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I've recently started a Daemons attachment to my Traitor Marines, but I haven't bought the Codex yet. Is there anywhere online I can find complete information on the Bloodletters? Thanks!

I'm not really sure what you mean. Your codex gives you all of the abilities and the costs, but do you mean tactics?

I don't know of anyone who regularly uses bloodletters, but if you want general daemon tactics you might check out this blog.

http://daemons40k.blogspot.com/

You can find the complete codex here:
http://games-workshop.com/

As for tactics:
They suffer from having only 1 attack, low toughness and save. And even if they make it into combat they fare badly in a battle of attrition. Also 2+ saves make them weep.

Don't do it man. Honestly, I run mono-Khorne daemons, and I gotta say I'm considering just using them as counts-as daemonettes or something. They're just awful

I'd suggest you look up the "its like tactics" daemon codex review btw

I mean I'm looking for their stats. I only own the Marine codex, not the Daemons one. I want to run a Khorne army with a variety of different units. It doesn't make sense to me to run am army composed of the followers of different gods. I want lots of varied infantry.

We are not allowed to tell you the direct rules for bloodletters, it's forum rules. We can give you tactical advise on them and how to run them, but not their rules. What we can do for you is give you this link i'll put at the bottom, that gives you a good summery of each unit in the codex.



http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Chaos_Daemons

Rules for Bloodletters are in the CHaos Daemons codex. They are the strongest Troop Choice for CC WS

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
We are not allowed to tell you the direct rules for bloodletters, it's forum rules. We can give you tactical advise on them and how to run them, but not their rules. What we can do for you is give you this link i'll put at the bottom, that gives you a good summery of each unit in the codex.



http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Chaos_Daemons

For a second I thought you just posted a link to 4chan...and words were about to be exchanged.



Words...that wouldn't have been so nice...

Think guardsmen with better WS and STR and power swords. And obviously the whole invuln and deepstrike business

As for being good or not... well I'd give them a solid 'meh' out of 10.
Pros: power swords for cheap, good WS, make anything with power armor run for the hills, decently cheap to take lots of them, good "OOOOH BIG SCARY UNIT WITH TONS OF POWER WEAPON ATTACKS!!!!!" distraction

Cons: If whatever you charge doesn't get at least crippled in the first round of CC, those letters are probably good as gone, need the charge to be effective in combat, tarpitted easily, SLOOOOOOW

Seriously... don't walk these fools, they are just.... ugh.... slow

Bloodletters are pretty good against MEQ on the charge. You'll be getting 3 attacks with a power sword at STR 4 for dirt cheap. I don't have my codex on me at the moment, but I think they have descent WS and I too. The problem is that you have to do serious damage on the turn you charge, cause they're not nearly as good on subsequent turns. Also, they're not very good against anything that's not MEQ. Hordes? Termies? Forget about it! What you end up with is a unit that has the same "glass cannon" quality as Daemonettes, but aren't as versatile and aren't as fast. They're not terrible, but they aren't particularly good either. On the bright side, many of the other Khorne daemons are awesome. The Bloodthirster, Skull Cannon, and Bloodcrushers will all serve you well, if you know how to use them.

I played 20 of them against Guardsmen, and they tore through them like butter. I think I'll use them again.

Granted, I did have a Daemon Prince and a Bloodthirster amongst their ranks, taking down all the heavy weaponry and drawing 90% of the fire, but maybe that's the secret to using them.

calamarialldayerrday wrote:
I played 20 of them against Guardsmen, and they tore through them like butter. I think I'll use them again.

Granted, I did have a Daemon Prince and a Bloodthirster amongst their ranks, taking down all the heavy weaponry and drawing 90% of the fire, but maybe that's the secret to using them.

I think that's less bloodletters specifically, and more daemons in general. Most stuff daemons have is fragile-ish, but brutal in CC, you just gotta throw so many targets at your opponent that nothing they choose to shoot at is a good choice. Threat overload basically