#swarmlord

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Is there any marine who could 1v1 a hive tyrant? Not including plot armor like the named Blueberries have. My guess is the answer to this is a hard “1V1 would just be canned dining for the tyrant” but I had an argument with someone who thought otherwise and would like for you to opine.

Semi related but how different is the Swarmlord to a regular tyrant?

Are there regular marines who could solo a Hive Tyrant? Absolutely not. Just no. They'd be so dead. So quickly.

Are there specific named marines that could fight one? Yeah. Ahriman, Kharn and Typhus definitely could, though it would still be a hell of a fight. Dante, Moloc, Calgar and Tyberos probably could, too. These are some of the most individually exceptional astartes we have in the setting, mind you, and they'd all still come out of it looking fucked up.

The simple reality of it is that you don't want to throw hands, by yourself, against a ~20ft tall, intelligent, hyper fast/strong psyker with a bunch of limbs.

As for the Swarmlord, the Swarmlord is basically a modified, physically elevated Hive Tyrant that's been implanted with the recurring, expanding collection of memories and behaviours that make up the Swarmlord's "mind". It's a Hive Tyrant with even more exceptional physicality, and a vast and nuanced understanding of combat, tactics, species, fighting styles, etc etc. It is old and it understands how to react to and work around an ungodly amount of data.

When people get irked at the Swamlord not killing Dante or Calgar or whoever, this is why. The thing is, by all lore accounts, the physical and intellectual equivalent of a Tyranid primarch. It is so fast and so strong and so clever that, on paper it should readily tear most characters apart. AND it gets better at fighting and waging war after each encounter.

Much like the Avatar of Khaine, what it is versus what GW allows it to do are two very different things.

[alyxstrasza]

A few more bugs for the swarm! 👅

[orniris]

My website Orniris.com

[erwansiannodel]

The apex of the apex. The Behemot of the great devourer.

The Tyranid "Swarmlord" of the Leviathan Hive-fleet.

Feel free to C&C

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Is

Is that Abbadon having a cold one with Trazyn and the Swarmlord?

...

You know what, good for him. He could use the break.

Da Night Before Squigmas - II

(via Warhammer Community)

[mtg-cards-hourly]

The Swarmlord

Artist: Antonio José Manzanedo TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[teoft]

Tyranid Swarmlord

[fellwar-finch]

I have finally built the swarmlord! After months of debating, in a different house, after one accidental report of the original post, it is complete! And I... Love it. The giant creatures, the advantage, the synergy, the gender contained within these weird giant bugs! It's a work of beauty! There's something just magical in making a creature like a 20/20 and giving it trample, in playing simic ascendancy and saying that killing my commander makes me win quicker actually. Playing multiple grumgully effects and riot with hardened scales to increase every single iteration of +1/+1 counter gain. Looking back at my history in magic, there's a lot more green than I thought. Eldrazi ramp and Primordial Hydra as my key card in particular stand out. I mean my favourite deck was Orzhov Extort but I think if I had more time in kitchen table magic I'd be more partial to 'ramp out big creatures and attack'. And the cherry on top is the card advantage. How there are multiple 'draw cards equal to the highest power' in green, and FATHOM MAGE. Gods, fathom mage. That one card is making me reconsider simic as a colour combo. It's really really fun to pile counters on creatures! Finally found a blue deck I enjoy!

[stainlesssteellocust]

My rule of thumb for 40k is that none of it. Really makes any sense. It’s not a serious setting.

Can the Ultramarines beat X threat? Yes but only if Cato is there. Ships can blow up continents but sometimes armies wait to see the whites of their enemies’ eyes. A Primarch can never lose while their theme tune is playing. Tyranids switch massively between portrayals depending on whose Codex it is, a given IG regiment can seesaw from tactical genius to the flesh equivalent of those Star Wars battle droids when convenient, everyone loses 30 IQ points when fighting Tau because the writers need to show off Tau ingenuity but most of them can’t actually pull it off so they just make the other guys dumb instead to compensate. The Swarmlord forgets that it’s psychic sometimes. Who replaces all those dead Space Marines? Don’t worry about it.

[soylent-robot]

Orks Vs Tyranids: Real Idiot Mode

had a very stupid game today

120 yes 120 boyz, 3 warbosses, 3 painboyz

the swarmlord, old one eye, norn emissary, haruspex, 2x carnifexes, tyrannofex, trygon, 20 termagants

very glad i got these movement trays

it was a real classic donnybrook. felt good to be rolling handfuls of 40+ dice. i thought the boyz would struggle but they pulled down the trygon & swarmlord very quickly

the norn and carnifexes were much tougher to chew through though. lost 2/3rds of the boyz but took down everything except the tyrannofex in the end, 74 to 70 for the orks. i think the advantage of the list is that there is utterly nothing worth hitting with the big attacks. a carnifex will murder a tank in one round of melee with its 8 attacks, but here thats just 8 dead boyz and who cares.

finally, video of Take Damage

[hive-fleet-blight]

I'm so happy with how the Swarmlord turned out! I always forget to take before pictures, but it was originally painted up in Kraken colours.

I managed to get two models out of the same box by buying an extra Hive Tyrant torso, so I've also got a Winged Hive Tyrant to paint.

I just remembered I actually have a whole bunch of genestealers, warriors, rippers, and the older hormagaunts and termagants hidden away in a box and still painted up as Kraken that I'll eventually need to repaint...

[ghostinthegallery]

Genuinely fucks with me how similar "Stormlord" sounds to "Swarmlord" that is an awkwardly misheard report just waiting happen

[jermagaunt]

Another battle report, another Black Templar Vs Tyranids. Using Ironstorm Spearhead I take on the Vanguard Onslaught list that my crusaders usually struggle with. We played purge the foe with a dawn of war deployment.

I got first turn which I kinda didn't want so decided to play defensively. I almost managed to kill my opponent's maleceptor with a ballistus dread on the left flank and managed to kill a lictor in the middle to get area denial turn one. My opponent killed all but one of the squad that scored me area denial and pushed forwards aggressively.

Turn two saw me kill the maleceptor and wipe the squad off the middle. My one remaining crusader got overwatched to get my opponent points towards the primary objective and another crusader squad failed a charge against some genestealers while the squad on the right flank failed to finish off the von Ryan's leapers :( My opponent rapid ingressed a mawlok on my turn dealing 3 mortal wounds to everything within 12 inch (lucky bastard) and on their turn killed that squad of crusaders and also blew up my transport, letting my Emperor's Champion and his sword bros out. I was able to kill the mawlok with my dreadnought after it was brought in thankfully. On their turn my opponent was also able to kill one of my scout squads off camera on the left :(

Turn three and I charged the genestealers and broodlord with my sword bros and emperor's champion and brought my second unit of sword bros on to try and steal my opponents home objective. Scores were pretty close at this point and my crusader squad on the left failed another charge against the genestealers! This was after my opponent made 7 5+ saves on the genestealers from my plasma cannon! Thankfully the dreadnought was able to charge in but only killed two more genestealers. These are the luckiest genestealers in the world! The genestealers then fell back on their turn and charge my other scout squad (detachment rule for fallback and charge) and killed them! As well as me failing two 2+ saves on my techmarine to have him killed by gargoyles :( the swarmlord charged into one of my dreadnoughts and took him down to just 3 wounds as well after me failing 3/5 3+ saves (using a reroll so it wouldnt die)

Turn 4 and my opponent chose a secret mission which apparently made me blackout because I barely remember what happened after this. I remember killing the swarmlord straight away which was all I needed to do to stop the secret mission but then I decided to kill the gargoyles and stop them getting 3 objectives just in case they took any of the other secret missions. In turn 4 I did kill the gargoyles and then had to plan how to block them from holding 3 objectives. I also made my charge on the biovore to take the home objective, the biovore was being annoying and blocking my reserves with spore mines (which also gave me extra points for the main objective if I killed them so not all is bad). What I definitely remember from this turn is that probably the greatest moment from any of my games of 40k. I killed the swarmlord, he blew up and took the last 3 wounds off my dreadnought... Which blew up and dealt 3 wounds to my gladiator tank! It took 6 mortal wounds from 2d3 deadly demises!

Last turn I killed one of the tyrannofexes, only after this point did my opponent tell me that I stopped their secret mission almost immediately after they selected it by killing the swarmlord and they had no chance of winning after that but liked watching me sweat. Bastard.

Really fun game overall, I feel like it would have been much closer without the secret mission but my opponent agreed the swarmlord dying causing a double deadly demise was definitely worth losing that game.

[wh40kartwork]

Swarmlord / Carnifex

by Léon Leclerc

[gaertan]

The Swarmlord

Since its Tuesday, It means its time to post one of the old minis I painted! Here's The Tyranid Swarmlord I painted for my brother some years ago!

[pictor-occidens]

The Swarmlord of Hive Fleet Keres, Tyrant of the Eastern Fringe, Sword of the Great Devourer. The fell intelligence which guides the chittering hordes and monstrous bioforms of Hive Fleet Keres through the hives and habs of the Adanac Reach, many a hero of the Imperium has been cut down by the deadly, chitinous sabre-organisms wielded by the beast.