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Looking to build a Slaanesh daemon army.

10 woman daemonette squads, (or should I go with more?)
Psyker (Slaanesh discipline) Keeper of Secrets (or should I go with a Psyker Daemon Prince?)
Plus chariots (any advice on how to run them?)
Heralds? (Psykers?)

They'll be accompanied by either Eldar, Dark Eldar, or Night Lords to provide negative leadership modifiers to enhance the psychic juju.

Any advice, in general or in specific?

The core of the army I currently play depending on pts is the following which works out at 1466, in larger games I normally try and fit in a daemon prince, a keeper of secrets or the Soul Grinder formation.

Obviously if you're less keen on going sacred numbers you could drop the Daemonettes down to 10 girl squads and distribute the pts elsewhere (the fiends are also basically worse chaos spawn)

Flayertrope
Herald - 170pts (x1 Greater Etherblade, x1 Lesser Reward Steed of slaanesh, Exalted Locus of Beguilement, Psyker mastery 2)
x12 Daemonettes - 108
x12 Daemonettes - 108
x12 Daemonettes - 108
x12 Daemonettes - 108
x12 Daemonettes - 108
x6 Fiends - 210

Grand Cavalcade
Herald - 170pts (x1 Greater Etherblade, x1 Lazy Claw, Steed of slaanesh, Exalted Locus of Beguilement. Psyker mastery 2)
x18 Seekers - 216
x1 Seeker chariot - 40
x1 Seeker chariot - 40
x1 Seeker chariot - 40
x1 Seeker chariot - 40
x1 Seeker chariot - 40

Edit: Chariots are really good for 40pts I normally use them to soften up units in terrain since impact hits are always initiative 10 and 3d6 str 4 rending automatic hits can do allot of damage to wide range of targets, i also use them to soak up small arms overwatch fire for my hordes of lesser daemons since there av11 makes them immune to most small arms fire (tau excluded)

Are the Seeker chariots preferable to the Exalted Seeker chariot?

 Jimsolo wrote:
Are the Seeker chariots preferable to the Exalted Seeker chariot?

Yes. Both chariots are flimsy (open topped rhino with a 5++ isn't much) so you pay almost double the price for a very insignificant bonus of double the HPs

I thought double the HPs meant double the HoW attacks. (My thought was that Fleshshredder was the reason to take them.) Am I mistaken?

 Jimsolo wrote:
I thought double the HPs meant double the HoW attacks. (My thought was that Fleshshredder was the reason to take them.) Am I mistaken?

Yes you get D6 HoW per Hp remaining on the chariot.
But as you can get 2 standard chariots for 5pts more than the Exalted one it works out better because of the possibility of the chariot(s) exploding each time it takes a penetrating hit.

Also you get a 2nd alluress

If you just want to have a small detachment for their freakshow potential a Keeper of Secrets with some 10 lady units of Daemonettes for screening and assault is pretty good.

Try this out. It has an insane amount of rending hammer of wrath.

Real Space Raiders Detachment:
1x Archon W/Shadowfield +The Armour of Misery + Raider W/Nightshields+Aether Sails
1x Archon W/Shadowfield + The Archangel of Pain
5x Warriors W/Venom w/Splintercannon
5x Warriors W/Venom w/Splintercannon
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
Grand Calvary Auxillary Formation:
1x Herald of Slaanesh W/ Exalted Chariot + Locus of Beguilement+ Greater Reward
6x2 Seeker Chariots of Slaanesh

How many points is that?

Thats 1734. Still need to optimize it a bit. Might throw in a bunker escape hatch in a CAD instead of the Raider so I can turn 1 Archangel of Pain, Riptide wings, daemon deathstars, eldar deathstars, Ork deathstars, Pylon Stars, etc haha

I use 6x2 Seeker Chariots instead of 6x Exalted chariots for an extra 6D6 hammer of wrath attacks. It comes out to 12 x 3D6 hammer of wraths rather that 6x 5D6, and you have more MSU threat overload. I would throw in my harlequins too, but theyre comes the apocalypse so I cant in ITC events.

organicpesticide wrote:
Thats 1734. Still need to optimize it a bit. Might throw in a bunker escape hatch in a CAD instead of the Raider so I can turn 1 Archangel of Pain, Riptide wings, daemon deathstars, eldar deathstars, Ork deathstars, Pylon Stars, etc haha

I use 6x2 Seeker Chariots instead of 6x Exalted chariots for an extra 6D6 hammer of wrath attacks. It comes out to 12 x 3D6 hammer of wraths rather that 6x 5D6, and you have more MSU threat overload. I would throw in my harlequins too, but they're comes the apocalypse so I cant in ITC events.

Wouldn't it be better to drop the exalted locus of beguilement since it only effects the riders as impact hits hit automatically ? Don't get me wrong it is an incredibly powerful locus but I feel you don't have enough bodies to take advantage of it you only have 13 characters who can benefit from it. I would personally advise on taking the lesser locus of grace in such a list as it would make the chariots immune to dangerous terrain.

How about something like this which I believe is 15pts less ? It is also in theory slightly more resilient as overkill can't spill over onto a second chariot since there all in individual units.

Real Space Raiders Detachment:
1x Archon W/Shadowfield +The Armour of Misery + Raider W/Nightshields+Aether Sails
1x Archon W/Shadowfield + The Archangel of Pain
5x Warriors W/Venom w/Splintercannon
5x Warriors W/Venom w/Splintercannon
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
6x Reavers W/2x Cluster Caltrops +2x Heatlance
Grand Calvary Auxillary Formation:
1x Herald of Slaanesh W/ Seeker Chariot + Greater Reward
6x1 Seeker Chariots of Slaanesh

Grand Calvary Auxillary Formation:
1x Herald of Slaanesh W/ Seeker Chariot + Greater Reward
6x1 Seeker Chariots of Slaanesh

Now that we're talking Freakshows I'm back on familiar ground, lol.

I'm liking the idea of the Rending Rush, but I'm not so sure about using Codex Eldar for this. Unfortunately, the small range of the Armor of Misery and the inability of the Archangel to affect Space Marines are both pretty big strikes.

I'm thinking either an Eldar Seer Council or a Corsair Prince with the Mask of Secrets (and maybe both) will be the way to go.

Definitely some good ideas here, though.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Now that we're talking Freakshows I'm back on familiar ground, lol.

I'm liking the idea of the Rending Rush, but I'm not so sure about using Codex Eldar for this. Unfortunately, the small range of the Armor of Misery and the inability of the Archangel to affect Space Marines are both pretty big strikes.

I'm thinking either an Eldar Seer Council or a Corsair Prince with the Mask of Secrets (and maybe both) will be the way to go.

Definitely some good ideas here, though.

Have you considered an emperor's children daemon prince/sorcerer with endless grin ?

It's a possibility, but I think if I was going with a Slaanesh Daemon Prince I'd have to go with Noise Marines to go with them. (The Chaos Marine Slaanesh psychic power doesn't really do a lot for Freakshows, so Pinning Weapons would be the best way to capitalize on the list theme.)