Its been surprisingly about 2 years since the last dedicated Tyranid video - so its time for a change. There will be more to follow in this series as well. Thanks as always for your support, if you enjoyed this please drop a Like - more new stuff coming up soon :D
The hive mind is actually malal saying he wants to become canon and if he becomes canon the hive mind wil finally be at peace. Who I am kidding he will never become canon better wish he was hehehehehe
@@Bartoc1988 If you're comparing it to our reality then yeah it is over the top. But for it's setting and history it makes a lot of sense why the 40k universe is the way it is.
@@atomicbuttocks You couldn't even win a fight against an angry bulldog (me neither... that's no diss). You definately aren't "down" to fight a termagaunt.
The Tyranids could possibly be seen as a “post sentient” race. They posses purpose, but without angst or a need for a why. They’re obviously intelligent, but use said intelligence in pursuit of their purpose. Closest other race would be the Orks, though they do posses ambition, which oft times impedes them in pursuit of their goals.
They're not intelligent, nor sentient. They're eusocial, similar to bees. The hivemind itself could be sentient or intelligent (nobody knows), but individual tyranids aren't, except for the Swarmlord to some degree.
plenty of bioforms are intelligent for example lictors are definitely intelligent, they just lack an ego swarmlords and hivetyrants are just the bioforms allowed an ego as sometimes its more efficient to hate your enemy
My theory is they are used by a sentient species, just as the imperium uses servitors and mind slaves. I have no evidence to back this up, I'm just very heretical and luv causing trouble.
Luetin : makes a newly themed video 5 minutes into the video : "I wanted to make this a single video but after my research it was clear this would become a series" The Emperor of Man : "Yes."
“Very little has been known to stop tyrannid bio acid, it’s even been said to burn through ceramite plate used by space marines on their armour...so..try not to get it on your skin” 😂😂😂
Same energy (thanks, Blizzard): _"Struggling with a tough foe? Remember, just keep your Health above 0 while lowering your enemy's Health to 0. Works every time!"_
@@butHomeisNowhere___ he comes close but there's something about MajorKill's comedy that really gets me, even tho they aren't always funny but the way he describes various things in 40k that makes me laugh like calling perturabo weaponized autism.
Except these ants will eradicate you, your picnic basket, your girlfriend and any hope of having picnics ever again. Blasphemy isn't the right word but they are certainly worthy of eradication, lest they eradicate the Imperium and everything else in their path.
I want to see a story where an incredibly gifted psyker is brought aboard a hive ship and integrated directly into the hive mind. In his last moments when he is losing his individuality he looks out and sees through the eyes of billions of tyrannid forms on thousands of planets. He feels an enormous hunger overcome him and overpower all other emotion and thought. As he is almost totally absorbed into the hive mind he looks out past the galaxy and the emperors light he becomes wholly one with the hive mind and feels something far greater than the hunger as he stares into the void…… fear
Did yer eva hear da tragedy uv darth plagueis da wise? i thought not. It's not a story 'da jedi would tell yer. ... Darth plagueis was a dark lord uv ‘da sith, so powerful an’ so wise 'e kould use ‘da force ta influence ‘da midichlorians ta kreate life
@@Confy__ but in that sense, they are just surviving, they are not a heroe. In fact, in there persue of existence, they cause more destrucion than any other faction. But... Well, it would be a great debate about the meaning and worth of life and the consequences of a bunch bug that eat everything
@@donovangonzalez8406 Well yeah but let's be clear there are no heroes in warhammer. They are considered the least evil faction in WH40k because they are so simple. They aren't out to dominate the galaxy politically and enslave entire races. They are simply some bugs doing the one thing they know how to do: devour.
It's so weird that Tyranids kinda get pushed aside from the Lore with the idea that Chaos is the all powerful unseen threat. I just love the idea that the current Tyranid "invasion" is just the Tyranids probing around being like "mind if I just poke my head around here" how crazy it would be when the real invasion begins when the 'Nids just say "Fk it, eat em all"
About every race has this lore where they can be the "Ultimate ans most powerful ones" of 40k. The orks would be the most powerful if they could unite. The Tyranids could be the most powerful if they all stormed the milky way. Chaos would be the most powerful if the 4 Gods stopped playing the Great Game and united to conquer the Galaxy. Mankind would be the most powerful if the Emperor could walk and speak again. Even the Tau would storm the Galaxy if they finally learned about the Warp and mastered warp travel, etc. This is just a way to make every race appealing to the players and keeping the lore full of potential and exciting
If the Tyrannids invade _for real_ the Orks almodt immediately would be attracted to all that *Good Fightin™* which could lead to a WAGH. That, in turn would lead to the Orks rapidly upgrading themselves, potentially until they re-evolve into their original Krork forms. But if there are that many Tyranids, they might wake up the Necrons, who are their natural counter. Wouldn't that be crazy: Krork and Necrons, an aggressive yeast and emo androids. Former enemies now side-by-side vs overconfident ants? 🤣
After reading the replies I can just imagine a chain of events where all of the factions awaken. The Tyranids start committing to a full invasion, the orks unite, the Tau unlock the secrets of the Warp, the Eldar free themselves from Slaanesh's influence I guess? This triggers a mass awakening of Necron Tomb-Worlds and the Chaos Gods realizing, "oh shit, stuff is getting serious now." The Emperor finally enacts his mysterious plan and returns alongside the Primarchs to lead the Imperium into a new Golden Age. Did I miss anything?
It never ceases to amaze me how deep an seemingly unending the 40k lore is. It's a shame the IP is so slow to adapt it in so few forms, especially the budgets and scale of the games. Imagine how amazing a 40k MMO could be?
There used to be a 3rd person 40k game that was supposed to be akin to planetside 2. Sadly the devs were extremely incompetent and ran the project straight into the ground.
I believe the line from Terminator best sums up the Tyranids. 'It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.' Never understood why Luetin didn't have this saying in his pocket for Tyranid vid's like he does Hellraiser for Chaos.
I honestly think Chaos can't corrupt the Tyrannids because they just have one giant soul that is so single minded and so utterly absurdly massive and powerful that all four gods just can't do anything about it. This is also a decent explanation for the Shadow In The Warp, there single massive and hungry soul overpowers any psykers instantly.
Kinda wonder about the swarm Lord. If there was one organism that would be effected by chaos that'd be it. Independent and retains memories/ feelings of past lives to improve upon its skills. Furthermore, remembering previous individuals that slayed it. Emotions maybe? Possessed swarm Lord...hmmm
@@daveh5785 Tbh it probably happens all the time. The only issue is when one voice whispers to make a portal to the warp and trillions are screaming "DEVOUR EVERYTHING" its kinda hard to hear the whispers ya know?
The first contact video was the first I ever watched from the Loremaster. And I really loved it. It was grim, mastefully told, great music in the background....it was and still is awesome. It is still my favorit of all the stories. I love all of them but that first contact was just too good.
*Imperuim Magos:* "I'm just going to do Biology, because studying creatures is waaaay easier than the warp lol" *The creatures:* "Clickety-clackety, your bones are our snacketies."
Former pest control expert here: managing Tyranids like sugar ants or termites would be feasible as long as different planets are used as bait stations. Alternate the planets every 2 centuries like crop rotation and you will checkmate a xeno pest of any kind
@@oblivionrefugee unfortunately they scrub the planet to the stones and probably a little beyond. Plus the hive fleet itself is hyper intelligent, far beyond almost any human mind(except for one obviously PRAISE TO THE EMPEROR!). So if they accepted the PLANET offering it would only be because they chose to.
@@justcommenting4981 Sounds like graveyard and garbage planets should be scheduled for a bug clearance on a rotation across the empire. We could make an alliance with the bugs. I'm kidding of course!
LT: “Forging genetically adapted super human warriors as its only means of defending itself against the rest of the galaxy” Imperial guard who outnumber the astartes by trillions, are the first and last line of defense, and are just regular everyday men and women of the imperium: am I a joke to you?
so say a galaxy wide rebellion separate of all chaos space marines consisting only of the current "loyal" space marines happen do you think they would win against the wider imperium as a whole
For a race that is highly mutagenic and is said to constantly put out new creations, it feels like the tyranids haven't had any new units added to the games lately.
They have been eating world for an unknown amount of time. They have probably honed their evoloution pretty well long before they reached the 40k universe.
ive heard the general shock troops they use are evolved to be as close to being the "best bang for your buck" as possible, yes they can make specific forms to better fight an enemy, but their generalist troops are effextive enough as is to where they only churn out the specialist troops for prolonged campaigns, i.e anyrhing from octarius or repeat invasions of worlds
@@ryancollyard3851yea they rely on the “if it isn’t broken why fix it” logic a lot of the time. It could also be for the sheer sake of efficiency of biomass usage.
I love these random ass comment references from other shit yall leave on these 40k videos. Always so seemingly random 🤣 earlier I found a comment about the starting line from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. About the creation of the universe was widely regarded as a bad move. And someone replied "42" lmfao
Synaptic web: I always thought that the Tyranids have their own "space" in the warp like the orcs. With the difference, that the hive mind is the source of their warp presence while also being the real world manifestation of their warp created entity. But also possible that I have a bad case of crazed ramblings.
Eusocial psychic insects that assimilated other species until they created their own "Chaos God" which manifested as a gestalt intelligence binding them all? I'm a fan of that idea
Your the reason I fell in love with the lore of warhammer. I can’t tell you how long I put this universe off and pushed it to the corner of my other hobbies. For some reason I just never got into it. But seeing how rich and expansive it is through your videos has pulled me in so much. Thanks man!
Luetin you are on of the few creators that i will watch on my console so i can feel fully invested in your content. In my opinion you with astartes when it comes to level of quality of content. Never stop I'm not saying that as a threat but rather as a compliment never stop.
Man, you're not given enough credit for these videos... They're so eloquently and masterfully structured that even clueless plebs like me, who know nothing nor care nothing of the 40k universe are instantly entranced. If nothing else, you should feel good about making complete strangers admire you.
Words can't truly express how much I love this channel. Like wow! Found this last year during the height of lockdown. I've played some of the video games but thats about it. The level of detail you add is of the highest order. Each episode feels like a full documentary and ALWAYS holds my attention hostage. The lore of warhammer simply blows my mind! I really hope we soon see more anime and live action shows covering this universe. We need more dark, war, loss filled stories. Aka the entire warhammer 40k universe LOL. Ughhhhhh!
Im super pumped to get a tyranid deep dive, they are why I got into 40k. My dad would play space hulk with me when I was little and let me just throw waves of genestealers at him until I killed his space marines, so I could win and he could still go all out. A few years ago I got curious what those space bugs where from and proceeded to watch every video luetin had made.
Well you have a good story behind it. For me i just seen zergs from starcraft and i found it fascinating. Then i heard somewhere that zergs are tyranids
6:42 Belisarius Cawl pushing the boundaries? That's very charitable view of Cawl's actions. The guy is just one 95 point theses away from going full Martin Luther.
It would be awesome if there was a scenario in which tyranids are the defenders. They always are the invader. I d love to know how their flesh versions of bunkers or orbital defense would Look like. Maybe they have planet sized super creatures, which birth the bioships.
@@twocheezitz9182 lore wise, they could also have defense structures around the digesting pools. Especially in the stages of heavy fighting, it would make sense to reuse biomatter of your creatures and the enemy
@@Hivetrive I just love the image of a massive Capitol ship surrounded by what looks like a swarm of small ships, but upon closer inspection each ship is large enough to threaten extinction on weaker planets. This whole cloud of biomass hurling through space into our galaxy, sending out scouts that we have seen so far.
first of all: awesome. second of all, and anecdotally, i wish there were enough harlequin lore to justify a series like this :/ nevertheless, the lore that you do hash out is always an absolute blast to go through! thanks for the effort luetin
I'm sure that the weight of his actions is much greater on his shoulder than any accusation he got. He knows what he did, no need to twist the knife in the wound.
I enjoy the idea that Rippers can grow into other variants of Tyranids because it makes them a much more useful organism for infiltration. Deploying them alongside a genestealer vanguard means they could be triggered by the Brood Mind to metamorphize into tunneling organisms if the cult needs more mobility or mining capabilities - but could just as easily be triggered into a carnifex for breaking into fortified orbital laser defense systems, or if the cult is discovered early and they need more numbers: hormagaunts and warriors to lead them. The concept of suddenly having to face down an entire Tyranid invasion force without any of the oncoming warning signs of a Tyranid fleet really increases the paranoia they can inflict over the entire galaxy. Also if you take it to the most extreme - you could have a conquered world producing new narvhal ships that allow the tendrils to make very sudden and unexpected leaps across entire regions of space to bypass readied defense forces!
I remember the first time I listened to this vid whilst trying to sleep and it was my intro to tyranids. I remember thinking how terrifying they sounded that and the demonculaba
Hey I subscribed to your channel about two years ago and I just want to say thank you for all that you do to produce this content! I hope you are doing well and please take care of yourself, comrade! 😁 All hail the lore master!
Termagants, the most badass marines in the universe! In my mind, there are still some rare Imperial Guard soldiers wandering around with stranglewebs around them simply because they didn't panic and didn't try to remove it.
the irony of "the weakness of my flesh disgusted me" mindset but at the same time knowing the perfect species is just highly evolved piranhas 100% made of flesh
IKR they should be an unstoppable force on the table top, that GW ripped off both “Space Marines in Power Armour” vs the “bugs” in the novel and movies “Starship Troopers”....
@@TheSigmaGrindSet that's not even remotely true... also you're thinking of Starcraft which ripped off both ST and WH40K. 40K doesn't resemble ST at all. Humans vs "Enemy type" of all kinds have been a thing much longer than any of the 3, especially aliens of a "bug" biology. Sci-fi films and stories from the 40s and 50s were mostly the insectoid sort of thing anyway so what about that? and I wouldn't even call these things bugs in the way that ST does. Considering the nids have arms and hold firearms and melee weapons, and the bugs are just bugs with sharp legs, wings, stingers, or internal chemical agents for attacking..
You are the greatest, hands down. I dont play the game as my brother does but the lore is greatly underappreciated and kept my mind occupied while i was struggling when i first came home from Afghanistan. Thank you, Sir.
Imagine the Hive from Destiny joining with the Tyrannid. That would be bad... The mixture of their weird space magics and rituals of death and doom would literally become unstoppable unless the Astartes become Guardians on top of their regular upgrades. Like damn.
Who on earth wrote all this? Obviously it was published by GW but this is so much deep thought put into the marketing campaign for plastic miniature figurines.
Your video about Tyranid first contact was one of the first 40k videos I watched. They've been my favorite faction ever since, and I'm glad you're making vids about them again.
I was so pleased to see a new leutin Tyranid for the next painting session and then the added bonus that it's part 1. They are my favourite faction in 40k they represent the brutal and uncaring nature of reality. They kill not to uphold since noble creed nor for vengeance or sadistic pleasure but only to feed and survive as cold and destructive as a black hole.
Me: *Happily listening to the video.* *Hears the word Vogelist* "Hold up what?" *Hears explanation* *Starts Sweating a little* "That's my name... The Vogel at least."
Best way I've seen the hivemind described is that individual tyrinid bioforms aren't actually individual creatures. Instead the hive fleets are all the true individual tyrinids, and the various forms within are merely individual neurons of the singular mind that they all contribute too
My head canon: Tyranids are the weakest race in the distant galaxy they are from and consume surrounding galaxies in an attempt to struggle and survive in their own home galaxy.
There are plenty of 40k fans theorize that the tyranids are being chased by something else and they just grab whatever they can so they can keep running.
@@minhducnguyen674 I theorize that it’s the Tyranids polar opposite: a god like collection of abominable intelligence, maybe even with a connection to the Men of Gold or Iron
Tyranids, more vicious than Xenomorphs, Necromorphs and that the Thing thing combined. Another marvelous video @luetin. You really saves my lockdown weekends. And that means a lot! Thank you 🙏
Had a few videos in a playlist and went to bed listening to it. Woke up hearing about Tyranids and in my half asleep state had forgotten about 40k entirely and thought I was still watching videos about evolution and dinosaurs. Made for a few moments of intense confusion and momentary horror before remembering what I had left playing lol
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Its been surprisingly about 2 years since the last dedicated Tyranid video - so its time for a change. There will be more to follow in this series as well. Thanks as always for your support, if you enjoyed this please drop a Like - more new stuff coming up soon :D
Hi :D
a big hug for you mate!!! thanks for this
The hive mind is actually malal saying he wants to become canon and if he becomes canon the hive mind wil finally be at peace. Who I am kidding he will never become canon better wish he was hehehehehe
The only thing more frightening than the heresy of disbelieving the Imperial Truth, is believing in it wholeheartedly.
One last check on youtube before heading to bed.. oh well.. guess sleep is for the weak
“Hey hive mind, how’s the family?”
“Belligerent, and numerous.”
"H O N G R Y"
MORBO IS PLEASED WITH YOUR REFERENCE! YOUR FAMILY SHALL BE SPARED!
Gotta love a good Futurama reference
tyranids' human rinds.
its a buncha muncha cruncha humans!
@@tiredbutstillkicking7596 ,gggg,%%
Take a seat brothers, the High Loremaster speaks to us his tales.
i hear and obey
Reporting for duty
I shall fortify this position while u do so
For The Loremaster!
@Le Chi Bang did you bring the toasters?
"I could easily talk about genestealers for an hour" is that a promise?
Genestealer cults video confirmed. Bless the Four Armed Emperor
Oh baby.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
@@svenhoek8615 WHAT THE FUCK?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
@@svenhoek8615 This guy gets it.
As horrifying as 40K lore is, it´s fascinating to sit and listen to. Especially with such a good narrator!
Imagine horrified obese North Americans running away from giant bugs
Yup. Never played more 40k than a bit of Dawn of War. the whole over the top lore and insanity is quite fun, though :D
@@Bartoc1988 It's not actually over the top, people keep peddling that myth, everything makes sense given the setting and lore
@@veritasabsoluta4285 It is. Dont live in denial.
@@Bartoc1988 If you're comparing it to our reality then yeah it is over the top. But for it's setting and history it makes a lot of sense why the 40k universe is the way it is.
When you're terrorized and horrified already and Luetin is just preparing to move to the Medium-sized bioforms.
honestly im down to fight a termagaunt, cant really fight their beetle bullets tho
@@atomicbuttocks You couldn't even win a fight against an angry bulldog (me neither... that's no diss). You definately aren't "down" to fight a termagaunt.
@@earlgrey2130 maybe if we merge we can beat a bulldog😳
The Tyranids could possibly be seen as a “post sentient” race. They posses purpose, but without angst or a need for a why. They’re obviously intelligent, but use said intelligence in pursuit of their purpose. Closest other race would be the Orks, though they do posses ambition, which oft times impedes them in pursuit of their goals.
No WHAAAGH! is stronger than its Warboss. Ambition makes for stronger and better Warbosses, which makes for a stronger WHAAAGH!
They're not intelligent, nor sentient. They're eusocial, similar to bees. The hivemind itself could be sentient or intelligent (nobody knows), but individual tyranids aren't, except for the Swarmlord to some degree.
plenty of bioforms are intelligent
for example lictors are definitely intelligent, they just lack an ego
swarmlords and hivetyrants are just the bioforms allowed an ego as sometimes its more efficient to hate your enemy
My theory is they are used by a sentient species, just as the imperium uses servitors and mind slaves. I have no evidence to back this up, I'm just very heretical and luv causing trouble.
Post-ego race
Luetin : makes a newly themed video
5 minutes into the video : "I wanted to make this a single video but after my research it was clear this would become a series"
The Emperor of Man : "Yes."
The Emperor protects,but i damn sure love tyranids.
bankaiii bankaaa heretic
I agree
I feel like all his videos end up multi part like this. I had this exact thought when he started that sentence!
" you have chosen.... Wisely"
Last time Luetin did a Tyranid video there wasn't a tendril heading straight for Terra
Oh crap there on to us RUN!
Tyranids: *start running*
@@alduin4226 _and crawling_
@@spethmanjones2997 and scuttling
@@justanothaguy3714 and burrowing
@@andrewespinoza2896 and scurrying :(
“Very little has been known to stop tyrannid bio acid, it’s even been said to burn through ceramite plate used by space marines on their armour...so..try not to get it on your skin” 😂😂😂
Same energy (thanks, Blizzard): _"Struggling with a tough foe? Remember, just keep your Health above 0 while lowering your enemy's Health to 0. Works every time!"_
“Try not to eat the cyanide”
Your health is low - you got any potions? Or fooood?
@@swedishvampire343 but i smells and tastes like almonds😢
That crap’s going to eat through the goddamn hull!
The tyranids - "Improvise, adapt, overcome" - Gone wrong.
you mean gone right... at least for them
@@rickloucofixe "Don't listen to this propaganda, they only wish to help us. Let me show you"
Genestealer cult mindslave
Or terribly, terribly right.
Gone asexual
@@psycho6776 lol
Majorkill: I don't wanna make 40min videos because who the fuck would watch that?
Luetin: hold my servo-skull
I can watch Luetin videos 24/7 if it was possible.He is the best.
Well a 40min video from majorkill would be a bit of a chore to watch even tho he is my 2nd favourite 40k loremaster right after Luetin.
@@lowkeyarki7091 bruh, not Oculus Imperia?
@@butHomeisNowhere___ he comes close but there's something about MajorKill's comedy that really gets me, even tho they aren't always funny but the way he describes various things in 40k that makes me laugh like calling perturabo weaponized autism.
@@lowkeyarki7091 haha yeah I can't disagree with you here. Majorkills probably in 3rd place for me, I suppose. Still very solid, funny stuff 😊
Luetin posts: I click
It's a video about the tyranids: I CLICK AGGRESSIVELY
Been rewatching old Luetin vids last couple days, this was perfect timing.
same!
I hit the like button so hard I broke my screen
And run for a snack.
0:28 Calling Tyranids blasphemous is like deriding the morality of ants for entering your picnic basket.
Let them come
Except these ants will eradicate you, your picnic basket, your girlfriend and any hope of having picnics ever again. Blasphemy isn't the right word but they are certainly worthy of eradication, lest they eradicate the Imperium and everything else in their path.
@@SCHMALLZZZ laughs in ordo Xenos approved "bug spray"
I declare exterminatus for the invasion of my lunch
Fun fact, zoroastianism considers ants to be servants of Agra Mainyu, who is all that is evil. So they are actually heretical
I want to see a story where an incredibly gifted psyker is brought aboard a hive ship and integrated directly into the hive mind. In his last moments when he is losing his individuality he looks out and sees through the eyes of billions of tyrannid forms on thousands of planets. He feels an enormous hunger overcome him and overpower all other emotion and thought. As he is almost totally absorbed into the hive mind he looks out past the galaxy and the emperors light he becomes wholly one with the hive mind and feels something far greater than the hunger as he stares into the void…… fear
Chilling comment, very good writing
As in fear of the emperor?
Nk
Looking past the emperor's light, so something of/in the void that makes the hive tremble @@ryannewman4412
@@ryannewman4412
Unlikely, there is a popular fan theory that the tyranids are running from something.
I’m in the middle of an all consuming hive mind playthrough on Stellaris. So this video is a real treat
Prethoryn Scourge on 25x crisis strength setting gives me serious Tyranid vibes
i planned to do that, but meh. i got enough area and did megsructures instead
@@asdfasdf71865 omg
brother get the flamer...
the *H E A V Y* flamer
Was wondering when Tyranids would be covered again WOO!
Luetin covers ‘nids more than GW does
from what ive seen, we will be getting genestealers next
👍
Ayyyyy it's the rainy boy
it's the risk of rain streamer god
The Hive Mind?
It's an energy Field that surrounds us, penetrates and bind us.... And in the case of Psykers blows their heads off
(Cue the Swarmlord with lightsabers.)
Did yer eva hear da tragedy uv darth plagueis da wise? i thought not. It's not a story 'da jedi would tell yer. ... Darth plagueis was a dark lord uv ‘da sith, so powerful an’ so wise 'e kould use ‘da force ta influence ‘da midichlorians ta kreate life
@Ruosong Gao just like the Primaries
I always knew there was something fishy about those Midi-Clorians!
They were biomass and I slaughtered them like biomass. And not just the men, but the women and children too - Tyranid Combat doctrine.
"They can bleed. And they can die." - Inquisitor Fidus Kryptmann of the Ordo Xenos
I’ve never read or played 40k in any form but man these videos are like listening to an audiobook of another world. Love the work you put in!
Finally more lore on the real heroes of the 40k universe.
I lol'd.
Wait, why the Tyranids could be the heroes of the 40k universe?
@@donovangonzalez8406 because they are simple bugs that just want to eat. they’re not doing all this planetary devouring for fun or evil.
@@Confy__ but in that sense, they are just surviving, they are not a heroe.
In fact, in there persue of existence, they cause more destrucion than any other faction.
But... Well, it would be a great debate about the meaning and worth of life and the consequences of a bunch bug that eat everything
@@donovangonzalez8406 Well yeah but let's be clear there are no heroes in warhammer. They are considered the least evil faction in WH40k because they are so simple. They aren't out to dominate the galaxy politically and enslave entire races. They are simply some bugs doing the one thing they know how to do: devour.
It's so weird that Tyranids kinda get pushed aside from the Lore with the idea that Chaos is the all powerful unseen threat. I just love the idea that the current Tyranid "invasion" is just the Tyranids probing around being like "mind if I just poke my head around here" how crazy it would be when the real invasion begins when the 'Nids just say "Fk it, eat em all"
About every race has this lore where they can be the "Ultimate ans most powerful ones" of 40k. The orks would be the most powerful if they could unite. The Tyranids could be the most powerful if they all stormed the milky way. Chaos would be the most powerful if the 4 Gods stopped playing the Great Game and united to conquer the Galaxy. Mankind would be the most powerful if the Emperor could walk and speak again. Even the Tau would storm the Galaxy if they finally learned about the Warp and mastered warp travel, etc.
This is just a way to make every race appealing to the players and keeping the lore full of potential and exciting
@William King you mean like the necrons who just got a full rework? It isn't always just space marines.
If the Tyrannids invade _for real_ the Orks almodt immediately would be attracted to all that *Good Fightin™* which could lead to a WAGH. That, in turn would lead to the Orks rapidly upgrading themselves, potentially until they re-evolve into their original Krork forms.
But if there are that many Tyranids, they might wake up the Necrons, who are their natural counter.
Wouldn't that be crazy: Krork and Necrons, an aggressive yeast and emo androids. Former enemies now side-by-side vs overconfident ants? 🤣
After reading the replies I can just imagine a chain of events where all of the factions awaken. The Tyranids start committing to a full invasion, the orks unite, the Tau unlock the secrets of the Warp, the Eldar free themselves from Slaanesh's influence I guess? This triggers a mass awakening of Necron Tomb-Worlds and the Chaos Gods realizing, "oh shit, stuff is getting serious now." The Emperor finally enacts his mysterious plan and returns alongside the Primarchs to lead the Imperium into a new Golden Age. Did I miss anything?
@William King didn't tyranidz get updated too around the same time with genestealer cult stuff?
I knew there was a reason i couldn't sleep, must've been the emperor's hand to guide me here early.
Must be true, the same happened for me
MASTER OF MANKIND MAY YOUR LIGHT GUIDE US IN THE DARKNESS
Same
Could be the hive mind guiding you since it about tyranids
You couldn't sleep before 😅
It never ceases to amaze me how deep an seemingly unending the 40k lore is.
It's a shame the IP is so slow to adapt it in so few forms, especially the budgets and scale of the games.
Imagine how amazing a 40k MMO could be?
It's truly a blessing in disguise that you haven't gotten what you think you want.
There used to be a 3rd person 40k game that was supposed to be akin to planetside 2. Sadly the devs were extremely incompetent and ran the project straight into the ground.
@@Michael-bn1oi after watching almost all of my favorite franchises turn to shit, I have to agree.
MMOs suck. I do want a true RPG for pc set in the 40k universe though.
@@MalleusIudaeorum Rogue Trader comes out before too long. That's as real RPG as it gets
I believe the line from Terminator best sums up the Tyranids. 'It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.' Never understood why Luetin didn't have this saying in his pocket for Tyranid vid's like he does Hellraiser for Chaos.
I honestly think Chaos can't corrupt the Tyrannids because they just have one giant soul that is so single minded and so utterly absurdly massive and powerful that all four gods just can't do anything about it. This is also a decent explanation for the Shadow In The Warp, there single massive and hungry soul overpowers any psykers instantly.
Also the Tyranids aren’t of the Milky Way Galaxy and don’t have that deep connection to the gods’ of the warp being birthed
also, like Luetin touched upon, it is a single mind and at the same time billions of minds.
Kinda wonder about the swarm Lord. If there was one organism that would be effected by chaos that'd be it. Independent and retains memories/ feelings of past lives to improve upon its skills. Furthermore, remembering previous individuals that slayed it. Emotions maybe? Possessed swarm Lord...hmmm
@@daveh5785 Tbh it probably happens all the time. The only issue is when one voice whispers to make a portal to the warp and trillions are screaming "DEVOUR EVERYTHING" its kinda hard to hear the whispers ya know?
I was just watching the first contact vid.
Amazing timing LT.
Dude, right on. Watched that one couple days ago, been rewatching all the old ones last couple days.
The first contact video was the first I ever watched from the Loremaster. And I really loved it. It was grim, mastefully told, great music in the background....it was and still is awesome. It is still my favorit of all the stories. I love all of them but that first contact was just too good.
You know its gona be a good luten series when it's over and hour and is only part 1
You're the only lore man that gets the tone DOWN, from music to Renaissance esc backings, just fucking.. chef kiss man
*Imperuim Magos:* "I'm just going to do Biology, because studying creatures is waaaay easier than the warp lol"
*The creatures:* "Clickety-clackety, your bones are our snacketies."
He's still right.
@@alexanderthegreat6682 Yup
Former pest control expert here: managing Tyranids like sugar ants or termites would be feasible as long as different planets are used as bait stations. Alternate the planets every 2 centuries like crop rotation and you will checkmate a xeno pest of any kind
@@oblivionrefugee unfortunately they scrub the planet to the stones and probably a little beyond. Plus the hive fleet itself is hyper intelligent, far beyond almost any human mind(except for one obviously PRAISE TO THE EMPEROR!). So if they accepted the PLANET offering it would only be because they chose to.
@@justcommenting4981 Sounds like graveyard and garbage planets should be scheduled for a bug clearance on a rotation across the empire. We could make an alliance with the bugs. I'm kidding of course!
The Tyranid threat is the most fascinating element of 40K I reckon.
Biomass: *Exists*
Tyranids: Finally, some good f***ing food
I imagine them as slurpies for Tyranids
This is some serious gourmet shit
it’s fucking RAW
It’s “organic”... are tyranids space hippie monsters?
@@kaynesylvar8277 *hits blunt* so like, and I’m totally spitballing here, if we ate all biomass the universe? Like what do we do after?
LT: “Forging genetically adapted super human warriors as its only means of defending itself against the rest of the galaxy”
Imperial guard who outnumber the astartes by trillions, are the first and last line of defense, and are just regular everyday men and women of the imperium: am I a joke to you?
Let's face it--if you aren't a Loyalist Astartes Chapter*, GW considers you a joke.
*Or the Dark Angels.
@@CharlesUrban See also the Stormcast Eternals, aka the Astartes of Age of Sigmar, aka the Sigmarines, aka the Ground Marines.
@@CharlesUrban that tracks. I’m a still a guard player at heart. Something about it speaks to me.
Yes
so say a galaxy wide rebellion separate of all chaos space marines consisting only of the current "loyal" space marines happen do you think they would win against the wider imperium as a whole
For a race that is highly mutagenic and is said to constantly put out new creations, it feels like the tyranids haven't had any new units added to the games lately.
Luckily this is about to change finally
Thats because the units they have are so effective
They have been eating world for an unknown amount of time. They have probably honed their evoloution pretty well long before they reached the 40k universe.
ive heard the general shock troops they use are evolved to be as close to being the "best bang for your buck" as possible, yes they can make specific forms to better fight an enemy, but their generalist troops are effextive enough as is to where they only churn out the specialist troops for prolonged campaigns, i.e anyrhing from octarius or repeat invasions of worlds
@@ryancollyard3851yea they rely on the “if it isn’t broken why fix it” logic a lot of the time. It could also be for the sheer sake of efficiency of biomass usage.
“We’re in this for the species boys and girls. It’s simple numbers; they have more.”
I would like to know more.
Come on you apes! You wanna live forever?
I love these random ass comment references from other shit yall leave on these 40k videos. Always so seemingly random 🤣 earlier I found a comment about the starting line from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. About the creation of the universe was widely regarded as a bad move. And someone replied "42" lmfao
@@inquisitionagent9052 Yes.
When I see a picture of the angel Sanguinius
I’m not crying.
You’re crying
Why aren't you crying, heretic?
Somber Sanguinala
I’m more of a vulkan guy but damn..... sanguinius *sobs uncontrollably*
Luetin: starts covering Tyranid lore
Hive Fleet Tiamet: let me introduce myself
Is that a new hive fleet?
@@jonasribeiro2001 it was introduced back in 8th Edition
Frankly i find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive
Who's gonna tell him?
I'd like to know more.
Maybe there’s some kind of bug we haven’t seen yet.!
Picked up Space Marine 2 today. This will be good study material before I start.
Dude I don't even know about 40k until a single video suggest in TH-cam and I think iam a war hammer fan now .
Synaptic web: I always thought that the Tyranids have their own "space" in the warp like the orcs. With the difference, that the hive mind is the source of their warp presence while also being the real world manifestation of their warp created entity. But also possible that I have a bad case of crazed ramblings.
Eusocial psychic insects that assimilated other species until they created their own "Chaos God" which manifested as a gestalt intelligence binding them all? I'm a fan of that idea
@@bluegum6438 yeah I think you expressed my thought way better than I did. Thx.
Reminds me of a New God from Fear & Hunger.
*Heard there was biomass, came as fast as i could.*
Your the reason I fell in love with the lore of warhammer. I can’t tell you how long I put this universe off and pushed it to the corner of my other hobbies. For some reason I just never got into it. But seeing how rich and expansive it is through your videos has pulled me in so much. Thanks man!
I was oblivious to 40K just a month ago. Now I am completely hooked on the lore... it has quickly become one of my favourite universes out there.
'I could speak about Genestealers for 2 hours alone'. That's an instant download.
Agreed! I'm highly interested in what he has to say about Ymgarl, Tyranid origins in the lore, the Brood Mind, old lore nuggets...
Perfect timing Luetin, now I can listen to this while rampaging through Deathwing. FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
Luetin you are on of the few creators that i will watch on my console so i can feel fully invested in your content. In my opinion you with astartes when it comes to level of quality of content. Never stop I'm not saying that as a threat but rather as a compliment never stop.
Last time I was this early the Eldar were relevant
damn you old
Damn! Oh no you didn't. 🤣
Shots fired!
Man, you're not given enough credit for these videos... They're so eloquently and masterfully structured that even clueless plebs like me, who know nothing nor care nothing of the 40k universe are instantly entranced. If nothing else, you should feel good about making complete strangers admire you.
a whole swathe of compliments :D thank you
Words can't truly express how much I love this channel. Like wow! Found this last year during the height of lockdown. I've played some of the video games but thats about it. The level of detail you add is of the highest order. Each episode feels like a full documentary and ALWAYS holds my attention hostage. The lore of warhammer simply blows my mind! I really hope we soon see more anime and live action shows covering this universe. We need more dark, war, loss filled stories. Aka the entire warhammer 40k universe LOL. Ughhhhhh!
The glorious buggys bois finally get thier day in the sun with luetin
as a tyranid player, I love this.
I second this, nids are so cool!
as a player lover, I tyranid this.
ewwwww
I had my Nids on the shelf for far too long. Time time to get the Great Devourer back on the table!
HERESEY!
Sitting in bed can't sleep and have this stupid corna virus, this cheers me up no end
Feel better soon!
The Emperor protects. Stay strong, soldier
Get well soon
Stop hanging around nurgle and you won't get sick
You have been judged guilty of misuse and damage of your God-Emperor given body. You have been fined 100 credits.
The hive mind, surrounds them, penetrates them. It's energy binds them, luminous beings they are....
Heresy! *Blammity blammity you won't start a chaos calamity.*
Absolutely loving this series, Luetin. I’m fairly new to 40k, and am just in awe of the depth of this lore. Thank you for your efforts!
I gotta pull an all-nighter; the timing on this one could not have been better ^^
Oh hell ya brother, when luetin hits our feeds during these quarantine/lockdown times.
Especially w tyranid content. Oh. Hell. Ya. Brother.
Ork Space Hulk crashes into a planet seconds after a Tyranid spore shower.....and go!
@William King Ontarion sector.
Im super pumped to get a tyranid deep dive, they are why I got into 40k. My dad would play space hulk with me when I was little and let me just throw waves of genestealers at him until I killed his space marines, so I could win and he could still go all out. A few years ago I got curious what those space bugs where from and proceeded to watch every video luetin had made.
that's an adorable story!
Well you have a good story behind it.
For me i just seen zergs from starcraft and i found it fascinating. Then i heard somewhere that zergs are tyranids
My cousin's out fighting the Tyranids, and what do I get?
To live.
A new Luetin lore vid just in time for my Friday All-nighter painting? Thank the Emperor!
6:42 Belisarius Cawl pushing the boundaries? That's very charitable view of Cawl's actions.
The guy is just one 95 point theses away from going full Martin Luther.
Your static radio analogy was perfect. Made me grasp the concept instantly.
It would be awesome if there was a scenario in which tyranids are the defenders. They always are the invader.
I d love to know how their flesh versions of bunkers or orbital defense would Look like. Maybe they have planet sized super creatures, which birth the bioships.
it would be so sick to see drawings of something of massive ships birthing massive ships next to a ppanet
@@twocheezitz9182 lore wise, they could also have defense structures around the digesting pools. Especially in the stages of heavy fighting, it would make sense to reuse biomatter of your creatures and the enemy
@@Hivetrive I just love the image of a massive Capitol ship surrounded by what looks like a swarm of small ships, but upon closer inspection each ship is large enough to threaten extinction on weaker planets. This whole cloud of biomass hurling through space into our galaxy, sending out scouts that we have seen so far.
Luetin bringing the goods once again. Gonna get some model building done to this
Me: so how many tyranid videos will you make?
Luetin09: Yes
At last, an enemy in which we will run out of ammo before they run out of bodies.
“Recruit, sit.
Heed the words of the Terran Librarian as he tells you of this particular Xenos threat.”
Your lore content on warhammer is incredible man I’m learning so much it feels like I’m learning history that hasn’t happened yet lol
first of all: awesome. second of all, and anecdotally, i wish there were enough harlequin lore to justify a series like this :/ nevertheless, the lore that you do hash out is always an absolute blast to go through! thanks for the effort luetin
Inquisitor Kryptman did nothing wrong.
I'm sure that the weight of his actions is much greater on his shoulder than any accusation he got.
He knows what he did, no need to twist the knife in the wound.
"I had originally planned for this to be a single video..."
Your Faith is admirable...
I already knew that Blizzard borrowed heavily from 40K when designing the Zerg but daaaamn!
Everything is a one for one rip of making starcraft just a stupid and shittier 40k
I don't think Game World can point fingers though. They obviously copied the Tyranids off of the Xenomorphs of the Alien franchise.
I enjoy the idea that Rippers can grow into other variants of Tyranids because it makes them a much more useful organism for infiltration. Deploying them alongside a genestealer vanguard means they could be triggered by the Brood Mind to metamorphize into tunneling organisms if the cult needs more mobility or mining capabilities - but could just as easily be triggered into a carnifex for breaking into fortified orbital laser defense systems, or if the cult is discovered early and they need more numbers: hormagaunts and warriors to lead them. The concept of suddenly having to face down an entire Tyranid invasion force without any of the oncoming warning signs of a Tyranid fleet really increases the paranoia they can inflict over the entire galaxy.
Also if you take it to the most extreme - you could have a conquered world producing new narvhal ships that allow the tendrils to make very sudden and unexpected leaps across entire regions of space to bypass readied defense forces!
Luetin: it was going to be one video but now it's three
40k fans: [insert How to training your dragon thumbs up meme]
From what I gathered here it's more like 5 videos :)
I can't listen right now, but I know just by length and creator, this is going to be amazing. Thanks a lot!
Fuuuuuck, the detail of the lore in these videos is amazing.
I used to be a Nid player before, and listening to this video has me going "Wait, how many gaunts are there?!"
Surprised every day
I remember the first time I listened to this vid whilst trying to sleep and it was my intro to tyranids. I remember thinking how terrifying they sounded that and the demonculaba
Tyranids have but three core objectives: Sneed, Feed and Seed
baased
same
Wtf is sneed
@@hggpi I second
@@hggpi formerly chuck's
The only good bug is the bug I scrape off the bottom of my boot.
these are bad bugs then
Carnifex: "Stomp this! (om-nom-nom-nom!"
In 40K bug stomps on you
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Ya gona need a bigger boot bro...........
I should really be getting to bed...
... is that a new Luetin video...
IS THAT A NEW TYRANID VIDEO
Hey I subscribed to your channel about two years ago and I just want to say thank you for all that you do to produce this content! I hope you are doing well and please take care of yourself, comrade! 😁
All hail the lore master!
Termagants, the most badass marines in the universe!
In my mind, there are still some rare Imperial Guard soldiers wandering around with stranglewebs around them simply because they didn't panic and didn't try to remove it.
the irony of "the weakness of my flesh disgusted me" mindset but at the same time knowing the perfect species is just highly evolved piranhas 100% made of flesh
I'm pretty sure that tyranids don't exist considering GW hasnt done anything with their models in close to a decade.
What is there even to change? They don't exactly need updating
IKR they should be an unstoppable force on the table top, that GW ripped off both “Space Marines in Power Armour” vs the “bugs” in the novel and movies “Starship Troopers”....
@@harrysox2815 have you tried playing as a Tyranid player on the table top?
@@harrysox2815 you really haven't played nids then. They aren't the worst army because knights and tau exist. But they are down there.
@@TheSigmaGrindSet that's not even remotely true... also you're thinking of Starcraft which ripped off both ST and WH40K. 40K doesn't resemble ST at all. Humans vs "Enemy type" of all kinds have been a thing much longer than any of the 3, especially aliens of a "bug" biology. Sci-fi films and stories from the 40s and 50s were mostly the insectoid sort of thing anyway so what about that?
and I wouldn't even call these things bugs in the way that ST does. Considering the nids have arms and hold firearms and melee weapons, and the bugs are just bugs with sharp legs, wings, stingers, or internal chemical agents for attacking..
53:50 How many takes did you have to do to say "firing sphincter" without laughing?
Tyranid vs Necron would be one hell of a fight! If it does happen, I'm going to wait for it.
Necrons are the Tyranids kriptonite. No biomass to consume from the Necrons so its a lose lose situation for The Great Devourer
i am going to go through every single one of these videos until i have them all memorized, these are so good i love 40k
You are the greatest, hands down. I dont play the game as my brother does but the lore is greatly underappreciated and kept my mind occupied while i was struggling when i first came home from Afghanistan. Thank you, Sir.
I love the 40k universe, it makes me so much more upbeat about my own.
Imagine the Hive from Destiny joining with the Tyrannid. That would be bad... The mixture of their weird space magics and rituals of death and doom would literally become unstoppable unless the Astartes become Guardians on top of their regular upgrades. Like damn.
Who on earth wrote all this? Obviously it was published by GW but this is so much deep thought put into the marketing campaign for plastic miniature figurines.
Your video about Tyranid first contact was one of the first 40k videos I watched. They've been my favorite faction ever since, and I'm glad you're making vids about them again.
I was so pleased to see a new leutin Tyranid for the next painting session and then the added bonus that it's part 1.
They are my favourite faction in 40k they represent the brutal and uncaring nature of reality. They kill not to uphold since noble creed nor for vengeance or sadistic pleasure but only to feed and survive as cold and destructive as a black hole.
Me: *Happily listening to the video.*
*Hears the word Vogelist*
"Hold up what?"
*Hears explanation*
*Starts Sweating a little*
"That's my name... The Vogel at least."
lol hilarious :D I love coincidences like this
The Emperor protects
"Vogel" also is the german word for "bird"
Best way I've seen the hivemind described is that individual tyrinid bioforms aren't actually individual creatures. Instead the hive fleets are all the true individual tyrinids, and the various forms within are merely individual neurons of the singular mind that they all contribute too
My head canon: Tyranids are the weakest race in the distant galaxy they are from and consume surrounding galaxies in an attempt to struggle and survive in their own home galaxy.
I don't like that idea... 😦
There are plenty of 40k fans theorize that the tyranids are being chased by something else and they just grab whatever they can so they can keep running.
@@minhducnguyen674 I theorize that it’s the Tyranids polar opposite: a god like collection of abominable intelligence, maybe even with a connection to the Men of Gold or Iron
@@claytonkickflip7595They are complex meat computers so it's not far fetched
So... Tyranids end up in a stalemate vs Orks and Necrons and team up to beat down the ones bullying the Necrons. Sounds cool! 🤣
Tyranids, more vicious than Xenomorphs, Necromorphs and that the Thing thing combined. Another marvelous video @luetin. You really saves my lockdown weekends. And that means a lot! Thank you 🙏
Had a few videos in a playlist and went to bed listening to it. Woke up hearing about Tyranids and in my half asleep state had forgotten about 40k entirely and thought I was still watching videos about evolution and dinosaurs. Made for a few moments of intense confusion and momentary horror before remembering what I had left playing lol