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Hi everyone, please comment, trying to making a competitive 2k list with gsc/nids. Please provide a rational with your comments so I can better understand your feedback. Thx in advance.

Cult of the Four-Armed Emperor

HQ

Jackal Alphus - Warlord, Warlord Trait: Inscrutable Cunning
Patriarch

Troops
2 groups of 10 Acolyte Hybrids with Cult Icon and 4 and 3 rock saws

3 groups of 5 Acolyte Hybrids

Elites
Kelermorph with Oppressor's Bane

Fast Attack

Group of 3 Achilles Ridgerunners with flare launcher and mining laser

1 Achilles Ridgerunners with flare launcher and mining laser

5 Atalan Jackals all with demo charges and shotguns

Tyranid Patrol
Hive Fleet -Kronos

HQ

Broodlord with Resonance Barb
Neurothrope with Symbiostorm

Troops
2X3 Ripper Swarms

Elites
5 Hive Guard with impaler cannons
5 zoanthropes
Exocrine with Adaptive Physiology: Dermic Symbiosis

Total: 1,997pts

I'm not that great player but 5 man acolyte squads tend to disappear from board way too easy. And today I learned that swarms are very good, my opponent out pointed me 15-5 three turns in a row with nothing but nurglings so I guess you could switch some acolytes for more rippers maybe.

Can't make your Jackal Alphus warlord because you have a Patriarch, who must be your warlord.

Would also echo Ferryman in expressing my doubts about 5 man acolyte units - I guess they can hide out of LoS and perform actions, but if your opponent can shoot them, they're dead.

I'm kind of high on 5 man acolyte squads. Sure they die easily but they have a ton of utility for 40 points; you can sit out of sight on a backline objective and raise the banners, they can deepstrike for a cheap linebreaker score or a teleport homer action, they can drop in using the lying in wait strategem to deny your opponent scoring an objective. Sure you're going to get rocked of the point in the next shooting phase but your opponent cant score in the shooting phase. You can put a squad and a character in a rockginder and advance them on a midboard objective and when the rockgrinder dies they can "usually" disembark on the point. GSC isn't going to clean off tables in 9th edition but we do have great tools to score points.