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This list has three 30x Troops choice, hence the list name: a Fire Bomb, Virus Bomb, and Letter Bomb. I've played two games with this list, and will have some thoughts at the bottom.


My first game was against Nurgle+Death Guard. I ended up winning massively, but the game did not go how I would've expected. My Letter Bomb got blunted against two PBCs, and didn't even manage to kill any of them for several rounds of combat--me dropping in and charging, him falling back, repeat. So that was interesting. I learned that I shouldn't multicharge BIG things with Letters, though multicharging infantry is still fine.

My second game was against Nids, a Kraken/Kronos combo. End ITC score was 20-35, my loss, and the game felt pretty bad most of the time. I only got about 1/7 of my powers off, thanks to SitW and the Kronos strat, and gave myself around 11 wounds throughout the game due to the WL trait.
The 2x20 Stealers were incredibly fast, and the Termagaunts double-shooting was devastating. I learned I should've used my Nurglings as speedbumps rather than hiding them on objectives, so that the Stealers couldn't get T1 charges against important stuff.
My two big successes this game were the Letter Bomb, which dropped backfield and cleared gaunts+Hiveguard off an objective (they made their points back)--although they got double-shot to death the next round--and the PBs, which never died and took out a Stealer unit by themselves.
I also learned that, with that many bodies, there's no reason I should leave any lanes open to my backfield. With better positioning I can prevent any movement to get to my back objective.


Anyone have any thoughts? Any ideas for the list? My alternate is to take another TSons Prince and drop some Brims, a Nurgling squad, and the reinforcement points.

First of, I LIKE it! Second, you lose out on +6” psychic casting Tsons while having pink and brims in that detachment, might not be big loss but can be helpful. I can’t speak much for Tsons or any Nurgle.

What do you think about Tsons supreme Command Detachment, Ahriman and 2 prince.

Nurgle battalion the same or - 1 Nurglings.

Khorne battalion change to Daemon battalion and.

Hq same.

Troops
2x25 letters icons and instruments
30 pinks
2x10 brimstones

You will get better range to psychic powers, more powers, 2 hard hitting letterbombs.

You lose reroll on the charge for khorne but with +1 and 3D6 it’s unlikely to fail. 10 brimstone lesser but I have found that 20 is enough for denying deep strikes on the back when you have a bigger unit (pinks) in the middle of the board.

This might not be helpful or anything as I like your list as it is.
Personally I would go for 60 pinks and no Nurgle but that’s me as I do not own any Nurgle and will get myself another 30 so total 60 letters very soon.


Edit. I do not know the points cost but made some in my head so 1Tsons prince might be walking but might be an easy fix.

Losing the +6" on your Sons casting is significant if you want to keep them a bit further behind with the PB's. I would also move your demons into the demons detachment. If not then the change I would make would be to swap out the pinks for Gors if you have the models. I want pinks to be good as well since I have 70 of them but gors are much more effective and can teleport turn 1 and charge to kill and lock stuff up. Follow up by a BL bomb turn 2 can be a 1-2 punch while your burgle rack up the points and your casters pick off targets.

Cheers and happy gaming

Hmmm so I could do something like this:


This would, for 10pts per squad, give my objective holders some shooting (where the Brims had none).

Alternatively I could do this:


I am also considering dropping the Pinks from the list and instead having Reinforcement points to SUMMON the Pinks. This way, they can avoid a 1st alpha, and come in at full strength. Any thoughts on that tactic?