threat in 40k isn’t one of the pseudo fantasy races or factions, but the extragalactic insectoid hive mind, a staple in sci-fi
@@entropicflux8849 If Chaos wins there isn't even Chaos because they need emotions to exist. Which is basically what happened mostly due to the Skaven in Warhammer Fantasy. Chaos won and they too lost. Until AoS anyway.
@@nuke2099 this! For chaos to prove themselves to be an even greater threat than the Tyranids I want Nurgle to fuse with and eventually absorb the Flood from HALO, as well and Dungeons and Dragons Malal to once again reunite with 40K Malice. We NEED the renegade god At it’s peak once more. Also another hivemind (Other than the Flood) greater than the Tyranids should be shown to the galaxy after the Imperium loses half of their empire (and gains the entire galaxy orbiting the Milky Way as they migrate away from the Tyranids) after successfully defeating the Tyranids.
It's still impresses me that Tyranids can adapt to Necron weapons that strip away atoms. The most advanced science around versus the most adaptive species around.
Tbf alot of weapon in 40k should be able to strip atoms besides gauss weapons. You don't need GW to explicitely spell that one out for you. Plasma weapons should be able to do it. Melta weapons can destroy molecular bonds. Even laser weapons can do it but those laser are DAoT/ custodian.
Well, if your arm gets ripped off, its atoms will separate from you, so every weapon deals such damage. But necrons guns can shoot in leg and somehow dissolve enemy completely
@@argeltal_thewordbearer Didn't Ciaphas Cain lost his like 2 or 3 fingers because of a gauss weapon. I think the necrons gauss weapons use a type energy that speed up the rate of aging thus dismantling the molecular bonds as opposed to truly breaking bonds but the process happens so fast and spontaneous that to the human eye, it looks like disintegration as opposed to forcible ripping apart molecular bonds like plasma or lasers or melta weapons. Something like Eon from Ben 10. Kind of like how the necrons teleportation tech and self destruction tech looks indistinguishable from one another.
Me too but it's not likely. Both scour planets, and either one fighting the other is a simple waste of resources. Tyranids don't have souls and Necrons don't have biomass. In the 4th through 6th edition codexes (at least) it is mentioned that necron worlds seem to be avoided by 'Nids, with the hive fleets skirting around them. Not sure how that'll fit into new lore though
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 i cant remember where i heared it but there was a necron faction that does tend to fight the nids, mostly because that faction wanted to return to organic bodies, and well they cant do that if the nids eat everything first
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 The Necrons (I want to say Mephrit dynasty?) did team up at least once with the Blood Angels to fight the nids, where the Silent King himself (whilst wearing the mask of sanguinius) told Chapter Master Dante the nids are basically the biggest enemy of the Necrons, presumably, as Nitebones refers to, the desire on behalf of some Necrons to return their souls to mortal flesh
@@RandomiusBronius nids creat their units in spawning pools and then distory them once done, and necrons just replace their souls into a new body every time a body is lost
@@majorkill Hey sunshine, you brighten up his life! Thats not depressing. The current world is even more depressing than running through Australian Jungle with Dropbears raining on you, and you have no Vegimite.
The imperium would start thanking inquisitor kryptman once he saves the entire imperium from the grand hive mind's attempt to make the milkyway galaxy it's snack
Actually, throwing two races that like feed on intence battle is a terrible idea. Thr war of Octarius is a massive problem for the Imperium because if one side happen to win, it would be big problem for the Imperium. If the Tyranids win they’ll have shitload of biomas to work with taken from the orks, as well as their geneticsl perks. If the orks with the Imperium will have en entier ork empier conposed of happy green boy u er charged of WAAAAGH energy, and that’s never a good thing (look back at the Beast).
A couple of details that I would like to point out. 1.) Tyranids cannot intentionally make use of the Warp themselves. However, the Warp can still swallow them up in random Warpstorms. Spacehulks are a good example. Even a splinter fleet of Kraken was lost in a Warpstorm only to exit some time later in the path of a Leviathan fleet. The Eldar wiped out the splinter fleet so that Leviathan couldn't receive the data Kraken had with fighting against Eldar. 2.) Kryptman's Gambit involved Inquistor Kryptman wiping out hundreds of worlds and then sending a clutch of genestealers locked in stasis into the Octarius sector - a well-known Ork empire. The genestealers became a psychic beacon to the approaching Leviathan. The ensuing war between Orks and Tyranids then became a never-ending meat grinder where neither side gaining a true advantage over the other. They're still fighting. 3.) Hive Fleet Gorgon isn't a splinter of Behemoth. And 2 Hive Ships (the big ones) survived the initial campaign, so their still around. 4.) And you missed my favorite splinter fleet - The Court of the Nephilim King. This fleet is a surviving tendril of Behemoth that has fought against Imperial Knight houses and even the Dark Angels Raven Wing, and is led by the unique Hive Tyrant - the Nephilim King. These Tyranids spawn an abnormal ratio of larger bioforms in battle instead of the usual endless wave of gaunts.
I get the feeling that the Tyranid lore is following the synopsis of pacific rim very closely. As time drags on, the “Nids” are arriving in the galaxy in increasing numbers and ferocity. In pacific rim, it was calculated that eventually the kaiju would arrive every few seconds. Essentially showing up in groups. Simply put, the time between tyranid attacks is accelerating, and eventually we will see a double invasion, and a triple one immediately after. The tyranids are the very definition of the Hydra Effect. Strike one fleet down and two more arrive to replace it. It’s likely that the tyranids will arrive so frequently, that the final hive fleet that gets a name will be seemingly never ending but in reality it’s many fleets in one. It’s possible that the final fleet will take millennia to destroy. If it can be destroyed that is.
Kronos sounds pretty fascinating, imagine seeing a bunch of nids coming and running past you to go fight the daemons who have been tearing you a new one. Sounds cool. They really out to make some more media about this universe, it's bloody good!
It’s not though. Remember that all Hive Fleets are a part of the SAME Hivemind. It’s main purpose is to re-absorb failed splinter fleets, so no biomass, learned experiences is lost to the Hive Fleet. They are all the same, and part of the same organism.
because it's not just the Ultramarine chapter, but their successors. The Ultramarines were, and are, effectively a Legion with the way their successors are structured.
Lutien06 has a few of videos that will get you aquatinted with the other hive fleets and what they’ve accomplished. I recommend watching the tyranid first contact video first as it gives you a great overview of the bugs early history and their tactics.
Imagine if the tyranid situation got so bad that the forces of chaos and the imperium were forced to team up to deal with them. Daemon primarchs and their loyalist counterparts now forced to work with eachother. Then when the alliance finally beats back the tyranids, their depleted forces try to capitalize on eachother's weaknesses
Imagine the endgame of 40k: the scout fleets have been dealt with, but the main tyranid forces start to appear in the galaxy from all sides and above and below the galactic disc, basically unlimited trillions of tyranids fleets, new and old bioforms alike, and guilliman gets a chunk bitten outta him by the swarmlord, leading to a power-up across the entire tyranid race Then long story short, each faction realise the only way they will survive the tyranids is if they pool their resources, even irks Hence an imperium-eldar-tau-necron-chaos-ork alliance, with no limit of backstabbing, in a futile final attempt to save the galaxy, especially since the silent king wants there to still b a galaxy left once the necrons wipe everyone else out, chaos understands that tyranids ends warp rifts wherever they go and... well I'm not sure how orks could get convinced to join up
"O great Old One, did you find a way to protect our sugar cane from bugs?" "Yeah, I found another species of bigger and rather hungry spikey bugs in the next galaxy. We gonna release them here, they eat the bugs threatening our sugar cane and we are fine. What could possibly go wrong?"
The nids should have destroyed ultrama/ caused guilliman's resurrection. It would have given the smurf's an actual pyrrhic victory instead of papa smurf loosing a few easily replaceable limbs.
The hive fleet Gorgon story is honestly kinda cool, because it was literally the most biologically adaptable faction facing off against the most technologically adaptable faction. A proper brawl between the Tyranid and the Tau. The victory over Gorgon is also the reason Farsight recovered from his crisis of faith and is back being a badass.
Hive Fleet Megalodon is my go-to and is what I'm painting my 'Nids as. There's no official color scheme for them and not too much lore so you can just have fun. Plus, Megalodon is a cool name.
major kill makes his videos with authencity charm and inner confidence like his life depends on it and he enjoys doing it and this is why this is one of my top favorite if not favorite chanel ever motivating the core of each primarch to remind them that no matter what they go through they are appreciated and primarch lives matter plm
If i remember correctly one of the hive fleets specifically targets other tyrannid hive fleets. I dont remember why but i think its something to do with collecting all the different bio-traits from the other fleets.
That's cool. I think the limiting factor would be the fact that DNA is super complicated and therefore mass quality replication and editing of genomes takes a long time
Would love some lore stuff on outcome from that ork bulwark against the tyranids. Would the orks "level up" to the their prime like in the war in heaven? Its constant war for them versus the tyranids. Party time for the orks.
I mean, there's SORT of a justification for it. If you assume that the Tyranids have ruled the Milky Way as a whole is not up to the task of resisting the main Tyranid swarm, then farming the Milky Way for exp by engaging in pitched, losing battles instead of effortlessly stomping them makes sense. The Tyranids hunger for experience, too. They'll win either way, but by sandbagging the Milky Way, they stand to gain more battle experience from the galaxy, especially from some of the potentially more unique opponents, like daemons or Necrons.
Ah, the Swarmlord. Remember when beating him in single combat was an accomplishment? Now I'm pretty sure every member of the Ultramarines 10th company has done it. Some of them twice.
Hey majorkill, the fact that you haven’t referred to the hive fleets invading the galaxy as Tentacle Porn on a Galactic Scale is really disappointing to me
Oh sick! I love these style videos you do. And I am legit interested in the various Tyranid Hivefleets. Definitely going to be giving this a listen. Thanks!
I prefer the idea that they're a wholly separate force. Our galaxy has had all these factions fighting for control, while in another part of the universe the Tyranids fought their own galaxy's factions and came out the winners. They weren't engineered or bred, they simply evolved to dominate.
Necrons should take over the galaxy They could crush the Tyranids They don’t rely on warp travel so they could counter the Tyranids shadow in the warp hard and catch the hive fleets in transit and get destroyed by a necron fleet Also they are made of metal so no biomass
Until the Tyranids find a way to consume what the Necrons are made out of. Also the Tyranids do eat metal. They strip worlds of all biomass which includes gasses and minerals (including metal).
Tyranids are terrifying because they essentially act as a combination of lizard men and skaven. Apex predators that hard counter chaos that come from great spawning pools and have big toothy monsters, but that also operate as a chittering horde of bodies that can infiltrate and weaken settlements from within. Personally, I like the theory that the Hive Mind is a surviving Old One that created the Tyranids to wipe the galaxy clean to start again. Tyranids store the dna of everything they consume, creating a vast genetic library should be galaxy need to be re-seeded
Hey maj, you should totally make a primarch tier list video. I think it would be pretty entertaining listening to you describe your reasoning for every ranking.
SO wish there was a Space Marine 2 game where Titus (who somehow survived Inquisitorial judgement) and his new squad take on another Ork Waagh. However, later, they learn that a Tyranid hive fleet is approaching and Titus must help an Inquisitor use a warp project to swallow the hive fleet. Titus, having been in this exact situation before, initially refuses, and tries to have the survivors of the Ork invasion evacuated. However, Titus soon discovers that most of the survivors were taken and killed by a Genestealer cult underground. This cult is unique in that it uses the biomass from both the Orks and human survivors to create a horde of Gaunts and other lower ranking Tyranids all birthed from the planet. Furthermore, with the hive fleet so close to the world, communications are blocked and reinforcements as well as extraction are impossible. Left with literally no other option, Titus reluctantly protects the Inquisitor and allows him/her to use the warp device. It succeeds, and the Hive Fleet is consumed by a Warp Storm. Now with the hive fleet gone, Titus Vox’s for reinforcements and extraction. He, his squad, and whoever was blessed enough to survive all of that take position inside the capital building, and defend themselves from waves upon waves of Genestealers and Tyranids, until finally reinforcements arrive, and everybody is rescued.
Considering when the silent king went on his magical mushroom adventure, and all he saw was more orks, and now most who leave the galaxy get munched, i like to imagine several galaxies worth of octarius wars are just going off all the time
You know after hearing about all the hive fleets getting destroyed the tyranid seem less scary now. I wouldn’t class them as a low level threat but definitely less scary.
Honestly, if the Tyrannids do make a grand entrance, the only hope for the inhabitants of the galaxy to survive is for the Orks to throw together the biggest Waagh! ever at the same time Khorne unleashes the full fury of Chaos. And then the three sides all duke it out in an epic Battle Royalle.
Tyranids are possibly the worst matchup for Eldars since you know, their tech is heavy warp relient and Tyranids are infamous for fucking up the warp very badly.
Rewatching your older Tyranid vids to this makes me happy how much better your pronunciation has gotten, along with many other improvements. Thanks MajorKill, work on Ouroboros though lol
When the Silent King, a being who was responsible for wiping out one race of God-Like beings and then shattering and imprisoning another, while waging a far against the perfect living weapon and highly intelligent mage-warriors, is in panic mode over something, you know we're all in trouble.
We should take comfort in knowing that those barbarians destroyed romes legions and the empire despite its strength eventually crumbled. Unless of course we are the romans in your analogy then we should be worried
Isn’t it just a theory though? Honestly I hope it is, cause it limits the scope of the universe of 40k if it isn’t tbh >_< I say that as a massive, MASSIVE Genestealer Cult fan ^_^
silent king: guys the tyranids are coming necrons: no, we love infighting silent king: if y’all don’t start paying attention i will take control of y’all again
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Imperium is screwed lmao
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Everyone in Warhammer is screwed in all honesty
pronounced oro-boros btw
Hive Fleet Megalodon is about to get a devastating lawsuit from the Carcharodons. It'll cost every nid in the fleet an arm and a leg.
So screwed I prolapsed....
There is also hive fleet hentai
I recall that Inquisitor Kryptman tried to have Orks and Tyranids fight each other in the Octarius War but it ended up making the situation even worse for the Imperium.
Maybe not. If the orks win then they might develop an addiction to fighting tyranids and leave the galaxy en-masse to hunt down more. Tuska the demon killa is more or less a precident of this, an ork who decided that demons were better to fight than humans and made a beelive straight for the eye of terror.
It’s bad, but it’ll get worse before it gets better.
now they have the high pvp zone, gg
Perhaps if the Orks win against the Tyranids, they’ll evolve back into Krorks, and go on a Waagh unlike anything the Galaxy has ever seen. The Necrons, having faced the Krorks before will see this and go “OH HELL NO!!!” And will side with the Imperium, and somehow get the other xeno factions like the Eldar and Tau to temporarily unite against the new green skin menace.
@@drkittyphd6205 This actually makes a lot of since, didn’t think about it but you’re right, in comparison nothing else other than necrons are worthy foes
Most of the tyranid lore
1) Oh throne!they are coming and they are big and better than before.
2) Go against some space marine chapter
3) Defeat
Step 4 rinse and repeat
In fairness they ate most of the Blood Angels, Baal and the successor chapters. Only got hammered when the Cicatrix Maledictum opened and Guillimans Crusade Fleet turned up.
blood angels getting decimated isnt anything special
they do it every century and are back at full numbers a year later
Yeah its like say "Sad that you are out for a duck but atleast you swinged the bat". They have killed no major character and lost more times than they actually won. Even a single custodian shits on swarmlord which feels like an absolute joke.
Defeat for who?
Dark Eldar : boarding a tyranid ship
Tyranids : *YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL*
@Primordial Abomination it's me biomass
@@dinisnascimento4929 Biomass?…………………OOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH!
*Bug X Space Elf Vore*
Tyberos: MY HOUSE NOW
@vincentprime740 tyranids: OKAY, IT'S YOURS JUST DON'T KILL US!!!
"Tyranid lore isn't exactly the most fleshed out." They're bugs. The anthill in my backyard has similar lore: They invaded the garden, so I peed on them every day until they left, then they invaded the cable box, were I put poison. Now they're in the compost. It isn't very exciting.
This lore is now canon
I mean, I commit war crimes on my ants.
Boiling hot water on any and all areas they come from. All while humming and whistling WWll German marching songs
I wish I could laugh react on this site solely for that hahha
Did you heard about flamethrower?
Did you tried shovel to fight them ?
@@strangerlucky5753 I used a shovel in the compost, I will buy a flamethrower tomorrow.
"Eldar hated by GW" never a truer sentence has been uttered. Real sick of it by this point.
Obviously the people in charge of GW got turned down by some Eldar women and now they take out their frustrations on them in the lore.
@@Fordo007 I have a feeling you're probably right about this. Would be nice to see some positive lore about them just this once. Keep on hoping.
Those pointy eared pretentious Xenos, desrved to get shat on :3
Eldar a lame race worthy of no new content besides functioning as literary cannon fodder devices. The necrons deserve to be the forefront of war hammer.
@@Fordo007 feminine eldar heroines should be sacrificed to the emperor
Imagine if the space bugs turn out to be part of an intergalactic civilizations construction process. Spreading nids out to unexplored galaxies cleansing all bio matter so they can terraform the planets to meet their specific biological requirements and expand their territory
There's a fan theory that they were created by the old ones for that purpose. I reckon there's a 50% chance they forgot to install an off switch.
@@somethinglikethat2176 That's my personal Canon for them that they were a way to preserve the genetic make-up for all life
But being 40k it all went wrong
@@blingsing5383 that’s the reapers from mass effect lol
@@thecheechoftheages yup but it also fits being a warped version of the old ones goals I'm also pretty sure the idea has been done long before mass effect
Well, think about this. Today we don't have enough scientific knowledge to assess whether "Tyranids" would be possible irl, though it seems unlikely. But if by chance it turns out they can exist, then they do already exist somewhere in the universe. Tyranids are less of a "race" and more of a natural process, like a disease or a natural disaster is. They kinda just "are".
"It seems that GW has written themselves into a corner" As has been happening for 40nyears
No, Ultramarines and Space Wolves will save the day :) like they always do :))
I think a fix would be to have these fleets be the only ones out there.
Have the Tyranids consume a galaxy, only to end up with nothing to eat. Then, the Tyranids either turned on each other or simply flew out into the galaxy to find something.
Hence, while most of the Tyranid Species are dead in space, there are stakes still in defeating the relatively small numbers: if they can consume an entire galaxy, they will do so to the Milky Way. So they need to stop the Tyranids, or else the cycle will repeat and end with the galaxy lifeless.
@@openthinker6562 I could actually see this happening. The hive fleets qe know of are still scouts... they're just the only ones left
@@mightbeapersonmaybe8379 Older lore suggested that the Tyranids aren't actually invading the Milky Way... they're _fleeing_ from something _much worse_ in a different galaxy, something that is probably _following_ them right to us.
@@anthonylamonica8301 newer lore suggests that too. Welcome to 2022.
Major, need a video on "How well is Terra guarded to be widely called the only "safe place" in a setting like Warhammer 40k "
"The best offence is a good defence" Lord Adorable
Very.
If another fuck-off huge force of any race (besides eldar and tau because reasons) showed up at terra like how chaos did during the horus heresy I would not call it a safe space.. actually I wouldnt even call it a safe space now, just cause it hasnt seen action in centuries doesnt mean its not safe... space bugs, space mushrooms and metal egyptian space dudes seem to be the most likely contenders. The biggest guns will attract the biggest enemies...
@@MrThatpersonthatguy The Necrons will never be a threat to anyone ever. They will never unite, every Phaeron wants the head of the Silent King. Every dynasty is in war with the other. As for Orks, they are in open belief that the Emperor is indeed a God and nothing can harm him. Over the last 11000 years, every single asteroid, moon, planet in the Solar system has been weaponized. Not counting the literal thousands of warships, millions of Astartes, billions of guards, forge world's running over time, the entirety of the Mechanicus, the world ending DAoT that are hoarded. And this is just the first line of defence. There's also mobile Fortress world's like Phallanx, the Rock, etc. And then you have Terra, with Custodians, Sisters of Silence, Sisters of Battle, a world that has void shields that'll can be replenished for years, able to take orbital bombardment like it's nothing, a moon that has been weaponized. The list goes on and on. Terra is not falling to a "fuck all army" as easily. The only reason the Horus Heracy did so much dmg was because it was basically the Imperium vs it's half. And the traitor half were playing from the shadows most of the time, and even when all out war broke out, most legions didn't know who was traitor or loyalist.
The only ones who are a genuine threat are the Tyranids, but all hive fleets have been destroyed already, and only splinter fleets linger on.
@@vinayvenkatram8535 Didn't know those things about orks and necrons. They could always introduce more hive fleets to the universe though. But from this information it sounds like the prophecy of the imperium falling into stagnation and ruin after the horus heresy was wrong. If Constantine valdor is able to find the emperors true name and resurrect him then everything will not be as grimdark as this universe purports itself to be
It is very fitting that the most dangerous threat in 40k isn’t one of the pseudo fantasy races or factions, but the extragalactic insectoid hive mind, a staple in sci-fi
BS, Chaos is much more dangerous. It has devoured the Fantasy Universe
@@christiandauz3742 yeah, if tyranids win it's not the end of the galaxy let alone the universe. if chaos wins there's nothing left except chaos.
@@entropicflux8849 If Chaos wins there isn't even Chaos because they need emotions to exist. Which is basically what happened mostly due to the Skaven in Warhammer Fantasy. Chaos won and they too lost. Until AoS anyway.
@@nuke2099 this! For chaos to prove themselves to be an even greater threat than the Tyranids I want Nurgle to fuse with and eventually absorb the Flood from HALO, as well and Dungeons and Dragons Malal to once again reunite with 40K Malice. We NEED the renegade god At it’s peak once more. Also another hivemind (Other than the Flood) greater than the Tyranids should be shown to the galaxy after the Imperium loses half of their empire (and gains the entire galaxy orbiting the Milky Way as they migrate away from the Tyranids) after successfully defeating the Tyranids.
@@christiandauz3742 they devoured, a planet, a single one, a planet
It's still impresses me that Tyranids can adapt to Necron weapons that strip away atoms. The most advanced science around versus the most adaptive species around.
Adaption always prevails.. these fuckers are like a plauge.eith no cure.. need to exterminate these bugs before they wipe out the universe
@Tyranid Broodlord have you guys figured out bugspray immunity yet?
Tbf alot of weapon in 40k should be able to strip atoms besides gauss weapons. You don't need GW to explicitely spell that one out for you. Plasma weapons should be able to do it. Melta weapons can destroy molecular bonds. Even laser weapons can do it but those laser are DAoT/ custodian.
Well, if your arm gets ripped off, its atoms will separate from you, so every weapon deals such damage. But necrons guns can shoot in leg and somehow dissolve enemy completely
@@argeltal_thewordbearer Didn't Ciaphas Cain lost his like 2 or 3 fingers because of a gauss weapon.
I think the necrons gauss weapons use a type energy that speed up the rate of aging thus dismantling the molecular bonds as opposed to truly breaking bonds but the process happens so fast and spontaneous that to the human eye, it looks like disintegration as opposed to forcible ripping apart molecular bonds like plasma or lasers or melta weapons. Something like Eon from Ben 10.
Kind of like how the necrons teleportation tech and self destruction tech looks indistinguishable from one another.
I'm just sitting here patiently waiting for some Tyranid vs Necron action.
Me too but it's not likely. Both scour planets, and either one fighting the other is a simple waste of resources. Tyranids don't have souls and Necrons don't have biomass. In the 4th through 6th edition codexes (at least) it is mentioned that necron worlds seem to be avoided by 'Nids, with the hive fleets skirting around them. Not sure how that'll fit into new lore though
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 i cant remember where i heared it but there was a necron faction that does tend to fight the nids, mostly because that faction wanted to return to organic bodies, and well they cant do that if the nids eat everything first
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 The Necrons (I want to say Mephrit dynasty?) did team up at least once with the Blood Angels to fight the nids, where the Silent King himself (whilst wearing the mask of sanguinius) told Chapter Master Dante the nids are basically the biggest enemy of the Necrons, presumably, as Nitebones refers to, the desire on behalf of some Necrons to return their souls to mortal flesh
I don't think Nids reproduce sexually and neither the Necrons at this point.
@@RandomiusBronius nids creat their units in spawning pools and then distory them once done, and necrons just replace their souls into a new body every time a body is lost
Hey Majorkill, would you kindly do a video on the ecclesiarchy and the imperial creed? They deserve a video.
He said would you kindly majorkill you are now compelled to do it a man chooses a slave obeys
@@sharinganZERO23 you're a man of culture i see
@@sharinganZERO23 I miss Bioshock...
Agreed
Would you kindly pick up that there radio?
Can we just appreciate the lack of advertising for a second? Dude the fact you do this without ten ads is appreciated
Very much so. Ads can go jump!
That's the patreon
TH-cam Vanced is the cure for ads
My life right now is just waiting 2-3 days for a new majorkill video
That’s a very depressing life
@@majorkill based
@@majorkill It's MY life
@@majorkill
Hey sunshine, you brighten up his life!
Thats not depressing.
The current world is even more depressing than running through Australian Jungle with Dropbears raining on you, and you have no Vegimite.
@@wonderfuljinn1096 It's now or never, I ain't gonna live forever
Tyranids over an Imperial world: "Emperor preserve us..."
Tyranids over an Ork world: " *O 'ERE WE GOOOO!!!*
(Here we go from Godzilla vs Kong begins to play)
Izzy been lookin fur a foight
You may have forgotten Hive Fleet Hydra, a small splinter fleet that is noteworthy for it's cannibalistic tendencies and focus on super swarms.
Jorie also throws asteroids with tyranids inside to slip past and invade worlds. By far the funniest thing I’ve read for nids
Leviathan: Yo Kron I just finished up on this world. Want the leftovers?
Kronos: Thanks Levi, You da best bud.
The imperium would start thanking inquisitor kryptman once he saves the entire imperium from the grand hive mind's attempt to make the milkyway galaxy it's snack
You mean after he burned all other Imperial worlds and starving out the rest of what’s left of the Imperium in the process?
Actually, throwing two races that like feed on intence battle is a terrible idea. Thr war of Octarius is a massive problem for the Imperium because if one side happen to win, it would be big problem for the Imperium. If the Tyranids win they’ll have shitload of biomas to work with taken from the orks, as well as their geneticsl perks. If the orks with the Imperium will have en entier ork empier conposed of happy green boy u er charged of WAAAAGH energy, and that’s never a good thing (look back at the Beast).
@@florians9949 It was octarius.
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Yes, and then the Orks would then turn on the Imperium even stronger than beffore.
@@chaptermastermoloc4171 thanks for the notice.
We need a tyranids documentary starring a 40k version of Steve Irwin,
maybe as an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos...
Oi crikey its a hive tyrant! I'm going to try and pet it!
@@wanderhillen2435
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I’d watch that
Interesting.
@@dimasakbar7668 This guy knows.
A couple of details that I would like to point out.
1.) Tyranids cannot intentionally make use of the Warp themselves. However, the Warp can still swallow them up in random Warpstorms. Spacehulks are a good example. Even a splinter fleet of Kraken was lost in a Warpstorm only to exit some time later in the path of a Leviathan fleet. The Eldar wiped out the splinter fleet so that Leviathan couldn't receive the data Kraken had with fighting against Eldar.
2.) Kryptman's Gambit involved Inquistor Kryptman wiping out hundreds of worlds and then sending a clutch of genestealers locked in stasis into the Octarius sector - a well-known Ork empire. The genestealers became a psychic beacon to the approaching Leviathan. The ensuing war between Orks and Tyranids then became a never-ending meat grinder where neither side gaining a true advantage over the other. They're still fighting.
3.) Hive Fleet Gorgon isn't a splinter of Behemoth. And 2 Hive Ships (the big ones) survived the initial campaign, so their still around.
4.) And you missed my favorite splinter fleet - The Court of the Nephilim King. This fleet is a surviving tendril of Behemoth that has fought against Imperial Knight houses and even the Dark Angels Raven Wing, and is led by the unique Hive Tyrant - the Nephilim King. These Tyranids spawn an abnormal ratio of larger bioforms in battle instead of the usual endless wave of gaunts.
I get the feeling that the Tyranid lore is following the synopsis of pacific rim very closely. As time drags on, the “Nids” are arriving in the galaxy in increasing numbers and ferocity. In pacific rim, it was calculated that eventually the kaiju would arrive every few seconds. Essentially showing up in groups. Simply put, the time between tyranid attacks is accelerating, and eventually we will see a double invasion, and a triple one immediately after. The tyranids are the very definition of the Hydra Effect. Strike one fleet down and two more arrive to replace it. It’s likely that the tyranids will arrive so frequently, that the final hive fleet that gets a name will be seemingly never ending but in reality it’s many fleets in one. It’s possible that the final fleet will take millennia to destroy. If it can be destroyed that is.
Kronos sounds pretty fascinating, imagine seeing a bunch of nids coming and running past you to go fight the daemons who have been tearing you a new one. Sounds cool. They really out to make some more media about this universe, it's bloody good!
>comes into your Last Stand battle against chaos
>slays all the demons
>doesn't explain any further
>leaves
@@zahylon5993 imperial guard or average SM who's armor color is not black "understandable have a good day"
Hydra is the cannibal hive fleet, im really interested to see if that one gets fleshed out
It’s not though. Remember that all Hive Fleets are a part of the SAME Hivemind. It’s main purpose is to re-absorb failed splinter fleets, so no biomass, learned experiences is lost to the Hive Fleet. They are all the same, and part of the same organism.
How 1000 Ultramarines were alble to deal with that many Hive Fleets, each numbering millions of Tyranids, I don't even know.
Because they're Ultramarines. They're like Marines, but _Ultra._
Well, Behemoth parts 1 2 and 3 are an example of Marneus Calgar tapping in for round 2 and "And then we won"...
They have MK IX Plot Armour. They are the Rey of 40K.
Fucking Matt...
...Ward
because it's not just the Ultramarine chapter, but their successors. The Ultramarines were, and are, effectively a Legion with the way their successors are structured.
last time I was this fast squats still existed
They do exist but they aren't big
@@anungunrama9344 Yeah, they're short
I only known Behemoth
Mostly because Eliphas
XD
Slime rancher chicken?
@@scp-2348 yes
Lutien06 has a few of videos that will get you aquatinted with the other hive fleets and what they’ve accomplished. I recommend watching the tyranid first contact video first as it gives you a great overview of the bugs early history and their tactics.
@@crysisrevelation6132 okay thank you
Tried to find a photo of this this morning, now this video drops what a coincedence.
all my favourite Warhammer TH-camrs have uploaded within an hour , time to crack the beers n chill
,praise be to the Emperor
Who else uploaded?
Fakin skitz
Whatyatalkinbeeet ya druggo
They hangry and they coming for dat biomass
BiomAss
Bio-ass
Imagine if the tyranid situation got so bad that the forces of chaos and the imperium were forced to team up to deal with them. Daemon primarchs and their loyalist counterparts now forced to work with eachother. Then when the alliance finally beats back the tyranids, their depleted forces try to capitalize on eachother's weaknesses
Imagine the endgame of 40k: the scout fleets have been dealt with, but the main tyranid forces start to appear in the galaxy from all sides and above and below the galactic disc, basically unlimited trillions of tyranids fleets, new and old bioforms alike, and guilliman gets a chunk bitten outta him by the swarmlord, leading to a power-up across the entire tyranid race
Then long story short, each faction realise the only way they will survive the tyranids is if they pool their resources, even irks
Hence an imperium-eldar-tau-necron-chaos-ork alliance, with no limit of backstabbing, in a futile final attempt to save the galaxy, especially since the silent king wants there to still b a galaxy left once the necrons wipe everyone else out, chaos understands that tyranids ends warp rifts wherever they go and... well I'm not sure how orks could get convinced to join up
-"I never belived I would die fighting side by side with a Chaos worshipper"
-"What about fighting along a former brother?"
@@zahylon5993 What is that referencing because it's on the tip of my tongue?
@@k-leb4671 lotr?
@@iainrickwood2623 Orks wanna fight
"We Are The Swarm!" - Tyranids
"Zergs suck" - The Swarmlord, probably
Zerg: Am I a joke to you?
Zergs are good for appetizers.
"Armies will shatter"
The flood: hello there fellow swarms, what shall we eat today?
Majorkill struggling to say ouroboros without ever bothering to look up the pronunciation is the only reason I liked this video.
"O great Old One, did you find a way to protect our sugar cane from bugs?" "Yeah, I found another species of bigger and rather hungry spikey bugs in the next galaxy. We gonna release them here, they eat the bugs threatening our sugar cane and we are fine. What could possibly go wrong?"
The nids should have destroyed ultrama/ caused guilliman's resurrection. It would have given the smurf's an actual pyrrhic victory instead of papa smurf loosing a few easily replaceable limbs.
The hive fleet Gorgon story is honestly kinda cool, because it was literally the most biologically adaptable faction facing off against the most technologically adaptable faction. A proper brawl between the Tyranid and the Tau. The victory over Gorgon is also the reason Farsight recovered from his crisis of faith and is back being a badass.
Every ship type in the Imperial Navy would be great
Hive Fleet Megalodon is my go-to and is what I'm painting my 'Nids as. There's no official color scheme for them and not too much lore so you can just have fun. Plus, Megalodon is a cool name.
7:41 "nothing brings races together like a terrifying, common enemy am I right?"
IKR, the imperium is horrifying
major kill makes his videos with authencity charm and inner confidence like his life depends on it and he enjoys doing it and this is why this is one of my top favorite if not favorite chanel ever motivating the core of each primarch to remind them that no matter what they go through they are appreciated and primarch lives matter plm
If i remember correctly one of the hive fleets specifically targets other tyrannid hive fleets. I dont remember why but i think its something to do with collecting all the different bio-traits from the other fleets.
"The Ultramarines arive, do some ultra shit, and the majority of Kraken gues kaputt". Cracked me up, mate! xD
Imagine a hive fleet that can on the spot evolve according to the enemy instead of needing to pop out already evolved tyranids.
That's cool. I think the limiting factor would be the fact that DNA is super complicated and therefore mass quality replication and editing of genomes takes a long time
Would love some lore stuff on outcome from that ork bulwark against the tyranids. Would the orks "level up" to the their prime like in the war in heaven? Its constant war for them versus the tyranids.
Party time for the orks.
So they abandoned their terrifying, highly effective raiding strategy for... reasons.
Yo GW if you wanna retcon something.
I mean, there's SORT of a justification for it. If you assume that the Tyranids have ruled the Milky Way as a whole is not up to the task of resisting the main Tyranid swarm, then farming the Milky Way for exp by engaging in pitched, losing battles instead of effortlessly stomping them makes sense. The Tyranids hunger for experience, too. They'll win either way, but by sandbagging the Milky Way, they stand to gain more battle experience from the galaxy, especially from some of the potentially more unique opponents, like daemons or Necrons.
As Kirioth once said: "Will somebody think of the Tyrranids!!??"
This is like the 3rd time I wake up at the exact time he uploads
Tyranid Lore: HELL YEAH! RAWR!
Tyranids tabletop: ....oh.
I just want everyone to know his pronounciation isnt because of his accent, he just doesnt know words.
As a lifetime Tyranid player, always love seeing some attention thrown the way of the bugs.
Say "Ouroboros" a few more times.
"I thought it was common knowledge not to board Tyranid ships for the lulz" - *Ork koncerned about life choices*
Kaptin blackgit sweating from the grave
Thanks for doing Tyranids majorkill your a legend !!! Nobody ever bothers to do stuff on our beloved bugs!
Just in time for my firsts bugs to arrive! Thanks.
Majorkill do space shark vs King shark
You should do one on the Tyranid heroes, like The Swarmlord and Old one eye, along with their lesser known heroes Trygon-Gin and Darth Mawloc!
Ah, the Swarmlord. Remember when beating him in single combat was an accomplishment? Now I'm pretty sure every member of the Ultramarines 10th company has done it. Some of them twice.
Hey majorkill, the fact that you haven’t referred to the hive fleets invading the galaxy as Tentacle Porn on a Galactic Scale is really disappointing to me
The nids are my favorite part of Warhammer lore
yeah battle for macragge is my fav story so good
Oh sick! I love these style videos you do. And I am legit interested in the various Tyranid Hivefleets. Definitely going to be giving this a listen. Thanks!
I still like to imagine that the Tyranids are a bioweapon by the old ones that fled the milky way during the war in heaven
I prefer the idea that they're a wholly separate force. Our galaxy has had all these factions fighting for control, while in another part of the universe the Tyranids fought their own galaxy's factions and came out the winners. They weren't engineered or bred, they simply evolved to dominate.
"Or prolapse"
Me, who's on the toilet: Oh god please no
Necrons should take over the galaxy
They could crush the Tyranids
They don’t rely on warp travel so they could counter the Tyranids shadow in the warp hard and catch the hive fleets in transit and get destroyed by a necron fleet
Also they are made of metal so no biomass
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Until the Tyranids find a way to consume what the Necrons are made out of. Also the Tyranids do eat metal. They strip worlds of all biomass which includes gasses and minerals (including metal).
"By a draw I mean absolutely everyone died" Definitely 40k
Space bugs indeed
Tyranids are terrifying because they essentially act as a combination of lizard men and skaven. Apex predators that hard counter chaos that come from great spawning pools and have big toothy monsters, but that also operate as a chittering horde of bodies that can infiltrate and weaken settlements from within. Personally, I like the theory that the Hive Mind is a surviving Old One that created the Tyranids to wipe the galaxy clean to start again. Tyranids store the dna of everything they consume, creating a vast genetic library should be galaxy need to be re-seeded
Any time i think of the tyranids, all I can think of is the big E making a giant can of bug spray
Hey maj, you should totally make a primarch tier list video. I think it would be pretty entertaining listening to you describe your reasoning for every ranking.
SO wish there was a Space Marine 2 game where Titus (who somehow survived Inquisitorial judgement) and his new squad take on another Ork Waagh. However, later, they learn that a Tyranid hive fleet is approaching and Titus must help an Inquisitor use a warp project to swallow the hive fleet. Titus, having been in this exact situation before, initially refuses, and tries to have the survivors of the Ork invasion evacuated. However, Titus soon discovers that most of the survivors were taken and killed by a Genestealer cult underground. This cult is unique in that it uses the biomass from both the Orks and human survivors to create a horde of Gaunts and other lower ranking Tyranids all birthed from the planet. Furthermore, with the hive fleet so close to the world, communications are blocked and reinforcements as well as extraction are impossible. Left with literally no other option, Titus reluctantly protects the Inquisitor and allows him/her to use the warp device. It succeeds, and the Hive Fleet is consumed by a Warp Storm. Now with the hive fleet gone, Titus Vox’s for reinforcements and extraction. He, his squad, and whoever was blessed enough to survive all of that take position inside the capital building, and defend themselves from waves upon waves of Genestealers and Tyranids, until finally reinforcements arrive, and everybody is rescued.
Considering when the silent king went on his magical mushroom adventure, and all he saw was more orks, and now most who leave the galaxy get munched, i like to imagine several galaxies worth of octarius wars are just going off all the time
"They fought the Ultramarines. I'm sure you can fill in the rest." LMFAO!!!
"Bo-hei-moff?"
Nah
AH-ROOH-BER-ES
Cut him some slack, he's Australian. English isnt his first language..... )
@@mmeade9402 ....what
SCYLLIA
You know after hearing about all the hive fleets getting destroyed the tyranid seem less scary now. I wouldn’t class them as a low level threat but definitely less scary.
I love how you just decide to board a hive ship to see what happens 😂😂😂
I'm DE player so I just learned something new today, bloody excellent 😂
Tyranids is my favourite race, thanks for the video Timmy
Honestly, if the Tyrannids do make a grand entrance, the only hope for the inhabitants of the galaxy to survive is for the Orks to throw together the biggest Waagh! ever at the same time Khorne unleashes the full fury of Chaos. And then the three sides all duke it out in an epic Battle Royalle.
Tyranids are possibly the worst matchup for Eldars since you know, their tech is heavy warp relient and Tyranids are infamous for fucking up the warp very badly.
Wait so the Imperium only lives because of plot armor? My God the emperor truly does provide
Oh finally! I've been waiting for someone to talk about them all, so far no one has bothered to talk about the Hive Fleets.
0:44 I will refer to iCloud as the hive mind from now on
Ah yes, putting orks in the way to block tyranids, because you totally want whatever survives that battle coming after you next
To be fair, MajorKill, Dark Eldar will never learn not to board a ship for the LOLs. Just ask the Salamanders.
Kraken are my boys. Been waiting a lot of years for this, but the new plastics are nearly here. Will most likely be painting mine in Kraken style.
Oh boi its the bugs
You and a few other channels are the only ones I'll let an ad play out so it can help you profit so you can keep producing high quality content!
Rewatching your older Tyranid vids to this makes me happy how much better your pronunciation has gotten, along with many other improvements. Thanks MajorKill, work on Ouroboros though lol
Almost the 400k man keep it up! I dont even play 40k but these lore videos are some of my favorite at the moment
Hell yea. Majorkill for the lore, Auspex Tactics for the tabletop
When the Silent King, a being who was responsible for wiping out one race of God-Like beings and then shattering and imprisoning another, while waging a far against the perfect living weapon and highly intelligent mage-warriors, is in panic mode over something, you know we're all in trouble.
Your constant mispronunciations always bring a smile to my face!
Jormungandr
your-mun-gone-der
A giant serpent said to herald the end of the world, and one of the most fitting monsters to associate with Tyranids.
Hey major great video as always, btw could you kame one about the instances time travel has been used in wh40k? Thanks
Tyranids are scary as fuck, its horryfing that the full force is still coming, its like Rome and the barbarians
We should take comfort in knowing that those barbarians destroyed romes legions and the empire despite its strength eventually crumbled. Unless of course we are the romans in your analogy then we should be worried
Isn’t it just a theory though? Honestly I hope it is, cause it limits the scope of the universe of 40k if it isn’t tbh >_<
I say that as a massive, MASSIVE Genestealer Cult fan ^_^
Isn’t it theorized that the Tyranids in fact have the galaxy surrounded and are just taking “little bites” so far.
sounds like GW was gearing up for age of sigmar 40k and then they realized that everyone hated age of sigmar
4:30 Do you WANT a Great Devourer? Because that’s how you get the Great Devourer.
Neckbeard pronunciations for anyone who’s done classics:
10:13 Jormungandr (yor-muhn-gahndur)
12:46 Charybdis (ka-rib-dis) and Scylla (si-lah)
Ouroboros - Oro Bore os
Oi mate can you do a video on Drukhari? I want to learn about the bdsm elves.
All these Hive Fleet names sound like Kaiju from Pacific Rim
silent king: guys the tyranids are coming
necrons: no, we love infighting
silent king: if y’all don’t start paying attention i will take control of y’all again
Wow! You're an Aussie and saying Be-he-moth instead of Bey-ehmoth.
You are one of a kind.