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Hey guys, i'm going to attend my first ever public game tournament of 40k and was wondering how my army looks, im expecting lots of cheese and forgeworld is allowed.

HQ
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage 1 exalted, 1 greater, warlord
Kairos Fateweaver
Troops
Daemonettes x20 Icon of Chaos
Daemonettes x20 Icon of Chaos
Pink Horrors x11 Instrument of chaos
Fast
Flesh hounds x16
Heavy
Daemon prince of tzeech, flight, warp armour, 1 exalted reward, one greater, ML.3
Skull Cannon
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I also have plauge bearers and bloodletters on standby for summoning

Looks solid.
I would 100% have fateweaver as your warlord. the BT will be the first thing to die and fateys control of the warp storm is awesome.

First suggestion is to change Kairos to your warlord. His trait is massive to any daemon player as you don't want important things dying through the warp storm table.

Second minimizing randomness is important. Have only one exalted reward and only take the grimoire for cheese. Unless you were planing to take greater ether blades, which is an awesome idea, the other rewards in my experience are usually useless.

Third and biggest problem for any daemon army, anti-air. You have a total of three things that, on average, only annoy flyers. A defense line is a good idea if you have it. Take points away from the banners only consider leaving them if they're special. Also use the horrors as dedicated summonses so you can drop the DP's psyker level down if you need to. Or you could drop the skull cannon for a soulgrinder, they're awesome.

However these are only suggestions take them at your own discretion.

Changed kairos to my warlord.
What would you recommend I could add? Im thinking a slaanesh herald w/ swiftness lochi or two for that glorious INT.10 + rending.
I have never played before there so I don't know the meta, but anti air would be a good idea, what are some awesome AA options other than a soul Grinder or defence line?

I would say that kairos and the tzeentch Prince are pretty decent anti air(with flickering fire)

 cosmicsoybean wrote:
Hey guys, i'm going to attend my first ever public game tournament of 40k and was wondering how my army looks, im expecting lots of cheese and forgeworld is allowed.

HQ
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage 1 exalted, 1 greater, warlord
Kairos Fateweaver
Troops
Daemonettes x20 Icon of Chaos
Daemonettes x20 Icon of Chaos
Pink Horrors x11 Instrument of chaos
Fast
Flesh hounds x16
Heavy
Daemon prince of tzeech, flight, warp armour, 1 exalted reward, one greater, ML.3
Skull Cannon
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I also have plauge bearers and bloodletters on standby for summoning

I would probably ditch the Exalted on the Bloodthirster in favour another greater and a lesser reward. The greater rewards add more survivability, and if you roll up the 3+ armour save you can swap it in favour of the Khorne primaris (blade of blood) which gives you rampage. If you roll up good greater rewards you still have the lesser to take the axe of khorne with which to get the extra attack for 2 specialist weapons.

I probably wouldn't bother with the icons or instrument on the daemonettes and horrors, you have Fatey's re-roll if things go bad.

I'd probably ditch the skull cannon in favour of some more troops, give you some backfield camping units (nurglings excel at this), as most of you army is choppy and wanting to be aggressive.

I kept the exalted on my prince for the grimor, but took 2 greater+lesser on the thirster. Im expecting lots of space marines and their meq as well as some heavys, seen some guy post a picture with wave serpents, the new harlie jetbike things and wraithknights.

Bloodthirster is not bad, he will be much better if either Weaver or the Tz DP gets shrouding, that way he can get a 2+ jink. I expect him to die rather easily though. I personally dont like/use him.

Fateweaver is good. Always recommended at 1500+IMO.

I imagine your DP is holding the grimoire? I guess you can grimoire either Fatey or the BT, but the prince himself is rather easily killable (However, with shrouding he gets a 2+ rerollable cover)

Daemonette squads are good. I personally use a squad of 20. If you are deepstriking them I recommend one squad should have an instrument. If not, I dont recommend using Icons, very little use for them in your list. Horrors are good, why do they have an instrument though? They should be starting on the table......

Hounds are good

Skull cannon is to hand out grenade buffs? I dont reommend having a single vehicle in your list, easy target.

instruments for rerolling the warpstorm results.

 cosmicsoybean wrote:
instruments for rerolling the warpstorm results.

Don't. It's a 6+. Spending 10 pts to reroll it is awful.

I meant since i dont run monogod to protect my own stuff

 cosmicsoybean wrote:
I meant since i dont run monogod to protect my own stuff

Still no. It only hits on a 6 and that's only on a result that happens at best 1/6 of the time on the warp storm. Why spend 10 pts to avoid an event that has only a 2.7% chance of happening.

In my experience the hounds become much more effective with a Khorne Herald attached (juggernaut, wrath, lesser). This way they do not get held up forever by Wraithknights, Dreadknights, Riptides and other 2+ models.

I would lose the Skull cannon to add him in - one AV 12 vehicle with open topped tends to end up a ruin very early in my experience.

 CrownAxe wrote:

 cosmicsoybean wrote:
instruments for rerolling the warpstorm results.

Don't. It's a 6+. Spending 10 pts to reroll it is awful.

It is worth it however to get a pseudo reroll on something like a great unclean one in deep strike reserve.

 Robisagg wrote:

 CrownAxe wrote:

 cosmicsoybean wrote:
instruments for rerolling the warpstorm results.

Don't. It's a 6+. Spending 10 pts to reroll it is awful.

It is worth it however to get a pseudo reroll on something like a great unclean one in deep strike reserve.

Yes. Instruments are good for their reserve manipulation. Not for their effect with the warp storm