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What is the name of the classic genestealer purple and blue fleet?

Now you’re asking!

I think it might’ve been Behemoth, the one the Ultramarines shattered over Macragge.

The original Genestealers from Space Hulk weren’t from, to the best of my knowledge, a specified Hive Fleet.

Indeed, looking right now at my 2nd Ed Tyranid Codex, paint schemes were more tied to species than Hive Fleets, with that differentiation coming in 3rd?

I may be wrong, and as ever am happy to be proven so

The original scheme predated hive fleets.

Behemoth is red skin with dark blueish armor.

The classic steeler colors are closer to Hydra. At least from a flip through the color section of the last codex.

I thought that they were just ymgarl genestealers.

But as Nev has said, that colour scheme came before hive fleets with distinct and separate colour schemes came into being.

In the 2nd edition codex, the blue and purple/red is the colour which genestealers just 'invariably' are.

They only started matching hive fleet colours with the 3rd ed codex.

Hydra is closest, and is what I used rules for in 9th to represent mine. But it hasn’t ever officially been designated. There was once fluff I swear, that I can’t find, that indicated they were all that colour until a Hive Fleet draws near. Was that in GSC book?

 JohnnyHell wrote:
There was once fluff I swear, that I can’t find, that indicated they were all that colour until a Hive Fleet draws near. Was that in GSC book?

'Isolated broods of this Tyranid creature
are typified by a blue-indigo coloration.
Such beasts have been encountered not
only on numerous space hulks, notably
the Sin of Damnation, but also upon the
moons of Ymgarl, once thought home to a
tentacle-mawed variation of the xenoform.
Where a Genestealer is part of a larger hive
fleet army, it will instead bear the same
colouration as the rest of the Tyranids
in its fleet'
Codex: Genestealer Cults (8th ed.), pg.55
EDIT: Also 7th ed., pg.32

Hive fleets having universal color schemes has been a gradual retcon- the old fluff was that hive fleets would alter the coloration of their creatures to better suit the target environment. You can find old WD battle reports with Hive Fleet Leviathan using what's now the Kraken scheme, and the old studio setpieces for the Behemoth attack on Macragge's polar fortress used the purple-and-black scheme now associated with Hydra.

Hydra is the closest to the classic Genestealer color scheme, but there's no perfect match.

I'd say pick a colour scheme and make up a lil lore about why the fleet is currently spawning said colour scheme.

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
There was once fluff I swear, that I can’t find, that indicated they were all that colour until a Hive Fleet draws near. Was that in GSC book?

'Isolated broods of this Tyranid creature
are typified by a blue-indigo coloration.
Such beasts have been encountered not
only on numerous space hulks, notably
the Sin of Damnation, but also upon the
moons of Ymgarl, once thought home to a
tentacle-mawed variation of the xenoform.
Where a Genestealer is part of a larger hive
fleet army, it will instead bear the same
colouration as the rest of the Tyranids
in its fleet'
Codex: Genestealer Cults (8th ed.), pg.55
EDIT: Also 7th ed., pg.32

Thank you!

The blue vein brigade?

Hydra was the old Space Hulk computer game hive fleet.