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The General Idea is that it is all hard body and will cruise up the board and wreck face. There is 56 points for upgrades and swaps. The Deamon Princes buff and are tough as well. I think their Nurgle healing power will work on the Fiends also.

Thoughts?

2 Spear Head Detachments

Daemon Prince of Nurgle
1 Daemon Prince: Daemonic axe,Malefic talons,Warp bolter,Wings

Forgefiend
1 Forgefiend: Two Hades autocannons,Daemon jaws

Forgefiend
1 Forgefiend: Two Hades autocannons,Daemon jaws

Forgefiend
1 Forgefiend: Two Hades autocannons,Daemon jaws

Forgefiend
1 Forgefiend: Two Hades autocannons,Daemon jaws

Daemon Prince of Nurgle
1 Daemon Prince: Daemonic axe,Malefic talons,Warp bolter,Wings

Maulerfiend
1 Maulerfiend: Maulerfiend fists,Two magma cutters

Maulerfiend
1 Maulerfiend: Maulerfiend fists,Two magma cutters

Maulerfiend
1 Maulerfiend: Maulerfiend fists,Two magma cutters

Maulerfiend
1 Maulerfiend: Maulerfiend fists,Two magma cutters

I have a hard time with the fiends due to how fast they degrade when taking wounds, they start hitting on "6s" which basicly makes them useless when they've taken enough wounds, sure the regeneration can help bring them back but is it worth it...im still not convinced.

Axes are too expensive on the DPs, I don't think they are worth it when you can get extra attacks with an extra set of talons and only give up 1 strength and 1 dmg.

CSM DPs would probably be better than Chaos, as they will be untargetable when standing with the fiends with 8 wounds whereas the Chaos Demon DPs can be shot and will probably fall over to any heavy guns pointed their way since they have 10 wounds... I also don't know how the rules for his reroll talent interact with CSM units so it's possible your fiends won't get rerolls from the DPs trait (This point may be invalid, I honestly don't know.)

In general though lists like this with low model counts may be weak in 8th with rules for objective holding being "Most models nearby wins" so I would try to fit in some cultist blobs if possible just to hold down the fort.

Maulerfiends are great, but unfortunately you won't be able to target them with your Nurgle Daemon specific psychic power AFAIK. Hopefully I'm wrong, because I would LOVE to heal my Heldrakes lol

Theres no reason you wouldn't be able to heal the Helldrake with the Nurgle spell. Providing it is MoN.

Because it fulfills both of the Keyword Requirements. Same way the Helldrake counts towards and benefits from Epidemius' tally.

mcsheehy wrote:
Theres no reason you wouldn't be able to heal the Helldrake with the Nurgle spell. Providing it is MoN.

Because it fulfills both of the Keyword Requirements. Same way the Helldrake counts towards and benefits from Epidemius' tally.

I think this will need to be FAQ'd. Yes, if you chose to make your daemon engine of choice "Nurgle", it will have that keyword in the "Faction Keyword" section, however the "Daemon" Keyword that the Chaos Daemon, daemons have for being of that Faction is not there. Instead I believe that the daemon engines such as Maulerfiends, Heldrakes etc, have the "Daemon" keyword, because of what they are, daemons. Just like the Avatar of Khaine. So I'm not 100% if those two keywords just have to be in there entry somewhere, or if they have to have the faction keyword "Daemon".

Take a look at some of the Chaos Champions.

It specifically states "Faction" Where as the Daemons one does not.