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Night Lord DP takes WL and Lord of Terror (2D6 pick highest for Morale w/i 6"). Make him either Nurgle or Slaanesh for -1 to hit or FNP on his spell.

Ahriman takes Glamour, Warptime, and Temporal to use on the MVBs - healing and keeping them safe as well as getting them further up field for auras.

Abaddon creates a solid screen and support by making the cultists morale immune and giving the contemptors reroll to hit.

43 points to spare, which I'd probably use to put a PG on each of the Raptor squads.

General strategy :

Get up to -2 LD from MVBs, -3 from nearby Night Lords (raptors who reroll charges), -1 from being near any raptors, and -2 if you took a wound from a butch cannon. Once the NL WL is near they'll average 4.5 on their morale test.
3 dead + 4.5 vs LD8 - 5 = 4 or 5 additional models to morale.

You only have 2 Heavy Supports in your Spearhead

cpugh13 wrote:
You only have 2 Heavy Supports in your Spearhead

Ah, gak, good catch. I suppose I'd have to drop a contemptor to fill it, which sort of up-ends the list a bit. Back to the drawing board.

10 man Raptor squads... morale check says hi.

Make the Raptors Nurgle and give them Icon of Despair and split the Raptors up into smaller units. If you can get two units of Raptors and the warlord into CC that gives you a total of -7Ld with 2d6 morale, if the butcher cannons fire that's -9Ld.

great name

Ok, I think this is the maximum squeeze. Despair and Nurgle on 5 man raptors and an extra mutalith can't hurt for extra LD stracking. It could totally be a slimmed down predator instead, too.

Actually I might replace it with a vindicator just to squeeze in an extra 9 or 10 cultists.

The LD bomb doesn’t work, I tested it with the Aeldari, using shadow spectres, Irilyth, hemlock wraithfighters and phantasm grenade launchers. If you’re shooting at big squads normally they’re immune to morale in some way (abbadon or the Valhalla next pistil relic). They just die easily like a 10 man guardsmen squad will only have 2-3 models left after shooting, and won’t care cos they only cost 40pts and there to protect the tanks. It might be effective vs 5 man squads, but even then most of the time if you kill 1, morale won’t likely take another, if you kill 3-4 then the squad is mostly dead anyway.

The LD bomb is a nice different concept, but by no means is it competitive. As for the list, too many raptor squads, 3-4 5man squads will do. I think you need more firepower.

If you drop the two non-nurgle raptor units you could take an extra contemptor and switch the patrol for a spearhead for the extra CP

Edit: also you've given the fourth squad of raptors Nurgle and an Icon but haven't adjusted the points.

I would want some way of bringing the slaanesh daemon power that hits against leadership.
Summon a Herald maybe?

 Brother Payne wrote:
If you drop the two non-nurgle raptor units you could take an extra contemptor and switch the patrol for a spearhead for the extra CP

Edit: also you've given the fourth squad of raptors Nurgle and an Icon but haven't adjusted the points.

That's a damn good idea - thanks!