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I played my first tournament with my new-ish daemons and did pretty well. I went 3-1 (losing by 1 point in the final game) in the event, though at the end I did not score enough points to place. Even so, I was satisfied and pleased with the performance. I'm gearing up to bring my warp spawn to another event, this time at 1500 pts.

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
Psyker Level 2
Lesser Reward
Greater Reward
Exalted Reward (Grimoire)
Daemonic Flight
Warp-Forged Armor

Herald of Slaanesh
Steed of Slaanesh
Psyker Level 2
Lesser Reward
Greater Reward
Lesser Locus of Grace

Herald of Khorne
Juggernaut
Lesser Reward
Greater Reward
Greater Locus of Fury

Herald of Nurgle (Warlord, have him sit on an objective with Plaguebearer's)
Greater Locus of Fecundity

10 Plaguebearers
10 Plaguebearers
3 Nurgling Swarms

9 Seekers of Slaanesh
Heartseeker

10 Flesh Hounds

Skull Cannon

Soul Grinder of Nurgle
Harvester Cannon
Iron Claw
Phlegm Bombardment

The nurgle is holding you back. Plaguebearers suck, herald of nurgle is useless, id change your plagues for either horrors or daemonettes depending if you really want to just sit there and do basically nothing or charge forward. If you go horrors take summoning to summon in some more daemonettes or w/e you happen to need.

put ml3 on the DP, more chances at ironarm is key! Lesser reward is bad, and grimoire without fateweaver is risky at best, your greater reward is your lash, would be nice to get another greater for survivability.

Only 50 points of rewards allowed on prince's IIRC, you've got 60 on yours.

Trading your nurglings and nurgle herald for more seekers or hounds or even beasts of nurgle wouldn't be a bad plan either. Keep the plaugebearers to cap backfield objectives and not die.

Prince rewards could be off, as I made my list in QuarterMaster and I don't think it has any army rule validations in place.

What about dropping the two Plaguebearer backfield units to take two minimal Nurgling units? They're 12 wound units as opposed to 10, and while they suffer from T3 instead of T4, they'll still enjoy a hefty cover save while they troll objectives behind cover. I do agree, somewhat, that the Nurgle bits here are something of a downside. I find that they don't contribute much at all, but Plaguebearers guarding an objective in ruins are very tough to crack.

I was thinking of giving the prince the Grimoire so he could fly alongside the Herald and Seekers unit, and buff them (hopefully) with the book. Maybe it is too risky, and I should just let the prince try and smash faces in combat, or lash down any fliers that harass me.

What other models do you have at your disposal? As everyone has said, Nurgle usually doesn't contribute much. You also need to beef up the slaanesh units. Even with the Grimnoire, they will die quickly and be neutered. Mi like the herald of khorne but he's expensive and frail for what he does as well

It's still a new project, so not a ton. I have some Bloodletters and Daemonettes, some more Flesh Hounds, a few Flamers, and a Great Unclean One. I can always pick up another box or two before the event. I'm a fan of the Khorne heralds with the Hounds. I brought two of them in the Hound unit last time, and they were devestating - a little frail, but they killed everything they were able to get into base with.

Seconding the recomendation to take 11 pink horrors and a horror herald instead of the plaguebearers/herald. You can even give the Tzeentch herald a portaglyph.

184 points for the whole unit (11 horrors, herald glyph). Will probably net you at least 400+ points worth of extra units over the course of the game and considerably reduces the chances that you get tabled late game as well as providing disposable units that can suck up overwatch.

Yeah I'd probably go with Pink Horrors and a Herald, then take nurglings and more Flesh hounds.

dont bother putting a herald in your pink horror unit, use the points elsewhere..

They're pretty good for getting Forewarning and Summoning.

summoning is the primaris power and you wouldnt be able to cast it with the horrors and the herald in the same unit, a lone herald will die. They are almost useless.