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Ok been titivating and adjusting and play testing. I think I have come up with a finalised list at 1000 points. Please let me know what you guys think.

Khorne Daemonkin. 1000 points. CAD.

HQ - Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage - Warlord
HQ - Daemon prince, Wings, Goredrinker.

Troops - 8x Bloodletters
Troops - 8x Bloodletters

Fast Attack - Heldrake with Baleflamer

Heavy Support - Soulgrinder, Phlegm bombardment.

1000 on the nose.

I know the prince hasn't got any armour. But it means if I face a cent star then they can only obliterate one of my big nasties. I'll likely use him to hit some small infantry squad to start with to power up gore drinker and then go nuts. I'd imagine the bloodthirster will draw most of the fire. I'll likely reserve the Bloodletters for deep striking on objectives. My only real concern is the soul grinder being my only armour on the field. Thank god for daemon saves.

Hmmm...

Should work. My only concern is that you're not really playing to the blood tithe very efficiently - an army of big stompy things has trouble racking up points.

It should definitely work. People will have trouble stopping a bloodthirster at 1000 points, and a Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage can (probably) take a wraithknight or Imperial Knight fairly effectively if you come up against one - and you're not going to face more than one.

The blood tithe is something I've spent a long time thinking about. The issue is at this points level is you end up paying for units just to allow them to die. And with a 1K limit, I can't really afford to just purchase units to die. I think it's inefficient for me at the moment.

So with that in mind, I tried to pick as many hard hitting units as I can at the moment. Hence the 4 big nasties in the list. And Bloodletters are an excellent troop choice in this list. This is one of the reasons I take KDK. The ability to take khorne daemon units and CSM units in the same list without taxes is amazing.

Lord with axe of korlath would be great at 1000 points - opponent would be afraid to kill him and when he does he will have trouble killing the second thirster.

Not sure if you play the thirster starting in swooping mode, but even if you do it can move very quickly to grab an objective or block a path to an objective. (And actually is pretty brutal if the game rolls on to turn 6 or 7)


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Also, Korlath prevents warlord kill until the summoned thirster is killed

I did contemplate that. A terminator armour wearing Lord with the axe of ruin and a chain fist is almost the same points and can deep strike with the Bloodletters. But the prince just seems to do so much more for me lately. At this points level the damage output of the prince is insane once goredrinker is powered up. And he's also significantly faster than the Lord. I suppose I could put the Lord on a juggernaut. But I'm reluctant to run him solo and then the whole lost starts to change.