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you really need to use synergy to get use out of genies or raveners since either on their own are rubbish.

How I ran them is I would buy a group of 5 genies + broodlord, 3 raveners, and 12 hormagaunts. Then use Warriors for synapse.

Two of those then a large group of gargoyles for screening or venomthropes.

You give your opponent some tough choices in the shooting phase and it's harder in the assault phase.

Do you shoot at the synapse? The damage dealers? The beasts with the 12'' charge range? The easy to kill hormagaunts? They're fearless too so they are not running.

Assault phase it comes down to trying to win combat resolution by killing gaunts, or try to cut down damage by killing raveners or genestealers.

Of course, this is posting tactics and not math hammer so people will waste time and question my advice relentlessly. @_@