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Battalion

HQs
162-Broodlord
200-Old One Eye
362

Troops
240-20 Genestealers with Scything Talons
240-20 Genestealers with Scything Talons
240-20 Genestealers with Scything Talons
720

Elites
90-3 Venomthropes
90

Heavy Supports
107-Carnifex with two sets of Monstrous Scything Talons, Adrenal Glands, Tusks, Bone Mace, and Spore Cysts
107-Carnifex with two sets of Monstrous Scything Talons, Adrenal Glands, Tusks, Bone Mace, and Spore Cysts
107-Carnifex with two sets of Monstrous Scything Talons, Adrenal Glands, Tusks, Bone Mace, and Spore Cysts
321

Total Points
1,493

Vanguard

HQs
70-Neurothrope
70-Neurothrope
140

Elites
120-3 Zoanthropes
120-3 Zoanthropes
120-3 Zoanthropes
360

Total Points
500

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1,993 points.

First list of Nids, so it probably sucks. Where can I improve? What relics should I take? Warlord trait? And what Hive Fleet?

Spore Cysts not necessary on Carnifex. The strength of melee ones is their price. You're spending over 10% of the cost of the model to slightly protect from shooting a unit that wants to get in melee as quick as possible - just try to find points for another Fex. Hell between the Venom's and the Sporocysts you almost have enough for a Malanthrope. Not that I think you need that either, you have plenty of redundancy in your list, 60 Stealers is plenty, though it's good consideration.

Psyker spam isn't that great after the smite nerf, you have 6 Psykers one of which has 2 powers, thats more than you could ever want to use, there's some garbage powers there. At the very least bump the Zoanthropes up to 4 per squad so you can threaten the Psychic Nuke stratagem.

Honestly you can probably just cut some of that stuff and fit more Carnifexes in there. Tusks and Bone Mace is all you need, Spine Banks are cheap and decent too, AG is a luxury, Spore Cysts is unnecessary.

Flyer's are a lot less powerful nowadays especially with the Tigershark toned down, but you may want to consider some Flyrants just so you have options.

I'd say definitely keep the Spore Cysts on the Carnifex, totally worth it to protect them as they'll sit around for a turn or two eating bullets.

Add Acid Maws to the Stealers too, it's free and will help against armour when needed (just like talons help versus low armour).

Unless you really want to use the Zoanthrope stratagem, I'd suggest to get two unit of 4 instead of 3 of 3. Make them more survivable and give them some bonus while they stay at 4 models. With all the Stealers and Carnifex around, they might very well stay at 4 models for a while! To complete the Vanguards, you can add a Lictor (that'll be 5pts more in total, which you have to spare without changing your current list ). Lictor might not be that great, but I still find them fun to use!

And if possible I would also try to increase the Venomthrope size to at least 4. They are rather weak against shooting so that can help them survive some more. I would drop a few Stealers to make room for it, either 2 units down to 18, or one to 16.

For Hive Fleet you could go Kraken to support the Stealers (but doesn't really help the rest), and take the Kraken relic for your Warlord. I also like Leviathan personally as it can add some nice survivability to even small models like Stealers.

Ymgarl Factor/Maw-Claw and Norn Crown are the relics you could take otherwise, depending on your warlord.

Adaptive Biology would be my go-to Trait in that list or the fleet specific one (with Leviathan, a free re-roll per turn on your 3++ save for your Neurothrope for example could very well be welcome!).