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I'm trying to think out how I'll be buying models for 2014, least in the 1st quarter, and am looking on expanding my daemons so I can adjust with the meta if need be. Already have 3+ Princes, a LoC, Kairos, 50+ Horrors, 10 Plaguebearers, and a Skull Cannon in hand and various stages of painting (read not a lot). Big old Scaby is on the way, as one I cannot stand the normal GU1, two he is awesome, and three hey when the game group tries escalation I'll have something. Where to go from here is where my line of thought starts to wonder. I've determined that since Fantasy may be seeing a new edition soon that these guys will be who I play there as well so that makes each buy more important IMO. What can I get that will serve dual use in both games? Well more plaguebearers seem right, thinking 5 more boxes of those should be wrong, but may get 8 for Fantasy's sake. After that.... IDK another Skull Cannon? I really am lost. Any ideas dakkanites?

Beasts of nurgle are pretty great in fantasy.

Plaguebearers is not a bad idea at all.

I would get some daemonettes, hounds, and screamers, all strong units in 40k and likely decent in fantasy as well.

There is only 2 strong fantasy lists for 8th right now, beasts of nurgle spam, and fiend caco bomb. There is also a gimmick epidemics list, but it won't win you friends playing it. In fantasy 2 skull cannons are almost mandatory aswell. The best core by a huge margin is plaguebearers, with optional 1-2 min sized horrors hoping to get a big spell to six dice when needed. Blood letters are over costed, and nettes can't deal with heavy armoured targets. The chariots that aren't the skull cannon are vastly over costed, and the only decent special is screamers, seekers, hounds, and beasts. Fiends only work if trying to spawn with cacophonic choir.

In 40k Fiends are ok, but overshadowed by almost the entire fast attack, and beasts of nurgle are In a similar position. Skull cannons are ok, but overshadowed by soulgrinders and princes. Hounds and screamers are great in 40k, seekers not so much due to t3.

If I was to add to what you currently have, I would get 30 more plaguebearers, a soulgrinder, and a second skull cannon. After that fill up the last of your points on a special choice of your choosing (except flamers, crushers, or furies, they are useless in fantasy).