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So after seeing the new Bloodthirster models and all the Khorne, I made up a nice little 1500 point Daemons of Khorne force. Now this is a theme army, so with Khorne there isn't a magic phase. Also due to points, I made a Daemon Prince mini-bloodthirster. Not a whole lot of models I know, but I'm used to this as I also have a theme Daemons of Nurgle Army.

Prince with Wings, Armor, Daemon of Khorne, Lesser Gift ( Blade of Blood)
Skulltaker ( with Bloodletters)
30 Bloodletters with Full Command and Flaming Banner
5 Bloodcrushers with Full Command and Standard of Discipline
Skull Cannon

Pretty self explanatory, Bloodletters are the anvil, Bloodcrushers are the hammer. Prince will fly around and eat warmachines & other flying things. Skull Cannon is Skull Cannon.

Mono-Khorne, Yus!

Here's my main recommendation:

 DirusdaPlagueFather wrote:
So after seeing the new Bloodthirster models ...

Take a bloodthirster dude! Your DP clocks in at 340 points, just 85 points gets you so much more: +1WS +5BS +1T +1W +1I +1A +2MR (and another attak if your lesser gift isn't a magic weapon, thanks to two weapons).* This will cost you the 5th bloodcrusher (who won't always get to fight anyway) and the magic banners, one of which does nothing (bloodletters have magic weapons, which can't be lit on fire) and the other actually hurts the bloodcrushers if within 18" of the general (discipline means you can't use general's LD), which they probably will be thanks to their speed.

*Princes are woefully inferior to the greaters, and I'm speaking with some experience trying to make Tizz DP do something that matters. It's the T5 (+ W4) that sucks the most, makes it hard to go up against even S4 troopers, and DP take some investment to make them killy enough to one shot single targets, which can probably devour them if they don't go down before swinging. And on your lesser gift, all of them are pretty legit on the BT, with ASF (#6) maybe the best thanks to that ahw, then I'd likely default to the ASF sword over the Blade of Blood. The Khorne gift is cool, but probably really comes into it's own when you have a lot of high armor armored targets, due to being S7/8 + KB. Rerolling hits on S6/7 is generally better in my book.

Anyway, these changes gives us this:

Bloodthirster - lesser gift = 425
Skulltaker = 200

30 Bloodletters - full command = 450
4 Bloodcrushers - full command = 290
Skull Cannon = 135
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1500

Bam! Simple and smashy, and maybe the Reign will kill you some stuff in those magic phases you aren't using otherwise?

- Salvage