I'm thinking about a similar list. My idea was the Dreadclaw too. Do you include Abbadon mostly for the fearless bubble? Did you play the list? But in the end, is it better than horrors of tzeentch spam? Just some thoughts : You pay 782 points for 150 bodies. But for 690pts, you can have a full spliting horror unit with 4++ which is also 150 bodies. The tactical possibilities of this splitting rule have made daemon a top tier army (for example, you can engage enemy units, preventing them from shooting if they have not yet). And you can have 30 additional brimstones with the point difference, for a total of 180 models. I understand that you won't lose models since they will come back as poxwalkers, but horrors are at least 50% more resilient with their 4++, so we are comparing 150 resurrecting models with 270 daemon models (factoring the 4++). (You have feel no pain, but against multi-damage weapons feel no pain amounts to almost no save). You need to resurrect at least 120 models to make it equal. With an expensive (and slow) Typhus, you have T4, but it doesn't make a big difference : horrors are still more resilient. Instead of Typhus, the horrors even benefit from the changeling : -1 to hit is huge. Horrors becomes at least twice as difficult to kill than the cultists, even than the pox walkers in many circumstances. You have board control though (which can be a big deal), because your cultists can infiltrate and past a certain point you won't need command points while the horrors need them for morale. But one could just spam brimstones without the splitting. At that price, it's 260 models, 400 when factoring their resilience. (This only proves that horrors are the best troop choice in the game...) I would like to build the zombie list (as I called it), but the horror list is better I think, though I would happily be convinced otherwise if you prove me wrong! But let's try now. None of your characters can be targeted, that's strong. But the tzeench list too, with exalted flamers and heralds. The zombie list is more fun, that's for sure! Your poxwalker unit will be bigger than any horror unit (which can be 60 max after the pink split in blue). It means any benefit you have will be maximized, for example psychic powers. As a matter of fact, you can benefit from better spells than the horrors. -1 hit to hit spell (like the changeling!), +1 to hit in close combat, +1S&T, stratagem +1 to wound, moving twice, typhus nurgle's gift, etc. These work well for the poxwalker damage output, while the horrors will do nothing noteworthy. (I just realized Abaddon can heal d3 wound with a 2 cp stratagem, not bad!)
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