The nids could manage it if they only they had a Winged Xenonid Parasite Get yours here : www.majorminis.com.au/products/xenonid-winged-parasite

The thing I love about Tyranid Models is that you can throw in random stuff, and just call it a mutation.

The Silent King would 500% intervene here, if not to save Terra, to deal a devastating blow to de Nids He is after all the one who marked them as the greatest threat to begin with It is complex tho, since we still know far from all that de Nids are capable of

To say Terra is the most defended world in the Galaxy is an understatement. A gentle reminder that a SINGLE Custodian Squad took on an ENTIRE Tyranid Splinter fleet. And won!

I can imagine the Big E using his powers making multiple massive fly swatter, flattening every Tyrannids even the Swarm Lord, and casting kilometers long of inferno, disintegrating every while saying "DELETE" multiple times in TTS voice

The idea of Mars finally revealing the secret technology they've been holding on to just to fight the Tyranids excites me.

I get the feeling that every faction in the galaxy would converge on Terra, each with their own reason for fighting the tyrannids, in a massive clusterfuck brawl to out do the first seige

I imagine that this might be an event that would see the Emperor rise from his throne. So many fearful prayers sent at once would supercharge him and give him the strength to stand and defeat his foes for the first time in centuries.

A siege of this scale would give the Imperium sufficient reason to release every diabolical toy that has been locked away. Everything that the Lion has hidden, what the Palace has hidden, including the fully unlocked capabilities of the phalanx (Apparently, the Custodes have been able to unlock sections that have been hidden since the Dark Ages), and the full might of Mars. The galaxy would be able to witness the destructive capabilities of Humanity in the purest form.

If this is the direction they’re going and the tyrranid threat is indeed worse than chaos. Then they’d need to bring back Rogal Dorn.

It would be an ironic twist if a lictor infiltrates the palace to assassinate the Emperor, but then Cypher bars its way.

I think that if The Silent King got a whiff of whats coming, he would order the celestial orrery to actually be utilized in offensive way just this once, because any backlash would be better than terra nom nomed by nids. A single star exploded into supernova near the gathering super hive fleet would be entirely unexpected by the hive mind and would be absolutely devastating.

The moment a legitimate enemy force steps foot on Terra, it's over for them. Especially if given time to prepare, so many worlds would be abandoned by Imperial forces to rally in and near the Sol system. The shadow in the warp is a great tool of the nids, but with literally billions of psykers and navigators watching and premonition-ing , getting directly into the system would be impossible. The full might of hundreds of chapters, not to mention the Black Templars and Death Watch with their swelled numbers, I honestly think they might out-horde the nids. If they do make landfall, anywhere near the palace, that's when Rogal returns, nobody touches his precious defenses. Imagine a swarm-lord or emissary leaps out at an Imperial Fist defensive line, suddenly the entire battle field sees an oversized drop pod plummeting to the ground, the doors open and the cacophony of battle is drowned out by a revving of Storm's Teeth, and the Praetorian himself charges forward. That or he's been in the Palace's basement this whole time, devising new defensive measures. In which case, the doors of the palace open, and the cacophony of battle is drowned out by Storm's Teeth, and the Praetorian himself charges forward. Side note of a wacky idea I just had. Imagine Dorn turned the Imperial Palace itself into a Titan. Like, the swarm is starting to break through, and suddenly the palace just stands up and begins laser blasting everything.

I feel like Constantine Valdor would also return with those armies he was amassing this whole time, apparently. I doubt the first Captain General would just sit there and not preform his duty to protect his Emperor.

A video covering the theory about Fulgrim still being possessed by the daemon from the Laer blade would be pretty cool.

In a galaxy full of horror and violence, it truly says a lot that Terra is considered safe.

I imagine that during the Nids attack chaos would also attack. Making a super hectic situation with Angron running around causing problem.

I feel like certain chaos legions might actually come to the defense of terra to, theres a few books where chaos temporarily allies with the imperium (by not shooting eachother) to fight of the nids.

I think you can't talk about Terra being attacked by the nids without including all the allies temporary or otherwise that would show up. Terra falling specifically to the tyranids is catastrophic to all other factions. You would see necrons, Eldar, maybe dark Eldar, probably chaos in some form or another, and orks sprinkled throughout to aid in the fight

I honestly think the Tyanids reaching Terra is one of the end game scenarios that'll have the Emperor come back.

Given that many tyranid hive fleets are being moving inexorably towards Terra beautiful light of the astronomicon, it's safe to say that they could be slowly but surely making their way there.

Could you do a dedicated video on the Exodit Eldar? Flesh out their lore and infomation? And if you need more video time, perhaps propose ideas on how to expand thier roster

How each pre-heresy primarch would react to the current imperium when placed in Gullimans shoes would be s cool video idea

I love the possible irony of even if the nids eat the emperor having the demons show up from the bowels of the palace as big E was holding that webway portal shut ... assuming that Terra didn't burst into a mini eye of terror from big E biting the dust

Once they reached Mars, I doubt the Void Dragon would let them mess it up and it would probably awaken or do some psychic spaghetti to defeat them at Mars. I also see Chaos trying to get involved and would be a second front that they would have to deal with.

If this happen i think another primarch will be brought back most likely those inside the warp maybe Corvis cause the psychich clash will be very noticable within the warp

If the Tyranids managed to eat the Emperor it would either super-charge the Nids or have the Emperor go mano y mano against the Hive Mind... and win, taking control of the Tyranids.

Speaking of xeno's invading Terra. How about Gazkhulls Waaagh? He is moving to Terra acording to the lore with a big fleet. Does he even have a chance?

A very good video, but you forgot to mention the Tyranids secret weapon, Genestealer Cults, they are already on Terra and would be able to cause a lot of problems for the Imperial side with ambushes and sabotage.

I would find it so very funny if the Tyranids accidentally awaken the Void Dragon by invading Mars. Imagine fighting the full force of the Imperium on one end while a Star Eating god decides to tear your a new rear. Awesome

Imagine the Tyranids actually gaining ground, surrounding the imperial palace and the chances of the imperium are growing smaller by the minute. And just as the battle seems grim, Legions of traitor Primarchs reach Terra and they start fighting the Tyranids. Maybe Fulgrim had an epiphany, maybe Magnus just couldn't leave his father to stand alone, and maybe Perturabo decided that despite everything, the Tyranids should not be allowed to take out Terra. I know it's a very far shot. But would have been beautiful nonetheless.

I don't play the game but I am a fan on how you talk about the lore so I keep watching. More content on Orks please. Keep up the bloody good job.

In the Leviathan core rule book there’s a part where the Ravenguard might be going up against a bio-ship that’s just a moon, a damn bio-moon.

Small thing too, the legion of the damned would probably also appear at such a disastrous battle. But that's just a small thought that I had while listening to this video.

It would be full on Stellaris Endgame Crisis mode, with old enemies becoming allies, if but for a time. Would be a good time for someone like Magnus to show up and redeem himself randomly, or some Orkz to join in the fighting because that's a really big fight.

There could also be the possibility that with such a siege, leviathan could some how trigger a galaxy wide genestealer cult uprising. This could cause a major disruption in defensive preparation for Tera.

A couple of points missing here. The assassin clades are also a factor in this, especially the real heavy hitters like evasore and colexys (Yes I know I'm probably spelling those wrong). In a full-on tyranid invasion, i would expect the assassins would get deployed to take out problematic bugs in such a way that the assassins might have a chance. There is also the fact that there is actually 3 primarchs (possibly 4 depending on what magnus is up to) on terra in this scenario, rogal is obviously hiding in centurian armor behind the throne. But in all seriousness besides the ordo sinister the sisters of silence and the pariah assassins would likely screw with the synapse pretty badly considering that the synapse is a psychic interaction and we know how pariahs screw with psychic stuff. So I could see the imperium throwing its null fighting force at important synapse creatures in order to dampen them and then kill them

Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to waking up in Guillimans situation as imperial regent would be pretty cool ngl. Each of their plans to rule and their aspirations would be very interesting to delve deeper into.

Personally i wish we could find out more about the nids, i heard a really cool theory once that they were made by a few surviving “old ones” to be orks 2.0, purging the galaxy of all life so that they can begin again

Trazyn will use the opportunity to get a new chair and skeleton for his collection.

TTS Throne Emperor: "Just create a massive can of bugspray and the Tyranids will be driven off!" TTS Dino Faced Tech Priest: "As you command." TTS Rogal Dorn: "I will fortify the entire Holy Terra just like I did back in the Horus Heresy." TTS Magnus: "Now I feel nostalgic and this time I'm not the one participating the siege this time."

This is why I love 40k. All the races in the galaxy hate each other, but they can start cooperating as soon as it comes to the nids. I would not be surprised to see even the Alpha Legion nudging at the edges of the sol against the nids. Great narrative Majorkill

Man i love how you narrate these types of scenarios in details taking into account all possibilities from both sides of the faction.plz keep these videos coming.

This video was by far one of the best ones, for a lot of reasons. Something like this would cause probably cause the return of another primarch and while it would make sense for Dorn to be the one, it’d probably be Russ. Aside from that, a threat like that would also cause the Last Wall Protocol to be enacted and the reformation of the 7th Legion. Another cool possibility would be seeing chaos step in, like how Khornes followers did for the Blood Angels. Best vid yet mate!

@majorkill, you're forgetting a few wildcards. 1. You said it yourself that if the bugs did land on terra the blood would be flowing. And Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows, only that it flows for all eternity. All that blood being spilled could cause a similar situation to Baal Primus with Ka'Bandha making another appearance. 2. There are several loyalist Primarchs still unaccounted for. The first that comes to mind is Vulcan. Since he is a perpetual it could be assumed he is still somewhere in the Galaxy, and if he is alive he would definitely come running to save Terra. The next is Russ. Prophecies say he will return during 'The Wolf Time,' or the end of the universe. If the 'Nids make it to Terra it is a pretty set assumption that its the end of the universe, and Russ would come back to stomp some bugs. We know Corax is still alive and hunting Lorgar, and would probably take a hiatus from his brooding/ trolling to save his father and brothers. 3. You mentioned the Necrons under The Silent King. But even without the Silent King there is the possibility that Trazyn would unleash some of his museum to save Terra since the Nids eating the galaxy would render his work pointless. And who knows what he could set lose to fight for terra. 4. Even if it is a slim chance, there is the possibility of Abaddon acting as a pirate to strike at the edges of the Tyranid fleets. His arrogance and hatred for the Imperium would make him want to stop the Tyranids. How could he allow animals to accomplish what he couldn't? The Daemon Primarchs might even intervene for the same reasons. Magnus would at least be intelligent enough to realize what a Tyranid victory could lead to. It's all hypothetical since it is doubtful GW will ever progress to that point in the lore, since it wouldn't be profitable to bring an end to the setting.

The geanstealers on earth would do a lot of damage to tera's defenses. The orks would be dawn to the carnage, fighting everyone. And there is chaos to consider. As Abaddon might see the bugs as either a tool, or maybe just another competitor. The dark eldar would use the opportunity to raid as many human worlds as possible. Maybe even helping the hive for a laugh.

What if GW would take the tyranids seriously in the lore?

I will keep asking for this because if there is one thing all 40k factions have in common it’s never giving up: Could you make a video on how someone could permanently kill one of the 4 chaos gods and (more interestingly) what would happen if they did ?

Such an event would call for the return of the best defensive specialist ever to grace the galaxy. Rogal Dorn!

My God, it would kick ass so hard. Just imagine, the best the Imperium has to offer present for a galaxy-level last stand against eternal oblivion, dark age weapons unleashed, Eldar and Necron allies protecting the flanks, the Lion standing in front of the eternity gates just like Sanguinius once stood, the Emperor himself spitting holy fire and perhaps finally ascending to godhood.

Here is a terrifying thought, what if the whole invasion was a distraction to breach the vaults to find subject ‘XI’ and consume it’s bio mass to create Primarch level of Tyranids

Bro didn’t even mention the sisters. They’d be burning bugs across all of terra. Celestine would definitely make an appearance

A video about times (if any) that guardsmen impressed space marines would be awesome

Video Idea: How would each Primarch turn out if they were discovered first instead of Horus? (Or publicly discovered in the case of Alpharius.)

This makes me wonder how well a Psi-Titan would fare against the Nids. Maybe not well at all because the shadow in the warp would overpower it, but I like to think that it would shine in the darkness and just wreck synapse creatures left and right. I agree with Majorkill btw, Terra is just too well defended. Especially when they start uncorking things from the Black Cells.

This video was a level above the others. Nicely done, mate.

"The only thing keeping the Bugs at bay, just meters from the Throne, is the rushing river of Holy fire streaming from His member, the blessed Phallus. Custodes feel, for the first time, joy and reverence for their Lord and His Flamer. Oh, what a Joyous day!"

I think the goal of the nids is to establish a permanent foothold in the galaxy. A chunck of Nihilus for example turned into nothing but resting places and safe havens for hive-fleets.

If it came to breaking the Imperial Palace, the Emperor could just stop holding back the Demons, this would create a third party that could possibly be channeled against nids (and chaos does not provide biomas). This would also in turn free Emperor to do something unexpected... at least my few thoughts as to 'last stand' scanerio option. Also, as you mentioned Mars... up there that C'tan shard could also start acting up with the nids coming close and thus necrons coming in to the fight. Warzone Terra where everyone fights everyone sounds ... let's say interesting 😆

Didnt at the begging of the leviathan book a arbiters send a message through the shadow in the warp by connecting a few dozen psykers together and channeling them through a. Single person causing him to rupture every vein in his body. I feel like the strongest psyker in the galaxy who is being fueled by thousands of psykers each day would be able to shine through the shadow in the warp

Nice! I absolutely love the concept of this video. I normally save any comments until after I've watched it. But I'm so excited about this one, but I just felt like I needed to say something before I was into it. Very stoked to check it out!🤘

The situation could differ exponentially though as that possibility relies heavily on the use of existing bioforms, for example tyranids have started forming psychic bio-ships that drives nearby prey crew mad. And they could have some secret super weapon like the one I believe was hinted in the 10th edition.

Just a thought. I once saw Lutien comment on the logistical needs of Terra being sickeningly leviathan in itself. Such that if the supply ships stopped running for even an hour the quintillion population of Terra would plunge into chaos. With the Shadow in the Warp rendering such vast supply lines impossible, and a siege likely lasting weeks if not months, I think this would be the greatest threat that the Nids present. An army cannot fight if they cannot get fresh water and Terra has none of its own. Even primarchs, one imagines, has to have somewhat regular hydration. And they would, no doubt, but within days the vast majority of the guard would be at no capacity to levy a strong defense. And within weeks would be dead to dehydration and starvation. Astartes lasting longer but still, at such numerical levels, supplies are going to be exhausted swiftly and would not be restored. Unless the Craftworlds came to the rescue as logistic lines. And I would speculate that the Nids wouldn’t even bother with any kind of staging maneuver. They already have shown a propensity to attack from above and below the galactic plane. Even existing forces could just do that. Vanish below the plane and attack “from below” against the Sol system. This would ensure a level of surprise and would bypass a potential for being intercepted except by (possibly) the Necrons.

I would like to point out that the hive fleet Tiamat is building a super weapon that either opens a gate the webway or straight up teleports ships to other spots in the galaxy. We know that they never leave their territory and yet randomly throughout the galaxy we have found single ships so far out that it does not make sense as to how they got there. So I propose that the hive fleets will do mostly as said here but a surprise attack will happen with the tiamat fleet warping in near Terra.

Thank you Majorkill for the epic play by play

I feel like this would also be the exact moment nergel would make his move and invade tera, as he has an edge on the nids and given that he'd only have to jump in around the halfway mark even the nid would be weakend and vulnerable, although we all know the talasmin of 7 Hammers would immediately be activated

This battle would only happen if the Tyranids could trigger the largest Genestealer Cult uprising in IoM history started all over the Sol System, from Pluto to Mars, to Terra and to Mercury. That way the civil war it would trigger would weaken and distract the Imperial forces enough to give the Hive Mind its shot at taking the Sol system. At the same I am convinced both the Dark Angels and Custodies have legions of recovered/mind shackled Men of Iron ready to enter the fight. With the MoI being the most effective force in the battle. Basically a sorta psudo-Necron like Army that the 'Nid's would get stuck against, not knowing how to bypass. Especially as I could see the MoI destroy as much biomass as possible to deny the 'Nids anymore fuel for their attacks. Meaning they would vaporize dead Nid's and possibly civil population that could not be saved all to deny the Swarm.

I wish they showed more of the nids' "silent victories". Seriously, it doesn't take much, litteraly just show a few squads investigating why a system has gone silent only for them to find out all planets were turned into lifeless deserts, even better if they find 1 or 2 having the last of their biomass drained by the nids. Even better, Add some ability called "silent victory" or something that makes the enemy risk not being able to bring in extra troops because they contacted a world with no more help available.

the doom of malan'tai would finally reappear and have an epic psychic battle with the emperor as reality begins to cave in from their battle.

Good chance that the Big E could just scramble the hivemind with his might from up close. That would be a psychic battle in the background in itself

Awesome video @majorkill! Not that this would change the outcome, but what if the genestealer cults on Terra participated in the sabotage of Terra’s defenses?

I think someone already made a video about this but it’s always refreshing to hear it again

The thing is with the Nids is they’re in it for the long game; chipping away a little at a time is the only real tactic to use against an opponent like the imperium that has a multitude of ways to engage you. Chip away from the outside slowly, one system at a time and encircle them.

Something you forgot to account for Majorkill: The Genestealers that live on Terra. Those infiltrators could severely handicap the defenders depending on just how widespread they are.

They could probably get to the Sol system if they consolidated all the fleets but I do agree that in their current state they would be unable to destroy it. The Hive Mind would have to create some new big-dick bioforms for them to stand a chance. And a whole lot of psychic bugs to actually take down the emperor.

Nids make it to the throne room. The Emperor - *Stands up* Nid's - *Die*

Ur miniatures are the best I've seen I hope you keep them coming

I think the emperor could override the hive mind if the Nids landed on terra. He was the most powerful Psyker to ever live when he was something human adjacent. As he is now, he is full stop the most powerful psychic entity that exists in real space. On terra, at the center of his power, and forced to pull his fractured mind together, I believe that any Nid not next to a Primarch level space bug will have their hive mind connection overran by the clapping of emperor's massive psychic balls.

I'd say that if the tyranids try to invade terra and the sol system directly, I'd say that Lehman Russ or Rogal Dorne will come back to help their brothers and defenders of the sol system.

The tyrannids trying to consume Terra would be like kicking a hornet’s nest filled with trillions of flying nuclear bombs

I have to admit, your minis look great!

I think one thing that was overlooked is that the Hive Mind would make new breeds of Tyranids specifically for this invasion. The Hive Mind has bits and pieces of knowledge of Terra and it's defenses from the various planets it has managed to consume. This is what makes the Tyranids so terrifying, when they eat a planet or sector they come out of it with new information that they'll use on their next prey.

I had a question that I've been thinking for a while. What would happen if a primarch would kill Lucius the Eternal?

Like your takes on the 'what if' vids, didn't have one of these in a while 🤘

Tyranid Hivemind follows a simple but most mathematically efficient philosophy ' Tyranid eat more + tyranid die less = more biomass = victory Then next objective - Fine dining and making a pitstop at Baal , followed by another round of fine dining and repetition of the sequence.

A quick question, Did the imperium regular citizens ever wonder why there is only 9 kinds of legions despite some legions having numbers in their insignia/banner like 13th legion, 19th legion, etc?

My question is what would happen with the void dragon if mars was attacked by the nids? Would they chose to attack Or avoid mars in the chance it would be released?

You added the bloody parasite?! Omg it’s gnarly and I love it

THANKS SO MUCH FOR MORE XENO NID MINIS

When will you realease big tidy space elf GF miniature (heroic scale) ?

As a Tyranid player.....I am scared, we will be easily defeated. Please GW let us make the IMPERIUM BLEED.

Trazyn might make an appearance too. All of those tyranid bioforms and imperial forces would make one hell of a collection.

I’ve read the comments and your all forgetting something. This is the moment the opportunity he needs this is trazyns time to steal the emperor. He would see the chaos and realize it’s the perfect time to steal him

Or worst case scenario . the trynids have so much biomass They bury the imperial palace under a mountain of bodies, cutting off those inside from reinforcements.

The Nids reaching Terra will be the trigger for Dorn's return.

This sounds freaking awesome. I could see the Big E bringing out the legion of the damned in this situation as well.

Nailed this one majorkill 👌

This is a bloody cool concept and I feel would make a great read

I think the climax of the scenario would be like the chokepoint before the golden throne was holding just fine but then a tyranid takes a bite out of the lion and like a day later the swarmlord with primarch dna shows up along a bunch of custodean nids and breaches the throne

Cool vid majorkill