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Here's my list for an upcoming 1500pt Escalation Campaign.

HQ: Blood Thirster +UM,IH 270pts
HQ: Herald +Chariot,Blessing 90pts

Elite: Blood Crushers 4 +icon 185pts
Elite: Blood Crushers 4 160pts
Elite: Blood Crushers 4 160pts

Troop: Blood Letters x7 112pts
Troop: Blood Letters x7 112pts
Troop: Blood Letters x7 112pts

Heavy: Soul Grinder +Tongue 160pts
Heavy: Soul Grinder + Phlegm 135pts

Total = 1496

Team Rampage: Thirster, Crushers x2 (one with icon), Soul Grinder x2 (5 units)
Team Carnage: Chariot, Crushers x1, Letters x3 (5 units)

My plan is to get the Thirster in range turn two to start wreaking havoc and have the Crushers follow suite. Soul Grinders are in the back hitting armor and trying to soften up squads and draw attention (I've had good luck with Soul Grinders so far in both point cost and utility). If it goes the way I want I can bring in the letters and other crushers into squads already tarred down in CC (next to the Crusher's icon)

If I roll a 1 or 2 the Herald has Blessing of the blood god to cope with psychic attacks (4 wounds doesn't hurt either). Worst case there is I bring them in and run them to cover, survive as much shooting as I can, then get the rest in and go from there.

What do you think?


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I forgot the most important part; this is an escalation game starting at 500 and +250pts per week for five weeks totaling 1500 last game.

wk I: 500 Combat Patrol Rules
wkII-V: 750-1500 standard FoC

Here's the problem, I can't move troops around, so say if I want to change a blood letters squad from 7 to 10 to fill points they would have to stay as a unit of 10. This greatly effects my deployment in the later games as my list has to be split evenly and would reduce my other squads greatly making them easier kill points.


Here's my 500 points
500pts
Herald +Chariot +BotBG 90
Crushers x4 185pts
BloodLetters x7 112
BloodLetters x7 112
total 449 pts

Anyone have anything to add?

I'm curious as to what I can do to improve this list. The only restriction is that everything has to be table top and WYSIWYG.

You need more icons. I would find a way to add more Icons. You could probably also benefit from some flesh hounds to increase your mobility a little bit, since you are running Mono-Khorne. I would drop a unit of crushers, to add Icons to the Bloodletter squads.

Your herald is also not my favorite choice, but since it's escalation, you kinda don't really have a choice.

The bloodcrushers are super awesome, but they're 25 dollars a model, and you could save some money dropping a squad and adding icons like Whitedragon said.

I'm a little confused about the escalation, but are you able to take Daemon Princes? I find them just super useful because they can't be one-shotted.

Koski wrote:The bloodcrushers are super awesome, but they're 25 dollars a model, and you could save some money dropping a squad and adding icons like Whitedragon said.

I'm a little confused about the escalation, but are you able to take Daemon Princes? I find them just super useful because they can't be one-shotted.

For the most part you build a 1500 point list and play it starting at 500 points. You can field anything you want to except at 500 where you are pretty limited. The idea is at the end you have a 1500 point army painted and ready for tournament play. I can add a DP later, but they have too many wounds for the 500 point battle. I also can't take the SG since it has too high a total AV value. I'm thinking I may have to just run troops and elites for the first week

I was thinking the same thing about the crushers. $30 each is too pricey for me, especially when most people like to field a lot of them. The reason I didn't add an icon to the blood letters is they tend to die too early before I can get the full benefit. I like putting icons on Crushers or plague bearers, but it's something to consider.

The Herald on Chariot can go, but that leaves me without an HQ I can field a 500 points. I can't use a named Herald like Skull Taker and everything else has too many wounds to field (unless I missed something). On the other hand, even a Herold on a chariot can't be played @ 500 since he has 4 wounds. My only other option is either run him without a Chariot and upgrade later or skip an HQ until 750 points and then put in anything I want to. The minimum is one troop choice, so I could do a squad of Blood Letters w/ icon then maybe crushers.

Something for me to consider

Well in a khorne based list, you're only other option is Flesh Hounds to switch in. Waiting to get your favorite HQ is the best option though.