"Is the Swarmlord the Most powerful warrior in the galaxy?" "The Swarmlord isn't even the most powerful Tyranid" Not sure how to segway that into a plug about great skincare products so here we are : geolog.ie/MAJORKILL70

The swarm lord is basically just a gamer, which explains his chaotic, inconsistent behavior. Feels no pain in battle, respawns after dying and can customize his stats before respawn. He's having fun. Lord save us when the nids find the Adderall and Mountain Dew factorums.

*Small brain:* Using your galaxy brain to easily destroy your enemies from far away. *Big brain:* Augmenting your melee potential with devestating psychic attacks from the huge galaxy brain you were bioengineered to possess when your opponents least expect it. *Galaxy brain:* Never using your galaxy brain and arrogantly indulging in melee combat by challenging the most heavily plot-armoured space marines you can find to a formal duel.

My theory is the Swarmlord sees melee dueling as the ultimate way to learn, hone skill, and gain combat data for the Hive Mind, especially using to its advantage the ability to respawn. Maybe going harder with psychic attacking is perceived as not as much of a way to help the Tyranids' virtue of adaptation

Khaine: Sup, you the new guy. Swarmlord: *Tyranid Noises* Khaone: I know, right? Fucking bullshit blueberries.

Heres my theory about the swarm lord often dieing in duels: in order to upload it's memories and experience to the hive mind, it has to die. As such, whenever it thinks it's gathered enough data to be useful to the hive mind, it engages the nearest high tier enemy combatants, and dies facing them to upload it's memories to the hive mind. In the face of the custodies holding off a million nids in a chokepoint, the swarmlord engaged them to find how powerful the custodians are in 1v1, as the million nids just getting slaughtered clearly indicated swarms wouldn't work. Killing 2 it gained data about them being absolute monstrosities in 1v1s, and dieing to the third after wounding them. Showed they had killer instinct, a will to go on after massive wounds, and handidly uploaded it's memories to the hive mind. The reason it doesn't get regular nids to kill it is both a matter of pride, additonal data gathering, and the fear that if commanded to kill a hive tyrant look alike, and then lacking the authority figure which told them to do, the nid swarm would go and kill all the other hive tyrants in the area and proceed to implode, burning itself out and wasting toms of biomass for no actual gain.

So the main issue with a swarmlord is: it's basically a ork that loves a good krumpin.

Swarmlord: Exists Random Protagonist: Is for me?

TBH the whole Carnifexes vs Avatar of Khaine thing always makes me chuckle cuz I am just imagining the Avatar getting pumped for the most epic boss fight he has had in a long time only to instead get mogged unceremoniously

The biggest threat to the swarm lord is a ruthless and feared entity that nobody has bested in combat that calls itself…black library

I wanna see swarmlord vs norn emissary. My boy, the emissary, killed 4 custodes before Trajan and another 6 custodes finally brought it down

While I agree that plot armor is likely a better explanation, a more lore friendly explanation could be the fact that the hive mind sees every bio-organism it produces as expendable. Even if they die, the hive mind can always make more. This mindset may be preventing it from creating organisms with the necessary survival instincts to not make small mistakes like over-extending in a duel or turning your back on a wounded opponent.

Swarmlord sees Marneus calger "Guys! Avoid that dude with bullshıt hacks."

Swarmlord, the greatest manifestation of the Hive mind. Gets one shot by repulsor on the tabletop

A theory on its lack of psycher powers may be that it needs to use most of its psycher ability to coordinate the hive fleet, so it only uses limited, either in power or duration, attacks. So an attack is like repurposing radar as an emp or a communications array as a jammer.

Hello Majorkill, Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.

The three Lt. Worf's of 40k: avatar of khaine, swarmlord, and angron.

Finally a Video about my precious and cute bugs!

It would be great if the final boss of Space Marine 2 was the Swarm Lord! Then Captain Titus could perhaps go down fighting him, taking the swarm lord with him, and it would be like a win-win. Captain Titus would have a concluded story, the grim darkness would be upheld (only in death does duty end), and the swarm lord could kind of get in a win against a named marine. (Wishful thinking)

As strong as GW needs him at the Moment

Marneus Calgar: "Round 2, cockroach"

It is a perfectly designed bio-organism, engineered for one dread purpose; to prop up the Ultramarines even further.

Just one thing about the Swarmlord, its actually a supremely powerful Psyker (stronger than Zoanthropes that can melt Custodes with a glare) that forgets to use said Psyker Power's The Swarmlord actually WINS all the fights it's in, against both Dante and the Custodes Shield-Captain in that absurd short story (after slicing two Custodes apart in seconds). It then decides to Villain Monologue (it literally raises the Shield Captain up and lets him stab it in the face in a very cheesy way), forgets it has a variety of other abilities, and tends to just let people it could easily finish kill it for whatever reason. It gets worfed because it can respawn, just like the Avatar of Khaine, because writers don't seem to know how to make their characters look supercool outside of them killing more powerful opponents in ridiculous ways through Plot Magic. It's actually around a Primarch's level of strength, probably stronger physically, but with more limited innate Warp Abilities though with stronger active abilities (it can use a Void Shield that can block a ridiculous amount of damage, it just forgets it can do this for some reason). The Swarmlord is better than the Norn Emissaries if we assume that the Hive Mind gave it more gifts, and an Emissary cut through 4/5 Custodes in a flash while focused on getting to its target over just, you know, killing them all. The Emissary also forgot that it has Psyker Powers which would be very effective on Custodes, so it can be assumed to be even more dangerous. If the Swarmlord didn't keep Villain Monologuing and actually used its full potential it would be far, far more dangerous.

Great video. As a Tyranid player, it was great to hear this broken down objectively. Keep up the great work

The image of Calgar beating the Swarmlord to death with his super badass power fists is epic. Dante blasting it in the face with his pistol is also epic. The Swarmlord is definitely the most badass Tyranid.

Superb video as always @majorkill. Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions, etc

Putting the Swarmlord at standard greater daemon level means it is inferior to Gotrek & Felix.

Nids are my favorite faction glad to see a lore video on the big bad bugs

That joke about the 2023 Tyranid Power Meet gave me a good chuckle, thank you for the laugh on this rough day!

Warhammer's The Exodite got me intetested in Tau Navy. Please make a video about them, their strategy and battles they fought against Imperium Navy.

I love when majorkill covers none marine things in 40k, the detail and comedy about how good or sucky things are in lore and table top makes every watch worth while😁

I'd like to hear more about the Lion meeting the Nids for the first time, that sounds sick as fuck

Hopefully we get a Swarmlord boss fight in the upcoming Space Marine game.

MajorKill MY MAN!!! thnx for the work you do bro

Old One Eye is what the Swarmlord should have been.

Cassius is actually a really interesting character a video on him would be rad Also, his mindset going into the fight certainly helped

Can you do a video ranking the Primarchs by intelligence and/or duelling ability?

I would like to see a Swarm Lord use tactics to try to outsmart a Supreme Commander's constant respawning army of robots, tanks, mechs, gunships, orbital lasers, and fleets of fighters, long range bombers, nuclear missiles silos, and a ever expanding military base with infrastructure backing and supplying it with endless resources right at the dime.

The Swarmlord like duels over nuking foes with its mind, because it learns more from combat experience.

In the lore, the Swarmlord was about to fight an Avatar of Khaine but it chicken out and just ordered a swarm of Carnifexes to fight him instead.

Thank you for the content.

A video on Valerian and the Hexarchy would be pretty cool.

A video of the top ten community made wholesome moments would be great

Your skin looks amazing Majorakill! What products do you use?

@majorkill A video on each of the primarch’s favourite food would be cool. Also a video on how each of the pirmarch’s would react to being implanted with the butcher’s nails would be cool as well.

I love the Swarm Lord and that’s one of the models that got me in during leviathan. With a few games, I kind of think Swarm Lord should have a return ability similar to Angron, but I’m still knew so maybe that’s a bad idea 🤷‍♂️

Honestly I would love a Marnius Calgar video man sounds badass here and is good enough to be the backup commander and the better commander in the imperium of man mtg precon

Now we just need another video like this for the Avatar of Khaine. The OG Warhammer 40,000 Warf.

It’s also worth noting every Hive Fleet has their own Swarm Lord all with their own personalities and tactics

Can we get a video on Nid space combat? That's an area I know little about, but what I do know is pure nightmare fuel.

Worth mentioning that Marneus beating the thing to death came AFTER it ripped 3 of his four limbs off and ate his entire bodyguard accompanyment. Marneus wasn't just Mary Suebberrying his way through that one.

I’d love to see a Calgar video

A video where you talk about what the primarchs would be like if they all reached their full potential would be cool

My brother is new to 40K but came up with a solid tyranids theory. They partially assimilated one of the missing primarchs (11th) who was saved by his legion which was sacrificed to the hive mind who's bioforms were called Rangda at the time. The partial assimilation creates a connection to the hive mind and is calling the swarms to Terra like Kerrigan in StarCraft. Between that and coming in contact with the Lions blood I wonder if we see a primarch tier tyranids specifically created to combat primarchs?

I have a question : Is the Norn Queen stand higher in the hierarchy chain compare to the swarm lord ?

Thanks for making a vid about genestealer cult Jesus!, is a most important gsc events lore vid possible in that future?

I feel that it's Psyker abilities are more passively spread out over the swarm around it, and it's propensity for quad sword melee is because at it's heart, the Tyranid super organism is a monster that instinctually wants to rip into other things and tear them apart. It knows ranged weapons are effective, but it desires to go head to head against the controlling enemy units on the field, being the personal sword of the Hivemind itself, and in a manner, it's ego.

Imagine the swarmlord getting super jacked because it fights the lion over and over and learns from the best swordsman walking the galaxy at this moment. That'd be scary, I think it'd be cool too if the lion noticed this happening and had to adjust his tactics/strategies to avoid accidentally giving the swarmlord too much of a buff.

pls do a video on Marneus calger

I like to think that the hive mind births a swarmlord only in the event that it has a very specific objective it requires completed and the moment it is satisfied that the job has been done stops supporting the swarmlord, making it more vulnerable. While it is understood that the swarmlord is capable of autonomy and commanding/organizing the hive around it independently I have no doubt that it still heavily relies on the full might of the hive mind's influence to work together and achieve a greater goal. Everything in the tyranid swarm is a disposable tool, including it's most powerful units.

Maybe alot of the payker potential goes into passivly upholding the swarm-mind link all the time. I mean it is a psykic link after all right ? Maybe it‘s a sort of continous drain on the mana-bar so to say and it will always choose to keep the link up over attacks by design so the main reason of it‘s presence on the field will be upheld

You should make a video explaining all the Ktan. The only one I'm familiar with is the Void Dragon (I know nothing about him)

I think it makes sense that he doesn't use his psychic powers in duels that much, as he telepathically commands a planet wide army simultaneously and probably needs his psychic powers for that.

The terror of the tyranids is not in them having a single all powerful entity, its there is a endless sea of claws, fangs and chitinous hunger that returns better and better each time

In the final mission Swarm Lord is going to the final boss of Space Marin 2 SP campaign.

Does anyone know where the other M.42 video MajorKill posted went? Did he release it on accident?

As a Tyranid fan this video is a big W

Can you please make a video about all the Chaos warbands?

We love long from content

"HELLO THERE" "General Calgar, your power fists will make a fine addition to my collection!"

I think the swarm lord is perfect for what it is, it can be very versatile yet still be durable, it can be very fast and can out pace most foes. (I think) the swarm lord prefers melee cause it’s collecting data, if it’s able to be revived/remade while remembering it’s past lives it seems to me it’s serving a purpose a few nids can test…individual prowess. I think yes it has more freedom and yes it has more of its own personality BUT I think it knows this and is given the task of determining how and where it stands on the battlefield. The hive mind knows it has the numbers and swarms tactics down to a tee but it might need a lot more data to put together a more up front prowess army. Is the storm lord weak or getting dunked on (maybe) or is the swarm lord just testing who it can beat and who he can’t, I doubt a lot that the hive mind has not thought through what it’s doing with a big near unbeatable monster that just happens to get dunked on time after time and I think has uses far more deeply than the nids let on. That to me would give great depth and meaning to one of the greatest nids on the field. Great video loved it ❤

My head canon as to why the Swarm Lord losses to some many Space Marines and duels them. Is that it's actually a smaller Tyradid, and people miss classify it

How Powerful...I imagine that even were one to Crash a Craft World into it, it would survive

G'day mate. Also, have you ever done a video about Genestealer Cults?

Video Suggestion: The power generator, or how that thing called, of the power armor. How it function etc. What confuses me is, it seems to make no noises, in books they always sneak around etc pp, no one seems to write about that it makes any noises.

I'd love to hear what you think the result of a battle between Lucius and the Swarmlord would be. Would Lucius win, and the Swarmlord becomes a better duelist? Or does the Swarmlord kill Lucius, and then Lucius becomes a Tyranid/Astartes hybrid?

Was there a swarm Lord in the space marines 2 trailer? He got bodied by Titus being blocked with a chain sword and shot with a plasma pistol

My view of the Swarmlord is that its purpose is to occupy the enemy's greatest champions. By keeping such critical individuals distracted, the relentless hordes of Tyranids can hopefully overwhelm the rank and file troops. Essentially, the Swarmlord doesn't have to win his duel, he just needs to keep the enemy champion distracted long enough for the other bugs to find a way to expose and exploit weak spots that would normally be occupied by said champion.

Avatar of Khaine: Its duel time! Swarmlord: Im gonna head out.

I would love to see Tu'Shan or Tyberos fight the swarm lord.

I'd say the Swarm Lord is as close to a faction leader as you can get. I mean, it's the most powerful of the tyranids and it's a living Nightmare on the battlefield. The only problem is that it requires a metric shitload of biomass in order to create and it takes a long time

"Every time a swarm lord dies, a custodies gets its wings"

I could say perhaps the Psychic ability went to the Physical attack buffing of sorts, like the Swarmlord would rather protect itself with some kind of Psychic Warp shield, amplify the strength of the Boneswords or just able to tank everything by putting some warp spaghetti all over its body This could help the Swarmlord to actually use its physique and its 4 swords in battle to the fullest of its might

Swarmlord is such a cool tyranid type. They need more love in the lore lol.

Swarmlord vs named Greater Daemons (Skarbrand, N'kari, Kairos, Ku'gath) when?

Its worth noting that both Calgar and Dante are ancient and incredibly battle hardened, and among some of the greatest warriors the Astartes have ever seen, wielding powerful artifacts. The scary part is that it takes them ALREADY to kill one. Assuming it learns from its demise (hence why it doesn't mind a melee mashup) then they will only grow in power, which considering they're already in the ballpark of a seasoned elite Custodes is a rather concerning prospect. Kind of a neat things GW did, allowing it to be used as a big bad but still killable by space marines under the right circumstances, while also getting more and more dangerous to the point where it could theoretically challenge even the heaviest hitters given enough time to learn and adapt.

I hereby headcanon that the Hive Mind would prefer to keep its field general safe in an untouchable backline hardpoint but logistical practicalities and plot armor mean it has to give it some relatively limited self-defense capability and hope for the best

What is the book that has the Cassius swarmlord battle?

To add in to the reasons why the Swarm Lord dies so often. It doesn't fear death, but not like a Kriegsman or a fanatic. It doesn't fear death because the consequence of death has been removed. It only fears the loss of a battle/war which is a weaker motivator. As with Lucius the Eternal, The Swarm Lord KNOWS it can and will come back. That massive boost that someone gets when they are in a life and death situation is beyond the reach of someone looking at a fight from an intellectual position. I would even say that the Hive Mind likely knows about this shortfall, but dismisses it out of (not undeserved) overconfidence in it outpowering most foes.

Guessing there is not enough lore yet to do a video like this about the norn emissary?

Wouldlove a video, with lore on the fabius new man. Alli know he created them and their better than normal men?

I’d put Texas Sun vs Ausi Dallas is brutal with temp plus humidity

Swarmlord: *chuckle* "Can't beat me the same way twice."

"Your biomass will make a fine addition to my collection!" -The Swarmlord

Is there any lore with tyberos facing off with a swarm lord?

The swarm lord isnt just made and its a new one. It is born as all the other swarm lords of the hive at the same time. Downloading all previous and such memories of all its battles over the span of the tyranids existence. It is legion in thought and it is never truely killed. Like the lictors, they are all one entity. Every lictor is the same conciousness shared as one mind. Not apart of the hive mind but its own VIP sweet for its own conciousness that it can tap into the hive mind like the internet

Do an episode on the theory that each Chaos God DIDN'T get the primarch they truly desired. AND delve into who it was they wanted and why and how the Horus Heresy might have changed

Too bad that Mephiston can SOLO it while Netflixing and Chilling

Still haven't gotten that Emperor model, ordered it what 4 months ago? Need my info to see if u forgot to send it??

A custodes can run like 155 mph or atleast more than 100mph. The fact that the swarm lord can match three of these guys and kill two of them is actually insane.