Endless Swarm 2K

[macdaddyt]

Welcome to the meat grinder everyone!!!
Here my shot at a list that will hopefully drown my opponents in boddies...or blood/ Ichor left over from the bodies haha

HQ
Swarmlord
3 Tyrant guard (for extra wounds)

Elite
Zoanthrope
Zoanthrope

Troops
3 Warriors. 1w/Barbed Strangler
3 warriors 1w/Barbed Strangler

Fast Attack
20 Gargoyles
20 Gargoyles
20 Gargoyles

Heavy
Trygon Prime w/ AG, TS, Maw Claws

Endless Swarm formation
3x 20 Gaunts
3x 20 Gants
3 warriors 1w/Barbed Strangler

I'll Probly take out the warrior squads in exchange for more gants and venomthorpes (or milanthropes if I get the money) 194 Models on the table turn one unless I Deep strike the Gargs

The trygon Prime will deep strike to create a hole for troops to pour through!

Swarm lord because I feel like it

[Jabberwocky]

What does the list do against vehicles and flyers? You only really have your hq and the deepstriking Trygon that can hurt tanks and neither can touch flyers or even really skimmers since they'll be outpaced.

Synapse should be fairly durable but I think you will struggle to actually kill anything which will make those 30 minute movement phases feel a bit pointless.

[macdaddyt]

We'll the whole point is to just flood the board and score objectives. I'll be killing most OS units and my body count will most likeley prevent my enemy from advancing farther than his deploy zone after I move all the bugs . I don't expect to Realky kill anything. I just want to see if flooding the board with bodies will be effective!

My plan with flyers is to disperse my units on such a way that they won't be able to move without having to be placed on bugs! (Honestly that was a joke, I was just gonna ignore flyers entirely)

[Squire]

It's a fun concept but in practice I think it would be frustrating to use because of the list's limitations and sheer number of bodies to move around. The risk would be going to all of this effort to put together and paint so many bodies then find it isn't much fun to use after the first few games.

I like the concept of horde lists and I'm going down that route myself, but I'd strongly recommend taking some brainleech devourers to kill transports. What do you do when all of the opponent's infantry are sitting inside chimeras? You could go from 60 gargoyles down to 10 and then use the rest of the points for two dakkafexes. Use the gargs as cover for the fexes.

Some trimming of the endless swarm broods will free points for a couple of venomthropes.

[Jabberwocky]

In theory, swamping the board can work.

In practice, an enemy thunderfire cannon or equivalent can easily clear large areas of the board, including around objectives. Enemy tanks can just push you off objectives and need never even disembark. Enemy flyers will generally just hover and focus down your MCs until the horde starts to break and run when synapse holes open.

I just can't see it being that much fun, without using those bodies to get some killy units into the enemy lines safely.

Now if you were to trim down a few units and maybe drop 1 or 2, to fit in some really heavy hitters, you'd still have the bodies to funnel targets into your reach and still claim objectives while doing it.