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So recently I decided to pick up the dark apostle figure looking to start working towards an allied force of CSM into my Slaaneshi daemons list. As of right now I'd just be fielding the model with some guardsmen for cultists. That said, I'm not sure what would be better: fielding him as a dark apostle or a maxed out sorcerer of Slaanesh.

On one hand the dark apostle is fairly cheap and has that re-roll on the boon table + fearless, not bad so far, but that's pretty much the extent of what he brings it seems. As far as the sorcerer goes I would plan on maxing him out at level 3 and going all Slaanesh discipline, which from what I'm reading all look pretty decent in terms of utility, but by then he gets pretty pricey (around 160pts). I'm leaning more towards the sorcerer at the moment, but if there is some reason I should take the Apostle instead I am all ears for suggestions and reasons for him.

(A little background if it helps - I run a mostly horde list of daemonettes, seekers, chariots, and usually a KoS so it's more of a casual list than competitive one, but I'd still like it to have some bite. In the past I've taken plaguebearers to hold objectives and fill the gaps, but I'm now looking to branch out and bundle it up into a mono-god list).

A Dark Apostle is probably best with Cultists, preferably a large group so as to give them the most benefits from Zealot. He's an amazing model, but not really that effective, mostly because CSM has troubles getting into CC in the first place, and even with rerolls to hit, cultists aren't winning combat against anything but Fire Warriors. They'll be a reasonable tarpit in CC, and a good objective holder (although you have somewhat better options in Plaguebearers).

The Sorcerer is very good though. If you like Slaanesh, that Psychic discipline is generally considered the best (Sensory Overload has three nice effects, especially against Fire Warriors or Guardsmen; Hysterical Frenzy works on Daemonettes; Symphony of Pain hurts BS nicely), although running unmarked may be a better option. Telepathy is really good (Puppet Master, Psychic Shriek, Invisibility, Hallucination, Terrify are all solid powers), but you already know that from running a Keeper of Secrets. The sorcerer doesn't really need to be 160 points imo if you don't want the invulnerable save, Just level 3 + Spell Familiar is enough. You do lose out on Fearless though, which can be a problem occasionally.

In short, I'd recommend running the Sorcerer for what he does for your army as a whole, but in terms of how cool the models for each are, the Dark Apostle model is much cooler to me unless you have a nice converted Slaanesh Sorcerer or something.

well I like the dark apostle with LC and MoT, 3++ is nice

Thanks. I will try him out as a sorcerer first I think. I've done a little converting to the dark apostle so I can run him as either or.

I have a LV2 slaanesh sorcerer attached to a raptor squad that has the mark and the icon of excess. He adds some power and is pretty survivabke.