Is the Slaanesh Lord Viable?

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**Billie_Joe**

sourclams wrote:Uh, a Bliss Lord with wings/jump pack is no better at getting through a screen. It takes about 7 small bases to completely encircle a 60mm base, which is stupidly easy to come by in an army that spawns 3d6 per Tervigon per turn. If a competent Tyranid player wants to keep you from getting his MCs unless you kill a bunch of little bugs, then you are definitely stuck killing a bunch of little bugs.

Like I said in my OP, load up on 2 flamers in a Raptor unit to help clear the way, or just lash them out of the way, either way works, or even better lash them together and then flame them.

sourclams wrote:You jump over the screen of bugs. And get stuck staring at the second screen of bugs. If the argument is jump pack versus transports, a good Nid player/list should be quite capable of shooting Lord+Raptors to pieces. And if the argument is Killy HQ versus Bliss Lord, the Chaos dex has many, many HQ options that are far more offensively potent than a tricked out Slaanesh Lord.

Then in your opinion what would those choices be?

**DarkHound**

Kharne, Abbydoobydo, Typhus, Daemon Princes, Greater Daemons... even Ahriman...

**Soup and a roll**

Each have good points and bad points. Having wings lets you exploit situations that, from your list, only a winged DP could. Of these two, only the lord inflicts instant death.

Obviously the DP is also monstrous etc and is going to better in many situations. Doesn't make the Lord bad or non-viable.

**Field_Mouse**

I feel the lord is very valuable. Risky of course. But his good outweighs the risk.