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So I'm gonna skip most of my battle, to focus on two incredible moments.

I had Daemons:
Fateweaver
2x 15 Horrors with Prescience Herald
16 Daemonettes
6 Flamers
9 Seekers with Mounted Herald
2x Tzeentch Princes with 2 Biomancy Powers and Wings

He had DA and Tau allies:
Belial
10 Deathwing Termies (5 shooty, 5 w/ claws)
5 Scout snipers
Tac Squad
3 Ravenwing
Angel Jet (the one with Avenger)
Command Suit with 2 bodyguards (plasma!)
10 Fire Warriors
3 Broadsides
ADL w/Quad

Crusade, 4 objectives, Dawn of War deployment.
I got to go first. I deployed in a castle formation, ready to sweep the center. (Daemons bunched up, weird right?) He SEIZED.
This is the first great moment. Each of his Broadsides had Target Priority, or whatever it's called, to let each Broadside target a different unit. Well, my FMCs are all T5, and deploy gliding. So he targets each one. Fateweaver makes his 4++. The first Prince makes his 5++. The second Prince fails his 5++, and I use Fateweaver to reroll; he still fails. So BAM! First Blood is a Daemon Prince, 300pts. It was pretty spectacular, even though it also sucked. At least I didn't lose 1/2 my army, and he got a great First Blood!

The second great moment was bottom of four.
Belial and Co (all 10 Termies) came in on two, and began to hunt Fateweaver. Ol' Fatey survived Terminator and Flyer shooting, as well as all his grounding tests, for two turns. Then, Fateweaver got off Malediction on the Terminator squad, causing them to re-roll their saves. Fateweaver then cast two Change powers. The blast got 7 hits, five wounds at AP2. The Beam wounded four models at S9-6 AP1. Because of the save re-rolls, I killed nine Terminators in one shooting round from a single model. It was FANTASTIC

Now, a number of things had to go right for this to happen: two passed Ld, two failed DtW, no scatter on the blast, sufficient Str rolls on the Change powers.... But when it happened, it was amazing enough to convince me to Drop my unnamed LoC and start taking Fateweaver (for 5 more points).

Why would you sic Belial and Deathwing Terminators on a Flying Monstrous Creature?

Well, there were a number of tactical errors committed by my opponent, the main one of which was: instead of focusing on objectives (in Crusade mission), he went for Kill Points. He REALLY wanted to kill Fateweaver, for some reason. He did, in the end, so the score was his 3 to my 10, rather than 2 to 10. Good for him!

But other than a bloodlust for ol' Fatey....I have no idea why you would waste 650 pts chasing a 300 pt model who you can't even charge (hurrah for re-rolling my Grounded test!)

I also calculated (looking at the DA codex) that Fateweaver, by the end, had killed at least 600 points of the enemy, as well as contributed (via Maledictions) to other units' successes.