Tyranids: Very Hungry Bug Boys | Warhammer 40k Lore

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I'm surprised you didn't talk about how the admech successfully stopped an entire hive fleet tendril by itself by just staying far underground, remote controlling all of their defenses with zero biomass for years and entirely starved and fought them off with nearly no casualties.

"Nid fans are like a battered house wife." Beastmen: [Moos in depression]

I love Tyranid vs. Chaos matchups, because it basically amounts to both sides shouting: "What the fuck, I can't eat this?!" and it's basically a giant waste of time for both sides...unless Hive fleet Kronos is involved.

My favorite Tyranid story features big man Ghazghull himself. So when Ghaz was going on his Orky crusade to unite the Orks he stopped on one planet to recruit a Warboss there and his army. Well, when Ghaz arrived, the particular Warboss he was there to recruit was fighting a swarm of Tyranids, so Ghaz and his boys headed on down to the planet surface to help fight off the Tyranids but while they're fighting, Ghaz ends up getting swallowed whole by a particularly large bug, but when he was halfway down the throat of this bug, he just punched his powerclaw through the chest of the bug and just tore his way out, while all the other Orks were cheering him on.

MA, GET THE BUGSPRAY!

Tyranids, bringing a whole new meaning to the term "live ammunition"

Fun fact, the ultramarines were so traumatized from their interaction with nids that they changed their structure so they have -i think it was like a tyranid specialist company, and to get an ultramarine to realize he needs to change SO BADLY that he ignores his primarch's big book o' rules, that is some MASSIVE blunt force trauma.

sniffs air Gnashes teeth Sharpens claws Oh yeah it's bugsnax time

slaps giant space whale This thing can fit SO MANY BUGS!

my favorite tyranid story is the one with deathleaper, a lictor on the imperial world of st. caspelan. deathleaper knew that killing st. caspelan's spiritual leader, cardinal salem, wouldnt weaken the defense of the planet, but bolster it as the people would see him as a martyr and fight harder to get revenge. so what deathleaper did was infiltrate any and every place the cardinal was in and kill everyone in the room but leave the cardinal alive, and he did this for like 9 or 10 days. knowing that this tyranid could be around every corner made him paranoid as fuck, but not understanding why it never killed him fucked even more with his mind, cause this creature had every chance but never took it and he couldnt understand why. and his broken, paranoid mind and the confusion he caused trying to hide from this monster was a bigger blow to the morale of the people defending the planet than his death would be. "It's there, I know it is, lurking in the shadows, stalking me like an animal. It's death itself I tell you, just watching me, waiting… Oh blessed Emperor, why won't it just kill me?" -cardinal salem

The theory is that Old One Eye actually is cloned for more psychological warfare or how uniquely strong he is.

The average imperium citizen that knows about choas is generally dead.

One of my favourite Tyranid facts is when their fleets cover the skies of an Ork world, they cheer and party as the fight comes to them.

Nids are kinda one of those factions that have the problem where if the lore got expanded out too much, they would become boring. It's the mystery of their origins and the only-outside-perspective that makes them an interesting enemy.

When you tap in the hive mind it's just a million voices saying 'biomass go BRBRBRBRBRBB'

"'Nid players are like a battered housewife." Starting off strong, Brick XD

Preemptive Lore Spoiler: Old One Eye ate a pack of croctilids and gained their ability to warp travel. That’s why he’s seen on different worlds despite “dying” several times.

Hive Fleet Kronos eats the warp... let that sink in, they adapted a Hive Fleet to eat Daemons and warp storms. They could literally convert Daemons and warp storms into biomass to make more Tyranids.

This podcast made me realize I want to run tyranids as my main army, no politics, no racism, no hatred, just HUNGY