With the new edition of 40k focussing on the Fourth Tyrannic War, let’s look at the very first encounter with the Tyranids and the Hive Mind – the invasion of Hive Fleet Behemoth and the outbreak of the First Tyrannic War
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Wait, is it weird light, YT compression or was is a green screen recording?
I don't mind, I'm just curious.
Excellent video as always…but I have one question.. they evolved a tactical genius? If they can just evolve Thrawns then surely that's it?
What’s with the zoom digital background then? 👀😂
Where'd the maps come from, one of the codex's?
More bugs!
Great video. Thank you for respecting your viewers time and making this concise, informative and entertaining. Nice video. Keep up the good work. Really interesting to learn about how the fleet moves and how long it takes to get rid of all the remnants after a victory. Keep up the good work.
Goddamn your work is good
I'm assuming you're planning to do this on the run up to 10th but I'd love it if you did a summary of all the tyrannic Wars such as this.
I had ADHD so I deal best with audiobook style content. This makes reading the history in the codex a challenge, but hearing your lovely voice chronicle the wars is lovely
Heck yeah!
Sic Semper Tyrannids.
Holy shit, the people upset about pronunciation of imaginary words are extremely weird.
Just between India, UK and US there are a huge number of words that are pronounced differently in modern English, let alone a galaxy spanning empire where chunks don't talk to each other for hundreds of years.
Anyway Ian pronounces everything the way I do so obviously he's right. 😛
Very good video Ian! GW has told the story of Behemoth so many times in so many sources but I have never seen all of these disparate pieces of lore collected into a complete story. Many thanks!
'invasion'? or migration . . . or 'what is it the Tyranids are running away from… ?!'
Loved the video. Still don’t understand why people are trying so hard to be right about a pronunciation that in the lore itself is said to vary. People need to read more.
Your videos are always enjoyable. The Tyranids remind me of Yuuzhan Vong Wars from Star Wars.
A rare, I gues the marines are the good guy, video on something worse than the empire
Tieranids
The fact you alternate from "tira-nids" and "tie-ranids" bothers me wayyyyy more than it should lol
Ian, my man, i dont think that is how you probounce behemoth
My head-canon for the Tyrannids is that they're probably the last middle finger of the Old Ones or at least a group of bad actors from the Old Ones. After their defeat they fled the Milky Way and created one last lifeform, the perfect life form and set it loose. The goal was simple. Consume all life in the universe. Because the 'nids don't just strip biomass out of the galaxy, they strip all the valuable minerals too. So they thought they'd leave the Necrons with nothing to use. Basically scorch-earth the galaxy. The necrons would be alive but without anything left to get their bodies back or without anything to really rule. The consumption of all life also destroys Chaos and resets the Warp if not removes it entirely. You know it's a mirror.
That or they were created by someone in another galaxy who also learned of the warp and this was their only solution to rid the universe of the warp issue. It could be that the 'Nids have also evolved beyond their initial biological programming. Eventually though the thing that's not addressed in the books is that the Tyrannids are beholden to the fact that entropy is a thing. The larger they get the more biomass they must consume to maintain. Eventually they won't claw in enough and succumb to their own version of the square-cube law. Eventually they'll die, the hivemind will shut down as it can't keep feeding itself, even if it make drastic cuts they'll probably be in a galaxy divested of food at the time and the cuts will not save them as their reach exceeded their grasp. Then maybe life will find a way to start again.
There's a lot of good dichotomy in 40K. The Necrons and the Eldar are generally opposed, the Tyrannids and Chaos are anathema to one another, and the Imperium and the Tau are two sides of the same state-dominant coin.
I wonder how an stc controlled defensive would fare against the Tyranids an ai run assembly and organizational strategy for the better of humanity against the inevitable might of the space virus?
I love your videos, religiously wait for them popping up.
I have noticed that there are always words you say different to every other YouTuber. In this video, “Tyranids”, “behemoth”. In some other videos “astartes”
How dare you say these made up words differently 😂
@9:36 i am unable to find any videos about the deathshadows or malafor. perhaps you could create one about them alone?
i would like to know what they look like.
love the channel! Catching up on my Tyranid lore before Leviathan comes out
Its "ba he moth" not "beo moth"
I quite enjoy how you pronounce Behemoth.
Yum yum… We can smell that Earth biomass for light-years away. We smell it like garlic and onion being grilled with stir fry. Fatty juicy Earth.
Awww and look how cute those cutlets look trying to defend themselves. Can't wait to get a mouth watering bite. We haven't eaten in a long long time. My claws are are chatting with excitement.
Mugs Biognis Salik (disgusting)
The Tyranids have always been my favorite 40k faction and the army I got into the game with back in 5e, and Behemoth has always been my favorite fleet. Coolest color design, the introduction of Old One Eye and the Swarmlord, and they really handed the Ultramarines their asses. I made my custom hive fleet a splinter of Behemoth that grew large enough to be classified as its own distinct fleet.