Truly endless endless swarm 2000

[nairolf]

2X DakkaFlyrants

1x HiveGuard
1x HiveGuard
1x Venomthrope

5x DeepStrike Rippers

1x Trygon Prime

3x Endless Swarm minimum 
(9 Warriors 90HGaunts 90 TGaunts)

With that many revivable gribblies around they MUST be target priority because of volume of objective secured units.  Ignoring them and shooting Flyrants/Trygon will leave you with the ability to get everything in CC and contesting pretty much all objectives on the board.

Synapse is covered with 3 groups of Warriors

Trygon offers a drop pod style way of securing objectives with the EndlessSwarm Respawn

HiveGuard just stay totally out of LOS.... that OR drop some rippers and give them shockcannon to deal with armour.  But generally this build ignores armour.

Trying something a bit different with its goal of total red tide domination.

With that many units it may even be possible to get everything and land Flyrants to join in combat.

Thoughts?

[coredump]

Here was my version. (never actually played)

Prime
4 x 3 warriors
4 x Endless Swarm
I think I had 5 VC on the warriors.

I don't think the trygon is needed with this many gaunts on the table, the idea is as they kill the front ones, there are already new ones right behind.
Granted the two flyrants will help, but I am not convinced 9 warriors is near enough synapse coverage. They will *have* to move forward and try and survive with just a 5+ cover save at times. Even killing just one of those broods, can leave a pretty big hole in the synapse web. You are going to have to keep at least one brood back for respawning gaunts. (even with the Trygon tunnel, many gaunts will be walking on.)

Another concept is to bring the Slord. He supplies some CC ability, another (18") synapse node, and each turn can give a brood Furious Charge so it can actually take out tanks with AV10 rear armor.

[Kwodd]

You'd have to make some movement trays if you ever wanted to finish a game.

[daboarder]

I'd just kill your synapse then watch your gaunts systematically destroy themselves

[Yautja]

None of those Guants will be objective secured though...

[wikkedtiki]

I want to really try an endless swarm list, i just don't think it can do anything since it does not have OS.

[coredump]

That is a weakness, especially against OS transports. But aside from that, the issue is getting your OS units to the objectives through hundreds of respawning gaunts.

Tank shocking wave serpents, or even rhinos, will be quite the issue though. Hence my thought of using Slord or something similar to deal with transports.

[nairolf]

If they aren't OS then its complete garbage!

Silly me!

[daboarder]

Thats not what cores saying, he's saying that you need to be aware of the weakness of ES gants and build accordingly, so ways to kill said OS transports are what you should be spending your points on