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So I'm teaching my GF how to play, and she picked up daemons. It's probably noobishness but she's having a bit of difficulty getting past Mech IG.
Is there any improvements that you guys see that can make her list better?

Daemons:
Lord of Change
Herald of Khorne
-Juggernaut
-Locus of Fury
*Herald of Slaanesh
-Exalted seeker chariot
10x Plaguebearers
10x Plaguebearers
20x Daemonettes
-Alluress
-Icon
*20x Daemonettes
-Alluress
20x Bloodletters
Reaper
3x Screamers
3x Screamers
*Soul Grinder
*Soul Grinder
Soul Grinder
-Phlegm

*Denotes Reserved units

For comparison's sake, here's my TAC list. I may end up toning it down a bit:
IG:
CCS
-4x Plasma
-Chimera
CCS
-4x Plasma
-Chimera
Infantry Platoon
-3x Squads w/ Commisar
-PCS w/ 4x Flamers, Chimera
-Autocannon Heavy Weapon Squad
-Autocannon Heavy Weapon Squad
Veterans
-3x Meltaguns
Veterans
-3x Meltaguns
Vendetta
Vendetta
Manticore
Manticore
LRBT
LRBT

Against mech? Use the lord of change and/or 2 herald's of tzeentch to give the soulgrinders reroll to hit, with the prescience psychic power and give them the strength 10 ap1 attack.

Also, more screamers.

Could also be unusual and put the plaguebearers into a squad of 20, and use touch of rust (glance any vehicle on a 6) to wade in and smack up vehicles

I think you're pretty much boned with Daemon themselves, since a melee army is pretty much at a huge disadvantage against such strong firepower.

Though it is possible to negate a bit of that with a lot of fast units.
Plague Drones are always a good unit to take since they can hurt any vehicles and kill any weak infantry pretty well.
Poison lets you reroll against.
Too bad she doesn't have any of those...
Screamers might be good I guess?
S5 with armourbane actually isn't that good against AV12+, since on average you're going to get 1 attack at S12 against vehicles, so yeah...

MC smashing is pretty much the only way to deal with mech spam while your little guys start piling into the guys that come out.

Pink Horrors with Heralds can have S6 shots which might be able for you to glance them down.

Teach her the value of engaging in combat and not wiping out the whole unit.
She doesn't need to kill everything, just avoid being shot to bits.