I'm looking for anyone's ideas on an "Optimum mutant" for the Hive game. My son and I are playing and wanted some imput from other players.
Let me know your deadliest combos and why they're so deadly...
Thanks,
Jared
Jared, it is not a single bug, but a small team of bugs with different specializations that are the most effective, as a group.  The pheromone projector, for instance, corresponds to the magic-user in a DnD group. There is also a "hopping hand grenade" design, a kamikaze not expected to live long, but gives its life for the hive.  Think a bug bouncing along on a furcula covered with urticating setae.
But in fairness, I have to mention the notorius "Cone Snail" mutant design.
Unfortunately, this design is top secret because it breaks the game! I can only say that the cone snail uses components found in the basic Mutant Kit plus the rainforest expansion, and is not just a design, but a design and a tactic. I can also say that the cone snail design has never lost, as far as I know. I paid off its creator never to reveal the design, and he retired the cone snail after it had eliminated the entire hive, including the anteater and the termites, and had reproduced (twice), ending the game with over 10 cone snail variants.