my fleet, a blog, need help

[lordmagma]

okay, i need help, i am starting a fleet that is purley cc, the only ranged that i will allow is a pair of barbed stranglers for tank jacking.

now, i have made a list of what i need help on in a specific order

1. color scheme (thinking something with orange, but anything helps)

2. name (in relation to scheme)

3. army list (to start = 750 pts)

4. fluff (ideas for storys, will write on own)

i hope to kill lots of people and take thier biomass! a pre thanks go's out for all help!

[magnus]

i can only really help with the first one.

the complementary colour to orange is blue, so you could perhaps do orange carapace with blue "squishy bits"

the other option would be to go for a triad, which would be orange, green and violet. although i dont have a clue how you could incorporate violet into your colour scheme!

[hivefleetmanticore]

Orange... hmmm, I'm inclined to think, given the time of year, that black would really show off the orange. It's possible to use a method similar to Phil kelly's nids in the Big Rulebook (also an article at GW's site)

[hormagauntsam87]

For CC you'll either want a couple boxes of stealers and a Broodlord (as they rule the CC world) OR You'll want some sort of synapse creature aka: zoanthropes or warriors or Hive Tyrant and then a bunch of Hormagaunts and maybe a few spinegaunts/termagaunts for fun. I would recommend the first option though, even though it's points heavy because that will probably rock a bit harder. For some added punch consider using Raveners or Lictors, even though i personally can never get them to work for me very well.

[Sledgehammer]

Lotsa stealers definiteyly, and as has already be mentioned add some Ravenors and/or Lictors for more punch.

For the colour scheme: If you want orange I'd go for orange exoskeleton and blue or purple caraphrace. If you want a light yollowish orange you can try this (as it is incredibly fast):
1. Paint with blazing orange.
2. Drybrush with thinned skull white (lightly).
3. Paint with yellow wash (add some soap for lower surface tension).