9e Leviathan Endless Swarm - 2000pts

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Brigade detachment

Neurothrope (Resonance Barb)
Neurothrope
Neurothrope
Malanthrope

10x Termagant
10x Termagant
10x Termagant
10x Termagant
10x Termagant
10x Termagant
10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt
10x Hormagaunt

10x Gargoyle
10x Gargoyle
10x Gargoyle

5x Hive Guard
Lictor
Lictor

Exocrine (Dermic symbiosis)
Exocrine (Dermic symbiosis)
Biovore



Pretty simple list really. Can you kill this many bodies with your army tuned to beat the new meta of vehicles and elites? Under 11 models per unit to prevent blast getting a free +3 shots on me which will add up - still manages 150 gaunt bodies though (effective ~ 180 or so with leviathan trait). Speaking of, with this many gaunts it really has to be that trait, despite the relic, WL trait and spell being trash. I was tempted to try and fit in a Kronos patrol for the RR1s on the big guns and psyker shenanigans but with a Brigade it cuts into the bodies and necessary synapse too much. The only thing that might work is batt+batt of levvy then a patrol of kronos, but that's -5CP from the get go (the list isn't especially CP hungry but that's still a lot) and I feel nervous about either only having a single neuro for Symbiostorm, or reducing my synapse for the horde to 3 models.

Interested to hear whether people think this has legs in 9th!

[acehilator]

Can't string units along the tiny Malantrophe bubble, so -1 is not going to be a thing for most of the army. Also check the new coherency rules carefully, congalining is pretty much reduced to half length.

10 Intercessors with basic rerolls (Chapter Master + Lieutnant) kill 24 Gants/Gaunts/Gargoyles per turn for two CP (Rapid Fire) at 30". That is without the -1 to hit, but including the Levi FnP. Six Agressors shooting once should kill about 28. UM or Ravenguard Agressors can kill 40% of your bodies in the first turn.

If you want bodies, you need twice as many, and even that is a risky proposition.