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I love 'nids, and I've always wanted to design a shooty gunline type list, but only now got around to making it. I decided to share it with you guys, all comments and criticisms are welcome.

Battalion detachment
HQ
Flyrant (4 devourers with brainleech worms)
Neurothrope
Troops
3 x ripper swarms
3 x ripper swarms
30 x termagants (20 devourer)
30 x termagants (20 devourer)
Fast attack
16 x gargoyles (adrenal glands)

Vanguard detachment
HQ
Neurothrope
Elites
3 x hive guard (impaler cannon)
3 x hive guard (impaler cannon)
1 x lictor
Troops
20 x hormagaunts

Spearhear detachment
HQ
Malanthrope
Heavy Support
Exocrine
Exocrine
Exocrine

Spearhead detachment
HQ
Malanthrope
Heavy Support
3 x Biovores
3 x biovores
3 x biovores
2497 points, 9CP

So the plan would be to set up the biovores, hive guards and exocrines in the middle and back of my deployment zone with the malanthropes for protection, then the gaunts/gants for bubble wrap and neurothrope for extra synapse and psychic powers. The flyrant would deep strike in with the gargoyles and rippers either aggressively or defensively depending on objectives, the opponents army and the opponents deployment/ first turn. I would run kronos for the rerolling 1's, which would be insane with my 200+ shots. So, any thoughts or advice?

At 2500 points, you should be able to run a brigade.

Tarval wrote:
At 2500 points, you should be able to run a brigade.

Brigade detachment
HQ
Flyrant (2 x two devourers with brainleech worms)
Neurothrope
Neurothrope
Troops
3 x ripper swarms
3 x ripper swarms
3 x ripper swarms
20 x hormagaunts
30 x termagants (19 devourer)
30 x termagants (19 devourer)
Elite
3 x hive guard (impaler cannon)
3 x hive guard (impaler cannon)
lictor
Fast attack
20 x gargoyles (adrenal glands)
mucolid spore
mucolid spore
Heavy support
3 x biovore
3 x biovore
3 x biovore

Spearhead
HQ
Malanthrope
Heavy support
Exocrine
Exocrine
Exocrine

13 cp
So is this list better? Just added rippers and mucolid spores, took away a malanthrope

I like your second list more. You don't need to go 1:1 devourers on your termagants, some fodder is cool and cheaper.

I also think 3 exocrines are overkill. there are only so many 2+ models your opponent will be playing and I think against 3+ armors having the str 8 from more hive guards would be welcome.

Also, if you are talking Kronos, you are missing out on one of the models that benefits the most from this hive fleet, namely the Tyrannofex with rupture cannon. It gets the shoot-twice thing that the exocrine also has and it will give you some (6) very welcome str 10 lascannon shots. A T-fex with rupture in a kronos list is actually a steal for its points and durability and damage output.

One other thing is, the Dakka Flyrant does not benefit at all from the Kronos fleet trait, since you will -in all honesty- not be staying still with him. Perhaps you could add him as a different detachment from a different hive fleet? Leviathan for a 6+++ or the fall-back-and-still-shoot one sound nice.

Finaly at 2500 pts I would find some points for venomthropes to shroud my hive guard.