There's like there's another episode of Hammer and Bolter where like the Death Guard corrupt an astropathic choir, so they spread a plague between choirs and it travels through the space and it's like what how does that work?
But it's like, is the human connection with it because it is entirely it is like a phone signal, but it's actually literally human string if you know what I mean, which sounds really creepy.
It's just weird in the Angels of Death one because again, they've got like this whole room of gene stealers and there's the patriarch and then the towers there and obviously the astropaths are still human, but they're being kind of enslaved on this tower.
And they're not very happy when they send the signal out being like come and destroy the world tyrannids. They're like, have it a good old shriek. Yeah, that doesn't look fun.
Love me star children. Whatever it is, it's probably horrendous and doesn't need to be as horrendous as it is.
Someone most likely suffered just even even like making a nail or a screw. Well, that was the word from the apparent sponsor of this video, the Adeptus Astropathica.
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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to law crimes. It's it's time for another beginner to expert podcast isn't it? It's going to be an interesting one today because we've covered a lot of space marine stuff recently and you know delved into a little bit of loyalists, a little bit of chaos.
We've done a little bit of Xenos. We did the Necron's a little while back, but today we've got something a bit different in store.
A little bit more specific as well because today we're going to be covering the first Tyrannic war.
Hope you're hungry boys. Nom nom nom. Because I think with like tyrannids in particular, it's like how do you organize talking about them because there's like no like.
Personal characters with like other than I like eating things so you have to kind of and where they fit into the law around events. So I think this is a pretty good place to start. But before we get into that, it's time for the question of the week.
Alright, our question of the week was what makes you rage about Warhammer hashtag black rage and the first comment I have here is epic cool awesome Goblin guy re 6520 awesome name.
Total War Warhammer turning my boy Throg from a smart man in Bracket's Troll to the average Manchester City football fan.
I don't watch football, but I like making fun of Europeans.
I walked around the soccer museum when I was there and I can assure you that from the amount of riots I saw in the historical of the of the feels like yeah, it sounds about right.
This was during Warhammer fest and you said like something along the lines of when you were in Manchester airport, you like I've never been in an airport like this before.
Yeah, it was so depressing. Everything was just metal gray.
It's like when you build a Minecraft home entirely out of iron blocks and cobblestone.
It's not based code baby United not city actions while you were there.
All right, there's a how are you putting my my breaks up my my my great blocks in the airport.
I have a treat that is dangerous in Detroit.
I did enjoy the excellence of the discussions. There was one gentleman next to me on the phone when I was checking the hotel that he was he was speaking Lovecraftian.
That was not like it was English, but like the words coming out of that man's mouth.
I could not tell you did he quote have the Innsmouth look.
Is that right? How? Yes.
He had that fish eyes stare.
I don't know. You might have no chin.
Uninec.
All right.
Next question or next comment is from C pint.
He says I rage every day that the superior Skaven race has yet to tunnel through the warp into the 41st millennium to completely body the other factions.
Big true. Big true indeed.
We had a few years of couple of like a Skaven one like why they're not in 40 K. This is absolutely.
They were they used to be the hood and then the hood got turned into weird like.
I don't know what we're doing.
No, they're not even Megaman.
They're like people, but they've got scales and no necks.
They're like torso people.
I'm going to brag that I literally have the only commissioned artwork of an actual fraud out there, which I did for a Dan Toc episode video for mine.
It's the only one of an actual I remember speaking to the artist and he's like, what do they look like?
And I went, hold on one second.
I have an example. I'm screwed.
Like this is this is the only image of a crude nowadays.
They used to be little space Skaven.
Oh, yeah, there's an old picture that used to be the only image there you can see.
He's got it. He's got it.
Feels bad. No fuzzy guys anymore.
No fuzzy little rabbit. There's also Necron listed as unknown, which is very funny.
Include not told today.
Oh, you're a fraud. Oh, there he is right there.
Yeah, I see. He's literally Skaven. What the heck?
Yeah, they used to just be space Skaven, but then they got turned into what's this jellyfish guy?
Unknown. Fair.
That's one of the lost Primarchs.
That's why they kicked him out. He was too gross to look at.
You don't have any bones. Get out.
Next comment is from the Commissar Stab Wound 1287.
Also a fun name. A great name.
He says, the worst thing about James Workshop is that even though they constantly betray me,
they've still somehow convinced me to shamelessly spend half of my paycheck on their plastic toys.
Very real and very true. I must agree.
My favorite part is that all the new models are the good models on tabletop, so therefore you have to keep buying it.
Classic. I bought more Lord of the Rings.
My favorite part is how they erase the firstborn from existence.
Makes me sad.
Forget the promise of technology and progress, except for what it involves us buying new models.
Yeah, for real.
And don't forget it.
It's only Primarchs.
Feels bad. OK, last comment is Roger Schaftley, 6976.
He says, Hal and Andy's breakfast heresy, eating canned beans on toast and blood sausage,
but acting like honey on English muffins is crazy.
Very based.
Now look here, right?
You can't have sugary sweet stuff first thing in the morning.
It's bad.
Don't make me get the American food starter pack out again.
Listen, OK, British food may taste like a ration pack.
But OK, first of all, no one eats blood sausage.
That's like a really rare thing.
No one actually has that in hotels.
Is he thinking of black pudding, whereas like, yeah, I mean, you get that in full English,
but like a lot of the time people are like, ew, and they just scrape it off their plate.
So like, I want the sausages.
What is this thing?
I mean, I would like a full English.
I ain't gonna lie.
Full English is a hangover cure.
That's what it's meant to be.
I could go up one of those.
Why is it called pudding?
This isn't pudding.
Right.
Made of blood.
Depends on the angle you see it.
Blood is pudding of life?
I guess.
This is meat.
Blood angel.
This is meat, not pudding.
It's congealed blood and stuff.
Lovely.
If someone told me I was going to get pudding and they flopped down a hamburger, I'd be upset.
I'd be angry.
I mean, to be fair, though, technically, I'm not British, so I can like slightly push myself
away from the aspersions that I don't know good food because I'm also from a place that
has French cuisine.
So I'm like, yeah, I guess Colin also agree that pudding has to be sweet, not breakfast.
But yeah, pudding is not a breakfast dessert, but that doesn't mean you can't have sweet
stuff at breakfast.
We can't have breakfast for breakfast.
Okay, sure you can.
Listen, the breakfast debate should be safe.
We're in a free country where you can have anything you want for breakfast.
We're all adults.
If I want to eat ice cream for breakfast and shit my brains out, then my God, I have that
power for the people who came for their Warhammer rip.
Anyways, we'll get back to the Warhammer.
With that being said, though, the next question of the week is you want to sabotage the hive
mind.
What do you feed it?
Hashtag tummy ache.
Of course, people, the funnier the answer, the better.
We particularly love the funny ones.
They actually warm our souls and okay, don't feel free to make it a safe answer.
Go wild.
Within reason.
I'm talking looking at you people's swear and some of the comments.
With that being said, though, we're going to hand over to Eli for the beginner section.
And also the British slander about British food feeding to the hive mind is a good idea.
Don't forget.
Feed them blood sausage.
And now we'll return to the broadcast.
Awesome.
But before we get into the beginner section here, I just want to have a little brief introduction
just for if you are possibly new to law crimes.
This is the beginner to expert podcast.
So if you're completely new to Warhammer or you perhaps already.
Delicately involved with so much of the law, you know, like an expert.
Hopefully there's a few more details in this one that you maybe have missed or it's a nice
sort of exploration of things that you already know and love.
And obviously there's me how there's Andy, Colin and Eli and we'll be guiding you through
this journey and hope you all enjoy.
But with that being said, though, I do believe Eli will be helming us straight in to this
juicy topic.
Eli, are you ready?
I am ready, sir.
Take it away.
Yeah, I'll keep it short and sweet for the beginning section because this is not a ton
of lore to begin with.
And I don't want to take too much away from Colin.
So here is an extremely brief summary.
This is the first tranic war, which was the first time the Tyranids were discovered by
human beings.
I don't know if they were discovered or fought by other species in the galaxy before this
might be the very first time at all.
Pretty sure it is.
It's high fleet behemoth.
They came into the eastern fringe and they were first found on the planet Tyran or at
least the aftermath of them was found because they absolutely obliterated the defenders
on Tyran.
So Inquisitor Kryptman found a dead and lifeless planet, which he then found a codex containing
the knowledge of the Tyranids.
And this kind of gave him the idea that maybe there's a big deal going on.
So he went to go tell the Ultramarines about it because it's on the fringes of Ultramar.
High fleet behemoth kept raging on through the galaxy, destroying every planet in their
way until finally coming to McCragge where they were stopped for a time.
Spoilers, I guess.
And on McCragge they fought a glorious, incredible battle.
It was the most important battle in Ultramarines history or so the codex claims at least, I
think I would agree.
And the Ultramarines had to pull back all of their forces from around the galaxy, which
actually saved the Tau Empire.
So the Tyranids saved the Tau.
Keep that in mind.
My boy Farsight lived.
He did.
There was a...
It was fine, I guess.
He was battling Cato Sicarius.
So he managed to live.
He was about to win and then he got on the comms that you should not kill this guy because
we have to leave.
Don't take this next 10 seconds to kill the main character, please.
And then he did.
And it's a battle, so I'm not that mad.
But the plot convenience certainly works there.
And so all the Ultramarines come back to McCragge and they fight on the Battle of McCragge and
it's pretty epic.
And that's all I'm going to say.
There's really...
I don't want to get too much into details.
But Mr. Colin will do that.
And that's that.
So without further ado, Mr. Colin will tell us all about the first Tyranic War.
I would be happy to.
Now as a bit of a forwarding, actually I guess there's two things I wanted to quickly say.
One, this is of course not the beginner to expert necessarily on the Tyranids.
So in the future we'll probably go more in depth on the various bioforms and quote unquote
special characters of the Tyranids.
But this is a beginner to expert of the first Tyranic War, not the second and third or indeed
the fourth one that is now happening in the lore, but just the first one.
Quite a trendy war that's going on right now.
And two is that while everyone remembers, thinks about it as just the Battle of McCragge
and then that's the end of the war, for a while it was actually just Inquisitor Krytmann's
wild ride.
The Ultramarines are not as prominent as I think, well they're prominent in the end,
but throughout a decent chunk of it.
They were busy fighting the Tau funnily enough.
So with that little forewarning, the first Tyranic War.
The first Tyranic War is a card in Magic the Gathering.
You may put a creature from your hand onto the battlefield.
If it's mana cost contains X, it enters the battlefield.
Number of one, one, I don't know what that means.
On it equal to the number of lands you control and then you double it and then you sacrifice
it.
There's a Magic the Gathering card that's just the first Tyranic War.
I don't know how magic works.
Have you thrown entire war at someone?
It's an enchantment dash saga.
Someone knows what that means, listening.
It's like a thing that goes on throughout the game.
As the saga enters and after your draw step add a lore counter, sacrifice after three,
see it progresses every turn and then you get rid of it.
I play magic.
I'm cool.
I will say quickly before we get in, I actually got into Warhammer when the box set, just
for people who are possibly new or they may not even remember, there was a proper box
set called the Battle of, I think it's Battle of Macragge isn't it?
And that was what they do obviously with many additional launches or big events.
It's like a bigger time to launch a set of minis like what's currently going now at the
time of recording with, oh my God, we've actually seen the box set at Warhammer Fest.
Was it called Leviathan?
Yeah, Leviathan.
That's a heretical.
So I remember seeing that as a kid and then the Battle of Macragge and there's that really
old, I say really old, there's some people listening who are like really old, really,
you know what I mean?
Like it's not old.
But the kind of old school cover art for the ultramarines, the guy has like the dual, I
think it is.
My name is Calgo.
Yeah, it's on that kind of-
It's a classic art piece.
Classic piece which was like properly, because GW had a time where they kind of were less
grimdark and then they've kind of at certain times it's more reserved, the grimdark art
style is more reserved for certain faction, more like chaos.
But I remember seeing that as a kid and thinking that's so cool.
I can't wait to get more into it.
Indeed.
Arnie is just channeling his inner Doomguy cover, just like yeah, I can do the thing
where I stand on a big pile and there's lots of alien stuff.
Bang.
He has a real will.
Indeed.
Speaking of Hal going off, getting more into it.
I have a quote for you Hal, I only have one this episode because the bugs don't have a
lot of quotes and I flipped a coin.
Other than, other than-
What did I say?
Aggressive hissing.
Yeah.
And so with that great responsibility I flipped a coin and landed on heads.
There you go Hal.
Would you mind reading this introductory quote out for the class?
It's in the general sidebar that you and me tend to forget exists.
Ah yes, my pain.
An alien threat has risen from beyond the abyss.
A swarm so vast that it blots out the stars.
This horror fights neither for power nor territory, but rather to feed a hunger so insatiable
it would eventually devour the entire galaxy.
Dun dun dun.
It doesn't say dun dun dun by any chance.
It's not safe, but it's an appropriate addition I would say.
And there's a little tyrannid waving in the background like that's me just like in the
background.
Oh shy.
So that was Inquisitor Kripman on the tyrannids.
So an inquisitor is saying that this is perhaps the greatest threat the Imperium has to face.
And in this case I might have to say I agree with him.
Tyrannids are quite the problem shall we say.
Perhaps we should exterminate us.
You can't exterminate us.
Do I can like inquisitors have like a nickname for like did you throw a cheeky exterminate
me or something like everyone?
Because at some point it must be so um like there's like a yeah like well I imagine that
it's obviously meant to be reserved in terms of lore wise like a big like the end of worlds.
How have you been these days inquisitor so and so?
Oh I've been a bit exterminate naughty if you know what I mean.
There you go.
Just a little bit of background.
This is the first time the tyrannids have been recorded so just a little bit of brief
background on how this came to be.
We go back to the Horus heresy.
Shout out to Barabbas Dantiyak who detonated a device called the pharaohs so the nightlords
couldn't use it.
It was a mini astronomicon which is basically a beacon to guide through the warp and when
it uh when it went critical it made a big old flash both in reality and the immaterium
the warp and 10 000 years ago when this happened the hive mind of the tyrannids took notice
and shifted course over to the milky way.
It literally did that meme where it's like Horus heresy I sleep.
Pharaohs explodes I wake.
Just the eyes with the big pretty much yeah it was just eyes took it in and they changed
course.
They have actually been in the galaxy since at the latest m35 believe it or not.
It's just they were never classified as such as tyrannids which is why the first tyrannic
war is uh the first tyrannic war and not here are the tyrannids again round two.
There was one high fleet that was not known to be a high fleet high fleet or a boris which
was fought in m36 and in m35 uh high fleet tiamat was discovered but because of the nature
of that high fleet which we may get into later in a different episode uh the imperium thought
it was just the native uh particularly angry life forms of one planet in particular.
We know the real reason that they weren't called tyrannids is because they weren't near
the planet tyrant so they'd have rubbish names.
That's right.
Or they'd be called like oh it's the boriolis.
Oh they're near the boriolis, they're the boriolis.
Now that's not a good name.
But the initial beginning of the proper tyrannic wars is uh m41 year 742.
So for some amount of time in the eastern fringes of the galaxy uh it was noted amongst
imperial officials that for whatever strange reason planets that were recorded as being
you know lush and verdant and having ample life on them uh when someone you know did
a flyby by them a second time they were dead and barren uh just gone from like you know
a nice jungle or forest world or what have you to dead completely dead rock no atmosphere
no nothing on it.
Uh even a great deal of the minerals on them had seemingly been mined out and the planet
was just a rock in space now.
So good old inquisitor phidus critman who's uh very important to tyrannid lore was sent
to that region of space to figure out what the hell is going on what's what's the problem
here and one of the planets was you know it's barren as the rest of them it was once the
ocean world of tyran prime.
It was a mechanicist little research outpost and all critman found of that outpost was
a single uh signal being uh that was broadcasting into space that was buried thousands of meters
below the planet's surface and like a bore shaft like for mining or research in the core
or what what have you.
So he uh he finds this and figures this is as good as good as good elite as any it's
all i got so far beyond empty planets and it details the uh the fall of the planet tyran
as these kind of insect these bug-like aliens were in such great numbers they blotted out
the sky and devoured everyone in the mechanicist station and uh evidently the rest of the planet
itself because it was an ocean and suddenly there's no more ocean to be had.
And uh with this the tyranids as they are now known uh named in honor of the planet
tyran where the uh the beginning of you know proper knowledge of the threat happened uh
critman critman's off to figure out how am i going to deal with this what what exactly
is going on uh oh uh the the guy who hit it has a name magos varnak uh shout out to magos
varnak for uh hiding that information beneath the surface and preventing the imperium from
being devoured all.
He was a very cool good work.
Apparently all that lives on him is some calories in a tyranid's stomach uh so and not many
because he was a magos like oh it's like a morsel.
They do eat metal so he could have been oh maybe uh not all metal like they don't eat
living metal uh but who knows maybe whatever he was made out of had a high calorie count.
The machine is immortal even when it's in the tyranid's gullet.
It's like what is this like uranium has a calorie count of like 65 million per gram
don't tell the gym bros.
We could solve world hunger so easily.
That's the real reason you can't eat uranium you'll get fat.
That's the only reason.
Everyone has to take a bite at once at the same time.
Just a lick just a little nibble it's fine.
But uh yeah magos varnak took a chance on just a hope that someone would find it and
luckily critman found it and now armed with just a little bit of knowledge about the tyranid
threat namely that there's a lot of them and they're eating people.
He rushed back to imperial space proper to figure out the tyranid's next move.
He named this particular instance of the threat behemoth or behemoth.
I usually say behemoth but I call it behemoth when I'm talking about the high fleet.
I don't know why.
But named it behemoth for a tradition that is a great threats are given the name of ancient
terran beasts which I don't think that tradition has ever been used once except with the tyranids.
It looks kind of like um hurricanes doesn't it like if they give the hurricane a mild
name people aren't as scared of it so they have to give them more scary ones.
Have you seen hurricane talula like yeah I'm not too bothered.
Jenny.
Jenny doesn't sound that intimidating.
They did a hurricane antru and then uh ass nuerly or katrina.
Yeah it takes a whole new meaning.
That's my name.
Oh dear.
But hurricanes and uh named traditions that may or may not actually be used outside of
this instance aside the tyranids meanwhile as kirtman was doing his investigating uh continued
their path of destruction.
There's a there's a couple standout worlds they ate uh one was a oculus is what its name
was it was a massive biological research station that the mechanicus were using.
It wasn't actually imperial in origin interestingly enough it was captured by them in m 31.
So the immediate aftermath of the horus heresy they got this thing and for 9000 years they
just uh it just kind of held on to it.
Basically biological means this thing is made out of food uh and this station that had been
firmly in imperial control for 9000 years uh was devoured pretty quickly.
It was a buffet.
The whole thing this time because it was a big research station and uh again all of it
organic in like nature on some level.
All of it made out of food so it went from a moon sized thing to nothing like there wasn't
even a world behind.
Just for something um if you're particularly new around warhammer or maybe you know it
already a little bit when the tyrannids devour a planet it's generally the actual like the
bug the chitinous monsters that you see they're usually one of like they're actually how do
you say it forerunners hey that reference and they're kind of like the forerunners of
the hype or the actual devouring does come later when so basically there's a wave of
tyrannids that clean up any resistance and then kind of like massive tendrils like literally
poke through the planets and then they rip apart things like dock with them almost uh
and absorb the nutrients and they make little like weird pools of acid essentially where
they just even the the previous tyrannids that have invaded like the actual monster
ones they literally just chuck themselves into the like bubbling pool but it's like
they make they make like stomachs essentially all over the planet and then they kind of
drain the most the life away like a kind of vein or a very good at recycling yeah and
that's that so the the actual devouring part usually comes after the war thing they usually
have completely annihilated a civilization in like a night or something and then they just go
yum yum dinner time yeah it does it does remind me of dead space again whereas like the necromorphs
they just get rid of all the living people and then they're like oh we'll move all the flesh
into a big thing and that's what we do yeah move the flesh because it is a it is kind of um it is
a it's a i don't know how to explain it but it is the tyrannid actual like monster things they're
not really the tyrannids if you know i mean they're not the things that do the eating
they're not they're only a very small portion of it which is hard for the kind of grass the
actual portion is just a massive floating biomass tyrannids are basically the worker bees
yeah pretty much yeah but then imagine the hive is like the size of a planet and there's like only a
few bees and the bees have teeth and claws and it's really scary there's an infinite amount of
angry bees just outside of you hornets upon hornets nest but uh there uh there goes oculus
thank you for existing to be eaten by the tyrannids up next the orc freebooters world of
jaga it's not just uh it's not just imperials getting uh getting the worst of it uh it was at
one point one of the largest threats to the imperium in the segmentum just for shipping
and trading because it was uh it was quite the quite the gathering of orcs they had great
battleships and uh orc battleships granted so held together with duct tape and spit
but it works enough to be a threat and then the tyrannids showed up and even though it was a very
destructive battle uh there were no orcs alive by the end of that so the high fleet is just continuing
onward going to grow and rather confounding critmen as he's trying to investigate this because if it
was just attacking imperial worlds it'd be like all right xeno's threat doesn't like humanity i can
work with this but now it's attacked the orcs so what's what's their end goal because again you
know we know what the tyrants are about because we're out of universe in universe this was the
imperium's first time actually documenting them properly so no one really was sure what the hell
the end goal of the tyrannids was uh as he's trying you know to figure out what's going on here he's
been ordering his astropath as a like the imperium uh the imperium phone network except the phone is
a living human being uh to contact the rest of the imperium and warn of what's coming uh the problem
is is uh another new discovery to be made is an effect of the tyranid hive mind the shadow in the
warp uh where the sheer psychic presence of the hive mind completely blocks off the ability to
communicate through the warp that's just there's so many bugs and it's such a powerful uh psychic
presence of the total hive mind you can't get through uh does other stuff uh it also makes
warp travel damn near impossible and it can even prevent psychic powers from being used
but the communications blackout is in this case the worst of it for cryptman's purposes
there is a nearby planet of phandros which could hold the key to getting some kind of message out
it was an astropastic astropathic booster station so it's like a it's like a cell phone tower you
can you get good reception there uh it's like 40k is equivalent of a 5g tower yeah it's like
yeah 100 000 g is your astropath uh i think i just imagine that also good sir i think you could plug
him into it what what exactly do they do with it is just kind of described as them using it uh how
exactly feel free to uh i mean in i know in the uh warhammer tv show angels of death there's a
bit where the tyranids have like uh corrupted an astropathic quiet and they're kind of tied
to a mast of sorts and then when they're trying to send the signal out going yay we're going to
liberate the planet they're all like screaming they're still alive but they're like coupled to
the device so i'm not sure but maybe it's like a signal booster or something like that they're just
there is one in um one of the yaruk books the one on armageddon and the way they explain it is it
when they call it a choir it's because it's the room that they're in is kind of assembled like a
choir when there's like a almost like a conductor in the middle who like the main um astropath slash
um who's navigator in a way and then sort of the rest of them act as like boosts it's kind of how
psychic power works in warhammer where sometimes just being around other psychers you connect with
them you can actually like sort of accentuate each other's powers and um particularly with the
astropathic ones they kind of use it as like a yeah when it's like an aftertower they don't need
the actual structure of the tower to be used but it doesn't really help the tower itself it's actually
the people who are assembled in this but they'll see they're very important and the way of the
grim dark universe works is they don't rely on ai so obviously that's why there's like obviously
having things like server you know basically everything's half human half machine at that
point and so they just use the ash that they're basically boosting choir of all these psychers in
this room to then but they basically kind of all collectively shout into the wall and they basically
go hey they're like listen oh oh oh oh what oh there we go there he is mom also a little mom
it's a bit alan alan is literally like their chipmunks but um they kind of it's difficult
as well in warhammer because it's so you're trying to basically send a signal it's like a bullet
trying to go through water where like eventually it will slow down and then things get in the way
of it so they kind of they're just like a very short weird message that only other um astropaths
can interpret it's really weird there's like there's another episode of hammer and boulder
where like the death guard corrupt an astropathic choir so they spread a plague between choirs and
it travels through the space and it's like what how does that work but it's like is the human
connection with it because it is entirely it is like a phone signal but it's actually literally
human string if you know what i mean which sounds really creepy but obviously it's a grim dark future
but um yeah it's kind of it's just weird in in the angels of death one because again they've got like
this whole room of gene stealers and there's the patriarch and then the towers there and obviously
the astropaths are still human but they're being kind of enslaved on this tower and they're not
very happy when they send the signal out being like come and destroy the world tyrannids they're like
have it a good old shriek and you're like yeah that doesn't look fun love me star children
whatever it is so it's probably horrendous and doesn't need to be as horrendous as it is
someone most likely suffered oh yeah even even like making a nail or a screw well that was the
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and sends out sends out big yell it too was uh still nonetheless blocked uh but it was also
critman's best chance of getting anything out maybe he could jury rig something he's an inquisitor
they tend to be smart fellows maybe he can figure something out uh so on the journey there
he's observing more and more worlds that much like the initial ones in the reports that
caused him to go out to begin with were also stripped clean of life and combine that with
previous evidence what he learned on tyrant and just observations he realized that the tyrannids
they have there is no like the grand strategic plan of the tyrannids is that they don't have one
there's no plan there's no ideological motivations they're just bulldozing through the galaxy to get
to the all you can eat buffet that is everyone inside of it uh the only quote unquote path you
can track with the tyrannids is a formal line of all of the like lush like bio rich worlds that
are in front of them and uh that's probably where they're going to go because again there is no
motivation there is just hunger for the tyrannids uh critman gets to thandros and uh to absolutely
no one's surprise it too has been devoured uh the defenses it had had completely run dry
uh but being even less defended than tyran uh it was promptly consumed and tyrannids left
moved on as they do they do not stay around to fortify or infest the planet if you've ever played
stellaris there's the prether and scourge that's pretty heavily based on the tyrannids uh those
guys stick around to form a planet or to terraform a planet and use it to make new bioships tyrannids
don't do that cravers or cravers well cravers also don't do that cravers are also great
also part metal so they're they're weird they were designed to be cooler tyranids they are pretty
cool they're not unfallen though they can never be trees and scottish must trees scottish billions
must root uh but yeah they get to they get to thandros and uh critman is in a bit of a bit of
a pickle now but there is a bit of a bright spot because the whatever equipment that isn't just
more screaming psychers has largely left untouched by the tyrannids uh it not being food and therefore
of complete uninterested them uh meanwhile the uh the high fleet is a behemoth is getting up to some
more hijinks uh some tendrils of it uh passed by solemnness where if you uh know a bit about that
the home planet of trays in the infinite at his galactic museum my beloved the the best the best
guy uh they uh they pass by looking for food as they do again they're not hunting anything
beyond like specific beyond food as a as a concept so they they pass by and they registered the threat
that is the necrons and the complete lack of any biomass they would gain from it aside for maybe
like you know that a couple people animals trays in his frozen his museum not enough to be worth
invading uh so those tendrils of behemoth just kind of float on by and eventually enter hibernation
as they could not find uh rich enough worlds in biomass in time i'm in necron w common necron w
indeed although they do seem to be the the hard counter to tyrannids in a lot of ways it's well
yeah that's good they don't uh they offer the necrons nothing chaos as well from the flayed
ones it's like you could nipple on my like flayed ones like face a little but it's not going to be
enough to make the journey worth it yeah you know that you can feed one gaunt with that
yeah uh there's also an instance of behemoth devouring the fortress world of siberi
a planet held by the heretic astartes death shadows chapter may that horrible edgy name
live on forever in the stomach of the death shadows which further proves krifman's point
incidentally of them just being here for food uh because although they cannot eat demons the
tyranids because they've just made out of warp stuff and emotions you can eat the followers of
chaos pretty well and uh siberi wasn't a caat demon world proper it was a fortress world uh
chaos was squatting and so the tyrannids showed up and then there was no more fortress world
there was just a whole lot of dead traders which uh good for them at least the tyranids are an
equal opportunity monster uh back to krifman because like i was saying at the beginning
uh a large portion of the of the first tyrannic or is krifman's wild ride across the eastern
fringes of the imperium uh as krifman's bizarre adventure yeah that's right uh mcrog is unbreakable
but uh with the things getting even more dire because every minute he can't warn the imperium
is probably another world that's falling uh he's able to figure out the course of the hive mind
and uh realize that uh oh they're uh they're going to ultramar the home of the ultramanes
and for several reasons this is uh this is bad one of course is ultramarine's first founding chapter
one of the original legions they've got a lot of good stuff and if they die that's a quite the
loss to the imperium uh two is that uh this is all taking place just for reference probably could
have started with this but here we are is a segmentum ultima uh the easternmost uh of the
imperium segmentums which are like the largest division of imperial space it's uh it's kind of
like uh anyone like you know you describe america's like the midwest the east coast the west coast
uh it's it's like it's like that for the imperium just in space uh so and uh the problem with that
is that if ultramar falls it's not only you know a very built up realm with a lot of people in it
that would vastly feed the tyranids but because of the sheer size of the segmentum it means that
this is one of like the only major like defensive lines you can form against the tyranids uh yeah
it's it's got quite a distance between it and terror as well so it's like it's a big outpost
quite far away from the from the throne world and it's like if that falls and that's a big like
exposed area that leads straight to terror it's not like a it's not close but it's a quite direct
route where it's like oh that's like a big bulwark against whatever's on the east which is a really
horrible place most of the time we want that where it is it's just aliens would have to ultra oh
it's just the sheer size of like the segmentum means that it's by nature very decentralized
so yeah macrog falls and suddenly the tyranids have free reign over what makes up like a third
of all imperial space like that's the last solid defensive point you can make before it's open
season for the tyranids and although no one quite knows the about the tyranids adaptability yet
what we know is that they integrate the genes of whatever they eat and at this point in the lore
in the lore uh rebute gilliman is still laying in slumber on macrog so if they eat that uh the
tyrannids uh you're gonna turn in primark that'd be so cool time uh the tyrannids are suddenly
going to know how to do their taxes very well uh so yeah uh critman is actively just like
he's he's doing everything he can and he is horrified uh what remainder of like i said they
did not eat all of thandros's relay they salvaged it used it on critman's astropath again how exactly
they did i don't know maybe they got the corpses of like the skulls of the psykers and saying
maybe they just plugged something into the guy the specifics could not find uh i'm afraid
well i mean at least if the again the angels of death series is anything to go by it's like
they maybe don't kill them they just like put them on life support and then they're like you're still
useful but then yeah once that use isn't used we'll eat you oh these are useful you know yeah
but whatever it was they managed to get out a message at great effort and uh strain on the
psykers mind with mcrog itself being the only thing to answer the call so it's uh time to go
to ultramar critman manages to beat the hive mind uh behemoth uh to uh mcrog and he has a meeting with
uh marnanius calgarius himself uh big daddy calgar uh he uh he listens patiently to the
inquisitor calgar is a cool dude he knows critman's definitely got some good insight to be shared
and with that uh the ultramarines prepare for battle on the planet of prondium in mcrog
uh it's a lush garden forest world that uh is described it's been it was described in the
reading it did as a wonder of the imperium it's like it's like the like garden of eden the planet
and the ultramarines as it is part of ultramar they're bound to protect it and uh
it didn't it didn't go so hot for the smurfs it was a slaughter and not for not a not against
not against the tyranids uh the tactics they used they did a lot of things like you know like
hit and run aerial harassment tactics uh you know split up tactics that against you know like a
mortal enemy you know with like supply lines and whatnot and field commanders you know all that
kind of stuff lieutenants would be very effective the problem is the tyranids uh combat doctrine is
to have a massive blob of violence and just kind of move it forward uh at breakneck speed into your
front lines yeah the ultramarines like let's target the commander and they're like seeing a
big sea of them like all right what's your best guess which one's in charge i don't know it looks
similar yeah yeah which to be fair uh they would later learn that the tyranids do have their own
twisted version of commanders but again you need to keep in mind first tyranic war this is the first
proper battle against like war against them they don't know what those those creatures look like
yet uh so like you're saying andy that one that one looks like the commander i don't know uh it's
that oh sorry i was i would say it reminds me of like um when people think about particularly like
napoleonic era war everyone go like why do they all just like stand up in a line and then like
fire in combat that way it's always because at some point when like war advances in technology
there was always a ah this seems to be the most effective with what technology slash what enemy
we're facing i mean it's like another if i remember correctly what's the one between um france or
frank yeah france and prussia where like suddenly prussia changed the game instead of having line
inventory it changed to basically breaking things down to squads i think it was the
the something prussian wars with napoleon the the not the franco that one yeah we're like kind of
the entire battlefield since or the prussians changed the quote unquote the game and it's the
same way now where like the um the tyranid threat essentially is like oh this is an enemy doesn't
fight in the way that we would expect them to and now for the ultraman they're like oh it's clearly
like whatever we've been doing warfare before it's literally failed us now because the enemies
advanced beyond it yeah i don't remember who said the quote but it's something along the line of like
a like the every general is perfectly prepared for the last war like like the difference between
world war one and two yeah oh we can't use trenches anymore i was like what that's my thing we can't
do trenches anymore it doesn't work like in the context of trench warfare the imaginal line was
a masterpiece unfortunately germany had tanks yeah they did not they went around
uh so yeah uh ultramarines took some pretty bad losses was not great uh prondium was forced to
be sacrificed to the tyranids which is a major problem and not only because ultramarines lost
tyranids win but because as such a lush and like wonderfully verdant world uh it pretty much just
replenishes the tyranid losses so it's like the battle mays wolf not happened from their point of
view uh the planet of calth also fell because of course it did it's calth nothing good ever happens
on cal for reference there was a massive battle at calth during the horrors heresy for um uh people
who might not know horrors heresy law and essentially the word bearers just uh trace
trace legion word bearers essentially ambushed the not yet suspected uh or the unsuspectingly
uh betrayed the imperium openly and they decimated many of the ultramarines legion so legion uh time
period so there are hundreds of thousands of uh ultramarines who perished on cal so cal has seen
a lot of it was a cal from the ruin storm which was like a massive war storm that yeah cal had a
bad like because that specifically was the first battle the ultramarines part took in and it was
the one where they weren't prepared for it they lost like 100 000 marines and then as a last act
of huh i hate you erobus and the word bearers also poisoned its son to irradiate cal so you can't
stand on the surface for more than like a few minutes if you're a space marine let alone a human
yeah it's not good it's a bad bad nasty place it's uh i'll jump ahead a little bit uh like to the end
of war uh the aftermath is described as prondium being the only major world that fell which means
cal cal doesn't even get to be called a major world yeah it got so like ruined in the heresy
of the time afterwards for the people don't even count it the people still live well because of the first
incident cal they eventually were forced underground yeah yeah cal used to be beautiful long time like
10 000 years ago and then it got lorgard it got yeah well wasn't there it got erobus
erobus and core pharaoh it was word but he got word buried they got some literacy done oh no
and uh after this tremendous shit show uh two things of note uh happened one far more important
than the other uh feel free to decide which is the more important one uh one is that marnius
calgar fasted and meditated for a week straight you just went into a trance like just thinking
about what what happened how do we just badass how do we not let this happen again very cool hunger
strike uh and he came out and declared that the ultramarines applied applied pride had guided them
to a vastly changing galaxy it had been 10 000 years since the damn thing was written and uh
the uh i think it was what i read was the codex is written for space marines space marines aren't
written for the codex uh if you need more what's up okay i'll go ahead finish up i'll uh jump in
after i would say if you need more reason to hate liandros uh it should be noted that marnius calgar
himself said the codex is not everything and yet we still have liandros being the absolute worst
going your book said this is bad it shouldn't jump out of the ship like the book says it's
naughty like shut up no one likes you i love the russian badger video it's like it's like you know
the codex is starting does not support this reaction shut the fuck up land rose i'll just say um
just for uh context for some people the codex is starting which is written from an ultramarine
perspective by gilliamon at the end of the heresy to sort of split up the legions of the chapters
and so no basically no being would be able to wield imperial forces to the level like a primarch
would so there'll be no way to betray it to the same level it's so like if a chapter goes row
it's like eight chapter not a legion yeah and then it's the final word to put a bow after the
big civil war where like hundreds of thousands of space marines and millions billions of people died
and gilliams like right this is the book about how that's not going to happen again okay take
it seriously and there's like this 10 000 year old scripture we i call it scripture because the
ultramarines themselves they do it is the 41st millennium so obviously there's the god emperor
of mankind and they is very much worshiped as like the bible for them so it's just absolutely
crazy that um in the context of this the uh chapter mass of manias calga of the ultramarines would say
the codex is not good enough for this which is taking a few pages out the bible and going we
don't need this we don't like what are you doing you can't do that it's like the pope saying listen
the bible doesn't have social media rules and you'd be like what the hell it should also be noted
that the only thing gilliams demanded everyone fall from the start is was the organizational
reforms like the was you can't have legions anymore that's a no no you can't do that
uh all of the tactics in it were like that was gilliam and just codifying tactics so people could
use them uh so funnily enough by calgar going the codex doesn't have anything that's ironically
exactly what gilliam would want you to think he's like listen this is just what i know you do what
you do best you don't need to listen to anything you don't need to listen to anything but the
you know no more legions business in this book so funnily enough calgar came to a realization that
gilliam and probably would have given a little pat on the back for it the second most important
the second thing the vastly more important thing uh who cares about the ultramarines
shaking off 10 000 years of tradition stagnation that who cares the real thing is uh on the planet
of caliph before the fighting ended one brave one mad lad uh managed to blast a tyranid in the face
uh a creature known as a carnifex so a quite big threat in the face with a plasma bolt and uh it
fell uh its brain and skull was seared the right side of its face just completely burned off and
the beast was declared dead and its body was frozen as the winter snow set in uh surely nothing bad
will come of that surely dead beast that i will not be covering in about 10 to 15 minutes surely nothing
um but it's time for uh for the mccrog the final showdown uh the ultramarines they change things
up that they realize that you can't really fight the tyranids in the open field uh because one at
this point they're still not really sure how the uh the command chain uh how any of that works or
even exists and two there's a lot more of them so if you try to flank them you're just going to get
surrounded and eaten alive uh it's better against the tyranids to build static defenses that so that
way as long as you don't run out of ammo you at least have a shot uh rather than basically walking
into a field in a nice orderly line and then getting devoured so they uh they fortify ultramar
as we briefly mentioned earlier the damocles crusade was going on uh the imperium was fighting the
tau empire uh it was quite the quite the battlefield quite the theater war i must say
in kyphus is kyphus kane's own worlds uh he'll give the tau one thing they know how to put on
a good war uh but before the imperium could do what the imperium does best and drown the problem
in bodies uh shout out to the guard behemoth is now like fully known about and urgently needs to
be dealt with like the tau are a problem the tyranids are in imperium ending threat so the
damocles crusade is called off the ultramarines all return to mcrog every single member of the
chapter is on the planet uh the forces of the guard that were with them are pulled back as well
this is uh this is this is the showdown because like i was saying earlier this is the last stand
between the tyranids like having to deal with like proper resistance and basically having open
season on a very decentralized portion of the empire so mcrog is fortified uh to a level not
since seen seen since the horse heresy and despite this the uh the battle is brutal uh the entire
chapter defending the world the uh the ultramarines themselves are largely focused around the fortress
of hara their fortress monastery and where gilliman's taken his nap still at this point in the lore
and the tyranids of course focus on that as well as it's the greatest source of resistance on the
planet and in long terms the only thing between them and a proper meal so if they take out this
it is time for the planet to uh to end and indeed the imperium arguably uh nevertheless
it's just horrible like the the skies are on fire with tyrannid spores raining down onto them
millions more are still making it uh bugs are everywhere and uh marnius calgar himself decides
he's gonna he's gonna throw down with the closest thing the tyrannids have to a champion and the
leader uh elai would you like to talk about that a little bit marnius calgar versus uh swarm chad
yes sir i will we can talk about the battle of uh what is it cold steel ridge which i summarized
for you all so here we go it was the it was during the battle of cold steel ridge that marnius
calgar battled the swarm lord he had originally chosen the location because it took the tyrannids
greatest strength away from them that of numbers the xenos were forced to cross the bridges and
walk through valleys to become bottlenecked as hailing bolter fire slaughtered them wholesale
assault marines threw themselves at the synapse creatures while scouts and bikes lured beasts into
killing fields of tank fire the stratagems of calgar were working well until the greatest
tyrannids the ultramarine had ever seen entered the fray the swarm lord began to command his troops
countering the ultramarines over and over again until the horde began to break through and overrun
the warriors the swarm lord sent raveners and trigons to massacre the trenches making them
into canals of blood and from here the defense crumbled the space marines turned to destroy the
xenos creating a hole in their line and letting a brood of carnifexes through to destroy the armor
support calgar knew he was about to lose and so he brought in thunder hawks to bring about a retreat
but the swarm lord catella's prey was about to escape so he bellowed a challenge and charged into
the retinue or into the fray with a retinue of tyrannid warriors slaughtering every space marine
in their way marnius was cut off from his honor guard because the swarm lord's cheeky little guy
had commanded homergons to feign death and then they burst out of the piles of corpses to assail
his space marine guardians uh when this will finally reach calgar the ultramarine put up a
valiant fight but unfortunately in the word the authors wrote him as being already near death
when the battle began so it kind of takes away from the epicness of the duel uh but whatever
i was disappointed when i read that so he was defeated overall um battered and bruised i didn't
find the actual descriptions i don't know if his arms actually got cut off like the tts meme
but we can we can say his arms and legs got cut off for fun but before the swarm lord could kill
him his honor guard jumped in front of him and pushed the beast back uh al oysius commander of
the guard sacrificed himself fighting alone against the swarm lord and the swarm lord's guards
so that his brothers could escape on the newly arrived thunder hawks the ultramarine's uh author
armor will stay forever the greatest plot armor of them all really but yeah the swarm was pretty
pretty freaking epic he outsmarted marnius calgar and beat him in a battle and then uh they ran away
yeah you don't you don't want to be in melee range of the swarm lord you uh
spoiler for his arms unless you are table top avatar of cain or anger on you aren't winning
that fight i like the fact the uh the swarm lord has like integrated four bone sword arms but
uniquely for the swarm lord the swords he has are made from a crystal that can't be found within
the milky way galaxy yeah it's applied that it's it's a conquest of another galaxy i like the idea
of trays and just rubbing his hands together like i love one of those i'm sure he has a swarm lord
somewhere he's got a collection of different like shades of like this is an onyx shade one this is
a purple one this is from behamoth this is from leviathan the swarm lord's too cool it's like
sole reason to make me want to play tyranids this is this is part of the swarm i unleashed on the
phalanx and battle fleet god it was funny it also goes to show as well this particular
like battle as well like as much as people might think oh the tyranid hive mind slash big you know
tendrils whatever even though it's like main thing is just feed it only desires to just basically
consume all biomass it's not unintelligent in a way it just doesn't need to be more than that only
at times like such as battlefield so it does have um like genuine tactics and uh it's normally
it's almost smart it is it is smarter than a human in a way yeah it's harder than calgar
it's it's like if like you gave an animal like the highest iq on the planet but you don't give it like
proper sapience uh so it's the deadly it's now the deadliest predator on the planet it's just
you know it doesn't give a shit about the culture it doesn't need books it just needs food
it's like an octopus and a shark combine i don't know the the only emotion i'm aware of that i've
seen the tyrannid do is in the space marines 2 trailer where captain titus does his superhero
landing and they take a step back and then the other guy in charge is like oh don't don't walk
backwards it's just a space means like oh oh oh babe that's not just i'm that's that's captain
titus he's gonna rip you a new one maybe lieutenant titus now but that just means he's more on the
ground ready he's still a captain in my heart i don't care what the inquisition says they can
take me he's still a captain two knuckle dusters one says plot and one says armor
and both are smashing in liandros's face at least he at least he lost the fight even if the authors
gave him an excuse to lose the fight which was so lame but it's fine everything's fine well makes it
any more oh sorry i'm gonna go first no you first i was gonna move on i'll say just like for people
thinking oh that sounds kind of like a nice clash what makes it like extra horrifying is that like
obviously space heroes are just using like bolter blade and flame with the tyrannid weapons just
like being a regular guardsman on mccragge even obviously mccragge is fortified beyond imagine
fortifying earth like to a cray like trenches literally everywhere and buildings and guns
and then the tyrannid weapons are like even smaller bugs that can like eat like they're
like they're flesh borer rifles it shoots a thing at you like it's a creature that eats you through
a sphincter and literally just their weapons are their swords and they're obviously like their
pincers they can pierce through surmai and they devour people from the is it is basically any
interaction with a tyrannid weapon for most things it's like you're walking dead essentially so it
is pretty if you see an orifice you duck away from it because you don't know what's coming out of it
and it's probably gonna probably gonna kill you or hurt you just stay away from it it's unpleasant
yeah i want to mention one last thing though which is like it's mentioned in the devastation of bar
which is another tyrannid siege we'll probably cover in a podcast one day when they it happens
like we're like because obviously everyone like imagines like these battles in their head
the tyrannid swarm is so large that it actually creates like artificial night
so for when you're imagining these battles that's how they're not swarming about like a big thing
covering the sun that's like loads of tiny little bugs covering the sun that's how many yeah and
both the blood angels and ultramarines have had the toughest time they're like we need like the
blood angels like we need every successor to defend the planet just from the tyrannids because
they're that much of a threat and it's terrible i think all their homeworld was as mcrag is probably
the most other than terror the most fortified planet in the entire imperium so just going to show
how it used to be the ultramarines even call back the other successor chapters i just there no time
i don't think they do but but again they've got like a massive multi-world spanning empire so it's
like you've got more guard than you would with barl it's probably a bigger planet it's got more
infrastructure it's got more resources and it's the ultramarines who are like the premier the
premier chapter as much as we do the ultramarines with the we do want to mention that the gods
there's probably billions of god yeah and titans and they had titans oh yeah oh yeah it's like it's
just the space marines are just the ultramarines but it's it's the full like the full might of the
imperial military is here right now it's literally it'll be a battle that would like destroy earth
if it was like to rage on it's an incomprehensible but uh but if you thought the chapter master of
the ultramarines nearly getting killed was bad the first company's doing it even worse
they were at the northern pole of mcrog in the frozen wastes where some more defensive batteries
were located and they were killed to a man and just for reference these were terminators they
were the first company these are the guys who get the good the you know the extra primo stuff
and uh did not help them uh although yeah they uh for what it's worth uh what i read was they killed
so many tyranids they were like blanketing the ground like 10 courses six deep many corpses deep
more than zero cork yeah it's a big lost marines the temple of the flame went out in the temple
or whatever when they died i think yeah and they couldn't recover loads of their terminator armor
suits because they were so badly damaged like oh that we are we can't do anything it's just it's
it's just bits we can't use this anymore it's in pieces and so is the guy who was wearing it
there's a cool diorama as well if you look it up i think it's especially sad though because when
we say uh first company that is first company is the elite veterans so a lot of these are like
centuries old ultramarines like there's no there's no young blood in these and their panoples are
like multi-thousands of years old they've been through countless like some of it's probably from
the horus heresy it's been through like the darkest and brightest moments of the ultramarines
chapters history and now oh it's gone we can't use it anymore all that history in a single day it's
been taken but uh even with all this you must still remember we are still dealing with the
ultramarines uh yeah buddy the battle kind of just goes from the ultramarines are all taking
horrible losses and uh and then we won but well this is because of this kind of space it's because
of space i think we're gonna get to that all right okay there's a thing about high fleet baomoth
uh it wasn't just moving as one big old blob of you know death uh it was two uh two halves of it
were leapfrogging each other so one one half would devour a world the second half would go ahead of
them and then that first half would go ahead of them and then on and on and on and on and on
uh problem was the ultramarines at a very very horrendous devastating cost were able to beat the
uh alongside their allies of the guard and whatnot were able to hold off the fight on mcrogg
uh they didn't kill every single tyranid but they were able to at the very least
weaken that half enough that mcrogg was no longer in danger of falling the numbers gained isn't it
because they had to basically the the tyranid hive mind goes you cost too much right now to take
now to take her problem was uh the other half was in space like you mentioned eli uh as uh so in the
space uh around mcrogg fights not done yet as the other half arrived to finish off the uh weakened
ultramarines and the other half oh my god yeah for real there's a lot of tyrannids what do you want
to do pain one half of them was wipe them out and they're like it's literally someone saying like
bot has been fighting with a hand type on his back yeah uh but thankfully the imperial navy is
here to save the day uh the perhaps most forgotten about navy in all of science fiction
they're here this is their this is their one time to shine it's this in battle fleet comic
yeah other than admiral spire being a badass like abaddon pish rubbish i'm admiral spire i don't give
a damn about amit uh but yeah the navy is going at it and the fighting is arguably even fiercer
in space because this is where the tiered and bioships are and they're the ships they're not
like you know a carnifex is big this is a spaceship that's made out of meat uh so quite big and uh
hey that's i hate it so much it's the meat ship oh god and uh the fighting is so horrible that the
imperium has to send in reinforcements from the entire other segmentum segmentum tempestus
which i don't remember where that is on the map is that the south one it won't be the one that's
terror it won't be more it's not north yeah are we more east or north possibly i think it might be
north because i think i think like is an ultramar like the most southeasterly place on the map and
then it's like you can only go up and left from there segmentum tempestus is south it's the one
below oh okay i think we should also mention mr calgar is back on his feet i of course i went
he gave a good man down they gave them some replacement everything and uh he's back on it
uh unfortunately he's commanding himself in space he is unfortunately he cannot fight in space however
being a man against each ship uh so even with these reinforcements it's uh it's not looking
great uh critman however he's also in space and he he's he comes to a realization uh certain
bioships when they're destroyed all of the surrounding ones just lose any kind of cohesion
they just go into like animalistic meltdown uh which the imperium would also learn applies to
certain creatures on the ground synapse creatures as the way that works is it's how the hive mind
directs them through these synapse creatures and when you blow that one up the rest of the
smaller creatures are cut off from the hive mind and uh refer to like animalistic instincts
or a scientist call it the phantom menace meant method it's like you get the gungans involved on
the ground and then you just blow up the ship and then they go oh they're broken and then they
we said did it they are broken for being the worst 20 uh but uh even with this again a lot
of tyranids this is the second half of leviathan uh thankfully the imperium has a little something
called an emperor class battleship uh the dominus astra uh it does not win by being like a dozen
like a dozen mile long battleship it wins by charging into the center of the tyrannid blob
of violence uh and detonating its warp drive uh if you had you like halo reach uh they george it
uh for the emperor brules for the emperor and uh they solved the problem of the second half of
behemoth in the most in the most fitting way possible sending all of the tyranids to the
immaterium and making them some poor demons problem to deal with it's not a move they can do i think
because the emperor class ship is is they can't make them anymore can they they can't make
them anymore and maintaining them alone is already like straining the imperium so uh yeah that's
that's not a reliable throw the battleship at it yeah it's not a holdo maneuver where it's like i
could just jump through space above these stars like no no you can only do it once why oh because
we don't have a lot of boats yeah you just bankrupted 10 sectors yeah uh and with that
the battle is won uh but the aftermath is a little rough uh the ultrarines lost a little
a little uh the ultrarines lost so many men that on top of the the whole first company that it took
them almost a century for them to uh clear mcrog of the remnants of the tyrannids and even longer
for them to reach uh full strength uh and they were only able to even do that because the blood
eagles uh dante was a cool guy and sent several entire companies to help them out uh because they
had like no one left good old genesis chapter stepping up i imagine that helped the losses
the ultrarines like just going oh boy i can't wait to be an ultramarine it's finally time
and then you see all the dead like oh it kind of feels bittersweet
honestly terminator armor even because it's all been broken oh that sucks
i went to the chapter master of the genesis chapter like how many companies do you have
i need them and they bullied the other successors into taking their terminator i'm like you don't
need this we're more important we're gonna repaint it ultramarines uh on cal the planet was somewhat
resettled uh the tyrannids evidently hadn't quite eaten it uh but not without issue because that
carnaffex wasn't dead baby oh why he uh he was freed by salvagers from a block of ice hope not
assuming you know who assumed he was dead and were thinking this will fetch a high price on
some shady market or whatever uh then his regeneration kicked in uh it wasn't enough
to heal his face but it was enough to heal everything else and for years from that day
uh old one i would just periodically ransack cities on cal he's like the sly marble of tyranny
and every now and then they declare him as dead and then he would come back then he goes baba yaga
and then he just runs around killing himself oh no he's back and he's got his own cult he does
he does a cult that worships his body would indicate he's presently dead but you can also
use him on tabletop so probably not probably just take it now he's fine if i remember correctly
doesn't he get he actually is resurrected by the some of the high fleets but as a unique one where
it's missing an eye that's a theory theory or it's like a like the cult just worships old one eye
in general i don't know if they worship his corpse yeah i read like they have what his body her one
of his eyes with however it works he also probably right he also could just be hibernating there and
every now and then he wakes up and their god just walks off he still stuck on cal he is on cal
i hate this planet and he keeps waking up but they keep trying to wake me up
he also makes other places sometimes he just does
uh uh and uh just to be a goober uh and although the high fleet was broken it was not completely
defeated that day uh it was split into numerous smaller splinter fleets which although much
smaller and not with the same level of guidance from the hive mind proved to be a major pain in
the ass for the galaxy for centuries to come uh there was one battle where they were fighting
against the adeptus mechanicus and the skitari commander in charge actually figured out a great
way to deal with them the uh the like some uh like off-product gas from promethium refineries
that he saturated the atmosphere with it and then lit it on fire which you know obviously a bit of
a radical move but it did stop like a bulk of the tyrants from reaching grand landfall and
horribly weakened them which you would think this is a great strategy to keep going forward uh because
you know if the tyrants are on a planet it's better to damage it than just let the tyrants have it
except uh he returned to a forge world the information was given to the forge world
databanks and then they forgot about it classic classic yeah this is a certified imperium of man
moment it was probably probably hard to pull that off on planets that aren't
only mechanicus planets so people actually have to have an atmosphere it's definitely situational
but like just the information itself was just like it's still there too it's not lost they just
forgot it's there knowing the mechanicum they probably killed a bunch of like civilians in the
process oh yeah acceptable acceptable losses it was just weak through yeah and uh another splinter
fleet uh went uh fed on on this one actually ended up happening two centuries later it became high
fleet gorgon uh and they would uh go be a pain to the tau empire uh for some time until uh until
they weren't the tau kind of just pretty handily defeated them is that the one that farse i fought
i believe it was that no i think that's a different i was uh i was cracking yeah i think what
happened with the the gorgon was that the tau and tyranids got into an adaptation fight where they
kept countering each other's tactics so fast that on the fly they would be doing something different
every like five minutes ten and the tau one good for the when the uh when the turn is invaded on
mccrag at the north pole did the i'm guessing the tyranids when they produced the bioform they
obviously adapted them to the cold and then the water yeah they would they would have done that
it's just that the uh adaptation of the tyranids isn't uh as with much of them at this point isn't
fully uh like understood oh one thing i oh sorry uh one thing i liked about the battle mccrag uh
things were going really well to one of their orbital defense cannons stopped working because
the hive mind commanded like thousands of gargoyles to just uh throw themselves and clog the cannon
with their bodies not bad and there was like swarms of bugs climbing up the titans and
pushing them over and stuff killing people they took out the oracle mac platforms
yeah rip creatures fallen i'm just whenever you say about they did this to it i was just
thinking a bear goes it's like adapt improve overcome just i'm just like a tear it's going
i'm gonna have to drink my own piss to survive like you know you don't just doing that for
television stop it just stop and then uh and then what's up there um the adaptation that they're
only i believe they need to do a little bit because obviously in terms of biomass cost
it obviously factors in more just to basically specialize the tyranny for the even the way the
tyrannids are designed they're designed to be the most efficient killing warriors like their forms
because they could technically make it like a perfect being but it wouldn't be efficient
in terms of biomass like they could make everything the swarm lord but efficiency
dictates that's not good that's why it's why the imperium doesn't just only have knights and
titans it's like you need smaller stuff uh and the last uh of the splinter fleets uh was a what
much more devastating one than the rest uh i accidentally call it a splinter fleet a fleet
of leviathan in the dock that's not right uh it adapted from its losses on ultramar and uh no
longer was it uh sending out like massive storms of lesser tyranids instead it focused on producing
a greater number of larger bio forms and this is important because they were not fighting back
against the ultramarines they'd moved on to the planet of racer nine or uh i which uh yeah that's
that's the roman numeral for nine right i wrote that down and then forgot i x that's nine uh yes
yes uh they had uh they were fighting and on that planet was the night house of house raven
imperial knights are getting and then this too good for them uh problem was these tyranids were
fiercely intelligent uh they were the bigger ones so they were much more capable of going toe to toe
with the knights and as we were saying before the tyranids aren't complete beasts when the hive minds
guiding them they're fiercely intelligent they goaded and played on the knights are honor to
isolate them on a one-on-one battles from their comrades and then swarm them with tyranids yeah
then the knights go they're not fighting one-on-one that's not very sporting pip pip and then they get
the pipe in their mouth and do a charge do it do it put a trench in go on they're more plutonium
on the accent give it that and uh having uh with this the racco or nine fell and the knights
believed they witnessed uh like a dark mirror of their own feudal traditions which i think
they're just gaslighting themselves into thinking that but whatever uh they think they witnessed
the tyranids being somewhat feudal and uh in uh in response to that they named this splinter fleet
the court of the nephilim king which is a very cool name it's cool it goes all right they're alive
and uh yeah starting to say what about night houses they know how to name stuff that is very true
and uh they vowed vengeance against the tyranted threat uh and with that the first tyrannic war is
over uh although the imperium you know they were aware of the remaining splinter fleets you know
and they were you know gonna fight them as they needed to they kind of they kind of relaxed they
figured like all right that was the tyranids that was you know there's the army it's over right
there's the threat uh they figured like going forward that all of like the tyranids they would
end up encountering on the eastern uh like portion of the galaxy there you know there's splinter
fleets of leviathan uh or i kept saying leviathan uh baomoth after it uh withdrew from a crag to
find more food they figure like all right it's baomoth again it's more more these guys will clean
them up you know initially that was probably true like you know the first couple of years after
mcrog it's like yeah that that's probably baomoth uh but it wasn't until 999 m41 that the imperium
realized uh oh oh baomoth baomoth isn't all of them it's not even most of them uh oh and uh one
final note i know you were asking earlier how if we do any bit of a lead-off into the rest of the
tyranid threat a little bit of a hint on what critman gets up to i won't say exactly what in
case we'll leave that for a later episode either on the tyranids as a whole or the other tyrannic
wars but he uh he did some stuff that even to the inquisitions like that was beyond what the limits
of acceptability so pretty pretty atrocious stuff critman did although in saying that they called
him many things uh namely a radical a traitor a fool uh but does anyone want to take a guess what
they didn't call him wrong inefficient how had it nice so uh epic the tyranids have just begun with
the first tyrannic war and uh but for now that will be it does anyone have any questions on the
on the bug fight i think i will say that we there are i think current what's currently going on in
law there's there's the fourth tyrannic war so there is a little we will possibly cover some of
the other ones although i don't believe the other ones are quite the same level as detail as the
first tyrannic war maybe the third you could the third might be i'm not as sure about the second
but the third might be because the third has like you know that the defensive ball and uh it's when
you learn that the oh yeah just coming from the east well that will that will be the devastation
of ball i think we'll save that one for a that's a that's almost an episode in its entirety because
it's such an amazing um sort of version of a uh tyrannic fight and there's also some demons
and i against them but we'll we'll save that another time though yeah i would say it's the
event that cements the blood angels of like right here and it's our nemesis basically every every
media you see the blood angels involved and it's pretty much all them versus the tyranids yeah and
uh if uh some final closing words uh frankly i find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive
and uh i'm from buenos aries and i say kill them all
nice i think you can't talk about the tyranids and not bring upstairs your true
resilience and then manius calgar kicked them out of the first war and he went it's afraid of us
it's afraid of us and then the diddus went no propaganda went off right we're just gonna eat
you from a different direction it's fine i think um if you are particularly more like the newest
side of um warhammer law uh the first tyrannic war in terms of the general like overarching
lore story of it is actually quite a i do find it quite enjoyable ones because it's a proper like
obviously you kind of it's mostly obviously ultramarine kind of fan service at some points
but it does show the overarching kind of greasiness of just general war in how the sort
of the 40th millennium um behave and how it just really is on the ground level because it just
shows you the absolute planet level destruction that just even a small set i mean it's one thing
is like alphanac be a bad trope where it's like huh i was using only using a fraction of my power
and then someone's like my you know um thinking of eldarie slash unari books here so then
add bad to them and then the thousand aspect warriors get licked to death
more about that another time hopefully um but never no there is no trilogy but the tyranny
stuff is just so as much they are like the kind of like that face a swarm um villain in a way they
do quite well to the point of um it it delves more into the horror of 40k because it is it's
hard to kind of get across how genuinely like well they write it in the book but how horrifying
just a tyranid invasion is because it's it's not just like oh you know we're playing a tower
defense game then we're going to shoot into the number as port it is literally air ground and you
know literally under the earth too like literally things great worms and creatures and even little
time was like you know bite your ankle yeah there's a great episode of hammer and bolt where it's
the kadians fighting tyranids and it's just the poor guardsmen and there's there's big ones there's
little ones it's ones that just drop on them and explode and cover them with corrosive acid
there's one bit where a guy's being eaten by like 10 of the little ones and the guards just like
and a carried measures like no we've got to leave them we need to leave them but i feel like the
first tyranic war could be summed up by the uh the band buckman turn overdrive just saying you
ain't seen nothing yet but but but baby you ain't seen nothing yet and that's basically the first
tyrannic war of them going like yeah we ain't even started i think they haven't even broken up what's
up no you guys are i'll finish and uh they didn't even break out all of the stops because uh no the
future wars the gene stealers are going to be a threat too yeah now you can't even trust your
neighbor are tyrannic war veterans still in the tabletop i don't think so i think those sad
i'll never forgive you w for this well there might be fourth fourth tyrannic war veterans there's
some there's a lieutenant with them i guess i feel like first tyrannic war veterans were all gone
by this one's like right we were veteran of one now you're pushing your luck i've been reading
a whole lot of the second war the fourth really um when was the date for the first tyrannic wars
it's 700s 800s uh m40 m40 yeah you know the uh specific date of when the first tyranic war
745 m41 because it is it does a lot of stuff that's actually that's quite a like a lot of
oh a lot of um in warhammer history it's kind of a lot of things happen in m9999 you know like
so a lot of things like it hits the fan date yeah yeah and in general like warhammer history
because of how the imperium works history is often forgotten and misremembered or written down in like
some administrative thing written by a man who's on a world in literally a planet that writes notes
so you can never find it so it is crazily how in a way this is almost ancient news in terms of like
again like you're probably right like not many of the current ultramarines are basically ones who
live through the tyrannic walks again obviously space means do dialogue especially because most
of them get eaten yeah and i reckon a lot of the imperium doesn't even know what a tyranid is
because it's like well they're not going to survive a tyranid invasion more than likely
and it's only a couple of hundred years old and dante's four times older than the first invasion
he's like get off my lawn you new kids on the block ruining my day in reverend bjorn is like
ah i've been around ages what's these bugs squish them hey in reference it would be like someone in
our history going like oh you know the um american war of independence and then the declaration of
independence and then you kind of go yeah that thing that you know like and then that's obviously
so many in a way tell me quite a few generations back so the modern people the imperial like oh
tyranny they'll be literally the wall be carved in marble and stone at this point that's how old it
would be to the imperials um speaking of i'm glad the old trains were such a snack uh because that
was a delicious snack of a little uh is there one other closing comments other than that one
one i like the ultramarines yeah i missed the first tyrannic war veterans they will live in our
hearts forever r.i.p uh with that being said though uh with that being said though uh we hope you guys
all um enjoyed obviously there was quite a little bit of a more of a short episode this time because
we probably overloaded a bit too much recently um but obviously we do like to cover the tyrannies
particularly this time with the release of their codex so you know there'll be loads of gorgeous
models coming out recently uh i hope elia has not bought them all immediately i i'll refrain i'm
buying star wars legion right now nord assimilator my beloved with uh with that being said though we
um uh we hope you guys all enjoyed obviously uh if you would like we obviously had the question of
the week at the beginning obviously happy to have some really funny answers we appreciate it or any
comments just in general about the topic and also other ones that you would like us to cover um if
there's more tyrannid ones like definitely like obviously make your voice be heard because we
obviously look out for what you guys want to see and or any other topics in general and uh i think
next uh next time a little bit of us i'm not going to say who it is but we will possibly have a guest
on for our next episode andy do you want to explain what the topic is possibly well i know um
manias calgar in some circles has been noted to have said uh you're insisting on a fist in and
although it's not manias calgar we will be covering another fist influenced faction which will be
the crimson fists yay yeah that's a very nice danteoc the comment earlier about the sofa device
blowing up because we were following someone else who was also involved in that uh no squad is here
um the crimson fists have been i think one of the earliest uh chapters in the entire their
second space founding and they were the first ones on the cover weren't they were the the codexes
yeah so there'll be some uh so again some call back to people who've probably been around
since that launch itself and they probably remember it so hope you guys enjoy that one
i'm very good at posing at last stands yes they're they're always ready to stand the last in time uh
we may even have someone special there yeah i can't wait to show you i won't be there
we're going to want to cast no spoilers yet unfortunately um but we will we will let you
all know very soon and with that being said hope you guys all enjoyed and we'll catch you on the
next one peace very well love you glory to the star children they will not eat you he will give
you hugs and kisses yes holy union kill them all kill them all it's just holy union it's not eating
it's holy and i say kill them all