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This is a fun list but hoping that it can do some damage some of the time. I have never played daemons before and just bought a new army second hand. Looking for help from veteran daemon players. Thanks

HQ
Bloodthirster - 2 greater rewards (must have, too cool not to)
3 Heralds of Khorne (join letters) each have lesser reward for CC weapon one has GLoF

Troops
15 Bloodletters - Instrument, IoC (BoB)
15 Bloodletters - IoC (BoB)
15 Bloodletters - IoC (BoB)

Heavy
Daemon Prine of Khorne - flight, armour, Greater reward
Daemon Prine of Khorne - flight, armour, Greater reward

When I get the models I will be adding 20 Flesh hounds to bring up the point level. Open to any and all comments.

Thanks!

Well khorne is fun but its often hard to get to combat before dying... I dont recommend mono any god but if you really must then we will work with what we have.

The bloodthirster should have 1 exalted reward and 1 greater. With the exalted you can get the grimoire which is absolutely necessary in pretty much each demon list.

If can give a 15 man unit 3++ saves for the turn, super good and only 10 more points then you were spending anyhow.

Must you use khorne demon princes? They are probably the worst of the set ups. I prefer tzeentch but nurlge is also quite good. The 3+ armor and reroll of 1's on the tzeetch prince is just great.

You are sort of low on scoring models. I know 45 sounds good but t3 with 5++ saves is going to get rocked by shooting.

The other reason I recommend not playing mono god, especially only CC is that you will get rocked by the current popular lists, including Tau (super shooty obviously) and mech day, who you will never catch up too.

I dont mean to come down on this list as if you play an opponent who is not going to play something terrible against this then it will be a really fun game as mono khorne is awesome fun.

Thanks for the tips. I thought that I could only use DP as khorne since they are HQ unless I have something to unlock them.

I have up to 60 bloodletter so I can add more.

Reading that grimoire rule could also hurt me big time. I like it!

I want to DS some of the BL too.

What are your thoughts on adding heralds to each letter unit?

Heralds are ok but alot of points.

Your right about the demon princes and being unlocked. You could take a blood thirster, a khorne prince, and a tzeentch one.

You really need your units to be big for them to reach combat. Think of ork boyz. Would you be afraid of 10 no to really but 20 is a different thing. Same as bloodletters. If you only have 10 and they get shot only 2-3 may reach combat and then they die.


The grimoire really isn't as dangerous as you think. The difference between a 5++ and 6++ is minimal as you are probably failing those saves mostly anyways.

Also if the bearer uses it on himself and fails the check he suffers no penalty. A bloodthirster with a 3++ is scary.

I like the idea on the prices. What is the best way to outfit a Tzee prince?
ML2?
If I lose the heralrd should I get a bloodreaper with a lesser gift in each unit?

Banners on the letters?

 Icelord wrote:
Heralds are ok but alot of points.

Your right about the demon princes and being unlocked. You could take a blood thirster, a khorne prince, and a tzeentch one.

Also if the bearer uses it on himself and fails the check he suffers no penalty. A bloodthirster with a 3++ is scary.

If he took a blood thirster he does unblock heavy KHORNE demon princes, should he desire to have Tzeentch or otherthe demon princes, they would have to be in HQ slot at 1500 point. Unless taking Fatey.KOS or GUO

Also, reread the Grimnores ability, it does not effect the bearer, INCLUDING the addition to the invulnerable.

If you want to run an all Khorne army, you'll need fleshhounds. With 2 wounds, a scout move, and a 3+ invul from the grimoir they are really great at tying up the enemy early in the game, blocking LoS and stopping shooting.

I'm not a huge fan of bloddletters personally. They are fragile and slow and need to get into cc to be effective at all, but never seem to make it into cc for me. Demonettes are faster with the extra 3" on their run. Either way since you ar presumably rushing your army to engage the enemy, having a portoglyph to generate backfield objective holders is a good idea.

Thanks all, keep the comments coming. I have only bought the letters and thirster and already own 2 DP.

Hounds sound and look like my next buy

 skycapt44 wrote:
Thanks all, keep the comments coming. I have only bought the letters and thirster and already own 2 DP.

Hounds sound and look like my next buy

If you plan to do hounds - I would recommend the Chaos Warhounds for them. It runs around 2.50 a model and they are plastic.

If I was to run a Khorne list I would probably go with Karanak, 2 heralds, 2 skull cannons and 36 hounds with some bloodletters and maybe a 4 man crusher unit. Has a lot of tools to deal with problems, and you can scout up the crushers with Karanak.

Edit: I know crushers are much weaker than before, but if you are going for theme, might as well include them. Plus if you hold them back out of los they can bail out the hounds at times or if they get the grimoire their 3++ is pretty durable.