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Hey you guys im debating on making either a vampire army or a choas daemon army, but not sure what army is more magic strong any advice would be great . and a army list would be greatly helpful thanks guys .

Daemons can be pretty magic heavy, but you will be relying on a lvl 2 hero or a lvl 4 out of your core until you can get a greater daemons. Now the lvl4 from core, horrors are great for magic missles and dispelling, however that's where their effect ends, once they hit cc, they are an anvil ish unit.

The lvl 2 loremaster herald is a great buy for 140. Lore that work vary around your whole list. Life and light are what I really like.

I usually run 3 lvl 2's at 2200/2250 and have great success with a loremaster, life and light and 20 horrors, the light mage can fly and get the big aura buffs where needed.

For example bloodletters hit the front of a unit, bloodthirster or fiend to the side. Boost Pha's or birona's on both and watch it go.

3 channels are nice too.

Lore of Vampires which is their staple isnt really offensive out side of the aging spell. Most the spells buff or regrow units. If you make a khorne/tzeentch list you we be as magic as the vamps but less reliant on your general/lore of vamps.

Daemons are surprisingly not the best at magic until extremely high point levels. To be REALLY good at magic, IMHO, you need an ability to affect the winds of magic. I.e., if you roll low power dice, you aren't screwed. You need

-High lvl casters (+4 to cast each spell)
-Bonus to each spell
-A way to generate bonus power dice
-possibly multiple cheapo wizards for +channeling chances

Slann, WoC casters with familiars, HE with their crazy items, Beastmen around a stone, TK with that giant dude and casket of souls. Those are instances I really think of.

Only Fateweaver from DoC can pull off a lot of that, maybe adding Blue Scribes to suck in more dice. But all that is incredibly expensive.