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Okay so I play Tau as my main army.

About a year ago I went on a drunken eBay binge and bought a whole IG army which I never played because it was way too similar to Tau.

I had a chance to swap some of my IG for a KD army and I jumped at the chance firstly because I dig the models but also I wanted a cc army with some shenanigans and from what little O know KD for the bill.

I'm looking to build a fairly good all comers 1850 army using as much of what I have got already. I want to have as much useful shenanigans as possible and I want the army to play as far away from the Tau shooty style as possible.

So do you guys have any suggestions on what I should add to the army to make it a bit more rounded and playable, doesn't have to be super cheesy I just want some fun units that will win a few games at least.

+ HQ +
Bloodthirster
Chaos Lord
Daemon Prince

+ Elites +
10 x Chaos Terminators

+ Troops +
20 x Bloodletters
42 x Chaos Cultists
10 x Chaos Space Marines
1 x Aspiring Champion

+ Heavy Support +
Helbrute


Thanks!

Flesh hounds
Bikers (so that you can use the Gorepack formation)
More flesh hounds
Spawn
Perhaps a few more flesh hounds
Soul Grinders.

That should give you a good start. You will need to get a unit of Possessed if you want to use the Blood Host detachment with the Slaughter cult.

You'll notice that a lot of the suggested units are fast moving assault based types. One main strategy with KD is to advance aggressively and threaten your opponents lines as soon as possible. This play style should provide the departure from Tau tactics that you mentioned you were looking for.

As above

Flesh Hounds
And other units required for the blood host detachment
And some demons for summoning

I'm in the same situation as you :-). But finishing off my tau before I get anymore DK

I plan on a juggerlord to run with some hounds for more fun :-)

Using the models you have, here are some tactics:

Chaos lord - give him the axe of korlath so when he dies he turns into a bloodthirster...if you get 7 blood tithe points turn him into a demon prince that keeps the axe which can be used again AND a bloodthirster pops out of the axe

Chaos space marines - run them with 2 meltaguns in a rhino (people will tell you they're not good but I still run them and they are fun)

Cultists - run them as min squads of 8 these guys are great for dying and getting more blood points - if you can get the champion into a fight and die in a challenge even better - you will usually wind up with a point for that and another point for the unit getting wiped

Chaos terminators - run them in groups of 3 with combi meltas and deep strike them (again not top tier unit but fun)

Bloodthirster - either keep him to summon, or if your opponent has a lot of super heavies use insensate (D-thirster), I prefer running him as a wrath of khorne thirster these days because he can fly and stay safe for the first couple turns and use whip/vector strike/fire breath and still do a lot of damage while flying

Again YMMV but I love the Blood Host Detachment for the extra blood point each turn and the fact that the slaughtercult gets an ADDITIONAL result on the blood table - so for this you will need 5 posessed. If you run the slaughtercult put as many guys into it as you can so they benefit from the extra result.

And of course eventually get lots of khorne hounds - if you want cheap ones get the warhammer fantasy chaos warhounds (10 per box for cheap)