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Its been a minute since I've played and I wanted to make a stab at the new Daemons formations. Here goes:

Warpflame Host:

Herald: ML3, Locus of Conjuration, Paradox

4x Exalted Flamers

5x 11 Horrors

Daemon Lords:

Fateweaver

Lord of Change: ML3, Exalted, Lesser, Impossible Robe

Daemon Prince: Nurgle, ML3, Wings, Armor, 2x Greater, Lesser

Flock:

5x Furies

Lots of decently resilient bodies corrupting objectives. Looking for Cursed Earth and hoping that between Fateys reroll and the Incursion bemefits that the warpstorm will bend to my benefit. 23 Warp Charges to start with should mean the Herald can reliably summon on 5 dice every turn, pump out a fair amount of S7 flickering fire and have enough left over for FateBird to do his thing. Should be easy enough to get the LoC down to a 2++ rerollable who in turn Grimoires the Nurgle Prince. These two durable and punchy guys tag team hard targets or split up to adress several threats. What do you think?

Looks good overall. A few things to consider:

Your LOC cannot take the Impossible Robes and also use an Exalted Reward to trade in for a Helforged Artifact. So I'd turn it into 1 or 2 greater rewards to help him with survivability.

Daemon Prince may not do as well as you want him too. I'd strongly consider using Be'lakor instead. It should be a very similar cost.

I've played a lot of princes lately, and the nurgle one is the only one I would use out of a Tetrad. With the balesword he's truly a rockstar. The biggest problem is that they are able to be doubled out by STR 10 so biomancy is pretty clutch. If you get endurance or iron arm on him, then the nurgle prince and balesword will rip through nearly anything.

This is very similar to what I've ran for my warphost, save for I took a forgehost instead of the prince and LoC. I'd like to see how this works out for you.
Also the paradox won't keep you from peril'sing, which is still a 20% chance with 5 dice thrown. If you want the whole mathhammer behind the psychic phase, look here.

Let me know how your games go!

Edit : By using Karios you can also get a 10+ on the warp storm table 55% of the time. This article explains hows that's done.

Thanks for the input guys. Double shout out to labmouse for your excellent posts here and on FLG. I already read quite a few of your articles before making this list which is prooobably why our Warp Hosts look so similar *grins sheepishly*

Thanks for pointing out the wargear errors. Thought something felt too good to be true there. I was really hoping for 2 nearly invulnerable FMCs. All I can do now is hope for decent rewards but thats always part of it with the big guys in the Daemons book.

Any thouhts on what might replace the LoC and Prince besides Grinders (I dont own any)? I've been playing around with it but its hard to find a place to put the grimoire and If Im bringing FateBird (I want to for the warpstorm shenanigans) it seems kind kind of silly not to. Could fit some kind of screamer star but their damage potential is rather lackluster in a list thats already lacking much guaranteed offense. Maybe a big pack of hounds? I know if i did that it would be rather similar to the cabal+hounds+warp host labmouse posted.

I'm running a warpshost and burning skyhost this weekend at 1500. At 1850 you add Karios and buff up your heralds a bit.

Edit : I'll let you know how it goes.

If I had 27 screamers I'd give it a shot! Definitely would like to hear a quick bat rep though.

 astro_nomicon wrote:
If I had 27 screamers I'd give it a shot! Definitely would like to hear a quick bat rep though.

You should have at least 8 from your exalted chariots. I used putty to make some tails, and the extra tails from screamer kits to plug the rest. I had to grab some extra flying sticks then used resin bases.
That's a good start, and gets you going in that direction.

For any concerned, these are the work in progress pics of the army.