Why play organic hive mind?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

I have been looking for a justification to play an organic hive mind.

There bonuses are pretty much none existant.
There roleplay lines seems to be an afterthought.
And with the robotic hive mind added there seems to be no reasons to take the inferior hive mind.

So why would anyone play an organic hive mind when both normal civ and robotic hive minds are vastly superior.

And dont bring roleplay into this.
If i was able to roleplay a hive mind i woudnt be forced into a tyranids mindset.
I would be in compleet control.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

I don't see why one can't bring roleplaying into this, just because hive minds play in a certain way does not mean one can't roleplay it. Not to mention that the only purely Tyranid like hive mind would be the devouring swarms, normal hive minds don't need to eat everything (just don't conquer other people's planets).

I think role playing is a perfectly justifiable reason to play as a normal hive mind. Not to mention that their gameplay is different from machine empires, not massively different but still different.

[Scar Glamour]

Machine hive minds, ironically, aren't able to hyperspecialize their pops like organic races with biological ascention. Mostly due to the lack of costly high-gain traits. In fact machine empires lack any ascention paths, which give significant boosts to biological empires in mid-game.

Machine empires start very slow due to pops costing minerals to build. The also require constant influence spend to grow fast, since your machines do not just migrate naturally. So even thought you can colonize everything, it takes quite a while since you can make use of your colonies.

So I would not say that playing a machine Hivemind is a straight upgrade from organic Hiveminds. But, I guess, Organic hive minds could use a bit of a power (and a significant narrative) boost after all.