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My experiment with demons, this is intended to be a ranged army (as the title says) but I have a feeling this list is lacking.

HQ:
Fateweever - 333

Elites:
Flamers of Tzeentch- 170
-4 flamers
-bolt of tzeentch

Troops:

Pink Horrors 1- 185
- 10 horrors
- One with bolt
- Changeling
Pink Horrors 2- 180
-10 Horrors
-one with bolt
-chaos icon
Pink Horrors 3- 180
-10 horrors
-one with bolt
-chaos icon
Pink Horrors 4- 180
-10 horrors
-one with bolt
Plague Bearers- 90
-6 plague bearers

Fast Attack:

Screamers of Tzeentch- 48
-3 screamers

Heavy Support:

Demon Prince- 190
-Mark of Tzeentch
-Demonic Gaze
-Bolt of Tzeentch
-iron hide

Demon Prince- 190
-Mark of Tzeentch
-Demonic Gaze
-Bolt of Tzeentch
-iron hide


So, the horrors are an obvious choice in a ranged list. The demon princes are decked out to be firing platforms. Fateweaver is there for durability mostly. The plague bearers are there mainly because I can't think of something better and I figured they can be used for objective holding. The flamers are there for additional fire support and for the breathing on people that get too close.

I'd bump the Plaguebearers up to 10, if they're gonna camp might as well bring a bigger crew of em.

I know some people don't like soulgrinders, but maybe consider one?

Needs some counter assault I reckon... And heralds of tzeentch. Maybe kit up the princes to punch face after they pop transports?

How about:

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

3x Flamers

3x Flamers

3x Flamers

6x Horrors w/bolt, Changling, icon

6x Horrors w/bolt, icon

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

That's a very scary list above. My suggestion would be something like it, only shuffling around to get Gaze on the Princes. They get to fire two weapons being MCs and have your highest BS so you may as well get them shooting more. The only question is where you get those points. Personally I'd swap in the Breath on the Heralds, they've already got two ranged attacks without it and can use their jetbike status to kite things rather than charging in to use a template.

The new list is excellent.

But on the old list:
Drop the plague bearers, and screamers in favour for more horrors. You dont need PBs to camp when you have 5 ranged scoring units with 4++ invulns and fateweaver. And with all of your massed Bolt firing and MCs, screamers aren't needed.
I think you have added up the DPs points wrong? 80 for the prince, 30 for hide, 25 for MoT, 25 for bolt, 20 for Gaze. Comes to 180, not 190.

helium42 wrote:How about:

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch on chariot w/bolt, breath, master of sorcery

3x Flamers

3x Flamers

3x Flamers

6x Horrors w/bolt, Changling, icon

6x Horrors w/bolt, icon

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

6x Horrors w/bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

Demon Prince w/MoT, bolt

Much better!

have the squad with the most horrors have the changeling so they will shoot at it and have the highest chance to shoot other people

on heralds you don't need breath because you have flamers so scrap breath and give princes either more survivablity or more shooty stuff (prefer shooty)

i would combine the squads so you would have 18 9 and 9 horrors (18 haveing the changeling) but that's just me i would also have 2 flamers for more upgrades but again that's just me

Thanks, that list looks a lot better. Though I am going to scrap breadth on the flamers and give something to the princes (probably gaze to utilize the firing of 2 weapons per turn).

Edit:
Thanks for the feedback <3

edit:

so I came up with this. Unless I did the math wrong, it comes out to 1697pts so I still have stuff to throw in, any recomendations?

HQ:
Herald of Tzeentch-100
-chariot
-bolt of tzeentch
-mastery of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch-100
-chariot
-bolt of tzeentch
-mastery of sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch-100
-chariot
-bolt of tzeentch
-mastery of sorcery


Elites:
Flamers of Tzeentch- 105
-3 flamers

Flamers of Tzeentch- 105
-3 flamers

Flamers of Tzeentch- 105
-3 flamers

Troops:

Pink Horrors- 112
-6 horrors
-bolt
-changling

Pink Horrors- 117
-6 horrors
-bolt
-chaos icon

Pink Horrors- 137
-6 horrors
-bolt

Pink Horrors- 112
-6 horrors
-bolt


Pink Horrors- 112
-6 horrors
-bolt

Pink Horrors- 112
-6 horrors
-bolt


Heavy Support:

Demon Prince- 190
-Mark of Tzeentch
-Demonic Gaze
-Bolt of Tzeentch
-iron hide

Demon Prince- 190
-Mark of Tzeentch
-Demonic Gaze
-Bolt of Tzeentch
-iron hide

jbsnv wrote:have the squad with the most horrors have the changeling so they will shoot at it and have the highest chance to shoot other people

Check your codex again. The Changeling's squad does not have to be shot at. It only has to be in range to affect that squad. I made the same mistake until it was pointed out to me.

What is the best way to divide this army for deployment?

Prefered wave should look like; 3x heralds, 2 princes and 1 horror squad with icon.

That gives you 6 bolts. 2 @ BS5, 3 @ BS4, 1 @ BS3. And an icon so you can land successfully with the rest of your army.

If you swap out your heralds, you can afford Fateweaver, he is a huge bonus to your survivability.