Hive is TRASH - Change my mind
I've been doing pretty much nothing but play PvP hive and i've come to conclusion that this faction is utter trash. Their only good unit is the reaver and it has 1hp and is countered easily. If you do a tiny mistake with that stack you just lose them all and with that, the game. Waurms are good in paper, but getting them is way too expensive and even then you really want them upgraded. Every unit in the roster really wants the upgrade, without them they are all just fodder-tier garbage.
You cannot autoresolve any fights. Reavers must be the most suicidal units in the game. Not that your T2s are much better. Also the dragonflies will be removed from existence in every autoresolve. Even if you are at a point where your faction skill could solo the fight, autoresolve will find a way to delete your units. And fighting the fights is not just "put your weenie rangers in a corner behind 1 stacks and pewpew", which is nice, but it does get a little tiring.
and because Reaver (upgraded ofc, un-upgraded are just useless garbage) is the only unit in your roster you can't really do utopias AND get destroyed against any high tier ranged stack. And even if you are huffing enough copium to think that your reaver stack will instant kill 3 enemy stacks on turn one, the game is still in the hands of RNGesus cause you just might roll 10 in damage get retaliated and lose your powerstack.
And that's just the army building templates, the "army from boxes" templates are just miserable. Because your early game is so trash tier, you are struggling from the day 1. Better hope for small amount of ranged enemies guarding boxes or you will just bleed your army away before you even see it.
Even the heroes you get are trash. No OP spell casters to carry you early, even your "avatar specialist" is not an avatar specialist he just starts with the skill. And since your roster has just 2 usable units, you ain't using heroes specialized in 'em cause they are perma-banned cause there are no must-ban worthy heroes in this faction. No must-ban global spellcaster for certain templates. So the only heroes you are left with are what other towns would consider leftovers. And let's be honest here, even the reaver specialist is trash cause 2-3 un-upgraded reavers is trash it's not gonna help you when you need the most help.
"But the faction skill is OP" Yeah in theory, but most of the final combats are decided in 2-3 rounds MAX. If you can get to 3 focus points on the FIRST turn summoning big dick double striking - taunting - exploding larvae might just win you the game, but that's a big if. Oh wait, enemy has 1 phoenix and you don't have the best initiative - you are screwed.
Goddamn even, after the last patch, opening the town screen of hive takes way longer than any other town. Yeah i have trash PC but still, no problems with other towns.
Please educate me and change my mind. Im losing hope here.