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I've really wanted to make one of these lists for a while now.
The idea is, two incredibly hard to kill squads with five Mindshackle Scarabs each (six with Trazyn), and all kinds of shenanigans to screw with people.
Basic tactics are: park Nemesor with Immortals on a point, stay there forever, never dying, stealing and granting USR's all day. Use Royal Courts to kill ALL of the things. Trazyn helps cap objectives if need be.

One rez orb per squad, gauntlet and labyrinths for some wound allocation shenanigans (and really, when are you going to need ten labyrinths?), the whole squad is ever-living, so even if the whole squad is knocked over somehow, they can all get back up. Voidblade/squad for some extra vehicle squashing, and perhaps some dickery with MC's and similar. Veils to deepstrike around if needed, and plenty of 3+ invulns/2+ armour. Left out Ether Crystals because they were 30 points for something not super useful in most games I play at my flgs.

Nemesor: 165
Trazyn: 175

2x Royal Court: 990(1980)

5x Lords: 685
1x Lord (WS, SW, MSS, Orb, PS): 150
2x Lord (WS, SW, MSS, TL, PS): 140(280)
1x Lord (VB, SW, MSS, PS): 120
1x Lord (GoF, SW, MSS, TL, PS): 135

5x Crypteks: 305
HoDespair (NS, VoD): 70
HoDestruction (Gaze, SP): 65
HoE (Chronometron, Timesplinter): 70
HotS (LF): 35
HoT (SC, Harp): 65

5x Immortals: 85
5x Immortals: 85

Total: 2490

As always, comments/thoughts/insults/rage/trolling encouraged.

Wow. Just wow.

I personally wouldn't go without warscythes everywhere as I'm not a fan of VB or Gauntlet. Personal preference.

I would however, drop the VoD so you aren't tempted to use it. I had a 700pt lychguard deathstar scatter and die this morning Not happy.

Keen to hear how this plays!!

I fought a unit like this and I was able to tarpit it for long enough to kill the rest of his force.

You will win KP Missions, but I think you will have a hard time with C&C and a nightmare with 4+ objective Seize ground.

In all honesty, fighting that squad gave me the worst headache ever, and if there was nothing riding on the game. I wouldn't play against it. It's literally no fun to play against it. I managed to kill the unit, but it took 13 rounds of combat (charged on my turn 1, going 2nd) and killed them on my turn 7, same assault, nothing but headaches....

Can this guy get up?, hes here, move that guy here.... yadda yadda, rinse repeat for 2.5 hours.

All that being said, you won't ever get out of combat without Warscythes. MarkCron is right about that.

MarkCron wrote:Wow. Just wow.

I personally wouldn't go without warscythes everywhere as I'm not a fan of VB or Gauntlet. Personal preference.

I would however, drop the VoD so you aren't tempted to use it. I had a 700pt lychguard deathstar scatter and die this morning Not happy.

Keen to hear how this plays!!

My main reason for having VoD is simply the incredibly slow movement of the unit as a whole. This way I can jump behind their main line and wreak absolute havoc on any vehicles.
I could easily drop the voidblade/guantlets, as you're right, they're not that effective, especially since they take away four or six chances to blow up a vehicle, and removes that many power weapon attacks.

The other variation on this list is a single UberCourt and a whole bunch of troops (and maybe a Doom Scythe )

Yeah, I know you have to have the vod, I take them too. Mishap will hurt badly though! It was suggested to me that a scythe would be safer, maybe something to think about for your single court list?

Yeah, it's a possibility. Deploy a Scythe with some Immortals next to it and load the court inside turn 1. The main issue is this would make them take even longer to get into assault, since turn 1 they'd have to jump in a jet across the table, and turn 2 they'd be unable to assault due to disembarking.
I'd rather VoD. I'm a Daemon player originally, Tzeentch has blessed my scatter rolls.

Keen to see a batrep!

You should call this the Infernal Royal Court Disco

Played a game with roughly half of what is seen here.


Rough list:

Nemesor/Obyron

1 Full Royal Court

2x 5x Immortals


Played this against a biker marine list with Landspeeders. Expected to have trouble catching up to things, but as a Daemon player, my deepstriking is blessed. Not to mention Chronometron helps reduce those pesky 6's on one of the scatter dice.
Ended up tabling turn 5, but that Court is a pain and a half to keep track of for wounds/CC/etc.