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I'm looking for an army that is the complete antithesis of my Tau, and since I already have some WE bits lying around I decided to take them. I really like the daemons (I'm a bit sceptical that 'zerkers are worth it, I've played against WE a number of times and it is childsplay to lead them on a merry chase all over the board) so I'0m going for a Daemon Bomb army:

===HQ===
Lord @188pts: MoK, Great Weapon, Personal Icon, Daemon Aura, Daemon Armour, Essence, Speed, Stature, Resilience, Collar of Khorne, Feel No Pain.
I wanted Visage on him as well to make sure the target squad breaks as this guy will be going up against infantry mainly.  I really like him as he is practically unkillable except by S10 weapons, and the only army that properly wields S10 is Tau.

===ELITES===
6 Chosen Asp Champs 480pts: each w/ MoK, Bike, Power Weapon, Daemon Armour, Feel No Pain, Furious Charge. One w/ Icon.
Another practically unkillable unit that can easily shred every unit in cc. These guys plus the Lord are the Icon carriers, rush forward and release the daemons.

===TROOPS===
8 Bloodletters @208pts: -.
8 Bloodletters @208pts: -.
8 Bloodletters @208pts: -.
8 Bloodletters @208pts: -.

So how does that look ? The main weakness I see is against armour. Only the Lord is capable of taking down tanks and I can forget taking down skimmers of any kind. Only Eldar can be completely skimmers based, so against other armies if I just ignore the skimmers and send the Lord against the most dangerous tanks while the other units kill everything else it should be doable.

I suppose I could replace the pws on the bikers with talons, then I'd have another anti-tank unit. I can't find my codex at the moment, but iirc only marines in power armour cannot take weapon upgrades, and my bikers are not in power armour, so could I give them a melta each ? Also its not the marine getting the upgrade, but the bike...

I'd say go with the Talons on at least two or three of the bikers.  That way they will be able to deal with vehicles and monsterous creatures in H2H.

One other little concern, if the bikers bloodrage on turn one they will likely be exposed for a turn of fire.  If their 2+ save isn't invulnerable and they run into the open on the first turn, they will likely get shot up very badly.  This makes this something of a gamblers list.

Escalation could really cripple this army as everything is either summoned or wil arrive from reserve.  It could mean that with a few bad rolls the Bloodletters would need to do more walking than they should.

On the whole it strikes me as an army that could really throw many forces for a loop.  If they other force isn't expecting this sort of fight, it could be much deadlier than a Berzerker heavy list.

I really don't like the idea of this list. 7 godlike, but ultimately fragile, models starting on the board with the rest of the army relying on a deepstrike? No thank you. Playing herohammer is fun and all, but when I run two termie squads with a Lord and a Chaos Champion leading a squad each, I have a solid core of plague marines backing it up.

On the list itself:
The Lord sems ok, but maybe you should drop the collar and the great weapon for a dark blade and a ccw. It's a great weapon, and you get +1 attack with it too.