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Hello everyone!

I've just heard about the concept of flying circus and I love it, so I've created this list to test it out!

What do you think?

++ Supreme Command Detachment +1CP (Chaos - Daemons) [27 PL, 540pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Chaos Allegiance: Chaos Undivided

Rewards of Chaos (1 Relic)

+ HQ +

Daemon Prince of Chaos [9 PL, 180pts]: Daemonic axe, Khorne, Skullreaver, Wings

Daemon Prince of Chaos [9 PL, 180pts]: Malefic talon, Wings
. Slaanesh: Pavane of Slaanesh

Daemon Prince of Chaos [9 PL, 180pts]: Malefic talon, Wings
. Nurgle: Stream of Corruption

++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Chaos - Thousand Sons) [26 PL, 457pts] ++

+ HQ +

Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch [9 PL, 166pts]: Temporal Manipulation, Tzeentch's Firestorm, Weaver of Fates

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch [8 PL, 159pts]: 5. Otherworldly Prescience, Dark Matter Crystal, Death Hex, Glamour of Tzeentch, Malefic talon, Warlord, Warp bolter

+ Troops +

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

++ Total: [53 PL, 997pts] ++

Not enough fodder for mu liking. Being a character is a Daemon Princes' primary defence, but with only 30 slow moving troops to protect them they will become target-able very quickly.

I'd cut one prince for some more filler units. Maybe change the first detachment to Daemons Battalion with 2 Princes and 3*3 Nurlgings?

Also, no warp time!!!

The Nurglings could indeed be a nice screening unit for my DPs!

I also replaced Tzeentch's Firestorm with Warp Time on Ahriman, and everyone got Warp Bolters.

The new battalion detachment allows me to take 2 relics on my DPs, so I've also added the Mark of Excess on my Slaanesh DP.

Thanks!

V2 below:

++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Chaos - Thousand Sons) [26 PL, 457pts] ++

+ HQ +

Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch [9 PL, 166pts]: Temporal Manipulation, Warptime, Weaver of Fates

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch [8 PL, 159pts]: 5. Otherworldly Prescience, Dark Matter Crystal, Death Hex, Glamour of Tzeentch, Malefic talon, Warlord, Warp bolter

+ Troops +

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 44pts]
. 8x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Chaos Cultist w/ special weapon: Heavy stubber
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Chaos - Daemons) [27 PL, 540pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Chaos Allegiance: Chaos Undivided

Rewards of Chaos (2 Relics)

+ HQ +

Daemon Prince of Chaos [9 PL, 189pts]: Daemonic axe, Khorne, Skullreaver, Warp bolter, Wings

Daemon Prince of Chaos [9 PL, 189pts]: Malefic talon, The Mark of Excess, Warp bolter, Wings
. Slaanesh: Pavane of Slaanesh

+ Troops +

Nurglings [3 PL, 54pts]: 3x Nurgling Swarms

Nurglings [3 PL, 54pts]: 3x Nurgling Swarms

Nurglings [3 PL, 54pts]: 3x Nurgling Swarms

++ Total: [53 PL, 997pts] ++

You would probably have better results if it was more like the following.


++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Chaos - Chaos Space Marines) [45 PL, 780pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Gifts of Chaos (1 Relic)

Legion: Alpha Legion

+ HQ +

Daemon Prince with Wings [9 PL, 180pts]: Intoxicating Elixir, Malefic talon
. Slaanesh: Diabolic Strength

Daemon Prince with Wings [9 PL, 180pts]: Khorne, Malefic talon

Daemon Prince with Wings [9 PL, 180pts]: Malefic talon
. Nurgle: Death Hex

+ Troops +

Chaos Cultists [12 PL, 160pts]: 39x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun, Mark of Slaanesh
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 40pts]: 9x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun, Mark of Slaanesh
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 40pts]: 9x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun, Mark of Slaanesh
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

++ Patrol Detachment (Chaos - Thousand Sons) [12 PL, 220pts] ++

+ HQ +

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch [9 PL, 180pts]: Malefic talon, Prescience, Warptime, Wings

+ Troops +

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 40pts]: 9x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

++ Total: [57 PL, 1000pts] ++

9cp so you can make the cultist blob fearless if it's down to just a few guys, respawn the cultists.
Slaanesh dp has intoxicating elixar and diabolic strength so you can have 9attacks at s 10. Or give the khore dp d strength so you have two guys with 8 attacks at strength 9.
You also still have plenty of smites and up to 110 bodies to eat through with stratgems.

Tzeentch Prince, best Prince.

2 psychic really differ from 1. In a TSons detachement they also cast smite without increasing difficulty. And 4++. And +6 range...

Only compareable configulation is (your first) Nugle DP. with the 2+ relic armor.

Something I just noticed... how do the cultists keep up with the speed of the DPs with wings? There's no way they can screen after turn 1.

Lazaris wrote:
Something I just noticed... how do the cultists keep up with the speed of the DPs with wings? There's no way they can screen after turn 1.

"Forward operatives" from Alpha legion.

 tokugawa wrote:

Lazaris wrote:
Something I just noticed... how do the cultists keep up with the speed of the DPs with wings? There's no way they can screen after turn 1.

"Forward operatives" from Alpha legion.

This works well. ^^

Or you just advance them for the first couple turns. You should end up with about 4 turns of combat with the princes by screening with the cultists for two turns.

In my experience with multiple demon princes it goes like this; screen turn one cause I never get turn one. Alpha legion cultists get dropped to about 3-4 guys left, even with -1 to hit them. Give them fearless from a strat. Your turn one, tide of traitors them across the board, move the princes in behind them, smite some guys, give the cultists fnp via the slaanesh power. Turn two warp time the cultists or just move them if your is enough to get charges with the princes. Either charge this turn and hide in combat, or stay behind the cultist until turn 3.
If you actually go first, then warptime the cultists, get about 18" of movement, give them fnp, turn two, double tap the cultists, charge with demon princes.

if you play just those 40 cultist with forward operatives they will become priority target and then after turn 1 your princes will be exposed, if you wanna play a flying circus, would be better use units like plague drones or bloated drones, they are fast enough and durable, base protection on just 40 cultists not granted it works, 40 not fearless cultists are pretty easy to remove right now.
for example i played time ago 4-5 Dp's and i had both 6 plague drones and 3 bloated drones and my Dp's got enough protection until i decided to charge with them.

I honestly dig this list... but it's only so-so. moving to the 1800-2000pts level, Grab Rick and Morty.... a pair of primarchs fit the theme well and bolster your firepower a metric s**t-tonne