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I love the way the book is written.
Usually you'd open a book like this and it would be from the point of view of an outsider explaining how horrible these being are.
This book is mostly comprised of almost poetic rhetoric of how wonderful and beautiful the warp, it's denizens and their unholy powers are.
Love it!
Opinions?

I'm a big fan of it.

It reminds me of the older 40K stuff. There are a number of in-jokes and hidden references that you just don't find in recent codexes, which take themselves WAY too seriously.

The rules...maybe not so much in places, but the book as a whole is awesomesauce

Yes, I also think its good. Very well written, with fluff thats actually quite good and balenced.

A good read.

The only codex I enjoyed reading more was Codex: Orks.

The background in the Daemons book is awsome and gives that real idea that nothing you do actually matters, because in the end, all fall to chaos.

The rules do work pretty well too, despite the internet belief that our deployment is a complete gakfest. The only main problems being;
- the rolling off to see which wave comes in is pretty dumb.
- not nearly enough ranged anti-tank. (and GK's say they have it tough?!)
- GK's existing.
- Lack of unit choices. (would you like, I6 assaulty, 'furious charge' + power toy assaulty, FnP tarpit assaulty, worst unit in the game assaulty...)

I'm hoping that the next Daemons codex simply re-prints the current background and overhauls the army list! Please GW, don't 're-invent' daemons as the new GK's.

Wait, this was written by Ward, right?
And its well written? No pretentious bullcrap? No trying to sound epic or sophisticated?

Does not compute

It was not written by Ward, it was written by Alessio and Gav Thorpe.

Redbeard wrote:It was not written by Ward, it was written by Alessio and Gav Thorpe.

Then why does Ward get all the flack for demons?

I also really liked this codex, I want to see a return to the older codexes like this.

That was Fantasy's Daemons.

Armybook Daemons is the usual Ward crap. Massively OP and unbalanced, with lousy fluff. It pretty much broke the previous editon of WHFB.


40K Daemons Codex is a whole different animal, despite having the same models and units, by and large.

If you haven't read the Codex: Chaos Daemons. You should.
It's worth it.