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A take on a Blood Pact (1850pts) list, curious if dakka thinks it has the magic sauce or not. What do you think will be good matchups, which do you think will be bad?

CAD
HQ
Sorcerer
2x Additional Mastery Level, Gift of mutation, Sigil of corruption, Spell familiar, Force Weapon

Warpsmith
Gift of mutation

Troops
Chaos Cultists
10x Squad models (champion included)

Chaos Cultists
10x Squad models (champion included)

Heavy Support
Chaos Fire Raptor Gunship
w/Reaper Battery

Relic Sicaran Battle Tank
2x Heavy Bolters,malefic ammo, Relic of the Armoury
Legacies of Ruin, Tank
LoR: reroll warp dice


(Allied Detachment)
HQ
Renegade Command Squad
Disciple w/ Plasma Gun,
Arch Demagogue w/Melta Bombs
Autocannon Team
Renegade Chimera
Autocannon, Heavy Bolter, Militia Training

Troops
Renegade Infantry Platoon
Platoon Command Squad
Militia Training
Renegade w/ Flamer, Renegade w/ Meltagun
Renegade Chimera
Multilaser, Heavy Bolter, Militia Training

Renegade Infantry Squad
Militia Training
Missile Launcher Team
2x Renegade w/ Meltagun
Renegade Chimera
Autocannon, Heavy Bolter, Militia Training

Renegade Infantry Squad
Militia Training
Missile Launcher Team
2x Renegade w/ Meltagun
Renegade Chimera
Autocannon, Heavy Bolter, Militia Training

Fast Attack
Renegade Sentinel Squadron
Militia Training
5x Renegade Sentinel
Autocannon

Heavy Support
Renegade Tank Squadron
2x Battle Tank
Lascannon, Militia Training

all looks Ok to me. Is that the legacy that boosts summoning? Pass on that, one lv3 isn't much of a summoner, even with rerolls, and you perils on any double.

The warpsmith seems an odd choice, if its to get two relics, remember that the sorceror can as well if he rolls maelific (yes I just said not to,how contradictory :-p)

I dont really play guard enough to comment on the rest, but certainly you haven't made any use of the interesting options that the renegades can come up with.

Yes the legacy is the one that allows you to reroll x number of maleific dice based on your number of hull points(which can be used to reroll the peril causing dice if needed). He also has the familiar that allows a reroll of the test itself.

I am using the renegades instead of IG since they are battle brothers to chaos and allows me to field the sorcerer and smith in the chimera at the start.

I don't have the models for some of the shenanigans I had hoped to exploit. Unit of deepstriking slaughteres for example armed with impalers near MC or armor (except super heavies etc...) would be a fun distraction as an example... Or perhaps the Horde game with recycling DS vet units with melta or heavy weapons... maybe after the next game. This list is to face a heavy armor competitive meta, comparable to what we saw at TSHFT.

And this list was just to get the ole tank treads moving.

Warpsmith allows for the fire raptor and the sci tank since to have both I need a keeper of relics model (only the warpsmith I thought).

What would you replace the smith with?

Level 3 Malefic Sorceror allows unlimited relics in that detachment, so the warpsmith is not necessary.

Excellent, 'strums fingers together menacingly', now what to replace that unworthy lacky with ...

Another Sorceror to feed dice to the boss?