Tendril 1 came from below the galactic plane, tendril 2 comes from above it. That sounds like the hive mind is close to, if not already, surrounding the 40k galaxy.
"The... uh.... Steel.... Eagles?" "Good, next one?" "The Death.... um, I dunno... Marchers?" "Excellent, one more." "The Cold Hands of... Tarkus?" "Superb, now go for lunch."
GW: "This guy is going to be angry all the time, how should we name him?" GW writer: "uhhhh, Angron?" GW:"Perfect! Why couldn't I figure that out before?!?!"
@@FriendlySwarmlord it just means "raven" because corvus corax is the taxonomic name of the common raven. it's not actually quite as redundant as it seems lol
I really think you do provide a very important niche within the 40k loretubers. Luetin, bless his common socks, is much like the imperium. Slow, ponderous, and exacting. You can blast out a whole prelude series and a lore video in the time it takes him to make his interlude. Good stuff, keep em coming. Also, I’d love to see more HH book reviews. Its always nice to hear it from another pair of ears.
@@geofff.3343 MAjorkill is the youtuber for an aspect of a specific topics (like if you wanna know which primarchs where friends withput having to read every horus heressy book or what do people eat in 40k). Weshammer and deadlifts for the dark gods are minute lore videos. This one is the middle point between long and detailed videos, and shorts
@@CousinOfCurze I'm just reading the 8th ed RG supplement at the moment. It's probably the most they've gotten anywhere so far - plus Corax isn't dead as far as we know, so I wouldn't be surprised if he resurfaces at some point
the Raven Guard are surprisingly underused despite being a 1st founding chapter, and one with a fairly interesting background + military specialisation, in particular if you consider that traitor legions with corresponding tactics like the Night Lords and Alpha Legion receive much more attention
@@KanuckStreams I was thinking, it'd be pretty funny if Corax came back as some kind of unaligned shadow daemon, or like a pirate with a collection of random human and blackshield type marines he'd collected on the galactic fringes. Or even with a pocket empire of human worlds out of contact with the Imperium. More likely, he'll come back as a face-off box set guy with a new Lorgar or some other warp thing, and the backstory will be like 'oh yeah he was hunting chaos and went a bit mental but he's back and more or less the same'. I really hate the look of the new Shrike and the vanguard primaris marines so if he does come back I'm sure the model will be awful
Another thing that just occurred to me: the bit about the Orks calling off attacks against the Imperium to turn towards the bigger threat... Maybe there's something left in there of the Old One's staunch protectors afterall *sniff*(also: the idea that the Orks might have been subconsciously showing up in places to defend them from galaxy-threatening dangers all the while, only for the Imperium to fuck it all up by attacking them is... SO par-for-the-course with 40k worldbuilding honestly, if more subtle than most. Tho this raises the question: what danger is lurking at Armageddon to keep the orks coming back?).
Well, Yes, the Orks are basically programmed to take on the biggest galactic threat. Due to their impulse to get into the biggest scrap they can. When humanity was on its genocidal streak during the great crusade, the Orks turned their attention to them and briefly fought the imperium into a stalemate during the war of the beast. Which probably indirectly saved, or at least delayed the extinction of multiple nascent xenos species. And now that the Bugs are a bigger threat to galactic life than the Humies. That same pre programmed genetic imperative to seek out the biggest fight will drive the orks to focus on the Bugs. For while the green skins might be foul and savage beings, who will gladly bully or enslave any weak humies they come across. The genetic programming put into them by the old ones is still in full effect. And by following that programming they will automatically engage the biggest threat to the galaxy at any particular point in time.
That, or they saw an even BETTA SCRAP than fighting the humans because they heard what a wicked awesome brawl Octarius was and went "nah boyz, we gotta krump them bugs!"
@@MagralhoPT if you don't played the game: there was living moons, which have destroyed all life in universe in order to just reproduce themselves, that is the reason why humanity can't find other life in space(that's why game called "Dead space") and they also use biomass for it and they also wanted to destroy Earth.
@@zergrush_9704 yeah Ive missed on deadspace... heard it was really good but never got around to it... world of warcraft was a harsh mistress and lost a lot to it. Have it on my bucketlist though. Thanks for explaining mate! Happy wargaming
You're just pronouncing 'tyranid' differently in each sentence to troll us now and I respect that Edit: also wonder if that bit about the Ecclesiarchy denying the existence of Leviathan even as it was killing people was inspired by the UK's Covid response
@@Mr_Bunk GW are British, I know it's difficult for Usonians to imagine some piece of popular culture not being from the US. There is loads of stuff in GW which is satirical... much of it covered on this very channel. But that time-period wasn't good in Britain... but you've likely just never heard about it due to the media-blackout which happened after the big B (yeah, I'm not writing either cos I know somebody'll be along to spread misinformation immanently). That blackout continues to this day. Ours WERE pretty funny though: literally the adviser to the Health Secretary was the landlord to his local public-house, you can't top that from the US, sorry.
I never heard anyone outright deny a virus, was spreading around and killing some, mostly weakened people. Kost of the "denial" was asserting that the government doesn't own you and can't force you to take a un-tested medical procedure against your will because in America your supposed to have rights.
The Morpheus astropath "accidentally" summoning tyranid-daemons is pretty tantalizing. Maybe the "Shadow in the Warp" is more substantive than we've been led to believe(ofc: I've always liked the idea that nids are just the multi-bodies of a small number of cosmologically-large warp-entities, so maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see there :p :p) :3
In all fairness, GW kind of has to be "inventive" with Tendril names, since the name of real creatures are kept for actual Hive-Fleets. I'm fairly certain Hive-Fleet Nautilus and Prometheus have both been mentioned in earlier publication, so we'll have to make due with Nautilon and Prometheor.
@@euansmith3699 I'm waiting for Hive Fleet Typhon. You know they're saving that one for a century down the road when the bulk of the Tyranid hivemind shows up because it keeps wondering what pathetic little creatures keep nipping at its proverbial toes.
Yep, it has been teased. Looks like a great centipide of sorts. Hate the name though. This imperial forces are so brainrotted that they lack proper imagination for proper names for proper foes... oh well, at least they taste decent.
@@themilo1567 i do recall the rumor mill stating a centipede-like monster and or a reimagining of the now gone resin forgeworld dimacheron. Dont quote me on that though. Rummor mill.
I've been loving these Tyranid lore vids. Nids were my first army back in 3rd edition and I've always been tempted to start them again, so these have been really fun and nostalgic for me. Thanks for the great vids, Ian!
They were my second, i started with Genestealer Invasion Force (Space Hulk plus a metal Patriarch) then expanded it into a Genestealer Cult. Advaced Space Crusade and Tyranid Attack had me start to build a Tyranid Army at the end of 1st edition and i played both in 2nd. Tyranids carried me through from then when GSC were squatted till Knights and Mechanicus took over as my main army, but i still got the Leviathan Box on release and Overkill got me the basis of the new GSC. Soon i plan to dust off ,y old bugs and get those new plastic painted up.
Great series Ian, thank you. You and the other WH40K Lore Keepers on YT have been invaluable in helping me return to the hobby after about 19 years away. Looking forward to starting painting and gaming again with 10th. Cheers.
These videos are very well done. I’ve never even heard of 40k before your vids but they’re so well made and interesting I find the lore fascinating. Great job!
Okay, that bit about elements of the Ecclesiarchy effectively starting an internal civil war because they refuse to acknowledge reality is pretty good satire. Plus, I'm all for more justification for Imperium-on-Imperium violence. Gotta rationalize a fight between Space Marines and Sisters of Battle somehow.
Just saw a battle report on 10th and now this. Since I have 0 interest in ever playing with Nids but do love to hear the lore about them this is really amazing. No need to buy a box that I will only half use. Thanks a lot ^^
Imo it was a missed opportunity to reuse Leviathan again. They should have introduced a new Hive fleet, with a new MO and color scheme, like how 9th edition introduced the new szarekhan dynasty.
I get ya but it might be to reinforce the idea that even with all it's might the imperium can't finish any foe off for good. kinda like Guilliman said in the trailer, but I get ya.
Since it's the same hive fleet it would be more accurate to call this a continuation of the 3rd war which didn't actually end instead of labeling it the 4th
Your lore videos are always a pleasure to watch. Moreover, as a former Tyranids player (had to give them up because of their logistical problems), is nice to see the full scale of the danger the Nids pose to the galaxy. But what has always intrigued me is the fact that we still don't know why the Tyranids are moving across our galaxy and what (or who) are they running away from...
Wasn't it all but confirmed that the Magnus kerfuffle that screwed over the Emperor's webway project or the golden throne basically acted/act like a psychic lighthouse telling the nids that "there's food here"?
It's a theory, as is the lighting of the Pharos during the Heresy (which makes sense as the first two fleets come from the East). But yeah, it's all theories
If there was any doubt about debunking the theory that the nids were running away from something, I do believe that both leviathan incursions prove it false. You dont run away towards what is pursuing you. Nids are comming from all directions at this point. So no, they are not runing from something.
My opinion is they're running away from lifeless galaxies looking for more food. That's why they approach from different angles many years apart from each other. If they were truly fleeing some sort of threat they would all be heading towards us from the same direction. I suspect there's more hive fleets currently munching their way through other galaxies around the milky way and they will eventually make their way here if the other fleets don't manage to eat everything first. The only question is how big will the new fleets be. If they've managed to devour lots of other galaxies before arriving at the milky way it could be game over for the imperium. I don't think there's some kind of big bad monster out there scaring the Tyranids towards the milky way, they're just hungry and want more food.
Your intro/outro music has been stuck in my head for days now. Keep up the great work! Can we ever expect any sort of lore video on the plague wars at all?
It's better to die in digestion pools than to live under votanny.. Besides 'nids are fairly slow and predictable.. But there's no telling what the Abominable Intelligences driven by corporate interest will do and when..
The stories we're writing today will be older in the year M42 than Greek legends are to us in M2. So there could totally be Hive Fleet Dracula, Hive Fleet Freddy Krueger, Hive Fleet Slender Man, etc.
Meanwhile Szarekh sits on his throne, lamenting no longer having eyes to roll as a Praetorian lets out an exasperated "I told you so" on the Silent King's behalf.
Loving the new current issues satire injected into this by GW's writers 😂 but it really does say something that we're living in a time when that's possible for the first time since the depressing years of the 1980s 😆
There were some good bits in the Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus codexes, like a superb defense against Tyranids with Zero casualties (they pumped promethium gas ifrom the refinery nto the upper atmosphere and lit it with neutron lasers burning up all incoming spores) being filed away as "Anomalous" and forgotten, or a war started for purely combat data had the secret data complex storing all the data filled with ferrocrete and turned into a bunker losing all the data the war was for.
Apologies for waylaying you at the board games expo @arbiterian - thank you so much for stopping to chat, it made my husband's day. We took your advice too and ended up with a bunch of underworlds stuff with that extra 5% discount!
Amazing. I‘ve been in love with your arks of Omen series and this is even greater. The best part is your Humor and the references from other media you keep sprinkled in, like with the custodies. Btw is it new lore that old custodies go and venture out? Keep up your great work!
Necrons gonna deal a big blow but I wouldn’t know how unless they bring out a new old super weapon/plan a teamup would surprise both the Imperium and fans
correct me if i'm wrong but it seems krieg is in way of the leviathan tendrils would love to see how the death corps battle of attrition tactics will fare against the untold number of bugs.
"Anyway, the Tyranid fleets kept comin." The whole fake news part was great. But in the world of 40K you can so believe that Ecclesiarchy would deny such things going as far to rewrite historical battles to state the victory of Imperial forces even when the battles were lost to them (because there would be no way the children of the Emperor could even lose a battle).
@@MrGabilonia Snipe and Wib's channel is great, they cover a lot of the same "real world history of the Warhammer hobby" topics as Ian but are way more productive, similar style and tone if a level more whimsical
Forgive my ignorance on new lore, but what happened with Roboute? Isn’t he still the leader of the Imperium? Where was he when all these events were taking place?
@@michaelcastro9026it did! He got made and bodied by the true chad! Me! The Swarmlord! Ahahah GetRektNoob! Learn2fight! Also killed your best crew! Ah!
Are there audible books of any of the tyrannic wars? Played when I was younger and trying again, but been interested in the lore. Bought the first 4 books of Horus Heresy and enjoyed them on Audible
Heres some tips on making better sci-fi planet names: Shorten them: Standior or Lastior would have been a better names. Break it up, remove letters and make it sound a little like another human language: La Tstandior, La'andior, Andior, Laststa, Lassandior, Sttandior... Run it through Google translates once: Last Stand into Welsh and squashed together with the "ior" on the end: Stondinolafior. In Basque: Azkenstandaior. In Latin: Novissimestoior. Then chop these down too: Stondafior, Azkandaior, Novimestior.... Or something like that. Works better if you just use one word, tbh. Suddenly you have weird planet names that sound like they have come from something human, but butchered over thousands of years. Words and names tend to get shortened and chopped up to become easier to say over time. So even adding "ior" to the end would be chopped down over time, especially in something like Laststandior, it's such a mouthful! You can see it happening right now. Look at what is happening to country names over time. The United Kingdom or Great Britain are rarely used, instead people say UK or Britain. The same has happened with the United States of America, its more common for people to say US now, not even including the A, or the States. Those eventually start appearing in writing and a generation starts assuming that is the norm. And a few generations and it is the norm. Eventually, given enough time, the original meaning is forgotten or only known by historians. The same would happen with planets over time. Earth wouldn't likely change as its hard to shorten it, but if a regularly used name has more than one syllable, chances are it'll get abbreviated. So, maybe when we start regularly traveling to Venus the s might get dropped over time and a thousand years from now it'll just be pronounced Venu or just Ven or maybe Vens. GW need to think about that if they want to make their universe feel old. Because names like Lasstandior feels about as old as the brain fart it wafted in on.
I like the re-organization of Imperial military forces, reminds me of the Kamphgruppe. Both shows that the Imperium is forming more efficient units, and that they are not doing well in general.
The Fake News part was great. "It's not real!" they shouted even with RIpper warms tearing them to shreds.
"Beware WOKE Necrons!"
@@euansmith3699 Woke Necrons? They are nothing compared to SJW orks 😂
I hate how that would happen today if it happened.
@@EpicMEF Wiv Orkz itzall abart Anti-Social Justice.
@@EpicMEFMoi pronouns is Dey/Dem. Yer pronouns is gonna be was/WAAAAAGHH!!
That soft intro music creeping in before the title drop is such a mood, love it.
What’s the song called?
@@TheTurbanatore 'Black Rainbows' by Karl Casey
I'm a big fan of it too.
Tendril 1 came from below the galactic plane, tendril 2 comes from above it. That sounds like the hive mind is close to, if not already, surrounding the 40k galaxy.
That ending with the moon sized object had me like:
"Ah, so they have Brethren Moons now."
They do though, just less eldritch; hive ships
@@TheCorrodedMan Well, now those are actually moon sized and moon shaped
I love the primeork reference
The little segment about 40k's new naming convention had me chuckling. It can really be mind numbing how silly these names have become.
"The... uh.... Steel.... Eagles?"
"Good, next one?"
"The Death.... um, I dunno... Marchers?"
"Excellent, one more."
"The Cold Hands of... Tarkus?"
"Superb, now go for lunch."
The first ever named Inquisitor was Obi-Wan Sherlock Clousseau so the names in 40k have always been silly. Just a different kind.
GW: "This guy is going to be angry all the time, how should we name him?"
GW writer: "uhhhh, Angron?"
GW:"Perfect! Why couldn't I figure that out before?!?!"
Corvus Corax’s name means “Raven raven” so the names have been silly since the beginning
@@FriendlySwarmlord it just means "raven" because corvus corax is the taxonomic name of the common raven. it's not actually quite as redundant as it seems lol
I really think you do provide a very important niche within the 40k loretubers. Luetin, bless his common socks, is much like the imperium. Slow, ponderous, and exacting. You can blast out a whole prelude series and a lore video in the time it takes him to make his interlude.
Good stuff, keep em coming. Also, I’d love to see more HH book reviews. Its always nice to hear it from another pair of ears.
I really want to watch his vids, but I just do not have a spare 2 hours lying around.
What does that make Weshammer and MajorKill?
@@geofff.3343 MAjorkill is the youtuber for an aspect of a specific topics (like if you wanna know which primarchs where friends withput having to read every horus heressy book or what do people eat in 40k). Weshammer and deadlifts for the dark gods are minute lore videos. This one is the middle point between long and detailed videos, and shorts
plus he kinda stuck on the E part of the story ...
I was going to say he's also a gormless shill but I guess that represents the Ecclesiarchy
Hey now. Clawful and Fisto are serious characters from a serious universe and they don’t deserve this slander 😂
I did not expect to see Kayvaan involved in this. Good to see the Raven Guard Chapter Master active.
Yea that one came out of left field for me. Might mean the Raven Guard are getting some more love and lore this edition.
@@CousinOfCurze I'm just reading the 8th ed RG supplement at the moment. It's probably the most they've gotten anywhere so far - plus Corax isn't dead as far as we know, so I wouldn't be surprised if he resurfaces at some point
the Raven Guard are surprisingly underused despite being a 1st founding chapter, and one with a fairly interesting background + military specialisation, in particular if you consider that traitor legions with corresponding tactics like the Night Lords and Alpha Legion receive much more attention
@@paulyg405 I think currently accepted fan theory is that Corax has become a Daemon of Vengeance, stalking Lorgar like an avian Freddy Krueger.
@@KanuckStreams I was thinking, it'd be pretty funny if Corax came back as some kind of unaligned shadow daemon, or like a pirate with a collection of random human and blackshield type marines he'd collected on the galactic fringes. Or even with a pocket empire of human worlds out of contact with the Imperium. More likely, he'll come back as a face-off box set guy with a new Lorgar or some other warp thing, and the backstory will be like 'oh yeah he was hunting chaos and went a bit mental but he's back and more or less the same'. I really hate the look of the new Shrike and the vanguard primaris marines so if he does come back I'm sure the model will be awful
Another thing that just occurred to me: the bit about the Orks calling off attacks against the Imperium to turn towards the bigger threat... Maybe there's something left in there of the Old One's staunch protectors afterall *sniff*(also: the idea that the Orks might have been subconsciously showing up in places to defend them from galaxy-threatening dangers all the while, only for the Imperium to fuck it all up by attacking them is... SO par-for-the-course with 40k worldbuilding honestly, if more subtle than most. Tho this raises the question: what danger is lurking at Armageddon to keep the orks coming back?).
Armageddon was Ullanor, the ork home world.
@@redeye3869 OH! Idk how I missed that >:T
Well, Yes, the Orks are basically programmed to take on the biggest galactic threat. Due to their impulse to get into the biggest scrap they can.
When humanity was on its genocidal streak during the great crusade, the Orks turned their attention to them and briefly fought the imperium into a stalemate during the war of the beast.
Which probably indirectly saved, or at least delayed the extinction of multiple nascent xenos species.
And now that the Bugs are a bigger threat to galactic life than the Humies. That same pre programmed genetic imperative to seek out the biggest fight will drive the orks to focus on the Bugs.
For while the green skins might be foul and savage beings, who will gladly bully or enslave any weak humies they come across. The genetic programming put into them by the old ones is still in full effect. And by following that programming they will automatically engage the biggest threat to the galaxy at any particular point in time.
That, or they saw an even BETTA SCRAP than fighting the humans because they heard what a wicked awesome brawl Octarius was and went "nah boyz, we gotta krump them bugs!"
@@KillerOrca "'ATS ROIGHT!!!" XD XD
Everyone: There's no way Ian can mispronounce Tyranid any further after the last video.
Ian: Hold my Bugman's...
Wooo Raven Guard. They're doing something!
Moon size tyranid... ok, we are in Dead Space now, theory that all other galaxes are dead by tyranids was just confirmed.
How? Care to elaborate?
@@MagralhoPT It already looks like a parody of dead space, I'm sure they are also united in this, to create.
@@MagralhoPT if you don't played the game: there was living moons, which have destroyed all life in universe in order to just reproduce themselves, that is the reason why humanity can't find other life in space(that's why game called "Dead space") and they also use biomass for it and they also wanted to destroy Earth.
@@zergrush_9704 yeah Ive missed on deadspace... heard it was really good but never got around to it... world of warcraft was a harsh mistress and lost a lot to it. Have it on my bucketlist though.
Thanks for explaining mate! Happy wargaming
@@MagralhoPT the remake of the first game is pretty good, brings it in line with 2 and the good parts of 3.
You're just pronouncing 'tyranid' differently in each sentence to troll us now and I respect that
Edit: also wonder if that bit about the Ecclesiarchy denying the existence of Leviathan even as it was killing people was inspired by the UK's Covid response
Pretty sure it’s satirising the US response. As bad as the UK’s response was, it never went to full-blown denial.
Its bloody annoying at this point is what it is. Once or twice as tongue in cheek it would have been fun, now its just obnoxious.
@@Mr_Bunk GW are British, I know it's difficult for Usonians to imagine some piece of popular culture not being from the US. There is loads of stuff in GW which is satirical... much of it covered on this very channel.
But that time-period wasn't good in Britain... but you've likely just never heard about it due to the media-blackout which happened after the big B (yeah, I'm not writing either cos I know somebody'll be along to spread misinformation immanently). That blackout continues to this day.
Ours WERE pretty funny though: literally the adviser to the Health Secretary was the landlord to his local public-house, you can't top that from the US, sorry.
@@jack-a-lopium I am British. I was there. I know what happened.
I never heard anyone outright deny a virus, was spreading around and killing some, mostly weakened people. Kost of the "denial" was asserting that the government doesn't own you and can't force you to take a un-tested medical procedure against your will because in America your supposed to have rights.
The bit about fake news was hilarious - satire is alive & well in 40K.
Bring on the nids I say.
The TRUE protags of this series...
12:35 Hahaha Two Necrons are trying to climb!
The Morpheus astropath "accidentally" summoning tyranid-daemons is pretty tantalizing. Maybe the "Shadow in the Warp" is more substantive than we've been led to believe(ofc: I've always liked the idea that nids are just the multi-bodies of a small number of cosmologically-large warp-entities, so maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see there :p :p) :3
In all fairness, GW kind of has to be "inventive" with Tendril names, since the name of real creatures are kept for actual Hive-Fleets. I'm fairly certain Hive-Fleet Nautilus and Prometheus have both been mentioned in earlier publication, so we'll have to make due with Nautilon and Prometheor.
Hive Fleet Nautibugs.
@@euansmith3699 I'm waiting for Hive Fleet Typhon. You know they're saving that one for a century down the road when the bulk of the Tyranid hivemind shows up because it keeps wondering what pathetic little creatures keep nipping at its proverbial toes.
Go for the deep cuts and bring in Hive Fleet Morag
Hive Fleet Das Kindershredder, Das Vogel and El Croco.
@@ecyor0 not to be confused with Hive Fleet Morgawr!
Norn Emissary's probably gonna get a new model, that's a pretty good showing for them to highlight what they do.
Yep, it has been teased. Looks like a great centipide of sorts.
Hate the name though. This imperial forces are so brainrotted that they lack proper imagination for proper names for proper foes... oh well, at least they taste decent.
I sure hope so. Love the lore of the thing already. Basically an assassin the hive mind sends when it's decided the scalpel isn't doing the job.
@@themilo1567 i do recall the rumor mill stating a centipede-like monster and or a reimagining of the now gone resin forgeworld dimacheron. Dont quote me on that though. Rummor mill.
I've been loving these Tyranid lore vids. Nids were my first army back in 3rd edition and I've always been tempted to start them again, so these have been really fun and nostalgic for me. Thanks for the great vids, Ian!
They were my second, i started with Genestealer Invasion Force (Space Hulk plus a metal Patriarch) then expanded it into a Genestealer Cult. Advaced Space Crusade and Tyranid Attack had me start to build a Tyranid Army at the end of 1st edition and i played both in 2nd. Tyranids carried me through from then when GSC were squatted till Knights and Mechanicus took over as my main army, but i still got the Leviathan Box on release and Overkill got me the basis of the new GSC. Soon i plan to dust off ,y old bugs and get those new plastic painted up.
Arbitor Ian, "And that's everything you know..."
The Inquisition, "Everything you know is a lie!"
First for the 4th Bug war!
The only Good bug is a Dead Bug!
Would you like to know more?
If you WOULD like to know more, this is the place to do the knowing more of.
"I'm from Myplanetgotconvertedtobiomassium; and I say KILL EM' ALL!"
The predators care not for the voices of the prey.
Shut up food and jump into my mouth!
I get the reference. 1 of the movies was on tv this weekend. In a bug vs bug war which wins?
13:15 Ha! You said Tyranids correctly! Gotcha!
Great series Ian, thank you. You and the other WH40K Lore Keepers on YT have been invaluable in helping me return to the hobby after about 19 years away. Looking forward to starting painting and gaming again with 10th. Cheers.
These videos are very well done. I’ve never even heard of 40k before your vids but they’re so well made and interesting I find the lore fascinating. Great job!
Great video as always, especially loved the bit about warhammer still being satire.
This series is really sell executed. I enjoy every moment of it!
Okay, that bit about elements of the Ecclesiarchy effectively starting an internal civil war because they refuse to acknowledge reality is pretty good satire. Plus, I'm all for more justification for Imperium-on-Imperium violence. Gotta rationalize a fight between Space Marines and Sisters of Battle somehow.
To be fair, Leontus looks quite a bit like a He-Man character as well.
Just saw a battle report on 10th and now this. Since I have 0 interest in ever playing with Nids but do love to hear the lore about them this is really amazing. No need to buy a box that I will only half use. Thanks a lot ^^
Those new brain bugs are absolutely lovely.
‘Frankly I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!’ 😂
Imo it was a missed opportunity to reuse Leviathan again. They should have introduced a new Hive fleet, with a new MO and color scheme, like how 9th edition introduced the new szarekhan dynasty.
I'm torn on the matter. But, if nothing else, they do seem to be introducing new hive fleets.
I love it, because all my existing nids are already painted Leviathan colors, so I can paint the new ones to match.
I get ya but it might be to reinforce the idea that even with all it's might the imperium can't finish any foe off for good. kinda like Guilliman said in the trailer, but I get ya.
Since it's the same hive fleet it would be more accurate to call this a continuation of the 3rd war which didn't actually end instead of labeling it the 4th
Your lore videos are always a pleasure to watch. Moreover, as a former Tyranids player (had to give them up because of their logistical problems), is nice to see the full scale of the danger the Nids pose to the galaxy. But what has always intrigued me is the fact that we still don't know why the Tyranids are moving across our galaxy and what (or who) are they running away from...
Wasn't it all but confirmed that the Magnus kerfuffle that screwed over the Emperor's webway project or the golden throne basically acted/act like a psychic lighthouse telling the nids that "there's food here"?
It's a theory, as is the lighting of the Pharos during the Heresy (which makes sense as the first two fleets come from the East). But yeah, it's all theories
If there was any doubt about debunking the theory that the nids were running away from something, I do believe that both leviathan incursions prove it false. You dont run away towards what is pursuing you.
Nids are comming from all directions at this point. So no, they are not runing from something.
My opinion is they're running away from lifeless galaxies looking for more food. That's why they approach from different angles many years apart from each other. If they were truly fleeing some sort of threat they would all be heading towards us from the same direction. I suspect there's more hive fleets currently munching their way through other galaxies around the milky way and they will eventually make their way here if the other fleets don't manage to eat everything first. The only question is how big will the new fleets be. If they've managed to devour lots of other galaxies before arriving at the milky way it could be game over for the imperium. I don't think there's some kind of big bad monster out there scaring the Tyranids towards the milky way, they're just hungry and want more food.
Your intro/outro music has been stuck in my head for days now. Keep up the great work! Can we ever expect any sort of lore video on the plague wars at all?
Great video thank you for taking the time to do this.
Ian, your warhammer lore videos are the best! This series has been a excellent and very enjoyable summary of the Tyrannid wars.
Hell yeah, let's gooo. Always appreciate your lore summaries!
I love how Ian changes how he pronounces Tyranid multiple times during the same video 😅
>Votann corporate interests
Ah yes, clearly the larger threat
It's better to die in digestion pools than to live under votanny..
Besides 'nids are fairly slow and predictable.. But there's no telling what the Abominable Intelligences driven by corporate interest will do and when..
The stories we're writing today will be older in the year M42 than Greek legends are to us in M2. So there could totally be Hive Fleet Dracula, Hive Fleet Freddy Krueger, Hive Fleet Slender Man, etc.
I'm sure it's been said before, but I just love your intro music, Ian
Meanwhile Szarekh sits on his throne, lamenting no longer having eyes to roll as a Praetorian lets out an exasperated "I told you so" on the Silent King's behalf.
TYRANID DEATH STAR LETS GOOOOO!! Some very fun hooks here!
I love your tour through the menagerie of fantasy word pronunciation so much.
These Norn Emissaries took a lot of effort to kill. Oooh i hope we do get models of them! 😃
Its been rumored that we do with the codex release
We did and they Look Is amazing
Loving the new current issues satire injected into this by GW's writers 😂 but it really does say something that we're living in a time when that's possible for the first time since the depressing years of the 1980s 😆
All it says is that good satire is always relevant. It’s in the name.
There were some good bits in the Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus codexes, like a superb defense against Tyranids with Zero casualties (they pumped promethium gas ifrom the refinery nto the upper atmosphere and lit it with neutron lasers burning up all incoming spores) being filed away as "Anomalous" and forgotten, or a war started for purely combat data had the secret data complex storing all the data filled with ferrocrete and turned into a bunker losing all the data the war was for.
"The Silver Skulls" Oh hey, Trazyn's getting involved in a big conflict again.
He needs a new Tyranid Hivefleet. He lost his because of that bloody bell.
17:35 upvoted on the strength of CHITTERING GRIBBLIES alone hahaha what a delight!
*adopts deadpan Wet Leg voice*
Are your Gribbles Chittered?
Would you like us to assign someone to Chitter your Gribbles?
Ian: Mentions the Custodes Captain-General.
Me: LITTLE KITTEN!
Apologies for waylaying you at the board games expo @arbiterian - thank you so much for stopping to chat, it made my husband's day. We took your advice too and ended up with a bunch of underworlds stuff with that extra 5% discount!
They got a brother moon coming in smh
You get a moon! You get a moon! Everyone gets a moon!
@@ArbitorIanTHAT is no moon...
Where is the moon mentioned? Lore wise I mean
The "Soundus Likalatinusarium" is the Imperial group in charge of naming, if I remember correctly.
So happy you made this a series love the quality of your videos. Images explaining what you are talking about is so interesting:)
Hive fleet Leviathan A.K.A. The Purple and white Tyranids.
I loved that cute bug in the beginning
Ikr!? Effing adorable!
4:20 3rd from the right hey thats kitten
No satire left in Warhammer got me good !
"Laststandior" 😂
Tyranids are comically OP
I gave a like just for the picture of the cute tyranid bug you have in the first couple mins.. Man i lovw it❤
Them Tyrabois really just keep coming huh
And we dont stop comming!
Mate you are CHURNING these out! Top quality, too 👌🏾
It's cos they've all got the same bloody images! EASY!
@@ArbitorIanthats what we get for not having enough lore to get more than fanart.
Loved the cute gaunt!
As someone who has said there is no satire left in Warhammer, I couldn’t be more pleased to be at least a little bit wrong.
I find it neat to hear the Leagues be mentioned all of a sudden in stuff. Its WEIRD. But I like it.
Amazing. I‘ve been in love with your arks of Omen series and this is even greater. The best part is your Humor and the references from other media you keep sprinkled in, like with the custodies. Btw is it new lore that old custodies go and venture out? Keep up your great work!
Satire is back! I look forward to your video explaining what satire is.
I love this channel and I want you to have early access to lore drops everytime
Necrons gonna deal a big blow but I wouldn’t know how unless they bring out a new old super weapon/plan a teamup would surprise both the Imperium and fans
Necrons:
"Five more minutes..." Hits snooze for a centruy.
Trajan Valoris? Oh, you mean Kitten!
These tendrils are probably just the advance party for the advance party for the advance party for the vanguard of the actual Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Hey Ian, where's that page of guard regiments at 5:50 from?
04:38 Constantin Valdor: I Am. THE LAW!!!
Chittering Gribblies is the name of my new band. Great summary. My Votann are looking forward to killing some bugs!
2 videos in 2 days, the Emperor has blessed us all!!
I like how the previous 3 vids were pretty straight forward but this one has more sassy interjections. Very amusing.
correct me if i'm wrong but it seems krieg is in way of the leviathan tendrils would love to see how the death corps battle of attrition tactics will fare against the untold number of bugs.
And y’know what works well against big insects? Shovels
@@alastaircollins1145you dont have enough shovels... or men to wield them!
@@MagralhoPT Then I'll dig my own way TO HELL! ;)
@@alastaircollins1145 ehehe
@@alastaircollins1145 rock and stone!!!!
On wait wrong game
Me: whoa the future has changed a lot this is totally new
12:46 : ah there it is
Moon-sized bioform, _yes!_ Been _waitin'_ for that shit!
There is so much lore potential to create out of an Orc-Tyrannid conflict .
Id love to see the Phalanx attacked by the Tyranids, Tor Garrodon dies as the mighty ship is destroyed.
It would show that not everything survives.
I like how that picture showed one group or legion of soldiers said Yamain Volunteers - Planets Saved 103 - Planets Purified 69203699. Lol
"Anyway, the Tyranid fleets kept comin." The whole fake news part was great. But in the world of 40K you can so believe that Ecclesiarchy would deny such things going as far to rewrite historical battles to state the victory of Imperial forces even when the battles were lost to them (because there would be no way the children of the Emperor could even lose a battle).
Tons and tons of stuff about Imperial preperations and strategies, and just "the Eldar attacked, using ancient superweapons."
Hey the Necrons had ancient superweapons too!
Video idea: evolution of tyranid lore through the editions of WH
Snipe and Wib have touched upon that in their reviews of old Tyranid codexes
@@Tsotha Thanks brother! Will check them out
@@MrGabilonia Snipe and Wib's channel is great, they cover a lot of the same "real world history of the Warhammer hobby" topics as Ian but are way more productive, similar style and tone if a level more whimsical
You and Lutien are the best 40k lore channels on this site.
Don’t ever stop. ❤
Oh my God he said guilliman correctly, praise the emperor, also damn, that's a lot of bugs
Absolutely love this channel! Thank you for the great content Ian!
God damn it now they have brethren moons
"Tanks where are the bloody tanks"
Forgive my ignorance on new lore, but what happened with Roboute? Isn’t he still the leader of the Imperium?
Where was he when all these events were taking place?
He is still the leader. Guilliman is still leading the Indomitus Crusade to recounquer the Galaxy for the Imperium after the Great Rift opened.
@@skywatcheradept thanks for clearing that up 👍🏽. For a second I thought something happened to Papa Smurf 😌
@@michaelcastro9026it did! He got made and bodied by the true chad! Me! The Swarmlord! Ahahah GetRektNoob! Learn2fight! Also killed your best crew! Ah!
White Templars? That's a chapter i haven't heard of, hope nothing bad happens to them.
Thanks for summarising. I just hope they made enough and I'll be able to buy my own copy.
Still Leviathan, even after Baal. The Imperium must be cursed with a lack names 😅
okay White Templars finally getting some lore, for once
Are there audible books of any of the tyrannic wars? Played when I was younger and trying again, but been interested in the lore. Bought the first 4 books of Horus Heresy and enjoyed them on Audible
Heres some tips on making better sci-fi planet names:
Shorten them: Standior or Lastior would have been a better names.
Break it up, remove letters and make it sound a little like another human language: La Tstandior, La'andior, Andior, Laststa, Lassandior, Sttandior...
Run it through Google translates once: Last Stand into Welsh and squashed together with the "ior" on the end: Stondinolafior. In Basque: Azkenstandaior. In Latin: Novissimestoior. Then chop these down too: Stondafior, Azkandaior, Novimestior.... Or something like that. Works better if you just use one word, tbh.
Suddenly you have weird planet names that sound like they have come from something human, but butchered over thousands of years.
Words and names tend to get shortened and chopped up to become easier to say over time. So even adding "ior" to the end would be chopped down over time, especially in something like Laststandior, it's such a mouthful!
You can see it happening right now. Look at what is happening to country names over time. The United Kingdom or Great Britain are rarely used, instead people say UK or Britain. The same has happened with the United States of America, its more common for people to say US now, not even including the A, or the States. Those eventually start appearing in writing and a generation starts assuming that is the norm. And a few generations and it is the norm. Eventually, given enough time, the original meaning is forgotten or only known by historians.
The same would happen with planets over time. Earth wouldn't likely change as its hard to shorten it, but if a regularly used name has more than one syllable, chances are it'll get abbreviated. So, maybe when we start regularly traveling to Venus the s might get dropped over time and a thousand years from now it'll just be pronounced Venu or just Ven or maybe Vens. GW need to think about that if they want to make their universe feel old. Because names like Lasstandior feels about as old as the brain fart it wafted in on.
I like the re-organization of Imperial military forces, reminds me of the Kamphgruppe. Both shows that the Imperium is forming more efficient units, and that they are not doing well in general.
My favourite (clearly deliberate) Ianism in this video is "Tyrannique"
That moment when you pray for an angel of the emporer and TRAJAN FUCKING VALORIS of all people decends to reinforce you
Great video thanks
I think the next time I play a Stellaris campaign I'll have to name all my planets for He-Man characters, that made me laugh so hard.