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So after doing well with the nurgle locally I want to try MSU daemons. Have tried it once against a world dragon light choir HE list and of course lost but did ok and it was 12-8 on the sliding scale iirc so think it has some promise. What I am thinking is these two lists, one with some counter assault one without.

Herald Tzeentch, level 2, lore of metal, General

Herald Tzeentch, level 2, lore of metal, BSB

Herald Slaanesh, Lesser gift, locus beguilement

20 Daemonettes, full command

5 x 10 Horrors, all with standards

2 x 5 flesh hounds, ambushers

2 x 5 Furies, Slaanesh (str4 with AP sounds good)

2 x 3 flamers

2 Burning Chariots

15.4 on swedish comp

OR this (no assault but more shooting)

Herald Tzeentch, level 2, metal, general

Herald Tzeentch, level 2, metal, bsb

6 x 10 Horrors, standard each

2 x 5 Flesh hounds, ambushers

2 x 5 furies, Nurgle

2 x 3 flamers

2 burning chariots

2 skull cannons

A horrible 7.6 on Swedish comp, mainly thanks to the cannons .

Idea is, lots of drops, horrors that get crap powers can be chaff, furies to redirect (really need to buy more, may get another set of 5 mantic gargoyles and have 3 units in these lists), lots of shooting but as per daemons quite random!, lots of magic and metal for final trans, buffs and de buffs. I do like the first list as for one the swedish comp is a lot better and secondly I have a good assault unit in there (with locus elves will still get ASF but wont get any re rolls due to intaitive decrease and being able to snipe out weak chars with challenges, lesser gift for ASF sword). Hounds are ther e to go war machine hunting and rear charging.

In total first list is 7 channels RR 1;s, 2nd list is 8 channels RR 1's hopefully get me 2 extra dice per turn.

Most expensive unit is nettes in first and flesh hounds in second, most other units are around 140pts.

Opinions?

If you're planning on using the furies, I'd attempt to make them the same mark as the general. With a ld of 2, they will probably pop to instability easily unless in their leadership bubble.
Is the Herald of slaanesh meant for character hunting in the daemonettes? I don't quite think just 20 will be enough in case kf instability tests, so maybe dropping some horrors to add some more.
Maybe find some room for a skull cannon in the first list

 l000babyseals wrote:
If you're planning on using the furies, I'd attempt to make them the same mark as the general. With a ld of 2, they will probably pop to instability easily unless in their leadership bubble.
Is the Herald of slaanesh meant for character hunting in the daemonettes? I don't quite think just 20 will be enough in case kf instability tests, so maybe dropping some horrors to add some more.
Maybe find some room for a skull cannon in the first list

Totally true!, I forgot about that with the furies, to be honest they do usually die when they are beaten in combat, either acting as redirectors against a unit that with completely wipe them out or so far up the field war machine hunting that it wont be in range but still it is a good point I havent thought about.

Skull cannon in the first list will really kill off the swedish comp score so not too sure on that, the slaanesh herald is mainly for counter assault, putting any more into the unit makes it a must kill unit for my opponent due to the pts cost, I should really try and make her level 1 for a cheap maisama spell on shadow though.