Tyranids Deep Dive - The Great Devourer | Warhammer 40K Lore

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Time Stamps
0:00 intro
2:34 Tacticus
4:00 The Great Devourer Awakens
9:58 What are the Tyranids
17:14 Tyranid Weapons
20:26 Tyranid Ground Units
32:17 Tyranid Hive Ships
40:00 What does a Tyranid Invasion look like?
56:10 Hive Fleets. A Brief History
1:10:33 What is the Hive Mind?
1:17:49 Closing Thoughts

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[weshammer]

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[a.gravemistake]

Everyone else is playing a strategy game. The Tyranids are doing a chews your own adventure.

[TheCyKnight]

I think we can all just deeply appreciate what it takes for him to find and compile all of this lore into Deepdives as well as the background imagery that brings his videos even more to life! Thank you WesHammer!!!

Also, does anyone know the names of the different soundtracks used throughout his video?

[vladtheimpaler]

An hour and a half of Tyranid lore. What a way to end a week of work.

[axios]

I really like the lore bits around Hive Fleet Cronos. They mainly use psykers, ranged bioforms and artillery because any battles against Chaos are a net loss for the 'nids and it attempts to minimise loses in a total subversion of usual tyranid tactics.

When it needs to recover from it's engagements with Chaos, other hive fleets escort Cronos to defenseless worlds and allow it to consume their biomass in their stead.

[NiceDice-hovm]

As someone just got into warhammer and is to lazy to read all the book, thank you. I love these hour long lore deep dives. The tyranids are my favorite faction. Love your channel. May the god emperor’s light shine on you.

[Triplethreat-xekc]

My personal headcanon is that the Great Game was made for 5 players, but malice didn't really want to play, so the God Emperor is the game's NPC fill in, and the Tyranids exist as the turn counter/timer until the game ends

[loopgru]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only food." This was an *epic* line to close on- well done. The manic nuttery of the orks make them my first love in the setting, but nids are awesome- I love them as the ultimate expression of evolution, just natural process run to its utter apogee. (And if they are ever explained away as an engineered bioweapon I will riot.)

[BunAndDun]

Majorkill did the nyds dirty saying that no matter what they couldn't take terra, but I'm so glad that you actually give them the respect they deserve. They are so amazingly terrifying and only you and Leutin do them justice. Thank you Wes!

[dangregoire]

I was just explaining the tyranids to my coworker because he was interested in space marine 2. A few minutes later, Wes does it better than I ever could lol what mad lad. Keep it up battle brother!

[Brabantian]

56:09 I always had a problem with nids not consuming the whole planet but now I'm just gonna make it my headcannon that nids leave some of the planet alive so it's ecosystem can recover and be consumed again

[Rubberbucket]

Wes! You killed it this time! Thank you so much! This video definitely deserves more likes, stay healthy

[Rogerv]

One thing to note is that since Kronos doesn’t get much or any biomass with fighting chaos, leviathan will actually be nearby and give a portion of its biomass to help replenish their losses. Which to me seems like leviathan considers Kronos a valuable asset in order to make the invasion and consumption of planets easier without the interruption of chaos.

[stewiegriffin]

I think the scariest Tyranid is Cyrax. He's got bugs crawling on him, he wields a stylus covered in his own poop, and his rage would make korhn think he needs anger management.

[FatBadgerStudios]

I played tyranid too. Made my own splinter fleet: Barghest, had a focus on psychological warfare, attacking preferably in the dark, with dark colouration but with markings down the centre of their carapace, making them seem much more numerous than they were when attacking, hit and run (was the intention) tactics use of howls in the night, keeping their prey alert until they are too exhausted to fight at full power...
Almost always lost my matches but i liked the splinter i had created.

[AKadir]

The reason why I love Tyranids the most is because their capabilities are only as limited as the things they can eat and absorb, which is limitless. They're like chaos factions, but not bound to worship or motives of the Chaos Gods. And no, I don't count the Tyranid cultists which are just wololo'd human pawns that can merely grasp the idea of hive mind let alone being a part of it. Every other faction needs to work real hard just to act in unity while they're just one big mind altogether. I'd say the center or the living embodiment of the hive mind is stronger, wiser and older than the God Emperor himself since nobody knows their origin and keep in mind that they entered the 40K universe from ALL angles, which means they're multidimensional and have knowledge of god knows how many other universes and beings waay beyond the comprehension of even the big G. They're not unholy, they're not holy. They just are. An ever-evolving hive mind with ever-evolving, endless swarms of biological tools.

[sheeeshmaster]

I love that "Avenge me brother" shirt, love me some Flashgitz reference.

[CommonBovine]

I love these deep dives. Factions like the Tyranids and Flood have always been fascinating to me. There is something about the manifestation of mortality for seemingly god like races that is both terrifying and beautiful.

[kamiwriterleonardo]

When Cawl says that the Tyranids are surface level feeders, that reminds me of the theory that several of the most hostile aliens in the Milky Way are Tyranid descendants. Combining the information of these two... It may be possible that the Tyranids do some sort of "cyclical harvesting", where they would consume almost all the life on one galaxy, move on to another, cycle through a selection of galaxies for eons, giving enough time for the survivors of the previous attacks to re-evolve and regrow, only for the nids to eventually come back again and eat again.
Thus... We are worse than prey. We are mere crops.

[dirtycrewman]

You and Luetin really do an excellent job of conveying the lore to a much larger audience without being a smartass (looking at you, MajorKill). I dare say this is way more entertaining than the billion dollar failures Hollywood craps out. Love from The Netherlands and keep it up.