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Greetings brothers,

Pretty simple one this... With the ridiculous and irritating Chaos Boon table in effect now, how many EXTRA daemon princes and spawn do you have? Y'know, just in case it happens...

I'm currently building my Death Guard army back up and I have one of each, but with five champions and my chaos lord in the mix, is it worth knocking up some more?

Cheers!

I have 1 extra Prince and 2 Spawn at the moment I highly doubt you'll need more than what you have, unless the dark gods are with you.

 l0k1 wrote:
I have 1 extra Prince and 2 Spawn at the moment I highly doubt you'll need more than what you have, unless the dark gods are with you.

This sounds reasonable enough.

I have 2 Daemon Princes and 1 spawn. I like to be optimistic. This is mostly just because of what I have access too though,

I only have a Prince. I vowed to buy the models when I roll on the chart and get the result. So far the one Prince has been it. But in 3 different games

Personally, I'd suggest 2 of each. I can't see you using more than that, but two is definitely possible

There's some nice little tricks you can pull to squeeze in some extra princes, since the ones you'll get are basically naked. Since I play both Nurgle daemons and Death Guard, I needed plenty of Plague DPs anyways. My simple (and relatively cheap) solution? Plastics LOTR trolls. A bit of green stuffing and you have a perfect Nurgle Daemon Prince. Hell, you can probably even skip the putty work and they'll look pretty sweet.

Same basic idea works for Khornate princes...WHFB Minotaurs would work perfectly. And on the cheap.

I have a pepsi can... Literally... Once upon a glorious time my cultist killed an HQ and rolled Dark Apotheosis..

He was immediately put on the highest pedestal ever known to man , before we realized I didn't own a Daemon Prince model.. So my friend handed me a pepsi can and we went on from there...

The Daemon Can has served me ever since <3

Picked up a single spawn, beyond that already had 4 daemon princes, so I was set.

 Vomikron Noxis wrote:
Greetings brothers,

Pretty simple one this... With the ridiculous and irritating Chaos Boon table in effect now, how many EXTRA daemon princes and spawn do you have? Y'know, just in case it happens...

I'm currently building my Death Guard army back up and I have one of each, but with five champions and my chaos lord in the mix, is it worth knocking up some more?

Cheers!

how many champions do you have in your army? That many DPs and Spawn.

 Exergy wrote:

 Vomikron Noxis wrote:
Greetings brothers,

Pretty simple one this... With the ridiculous and irritating Chaos Boon table in effect now, how many EXTRA daemon princes and spawn do you have? Y'know, just in case it happens...

I'm currently building my Death Guard army back up and I have one of each, but with five champions and my chaos lord in the mix, is it worth knocking up some more?

Cheers!

how many champions do you have in your army? That many DPs and Spawn.

This is the correct answer. They should each be paired with a champion and modeled with the champion's wargear lying at its feet on the bases. 1 Prince and Spawn for each Champion.

Anything less is lazy.

One prince, and no spawn. If he rolls spawn, and you don't have the model, he just dies, it sucks, but having one lonely spawn isn't all that useful, especially not usefull enough to warrant spending money on them.

Daemon Princes don't seem to be that effective non-winged. I had a game where two Daemon Princes spawned... I just nonchalantly gunned them down.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:
Daemon Princes don't seem to be that effective non-winged. I had a game where two Daemon Princes spawned... I just nonchalantly gunned them down.

It may be true they are worse without wings, but that is still 280 ish extra points he got for free.

Unless those two DP's came from Named HQ's rolling the boon table mid game. WHY DARK GODS WHY! I have lost typhus that way, Never got a cultist champ to do it, only myths so far for my army

Still, that is extra models your opponent has to fear.
Although i do remember where a HQ defeats a tau shasui in combat and becomes a deamon prince.
But then a cultist defeated calgar(dont ask)
Spawnhood for cultist.
How does that work?

I currently have two DP for my CSM army but they also double as DP for my WoC army ....as far as spawn goes nope really don't have any ...I often use smaller daemons models for spawn such as the heralds or even just the daemons unit models. We often tho for friendly fun games opt to re-roll those rolls on the boon chart.

Well I have 3 DPs that I never use any more. Way better using Kharne or Baddun.

However I had some spare bases and some green stuff and made up 5 Spawn myself from some spare bits I had lieing around. Way better than spending 75 quid on them. Was really impressed with how they came out.

Even used some bolts I had about the house, so they have a good heft to them too! Nothing says spawn like a shoggoth load of tenticles. However I'd recommend buying at least 1 pack of spawn for all the bits to spread amongst them.

If I had them more than undercoated I'd post.

The worst thing you could possibly have happen, is losing Abaddon to becoming a Daemon Prince... Do you know how absolutely TERRIBLE that is

I don't have any yet. I plan to get some of each but not soon. I just use the model that changed right now. I don't mind at all since I only play my CSM against myself. They are my "enemy" army. I field my army against them when I have no one to play with or I play 2v1 (my wife and I vs me) and she does not mind either.

@GoliothOnline, I had that happen to me. I was upset and I wasn't even rooting for him! lol

I just proxy my Tyranids. Hive Tyrants(2) and Carnifex for for Princes, Warriors, Raveners, Hive Guard, Zoanthrope, Lictor, Venomthrope and Tyrant Guard for spawn. I pick and choose at a whim.

But lets be honest, you can probably get away with one of each.

I mean, if you manage to spawn two demon princes in the same game, you might as well give your opponent a chance to concede right there...