After finishing a Shek only run where the goal was to wipe out The Holy Nation, I figured I'd try a Hiver cast away start and go for a Hiver Only run. The character spawned by the weastern beaches, so I had him run up along the shore end he ended up in World's end, using stealth and Assassination to "even the odds" against cannibals along with standard ranged skirmish methods (and honestly skirmishing with bows is probably OP if you're willing to do the micro).

So I ended up in the UC, bought all the maps I could find that show all the towns, and checked every major UC city in The Great Desert along with Heng, recruiting every single Hiver I could find.

The issue is, there's not a lot of melee. Princes and Drones make fantastic archers, but so far they're not very good in Melee thanks to their low health pools. Skirmishing is becoming cumbersome with six archers, so I'm reluctant to take in any more princes or drones (though these six roflstomp absolutely everything if I'm willing to put in the micro, but it's... really slow going).

So far I've only been able to find a single Hiver Warrior Drone.

I'm thinking I might get a bunch of bone dogs to cover the melee shortage (have one already along with a pack bull), but I'm curious if I should do that if there are actually enough Warrior Drones to recruit?

Also, I'm struggling to figure out a long term goal other than to get stronger. I like having win conditions in games like this where I just decide it myself. There isn't really a natural win condition for hivers though, at least not that I know of?

Thanks for listening, and let me know what you think 🙏

Hirver Only run - seeking advice for a couple things (in post body)