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CAD 1:

Fateweaver
Herald on disk with exalted gift (Grimoire)
Herald on Disk with paradox
11x Horrors
11x Horrors
7x Screamers
Paladin of Tzeentch

CAD 2:
Bloodthirster of Insensate rage
Masque of Slaanesh
3x Nurglings
3x Nurglings


Looking for C&C on this list. Weaver is an autoinclude in any Daemon list. Heralds join screamers to make a resilient star/board control unit. Horrors have OS and camp on home objectives, add WC, and summon/witchfire if needed. Knight Paladin can be buffed by grimoire if needed, stomps help take care of stars, and cannon can help clear units. Bloodthirster adds some more D swings into the list, and is currently what I am most unsure about. Masque helps lock up Deathstars for my units to charge. Nurglings will infiltrate to throw blind grenades or deepstrike in for objectives as needed.

I like the target saturation. I do believe Fateweaver is even better with the new Daemonic Incursion formation from the Wulfen book though. The ability to both reroll the warpstorm table AND add or subtract 1 gives you a huge chance to get +1 invul. I don't know how you would fit it in your list though. I honestly think you don't need both the Bloodthirster AND the Knight, but just one of them. Tallyband is probably the cheapest core for the formation since you are running 2 squads of nurglings anyways. The problem I have found is if you are not putting grimoire on the screamerstar, it is usually blown up turn 1 even with jink. The same thing goes with the Bloodthirster unless you roll awesome gifts (4+ FNP and reroll invul). MSU is doing better in the current competitive environment due to ranged Str D everywhere. One six and your 300 point models go poof. Fateweaver is usually ok with a 4++ and flying with 1 reroll a turn. The Knight might be more durable than the Bloodthirster which really needs invisibility to survive.

My two cents.

Personally I think the new incursions are much better than the CAD for a variety of different reasons.

As Drakkol mentioned, Fatey + Incursion is a 55% chance of getting a 10 on the warp storm table every turn. That's just bonkers in how good it is!

I also think the that the knight + thirster + screamerstar is a bit much. What do you buff with the grimorie? You have so many high priority targets that anything not buffed will just be targeted for demolition.