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Lord with black mace is not very good as he would only be ap4. People traditionally take the mace on a DP, as then it gets ap2, and all of the awesome benefits.

Don't people usually take a slaanesh lord on a bike and put him in the unit that gives him FnP?

Hmm you should be able to do it, the wording for the restrictions on taking the Black Mace is

A Model can replace one weapon with one of the following. Only one of each Chaos Artifact can be taken per Army.

If you were to take the BM and a PF you wouldn't get the additional attack for having two CC weapons as the PF is a specialist weapon. Whereas with the PF and LC you would.

The only problem with the BM is that it's AP4, so probably better suited for a DP if you are going up against MEQ.

I toyed with a Slaanesh lord on a steed. It conferred outflank to him and his unit. Burning brand worked well in this case as you can't charge from reserves.

I would recommend the lightning claw over the powerfist. The Slaanesh benefit is +1 I.... so why squander it on an unwieldy weapon?

 Green is Best! wrote:
I toyed with a Slaanesh lord on a steed. It conferred outflank to him and his unit. Burning brand worked well in this case as you can't charge from reserves.

I would recommend the lightning claw over the powerfist. The Slaanesh benefit is +1 I.... so why squander it on an unwieldy weapon?

But if you got stuck in combat with a Termie or something the AP2 would be beneficial, otherwise you would attack with the Mace at I5.

i'm enjoying the burning brand version with a jump pack (and a combo-melta). drop him in with some obliterators and have some fun

 Pilau Rice wrote:

 Green is Best! wrote:
I toyed with a Slaanesh lord on a steed. It conferred outflank to him and his unit. Burning brand worked well in this case as you can't charge from reserves.

I would recommend the lightning claw over the powerfist. The Slaanesh benefit is +1 I.... so why squander it on an unwieldy weapon?

But if you got stuck in combat with a Termie or something the AP2 would be beneficial, otherwise you would attack with the Mace at I5.

I am not disagreeing with your statement. If you kit your lord with a lightning claw, stay away from terminators. There are tradeoffs with everything.

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Correct me if I am wrong, but I did not think the lord could take an IoE.

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The icon is only available to marines though. it is not available in the lord's war gear options
it means that only slaaneshi marines can take it.

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slamma wrote:
The icon is only available to marines though. it is not available in the lord's war gear options
it means that only slaaneshi marines can take it.

This is what I meant. He can get the benefit from it, but he needs to be in a unit that can take it. The lord cannot take an icon.

 Green is Best! wrote:
I toyed with a Slaanesh lord on a steed. It conferred outflank to him and his unit. Burning brand worked well in this case as you can't charge from reserves.

I would recommend the lightning claw over the powerfist. The Slaanesh benefit is +1 I.... so why squander it on an unwieldy weapon?

This. I'm using a Terminator Lord with the same loadout, with plans for a Steed later on when I get off of my Terminator kick. Lightning claw and Burning Brand is a good loadout so far, no matter what armor you put the Lord in.