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I'm in the planning stage of starting a Daemon arm at the moment and need some help. I really like the painting and modeling freedom that Daemons that daemons offer. I got the Codex yesterday and have a good basic understand of and came up with the following.

2000 Pts - Chaos Daemons Roster

HQ: Kairos Fateweaver

HQ: Lord of Change (1#, 305 pts)
Greater Rewards x1; DR: Exalted Rewards; DR: Hellforged Artifacts; Psyker (Mastery Level 3))

Heavy Support: Daemon Prince (1#, 355 pts)
Daemonic Flight; Warp-forged Armour; Daemon of Tzeentch; Greater Rewards x1; DR: Exalted Rewards; Psyker (Mastery Level 3); 6E Psychic Disciplines: ; Biomancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

Heavy Support: Daemon Prince (1#, 355 pts)
Daemonic Flight; Warp-forged Armour; Daemon of Tzeentch; Greater Rewards x1; DR: Exalted Rewards; Psyker (Mastery Level 3); 6E Psychic Disciplines: ; Biomancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

Heavy Support: Daemon Prince (1#, 355 pts)
Daemonic Flight; Warp-forged Armour; Daemon of Tzeentch; Greater Rewards x1; DR: Exalted Rewards; Psyker (Mastery Level 3); 6E Psychic Disciplines: ; Biomancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

Troops: Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (15#, 135 pts)

Troops: Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (15#, 135 pts)

Troops: Nurglings (4#, 60 pts)

Validation Report:
c-1. File Version: 1.21 For Bug Reports/www.ab40k.org; b-1. Roster Options: Named or Special Characters; a-1. Scenario: Normal Mission; b-2. Levels of Alliance: Battle Brothers
Roster satisfies all enforced validation rules

Composition Report:
HQ: 2 (1 - 2)
Elite: 0 (0 - 3)
Troops: 3 (2 - 6)
Fast: 0 (0 - 3)
Heavy: 3 (0 - 3)
Fort: 0 (0 - 1)

Total Roster Cost: 2000

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A few questions

- Whats the point of taking nurglings? They are not scoring.

- Why 3 exalted rewards? I get taking the portal and the grimoire but why a 3rd?

IMO you should have 1 lesser (for the staff) and 2 greaters (to live longer). Only take 1 exalted for a portal or grimoire depending on mission.

It's solid. The one thing I'd mention, that's not necessarily an upgrade but can change the style depending on how agressive you want to be:

Take CSM allies; take a 4 Mastery Level 3 DP with the Black Mace. The guy's a pure beatstick. More rolls on biomancy and you get the mace which just crushes dreams. LOC is good too; and and gets you those exalted rewards+hellforged artefact. Different style, up to you. Either way, what a fun list, I run the same thing.

Slagmar wrote:
A few questions

- Whats the point of taking nurglings? They are not scoring.
Being an Ork player I thought they where the same as grots.
- Why 3 exalted rewards? I get taking the portal and the grimoire but why a 3rd?

IMO you should have 1 lesser (for the staff) and 2 greaters (to live longer). Only take 1 exalted for a portal or grimoire depending on mission.
I see what your saying, I'll have to fix that.

Ok, reworked list will be inbound soon.

take a look at this list its the most effective (IMO) flying circus army for Daemons.

Kairos Fateweaver
Lord of Change Lesser Reward x1 Greater Reward x2 (one roll on divination)

Pink Horrors x12
Plaguebearers x10

Daemon Prince Tzeentch Wings Armor Greater Reward x1 Exalted Reward x1 ML x2 (1 roll on biomancy)
Daemon Prince Tzeentch Wings Armor Lesser Reward x1 Greater Reward x2 ML x2 (1 roll on biomancy)

allies

Daemon Prince Wings, Armor, Black Mace, Mark of Tzeentch, ML x3 (2 rolls on biomancy)
Cultists x10
Heldrake

1998

I've tinkered with a dozen or so variations of this list and some people may make a few changes but this is the one I go with.

I do like your list! I'll load up army builder later and see what I can come up with.