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Hello! Here is my take on a Cabol list. What do you think? Is it completive enough?

Gorepack

Chaos Bikes (3), 2 melta 96
Chaos Bikes (3), 2 melta 96
Fleshhounds (18) 288

Cyclopean Cabol

Sorceror - lvl 3, mark of slaneesh, bike, VLW, spell familiar, melta bombs 170
Sorceror - lvl 3, bike, VLW, spell familiar, melta bombs 155
Sorceror - level 3, jump pack, spell familiar, melta bombs 150

Chaos Deamons CaD

Kairos 300
Herald of Tzeentch, lvl 3, disc, grimoire 150
Pinks (11) 99
Pinks (11) 99
Nurglings (3) 45
Screamers (8) 200

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Yep, looks spot on. I'd probably trade the nurglings to max out screamers and hounds, but the obsec infiltrators are probably more use tbf.

Reasoning for MOS? I'm more tempted by nurgle, or a tzeentch disc with a tanking invulnerable.

Thanks for the replies.

There are 2 reasons in my mind.

1 I like the I5 character to take challenges. I would love to get a sigil on him to tell you the truth. Maybe I cut another screamer? Hmm.

2 is that I want hysterical frenzy. The slaneesh powers are pretty solid for the big unit. The negaties to your opponent from symphony of pain is good too.

I tried something very similar to this and was a little disappointed. Granted, I was a bit rusty as I hadn't played in a while and it was my first game with the list so take with a grain of salt. My list was as follows:

Cabal
3 ML3 Sorcs, 1 ML2, all on bikes with force axe

KDK allied detachment
KHerald, Juggernaunt, Axe of Khorne, Locus of Wrath

8 Cultist

14 Hounds

Daemons CAD
Fateweaver
Tzerald, ML3, Paradox
Tzerald, ML2, Disc, Grimoire

10 Horrors
3 Nurglings

6 Screamers

I played against an Eldar Wraith Host with Dscythe Star and WK plus CAD with a couple of objective grabbing Windrider units. While not an optimized Eldar list it actually proved to be a pretty good counter to mine since we were playing ITC and this nerfed Invis and 2+ rerollables. His star consisted of 9 DScythes, 2 Farseers, Spiritseer, and Baharroth for HnR and no scatter gating. around.

He gets turn 1 so I deploy everything centrally bubble wrapped by the Hounds. I fail to seize. His star powers up with Forewarning and Sanctuary for a 3++ and Invis. I pretty much just let him have these in order to block Gate, but that goes awry when he succeeds with 3 dice and I fail to deny with 20+ dice. He Gates to just to the right of center of the star and thanks to battle focus from the WraithHost, gets in prime position to roast a bunch of Hounds. Thanks to some hot dice rolling and decent positioning, I manage to only lose 7 Hounds and none of the Sorcs.

My turn 1 I power up the Houndstar for a counter attack. Try to grim the Hounds but fail even with a reroll. Bump them back up to a 4++ with Sanctuary and Cursed Earth. Hammerhand, Warp Speed, go off, Prescience denied, tried to summon a unit with Paradox Herald but choose to let it fail since choosing to use paradox would have resulted in perils. Detach paradox Herald from Horrors in order to absorb the BRUTAL overwatch. Hounds get in position to charge. After all is said and done I kill about 4 DScythes. Ouch. Hard to get through the 3++ and Baharroth tanking some stuff with a 2+. His star hit and runs and I do my best to reposition with consolidations but its not looking good. Basically rinse wash repeat with gate and roast after that.

Anyway, my biggest complaint with the list was the Screamer Star lite. It felt a little awkward and I frequently wasn't sure what the hell to do with it. In retrospect, I should have Grimoired the Screamers to absorb overwatch for the 2++ rerollable since they could have always turbo boosted away if it failed leaving my dogs with a 3++ instead of 4. It was a little hard to want to commit all of my big units that close to his star and WK. All in all it was a fun game and probably winnable had I played it smarter. 3 pretty terrible psychic phases in a row didn't help any thing though.

Still not entirely sold on the Screamers as support for the HoundStar but I'd like to hear your thoughts on it. Maybe a LoC with Impossible Robe as an alternate Grimoire Caddy?

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