Thank you for watching, brothers! This was a special episode to make, the editing of this one took me a bit longer than expected but I hope you enjoyed the final result. Special thanks to my brother-in-arms, Skrubasauras, for his awesome narration throughout this episode and to Son of Sonnet for his VA support too! In your case, what would you do if you suddenly found yourself trapped inside a Tyranid bio-ship? Do you think there’s any way out, or is survival in there just a fever dream? Let us know your thoughts and what you did like (or not) about this particular episode. Remember that you can check out the different chapters with timestamps in the video description. Lastly, if you are enjoying the content we are making, please consider sharing the video with fellow brothers and sisters as this helps us a lot with the ever changing TH-cam algorithm. Share it so all may see the horrors we face-and so they, too, may join the fight against the xenos. As always, ideas for new videos and feedback are more than welcome! The idea is to try to get better every time. Thank you for watching!
not really , in warhammer the writers got so repetitive that even dwelling in a forest world or having a desk job sound as dramatic. they have ruined by making everything sound flesh melting mind distorting , pain maintaining and so on . personally i feel bored by this . i few times was ok but the more you see the more you get this -_- face reaction because all seems same
@@godofzombi Hey, I just asked the question what a warp drive would do. My joke about bringing Nurgle a new friend was a little more on mark then I thought!
It's reminds me of the old Raccoon city and silent hill signs meme. Either way, you're pretty fucked but personally I'd take the raccoon city route, at least that's physical and a you have a bit more of a chance even if not much. 😅😅
In regards to the acid scene 25:40 a lot of torture porn authors don't understand that after a certain amount of pain or trauma, humans go into shock or pass out.
Unrelated, but I think it's neat the guy's name is Crassus and the real life Crassus (political rival of Pompey and Caesar) was rumored to have died the same way. Instead of boiling slime in the mouth though, it was molten gold.
Go into shock because of the blood circulation, so if you have something pumping blood, even when heart isnt, it should be nearly impossible to go into shock
Hope dies in a Tyranid bioship? Obviously someone hasn’t been to commoragh. At least the Tyranids will give you a quick death, that’s not guaranteed at all in Commoragh.
its all the same doesnt matter where you are . hive city , an exotic forest , the warp , fighting necrons , going to eye of terror , working in imperium jobs , fighting orks or tyranids or simply getting hit by a lasgun , its all the same and the writers made sure that every entry you read make you get the assumption that its the worst thing possible . the ammount of things that are maddening or flesh melting or that dont kill and instead prolonge pain are more common than regular pain and death at this point
@@LauftFafa f$ck right off then if you're that bored. You're a drain on society by the sounds of it. This is the 10th or 11th whiny little b1tch comment you have made.
The clips of Battlefleet Gothic 2 there is such a chef's kiss! The Tyranids campaign there and its ending is truly the worst of the worsts endings for everybody. Love that game, its antecessor was the first Warhammer game i ever played Leviathan and Kraken think everybody knows but how many Hive Fleets are out there? Dont somebody, i think it was a Necron said that the Tyranids are the greatest threat of the galaxy? Is it even possible to stop them...
Seems like we should give them bombs to eat. Or use those as breaching pods. Obviously, they'd adapt, but it is possible to starve the Tyranids. Forge World Lucius did so by sending nothing but servitors at them, then reclaiming the inorganic parts to make more servitors. Obviously, bio-ships can digest inorganic matter, but their immune defenses, repairing their own structure after a blast, and the amount of material lost in the explosion would almost certainly cost them more calories than they could ever retain. I doubt the virus bombs would do much for long, but we have plenty of Exterminatus weapons to choose from, like cyclonic torpedoes, their two-stage variants, or atmospheric incineration weapons. Sure, they're made for burning air, but Tyranid ships retain and atmosphere, and plenty of volatile chemicals. Or we could just blow a reactor inside of them. If it works to take down a Blackstone Fortress, the largest Tyranid Hive-ships should prove no problem.
Their numbers are the problem here. The ship with the norn queen is the one that needs to be put don to actually be worth wasting resorses, or the tyranid will just respawn. But those ships are the most well defended ones, not to mention the trouble of locating the damn thing among the swarm...
the second paragraph that you wrote is how the imperium won the first tyranic war actually, they exterminatused their own worlds to starve the tyranids and once they were nearly starved, fought them on the ultramarine homeworld. They were about to lose the battle on the planet and in space until they flew their biggest ship into the middle of the tyranid fleet and detonated its warp drive.
@@sharkhead1177Couldn't agree more they're fascinating and extremely boring at the same time. I'll start with it not making much sense that they have such insane numbers. If they travel so far their consumption of biomass to sustain themselves must be insane if they have such numbers. Then in theory they should be extremely weakened when they arrive to replenish on the biomass of worlds. Another thing is the shadow in the warp. It's intentionally written to be catchall against reinforcements. If anything there should be ships responsible for amplifying it and therefore a weakness in the fleet if eliminated. Also Tyranids should be extremely weak to bioweapons and engineered viruses. Void fighting should also be extremely disadvantageous for them as very little biomass is gained vs lost in fighting ships. The math just doesn't add up.
Unfortunately, we just missed a Halloween release but happy late Halloween everyone! After doing this video, I've added one or two new things to my "definitely gonna have nightmares about this" list
Could make an entire horror game based off of this guardsman, where the objective is to detonate the engine if your swallowed ship or some similar objective to destroy the hive ship.
In the grim darkness of the far future the only thing to unite the division of the Imperium, Eldari, Orks, and others is the pure absolute unity of endless hunger
@@ryannarcisseOr good old Silent King dusting off the command protocols of all Necrons and wiping out those universe deleting weapons once again. After that, they'll wipe out the Eldar and everyone will live happily ever after
The only thing that survives a tyranid hive ship is a world eater. A world eater champion from one of the codexes boarded a tyranid hive ship and killed everything inside. Thats why even tyranids pew pew from a distance in the face of khorne's might.
If they eat your ship this gives you a significant tactical advantage. Deploy kill teams and destroy this monster from the inside! Let us die with VENGENCE on our lips!
Just engage the warp drive. If you're lucky you'll escape and tear a huge hole in the tyranid ship, if not the whole thing will explode which is still better fate than being dissolved in acid alive.
Long have I waited to hear Skrub's awesome voice in these stellar videos once more!! As you know Im not a 40k enthusiast, but the title got me to click, and so far Im enjoying everything I see and hear. What a story so far! EXCELLENT JOB, TEAM !^^
Hearing about the internal defenses of a bio ship got me wondering what is even the situation where someone would want to do this? They're gonna go in there and even if they can avoid the traps, theyre gonna have to fight the armies of tyranids at their spawn point. What are they even doing there? Trying to kill the norn queen?
Probably attempting to treat it like a Hulk: Some ships are just too big for you to blow up from the outside, so you send someone with a bomb inside....
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Only in the way that they might let you join them. Well the nids let you join them to... by using your biomass to make more Termagants.
Woah, first time watcher here. The editing on this video is fucking insane, good job. I am very suprised you arent getting a fuckload of views. Subbed. Looking at your channel how tf do you even do this? Releasing videos edited like this, 40 minutes long each every couple days? This is insane. Also is there a brain or extremely vital organs on the bio ship? Could that guardsman hunt down said organs and lasgun the entire enemy ship to death?
Thanks a lot for your kind words! These indeed take me a lot of time to put together., it involves a lot of work but I enjoy it. Most of the time I'm working on more than one video/project at a time so occassionally the stars allign and I'm able to release videos in quick succession, which was the case here. I'm currently working on the next batch of videos which will probably see the light of day in about two weeks at least. Now, when it comes to the Tyranid ships, the Norn Queens are some of the most well-protected organisms within them. When it comes to brains and other vital organs, my guess is that they indeed have them, but in the lore (as far as I have read) I haven't been able to find something more specific. Perhaps the may even have more than one heart (like the Adeptus Astartes, for example), the brains could be simply Synaptic receptors, as their "thinking" ins mostly guided by the Hive Mind. But these last statements are just my guessing and not a factual thing.
they should have a Deathwatch Terminator Kill Team designed to infilitrate their biggest hive ships and destroy them or cripple them from the inside out. Would be a cool level tileset for any of the games at at least
Make up your own chapter. They could specialize in infiltrating Tyranid Hive Fleets and blowing them up from inside out. A weird quirk of theirs could be ritually consuming Tyranids and taking flesh trophies to blend in during their missions. It could be one of those chapters part of the Ultima Founding that were thrown against the 'Nyds to slow them down, thought lost, but actually continuing to wreck havoc among their enemy.
There was another short novel i forgot from where, the ship was swalload whole just like this, and the crew were stuck in their bridge, waitin for death to come....in the end they were slowly destroyed by the bioships acid, it was horrifying to listen to as the ships hull slowly gave in and it ate the ships system and then the crew disolved, this story is a totally different kind of horror...
as a biology student this part of warhammer 40k lore intrigues me a lot. The behavioral characteristics of the Tyranids are as fantastic as their science fiction biology. The bio ships are very different from any other Tyranid creature, I wonder how they can reproduce and diversify so much, I can only think of ants and bees as an example and even these creatures have developed generating bio weapons such as mortars and plasma weapons, they have developed a system to go faster than light, I wonder what stimuli led to the development of such bio engineering. It is very fascinating, these ships have a carapace but do not molt, they have developed a closed circulatory system, with a complete double circulation I suppose, they are such a strange mix of characteristics but really captivating for a biologist
My personal theory is that the Tyranids are an overly-successful, possibly anti-chaos, bioweapon developed by another galaxy's equivalent to the Great old Ones.
I actually know this one! The tyranids have no warp or jump drives! They go into hibernation and use some kind of Alcubierre drive to fall/drift towards the next star, and it's why it's so hard to counter or see them coming. No power signatures to track, no warp flash to signal their arrival: only shapes falling out of the blackness between stars, halfway through a system before anyone knows they're there 🥶
I was hoping for a long time that you guys would start dipping into 40K once Fantasy content dried up a bit. I love your narrations and soundscapes. Carry on!
Amazing work as usual both with animations and the narration. Truly a captivating and dreadful experience the survival on a hive bioship. I would really love to join your team as narrator and voice actor.
In the old lore when the 'crons were just mindless killing machines and the Hive fleet was rumored to be a C'tan, sure. But Nowadays Necrosn want their ampire back and they don't appreciate their tombworlds getting nommed because the 'nids are on an iron rich diet.
This is by far one of the best narratives I've seen \ listened to. I could totally visualize what was going on to the extent that I was feeling slightly nervous as I got sucked in to the descriptions of what was happening as the other part of my mind started trying to think of ways to survive the situation.😅 This is really good. I look forward to more things like this in the future, the more visuals you can put on screen related to the subject the better. 😄👍
The Tyranids are not from this galaxy, so therefore are from another. But how do they evolve so fast? And if they need to eat and devour entire planets, how would they had survived long enough to develop hive ships/fleets? I think, they were a bio weapon, some xeno empire developed them, only for their test runs or first use to go horribly wrong.
Probably some remnants of the Old Ones way back from the War in Heavens that made them to clean the galaxy and reverse all the warp damage they caused by flooding everything with life
The only way to destroyed a Tyranid Bio Ship : Let it to swallows a ship full of nuclear warheads. And when it will.... DETONATE!!!! KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM And that's it!
The sample chapter of the Leagues of Votann novel that’s releasing soon has a team of them expertly infiltrating a hive ship like it’s just another normal work day. 🤣
The Tyranids wouldn't be as big an issue if the Imperium wasn't so backward and regressive, If they could innovate at the same pace the Tyranids could adapt it would be a non issue. But that would require the use of abominable intelligence or Xenos tech and we cant have that.
Nurgle and the Tyranids fighting onboard a ship for the pinnacle of their evolution against each other is crazy. Maybe they even have a Nord Queen onboard The Sobbing God. But Nurgle wins because Grandfather is best
Tyranid BioTitans are always young. They grow truly massive within a couple months, at great expense to the Swarm. They are bred for one purpose, every time. Once their task is complete, they are usually wrecked and devastated, ready for reconsumption. I doubt any have seen a second deployment.
Wait! I'm new to WARHAMMER 40K, so correct me if im wrong! But around the 6:15 mark, the narrator references the terror of witnessing tyrrannid bioships emerging from the warp. I thought tyranhids dont travel through the warp, but utilize some physical means of interstellar travel where they accelerate to near-light speed
Correct, Tyranids use something similar to an Alcubierre drive. They do not enter the warp for starship travel purposes. Maybe they've entered it in some niche case but it is not something I've heard of.
@danielhennis6934 Correct, this is how Tyranids travel through space, they do not transfer into the warp. They have specially adapted bioships that use psychic energy to warp spacetime around their fleets. The psychic capabilities that some Tyranids use for communication and telekinesis are not powered by the warp either, but I *think* are unique to the Tyranids. I also believe that their FTL is on average significantly slower than warp travel. In a way, "warp travel" in 40k isn't really warping space time so much as a kind of slipspace drive into a parallel dimension where ideas and belief shape reality and allow travel of extreme distances in a very short time. You don't travel fast, you just take a shortcut through the Warp, with all the horrific consequences that follow. Tyranid FTL is arguably more grounded and traditional - they move their ships through "real space" without taking a shortcut. It is also much more reliable as a consequence. You can't get lost in the warp if you never enter it. You don't need to know the unique paths through the warp or webway if you just point in a direction and go. You can't get lost in time if you're simply translocating yourself in spacetime by warping it around you. The price being that their advance still takes a long time by standards of warp or webway travel.
Don't these ships have a self-destruct? I doubt even a bishop could withstand an antimatter antacid blast. Once you have been swallowed, all hope is gone. Might as well make it quick and score a few points on your way out.
The thought I have is: What do Warp Drives do to these things.... Eating a craft containing an activating one of those can't be good for said ship! "HEY NURGLE, I BROUGHT YOU A FRIEND!"
Yeah the story of the imperial ship being swallowed by the tyranid hive ship was one of the most terrifying things I've read in 40k lore. Getting dissolved by stomach acid that is full of tiny parasites that devour you sounds like an awful time.
Yet another awesome video in the most entertaining work of fiction that I've found in many years. I'm constantly impressed by the fandom of 40K. 40K isn't as well known in North America as it is in the UK I believe, but it damn well should be mega and hailed as elite content by all fans of dark fantasy. Perhaps Henry Cavill's efforts will help with this if he can keep Amazon from derailing his plans. I pray that they produce hard R rated content instead of PG, as nothing less could truely convey the 40K "Universe".
I've always thought the Tyranid bioships were the dumbest part of the tyranids. I can buy a living ship flying through space or the warp or however they do it. I can buy that the ships will heal and can evolve mid battle to some at least to some extent. I can buy that no matter how many they lose, claiming a planet would be a net positive. What I can't buy is how they can do all this on an empty stomach. Something has to give. Regardless of what it is, if it's flying through space it's burning calories. Every action it takes is going to consume calories, so how is it no matter where they attack they are always fully healthy creatures landing. More accurately, and actually more narratively fulfilling would be that the tyrranids are such a large organism that whenever they arrive at a new sector the hive mind is in a state of depravation and starvation, so their actions are more desperate. Even if the hive mind is smarter than a human, its actions should be consumed by the desperate need to feed, and make it more clumsy. Instead of just being the borg crossed with starship trooper bugs.
A lot of people pretend 40k is good writing. It's okay writing. Dont pay too close attention to the details. You'll start to smell the funk and see the liver spots.
Why would it go to war at it's maximum range? Let's say it can go for 200 light years max till it gets exhausted but if it attacks from 100 LY it's sated enough to have resources for everything
@@alexmin4752 You could make that argument, but the issue is that at some point if they encounter any resistance that slows down the eating process, they should still start running out of calories. And on the other hand, why bother going to war at all? If it's smart it should be focusing more on sustaining itself, using the energy from stars or what all else to generate its own sugars and proteins like plants or plankton. And I mean for that matter why bother with the little bugs? Why not just make one big gigantic starfish and glob onto a planet and digest it that way? See I don't mind the tyranids as they are, I just think that they shouldn't be portrayed as the ultimate villain in the setting or close to it. They really should be more of a nuisance than anything.
"the digestion system, right next to the birthing pools..." ahhhh! So tyranids are the same speices as our politicians !? Of course, who else would put a waste desposal plant next to a recreation area?
Yup blizzard was hired to make the tyranids but instead broke their contract and made the zerg instead. Though the zerg would get slaughtered by Tyranids. And if you say they wouldnt then keep reading some more lore on tyranids, the bastards went into the warp to start eating demons
@@cody1570They gain no sustenance for demons, they just made bioforms that shut off the warp. Zerg are more powerful because the ability of a hierophant is faction wide
ironically enough, the hyper adaptable, extreme regen tyranid ships would be the easiest to deal with in principal Just hit the rear adjustment tendrils at the base repeatedly until it runs out of expendable biomass or willingly creates a new weak point. The steering tendrils MUST be able to move in any direction or the ship will have too many exhaust ports making it vulnerable to broadsides. The more a thing can flex repeatedly the softer it is in comparison to something immobile. by hitting the base of the tendrils you threaten to remove its steering so it cant simply ignore it and must regen or create new exhaust ports, new weak points. either option would take a large amount of biomass expenditure. TLDR: faster regen and mutation= higher biomass consumption rate= less time functioning= less time to adapt the brood
- A living hell, you say? Ha! Boy, youre with catachans now, we will take you out of here alive just to show you the real "living hell" that we call home.
This is so great what a masterpiece with all the different cuts and stuff going on it felt like a live action story thank you for your time and effort ❤❤❤❤
I dont care what universe you are in, "fleshy corridors" is never a good thing. The real horror however is the stupid amount of ads I had to endure just to warch this video
Thank you for watching, brothers! This was a special episode to make, the editing of this one took me a bit longer than expected but I hope you enjoyed the final result. Special thanks to my brother-in-arms, Skrubasauras, for his awesome narration throughout this episode and to Son of Sonnet for his VA support too!
In your case, what would you do if you suddenly found yourself trapped inside a Tyranid bio-ship? Do you think there’s any way out, or is survival in there just a fever dream? Let us know your thoughts and what you did like (or not) about this particular episode. Remember that you can check out the different chapters with timestamps in the video description.
Lastly, if you are enjoying the content we are making, please consider sharing the video with fellow brothers and sisters as this helps us a lot with the ever changing TH-cam algorithm. Share it so all may see the horrors we face-and so they, too, may join the fight against the xenos.
As always, ideas for new videos and feedback are more than welcome! The idea is to try to get better every time. Thank you for watching!
I'm calling it quits. Better to die than be killed.
Dude this video is awesome
Help baldermort 40k all of his social media accounts have been hacked. He needs help😮.😢
i pwnd the weakling Nids they were ez
I wonder what if the hiveship eat something of Nurggle
*Station gets eaten and everything goes dark*
Commander: *Pulls out a lighter* “Alright, who’s not dead? Sound off.”
Words of a man or woman who has seen some shit. Lmao
"Not dead yet, madam! But these feckers are soon going to be."
Atlantis reference spotted, likes dispensed.
Sounds like a good way to get the survivors killed haha
The worst fate one could experience in the 40k universe
A vore victim
not really , in warhammer the writers got so repetitive that even dwelling in a forest world or having a desk job sound as dramatic. they have ruined by making everything sound flesh melting mind distorting , pain maintaining and so on . personally i feel bored by this . i few times was ok but the more you see the more you get this -_- face reaction because all seems same
@@LauftFafaDo you want to create a chaos god? Because this is how you create a chaos god.
Unless you're Tyberos the Red Wake.
@NVMemes4Liberty my favorite part of the Badab War was when Tyberos whispered "It's vorin' time" and vored those Mantis Warriors
Thought dark eldar getting a hold of you would be the worste
If you're entire ship is swallowed run back into the ship and overload the reactor!!
Or the warp drive. In the old lore they took out a hiveship by sending it into the warp and it was ripped apart by Bloodthirsters.
@@godofzombi
Hey, I just asked the question what a warp drive would do.
My joke about bringing Nurgle a new friend was a little more on mark then I thought!
*a green space marine bounces a grenade in his hand*
@@lostbutfreesoulA warp drive failure would send the ship into the warp.
@@garretth8224also the bio ship by causing a rift
I’d rather be in Dead Space than stuck in these ships bro
Neither prospect is good! Dead space would be worse though dam no win situation
I'd rather be in Superman 64!
Screw both, neither end is good. It's just different flavors of suffering.
@@Overanalyse_This ey..wow..woow, we are just joking here, no reason to make it disgusting
It's reminds me of the old Raccoon city and silent hill signs meme. Either way, you're pretty fucked but personally I'd take the raccoon city route, at least that's physical and a you have a bit more of a chance even if not much. 😅😅
omfg... a new 40k channel that doesn't use ai slop for it's content?? actually subbing instantly
Not really new they’ve been around for years doing mostly Fantasy content
@@PKM9107 yeah....new 40k channel. not a new channel but a new 40k channel
They do all warhammer content
As repetative as this is 10 min in it wouldnt suprise me if this is ai
@@norsemanbushcrafting1621 Yeah, most interesting thing is the first ten minutes with the guardsman. Sad they didn't do anything with that.
they call it boarding, i call it uber eats
- the bio-ship...probably
The Uber eats that comes to your house to eat your cookies
@@BruderSenf Assert dominance - make the bio ship the Uber eats and consume them from the inside.
Imagine the havoc Space Marines could cause inside though.
@@JarrenOmgWhatIsEvenHappening uhh, you will need a lot of pepto bismol for that xD
@@vladimirvojtaml I imagine that even they would struggle inside
Warhammer, the only fandom where none of the fans wanna live in the universe of the genre they love
Idk, I'd say Dead Space fits that pretty well too
Halo fans don't wanna live in their universe either.
With good reason😂😂😂🤌🏾
Speak for yourself, I'd love to be a space marine.
@@World36599The Halo Universe would be cool to live in post Human-Covenant war
In regards to the acid scene 25:40 a lot of torture porn authors don't understand that after a certain amount of pain or trauma, humans go into shock or pass out.
I recently read that dying from shock is a canonical part of the process of being shot by Necron weapons
Unrelated, but I think it's neat the guy's name is Crassus and the real life Crassus (political rival of Pompey and Caesar) was rumored to have died the same way. Instead of boiling slime in the mouth though, it was molten gold.
Go into shock because of the blood circulation, so if you have something pumping blood, even when heart isnt, it should be nearly impossible to go into shock
@filipbitala2624 enough pain or blood loss you pass out. Some people even faint when they see their own blood being drawn.
@ going into shock and fainting are two different things
"So, what are we boarding?" -"A Tyranid Bioship" "....oh."
If you keep 40k videos the same quality as your fantasy ones this gonna be guaranteed success.
now THIS is how you make a video!
No ads, no self proclaimed bs.. Just a plain old, and really well made video about cool shtiff.
Tyranids: We have come for your biomass.
Humans: AGGHHG A TALKING BUG! BY THE EMPEROR IM GOING INSANE!
Hope dies in a Tyranid bioship? Obviously someone hasn’t been to commoragh. At least the Tyranids will give you a quick death, that’s not guaranteed at all in Commoragh.
its all the same doesnt matter where you are . hive city , an exotic forest , the warp , fighting necrons , going to eye of terror , working in imperium jobs , fighting orks or tyranids or simply getting hit by a lasgun , its all the same and the writers made sure that every entry you read make you get the assumption that its the worst thing possible . the ammount of things that are maddening or flesh melting or that dont kill and instead prolonge pain are more common than regular pain and death at this point
@@LauftFafa
And in the end, your soul still ends in the Warp... exposed and alone.
Pretty sure how you die doesn't matter, given the '40k afterlife!'
@@LauftFafa f$ck right off then if you're that bored. You're a drain on society by the sounds of it. This is the 10th or 11th whiny little b1tch comment you have made.
Fun fact: your average human living in Commoragh has a better standard of living/quality of life than your average human living on Tara.
@@choczynski I'm not sure being a living piece of furniture is preferable to just being an incredibly poorly treated worker.
The clips of Battlefleet Gothic 2 there is such a chef's kiss! The Tyranids campaign there and its ending is truly the worst of the worsts endings for everybody. Love that game, its antecessor was the first Warhammer game i ever played
Leviathan and Kraken think everybody knows but how many Hive Fleets are out there? Dont somebody, i think it was a Necron said that the Tyranids are the greatest threat of the galaxy? Is it even possible to stop them...
Yes. Kill their food. You'd think Necrons would be good at it.
Seems like we should give them bombs to eat. Or use those as breaching pods. Obviously, they'd adapt, but it is possible to starve the Tyranids. Forge World Lucius did so by sending nothing but servitors at them, then reclaiming the inorganic parts to make more servitors. Obviously, bio-ships can digest inorganic matter, but their immune defenses, repairing their own structure after a blast, and the amount of material lost in the explosion would almost certainly cost them more calories than they could ever retain.
I doubt the virus bombs would do much for long, but we have plenty of Exterminatus weapons to choose from, like cyclonic torpedoes, their two-stage variants, or atmospheric incineration weapons. Sure, they're made for burning air, but Tyranid ships retain and atmosphere, and plenty of volatile chemicals. Or we could just blow a reactor inside of them. If it works to take down a Blackstone Fortress, the largest Tyranid Hive-ships should prove no problem.
Their numbers are the problem here. The ship with the norn queen is the one that needs to be put don to actually be worth wasting resorses, or the tyranid will just respawn. But those ships are the most well defended ones, not to mention the trouble of locating the damn thing among the swarm...
@@Deliar12 That is why I still think tyranids are lame
the second paragraph that you wrote is how the imperium won the first tyranic war actually, they exterminatused their own worlds to starve the tyranids and once they were nearly starved, fought them on the ultramarine homeworld. They were about to lose the battle on the planet and in space until they flew their biggest ship into the middle of the tyranid fleet and detonated its warp drive.
@@sharkhead1177Couldn't agree more they're fascinating and extremely boring at the same time.
I'll start with it not making much sense that they have such insane numbers. If they travel so far their consumption of biomass to sustain themselves must be insane if they have such numbers. Then in theory they should be extremely weakened when they arrive to replenish on the biomass of worlds.
Another thing is the shadow in the warp. It's intentionally written to be catchall against reinforcements. If anything there should be ships responsible for amplifying it and therefore a weakness in the fleet if eliminated.
Also Tyranids should be extremely weak to bioweapons and engineered viruses. Void fighting should also be extremely disadvantageous for them as very little biomass is gained vs lost in fighting ships. The math just doesn't add up.
@@vladimirvojtaml If they didn't have the shadow in the warp, they would lose the battle in the void more often then not
Unfortunately, we just missed a Halloween release but happy late Halloween everyone! After doing this video, I've added one or two new things to my "definitely gonna have nightmares about this" list
the Darktide OST kick nice in your 40K videos bro ;)
Glad we got one since its been a while.
Shoutout to Skrubasauras & Jesper Kyd !!
Thanks a lot! The Dark tide OST is pretty cool indeed. I enjoy listening to it whilee reading and researching stuff.
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I've been looking for OST ID everywhere! I keep hearing it!
Good to know what kind of hell I'm sending my men into when I launch boarding pods in BFG: Armada.
You... sadistic bastard...
Could make an entire horror game based off of this guardsman, where the objective is to detonate the engine if your swallowed ship or some similar objective to destroy the hive ship.
In the grim darkness of the far future the only thing to unite the division of the Imperium, Eldari, Orks, and others is the pure absolute unity of endless hunger
I feel like it’s gonna take every other faction teaming up like the Avengers to take out the ‘nids.
@@ryannarcisseOr good old Silent King dusting off the command protocols of all Necrons and wiping out those universe deleting weapons once again. After that, they'll wipe out the Eldar and everyone will live happily ever after
The only thing that survives a tyranid hive ship is a world eater. A world eater champion from one of the codexes boarded a tyranid hive ship and killed everything inside. Thats why even tyranids pew pew from a distance in the face of khorne's might.
ORKZ IZ DA BEST
If they eat your ship this gives you a significant tactical advantage. Deploy kill teams and destroy this monster from the inside! Let us die with VENGENCE on our lips!
Just engage the warp drive. If you're lucky you'll escape and tear a huge hole in the tyranid ship, if not the whole thing will explode which is still better fate than being dissolved in acid alive.
This is incredible. This is my first experience watching and this is best experience I've had while learning about warhammer.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! 🙌
Finding a boarding point on one of these is basically like looking for loot in trash bins in gen 1 pokémon.
"Nope, just acid in here."
You're a damn good editor yo - subbed !
way more dynamic visuals than the other 40k lore-community creators. ^^
and hardcoded subtitles! hell ye!
Even in the darkest of days, the Emperor protects.
Small reminder that the Tau defeated a tyranid hive ship. A large main one. By the Tau.
Plasma and Railguns are no joke
Just ‘cus Tau are the smallest faction doesn’t mean they’re pushovers.
Makes sence, skin does not beat metal..
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A small team of blood angels boarded a stranded hive ship once all because of biologis went radio silent ....that was a good read ...
Love the Darktide music, that game's music is so spot on for 40k
Long have I waited to hear Skrub's awesome voice in these stellar videos once more!!
As you know Im not a 40k enthusiast, but the title got me to click, and so far Im enjoying everything I see and hear. What a story so far! EXCELLENT JOB, TEAM !^^
Holly Terra!
Looked forward to this and am very thrilled to see how you realized it.
Hope you enjoy it brother! 🙌 😃
Hearing about the internal defenses of a bio ship got me wondering what is even the situation where someone would want to do this? They're gonna go in there and even if they can avoid the traps, theyre gonna have to fight the armies of tyranids at their spawn point. What are they even doing there? Trying to kill the norn queen?
Probably attempting to treat it like a Hulk:
Some ships are just too big for you to blow up from the outside, so you send someone with a bomb inside....
It's funny because the nids probably have more Norn Queens waiting than there are regular Space Marines
Meanwhile necrons and chaos : look a bug 🐛 let me get my bug spray
Chaos is less of a threat
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Only in the way that they might let you join them. Well the nids let you join them to... by using your biomass to make more Termagants.
Yeah, so easy that the Silent King hauled ass back to the galaxy to try and defend the indefensible...
Nids are a counter to Chaos not the other way around.
@@Rauser142 Because it's so safe inside a carnifex' stumoch.
Damn, kinda feel bad for all of the boarding torpedoes full of guardsmen I shot at those things in Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2
Woah, first time watcher here. The editing on this video is fucking insane, good job. I am very suprised you arent getting a fuckload of views. Subbed.
Looking at your channel how tf do you even do this? Releasing videos edited like this, 40 minutes long each every couple days? This is insane.
Also is there a brain or extremely vital organs on the bio ship? Could that guardsman hunt down said organs and lasgun the entire enemy ship to death?
Thanks a lot for your kind words! These indeed take me a lot of time to put together., it involves a lot of work but I enjoy it. Most of the time I'm working on more than one video/project at a time so occassionally the stars allign and I'm able to release videos in quick succession, which was the case here. I'm currently working on the next batch of videos which will probably see the light of day in about two weeks at least.
Now, when it comes to the Tyranid ships, the Norn Queens are some of the most well-protected organisms within them. When it comes to brains and other vital organs, my guess is that they indeed have them, but in the lore (as far as I have read) I haven't been able to find something more specific. Perhaps the may even have more than one heart (like the Adeptus Astartes, for example), the brains could be simply Synaptic receptors, as their "thinking" ins mostly guided by the Hive Mind. But these last statements are just my guessing and not a factual thing.
First Leagues of Votann novel just came out! And it begins with a boarding into a Tyranid bioship. I gotta say it is well aligned with this video!
they should have a Deathwatch Terminator Kill Team designed to infilitrate their biggest hive ships and destroy them or cripple them from the inside out.
Would be a cool level tileset for any of the games at at least
Lore wise, you’d be wasting terminator armor and gene seeds
@@azevol216 I tend to like the chapters that don't follow the codex to the letter :P. I wouldn't be wasting them if it wasn't POSSIBLE or effective.
Make up your own chapter. They could specialize in infiltrating Tyranid Hive Fleets and blowing them up from inside out. A weird quirk of theirs could be ritually consuming Tyranids and taking flesh trophies to blend in during their missions. It could be one of those chapters part of the Ultima Founding that were thrown against the 'Nyds to slow them down, thought lost, but actually continuing to wreck havoc among their enemy.
Why not just teleport melta bombs at random into bioships that are within range?
There was another short novel i forgot from where, the ship was swalload whole just like this, and the crew were stuck in their bridge, waitin for death to come....in the end they were slowly destroyed by the bioships acid, it was horrifying to listen to as the ships hull slowly gave in and it ate the ships system and then the crew disolved, this story is a totally different kind of horror...
This was well done the visuals match good withe the description
How the hell do bioships maneuver? They don't seem to have rockets, and fins and wings don't actually propel you in a vacuum.
ithats 40k bro ,these monstrositys don't need a reason for their existence. they just exist✌️☯️
Farts.
@@josephrobinson6171 That is, rockets
I'd think either bioplasma thrusters or some weird void/warp shiz
At that size, their farts will be enough to propel them through space
Truly the best quality warhammer loretuber.
Sick! In so many ways!
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed the video!
as a biology student this part of warhammer 40k lore intrigues me a lot. The behavioral characteristics of the Tyranids are as fantastic as their science fiction biology. The bio ships are very different from any other Tyranid creature, I wonder how they can reproduce and diversify so much, I can only think of ants and bees as an example and even these creatures have developed generating bio weapons such as mortars and plasma weapons, they have developed a system to go faster than light, I wonder what stimuli led to the development of such bio engineering. It is very fascinating, these ships have a carapace but do not molt, they have developed a closed circulatory system, with a complete double circulation I suppose, they are such a strange mix of characteristics but really captivating for a biologist
My personal theory is that the Tyranids are an overly-successful, possibly anti-chaos, bioweapon developed by another galaxy's equivalent to the Great old Ones.
I actually know this one! The tyranids have no warp or jump drives! They go into hibernation and use some kind of Alcubierre drive to fall/drift towards the next star, and it's why it's so hard to counter or see them coming. No power signatures to track, no warp flash to signal their arrival: only shapes falling out of the blackness between stars, halfway through a system before anyone knows they're there 🥶
Thank you for this rousing tale of grim, dark adventure. This would serve as a wonderful prelude to a game of Advanced Space Crusade. ; )
Indeed Dooms Demon infested hell scape would be like daycare at a nursing home compared to being inside the backend of a Nid ship
Nah hell would be a lot worse. Flood ships would be terrifying
Time to throw myself into plastic crack again, distracting myself with ‘everything could be even worse’ is comforting.
The production value of this video is insanely good
The writing of this lore video has me more engaged than any class. Immediate subscribe.
I was hoping for a long time that you guys would start dipping into 40K once Fantasy content dried up a bit. I love your narrations and soundscapes. Carry on!
I was just thinking that I wanna know more about bio ships!
For this kind of job, you need the Doom Slayer
Nah that would be to fight the chaos gods.
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Think Khorne would LOVE to add Doomguy into his collection
Pfft doom guy is street tier.
"YOU'RE HUGE!! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!!"
@@admiralpepper6933 Unfortunately not even Khorne could corrupt the Doom Slayer
Amazing work as usual both with animations and the narration. Truly a captivating and dreadful experience the survival on a hive bioship. I would really love to join your team as narrator and voice actor.
This is so well put together. Not sure if the animation was done just for the video.
Wow that was a masterpiece of Warhammer! Really enjoyed it. Your videos are top notch. Thanks for sharing them!
Thank you! 🙌 🙏
A force that can stand against the Tyranids, they're called Necrons
In the old lore when the 'crons were just mindless killing machines and the Hive fleet was rumored to be a C'tan, sure. But Nowadays Necrosn want their ampire back and they don't appreciate their tombworlds getting nommed because the 'nids are on an iron rich diet.
This is by far one of the best narratives I've seen \ listened to. I could totally visualize what was going on to the extent that I was feeling slightly nervous as I got sucked in to the descriptions of what was happening as the other part of my mind started trying to think of ways to survive the situation.😅
This is really good. I look forward to more things like this in the future, the more visuals you can put on screen related to the subject the better.
😄👍
The Tyranids are not from this galaxy, so therefore are from another. But how do they evolve so fast? And if they need to eat and devour entire planets, how would they had survived long enough to develop hive ships/fleets? I think, they were a bio weapon, some xeno empire developed them, only for their test runs or first use to go horribly wrong.
Tyranids just represent the never ending desire of nature to consume and repurpose everything, don't bother science'ing what is just symbolism.
Kind of like The Flood from Halo 😅
Interesting thought
Xenomorphs....bioweapons.
Probably some remnants of the Old Ones way back from the War in Heavens that made them to clean the galaxy and reverse all the warp damage they caused by flooding everything with life
“Yeah but im built different” I say as i aim my laspistol at my own head
I love jesper kyd made such good music for darktide that its now ubiquitous across 40k videos
This is why you always save one for yourself. Keep that in mind. Nobody can be expected to be this brave.
Woah! What a cool video idea! Nice one choyer!
Inside a Nid bio ship:
Astra militarum: We're gonna die!
Leagues of Votann: We're gonna be rich!
The only way to destroyed a Tyranid Bio Ship :
Let it to swallows a ship full of nuclear warheads. And when it will....
DETONATE!!!!
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM
And that's it!
Okay
The story at 27:00. For these types reasons you have the self destruct option.
Your death is now certain, and your only remaining duty is to do anything and everything to kill the bioship
The sample chapter of the Leagues of Votann novel that’s releasing soon has a team of them expertly infiltrating a hive ship like it’s just another normal work day. 🤣
Space Dwarves are lame and should have stayed extinct
Ok eldar@captnwinkle
@@captnwinkle good thing they aren’t space dwarves.
@@eletrictarantula2321 I'm Tyranid! Don't assume my race!
The Tyranids wouldn't be as big an issue if the Imperium wasn't so backward and regressive, If they could innovate at the same pace the Tyranids could adapt it would be a non issue. But that would require the use of abominable intelligence or Xenos tech and we cant have that.
The swarms adapt and evolve by the second during battle. I dont think anyone can innovate that fast
@@danielhennis6934 Well AI could but that's why humanity went into the dark age in the first place
Nurgle and the Tyranids fighting onboard a ship for the pinnacle of their evolution against each other is crazy. Maybe they even have a Nord Queen onboard The Sobbing God. But Nurgle wins because Grandfather is best
Great, getting killed by 'nids is bad enough, but now we can be killed by fly infested diseased 'nids dripping with necrotic slime.
Tyranid BioTitans are always young. They grow truly massive within a couple months, at great expense to the Swarm. They are bred for one purpose, every time. Once their task is complete, they are usually wrecked and devastated, ready for reconsumption. I doubt any have seen a second deployment.
It's never a good thing when someone takes a look at your injury and immediately starts to vomit
This is like an episode of Nature... if Nature focused on the cosmic horror that is a Xeno bioship...
Wait! I'm new to WARHAMMER 40K, so correct me if im wrong! But around the 6:15 mark, the narrator references the terror of witnessing tyrrannid bioships emerging from the warp. I thought tyranhids dont travel through the warp, but utilize some physical means of interstellar travel where they accelerate to near-light speed
Correct, Tyranids use something similar to an Alcubierre drive. They do not enter the warp for starship travel purposes. Maybe they've entered it in some niche case but it is not something I've heard of.
@mattjk5299 an alcubierre drive condenses space/time in the front of the craft and expands it behind the craft...is that correct?
@danielhennis6934 Correct, this is how Tyranids travel through space, they do not transfer into the warp. They have specially adapted bioships that use psychic energy to warp spacetime around their fleets. The psychic capabilities that some Tyranids use for communication and telekinesis are not powered by the warp either, but I *think* are unique to the Tyranids.
I also believe that their FTL is on average significantly slower than warp travel. In a way, "warp travel" in 40k isn't really warping space time so much as a kind of slipspace drive into a parallel dimension where ideas and belief shape reality and allow travel of extreme distances in a very short time. You don't travel fast, you just take a shortcut through the Warp, with all the horrific consequences that follow.
Tyranid FTL is arguably more grounded and traditional - they move their ships through "real space" without taking a shortcut. It is also much more reliable as a consequence. You can't get lost in the warp if you never enter it. You don't need to know the unique paths through the warp or webway if you just point in a direction and go. You can't get lost in time if you're simply translocating yourself in spacetime by warping it around you. The price being that their advance still takes a long time by standards of warp or webway travel.
You need a tacobell restaurant on your ship to combat that
Big fan I watch all your videos my favorite ones are the ones with the tyranids and beastmen and skaven
BROTHER IS PUMPING VIDS OUT!
Don't these ships have a self-destruct? I doubt even a bishop could withstand an antimatter antacid blast. Once you have been swallowed, all hope is gone. Might as well make it quick and score a few points on your way out.
The thought I have is:
What do Warp Drives do to these things....
Eating a craft containing an activating one of those can't be good for said ship!
"HEY NURGLE, I BROUGHT YOU A FRIEND!"
in the story in this video, the only tech preist on the ship had already killed himself
Yoo I love the documentary format
Tyranids are the coolest faction in WH40K
Yes comissar! This man right here.
Yes Inquisitor! This man right here.
Inquisitor! INQUISITOOOOOR!!!!……
🚨🚨🚨H E R E S Y 🚨🚨🚨
Gotta say as a Australian probably just stick a straw in the muck start drinking and see who wins. Me or the bioship
Yeah the story of the imperial ship being swallowed by the tyranid hive ship was one of the most terrifying things I've read in 40k lore. Getting dissolved by stomach acid that is full of tiny parasites that devour you sounds like an awful time.
Yet another awesome video in the most entertaining work of fiction that I've found in many years. I'm constantly impressed by the fandom of 40K.
40K isn't as well known in North America as it is in the UK I believe, but it damn well should be mega and hailed as elite content by all fans of dark fantasy.
Perhaps Henry Cavill's efforts will help with this if he can keep Amazon from derailing his plans. I pray that they produce hard R rated content instead of PG, as nothing less could truely convey the 40K "Universe".
Lets gooo. Its ya boi Choyer with another video🎉
the tyranid bioship realizes too late it just swallowed a prometheum tanker ship, and its captain is a little too heavy handed on the drinking.
So what happens to Sergeant Varran?
Oh don't worry about Varran, he's not with us no more.
Maybe if they all wear suits that are made of wild berry Pepto Bismol and exlacs weapons they would stand a chance
I've always thought the Tyranid bioships were the dumbest part of the tyranids. I can buy a living ship flying through space or the warp or however they do it. I can buy that the ships will heal and can evolve mid battle to some at least to some extent. I can buy that no matter how many they lose, claiming a planet would be a net positive.
What I can't buy is how they can do all this on an empty stomach. Something has to give. Regardless of what it is, if it's flying through space it's burning calories. Every action it takes is going to consume calories, so how is it no matter where they attack they are always fully healthy creatures landing.
More accurately, and actually more narratively fulfilling would be that the tyrranids are such a large organism that whenever they arrive at a new sector the hive mind is in a state of depravation and starvation, so their actions are more desperate. Even if the hive mind is smarter than a human, its actions should be consumed by the desperate need to feed, and make it more clumsy. Instead of just being the borg crossed with starship trooper bugs.
A lot of people pretend 40k is good writing. It's okay writing. Dont pay too close attention to the details. You'll start to smell the funk and see the liver spots.
Why would it go to war at it's maximum range? Let's say it can go for 200 light years max till it gets exhausted but if it attacks from 100 LY it's sated enough to have resources for everything
@@alexmin4752 You could make that argument, but the issue is that at some point if they encounter any resistance that slows down the eating process, they should still start running out of calories.
And on the other hand, why bother going to war at all? If it's smart it should be focusing more on sustaining itself, using the energy from stars or what all else to generate its own sugars and proteins like plants or plankton. And I mean for that matter why bother with the little bugs? Why not just make one big gigantic starfish and glob onto a planet and digest it that way?
See I don't mind the tyranids as they are, I just think that they shouldn't be portrayed as the ultimate villain in the setting or close to it. They really should be more of a nuisance than anything.
"the digestion system, right next to the birthing pools..." ahhhh! So tyranids are the same speices as our politicians !? Of course, who else would put a waste desposal plant next to a recreation area?
I'm New on Warhammer 40k, Tyranids are like Hardcore Zergs
You are on the money. The zerg were actually supposed to be tyranid as StarCraft was originally planned as a Warhammer game
Yes.
In more ways than you can think.
Yup blizzard was hired to make the tyranids but instead broke their contract and made the zerg instead. Though the zerg would get slaughtered by Tyranids. And if you say they wouldnt then keep reading some more lore on tyranids, the bastards went into the warp to start eating demons
@@cody1570They gain no sustenance for demons, they just made bioforms that shut off the warp. Zerg are more powerful because the ability of a hierophant is faction wide
Zerg + Bugs from Starship troopers +Galactus.
Bro this was awsome. Thanks for the vid !!!
ironically enough, the hyper adaptable, extreme regen tyranid ships would be the easiest to deal with in principal
Just hit the rear adjustment tendrils at the base repeatedly until it runs out of expendable biomass or willingly creates a new weak point.
The steering tendrils MUST be able to move in any direction or the ship will have too many exhaust ports making it vulnerable to broadsides.
The more a thing can flex repeatedly the softer it is in comparison to something immobile.
by hitting the base of the tendrils you threaten to remove its steering so it cant simply ignore it and must regen or create new exhaust ports, new weak points. either option would take a large amount of biomass expenditure.
TLDR: faster regen and mutation= higher biomass consumption rate= less time functioning= less time to adapt the brood
Detonate everything you can. Overload ships reactor. You’re already dead, go out with a bang
🔥 Trapped inside a Tyranid Bio-Ship… the true definition of a nightmare! No escape, no mercy just the endless hunger of the Hive Mind. 💀
Your voice here really reminds me of the old Animal Planet Series ‘Infested’
- A living hell, you say? Ha! Boy, youre with catachans now, we will take you out of here alive just to show you the real "living hell" that we call home.
self destruct would have been the better choice.
I like where hope dies quote.
I like the squad rolling in as reinforcements to save them more. If they are deserving of saving.
'nids on the outside: Xenomorphs
'nids on the outside: Call of Cthulhu
Don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that one Hive Fleet’s name is literally the scar of a healed wound. That’s irony there.
This is so great what a masterpiece with all the different cuts and stuff going on it felt like a live action story thank you for your time and effort ❤❤❤❤
I dont care what universe you are in, "fleshy corridors" is never a good thing.
The real horror however is the stupid amount of ads I had to endure just to warch this video
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Seriously this. I use brave and havent watched an ad in a while.
why was my coment removed?
Update youtube thags what works in my case@berndbernd3464