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im a long time player who dropped the game for about 14 months but I want to play in a tourney this weekend and Im not sure what the present state of the game is. When I left, seer council eldar had no counter, bugs died horrid deaths and no one played wolves. I have like 14 armies but no time to add new minis. Would someone post what is working these days and what I should expect to see?

before i quit, I was having the most fun and success (won 95% of games) with deamons. typically the list would be (and this is an approximation)
demonprice wings flamer psychich power

two heralds of nurgle psychich flamer

two units of 7 plaguebears

two units of 8 bloodletters

two units of three bloodcrushers

unit of 5 screamers

greater demon of nurgle

9 pink horrors with changling
nurglings to fill out the points

sorry i dont have an exact list but thats the gist. eldar cheese raped it but at the time no one else could stop me. Im sure thats changed. I have large forces of space wolves, generic marines, ig, nids, lots of chaos marines, and tau. what do you all think is the best route and what should I prepare for?

Watch out for Blood Angels, they are fast enough to get the charge on you if you come down peicemeal if jump-packing.

RB/Pred spam has enough guns to pop your icon squads as they arrive.

Good Luck!

hmmm I have enough jumppackers to play BA. What's winning tourney's these days?

It depends on the dice god you pray to.

oh boy, I haven't sacrificed to him in a while. This could get ugly. I'm sure I won't win the tourney, even though I almost never lose I still don't seem to win for some reason (usually I don't get enough points in the "hey I like this guy" category. i.e. sportsmanship, fun to play, etc. Hard to get points in that when your opponent is decimated on turn three) But at the same time, I don't want to get wiped out on turn two by every army I face. So Deamons are still viable, is my question?

Not sure, I'm away from home for a few months so I can't test out my list. But FWIW

Chappy w/ JP
2x Assault squads (10) PF, 2x melta
2x DC dreads w/ HF +pod
DC (10) 2x PF, JP
Vanguard (10) 2x PF, 3x PW, JP
1850
Thats what I'd take, and it's pre-tweaking so may need some work.