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What sort of loadouts have people tried and found effective for Chaos Daemons Princes so far?


Iv tried out a Slaanesh prince with 3 biomancy powers, Greater Reward (for lash of despair) and an Exalted Reward (if I didnt like the roll I took the Eternal Blade) and flying.
Costs a lot of pts but you pretty much have 1 turn to take it out before its munching units, decent chance to get iron arm and the lash with boosted str takes out vehicles really well, can then allow for assaults on passengers.


I ran 2 princes like this in a 1k pt game against Tau and it was a rather quick game with the Tau conceding on turn 3.

I prefer basic Slaanesh flying DPs with Lash of Despair for downing enemy flyers (vector strike over one, then shoot 2D6 shots into rear armor). In general though, I'm not a fan of DPs because of the huge price tag.

They are indeed pricey but with troops being so cheap its not as much of a big deal. In the 1k list I had the 2 princes as well as 40 horrors.

In that case you do rely pretty heavily on the DP's but even without a 3+ armour save they are pretty damn tough.

Slaanesh daemon prince with wings with 2 greater gifts, take the best gift, and use the other to get the whip weapon for some good shooting

Or, nurgle winged prince, with 1/2 gifts, and 1 psychic power in the plague discipline, for an ap3 flamer primaris power, with the chance of getting the AP2 large blast instead

I faced a slaanesh dp with my guard and my is that thing squishy. He got a lucky vector strike on my vendetta due to my own poor planning, but after that it went down like a purple sack of potatoes. IIRC, it only has a 5+ invul?

 ghastli wrote:
I faced a slaanesh dp with my guard and my is that thing squishy. He got a lucky vector strike on my vendetta due to my own poor planning, but after that it went down like a purple sack of potatoes. IIRC, it only has a 5+ invul?

He can get a 3+ armor save, and frankly if your opponent was stupid enough not to give it to him (its borderline mandatory) he deserved to be shot down.