Return today with some more Xenos lore about the Tyranids specifically we delve into the troubling world of Genestealers and their Cults - the Cults section is more of an overview and theres probably room to dive a bit deeper on GSC later along the lines - just in case any of you GSC fans were wondering. If you enjoyed please hit the like it helps more than youd think ! :D
About the tyranids vs orks at around 11:10 Can't the Imperium just cyclonic torpedo exterminatus the planet while both the orks and tyranids are fighting or use exterminatus after the one or the other wins? Am I missing something? Thx
The Orks in the Octarius system must feel like their fellows who invaded the realm of Khorne: They reached their own personal heaven. All day fighting against an enemy who doesn't retreat and is nearly unending.
@@MastaToSch They may not know it, but Khorne admires them dearly. He may not be able to touch them with his influence, or reward them with gifts, but he don't have to. They never fail to deliver skulls for the Blood God's throne.
@@phreakazoith2237 here's a way around it - plot twist: if you manage to escape to another planet then it turns out that *you* are an actual hybrid, and paranoia that you are experiencing trying to escape Genestealers is built-in selection mechanism by hive mind🤓
Kryptman: Why are you booing me? What's the worst that could happen? Farseer: You wanna hear the worst, the worst-worst, or the worst-worst-worst case scenario?
@@raycearcher5794 Tyranids gaining the ork ability to make things happen just because nthey believe in it strongly enough would quickly reach SCP Reality Bender levels
@@Ahrpigi that's just the flood from Halo at that point - at their height they could shrink distances of thousands of light years into hundreds of meters with mere thoughts
(Observing from afar, an Adeptus Mechanicus with robes and glowing green eyes, chats with some really short squeaky fella in robes with glowing orange eyes, both boasting about their best salvage operations.)
Ah yes, the Genestealers, whose claws are "somehow" able to slice through Dreadnought armor. And they are definitely not alone. Is there one creature in the W40K galaxy, whose claws cannot cut through armor? The common terran house cat? Perhaps?
My theory is that the armour is actually just very vulnerable to being sliced open. Very hard and crystalline but ultimately vulnerable to fracturing when exposed to precise pressure.
Its always bothered me too. It doesnt make much sense. And why just genestealer claws as opposed to a hormagaunt? The bigger lifeforms, ok maybe but these 2 are roughly equal size. I think its to make genestealers more dangerous and thus hulks and cults more dangerous. Rather then a turkey shoot of 'gaunts.
Friends the answer is simple. It's WH40k. Some guy thought that those claws looked wicked sharp, wrote down some over exaggerated description and here we are.
To be fair, creatures that can't cut through armor aren't very threatening and so there would be no point in deploying them in warfare. But then mentioning it in lore as if it's impressive every single time doesn't make any sense.
I don't know if this is outdated, but didn't the lore state that genestealers were deliberately given a 'free' will that compelled them to survive and escape the coming Hive Fleet, and that was by design to keep the genestealers moving to untainted planets to spread more pandemonium for the tyranids? Or was that retconned?
I think it's a mix of both? But I'm not sure. I remember a book where a Magus was pretty hype to get eaten by the great devourer and become one of the Goss he worshipped But some cults, like rusted claw, are nomadic and travel across the galaxy killing people in the name of the four armed emperor
I never understood exactly how overwhelmingly dangerous the Tyrannids were until i listened to "The devastation of Baal" audio book, where Leviathan comes horrifyingly close to exterminating the Blood Angels and their successors.
Never happened. Glitch in Terra's records V_V you know what their like, senile old rust buckets. Smurfs though, THERES ya heresy....and I ain't forgotten you liono! Cypher wants words.
The idea of genestealer cult empires, just out there in the dark, waiting for an ascension day that was cancelled is intriguing. How powerful, or not, could these mutant empires even be?
@@jacktobias6513 lack of personality. Tell me why is the swarmlord per their lore the swarmlord? Every Tyrant is "perfectly designed to counter it's designed foe" yet the Swarmlord who only uses four swords and no Divergent designs is somehow better. They perfectly immediately evolve to suit any situation (yet lose immediately to Tau "technological advancement) and somehow the Hive Fleets are distinct...yet all the same Hive Mind and in perfect coordination. And if you dare suggest each Hive Fleet be given its own mind and personality and own goals and overall agenda, the Nid fans will crucify you. The Nids are otherwise as interesting a villain as a tidal wave in a Superman Movie. Genecults avoid these failures of writing, and insert some truly grimdark elements in a universe that had felt like the darkness was leaving.
Could you imagine a Genestealer planet that's been isolated for thousands of years or even since the Age of Strife? I'd love to see how they might evolve and possibly deviate from Tyranid worship and control to form their own thing.
This is something that always runs through my mind when I think of Genestealer cults. How are new fleets formed? Do they grow from the bottom up (so, a GSC would eventually develop larger nids and on to higher level fleet tyranids)? Or do they develop from the top down - meaning a Nord Queen would be the start of a new fleet?
@@EthanKristopherHartley they can't do that unfortunately otherwise they'd be way more dangerous. If anything they'd likely go totally rogue from the hive mind control and possibly figure out how to stop drawing it's attention altogether
@@EthanKristopherHartley i think some splinters of a Hive fleet can take their own courses to consume weaker planets until they become a fully fledged hive fleet
Had a good day planned outside but the weather turned and now it's raining... Not much to do as the normal house stuff but then your vid poped up. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into it! Having a second look at the rain... since when is rain brown have small legs???
The Genestealers being in the Milky Way before the humanity and any other sentient life properly appeared reminds me of Markers from Dead Space- a premature seeding of a world, just in case, but in case of Tyranids they don't need sentient life to grow their fleet
Nice idea for The Dark Heresy session. Players are taking part in fighting against heretic forces in hive city led by Inquisitor himself. After victory players see the Astrates forces landing on the planet. However something happens and world changes and revales that THE PLAYERS were Tyranid cultists and Inquisitor was a Brute.
My first 40k army was a Tyrannid army when the first Codex came out in the early 90s. Until that Codex was released there was still a lot of debate that the Tyrannids and Genestealers were separate xenos races. At the hobby shop I work at one of my co-coworkers had built an Imperial Guard Army and we worked together on creating a “Brood Brother” units including a kit-bashed Leman Russ appropriated by the Brood. It was so much fun using “Green-Stuff” to make their elongated heads and using purple shades for the skin of the old plastic Imperial Guard models in the old “30” boxes. When it was confirmed they were all part of the same race I remember thinking they just became the most powerful and terrifying army in the whole of the Imperium…
Thank you so much! There's just no alternative to your 40k vids, dude. And every one is a guarantee that my mood for the day improves drastically. Bless you lore master!
I have never played 40k but I stumbled across your channel during lockdown and have been sucked in by all the explanations, lore, and content. Love what you’re doing. This universe is so entertaining!
Man I’m writing an extremely boring paper at 1AM and need something to keep me going, I’ve watched 3 of your videos in one go and this is number 4. I really think majorkill is cool but you’re always gonna be the best! I didn’t really like Arch 40k theories or Baldermort much because they all kind of just drone on but you have that narration and musical accompaniment that’s just right! Well done
Kriegsman 1 "Yo Kriegsman, you heard about that Cryptman? They declared his victories came at unacceptable and unjustified costs." Kriegsman 2: "How can I join his ranks?"
I know I’m late to the proverbial party but, just got donated two boxes of Genestealers from my local store to start a KT. As I have been enjoying the Imperial lore and books for a really long time, figured I need to learn more about these fast Xeno elite units. Well done Sir, knew I could count on you for the flavor…you did not disappoint.
Ever thought about making a video about the Death Guard? Named characters, the plague planet, morty etc? Especially things like the plague factories and their tallying would be fascinating to learn more about. Great video, cheers! :)
Damn, I have to remember to go back through every single video in this playlist and make sure it is liked. I have watched about 40 hours of your videos in two weeks and I cannot seem to watch anything else right now. Amazing content brother!
I've been playing space hulk vengeance of the blood angels on the Sega Saturn recently and it made me love genestealers, they're such a cool enemy and are terrifying to think about having to fight them face to face
The John Blanche Self Portrait as Space Marine always makes me chuckle. Edit: Also, forgot to add, thank you, LT, for the continuous excellent content, which is always of such high quality and detail.
"very much my own wild speculations and should be given no further credence." So your saying I have to delete the edit I did to the old ones wiki page now?
I always found it wierd that Nids leave planets behind. With dedicated organisms they could break down basically all of a planets mass and convert it with enough energy into the desired elements and molecules. They do have the system's sun as an energy source to fuel that endeavor. They could maybe use some wierd form of agriculture where the "plants" grown dissolve the very planet they're growing on with help of the star's energy.
This episode was great fun to listen to. The tyranids and the genestealers are my favorite enemies for human kind and the most terrifying personally. Really enjoyed it!
There are many guides, and a lot of long-winded narrators on youtube. Luetin is my favorite 40k lore channel for accuracy, nice narration/graphics, and sticking to the point. You paraphrase and explain in your own words, but you also don't just read off published text or go on for ages about theories. Thanks for these vids. I will refer new players to your channel for good fluff videos to listen to while painting. 🙂
I always wondered why the Tyranids never used Orkoid spores to reseed planets to allow the regrowth of biomass then consume like a system wide form of agriculture.
Wait what? So whilst the Orks and Tyranids are fighting each other to a standstill there very well might pop-up a warband of Khorne Deamon princes? Keep up the awesome, so happy I found this channel.
I'm really looking forward to this being continued whenever it is, Tyranids are such an interesting part of 40k, I like the fact that we'll almost certainly never know what the hive mind is exactly or how it came into being, whether the Tyranids evolved on a single world or if another powerful race created them as bioweapons by accident. I used to be a real sucker for the necrons and c'tan but the mystery and sheer cosmic horror value of Tyranids is gradually overtaking them for me these days.
I think my favorite mention of a genestealer infestation was when one genestealer got onto Krieg, and was dying of radiation poisoning, and managed to infect a Krieger who was I'll suited for service for some reason and was on the receiving end of a live fire training assault before he killed it. He dragged it out onto the street and immediately got shot by the members of the assaulting force.
Also In a way- getting disolved into a unity of Tyranid biomass might be the better choice. It's quick and relatively painless, especially in face of how Chaos deals with it's pray or how Imperium treats it's "citizens"
i got my self into the 40k lore like a year ago, you where one on the suggestions into I got from a friend who is a fan of the lore nut much of the tabletop as i am now Love to listen to you materials, great descriptions with love to the details
World Eaters aren't that happy... the Orks and Tyranids temporarily stopped fighting one other and absolutely wrecked the World Eater force that had arrived to fight there..
@@adib3011 so to speak yes, the hivemind sees chaos as another predator that's threatening to spoil their lunch and after the great rift have made an effort to deal with them. Orks will always take a chance to fight
Can't wait for part 2, never had an inclination to collect Tyranids or Genestealer cults but I do think they're a cool army and concept and love your explanation on them as a whole
It occurs to me that the reason Tyranids scoop atmosphere and ocean is probably to get at all the carbon, potassium, nitrogen, water, and all the other necessities for life stored in those. I'd be surprised if they didn't mine out the limestone too.
I'd like to see a Nid vs necromorph fight. If the Nids can be turned into necromorphs, They both would have basically unlimited ability to replace the numbers so it would all come down to who's killing fastest.
Currently painting a 'Stealer Cult army so I found this very fitting. And even though I knew most of this already, it's always nice to have an interesting refresher.
It would seem the best strategy for the imperium would be to see their border planets with impending Tyranid invasions with Orkz. Orkz seem like a good hard counter to the Tyranid. The enemy of my enemy is my friend as it were even if you are just using the Orkz as tougher biomass and grant you more time to make a plan.
YES!!!!!! What a way to take the edge off a Monday working at home :-) Love your work mate, your voice has been the background of my working at home life for like a year now. Keep up the good work! P.S I did like your emphasis on Abaddon ;-)
I honestly wish genestealers were still separate from Tyranids like they were in Rogue Trader. It'd be so much more 'sci-fi' to have this insidious, creepy, alien that poisons the minds of humans for it's own wicked gains, but is just one of many minor alien races which therefore shows just how filled with unique horrors the universe is... rather than just having it being one tiny part of one of the few big existential threats to the whole galaxy.
Kryptman probably didn''t have better options. The Imperium as so many enemies, shunting enemies into each other is a good idea while you mass forces to deal with the issues.
Given all of the other characteristics of the Tyranids it feels weird to me that a genestealer cult doesn't somehow birth a norn queen and start a new fleet if it is entirely in control of a planet and is never consumed by the hive.
It's be interesting to see one such "genestealer world" that you described towards the end of the video needing to actually defend itself from other invading forces, not to spoil the planet before a tyranid hivefleet can arrive to reap the planetary biomass the cult has been preparing.
ngl i find the tyranids kinda beautiful. truely the endgame of evolution. the emperor may represent the unity of all mankind but the tyranid represents the unity of all life
On the day of release of this video i just had a game with my Kraken hive fleet against some Drukhari, my Genestealers where obviously focussed down but my Broodlord could then slice open many vehicles and even a Character model :-) Sadly i got tabled but won on points, why? Because the Tyranids always win even when they loose.
Luetin, I've been thinking exactly the same thing about the Tyrranid, that they are a last ditch effort after losing the war in heaven, to cauterize the whole galaxy from the corruption festering in the warp.
Genestealer: "Hello my fellow Ork, would you like to talk about our lord and savior The Great Devourer?" Ork Boyz: "Green is best! Get 'em Boyz! 'Dey ain't orky 'nough!" "Waaagh!!!"
Im sorry but I'm probably going to sound like a wierdo but i simply love your voice and the way you talk. I could listen to speak all day long and be riveted every minute of it.! Plus you present 40k in an awesome way!! Thank you so much for the hours of amazing content!! And don't ever stop!!
If Grandfather Nurgle hadn't won my heart (and soul) years ago, I would definitely want to cuddle with the Four-Armed Emperor. The gribblies are just too cute.
There should be a study researching any correlation between Luetin's uploads and models sold because this video really shows how eerie genestealers are, and now I want a set.
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Return today with some more Xenos lore about the Tyranids specifically we delve into the troubling world of Genestealers and their Cults - the Cults section is more of an overview and theres probably room to dive a bit deeper on GSC later along the lines - just in case any of you GSC fans were wondering. If you enjoyed please hit the like it helps more than youd think ! :D
I am returned- Luetin.
Holy redacted!
please stop the wavy images or the shaky ones they really give me a headache. Thank you
A like? I don't think so! I give you at least 5.
About the tyranids vs orks at around 11:10
Can't the Imperium just cyclonic torpedo exterminatus the planet while both the orks and tyranids are fighting or use exterminatus after the one or the other wins?
Am I missing something? Thx
Oh good, I was worried that I’d have to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Thankfully 50 minutes of raw Tyranid lore solves that problem.
> not falling asleep to these
not gonna make it
I prefer my Tyranids well done but Raw is also good 🍗vs🥩
Just in time!
@@rickconnolly5006 chuck a nid on the barbie.
@@kredonystus7768 haha funny cos actually Australian lol
I can listen to your 40K stories for hours. Fantastic work, compiling all this!
You should make a comic on warhammer 40k
More like, capillary towers! All of this!
Are we getting tyranid invasion comics next?
Joke's on you, he already makes them hours long 😁
you should make a tyranids comic, would love 2 see what a anime tyranid would look like
Viewers: say the line!
Luetins: Catastrophic consequences
Viewers: yaaaaeeahhhh!!!!!
What’s this meme?
@@sauceover simpsons
More like
Viewers: _[massive synchronized orgasms]_
*Leviathan enters system*
Octarius orks: Holy shit guys were rich!
😂😂😂
Teed, teef everywhere
The Orks in the Octarius system must feel like their fellows who invaded the realm of Khorne: They reached their own personal heaven. All day fighting against an enemy who doesn't retreat and is nearly unending.
*Gorks teef, boyz, we iz livin' laaaaarge!
@@MastaToSch They may not know it, but Khorne admires them dearly. He may not be able to touch them with his influence, or reward them with gifts, but he don't have to. They never fail to deliver skulls for the Blood God's throne.
Last time I was this early Rogal Dorn was building sand castles.
@OMGitsAzrael This is funny to me.
Lmao
igloos
*snow castles
Lord ador(n)able: This is true...
Imagine a game like Outlast/Alien Isolation, where you are trying to escape the planet overtaken by Genestealers and cultists 😱
Fuck. With an alien isolation A.I.? Get Creative Assembly on this asap
outsmarting the hive mind? good luck!
A 40k game that isn’t a power-trip filled with the player committing acts of ultra-violence?
The Fanbase: *intense sweating*
@@phreakazoith2237 here's a way around it - plot twist: if you manage to escape to another planet then it turns out that *you* are an actual hybrid, and paranoia that you are experiencing trying to escape Genestealers is built-in selection mechanism by hive mind🤓
DLC: you play as suspecting Arbite in the starting days of Revolution, trying to figure out just what the hell is about to commence
I'm awake at 3 in the morning getting my heart broken. This video is a life saver. Thank you
Stay strong bröther 🤝
You’re stronger than you know. This shall pass.
Praise the Emperor and he's holy Astartes! Stay Strong brother!
The good news whatever's going in your life right now, it shall pass...the bad news is, you can't see that yet. Stay strong brother
The Emperor protects, brother 👊🏼
“Simply ingest a purple and white vial and you will feel like a new man”-every bartender on a Friday night
that’s what she said
Hail the Twisted Helix!
Kryptman: Why are you booing me? What's the worst that could happen?
Farseer: You wanna hear the worst, the worst-worst, or the worst-worst-worst case scenario?
The worst, worst, worst, WORST case scenario is that the Tyranids win, but eat so many Orks that all the Tyranids TURN ORKY.
@@raycearcher5794 Tyranids gaining the ork ability to make things happen just because nthey believe in it strongly enough would quickly reach SCP Reality Bender levels
@@Ahrpigi That or with it being a hive mind, a single thought of death or destruction would lead it to terminating itself
WH50k intensifies
@@Ahrpigi that's just the flood from Halo at that point - at their height they could shrink distances of thousands of light years into hundreds of meters with mere thoughts
"I've been looking forward to this"
-Some old guy with a laser sword
"Hello there"
-some other guy with a laser sword
@@Hey_Loser "GENERAL XENOBI!!!!"
- Some alien with FOUR laser swords...
@@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534
Those are full energy force weapons!!!!
Capture them intact at all cost
@@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534 *throws huge temper tantrum^
-some guy with a big nose and a staticky laser sword
(Observing from afar, an Adeptus Mechanicus with robes and glowing green eyes, chats with some really short squeaky fella in robes with glowing orange eyes, both boasting about their best salvage operations.)
Ah yes, the Genestealers, whose claws are "somehow" able to slice through Dreadnought armor. And they are definitely not alone. Is there one creature in the W40K galaxy, whose claws cannot cut through armor? The common terran house cat? Perhaps?
My theory is that the armour is actually just very vulnerable to being sliced open.
Very hard and crystalline but ultimately vulnerable to fracturing when exposed to precise pressure.
Can cut throught space marines like butter. Unless he has a name. Then they can't do shit.
Its always bothered me too. It doesnt make much sense. And why just genestealer claws as opposed to a hormagaunt? The bigger lifeforms, ok maybe but these 2 are roughly equal size.
I think its to make genestealers more dangerous and thus hulks and cults more dangerous. Rather then a turkey shoot of 'gaunts.
Friends the answer is simple. It's WH40k. Some guy thought that those claws looked wicked sharp, wrote down some over exaggerated description and here we are.
To be fair, creatures that can't cut through armor aren't very threatening and so there would be no point in deploying them in warfare. But then mentioning it in lore as if it's impressive every single time doesn't make any sense.
The Orks were right, I'm wearing a red t-shirt and have never been this early
@OMGitsAzrael I think you need to wear a purple shirt for that
You may be early, but you won't live through the episode.
There was a short story recently in Inferno that detailed the 'Twisted Helix' cult that seems to be a stable genestealer cult society. Neat reading.
Yeah, stable... for a few generations... and the Nikolaus comes.
Worldeaters fighting actual world eaters... That sounds like a party!!!
I don't know if this is outdated, but didn't the lore state that genestealers were deliberately given a 'free' will that compelled them to survive and escape the coming Hive Fleet, and that was by design to keep the genestealers moving to untainted planets to spread more pandemonium for the tyranids? Or was that retconned?
All I know is genestealers don't need synapse creature nearby to give commands. They can operate independently.
More like genestealers "escape" with fleeing refugees and make their way to new planets in that manner.
wouldn't surprise me, I believe possession and warp taint function the same way
I think it's a mix of both? But I'm not sure. I remember a book where a Magus was pretty hype to get eaten by the great devourer and become one of the Goss he worshipped
But some cults, like rusted claw, are nomadic and travel across the galaxy killing people in the name of the four armed emperor
I never understood exactly how overwhelmingly dangerous the Tyrannids were until i listened to "The devastation of Baal" audio book, where Leviathan comes horrifyingly close to exterminating the Blood Angels and their successors.
And they only survived by summoning a demon. Which is a good lesson for all loyalist chapters.
Comes close, but nothing horrifying about it, it's a dime a dozen mantribe.
@@UnsoberIdiot nope nope nope HERESY! THERES HERESY HERE!!
@@ethanjohnson9016 The only heresy is that they summoned a daemon of Khorne instead of embracing Grandfather's eternal love.
Never happened. Glitch in Terra's records V_V you know what their like, senile old rust buckets. Smurfs though, THERES ya heresy....and I ain't forgotten you liono! Cypher wants words.
The idea of genestealer cult empires, just out there in the dark, waiting for an ascension day that was cancelled is intriguing. How powerful, or not, could these mutant empires even be?
I highly dislike how the Tyranids were written. Yet i absolutely love how the Genestealers are written.
@@codyraugh6599 What don't you like about the Tyranids?
@@jacktobias6513 lack of personality. Tell me why is the swarmlord per their lore the swarmlord? Every Tyrant is "perfectly designed to counter it's designed foe" yet the Swarmlord who only uses four swords and no Divergent designs is somehow better. They perfectly immediately evolve to suit any situation (yet lose immediately to Tau "technological advancement) and somehow the Hive Fleets are distinct...yet all the same Hive Mind and in perfect coordination.
And if you dare suggest each Hive Fleet be given its own mind and personality and own goals and overall agenda, the Nid fans will crucify you. The Nids are otherwise as interesting a villain as a tidal wave in a Superman Movie.
Genecults avoid these failures of writing, and insert some truly grimdark elements in a universe that had felt like the darkness was leaving.
@@codyraugh6599 Cool, don't care, think the nids are cool anyway.
@@jacktobias6513 But you asked though haha, and i dont think he was trying to change your mind but nids do be cool lookin
Could you imagine a Genestealer planet that's been isolated for thousands of years or even since the Age of Strife? I'd love to see how they might evolve and possibly deviate from Tyranid worship and control to form their own thing.
@Pagan Gaming no they weren't but it's possible scout ships could've crashed here during the age of strife or earlier
This is something that always runs through my mind when I think of Genestealer cults. How are new fleets formed? Do they grow from the bottom up (so, a GSC would eventually develop larger nids and on to higher level fleet tyranids)? Or do they develop from the top down - meaning a Nord Queen would be the start of a new fleet?
@@EthanKristopherHartley they can't do that unfortunately otherwise they'd be way more dangerous. If anything they'd likely go totally rogue from the hive mind control and possibly figure out how to stop drawing it's attention altogether
@@EthanKristopherHartley from whgat I understand, each fleet is just a new incursion into our galaxy from outside.
@@EthanKristopherHartley i think some splinters of a Hive fleet can take their own courses to consume weaker planets until they become a fully fledged hive fleet
Had a good day planned outside but the weather turned and now it's raining... Not much to do as the normal house stuff but then your vid poped up. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into it! Having a second look at the rain... since when is rain brown have small legs???
Wait... you have your house in order?.... Yes Mr. Inquisitor, I believe this man is the emperor reborn!
The Genestealers being in the Milky Way before the humanity and any other sentient life properly appeared reminds me of Markers from Dead Space- a premature seeding of a world, just in case, but in case of Tyranids they don't need sentient life to grow their fleet
Nice idea for The Dark Heresy session. Players are taking part in fighting against heretic forces in hive city led by Inquisitor himself. After victory players see the Astrates forces landing on the planet. However something happens and world changes and revales that THE PLAYERS were Tyranid cultists and Inquisitor was a Brute.
My first 40k army was a Tyrannid army when the first Codex came out in the early 90s. Until that Codex was released there was still a lot of debate that the Tyrannids and Genestealers were separate xenos races. At the hobby shop I work at one of my co-coworkers had built an Imperial Guard Army and we worked together on creating a “Brood Brother” units including a kit-bashed Leman Russ appropriated by the Brood.
It was so much fun using “Green-Stuff” to make their elongated heads and using purple shades for the skin of the old plastic Imperial Guard models in the old “30” boxes. When it was confirmed they were all part of the same race I remember thinking they just became the most powerful and terrifying army in the whole of the Imperium…
“Genetic recon” is an aptly terrifying concept. Thanks for continuing this Tyranid series, it’s fantastic!
Thank you so much! There's just no alternative to your 40k vids, dude. And every one is a guarantee that my mood for the day improves drastically. Bless you lore master!
The Virgin Chaos Cult vs The Giga Chad Genestealer Hive
I have never played 40k but I stumbled across your channel during lockdown and have been sucked in by all the explanations, lore, and content. Love what you’re doing. This universe is so entertaining!
I wish there were lore videos like these for each fandom. I love these formats and topic focused talks.
I'd like to hear more about the ongoing war between the orcs and tyranid. It sounds intriguing
The Nids won
Man I’m writing an extremely boring paper at 1AM and need something to keep me going, I’ve watched 3 of your videos in one go and this is number 4. I really think majorkill is cool but you’re always gonna be the best! I didn’t really like Arch 40k theories or Baldermort much because they all kind of just drone on but you have that narration and musical accompaniment that’s just right! Well done
Tyranids entering the Ork empire in Oktarius
Imperium: Let them fight!
A Decade or whatever later: uh oh
@@errata several hundred years later: we think we solved it(?)
@@runehq54 several millenia later: a moon teleports near holy terra with giant orks seeking a propa fitin'
Kriegsman 1 "Yo Kriegsman, you heard about that Cryptman? They declared his victories came at unacceptable and unjustified costs." Kriegsman 2: "How can I join his ranks?"
"Finally, a worthy commander!"
Last time I was this early Horus Lupercal was still loyal to the God Emperor.
Nice i was just about to start my 12 hour work day thanks for making it bearable.
More lore about Tyranids is allways a glorious moment for me ^^
Thanks for this awesome Vid :)
I bet the Leviathan fighting Orks LOVE the humans for gifting them with such neverending ferocious violence and war. They couldn't be 'appier!
You should do more videos recounting specific events in Warhammer lore. They are captivating
Orks latent psyonic abilities with pretty much making things work out of thin air mixed with the tyranids is a horrifying prospect
I know I’m late to the proverbial party but, just got donated two boxes of Genestealers from my local store to start a KT.
As I have been enjoying the Imperial lore and books for a really long time, figured I need to learn more about these fast Xeno elite units.
Well done Sir, knew I could count on you for the flavor…you did not disappoint.
Ever thought about making a video about the Death Guard? Named characters, the plague planet, morty etc? Especially things like the plague factories and their tallying would be fascinating to learn more about. Great video, cheers! :)
Damn, I have to remember to go back through every single video in this playlist and make sure it is liked. I have watched about 40 hours of your videos in two weeks and I cannot seem to watch anything else right now. Amazing content brother!
According to the subtitles, those jean dealers seem pretty dangerous
For every video you make, you drag me deeper and deeper into the dark, far future, where there is only more lore.
I've been playing space hulk vengeance of the blood angels on the Sega Saturn recently and it made me love genestealers, they're such a cool enemy and are terrifying to think about having to fight them face to face
The John Blanche Self Portrait as Space Marine always makes me chuckle.
Edit: Also, forgot to add, thank you, LT, for the continuous excellent content, which is always of such high quality and detail.
"very much my own wild speculations and should be given no further credence." So your saying I have to delete the edit I did to the old ones wiki page now?
The only right thing to do now is to write some fan fiction and add a fake citation.
I always found it wierd that Nids leave planets behind. With dedicated organisms they could break down basically all of a planets mass and convert it with enough energy into the desired elements and molecules. They do have the system's sun as an energy source to fuel that endeavor. They could maybe use some wierd form of agriculture where the "plants" grown dissolve the very planet they're growing on with help of the star's energy.
"Biophagus Galaxos Klynesmith" - Glaxosmithkline
Someone has an awsome sense of humour
This episode was great fun to listen to. The tyranids and the genestealers are my favorite enemies for human kind and the most terrifying personally. Really enjoyed it!
For me, the most fascinating thing about Tyranid cults is that rarely, a Genestealer Patriarch will convert to the worship of chaos
The reason is pretty obvious, isn’t it? Chaos is chaotic, and a Patriarch wouldn’t want a Daemon incursion to happen in his house.
Retconned since early 2000s
There are many guides, and a lot of long-winded narrators on youtube. Luetin is my favorite 40k lore channel for accuracy, nice narration/graphics, and sticking to the point.
You paraphrase and explain in your own words, but you also don't just read off published text or go on for ages about theories.
Thanks for these vids.
I will refer new players to your channel for good fluff videos to listen to while painting. 🙂
I always wondered why the Tyranids never used Orkoid spores to reseed planets to allow the regrowth of biomass then consume like a system wide form of agriculture.
The beast only hungers, it does not create, it only consumes
These two videos really bring the massive threat of the Tyranids into view! Also, I now want to collect and paint Tyranids 😅
the GSC lore is great. I was so glad to see this stuff had came back to the game. Mind I still love that RT era Patriarch.
Wait what? So whilst the Orks and Tyranids are fighting each other to a standstill there very well might pop-up a warband of Khorne Deamon princes?
Keep up the awesome, so happy I found this channel.
Thank you lutien09 for the great service you do.
I'm really looking forward to this being continued whenever it is, Tyranids are such an interesting part of 40k, I like the fact that we'll almost certainly never know what the hive mind is exactly or how it came into being, whether the Tyranids evolved on a single world or if another powerful race created them as bioweapons by accident. I used to be a real sucker for the necrons and c'tan but the mystery and sheer cosmic horror value of Tyranids is gradually overtaking them for me these days.
I think my favorite mention of a genestealer infestation was when one genestealer got onto Krieg, and was dying of radiation poisoning, and managed to infect a Krieger who was I'll suited for service for some reason and was on the receiving end of a live fire training assault before he killed it. He dragged it out onto the street and immediately got shot by the members of the assaulting force.
This video inspired me to make a genestealer-infiltrated guard regiment. Gonna be fun, especially when I fight tyranids.
Also
In a way- getting disolved into a unity of Tyranid biomass might be the better choice.
It's quick and relatively painless, especially in face of how Chaos deals with it's pray or how Imperium treats it's "citizens"
Inquisititor, this post right here.
i got my self into the 40k lore like a year ago, you where one on the suggestions into I got from a friend who is a fan of the lore nut much of the tabletop as i am now
Love to listen to you materials, great descriptions with love to the details
id imagine the World Eaters and Orks are as happy as pigs in poo poo. "ETERNAL WARFARE AGAINST A HYPER DEADLY ENEMY? SIGN ME THE HELL UP!"
Add the impirim getting involved amd we have the cold shoulder system
World Eaters aren't that happy... the Orks and Tyranids temporarily stopped fighting one other and absolutely wrecked the World Eater force that had arrived to fight there..
@@Killeraholic so basically chaos is equally abhored by all races
@@adib3011 The Tyranids simply recognised the threat they posed and they got priority.
The Orks.. well they're Orks.
@@adib3011 so to speak yes, the hivemind sees chaos as another predator that's threatening to spoil their lunch and after the great rift have made an effort to deal with them.
Orks will always take a chance to fight
What a great way to learn about the 40k universe through you! Thank you very much
One hell of a Monday morning! All praise the Lore Master!
I just want to say that I have been using literally ALL of your videos as background noise at work because it’s so interesting and detailed
Think positive guys, more psykers appearing means more food for Emperor.
All I can see are Genestealer Ren and Stimpy singing, "Happy Happy, Joy Joy", as they shuffle into the assimilation pools......
In the grim darkness of the future.... there is only Luetin
Can't wait for part 2, never had an inclination to collect Tyranids or Genestealer cults but I do think they're a cool army and concept and love your explanation on them as a whole
It occurs to me that the reason Tyranids scoop atmosphere and ocean is probably to get at all the carbon, potassium, nitrogen, water, and all the other necessities for life stored in those. I'd be surprised if they didn't mine out the limestone too.
I'd like to see a Nid vs necromorph fight. If the Nids can be turned into necromorphs, They both would have basically unlimited ability to replace the numbers so it would all come down to who's killing fastest.
Perfect as always, Luetin. Amazing narration.
Currently painting a 'Stealer Cult army so I found this very fitting. And even though I knew most of this already, it's always nice to have an interesting refresher.
It would seem the best strategy for the imperium would be to see their border planets with impending Tyranid invasions with Orkz. Orkz seem like a good hard counter to the Tyranid. The enemy of my enemy is my friend as it were even if you are just using the Orkz as tougher biomass and grant you more time to make a plan.
He mentions how if the Tyranids win against the Orks, they'll basically become an unstoppable force due to all the biomass
and if the Orks win they will become a whole lot stronger due to the big war
@@buttlord2223 EXTERMINATUS
YES!!!!!! What a way to take the edge off a Monday working at home :-) Love your work mate, your voice has been the background of my working at home life for like a year now. Keep up the good work! P.S I did like your emphasis on Abaddon ;-)
I honestly wish genestealers were still separate from Tyranids like they were in Rogue Trader.
It'd be so much more 'sci-fi' to have this insidious, creepy, alien that poisons the minds of humans for it's own wicked gains, but is just one of many minor alien races which therefore shows just how filled with unique horrors the universe is... rather than just having it being one tiny part of one of the few big existential threats to the whole galaxy.
If the ‘Nids were created by the Old Ones then it would be the biggest martyrdom I’ve ever seen.
More of a galactic middle finger.
Kryptman probably didn''t have better options. The Imperium as so many enemies, shunting enemies into each other is a good idea while you mass forces to deal with the issues.
I'm definitely buying this audiobook, I'm addicted to your premium selection.
Given all of the other characteristics of the Tyranids it feels weird to me that a genestealer cult doesn't somehow birth a norn queen and start a new fleet if it is entirely in control of a planet and is never consumed by the hive.
Bed time sorted...Thanks dude!
Love the early morning drop!!
It's be interesting to see one such "genestealer world" that you described towards the end of the video needing to actually defend itself from other invading forces, not to spoil the planet before a tyranid hivefleet can arrive to reap the planetary biomass the cult has been preparing.
Nice great work I listen to these every night
ngl i find the tyranids kinda beautiful. truely the endgame of evolution. the emperor may represent the unity of all mankind but the tyranid represents the unity of all life
An tyranid invasion would be a awesome idea for a game or show.
On the day of release of this video i just had a game with my Kraken hive fleet against some Drukhari, my Genestealers where obviously focussed down but my Broodlord could then slice open many vehicles and even a Character model :-) Sadly i got tabled but won on points, why? Because the Tyranids always win even when they loose.
Luetin, I've been thinking exactly the same thing about the Tyrranid, that they are a last ditch effort after losing the war in heaven, to cauterize the whole galaxy from the corruption festering in the warp.
That theory makes some sense. They even save all the genetic material they encounter to their hivemind. It's a very practical reset system.
I don't know much about these genestealer cults, but I did see my roommate walking around in my 501 Levi's, should I be concerned?
Yes.
Suggest use of the heavy flamer, before the cult spreads.
That depends on how you feel about them literally getting in your pants.
Lutein: (Talks about some of the most vicious and repulsive xenosin the universe. Also has some surprisingly soothing background piano music)
Genestealer: "Hello my fellow Ork, would you like to talk about our lord and savior The Great Devourer?"
Ork Boyz: "Green is best! Get 'em Boyz! 'Dey ain't orky 'nough!"
"Waaagh!!!"
Im sorry but I'm probably going to sound like a wierdo but i simply love your voice and the way you talk. I could listen to speak all day long and be riveted every minute of it.! Plus you present 40k in an awesome way!! Thank you so much for the hours of amazing content!! And don't ever stop!!
intro music: proof of power - dream cave
Such a dam good video brother. You are so compelling to listen too. Thankyou for the content. The king of warhammer content.
There's no way the tau ethereals are actually some sort of gean stealer right
Man, you made me remember how much I love the 40k Universe. Thanks.
If Grandfather Nurgle hadn't won my heart (and soul) years ago, I would definitely want to cuddle with the Four-Armed Emperor. The gribblies are just too cute.
There should be a study researching any correlation between Luetin's uploads and models sold because this video really shows how eerie genestealers are, and now I want a set.
So... You're saying that luetin is promoting the spread of the hivefleets?!
But surely that can only mean one thing...
HE'S ONE OF THEM!!!
Been waiting for this!
Hello Luetin, great production again. Hope you and family are doing well.