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I am thinking of starting a chaos demon army using lots of bloodcrushers (i love the models)

Here is the list i am thinking of, feel free to critique it and help me wiht tactics, etc. thanks

HQ:
- Fateweaver (1) ~ 333

Elites:
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210

Troops:
- Plague Bearers (7) ~ 105
- Plague Bearers (7) ~ 105
- Plague Bearers (6) ~ 90

Fast Attack:
N/A

Heavy Support:
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235

Total: 1968
I have points for an icon and i was wondering where to put it and in which wave.

The idea is to hudle around Fateweaver and use the daemon princes to hunt vehicles and MC's and the bloodcrushers to kill infantry.
The plaguebearers will hold objectives and be a nuisance.

The waves will probably be as follows:
Wave 1: Fateweaver, bloodcrushers x2, daemon princes x2
Wave 2: bloodcrushers x1, daemons prince x1, plague bearers x3

Thanks all

Hmmm...cool conscept but I do not like it. You have to little anti tank.

I do not have the chaos codex but how about this: Degrade all the points in the demon princes and the plague bearers (perhaps also the fateweaver, but he is good.)

Step 1: Get herlands of tzeench or pink horrors, for bolts of tzench so you can open tanks.

Step 2: With the herald slots used for bolts of tzench, get demon princes of slanesh with lach of slanesh so you "fleet" the prey 1d6 closer to the blood chrushers, and it will be as though they have fleet! :-D

Those are my thoughts at least for having a good bloodcrusher list.

You don't need to go with bolt heralds and horrors for better anti tank-just change the Demon Princes to have mark of Tzeench with Bolt and voila!!! It needn't be all of them, but it would give you anti tank without having to get new models..Horrors/Flamers/Soul Grinder/Deamonettes/Flesh Hounds would all work well in this role too

Think about Demonic flight. It nearly doubles the cost of each DP, and you might want to use those to get some bloodletters or something as you look a bit light on troops-your only scoring units. You might also consider dropping a pair of Bloodcrushers and replacing one with a Herald of Khorne on a Jugg, and one with Skulltaker on a jugg. In fact, Skulltaker on foot with a unit of Bloodletters would be just as awesome!! But demonic flight IS good-so keep it if you want.

If you changed a DP to have Mark of Slaanesh, and gave it Pavane, that could work well (ok..it DOES work well) with your slow-but still awesome-Bloodcrushers

If you want an icon, put it in wave 1, it's not that important which unit...

so much nurgle, but no Epidermus?! drop the wings on the daemon prince waste of points just place right when you deep strike and u'll do fine for the rest of the battle

But if you want to build around blood crushers some sort of dancing slanesh trick will help them se CC.

- Fateweaver (1) ~ 333
*** Good choice a staple choice. He has wings but youll be walking him next to the crushers so ull probably forget theyre there.
*** Consider a Bloodthister with Unholy might for handling land raiders and with blessing of the blood god for all the new grey knight players a rerollable 2++ is a beautiful thing.

Elites:
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210
- Blood Crushers (5), Fury of Khorne ~ 210
********* you really really are gonna wanna get full command options for these guys. wound allocation cheese is too god to pass up. 3 squads is honestly so much overkill its a detriment. drop one squad and use these points for the command options and to boost the remaining two squads to 6 each. to fill the remaining elite slot, which you're gonna want to do use either a 3 man flamer suicide or a 6 man fiend squad with might if you can find the points.
Troops:
- Plague Bearers (7) ~ 105
- Plague Bearers (7) ~ 105
- Plague Bearers (6) ~ 90
******** At 1850 5 man PBs hold up well enough don't think youll need the 6-7 man squads. these points can used towards the fiends.
Fast Attack:
N/A
************** At some point try proxin some seekers theyre awesome. get um in 10 to 14 man units
Heavy Support:
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235
- Daemon Prince (1), mark of nurgle, iron hide, unholy might, daemonic flight, noxius touch, cloud of flies ~ 235
****************** MoN DPs are awesome if you need assault killy but with a fatecrusher list you dont need assault from your heavy slot you need shooty. So while these guys are built correctly you should consider MoT DPs instead. MoT DPs will allow for transport popage and dont require wings which will also save you some points. Now wether you run 2 or 3 is going to be up to playtesting but I've personnnally found two is plenty at 1850. You could also keep one MoN DP to help your BT with super heavy assault tank popage just rememeber hes not gonna get a LR very easily.
Total: 1968