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So, I am working towards adding a second grouping to my Hive Fleet, focused on using rapid movement and flying. I have become adamant on using as many flying creatures as I can, and I was wondering if I could get some help with the mathhammer. I don't understand it myself, so if you can help explain it all as well, that would be awesome.

So, the list of things I am working on acquiring the mathhammer on are:

Parasite of Mortrex (D6 spawn per kill? Yes please!)
Sky Slasher Swarms (In full swarms of 9, with spine fists)

And to end it all, I want to find out just how effective my "Perfect scenario" is, which consists of the PoM and 9 Sky Slasher swarms shooting the twin linked spine fists into X, before assaulting and all 10 receiving their hammer of wrath attacks on top of the assault. It's been driving me mad to wonder just how many wounds that all would deal.

Really, no one to help? Hmmph, looks like I need to search elsewhere for the Math majors.

You didn't exactly give enough info to do any kind of calculation. Who are they attacking? What are the stats behind the models and weapons fired (# of shots, strength, etc)? Is there cover involved?

Keep in mind that mathhammer is rarely accurate when dealing with actual game play, as the sample size is just too small to consistently see the results in the game. For example, mathhammer says it takes exactly 6 nonAP2/AP1 wounds to kill 1 terminator, but that's an average with a sample size far larger than would occur in a game. One game you may watch your termies get wiped out by one turn of bolter fire from a single tactical squad, another game they may survive 30 wounds before they lose a model.

Use mathhammer to compare potential output versus a similar unit (ie, does unit X have more damage potential than unit Y), but don't rely on it to tell you how a unit will perform in an actual game.

Lets say standard space marines, and no cover given. I shrunk the list for now.

Lets see, the basic stats...

Parasite of Mortrex- WS5, S6, 4 attacks, Rending and ID on 6s
Sky-Slasher- WS & BS 2, S3, 4 attacks (Spinefists being S3, AP5, Assault 4, Twin-linked)

This better?

slasher 36 shots 12 hit 8 on twin link...
20 hits 7 wound. 2+ fail saves.

Charge in marines snap fire 1 wound caused.
Marines attack 2+ wounds.
slashers 40 attacks. 20 hits. 2+ fail saves..

4 dead marines. 1 base of slashers dead.

Try this website

http://mathhammer40k.com/

It's a sad state of affairs when people think you need a maths degree to times one number by another number.