This was probably the most fun the team has had making an episode so far. They really went all out in production and I can't wait for us to get onto the more advanced stages of the invasion where we can showcase the larger and even titanic Tyranid bioforms! For now you can get more Tyranid action with Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus play.tacticusgame.com/invicta-tyranids and use the code "InvictaGift" to get 2,000 Gold, 50 Blackstone and 1 Requisition Order (Note: expires Mar 29th 2024)
By FAR one of my favorite episodes so far (granted some bias as a warhammer 40k fan and wargamer) the production value alone is bizarre. Please keep it up, long time liker and subscriber but this was wildly enjoyable!
Best way i can put it 40k lore is so massive that your in the right solar system, wrong planet, and not even close to the city. But close enough for youtube work.
It perfectly coincides with me feeling the strong urge to set up an altar for the only _Godemperor of Mankind_ all of a sudden after being only fleetingly aware of Warhammer40k and not exactly a fan of what little I had known at this point until I accidentally came across a hiveworld video in a worldbuilding playlist some weeks ago.. It's on its way of becoming the latest entry on my list of personal obsessions. 😅
@@kai_plays_khomus RIP to your bank account 😂 but good luck! ‘Nids are definitely one of the funnest (and stressful) armies to play! The look on the opponent’s face when you lay down 150+ models on the table is priceless (as long as they’re ok with it, a lot of people don’t like swarm armies)
@@rykercabler9756 Well, the bank account is the main limiting factor here alongside the time necessary to get into it and justify the whole ordeal..😅 I'm collecting shamanic jew's harps from Siberia, I'm into aquascaping/aquaristics, I'm a skateboarder/surfskater and recently I got stuck again on a teenage obsession and have a whole line-up of handcrafted real plywood fingerboards with bearing wheels and just started to make my own miniature ramps and parks because I'm into arts and creative stuff as well - _Warhammer40k_ just hasn't deserved to get picked up by somebody who then has to neglect it..
The Leutin name drop was awesome. This whole true size / Warhammer crossover is fantastic. This channel just continues to never miss. Quality is absurd. Thank you so much for all your work.
Luetin is definitely one of my favourite sources of 40k lore, sandman of terra and baldermort would make up my top 3. Just thinking of a collaboration to bring some stories or battles to life with them is mind boggling!! It would be winner winner chicken dinner for any 40k fan 💯
as a tyranid player and good at the lore, i do approve, and i like that no real numbers are actually given as the swarm adapts on all fronts to the foe they face on a constant basis, leaving no room to even give an approximation how many millions of bodies are on any given front of any given phase of the consumption of a world. they are an unending, devouring swarm
Fellow tyranid player here. Just concerned the planet in question isn't productive enough to be defended by much. Result, sub par assault ending with medium large. Titan grade weapons on an agri-world (or equivalent) on the fringes?
@@johncaddick5075 my understanding is that the hive only deploys the forces necessary for victory and in response to opposition. If the world can be terraformed and devoured with gaunts, then only gaunts will be deployed. If the opposition has weapons that can't be overwhelmed by the gaunts then the hive ships will deploy what is necessary to do so. E.g. Bio-titans to take on Titans.
@musicninja98 Agreed, that's sort of my point. For a good cross section, including bio-titans, we need a pitched battle on a key world. They've set the invasion on a fringe world. Maybe if it was tyranids vs. a forge world, then we would see the biggest of nids. IMHO, biggest thing I can see deployed on the current world is carnifexs or hive guard.
@@johncaddick5075 I took the scope to encapsulate the typical world for the average human. The dread of the Tyranids is not the super massive bio-organisms, but the unending hordes of lesser Tyranids deployed to out-Guard the Imperial guard in 300 to 1 battles. Also, this is part 1. They might expand the scope in the later parts.
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We desperately need some shows or movies in 40k. The potential is literally endless. I know games workshop has their streaming service but that doesn't count, it's had like zero exposure and niche streaming services are dog brained.
Yes!!! With a dark grom ending. Like a world being lost and it ends with the horde taking up most of the space of the camera angle and it just going black eventually
The most terrifying thing about Tyranids I think is simply their extra-galactic origin. On the largest scales the Milky Way isn't a huge place, and the entirety of the 40k world/history/lore takes place there. The fact that Tyranids are appearing to arrive from intergalactic space means they've come from another galaxy in order to feed. It could be that they've stripped thousands of similar galaxies bare before arriving to ours. Or maybe they originated in the Andromeda galaxy and we're their very first intergalactic victims. The point is, their history is completely unknowable to any character from the 40k verse.
@@stevenmtaylor21 Worst case scenario, basically. Probably why they didn't continue that narrative thread into modern lore. They probably realised that if the Tyranids really did control the entire local galaxy cluster and the Milky Way is essentially surrounded, then they'll have written themselves into a corner because there's no way of really beating that. Better to just let questions like that go unexplained.
There two theories about them that I find interesting 1)their old ones restart button for the galaxy 2) they're golden age experiment that went rogue and draw back into the galaxy because of the hersey. (some one made a beacon that explored)
I want to feel the terror of a tyranid invasion. Like you feel hopeless but you fight on. Maybe your given hope at some time when space Marines arrive but they slowly and surely get whittled down. I think that would be a great horror game to show the grimdark and sheer horror of 40k versus another doom-esque clone. Even though I do enjoy going on a power fantasy and turning hundreds of orks and gaunts into a fine red mist.
"By the Emperor, Sarge, we won! I can't believe it, they got us down to two power packs a man, but we won!" "Guardsman... that was the first wave... *of the first wave."*
I think the one thing you don't think of is that no Tyranid survives an invasion. Even when they win they still walk into a digestive pit and die. They have no recovery ships.
It's not 100% clear if thats the case for all organisms. Liktors, Tyrants and some other forms seem to reappear with the same wounds and even personality.
@@18Krieger so its a really interesting topic, from my understanding the personality part is simply because they sort of never die. so imagine your a sub division of a hive mind, another species call you hive warrior, you tho are just division 2953, you die because of a tank, you die because you steped on a mine, you die to a space marine, all those deaths at the same time on different planets. You fight a space marine, you realize the move that kiled you 1 minute ago, you doge and find your hit decapitating the enemy, food is served. They seam to inherit their personalities because they do, every warior is the warior, the warior that fought in octarius war, the warior that died on a forgotten moon, the warior that just ate your friend.
@@mattor300 It seems that the Hive Mind, there might be Hive Minds, keeps Individual's in storage. Builds a new body for them and loads their personality in this body. Maybe even soul. Individual Tyranids can have grudges and personality traits. I have the theory that Tyranids might have souls and the overall hive mind is made of these souls. Which would give a certain truth to the religion of the Genestealers.
I was gonna start writing about the speculative intricacies of the Hive Mind and the swarm but quickly realized how dense that could get. Best to leave it to others whose format suits such multi hour discussions
@@InvictaHistory A lot of the times when Tyranids are mentioned/described it's always vague bull honkey that's puffed up to be extra scary. "Horrors you could dare not imagine" kinda shit. so thanks a lot for helping us imagine the actual scale of an invasion fleet. Also uh, Leutin plays Knights and those fuckers are pretty big. I wonder how they scale with other stuff. Colab?
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 a strange insult. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect history content from a history channel instead of franchised fiction. I don't blame the channel for going after the money but its not for me lmao
Except when he doesn't lol. Aside from so much else, he allowed many of his best agents to be imprisoned in a necron tesseract. Down with the corpse god, down with the false emperor.
Honestly this is the best use of our True Size series so far. The goal was always to show historical armies to scale but it really does the trick of capturing the mind boggling size of the 40k universe which is otherwise only ever really show in concept art. This series will be FUN : )
If CA ever somehow makes a Warhammer 40K Total War game. I could see the Tyranids as the quintessential horde army. The fact that they go from planet to planet, taking over and then razing them to the ground and making off with plunder would make them the best horde faction in all the games.
Yeah... I wonder what they would do if they ever consume everything there is, would they just wander around searching endlessly until running out of energy and biomass? Maybe they are like the metal skellies and they would fall into deep hibernation, waiting for the universe to replenish What about the Warp? I guess it would slowly die off since there are no tasty emotions, unless they can or learn to harness some kind power from the tyranids I guess orks would be hard to completely get rid off, so they might become a seasonal nuisance to tyranids like viruses are to us Although I feel like tyranids might just be thorough enough to kill and consume every spore of orky goodness Maybe the species will become hybrids and tyranids become fragmented and an eternal civil war between them erupts, since the fightiness instinct of their ork side becomes too strong to ignore And combining all the powers of both species is a terrifying thought
This video is not just creative and very, very well made but also gets across the true existential horror of the Tyranids and how mind-numbingly terrifying they are if you're an average guardsman. There is no stopping them. They cannot be beaten. They cannot be pushed back, only delayed for them to return with a hundred, a thousand, a million times the numbers they had before if you catch a lucky break like with the Devastation of Baal. They will return and there will be no resisting them when they throw entire fleets at you like its an average Tuesday for the Hive Mind. May the Emperor protect us all.
honestly its hard to find something scary when they just, are essentially invincible. Like you just get to the point of acceptance at some point, based on lore as written tyranids would just win and there really should not be any possible way to defend against them. If something is certain you become less 'afraid' and more 'Eh, what happens happens' at some point.
Even though I've seen nearly every tyranid youtube video out there; I can never get bored of watching these types of videos. Especially ones like this were there was so much work put into it. Very good job to you and your team and I look forward to the next 40k video.
Definitely subscribed. As someone who is working on a 40k campaign with my buddies armies vs my 10k tyranid army, this was great motivation and insight on their behaviour and protocol for a first wave. Can't wait for part two!
A step by step visual of a tyranid invasion has been something ive wanted since i was around 9 years old, not even kidding. This series has been a dream come true for the geeky child in me. Thank you so much for these videos!
According to the sources that i can recall, Tyranid warriors are NOT about 5 meters tall, as that would be insane and make them as tall as a small house. They are around 2,4-2,7 meters tall. Most charts show this as well. Hell most Primarchs arent even 5 meters tall, in fact Angron is around 5 meters tall AFTER he has been imbued with the power of Khorne and turned in to a Greater Daemon.
i am going to give you high marks for this since when you did the short fly over at around the 6 minute mark i could reconise and call out every model. this is so well done my hats of for the effort put in to this
One of the best examples of tyranids, only note would be that guards men wouldn’t have ultramarine rhinos and storm ravens (the ravens are mostly valuable relics at this point), a better option would be touroxs and Valkyries.
Cool to see the old spore pods animated. One thing- I believe the Tyranocyte has its carapace petals closed on initial decent only spreading them as air breaks moments before impact. They are portrayed as entering the atmosphere already spread.
With how the 40k is only dealing with the tip of the spear, I believe there's at least hundreds of billions in total across all active hive fleets, with potentially millions of times more yet to arrive in the galaxy. And, honestly, the Flood music from Halo in the intro perfectly encapsulates the horror the Nids bring, and the horror yet to be brought into the galaxy.
The tyranids cannot truly be counted with numbers of bioforms, a more accurate scale would be something like volume of biomass. Currently on Earth, there is estimated to be roughly 550 gigatonnes of biomass at any given time. That's enough to make 2.75 trillion 200kg gaunts, and that's just one planet when hive fleets consume dozens at a time plus a substantial percent of a planet's rocky crust for more rare mineral components in constructing bioforms.
Fantastic video. Obviously one of the selling points of 40k is grandiose scale, love that you're showing a good model of how overwhelming this all truly is to the single human scale
All Warhammer 40K content is welcome for me and in this case, being from the Tyranids, it has been totally informative; one could know or have vague ideas about the matter, but with this many things become clear.
This was astounding. At times the descriptions, audio, and visuals actually imparted a legitimate sense of fear or dread - the in-lore hopelessness of the situation is wild.
This was the best overview of the Tyranids ever on TH-cam, nothing comes even close to this quality! The only problem I have is the statement that Tyranid Warrior should be 5 meters tall. Tyranid Warriors are on average about 2.5 meters tall, all larger ones tend to be monstrous creatures.
That intro with the gargoyles at 20min is so cool, artistically and from a documentary standpoint like I got so hyped I came down and started typing this up. Your overview of tyranid weaponry is simple and straightforward while also covering enough depth for the topic and presented in such a way as to make it both easy and badass to understand the bugs. Stoked for Pt. 2 and 3. Warhammer's Ken Burns seems to have arrived, and I'm so here for it.
Just a small tip / tidbit during the simulated assault, calling the garrison undermanned and inexperienced, and then showing Ultramarine Thunderhawk's, and Rhinos in the first skirmishes, assaults, i believe would be inaccurate, Space Marines, despite the table top game are extremely rare and would likely not even be present as part of the garrison. And if they are, this is a planet of significance and the Garrison would be formidable, otherwise, really well done, this was a fun / great watch.
21:35 Tyranid Warriors are about 2.4 meters tall, not 5 meters tall, according to Lexicanum. They're generally depicted as shorter than a Dreadnought and about as tall as a Primarch.
I remembered playing StarCraft Brood War a long time ago; and recently got the remaster. And the opening scene of the Marines in the trenches against the Zerg... I can imagine the horror of guardsmen being abandoned by their fellows as Tyranids close in from all sides, and there is no escape. Fighting Tyranids at night in the dark with no way to see them or fight all of them off; on top of casualties that can't be easily treated or helped as biological weapons attack the bodies from within.
the tyranids are written in such a way that it kinda becomes a plot hole that they dont just win literally every fight they've ever been in. Like they're just so monumentally more powerful than every other faction its kind of silly, the spore dropping alone would be enough to bring any given world outside of Eldar and Necrons to their knees, and the basic troops they have are already well armored and well armed by warhammer standards, with an overwhelming numerical advantage. Then, couple that with how the Shadow in the Warp just hard counters half the other factions... Tyranids vs. the entire galaxy united together would be an easy victory for the tyranids based on the lore as written, it wouldn't even be close. Tyranids have every conceivable advantage, they counteract their enemies psychic abilities, they prevent them from communicating or moving, they outnumber them, outgun them, have far more tactical and strategic flexibility, adapt faster than anyone else, have more intelligent commanders, perfect organization, perfect discipline, and perfect communication, and no matter how many of them you kill theres an essentially infinite number that havent even reached the galaxy yet. You might as well be trying to fight a tsunami with a handgun.
They wouldn't win if every other race combined forces to fight back. Chaos would just unleash unlimited numbers of daemons and IG would come together to form massive defenses. Also, if all Necrons woke up and joined the fight and blocked nids from organic life forms being attacked, the nids would have no food and would starve. CSM and space marines would act as shock troops targeting nids where their forces are strongest and making them scatter. Eldar would use immense psychic powers to overcome the hive mind while t'au and dark eldar would do hit and run attacks
@@MrChuks84 Chaos would just unleash unlimited numbers of daemons and IG would come together to form massive defenses. Chaos need other species to live. The more the Tyranids would kill the weaker the dark god would become. The Imperial guard are not magician, they are human and need to reproduce, grow up, and their fortress need a long time to be build. The Tyranid just take the dead on the battfield and create more unit. Only the Necron would be an issue as they live in world with nothing to offer to the Tyranids, but this mean that the Tyranids would just ignore them, most of the time.
necrons counter tyranids HEAVILY and necrons have dudes that regularly Fuck with time its self chaos im not even sure how you think tyranids can even mess with chaos in the first place XD
I love this channel & this 40k content is amazing! Whether you just play tabletop or read the novels it really aids the imagination as you get a sense of scale, the strategy & tactics employed by the Tyranids.
I love the lore of the Nids, and the terror that a Nids invasion represent. My only problem with them and why I never was interested in the faction on tabletop, is how silly they are: their ranged bio-weapon generally look like guns. I understand that it is easier to represent, but it makes no sense for bio weapons. They should be somehow parts of the body. I do love the genestealer cult it is so scary when you think of a hive city.
They kind of are part of the body though. They grow into the arms and fuse with the hands. They do look a little goofy, but they are also technically separate living creatures that just fuse with the host. The Tyranid forms that have stable weapons (IE a part of their biology like the artillery ones) do have them grow from their body, since they aren’t symbiotic attachments.
Amazing video, the only issue I saw was during the Warrior segment. You guys said they are 5 Meters tall, but all the sources I've seen say they're 2.4 Meters tall on average
Very interesting presentation! About a year ago I got obsessed with WH40k lore, although never having played (I have painted minis in the past, but just for artistic reasons). Tyranids kind of fascinate me in the same way dinosaurs did when I was a kid, so I love learning about them especially. Can’t wait for the rest of this series.
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Love this man. Awesome work!!! Now people understand how dangerous a hive fleet really is. I’m a chaos player but in my opinion the tyrannids are the most dangerous enemy of all Warhammer 40k factions!!!!
I like how you started out with the soundtrack from the Halo 343 Guilty Spark mission. Immediately brought back memories of dead covenant everywhere and the dread of an unknown enemy that is coming to eat your face.
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I love all your content and definitely appreciate this series. It might not be everyone's cup of tea but this is fabulously deep well of content to pull from. Hopefully there are other IPs you are looking at for the people who aren't fans of 40K.
I've been an invicta subscriber and fan for ages and the production value and content of this episode were wildly enjoyable. Please keep it up and I will continue my tidlewave of (likely insignificant) likes and viewing!
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This was probably the most fun the team has had making an episode so far. They really went all out in production and I can't wait for us to get onto the more advanced stages of the invasion where we can showcase the larger and even titanic Tyranid bioforms! For now you can get more Tyranid action with Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus play.tacticusgame.com/invicta-tyranids and use the code "InvictaGift" to get 2,000 Gold, 50 Blackstone and 1 Requisition Order (Note: expires Mar 29th 2024)
Do The Reapers.
By FAR one of my favorite episodes so far (granted some bias as a warhammer 40k fan and wargamer) the production value alone is bizarre. Please keep it up, long time liker and subscriber but this was wildly enjoyable!
*CALL THE SALAMANDERS*
Good job you got it.......kinda right? Theirs allot left out.
Best way i can put it 40k lore is so massive that your in the right solar system, wrong planet, and not even close to the city. But close enough for youtube work.
At this rate, Invicta is only going to go deeper and deeper into the 40k universe and is never going to come out of it.
That would certainly be a pity.
Into the warp itself
It perfectly coincides with me feeling the strong urge to set up an altar for the only _Godemperor of Mankind_ all of a sudden after being only fleetingly aware of Warhammer40k and not exactly a fan of what little I had known at this point until I accidentally came across a hiveworld video in a worldbuilding playlist some weeks ago..
It's on its way of becoming the latest entry on my list of personal obsessions. 😅
@@kai_plays_khomus RIP to your bank account 😂 but good luck! ‘Nids are definitely one of the funnest (and stressful) armies to play! The look on the opponent’s face when you lay down 150+ models on the table is priceless (as long as they’re ok with it, a lot of people don’t like swarm armies)
@@rykercabler9756 Well, the bank account is the main limiting factor here alongside the time necessary to get into it and justify the whole ordeal..😅
I'm collecting shamanic jew's harps from Siberia, I'm into aquascaping/aquaristics, I'm a skateboarder/surfskater and recently I got stuck again on a teenage obsession and have a whole line-up of handcrafted real plywood fingerboards with bearing wheels and just started to make my own miniature ramps and parks because I'm into arts and creative stuff as well - _Warhammer40k_ just hasn't deserved to get picked up by somebody who then has to neglect it..
The Leutin name drop was awesome. This whole true size / Warhammer crossover is fantastic. This channel just continues to never miss. Quality is absurd. Thank you so much for all your work.
Much appreciated!
Beat me to it, def made me smirk lol
And the background music! Loved these nods
Luetin is definitely one of my favourite sources of 40k lore, sandman of terra and baldermort would make up my top 3. Just thinking of a collaboration to bring some stories or battles to life with them is mind boggling!! It would be winner winner chicken dinner for any 40k fan 💯
That's what im sayin, i was like "did I hear that right?"
as a tyranid player and good at the lore, i do approve, and i like that no real numbers are actually given as the swarm adapts on all fronts to the foe they face on a constant basis, leaving no room to even give an approximation how many millions of bodies are on any given front of any given phase of the consumption of a world. they are an unending, devouring swarm
unending enough to get blasted by a named space marine rip buggy boiz
Fellow tyranid player here. Just concerned the planet in question isn't productive enough to be defended by much. Result, sub par assault ending with medium large. Titan grade weapons on an agri-world (or equivalent) on the fringes?
@@johncaddick5075 my understanding is that the hive only deploys the forces necessary for victory and in response to opposition. If the world can be terraformed and devoured with gaunts, then only gaunts will be deployed. If the opposition has weapons that can't be overwhelmed by the gaunts then the hive ships will deploy what is necessary to do so. E.g. Bio-titans to take on Titans.
@musicninja98 Agreed, that's sort of my point.
For a good cross section, including bio-titans, we need a pitched battle on a key world. They've set the invasion on a fringe world. Maybe if it was tyranids vs. a forge world, then we would see the biggest of nids. IMHO, biggest thing I can see deployed on the current world is carnifexs or hive guard.
@@johncaddick5075 I took the scope to encapsulate the typical world for the average human. The dread of the Tyranids is not the super massive bio-organisms, but the unending hordes of lesser Tyranids deployed to out-Guard the Imperial guard in 300 to 1 battles.
Also, this is part 1. They might expand the scope in the later parts.
Doomscrolling on youtube, thinking I should stop wasting my time.
> See invicta video about Tyranids.
"Now that's important information I must know"
SAME!!!!
Try using the "don't recommend channel" on all the garbage you see, it might make videos like this show up just a little bit more :)
Expressing yourself in the third person isn't "quirky" or "cute". You sound like a weirdo when you do stuff like that and give the hobby a bad look.
>Thinks expressing themselves in the third person is a respectable hobby.
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Finally.. a Tyranid invasion simulation.
Imagine making Tyranid invasion as a horror movie
finally?
There were already tyranid themed things back in 2006
the dawn of war 2 campaign is focused on this
As a horror movie: aliens.
As action: starship troopers
As game: helldivers 2
@@thecursed01 Space Marine 2: "guess I don't count"
We desperately need some shows or movies in 40k. The potential is literally endless. I know games workshop has their streaming service but that doesn't count, it's had like zero exposure and niche streaming services are dog brained.
Yes!!! With a dark grom ending. Like a world being lost and it ends with the horde taking up most of the space of the camera angle and it just going black eventually
The most terrifying thing about Tyranids I think is simply their extra-galactic origin.
On the largest scales the Milky Way isn't a huge place, and the entirety of the 40k world/history/lore takes place there. The fact that Tyranids are appearing to arrive from intergalactic space means they've come from another galaxy in order to feed.
It could be that they've stripped thousands of similar galaxies bare before arriving to ours. Or maybe they originated in the Andromeda galaxy and we're their very first intergalactic victims. The point is, their history is completely unknowable to any character from the 40k verse.
Old lore had someone try to listen out beyond the bounds of the milky way and all they heard were Tyranids.
@@stevenmtaylor21
Worst case scenario, basically.
Probably why they didn't continue that narrative thread into modern lore. They probably realised that if the Tyranids really did control the entire local galaxy cluster and the Milky Way is essentially surrounded, then they'll have written themselves into a corner because there's no way of really beating that. Better to just let questions like that go unexplained.
@@Elrond_Hubbard_1 They'd probably deus ex machina a bunch of necron world engines or more black stone fortresses
@@Elrond_Hubbard_1 Or even worse, they're running from something else.
There two theories about them that I find interesting
1)their old ones restart button for the galaxy
2) they're golden age experiment that went rogue and draw back into the galaxy because of the hersey. (some one made a beacon that explored)
I want a horror survival game where you play as a guardsmen tryin to survive a tyranid invasion... thatd be awesome
space marine 2 has you fighting tyranids but thats more action adventure
Had the same idea, except you're a Tau.
Have you considered scape and run parasites for minecraft
I want to feel the terror of a tyranid invasion. Like you feel hopeless but you fight on. Maybe your given hope at some time when space Marines arrive but they slowly and surely get whittled down.
I think that would be a great horror game to show the grimdark and sheer horror of 40k versus another doom-esque clone.
Even though I do enjoy going on a power fantasy and turning hundreds of orks and gaunts into a fine red mist.
@@loowick4074 maybe one day we'll get it
"By the Emperor, Sarge, we won! I can't believe it, they got us down to two power packs a man, but we won!"
"Guardsman... that was the first wave... *of the first wave."*
"That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
@@KurustheGreat Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?
"Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our asses kicked, pal!" ~Private Hudson (kia)
We got this lol
@@KurustheGreat This line dialogue sounds so familiar.
Terminids:😃
Tyranids: 💀
I think the one thing you don't think of is that no Tyranid survives an invasion. Even when they win they still walk into a digestive pit and die. They have no recovery ships.
They do have recovery ships. It’s called their hive ships; they recover the digestive pit contents via giant “straws” known as capillary towers.
@@specs.weedle yes, so the Tyranid doesn't physically survive...they are goo.
It's not 100% clear if thats the case for all organisms. Liktors, Tyrants and some other forms seem to reappear with the same wounds and even personality.
@@18Krieger so its a really interesting topic, from my understanding the personality part is simply because they sort of never die.
so imagine your a sub division of a hive mind, another species call you hive warrior, you tho are just division 2953, you die because of a tank, you die because you steped on a mine, you die to a space marine, all those deaths at the same time on different planets.
You fight a space marine, you realize the move that kiled you 1 minute ago, you doge and find your hit decapitating the enemy, food is served.
They seam to inherit their personalities because they do, every warior is the warior, the warior that fought in octarius war, the warior that died on a forgotten moon, the warior that just ate your friend.
@@mattor300 It seems that the Hive Mind, there might be Hive Minds, keeps Individual's in storage. Builds a new body for them and loads their personality in this body. Maybe even soul. Individual Tyranids can have grudges and personality traits. I have the theory that Tyranids might have souls and the overall hive mind is made of these souls. Which would give a certain truth to the religion of the Genestealers.
Really had me laughing with the Luetin Shout-out, great vid
As someone uninitiated with 40k lore, who or what is Leutin?
@@OverseerMoti if you have a desire to learn about 40k lore at all, Leutin is the place to start. He's the S Tier lore content creator on TH-cam.
I was gonna start writing about the speculative intricacies of the Hive Mind and the swarm but quickly realized how dense that could get. Best to leave it to others whose format suits such multi hour discussions
@@InvictaHistory A lot of the times when Tyranids are mentioned/described it's always vague bull honkey that's puffed up to be extra scary. "Horrors you could dare not imagine" kinda shit. so thanks a lot for helping us imagine the actual scale of an invasion fleet. Also uh, Leutin plays Knights and those fuckers are pretty big. I wonder how they scale with other stuff. Colab?
Leutin is the go to for in-depth 40K lore. He's also loved by the community
once again, Invicta becoming a 40k Lore channel, AND I'M ALL FOR IT
yeah who cares about lame ass history when we can watch a video about corporate consumer brand name merchandise instead
@@sowianskizonierz2693 That monocle is hard to bear, imaright?
@@happytomato1135 I'm not sure what you're trying to say
@@sowianskizonierz2693 I think he might be calling you elitist or something what with the monocle and stuff.
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 a strange insult. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect history content from a history channel instead of franchised fiction. I don't blame the channel for going after the money but its not for me lmao
"let us see what a first assault looks like" * happy, upbeat music from an ad plays * x)
Would love to see a Starship Troopers episode.
As long as it is not the movie. The movie was only stupid action imo...
@@bumudanbanane9147 the lore is still fascinating
Don't worry people, the emperor protects!
He most definitely does.
Even in the face of certain annihilation, the emperor will without a doubt, protect.
Except when he doesn't lol. Aside from so much else, he allowed many of his best agents to be imprisoned in a necron tesseract. Down with the corpse god, down with the false emperor.
The Emperor helps those who help
Themselves!!!!
@@gelraldoldo5152 a legendary inquisitior with hundreds of battles under her belt isn't someone who helps themselves?
I would love to see one of these videos on the mad lads that are the Orks!
That would certainly be a fun episode!
Buh, 'e should 'af ta do it in tha beautifuw cockney accent
Well this is dope as hell
Honestly this is the best use of our True Size series so far. The goal was always to show historical armies to scale but it really does the trick of capturing the mind boggling size of the 40k universe which is otherwise only ever really show in concept art. This series will be FUN : )
Definitely wana see more
If CA ever somehow makes a Warhammer 40K Total War game. I could see the Tyranids as the quintessential horde army. The fact that they go from planet to planet, taking over and then razing them to the ground and making off with plunder would make them the best horde faction in all the games.
That’s what we all want
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Yeah... I wonder what they would do if they ever consume everything there is, would they just wander around searching endlessly until running out of energy and biomass?
Maybe they are like the metal skellies and they would fall into deep hibernation, waiting for the universe to replenish
What about the Warp? I guess it would slowly die off since there are no tasty emotions, unless they can or learn to harness some kind power from the tyranids
I guess orks would be hard to completely get rid off, so they might become a seasonal nuisance to tyranids like viruses are to us
Although I feel like tyranids might just be thorough enough to kill and consume every spore of orky goodness
Maybe the species will become hybrids and tyranids become fragmented and an eternal civil war between them erupts, since the fightiness instinct of their ork side becomes too strong to ignore
And combining all the powers of both species is a terrifying thought
Oh God... don't say that my essay of a reply comment did not manifest... thanks Obama!
I think we already have a Tyranids version on Total war Warhammer. Lizardmen is the closest I can think of.
This video is not just creative and very, very well made but also gets across the true existential horror of the Tyranids and how mind-numbingly terrifying they are if you're an average guardsman. There is no stopping them. They cannot be beaten. They cannot be pushed back, only delayed for them to return with a hundred, a thousand, a million times the numbers they had before if you catch a lucky break like with the Devastation of Baal. They will return and there will be no resisting them when they throw entire fleets at you like its an average Tuesday for the Hive Mind.
May the Emperor protect us all.
honestly its hard to find something scary when they just, are essentially invincible. Like you just get to the point of acceptance at some point, based on lore as written tyranids would just win and there really should not be any possible way to defend against them. If something is certain you become less 'afraid' and more 'Eh, what happens happens' at some point.
Love how everyone doing 40K lore usually acknowledges Luetin at some point…its like 40K lore community Easter egg
@@thegiantxxl96 He's the best
Even though I've seen nearly every tyranid youtube video out there; I can never get bored of watching these types of videos. Especially ones like this were there was so much work put into it. Very good job to you and your team and I look forward to the next 40k video.
Leutin shoutout, nice
Invicta's calm voice makes me feel like I'm watching a NatGeo documentary about some little forest birds.
Who’s the guy who does the narration?
5:50 "but we shall leave such exhaustive explanations to luetin" lmao
>understaffed and inexperienced garrison
>looks inside
>ultramarines
"To all you inaccurate greenhorns, this is your lucky day."
Commissar Johnson
Definitely subscribed. As someone who is working on a 40k campaign with my buddies armies vs my 10k tyranid army, this was great motivation and insight on their behaviour and protocol for a first wave. Can't wait for part two!
Gaunts scampering through camp like, "I was literally born yesterday! :D"
A step by step visual of a tyranid invasion has been something ive wanted since i was around 9 years old, not even kidding. This series has been a dream come true for the geeky child in me. Thank you so much for these videos!
According to the sources that i can recall, Tyranid warriors are NOT about 5 meters tall, as that would be insane and make them as tall as a small house.
They are around 2,4-2,7 meters tall. Most charts show this as well. Hell most Primarchs arent even 5 meters tall, in fact Angron is around 5 meters tall AFTER he has been imbued with the power of Khorne and turned in to a Greater Daemon.
Very much looking forward to Part 2
Tyranids in a nutshell:
"you can't do this"
"actually we can"
I'm not a Warhammer fan, hell I don't even know what Warhammer is, yet I truly enjoyed this video so much!
i am going to give you high marks for this since when you did the short fly over at around the 6 minute mark i could reconise and call out every model.
this is so well done my hats of for the effort put in to this
Tyranids need more representation in videogame form. Also i would love a THIEF esque Lictor Stealth Game.
One of the best examples of tyranids, only note would be that guards men wouldn’t have ultramarine rhinos and storm ravens (the ravens are mostly valuable relics at this point), a better option would be touroxs and Valkyries.
Nobody cares
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I mean, the guy who made comment cares
Thats somebody
Definitely considered this but we haven't built those models yet. Agree it's not exactly lore accurate
It's definitly an asset problem.
The crates all have the ultra marine logo and the bunkers have mechanicus logo too. They're basically place holders
Taurox ? That's a weird way to spell "chimera"
Cool to see the old spore pods animated.
One thing- I believe the Tyranocyte has its carapace petals closed on initial decent only spreading them as air breaks moments before impact. They are portrayed as entering the atmosphere already spread.
Cant believe i havent found your channel before,even searches on video shorts. Etc. amazing knowledge, detail in your graphics. A+++
The sound editing on this was phenomenal
man i freaking LOVE you!!! showing Warhammer 40k massive battles in 3D and with never before seen detail
what more can a fan want???!!!!!!!!
With how the 40k is only dealing with the tip of the spear, I believe there's at least hundreds of billions in total across all active hive fleets, with potentially millions of times more yet to arrive in the galaxy.
And, honestly, the Flood music from Halo in the intro perfectly encapsulates the horror the Nids bring, and the horror yet to be brought into the galaxy.
I did the numbers and got 22 million to hundreds of trillions of bio ships and 5 trillion-3 quintillion bio forms.
@@myduckisonqauck7227 even feel small for me considering the orks are a least 1 octillion
The tyranids cannot truly be counted with numbers of bioforms, a more accurate scale would be something like volume of biomass. Currently on Earth, there is estimated to be roughly 550 gigatonnes of biomass at any given time. That's enough to make 2.75 trillion 200kg gaunts, and that's just one planet when hive fleets consume dozens at a time plus a substantial percent of a planet's rocky crust for more rare mineral components in constructing bioforms.
@@tau-5794 Using biamass was how I got my high end numbers actually.
@@tau-5794 Counting biomass is how I got my high end number.
This video finna blow up in season 3 of warhammer 40k in like 5-6 years .
You're forgetting one other gaunt, the only one aligned with the Imperium of Man: Ibram Gaunt!
Man, you baited me. Legit thought there were some gaunts that fight for the imperium. Was not dissappinted much when I googled it.
Fantastic video. Obviously one of the selling points of 40k is grandiose scale, love that you're showing a good model of how overwhelming this all truly is to the single human scale
00:50 tyranids win through diversity. Stunning and brave
rent free
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@@gottagofastestyou're losing and I'm here for it 😊
@@cosmictreason2242 elaborate
All Warhammer 40K content is welcome for me and in this case, being from the Tyranids, it has been totally informative; one could know or have vague ideas about the matter, but with this many things become clear.
I noticed the Ultramarine insignia on the defenders. I have full confidence in the Imperium's victory now no matter what the Hive Mind can muster.
This was astounding. At times the descriptions, audio, and visuals actually imparted a legitimate sense of fear or dread - the in-lore hopelessness of the situation is wild.
ah, the tyranids
i dont want aliens like this to be real
those numbers, adaptability, and power is just like a nightmare
This was the best overview of the Tyranids ever on TH-cam, nothing comes even close to this quality!
The only problem I have is the statement that Tyranid Warrior should be 5 meters tall. Tyranid Warriors are on average about 2.5 meters tall, all larger ones tend to be monstrous creatures.
WE MUST PROTECT SUPER EARTH
I mean Holy Terra . . .
cooked
That intro with the gargoyles at 20min is so cool, artistically and from a documentary standpoint like I got so hyped I came down and started typing this up. Your overview of tyranid weaponry is simple and straightforward while also covering enough depth for the topic and presented in such a way as to make it both easy and badass to understand the bugs. Stoked for Pt. 2 and 3. Warhammer's Ken Burns seems to have arrived, and I'm so here for it.
Just a small tip / tidbit during the simulated assault, calling the garrison undermanned and inexperienced, and then showing Ultramarine Thunderhawk's, and Rhinos in the first skirmishes, assaults, i believe would be inaccurate, Space Marines, despite the table top game are extremely rare and would likely not even be present as part of the garrison. And if they are, this is a planet of significance and the Garrison would be formidable, otherwise, really well done, this was a fun / great watch.
I did not know I needed this from Invicta until I saw it in my feed.
21:35 Tyranid Warriors are about 2.4 meters tall, not 5 meters tall, according to Lexicanum. They're generally depicted as shorter than a Dreadnought and about as tall as a Primarch.
@Zer0Blizzard thank you! Ain't no way a warrior is 5meters tall! That's 16 feet bro!! Wtf!! 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe they mixed it up with a hive tyrant but those are 6.1 meters.
*Tyranid spores gets inside a Centurion Warsuit*
One of the most violent machine spirits in existence: *So you've chosen death*
PART 2!!!
I remembered playing StarCraft Brood War a long time ago; and recently got the remaster.
And the opening scene of the Marines in the trenches against the Zerg... I can imagine the horror of guardsmen being abandoned by their fellows as Tyranids close in from all sides, and there is no escape.
Fighting Tyranids at night in the dark with no way to see them or fight all of them off; on top of casualties that can't be easily treated or helped as biological weapons attack the bodies from within.
the tyranids are written in such a way that it kinda becomes a plot hole that they dont just win literally every fight they've ever been in. Like they're just so monumentally more powerful than every other faction its kind of silly, the spore dropping alone would be enough to bring any given world outside of Eldar and Necrons to their knees, and the basic troops they have are already well armored and well armed by warhammer standards, with an overwhelming numerical advantage. Then, couple that with how the Shadow in the Warp just hard counters half the other factions...
Tyranids vs. the entire galaxy united together would be an easy victory for the tyranids based on the lore as written, it wouldn't even be close. Tyranids have every conceivable advantage, they counteract their enemies psychic abilities, they prevent them from communicating or moving, they outnumber them, outgun them, have far more tactical and strategic flexibility, adapt faster than anyone else, have more intelligent commanders, perfect organization, perfect discipline, and perfect communication, and no matter how many of them you kill theres an essentially infinite number that havent even reached the galaxy yet. You might as well be trying to fight a tsunami with a handgun.
They wouldn't win if every other race combined forces to fight back. Chaos would just unleash unlimited numbers of daemons and IG would come together to form massive defenses. Also, if all Necrons woke up and joined the fight and blocked nids from organic life forms being attacked, the nids would have no food and would starve. CSM and space marines would act as shock troops targeting nids where their forces are strongest and making them scatter. Eldar would use immense psychic powers to overcome the hive mind while t'au and dark eldar would do hit and run attacks
@@MrChuks84 Chaos would just unleash unlimited numbers of daemons and IG would come together to form massive defenses.
Chaos need other species to live. The more the Tyranids would kill the weaker the dark god would become.
The Imperial guard are not magician, they are human and need to reproduce, grow up, and their fortress need a long time to be build.
The Tyranid just take the dead on the battfield and create more unit.
Only the Necron would be an issue as they live in world with nothing to offer to the Tyranids, but this mean that the Tyranids would just ignore them, most of the time.
necrons counter tyranids HEAVILY and necrons have dudes that regularly Fuck with time its self chaos im not even sure how you think tyranids can even mess with chaos in the first place XD
Thank you for continuing to deliver top tier content.
I already commented, but I also wanted to mention that the inclusion of the emergency buzzer was a really nice touch.
That ancient call to warn of danger.
I love this channel & this 40k content is amazing! Whether you just play tabletop or read the novels it really aids the imagination as you get a sense of scale, the strategy & tactics employed by the Tyranids.
I love the lore of the Nids, and the terror that a Nids invasion represent. My only problem with them and why I never was interested in the faction on tabletop, is how silly they are: their ranged bio-weapon generally look like guns. I understand that it is easier to represent, but it makes no sense for bio weapons. They should be somehow parts of the body.
I do love the genestealer cult it is so scary when you think of a hive city.
They kind of are part of the body though. They grow into the arms and fuse with the hands.
They do look a little goofy, but they are also technically separate living creatures that just fuse with the host.
The Tyranid forms that have stable weapons (IE a part of their biology like the artillery ones) do have them grow from their body, since they aren’t symbiotic attachments.
PART 2 LET GO
Amazing video, the only issue I saw was during the Warrior segment. You guys said they are 5 Meters tall, but all the sources I've seen say they're 2.4 Meters tall on average
Yeah 5 meters is way too much, then they would larger than most ork warbosses in the galaxy.
Leutin getting a mention is not what I expected
Please, never stop covering 40k.
Great video. I don’t play the table top game at all, or paint figures, but I always catch myself coming back for the lore.
Where part 2 fellas?
Doom Slayer:"Good, plenty of things to rip and tear".
when part 2?
Very interesting presentation! About a year ago I got obsessed with WH40k lore, although never having played (I have painted minis in the past, but just for artistic reasons). Tyranids kind of fascinate me in the same way dinosaurs did when I was a kid, so I love learning about them especially. Can’t wait for the rest of this series.
0:05 It was good to know you all, I hope you have a wonderful day. I forgive my school bully, and I forgive the girl that cheated me. I see now that there are better things in life to look forward to other than the bad things.
Love this man. Awesome work!!! Now people understand how dangerous a hive fleet really is. I’m a chaos player but in my opinion the tyrannids are the most dangerous enemy of all Warhammer 40k factions!!!!
when is pt. 2?
Rigth now
The biggest biomass there is is simply the tyranids itself, very easy to beat them, get them to eat itself.
video starts around 6:30
It's no small miracle the Blood Angels and their relative chapters barely managed to stave off a full scale Tyranid invasion of Baal.
BA just did a Macragge 2.0
Who's watching this in preparation for Space Marine 2's release?
I like how you started out with the soundtrack from the Halo 343 Guilty Spark mission. Immediately brought back memories of dead covenant everywhere and the dread of an unknown enemy that is coming to eat your face.
0:15 heads up, I think it's actually illegal to use the Emergency Alert System sound effect, I think the FCC can fine you for that
47 CFR § 11.45 - Prohibition of false or deceptive EAS transmissions.
(a) No person may transmit or cause to transmit the EAS codes or Attention Signal, or a recording or simulation thereof, in any circumstance other than in an actual National, State or Local Area emergency or authorized test of the EAS; or as specified in §§ 10.520(d), 11.46, and 11.61 of this chapter.
FCC Enforcement Advisory No. 2019-05
Federal regulations prohibit the use of EAS codes (which are audible tones) or the EAS and WEA Attention Signals, or simulations of them, except in actual emergencies, authorized tests of the EAS, or authorized Public Service Announcements (PSAs) The use of simulated or actual EAS codes or the EAS or WEA Attention Signals (which are composed of two tones transmitted simultaneously), for non-authorized purposes-such as commercial or entertainment purposes-can confuse people or lead to “alert fatigue,” whereby the public becomes desensitized to the alerts, leading people to ignore potentially life-saving warnings and information.
Also, because the EAS audible tones representing the EAS codes include operative data elements, the misuse of simulated or actual EAS tones could result in false activations of the EAS.
False activations spread false information and can lock out legitimate activations of the EAS.
False activations therefore present a substantial threat to public safety.
Whatever you say, leandros
😂😂😂😂
Somebody call the cops
Nice, you’ve teamed up with tacticus team! My fav game
So when’s part 2
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Being a history channel more or less had me on the edge. The second you said lutin gave me your trust. Beautifully done
Great video! The style of presentation reminds me a lot of the old codexes, which I love. Can't wait for the next one!
I can't wait to turn these cute little guys into mist when Space Marine 2 comes out!
Love you bring up Luten. Love his channel also
Good looking out Invintca
Oh, Immortal Emperor, have mercy upon us, miserable unworthies that we are. Oh, Master of the Galaxy, protect your flock from the alien. Oh, Keeper of the Light, guide our path with your radiance.
Can't wait for a Imperial guard and imperial navy size, I''m loving htis 40k series
Amazing presentation! The visualization is really well done. Have my sub.
I love all your content and definitely appreciate this series. It might not be everyone's cup of tea but this is fabulously deep well of content to pull from. Hopefully there are other IPs you are looking at for the people who aren't fans of 40K.
And someone who likes to maintain tyranids this is exactly what I've been hoping for when I would look up additional lorde videos
My first thought about this "This is so fuck up."
You have to respect that for the guys that go in depth on military scale and positions, the tyranids get a two parter.
I've been an invicta subscriber and fan for ages and the production value and content of this episode were wildly enjoyable. Please keep it up and I will continue my tidlewave of (likely insignificant) likes and viewing!
You guys make great content ! Hoping to see a True Size for an Ork Waagh and a Chaos Warband/Heretic Uprising or a Necron Tomb world .
"The Tyranids have not ceased to Evolve." That has to be the weirdest way you could have worded that...
Invicta and 40k is the combination I NEEDED
This natural geographic video is very good 👍