Could you please do a video similar to your Horus Heresey Retrospective but for the Tyranids? I think it would be really interesting to hear how they and their lore have changed over time!

@anotherzingbo

Жыл бұрын

I don't know about the middle years but the Tyranids as they were originally described in Rogue Trader were different in interesting ways so it would be interesting to learn the entire story!

@Albursine-

Жыл бұрын

I support more bug lore

@LokkesBoerlin

Жыл бұрын

More retrospectives! I always find them the most interesting videos

@petros9711

Жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert - The Tyranids were not in the galaxy and there is no info a the imperium isn’t yet outside the galaxy as of 30K. So no Tyranids.

@anotherzingbo

Жыл бұрын

@@petros9711 the idea being discussed is for a discussion of the out of universe history of the Tyranids - how GW evolved their lore (and maybe also their model range, if that interests Ian) over the years.

Not much in 40k elicits an emotional response from me, but the idea of the tyranids legit scares me. Especially not knowing if ours is the second galaxy they've consumed or the tenth or the thousandth.

@Arkanthrall

Жыл бұрын

You here? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

@baynemacgregor8441

22 күн бұрын

Really old lore, i think from either Advanced Space Crusade or it's remake Tyrannid Attack, says they've eaten 13 galaxies before reaching this one.

@user936

18 күн бұрын

Their ethics consist of NOM NOM NOMNOMNOM NOM *buuuuuuuuuuurrrp*

Dammit Ian, I did NOT need this video to trigger the little “Oh Tyranids are interesting after all!” button in my brain.

@BW-CZ

Жыл бұрын

Tyranids are fascinating! If you're interested in more, look up the Deathleaper story and some Octarius lore (especially the part with Skarfang!), which show how intelligent the Nids are. And the lore descriptions for the weapons is also quite cool (the most creative arsenal in 40k).

Ooooh, Kraken next. That means the Scythes of the Emperor! I loved that plotline in White Dwarf back in the day. Tyranids are definitely one of the coolest things about 40K. Dinosaur-Bug monsters from outer space.

Just noticed they had that world 'Prandium' get eaten. 'Prandial' means 'relating to a meal'

@JJR_01

Жыл бұрын

Prandium is Latin for lunch - you have to love those "high gothic" jokes!

Between the Ciaphas Cain novels and these videos, I might just succumb to the Leviathan box. I don't need another horde army, but the bugs are getting harder to resist.

@lostsanityreturned

Жыл бұрын

Yup. That and a certain stl maker for 3d prints has me deciding to pick up leviathan and start a Tyranid army. That and a deathwing detachment.

@bastodon

Жыл бұрын

Was just thinking….

@librarybear3419

Жыл бұрын

I have been feeling the same pull. The star gods are calling...

@ChadmasterDante

Жыл бұрын

You want to go halfsies on it? 😂 I want the marines but don't care about the nids lol

@TheMurphman1989

Жыл бұрын

the book sucks though, fyi

I love these videos, I hope the new people coming for 10th discover them.

Lol, outrageously happy to see another lore post from the Arbiter

‘So they’re named after Tyran?’ ‘Yep’ ‘And they’re like tyrant bugs?’ ‘Yep’ ‘So they’re ty-ranids?’ ‘No we’ll all pronounce it ‘tiranids’’ 😝

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY. I shall hereby use both pronunciations for the duration of all these videos. But in this one I have to say Tyran so bloody much I'm mostly going with the one that sounds like that.

@euansmith3699

Жыл бұрын

Vowel sounds move strangely in the Warp. 😍 Especially when they are only sometimes a vowel.

@Perkustin

Жыл бұрын

Tyranid Dynasty..... Head Explodes from confusion.

@hairydadder1168

Жыл бұрын

When I hear ty-ranids jusr hear Jango Fetts voice.... 😂😂

@Gh0stClown

Жыл бұрын

Who's to say it's not based on the word 'tyrannical'? Or that Tyran isn't supposed to be pronounced 'Tirran'?

One of my favourite bits of Warhammer lore, thanks for doing this video! I love the Tyranids, they are my favourite faction in 40k because they can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. They absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

The first discovery and encounter with the Tyranids would make for an awesome sci-fi horror movie. Examination of once living planet now without sign of life. What happened here? Where are the oceans? An imperial fleet lost in a black cloud of biomass. Only the stress signal escaped. Despair resistance of the hive city and the annihilation of the population in the dark industrial corridors. Then Astartes would arrive with maximum fire power engaging in hopless close combat battle.

@chadstorm92

Жыл бұрын

It’s called Starship Troopers 😜

@Revenant_Art

Жыл бұрын

@@chadstorm92 ahh you mean "Imperial guard The Movie" :)

@Smittumi

Жыл бұрын

Kryptman played by Guy Henry?

@chadstorm92

Жыл бұрын

@@Revenant_Art We need to setup a kickstarter campaign for this!

@Tsotha

Жыл бұрын

that's just James Cameron's Aliens

Ah it’s not a Arbitor Ian video without one name pronounced differently to the status quo 😂 Great video as always! I see you post a video I immediately watch the content is always so well put together.

My head-canon for the Tyrannids is that they're probably the last middle finger of the Old Ones or at least a group of bad actors from the Old Ones. After their defeat they fled the Milky Way and created one last lifeform, the perfect life form and set it loose. The goal was simple. Consume all life in the universe. Because the 'nids don't just strip biomass out of the galaxy, they strip all the valuable minerals too. So they thought they'd leave the Necrons with nothing to use. Basically scorch-earth the galaxy. The necrons would be alive but without anything left to get their bodies back or without anything to really rule. The consumption of all life also destroys Chaos and resets the Warp if not removes it entirely. You know it's a mirror. That or they were created by someone in another galaxy who also learned of the warp and this was their only solution to rid the universe of the warp issue. It could be that the 'Nids have also evolved beyond their initial biological programming. Eventually though the thing that's not addressed in the books is that the Tyrannids are beholden to the fact that entropy is a thing. The larger they get the more biomass they must consume to maintain. Eventually they won't claw in enough and succumb to their own version of the square-cube law. Eventually they'll die, the hivemind will shut down as it can't keep feeding itself, even if it make drastic cuts they'll probably be in a galaxy divested of food at the time and the cuts will not save them as their reach exceeded their grasp. Then maybe life will find a way to start again. There's a lot of good dichotomy in 40K. The Necrons and the Eldar are generally opposed, the Tyrannids and Chaos are anathema to one another, and the Imperium and the Tau are two sides of the same state-dominant coin.

I am now 100% sure Ian uses the weird pronunciations of everything in 40k to see the reaction and giggle to himself about after uploads... I hate it, but I respect it.

@proudsaiyanprince2651

Жыл бұрын

He seems like he’d be that kind of passive aggressive. Lol

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I used EVERY POSSIBLE PRONUNCIATION in this video to keep everyone happy! That's how it works, right?

@lukef.132

Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan Whatever you do someone will be mad haha Meant no offense, keep up the amazing content.

@threeohm

Жыл бұрын

@@proudsaiyanprince2651 - The Arbitor is the LAW. Emperor bless him.

@proudsaiyanprince2651

Жыл бұрын

@@threeohm I like his videos and I appreciate his style but I’ve had a few odd interactions

The Tyranids have always been my favorite 40k faction and the army I got into the game with back in 5e, and Behemoth has always been my favorite fleet. Coolest color design, the introduction of Old One Eye and the Swarmlord, and they really handed the Ultramarines their asses. I made my custom hive fleet a splinter of Behemoth that grew large enough to be classified as its own distinct fleet.

While the Tyranids as an existential threat is a relatively late development in the timeline, their tendrils and bioforms have been in the galaxy for a while in smaller numbers. Just as not every Necron tomb world woke up at the same time, waking up way earlier than the bulk, some Tyranid forces arrived long before. (Thus justifying games of 40K involving the Tyranids before the current era). Hive Fleets Tiamat and Ouroboris, for example, were known to have attacked Imperium space in M35 and M36, respectively. It was only later, post First Tyranic War, that their origins were identified as part of the greater swarm. Meanwhile, Hive Fleet Hydra, while not active until M41, was found dormant by Drukhari (who obviously were devoured; couldn't have happened to nicer elves) on the far eastern fringes of the galaxy. So they were presumably around long before, waiting for the main Tyranid fleets to arrive.

It is great to have your storytelling shed some light on the lore for the Tyrannic Wars. 👍

Great video. Thank you for respecting your viewers time and making this concise, informative and entertaining. Nice video. Keep up the good work. Really interesting to learn about how the fleet moves and how long it takes to get rid of all the remnants after a victory. Keep up the good work.

Ah yes, the Daddies and Mommies of the Zergs and the Offspring of the Arachnids / Bugs from Starship Troopers.

Thank you for doing this series, I used to play Tyranids back in 3rd and 4th edition and I suspect your videos and the new edition are going to make me fall in love with them all over again

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you for finally enlightening me.

Great start to the series. Stellar work as always.

Very good video Ian! GW has told the story of Behemoth so many times in so many sources but I have never seen all of these disparate pieces of lore collected into a complete story. Many thanks!

Another awesome lore video! Now we need a real world history about the tyranids and how they became a part of the game!

Since my first 40k box was the Battle for Maccragge starter box, Behemoth will always have a special place in my heart.

Brilliant, thanks!

Hey, you can't stop a video like that. Keep them coming!

Very well done sir

"I long for Genestealer Ass" -Inquisitor Kryptman

"Prandium" Isn't that Latin for "meal"?

@markweevil3985

Жыл бұрын

Lunch, specifically. It’s stupid and I love it

@euansmith3699

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. This is what you get when some Grammar School boys create a galaxy of grim darkness and Latin puns. 😄😄😄 40k is so much fun.

Great video as always!

Super excited for these!

Yes Tyranids! Very happy to have you doing videos on my favorite faction. Does Anphelion Project have enough content for a video? I'd love to see a video similar to Taros Campaign for that book.

Great video!

I'm assuming you're planning to do this on the run up to 10th but I'd love it if you did a summary of all the tyrannic Wars such as this. I had ADHD so I deal best with audiobook style content. This makes reading the history in the codex a challenge, but hearing your lovely voice chronicle the wars is lovely

love the channel! Catching up on my Tyranid lore before Leviathan comes out

Your videos are always enjoyable. The Tyranids remind me of Yuuzhan Vong Wars from Star Wars.

Heck yeah!

i love how the heroes to the rescue here are the imperial navy

Tier-anids

I'd love to watch a detailed explanation of the amphelion project too.

Great stuff. Krak-on with the next one 😅

Great video !! More ! 😁 There’s still 3 tyranic wars to cover 👍

Ah... the 40K race that got me interested in the game

Sterling stuff!!

I wonder how an stc controlled defensive would fare against the Tyranids an ai run assembly and organizational strategy for the better of humanity against the inevitable might of the space virus?

Okay, now i need my next does of Arbitor krack(on)

Oh dear, you said Tye-ranids, the hive fleet are going to devour you. Luckily me and the rest of the other evil Tye-ranid sinners are hiding, never daring to utter a fictional word we learned as children reading White Dwarf.

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

I have used both pronunciations just to keep everyone happy!

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly baffled that people would pronounce it any other way. Like "Tyrant", makes sense to me.

@Tsotha

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnybigbones4955 I've always pronounced it like "tyrant" too

You should narrate documentaries Ian. Love these

Prandium, i.e. "lunch" in latin, was the first target. nice

Do the Nids ever go after planets that don't have any bioforms but have, say, lots of water or material resources?

Goddamn your work is good

What’s with the zoom digital background then? 👀😂

The fact you alternate from "tira-nids" and "tie-ranids" bothers me wayyyyy more than it should lol

Tieranids

I always thought of Behemoth as the sister hive of Leviathan.

Pronunciation of sci fi things is subjective, but i really enjoy that Ian pronounces Tyranids the same way that I do.

@proudsaiyanprince2651

Жыл бұрын

Pretentiously? 😂

@juniperbobb

Жыл бұрын

15:07

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

@@proudsaiyanprince2651 What's pretentious about it?

I just started Warriors of Ultramar so this could not have come at a better time

Yum yum... We can smell that Earth biomass for light-years away. We smell it like garlic and onion being grilled with stir fry. Fatty juicy Earth. Awww and look how cute those cutlets look trying to defend themselves. Can't wait to get a mouth watering bite. We haven't eaten in a long long time. My claws are are chatting with excitement.

nice

Ian you're the best

@9:36 i am unable to find any videos about the deathshadows or malafor. perhaps you could create one about them alone? i would like to know what they look like.

I can't help but wonder if the dedense of Baal went so well because there aren't any oceans or large bodies of water.

They're doing it all for the greater good

Excellent video as always...but I have one question.. they evolved a tactical genius? If they can just evolve Thrawns then surely that's it?

Sic Semper Tyrannids.

Be-hee-moth.

@HistoritorJimaldus

Жыл бұрын

Bay-a-moth 😛

@voland6846

Жыл бұрын

@@HistoritorJimaldus I prefer be-heh-moth, it's closer to the original Hebrew

@Perkustin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the way Iain pronounces it is actually more 'lore accurate' so to speak, though ofc all common pronunciations are fine.

@proudsaiyanprince2651

Жыл бұрын

@@Perkustinlore accurate, but still stupid sounding.

ian how do you think the tyranids would fare if they arrived during the late great crusade?

Loved the video. Still don’t understand why people are trying so hard to be right about a pronunciation that in the lore itself is said to vary. People need to read more.

'invasion'? or migration . . . or 'what is it the Tyranids are running away from... ?!'

It's Ti Ra Nid 😂

Where'd the maps come from, one of the codex's?

I love your videos, religiously wait for them popping up. I have noticed that there are always words you say different to every other KZreadr. In this video, “Tyranids”, “behemoth”. In some other videos “astartes” How dare you say these made up words differently 😂

Wait, is it weird light, YT compression or was is a green screen recording? I don't mind, I'm just curious.

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

I think he's using a green screen because of flooding in his house, so he's in temporary accommodation or something.

@landsil_

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnybigbones4955 Oh thx, I hope it will all work out fine for him.

The green screen with the old backdrop added in looks kinda off - shooting in the room looks more natural

so the nids landed on maccrag. took the north pole, but not the south pole...at wich pole did papa smurf sit in limbo? what would happen if the nids consumed a primarch? O.O

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

The Primarch doesn't show up until the THIRD one!

@hoyer

Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan english is not my native language, so i apologize if im unclear. Im not meaning the robute from 8-10 editon. The one with a model, going around kicking ass. Im wondering about the Guilliman, stuck in the shrine of Guilliman, on macragges northen polar fortress.

Say Ichar IV to any of the old studio staff, I dare you. LOL

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna be saying it A LOT in the next video

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan Awesome! I had just gotten into the game around then and the whole thing was extremely exciting to me.

More bugs!

Ian, my man, i dont think that is how you probounce behemoth

Americans remind me of District One and District One reminds me of Tyranids and Tyranids remind me of cancer- Endlessly consuming with no concern for the well being of the host or available supplies. Just endlessly consume without thought because it's the only thing that gives me dopamine. Who cares if the world will be a hollow rock in 100 years as long as I got to laugh at some memes and buy that trendy thing along the way.

Have I been pronouncing Tyranid wrong or is it like tomayto tomotto?

@ArbitorIan

13 күн бұрын

Current 'official' 40k is that it's Ti-ranid not Tie-ranid, but they've pronounced it both ways in audiobooks, and the planet they're from is definitely Tie-ran so it's all a bit of a mess. I say pronounce it every single way - even better, a different way each time!

A rare, I gues the marines are the good guy, video on something worse than the empire

Holy shit, the people upset about pronunciation of imaginary words are extremely weird. Just between India, UK and US there are a huge number of words that are pronounced differently in modern English, let alone a galaxy spanning empire where chunks don't talk to each other for hundreds of years. Anyway Ian pronounces everything the way I do so obviously he's right. :P

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

I wonder how much you script all of these and how much you just improvise

@ArbitorIan

2 ай бұрын

All the lore vids are generally scripted, and stuff like Book Club and TOFG is done from a list of talking points.

@marcopritoni7182

2 ай бұрын

@@ArbitorIan impressive amount of work !

Finally, someone who can pronounce tyranids correctly.

✌️💚

Mugs Biognis Salik (disgusting)

comment for the comment god!

Good to hear the correct pronunciation of Tyranid at last. Although I do emphasise the three syllables more prominently than yourself. Tie-Ran-Id. The other "common" Ti-Ran-Id pronunciation can be explained away as some kind of low gothic corruption imho.

Ian. I think you're great. Your channel is awesome. You're pronouncing my army incorrectly. Its ok. I understand what you're doing. You're doing it on purpose to drum up snarky comments, like this one. Get that viewer interaction. You're pronouncing Behemoth wrong, too. Keep up the good work.

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't you pronounce Tyranid like Tyrant?

@blakelarsen7023

Жыл бұрын

@@Madhattersinjeans I know, I know. I'm just being difficult. GW IS a British company, so if there is a correct way, that's probably it. I just enjoy a no-consequences, 'I'm right' 'No, I'm right' argument.

In no way is "behemoth" pronounced "BAY-ah-moth", even though British youtubers all seem to say it that way.

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

If everyone in a country pronounces a word the same way then MAAAAYYBEEE the word just has different pronunciations.

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

I mean the language comes from their country.

The way you pronounced behemoth.. Had to stop watching there

@ArbitorIan

Жыл бұрын

Wait til we get to *checks notes* LE-vi-AH-than

@54tisfaction

Жыл бұрын

@@ArbitorIan Second 'e' is long, like in 'fleese' , (/bɪˈhiːməθ, ˈbiːə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) 😉

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

You pronunciation extremists are very strange people.

Its "ba he moth" not "beo moth"

Ok him mispronouncing Tyranid hurts

@johnnybigbones4955

Жыл бұрын

But how is it a mispronunciation? Surely you'd say it the same way you say the word "Tyrant"?

I quite enjoy how you pronounce Behemoth.