Tyki

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

They find the entire place eerily quiet, the once lush planet now stripped of all life with blood seeker left prize-less due to the smoke that enveloped the entire place, making leaving quite a dangerous task despite the clones' earlier success. The newly arrived force finds the only sound to be the wind blowing through the hollow mountains like the entire planet was screaming in it's death throws, the psionically gifted amongst them under a constant assault as it felt like a swarm of ants was hollowing out their mind for their own, scratching, biting, and screaming at their minds all before the most psychically gifted amongst them felt the gaze of something... unnatural upon him, his mind screaming and melting as he/she devolves into a shivering, gibbering wreck of a person that can do nothing more than plea for the forces to leave or kill him.

@Wraithblade6

Blood seeker found no dying, merely the dead or the fighting. the wounded were either cannibalized to be repurposed into a larger, more fit brood in the future, his days of constant fighting leaving him battered and weary, his blades having difficulty on the thick carapace and hide of the hormogaunts which were bred for battle, bathed in it... molded by it into the perfect killing machines they could be while he was merely gifted his nature in return for a pittance that was his existence. After days of solid battle, the tyranids finally pulled back, leaving him out in the open with the clones, fresh lambs to the slaughter, landing in force nearby, his frenzy driving him to seek them out has he could feel a scratching at the back of his mind that felt... familiar, yet different. Perhaps the other twin was guiding his hand in this battle? Had the twins been guiding his hand seperately? questions such as these didn't matter to such a zealotous warrior and seeker of suffering, all that mattered now was the next kill, and the clones would be much nicer targets than these hard-skinned beasts.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

The farmer nods and hands a small gem that fit into the palm of their hand and as soon as they thought of someone, that person was raised on the nearest comms channel.

The defending force takes the heavy blow to their forces with gusto, the planet becoming shrouded entirely by the cloud of disintegrating smoke as all grows quiet from the felled colony, the force that had risen up there having won the battle for survival, but will they win the war?

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

They find themselves on the surface of a star-kidding, they find themselves getting whacked upside the head by a sergal farmer with the butt of their rifle for trampling the crops. The troops left behind are in a rather... dire situation since, once the rest of them leave they don't have the people to fend off the growing horde at their door, one of the strongholds falling, their sheilds having lowered via the work on someone on the inside before the entire populace was slaughtered, the fortresses falling in such a way one by one until everyone had either left or died.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

The swarm takes a good hour for them to finally push them back, their walls being reinforced with the corpses, the sky remaining blackened by some sort of smoke-like substance, their distress call snuffed out before being sent, the ground beneath them erupting with groups of hormogaunts, the streets running red with the blood of the vicious melee that breaks out, clones disappearing, dropping, or taking up defensive positions, the outpost being shrunken down to the most easily defensible positions only able to communicate via chains of shouting and direct, line based comms, the civilians left behind in the melee being either forced to flee or die fighting, the swarms cutting them down should they choose either or neither, resulting in a massively depopulated colony that was cut off from the empire at large and beseiged by an unknown foe that paid for every clone life with one of their own, the tide seeming endless as they watch the fertile, green land around their walled community being disintegrated, leaving them in a barren by nightfall, the commanding officer nowhere to be found, and with limited supplies.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

All was quiet before the storm, the clones going through just another day on their lovely, unnaturally lush planet that seemed to just churn out crops at stellar rates... at least, it was until the sky darkened, the nearby mountain that had served as a nice windblock and scenic vista for the town was now pouring a swarm of creatures that were too distant and small to spot, but the beating of their membranous wings rang out across the treetops like wardrums telling of the impending invasion. The clones were finally under attack from the planet around them, some might call it a curse for the hubris of their leader, others might simply shrug it off and get their guns, while the rest would begin to panic or stand in dumb-found awe of the encroaching swarm.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Racial Cs:

Tyranids:

Description:
bio warriors of unknown origins with the only thing being widely know being: they are deadly, they are hungry, and they eat everything living

units:

basic

gargoyle

The Tyranid advance/scout troop, often flying ahead of the larger force as throw-away units to test enemy defenses. Often coming in swarms of several hundred, these deadly fliers are armed with either light bone-bolters or light bio-rifles, both of which being anti light infantry and largely ineffective against anything else, though the light bone-bolters are useful against armored infantry. Their armor, like all tyranid troops, is entirely their leathery skin and steel-like carapace, protecting them from light weaponry of most types but is ineffective against heavy fire or flame weaponry.

ripper swarm

Tyranid chaff units deployed in countless quantities and hatched via egg injection into live enemies which then allow them hatch and feed to adulthood inside their hosts before bursting out and seeking to devour all non-tyranid life-forms around them

light infantry

Gaunts

Termigaunts are the basic, tyranid light infantry deployed after the gargoyles with their hormagaunt bretheren. termigaunts are the ranged support and generic foot-troop as they're armed with a wide array of weaponry but the most common of which is the bone bolter.

hormagaunts are like termigaunts but are deployed ahead of their bretheren due to their more frenzied nature and melee combat focus, their carapace protecting them from light weaponry-fire while their sword-like appendages allow them to rip through heavy and light infantry alike.

genestealers

Genestealers are rather odd creatures and often times the most advanced scouting unit due to their birthing nature which is; when a genestealer comes across an enemy and leaves them alive, that enemy then proceeds to reproduce normally, the gene-stealer gene passing on to their offspring, creating first generation gene-stealers which still retain most of the host specie's characteristics outside of heightened muscle mass and agression, however, after three generations proper genestealers are produced, subjugating or killing the previous generations, and waging war on the few normal people left.

medium infantry

Honestly, at this point there are begining to be too many troop types to be able to list, so i'll list their name and offer a link where you can check them out at the base material's website. also, these troops and those after them have additional defensive techniques, much thicker armor, or simply a massive regenerative factor which makes them harder/impossible(impossible doesn't apply to medium infantry but it does for heavy infantry/commanders and up) to be taken down by infantry:
Zoanthropes
Venomthropes
Hive Guard
Tyrant Guard
Warriors
Raveners
lictors

Heavy infantry/Commander units

there are only two but they have so many varieties of forms that i'm just going to give links
Broodlord
Hive Tyrant

Light monstrous/flying monstrous units

There are so many variants to this particular catagory that i'm just going to include links. These particular units are honestly immune to all but other monstrous units (which includes char of at least city level) and tanks, these creatures are rediculously tanky and often times providing support or tanking enemy fire rather than shooting, however, the artillery units are also included in this list.:
Carnifex
Harpy
Crone
Haruspex
Maleceptor
Toxicrene
Exocrine
Tyrannocyte
Tervigon
Tyranonofex
Biovore
Pyrovore

Tyranid Titans

These three creatures are ridiculous in both their power and their rarity, often times requiring entire armies of specialized troops to take them down:
Trygon
Mawloc
Swarmlord

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@kishin asura

Technically things that target ethereal beings can hit him, they just sort of plink off... so if you make some sort of bolo that works on etheral beings, it'll work. if you try to shoot him with bullets made for etherial beings it will not. and frankly, holy magic is actually quite expansive in that it's pretty much just the power of any good aligned god that is freely given for use. eclipse, wire creature's light/lightning magic, cosmos's light magic (or various other holy magics for that matter), void teleporting in a smite or some shit, something tiny has planned and isn't telling me about, and various other things that my mind is blanking on cause i just woke up will work just fine. you're honestly the only one without someone/something that can harm him.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@kishin asura

changed him, this is him being nerfed, and his choose ability is nowhere NEAR as powerful as it used to be since he could only be attacked with innocence specefically. now, not only can he actually be touched by anti-etherial weaponry, but he can also be harmed by a much wider range of things. also, the wire creature does have an actual name, it's just that no one's asked. Also, the card thing is mostly just cause it's his weapon of choice, it's less the actual card than how he weilds it. also, leveling cities ISN'T THAT RARE IN HCL CONSIDERING LITERALLY ALL BUT ONE OF YOUR CHARACTERS CAN DO SO. so calm your butthurt

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Tyki Mikk:

Appearence:

Powers:
Noan stigmata: each noa has a stigmata, a catalyst that enables all other things, and each one causes a different effect, Tyki's particular one enables him to decide what touches him, allowing him to walk on air or even just cause lazer fire to pass through him harmlessly. this is offset by holy magics and nothing else, even things specifically made to touch non-etherial beings will simply plink off of him uselessly unless charged with holy energies.

Dark matter ribbons: a more advanced application of the Gifts granted to him via the Stigmata, tyki's ribbons are stonger than any earthly metal, only blockable by holy energies, and have a corrupting effect, causing non-noan living material that comes into contact with them to petrify and erode to dust which can spread the corruption within 15 seconds. However, the corruption can be prevented by removing corrupted areas via amputation.

Dark magic: While each noa's magic manifests in different ways, tyki's particular brand comes in three forms: the teez, cards, and raw energy. The raw energy is the simplest as it allows him to form constructs of the purple energy manifested from the darker emotions of human beings, the power of these attacks often being amplified by the suffering of those around him. The teez on the other hand are a much more interesting application of magic as they are technically golems and can thus be used independant of tyki's orders for a variety of functions, such as taking over a person's nervous system, devouring their organs within their own body for a perfect assassaination, or even turning people into demonic golems by the title "akuma" though, of course, if you're powerful enough then you can resist the latter effect. Tyki's cards on the other hand are a bit more limited in that, often times, they're simply his weapon of choice, allowing him to level cities with one swipe.

Noan guile: Like a demon, the noa rob the unwitting amongst mortals of their souls via contracts, offering anything in the world and often times actually delevering on the promises, turning the ones that agree into akuma, killing them and using their skin as clothing for their war machines which, thankfully, are alot easier to bring down than the noa since not only do holy weapons go through them like butter but high enough caliber weaponry can be used against them (granted .50 cal rounds only dent them, but it's still something)

Backstory: Tyki has changed since his first itteration in hcl to the point that i don't really want to list all of said changes.

origin: hcl

theme song: because we can't have videos anymore 3:

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

It was silent before he arrived. At dawn a cloaked man arrived to a town on the border of unified space, matt's drones and security forces already conglomerating to handle an invader or visitor, the man walking slow past them as if they weren't even there, their fire striking through each other rather than upon him, the man's smile growing ever wider and wider as he walked, his top hat hiding his face, his suit not even tarnishing from the laser and false mass fire leveled at him, the blasts of energy leveling the town around him rather than the man that the drones were aiming at, smoke trailing off from the cigarette held loosely between his lips, his steps blackening the earth as he tred ever closer to the main building acting as the central command for the entire planet, it's automated defenses coming online to try and mow him down to no avail as his inhuman grin widens, his teeth a blindingly white maw of spikes in two rows, his arm stretching out to one side, holding just a card, the fire seeming to not touch it in the slightest as he simply moves it to the other side as if swiping with it, the building and all the defenses collapsing in a singular motion, his intentions made clear as the video feed was broadcast along the entire empire, informing matt, to extension tsubaki, and finally to extension stein. The noa were back.