Adeptus Ridiculous - Tyranids: Very Hungry Bug Boys | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

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But we're going to get into today's episode. Today is I'm calling today our Cyberpunk 2077 video because holy shit, look at all those bugs. So, Bricky. I did not think you would go that direction. That's the direction I chose. It's not even wrong. I just, I don't know. I thought maybe because it was going to be like short.

So it's like it's going to be shorter than you expected. or has less penis customization or like something that else besides that but that's just pretty good that was the obvious answer too but i don't know why my mind didn't go that way yeah it was it was between make a cyber 2077 joke or raid uh raids there i guess you can do not beths the sponsorship so i mean no no raid so it could have been a fall at 76 joke true but i feel like you know cyberpunk was more on like the forefront. You know, Fallout, it's been shit for a while. That, that horse has been

beaten to death. It's been taken to the glue factory. It's, you know, that's old news. Cyberpunk though, everyone knows how buggy and shit that thing is. That's true. That's true. Hopefully it gets better. I still haven't played it yet.

I kind of, I just haven't tried it yet. I don't know. I kind of want to, but I want to wait for it to work. Yeah, wait for it to work. There's good things there, but, uh, Like I said, it's a lot of bugs. Also, the campaign is very short. Like today's episode, right? It's going to be a little shorter because it's the nids.

It's the bugs. So for those Nid fans out, so we've got a pretty diehard Nid fans. And the Nid fans have been kind of like, they're kind of like a battered housewife. They don't get treated well by GW whatsoever. They constantly hope it's going to get better and it never does. I'm going deep in the barrel here

Nids are awesome Nids are super cool They're super like awesome Like the idea, the concept They're all cool But GW has a way Of telling their stories Which is always from an outside perspective

Or from a survivor's perspective Which makes them fucking terrifying Oh yeah But at the same time It means that lore Otherwise, we have very, very little. Back of the day, necrons used to just be unthinking, unfeeling robots with no motives or anything. They were just like Terminators.

And then they decided like, you know, that's dumb. And they decided to make like dynasties and characters and all that fun stuff. Now the nids are just like, mm, biomass. And that's kind of where they are. That's kind of where they stayed. Mmm, biomass. I do kind of like the. idea of it being told just from outsider perspectives.

Because like we were saying before the podcast started, it's like how much lore can you really say? Because they're just sort of mindless bugs that, as far as I know, when they conquer your planet, they turn it into a giant soup plantation and just slurp it up. So how much lore, like, from their perspective can you really have? But it is kind of cool that it's all just survivor perspective. It's just like, oh, God, I survive. that fucking nightmare, let me tell you about this awful, awful race of bugs that ate everything

and then ate themselves. So that's the weird thing about the tyrannus is that this is a relatively recent addition to 40K, not in terms of like actually added, but in terms of actually like in the timeline. The deterinids first were found in the year 40,740. Like, we're in like year 999, I think. So they've only been around for 250 something years. Oh. So in Warhammer time, that is a short time.

A lot of Imperials literally don't know Tyrannids exist. Like, a lot of them don't know necrons exist. If we're being honest, we have the outsider perspective. A lot of like Imperials, Imperial citizens have no idea what a Necron is or what a Tyrannid is. because they never, they know about the Eldar. They know about the powers of chaos. You know, they know about that. They know about the orcs.

But they don't really know about the rest because either they couldn't talk about it or they just not been around for enough. That's true. They've never really encountered them. They've never had a reason to encounter them. They're probably not getting all the news from the space marines.

Yeah, if they've encountered them, they've probably already been eaten because they're citizens. So yeah, actually, that doesn't make sense. Yeah, it's kind of weird. It's definitely the horror alien. It's so obvious that these are xenomorph-based characters. It's not even like the slightest of a subtlety.

Very Starship troopers-y as well. It has a very good vibe of the, like, Guard versus Nids is one of my favorite matchups because I play Guard, it's got a very good, like, I'm doing my part. and then the guy just gets eaten by the bugs. Definitely some Cthulhu vibes as well between some of the tentacley monsters

and also that whole thing. But anyway, let's talk. Let's talk about the Tarynx. Let's talk about their history, which will be very short, and we'll get a lot more into like what they do, like their bodies and shit. Okay.

So the Tiranids are not from the Milky Way galaxy. That's the big thing. Is that they actually came from the dark space of the in between the galactic, practical void, kind of where the silent king was chilling, which is exactly why he saw them. He was like, oh, no, and he ran back. Oh, that's why he did see them. Yeah, he saw them.

He went to go, like, be sad, and then they rolled past him. He was like, ah! And then he came home. Yeah, so. Time to stop being sad and start being scared. So we don't know why or where. Some people said that Gilliman did something, or maybe it was Tigurious. I don't remember who, but some ultra-

Marine douchebag did something that got the Tyrannids to roll up. Maybe it was Magnus. I think it was something during the Horace heresy where someone did some big psychic thing and then the tiradids were like, yo, is that Gamer Girl Feet? Oh, no. And then they moved their way over. It's theorized. There's no like 100% confirmed thing, but it's the assumption.

When you said Gamer Girl Feet, my skin crawl, like bugs. So thanks for that. It's all very thematic and I hate it. You got to do the ASMR thing where you just get really close to the mic. You're like, it's like, it's like my skin is crawling. It's bugs. It's bugs. So they, um, so shy tells me it was originally the emperor's golden throne light. But again, like, really, really don't know. And it doesn't matter. Point being is the tyrant has came here. Um, now there's a couple of reasons. as to why. There's the theory that they're actually doing the halo thing where they're

actually running from something and they're actually fleeing like something much more terrifying or perhaps some kind of like a natural galactic disaster. Or they have the possibility that the tyranids actually consumed

the goddamn galaxy and are just moving on again which is pretty terrifying. But the biggest and scariest part of the Tierniz, by far, is the fact that if you take a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, in fact, I'll give you a little bit of a link here. If you look at the Milky Way galaxy, there are different hive fleets. There's high, like, it's like different kinds of, you know, it's different kinds of fleets. So you have Mollock, you've got Yormengander, Krakken, Bohemoth, Hydra,

etc., etc. But each high fleet has entered the Milky Way galaxy from a different, section. Oh. So there's the good possibility that they might just legitimately be surrounded on all sides of the Milky Way

is just nothing but Nids. And so it's a pretty spooky fucking premise. It's like, oh man, look at this gigantic fleet of Nids coming out of dark space over on the bottom right hand corner. And then like another size, just as big arrives from like the top.

Like what? No. Oh, that's, So there's nowhere to run. You're always going to have to fight through some tyrantids if you want any sort of relief. Like if you want to flee from them, you have to fight them. Well, and flee where, though? Like, this is the milky way. This is the entire galaxy.

If you want to flee, you have to go to like Andromeda, which God knows how long that'll take. And what if the tyrantids ate at all? But, ooh, the tyrants are very scary. There's so many of them. They are probably, with the. exception of chaos, actually maybe even with chaos. They might be the largest threat in the galaxy. They might be number one.

I think they are number one, actually. If the or were bounded together or bonded together, then they would be number one, but nah. They don't, because they're stupid. Because they're big dumbdom head. They're hilarious, but really funny. They're very funny. But unfortunately, they have this horrible disease called the dumb.

So the tyrantids, they basically did like a hibernation all the way across the way. and they woke up and now they're very hungry. So the first ever encounter with the Nids was on a planet called Tiran. Now, as we remember, everything about Tiranids is second ham. So the reason they're even called Tiranids is because they were first found at the planet of Tiran. Oh, okay. Yeah, Tiranids. Tiran Nids.

Okay. The pieces, they're fitting together. like it. I like it. Yeah, because there's nobody knows. Like, if you know, if you know certain named characters in the Codex for Nids, they're almost all named as if by other people. There's the red terror. There's old one eye, the swarm lord. They don't have like actual, like, the name isn't just, it's like some weird, you know, they, it was given a name, you know? Yeah, by a survivor that saw how feverishly they ate people or how big they were or, the big red claws or something.

Yeah. It's good, too, because in the Tyran, it was where High Fleet Behemoth arrived. And the Tyran fight is like the big, big opening, behemoth, I think is the biggest one too. As it should be with that name. As it should be. This is the big fight where it was kind of great

because even though they may have won, it was a good chance to watch the Ultramarines get fucking bodied. Because the Tyrannids arrived. It's on this planet. Ultramarines arrived. And they were like, what in the ever-living shit is that? And then their big boy,

their man, their boy-man, Marnius Calgar, which is their chapter master. He's known as Papa Smurf. And, because Gilman is Grandpa Smurf or Granddad Smurf. All right.

Because they're blue. I get it. I get it. Like the Primark is the Emperor's Sum. The Chapter Master is like the leader of like the chapter of Marines. Right. So he, went out of one of you won the swarm lord

which is like this big big fucking tyrannum and he got both of his arms and his leg hocked off and then his entire honor guard company escorted him out of there and we're all eaten oh and then after after that

they sent a big ass like emperor class battleship which thanks to the fact that good old technology is backwards they can't recreate and so they sent it and like detonated its warp drives for to send it into the warp with a bunch of nids and like stop them from killing them all

but but it's like that's like the it's like the assumption of of um it's it's like destroying it's like burning your house down to kill a spider it's not I don't know if it's quite worth it yeah it's the nids though so I mean it's a little more than a spider

the um have shy posted a picture of that stupid drip version of Marnius Calgar. If you could notice he's got very large arm and stuff and that's because he's got giant power fist arms now because he has no arms. Because he has no legs

too, right? Well, he has one leg. He's got one good leg. Oh, okay. Oh, that's why it's draped in that, that red cloth, got you. Because the other one sucks. They're going stupid. Any story that's like, hey, you want to hear about how the ultramarines got fucking

bodyed? I'm like, yo, I'm in. they technically won they tend to win the fight but like nah nah fuck the ultramarines they didn't win shit

they got bodied they got bodied so let me let me try to yeah fuck you luten blue poor luten what a bunch of blue bullshit

you're giving me blue balls because I'm stuck constantly being edged by bad chapters oh Fucked ultra-rate fans You know They're pretty alright

But it's GW's fault It's Blaine Games Workshop Yeah So the tyrannids With that whole thing It's mainly about Trying to understand What the tyrannids are

That's the big thing We need to talk about Because it's not I don't want to talk about The battles Because they're just battles I don't really want to talk about Like all the major

Like the characters Maybe we'll have different episode four, but I want to specifically talk about just like the structure, the physiology of the tyrannics, that's what kind of makes them so terrifying. So the tyranids have at its base core, they are the hive mind. They're known as the forces of the hive mind, which is also where they can do gene steal or cults, which I guess we can talk about that a little bit. But the hive mind, the idea is that the Imperium has found that each and every single tyrannid in its own right has a very limited consciousness, but it all feeds back into a psychic synaptic idea to other

larger bugs into eventually the hive mind itself. So every single bug acts in a perfect unisim. They are all complete, because they all share one mind. Yeah. And now obviously it gets will down a little bit. Like I think if you remember the geth, it's like it's like one geth alone, big dumb, Lots of get smarter, and then the big geth server. It's kind of like that. Like, Legion was a thousand geth, right? Which is why he was so intelligent. So Legion would be like, like a swarm lord is like a hundred thousand geth.

You know, it's like a really big one. And then the hive mind is like trillions, you know. It's insane. So the hive mind, we're not quite sure if the hive mind itself has like a physical form or property. If it does, it's probably out there in dark space completely. and not actually like going to have a problem. But to an extent, like tiny little ones, like for instance, these little guys called termagons or hormagons or ripper swarms. Ripper swarms are like the size of like a cat, I think.

Aw. But they go in like, or maybe like mice, but they cover the walls. And they look like, they look like a wave, like a legitimate wave of water because there's so many of them. It's not the scarabs and the mummy. Oh, that's gross. They rush and they're like, ah, they fucking eat you. God, that's, that's, that's, okay, yeah, that's terrible.

And then like a termagon, I think is the size of like, like a, like a large dog. Termagons have like a little gun. And the homagons have like little stabby, little stabby claws. So they all have like different variants and such. But the high, but those guys themselves, they're not very intelligent.

They're kind of, they're very instinctual. They're like, oh, food. And they run up to you and they try to kill you and eat you and or shoot you wouldn't stab you. Though often, because of that, you'll have these much larger bugs, things called like Carnifexes, which are like the size of cars, and then like, I think

car effects are actually a lot bigger than cars. Yeah, they're actually way big in the cars. They're like the size of a semi-truck. It's also a gun in Mass Effect. We got lots of Mass Effect references. Oh, yeah, that big fucking pistol. I love that gun. Yeah. Everybody loves that gun. That's the best. It's so cool. It's not

the M-Set, the Madic though. The real Maddick enjoyers. about here. But then you've got some big, big tyrannids. There's like the Turvagon, which is like a mother version, and it has a bunch of termagons

in like a belly that like refreshes them. You've got like the Tyrannof sites and the Tyran effects, which have like giant poison spitting guns. There's the toxic cream, which is like this giant tentacle thing. There's like all of these different,

the exocrine, which has a giant penis gun. There's like, the, that, that, The hive mind are like super adaptable because they take biomass and they morph it and they adjust it and they like can create whatever they need in order for the job that they want. You got to get people down little holes. Get us sending a bunch of little termagons.

You need some big scary bugs. Get ourselves a little bit of like some card effects or maybe something like the Swarm Lord big guy. Like it all swaps around there. But the hive mind makes it so that let's say you get lucky. and you kill off like a tyrannid carnifex or something, right? Uh-huh. Something big. Well, all the termagons around there were kind of using it as like a synaptic node.

So when it dies, all the termagons start going like, re-e! They start like losing their shit. They start like running in circles or like attacking the random shit. And they start like going mad because they've lost like the neural link. Oh, okay. Now, obviously, it makes them work a lot worse. They're not like less of a threat. they're still quite a threat, but they start, like, kind of freaking out and being weird and causing

problems. Mm-hmm. And, well, like, would they start attacking their own people? Because they don't have, like, would they attack other tyrannids because they don't have that node anymore and they don't know what the fuck to do and they're just going crazy? I don't, I'm not 100% sure. My mind says yes, or at least my mind will say they're not good enough at shooting or stab that they'll stab the wrong things accidentally.

So either. So you're tactical enough about it and you attack these, and you knew to attack these nodes. Could you actually, like, form a strategy to, like, not get fucked over by the tyranids? You could? The problem is that the tyranids come in waves that, like, blot out the sun. Like, you know what? Okay, so here's actually a great example. So the hive mind itself, and this is one of the reasons why it's so scary,

is that when a tyrantid dies, it doesn't lose the hive mind. It simply loses the biomass itself. So a dead tyranid does not feed K. Oh, okay. So, like, if you were a person and I were to cut off your big toe, your soul would not go to chaos, would it? No, I suppose it wouldn't because you're not really, you know, it's just your big toe. It's not your soul. Oh, okay.

That's what killing Tyrannids is like. It doesn't feed the warp because they themselves do not have a thing. Now, if the hive mind were to die, that would be fucking catastrophic. If the hive mine were to be sent to the warp I mean, I have nothing to back this up, but I'm assuming it would either become a new chaos god or it would just like completely wreck everything.

If the hive mind were to go, it would be as like probably significantly more detrimental than even if the emperor went because it would be such an absolute destructive force. But because of that... That sounds like the opening for chaos tyrannence, right? there would be so many

Tyrannid fans that would be upset if that happened they would be so pissed off but the thing is is that the Tyrannids do because the hive mind have a presence

in the warp in general so Tyrannids are actually there's a lot of psychers there's a ton of Tyrannid psychers almost all the big monsters are cykers that seems so weird. It is a little bit weird.

Like the neurothrope looks like a bug with a giant brain. And it like fires a bunch of like laser beams and shit and or it would give like fancy buffs and stuff. But the thing, yeah, shy just typed it and I was about to talk about that is the shadow

and the warp, which might be the most terrifying bullshit ever. So in the tabletop, it makes it so that if you're near a Tirenid psycher, you have a harder time casting psychic powers. But it's like if you take the warp, it's almost like, it's like a shadow moving behind you. It's like if you're walking down during the golden hour, right?

You're walking home and you got that long shadow in front of you, you know? And then right to your right, there is a shadow, like almost equal length as yours. But no one is walking to your right. Oh, I don't like that. But there's a shadow there. So the tyrantids have like their own manipulation of the warp. what would happen is deliberately as a high fleet moves into an imperial world, the imperials, the astropaths, will try to like get a warning out. But then they'll open up the psychic, um, the like

the psychic connection to the warp and they'll just start losing their minds because the tyranids start reaching their way into the mind of the person and suppressing it. So you literally can't call for help. Oh God. So, so. once they're on you, like, there's no calling for help. It's just like, yep, you're probably going to get eaten. Yep, because you try, you see the, you look up and you see a tiernid fleet to like, you wonder why the sun is no longer shining. And it's because you look up and it's nothing but tiny dots covering the entire sky

of tiernids. And then you're like, oh, no. And then you open up a psychic link. And then the tiernids are like, now. And they, then they turn you off. And they're like, zip. Nope. So there's no calling for help.

You'll never get reinforcements. And that's that. And the tyrannids will descend upon you and eat your whole world. And that's the problem is that biomass is what they eat. They eat anything organic. Anything that has biomass, people, pets, anything, fauna. And it all gets like coagulated and turned into more tyranids. So that's what's really scary is like, okay, if you maybe can form a militia,

militia. Maybe you can form a fighting force. If they've already eaten a third of the planet, that means they're a third, like 30% stronger because they've turned all of your boys. Yeah. They send out spores and acid. Like they have guns. Tyrannets have guns.

And the guns are made of flesh. They're all flesh-based weaponry, and their ammunition is alive. When they fire at you, It's tiny, tiny viruses and micro and flesh-eating organisms that fly in a curl of acid and it hits you, eats through your flesh, and then the tiny little bugs get underneath your skin and start consuming you. Oh, gross. That's so disgusting. Oh, my.

Like, at least if you get hit with a bulltor shot in the chest, it's just like, okay, that's it. instead you get hit by a gun that's potentially made out of scroats and oh no more scrote guns yeah stroke guns uh last episode we had the scrote cloth now we've got the scrote guns uh because we have the mental capacity of 12 year olds but uh they shoot like virus shots and they just start eating you and i want to model a tyrannid that has like the fucking ball chin from like men in black And I want to make it, I want to make a candidate. He parts his entire gun's ammunition is specifically made from scroats.

He goes around and he makes sure he makes the, hey guys, you could eat the humans, but don't eat the scroats. I need them. He loads them into his gun. Head it over to the Patreon if you like to scrote-centric conscience. At least with the night lords, it made sense. The tyrann is they're just like, ma-b-b-b-m-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Oh, man. Jeez, they're so gross.

I hate it. Oh, my, oh my God. I don't... Oh, shit. Shai just reminded me that I think the pyrovor does kind of look like... Is that an actual fucking... No, that's... That has to be...

That has to be... Oh, my God, it's not. That's such a fucking penis. I was going to say, that's a very phallic cannon on that tier and it's armored back. Holy shit. I mean, I thought the exocrym was the most penis-looking one, but... Hot damn. I mean, it's also, it also has a lot to do with how these guys are painted.

Like, if you painted that canon, the same color as his armor, it might not be so bad. But, maybe, but that's, that's some, that's some phallic fucking shit right there. That is, that is super phallic. Also, whatever that thing is that Shai just posted, like the white one with its mouth open and all those, like, tentacles coming out, that shit is super hella gross and scares me. That was me. That's the horror specs. That is, I hate it. The horror specs.

The horror specs is really, really gross. I hate it too. They're super nasty. Oh, no. You just posted, oh, no. All of our fucking, all of our audible guys and stuff, not audible, Spotify guys and Apple podcast guys are like, I can't see it.

Shut the fuck up. Go to the YouTube channel. Well, there's that too, but no. I gotta actually check out the Horuspects real quick. Let me look at it. The Horuspects is a ferocious tyrant and beasts created by the hive mind to consume biomass at a sickening pace in the later stages of a planetary invasion. It is possessed by a rapacious appetite driven by the need to say in infinite hunger.

Few fools are foolish enough to stand before feeding Horace specs, for it can devour an entire platoon of soldiers in a matter of moments, shoveling victim after victim into its three-jawed Craw without ever slowing down while also taking on vehicles and even fortifications without slowing down. Any morsel that proves too large to be swallowed in one gulp is seized by the Horuspect's gargantuan claws and ripped, crushed, or battered apart with negligent ease. Oh my God. I think what makes that picture of the thing that you posted so awful is like he's, it looks

like he's eating a little, I'm assuming that's an ultramarine because it's blitz. How fucking dare you? That is a tempest to sion. And that is also known as a guardsman Chad. Oh, I am so sorry. But the funny thing about it is there's this giant tear in it for anybody that can't see it. There's this giant tier in it with these claws, his mouth zone, and their tentacles everywhere. This guy has been latched onto by like tons of these tentacles. it is very obvious that he is going to die. And yet he's still holding on to this piece of metal. He's like, I'm going to get out of this.

I'm totally, there's a chance. I'm going to hang on to this thing. Dude, you're so dead. Just let it go. Dude, but the emperor, the emperor protects. The emperor protects. The emperor protects. He's got like,

there's this thing that's like a hundred times bigger than him. It's latched on to him with like at least three or four tentacles. you sir are dead like just let it go let that little wrench go you are dead there there are there is a lot of monsters that particularly cause problems we haven't even talking about the capillary towers yet the the gigantic fucking towers of tyrannid biomass that spread around the ground turning the whole ground into a fleshy moving mass and and they gather all the dead they like gathers all the dead biomass around the planet to allow them to just keep consuming it. It's really, really, it's lots of body horror. It's lots of like xenomorph. What's that? I don't know what that's referred to, that like Resident Evil style horror where it's

constantly like, like, bulging and adjusting and like consuming. Like the blob, the movie, the blob where the dude stuck in the blob. Yeah, like, there's like a term for that. I don't know. Maybe it's just vorphobia. I don't fucking know what it is, but whatever it is, it's nasty. So they can turn the ground. into a biomass organism that just starts eating corpses and gets stronger,

and then the very ground is your enemy now? I think they usually do it as a way to gather dead biomass after the invasion, because they're gathering like little small bits on the ground, like plants and maybe like tiny animals. So that's like an aftermath thing to sort of clean up whatever got left behind? Yeah, it's a post thing. They generally drag all the bodies. And they dragged them towards these giant, like, digestive pools,

which is actually a interesting thing. So there's this one particular thing. So Tyrannids before used to only have one army, but now they've tended to get two. They have something called Gene Steeler Colts. And we'll probably have an episode on them in a bit, but Gene Steeler, there's a unit called a Gene Steeler, and it does what it sounds like.

It fucks around with the genetic material. But what you can do is you can create, like, a cult, like a tiny cult of of tyrannid-based like people so you start you know being a little different then you start believing in like the hive mind and your mind starts kind of changing and being strange and then as for some time you start praying to like the hive mind to arrive to arrive and then you get these like little cults of tyrannid gene stealer guys like in the bottom of like a major city and the idea is that they slowly will like cause a revolution and therefore overthrow the government

and do all this crap to prepare for the tyrannid arrival. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, they look weird, too. They got a little scrotum head, speaking of scrotts. Their heads do look like little scrotums, and they look like, they're like, they actually have like a mad max, like little rattling vibe where they're all underground,

they're skittering around. Their weapons are very, are very, like, archaic. They use, like, rock saws and mining lasers. and like big sign, like, like, um, big like, like traffic signs kind of like in fault three. They use those as weapons and stuff. Um, so it's kind of like a way to make an uprising.

I'll talk more about that on the Gene Stilertrude episode, but it's kind of a neat idea, but particularly those towers and those giant pools of biomass of like acid, apparently there's an interesting thing I didn't know about where right, uh, at the end of a tier and invasion when the Gene Steeleer cults go, to basically well, you know, jump into the fucking pool

because they need to now serve the hive minds and dissolve themselves as stuff. Apparently the tyrantids severed their link to their mind at the last second. And so in that last five seconds of falling, they regain their mind,

remembering everything. And they get to sit on the idea that they killed their family, they killed all their friends, and they betrayed the emperor. right before they die. It is the most metal shit of all times. So fucked up.

I mean, yes, it is very metal, but oh, man, you just, like, do you have to sever the link right then? Yeah, they don't want to, they don't want to die, you know? There's like, all right, yonk, let's turn, let's turn us into, into that

shit. It's... That's brutal. Everything about the tyrannids is, it's so savage. They're really sad. But that's the thing is that like, we don't know if they have motives.

Because remember that part in Independence Day where the alien takes over the scientist and starts like speaking through them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that hasn't happened yet. And I kind of wish it would because that hasn't happened. And we don't know what their goals are.

Yeah. All we know is that they're here to eat. Yeah, they're just here to eat us. They see us as prey. they've come to just consume. We don't know if they have an objective. We've never spoken to them. We don't know.

Like the only person who has ever been able to tap into the Tyrannid hive mind and live is an ultramarine. Of course it is. I will be, I'll be honest. I can't be too mad by this one. It's this guy named Chief Librarian Tigirius. he's like the main badass um like psycher uh so he's the only one who has ever been able

to get in to the mind of the tyranids and and survive just barely like just barely because it's such an overwhelming psychic power oh yeah because it's the hive mind it's what's linked up to all of the tyrannids right so I imagine linking up with that thing is just essentially Like a lesser person, your head explodes It's just...

Yeah, pretty much. You start screaming and you just die. Yeah. The tyrannids in their own right, considering the size and the power of them, like, there's a lot of things I haven't said, but it's hard to structure this video. Like, you can't use poison against them.

They're too adaptive. They're all biological, but they're too adaptive. Any kind of poison they adapt to within, like, within like the hour. They've immediately created a new adaptation and like a vaccine for themselves, and they just simply,

they won't get affected by it. You can't use bio-weapons against them. They've got, like, their carapaces were, like, as tough as tanks. It's really, really freaking hard to kill Tyrannids. And that's the thing is that very often, in lore,

if they do beat a Tyrannid force, they beat off, like, an invasion fleet or an invading force, but that's kind of it. They're very rarely actually doing any legitimate damage. I was going to ask, like, have they ever really, like, beaten the tyrannids? Because it seems like the tyranids are kind of like the orcs in the sense that, like,

once the tyrannids on the planet, well, fuck it, just exterminate. Exterminate it's the damn thing, because it's way easier than trying to fight off these fuckers because they're just, they're so adaptable, they're so strong, they're so swarming. We've lost this planet, tyrannids are on it, move out, there's no point in even trying to salvage anything on that planet. I mean, often in a funny way, like that is what they do. They just exterminate on us any tieridate planet because there's just no point. But at the same time, sometimes they live.

Because the problem is that you can't do virus bombing because there's a work. You have to break the entire planet up. Yeah, but that doesn't always fucking work because these tyrants are so goddamn resilient. There might be a couple bugs just chilling around there. Like, I'm okay. Oh my God. That's, that's, ooh. There's actually a awesome.

awesome story I like it's a guard story but I'll mention you real quick so do you know what ogren are uh it sounds familiar but I I really couldn't tell you did you see that trailer for Dark Tide with the gameplay trailer

uh yes remember that really big motherfucker yes okay so that's an ogre he's they're uh they're gigantic abnormal mutant humans and they're really stupid um but they're just they're huge uh there's one

character called Norc Dead Dog. He's like a super good Ogram. He's got a bunch of medals. He's my favorite quotes where he's like De Saj and Major asked me what my job was. I said to do as I was told. He said it was the greatest answer

he's ever heard and slapped another medal on me. I likes being in the imperial god. But he has this great story where he would go and he had like a commanding officer. His job is a bodyguard. commanding officer and it was inside this one tyrannid

known as a Mollock and personally to all you Tyrnid players out there okay please use Mollocks okay I think I think they're better than you give them credit for for one but they're so fucking cool all right use your goddamn Mollocks please like okay like this this is a Mollock this is a Mollock oh wow he's a gigantic he's a gigantic he's he's a gigantic he's a gigantic

whip coiled tail and it burrows underground and it pops up right beneath you and they're actually really big too. They're like the size of like a medium drink at like a restaurant. That's what the mini looks like? Yeah, it's badass.

Holy shit. But there's a great story where the company commander of the Garum was actually being eaten by a malloc and it was and he was like clawing his way out of the

Moloch's mouth and shit and Nork is like I got your boss and he runs up to it and he fucking takes his big forehead and the head butts the shit of it cracking one of its mandibles and he reaches into the Mollock's throat

and he grabs the guy out and half of his body is dissolved because it was in the digestive juices of the Moloch and he's like he pulls out half the deal he pulls out half the company commander he's like dripping in poison it's like I got show boss and he runs away.

Obviously, that commander must have died, right? Or did they actually manage to, like, give him a robotic lower half? He probably got a robotic lower half. I don't know. Apparently, they didn't like him. Apparently, he's kind of a coward, but maybe he got shot later. Who knows? I said something that was a little interesting.

Inquisitor Cryptmen tried to preemptively exterminatous worlds that, or exterminatus worlds that hadn't even been invaded yet to try and starve out Tyrannid fleets in advance. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Cripman is the, I think the only inquisitor that has ever been removed from the Inquisition. Oh. I think because he was too mean, which is fucking hilarious to me. That is a wild concept where the Imperium is like, yeah, you're a little too mean.

You're doing things a little too crazy. Not just the Imperium. No, no, no. It's the Inquisition. We haven't even talked. Oh, the Inquisition. Oh, okay. Do you know what the motto of the Inquisition is?

The actual slogan, the slogan. What's that? Innocence proves nothing. Ah, I see. And he was too mean. He was too mean even for the people. Granted, I kind of get it. He exterminatedist entire worlds that didn't have people on,

that had like billions people on them to, the tyranids from eating them to starve them. I get the concept. Would have preferred evacuation first? I was going to say you could evacuate those people if you know that the tyranids are coming. Be like, hey guys, tyrannids are coming. We got to get you the fuck out of here. And then we're just going to blow up the fucking planet.

Like, why are you going to blow it up with the people still on it? Yeah, would have. God damn it. Actually, we really should talk about the Inquisition at some point soon because they're pretty big deal. But yeah, it's just, it's hard to. structure this episode because the tyranids are so horrifying and there's so much about the but really when you talk about the tyrannids you're mainly just talking about like the different units like wow that bug is so cool look at that bug that's so it's so neat look that terrifying hive

mind you know that's what we've been doing too yeah it's looking how cool the nids are yeah wait what did shi say they also have tyrannid wifus norn queens who are in charge of genetically designing new nids and stuff want to see some sexy fan art i think i may have blotted that from my brain. Is that canon? Like, do they actually have, like, Norn queens that are in charge? I'm sure there are Norn queens because they're probably used to I think they adjust

and, uh, and they make new nids. They make, like, fancier, crazier, new nids to deal with different problems. Gotcha. But they're not like anime wifus. They're just like these big blobs of that just spit out bugs, I assume. Which is probably one of the most grossest things you could ever see.

But I'm sure the internet has turned it into like some fucking anime foot fetish with some anime armpit fetish because that's what the internet do. I'm looking on Google images right now and I can confirm that is what is happening. Can confirm.

Do not like. I'm going to go ahead and take your word for it and not look that up. The tyrantids are well with the queens though, the norm queens and stuff. That's one of the actual fancy nice things about the tyrannids that's just because they can consistently and consistently make more and more

bugs trying to hyper-specialize against them is like not impossible it's like not impossible it just it just it just doesn't work there are so many different tyrannids and there are so many different horrifying horrifying creatures that they keep on building that let me here's here's a quote let me give you a quote okay this is from an inquisitor of course inquisitor Bronislaw, Shevac, whatever, there is a cancer eating at the Imperium. With each decade it advances deeper, leaving drained, dead worlds in its wake.

This horror, this abomination, is thought and purpose, which functions on an unimaginable galactic scale, and all we can do is try to stop the swarms of bioengineered monsters that unleashes upon us by instinct. We have given the horror a name to salve our fears.

We call it the tyrannid race, but if it is aware of us at all, It must only know us as prey The tyranids are I wish I'd do more than just say the tyranids are fucking insane But they are they are insane They are probably the biggest threat to the entire Imperium And if I see a tyrannid player a tabletop player

I consider them nothing but a Chad Because they're super cool And I just they're just fun Like you gotta like bugs You know you there's no like creepy corolli bugs Yeah it's like there's not much lore, so many characters to roleplay? You're like, I'm just going to be bugs. I like bugs.

Sadly, GW. does not like them. Oh. In the tabletop, like, I guess they don't really have any, well, do they have name characters? Because you said, like, there are secondhand stories about

specific tyrantids that are maybe a little bigger, there may be red, or whatever. So are there any, like, specific tyrannid units in the tabletop? They're like, yo, dis motherfucker, though. Oh, the swarm lord, most definitely. The swarm lord is basically is the largest synapse-based creature of the Tyrannid race ever spotted. Oh.

That's the guy that hawked off the dude's legs. Oh, okay. Gotcha, gotcha, got you. Actually, I would, let me tell you a story, though. Let me tell you a story about my favorite Tyrannid character, okay? Because we should talk about this. Is that picture of him? Yeah, yeah, that's the sworeboard.

He is a bad motherfucker. Yeah. Swarmoor is fucking awesome. And ironically, ironically, even though GW hates them on the tabletop, I think he has a really overpowered ability. What's that? So nids are not very good right now. They're kind of mediocre. But he has a special ability that allows you to double move a unit.

So basically you could take an entire giant squad of units or a giant monster. and instead moving them like, like you're like 24 inches away from each other. You can move them like 10 inches and then just do it again. So then you have like a 20 inch move and then that means you just charge them and it's really terrifying

because then he'll take like a fucking a giant like squad of like a hundred termagons or some bullshit and just like eat them turn one. They're like ah. It doesn't mean like the turnips or power anything are very good at all but that move in particular I'm like ooh this makes me sweat.

Let me tell you about fucking old one eye though. I love old one eye. He's so cool. So he's the thing called the Carnifex from High Fleet Behemoth during the assault on an ultramarine world and he just like would bonk fucking guard tanks like they were like bugs. It was insane.

However, its rampage was only stopped when a random Imperium guy shot a plasma pistol right through his eye and into its brain. It wasn't able to regenerate its eye, but it was permanently scar with a plasma burn on its eye. Now, however, decades later, a band of smugglers stumbled across the frozen intact body of it on the same planet. They thought it out, hoping to get bounty for the corpse, but then its wounds began to immediately

heal, and it slaughtered the smugglers. Of course it did. And so then on that world, the Calth world, it just started doing its hive mind instincts, started mindlessly slaughtering stuff killing populations, killing domes. And then it eventually left over a bunch of termagons and gene stealers there as well

and it started taking control of them like a little boss, a little boss man. And then so then an ultramarine guy because they needed aid, so the ultramarines came back, they tracked it down and then finally their big like sniper guy guy named a scout sergeant Telliam

made one and a million shot that shot and hit it directly in the same eye socket. And then it immediately fell down a gigantic ravine and was never seen again. And then... Poor little one eye.

But then it has been seen again. But this time, on different planets. And now it's been told that old one eye has been finally brought down. But it's been like 12 different reports of old one eye being

finally brought down. So old One Eye has died several times Not really because it keeps coming back But how did it get off world? It's on different worlds Like It's the thing is it's like it's like a legend It's like a myth

It's a legend It's the it's the legend of good old one eye If you don't eat your vegetables Old One Eye will fucking eat you at night kid Yeah I was gonna say maybe maybe the hive mind Is recreating a perfect copy of its scar and all But it hasn't been found yet either So it's still like the original might be still out there

Like no one ever found the body No It just fell down a ravine and they never actually got the body The Ultra-Rane guy tried to find it but he couldn't So where the fuck did he go Also fuck those smugglers that find a frozen tier And they're like you know what we should do We should thaw this motherfucker out

You know what There's nothing terrifying about this Let's yeah I need some money Let's thaw this fucking thing out Are you stupid? Look at this thing! They want some cat? Hey man, never underestimate cash.

Cash money. They needed that drip and they needed some money for it, right? I like a little one eye though, because I have a cat named Gidgett and she only has one eye. So I'm a little sympathetic to the one eye. Go get him, Gizgett. Go, go consume the biomass. Consume the biomass, Gidgett. They'll never be able to take you down.

So I know we do. normally talk a little bit about Tabletop at the end of the episode, and I think it's probably a good time to do so. Yeah, let's do it. They're not good. Tiernids have notoriously been kind of bad for like years. I think I'm a little scared because I think when the tiernets become good, we're in some deep shit.

They recently have actually gotten some nice buffs and some of their big monsters from a thing called Forge World are actually quite scary, particularly this one monster called a Democari. on, which is really cool looking. But even so, it's very much, like, they're not that great, but they are like the big horde army, a bunch of big bugs with a whole bunch of little bugs running around with them. It is kind of cool, though, because they do have like synaps.

If you kill the big bug, the smaller bugs are less effective. So, okay. That's kind of cool. I was going to say, as far as Tyrannids were concerned on the tabletop, I would assume that all of their units are super cheap because they're just a bunch of. bunch of bugs. They're supposed to swarm you. Maybe they're not individual the strongest, but you can, you can put out, like, you know, triple the amount of units that, like, I don't know, an ultra-rain force could. And you could maybe just have numbers instead of just

like a few tanky units. Yeah, absolutely. That's pretty much how tiernids operate. Some people like to do a thing called Tiernan Monster Mash, which is just a whole bunch of big, big bugs. It all depends. Obviously, I like a nice mixture. They're not great right now, so it's a little bit hard to perfectly nail down exactly what their big thing is. Ironically, I think they've got better shooting than they do melee. That's so weird. Those penis monsters, things we saw earlier

are actually really effective. Particularly the Tyrannid exocrine are pretty nasty. But yeah, dude, the great devourer is what they're known as, with the forces of the hive minds. They are very

creepy and I, I love how creepy they are, but God, they're so nasty. They're super, super nasty. All of their units are so gross, and they do such gross things, and it's just, and they got scroat guns. They got scroke guns. I like... The teams doers have scroat heads.

Yep, it's all scroot in this one. This is this is... I want this to be the title, shy. I want to be Tyrannids in the return of the scrote. The revenge of the scrote. Wait, boys, I found literal tiered scrots. Oh, no, it's the spore mines. It's the spore mines.

No, they do look like scrotes. I forgot about the smor mines. Shit. The revenge of the scrots. It all comes full circle, just like a giant scrode. It all full circle. Oh. God, dip.

Oh, man. I think I found worse ones. Okay, we got, we got, we got to stop doing this before. We got, we got, we got to stop. All right. Yeah, we got to stop. Definitely. Oh my God, those are scroots.

I hate it. All right. Thank you, everyone, for watching this episode of Adeptus ridiculous. Who's next? Is it me? It might be you. I think it's you. Night because it was custodies, which was me, the nightlords, then the nids.

And then, yeah, so it's me again. It's you again. You know, I think it's time. I think it's time, my dude. I think it's time. What's the time for? What do you do? I think it's time for the Imperial Guard.

Oh, shit. I think it's time for the Guard. I think it's time to get my first, my first 8th edition army. Let's fucking go. Let's go. It's time for the Guard. It's time for the Guard. It's time for the Guard.

Particularly because it'll allow me to preface into the fall of Cadia, which I think would be a very good episode. Okay, I'm, I'm stoked. I'm ready. All right. Well, in that case, thank you to everyone who's watching. We'll see you next week for an Imperial Gar. My name has been Bricky. You can find me at Bricky on Twitch, Bricky on YouTube,

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