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Building a competitive but mostly fun Daemons list

HQ

Heralds
- Nurgle (Balesword, Fecundity)
- Nurgle
- Tzeentch (ML3, Conjuration)

Fateweaver (Warlord)


TROOPS

Plaguebearers x 15
Plaguebearers x 10
Pink Horrors x 20


FAST ATTACK

Flesh Hounds x 10


HEAVY SUPPORT

Daemon Prince (ML3, Grimoire, Staff of Change, Wings, Armour)
Soul Grinder (Phlegm), Nurgle)

Aegis Line (Lascannon)


The Balesword herald will move up with the 15 plaguebearers and put some pressure on the objective/target.
Flesh hounds will do the same, running up one of the sides and applying pressure.
The other herald will man the lascannon with the 10 plaguebearers as a meat shield, they'll also hold an objective if needed.
Fateweaver will hang around on one of the sides, within range of the 10 plaguebearers, pink horrors and the DP.
The Prince will lurk around Between the Hounds and FW casting things and using the Grimoire, until things are softened up... Then he'll move in for the kill.
Soul Grinder will camp in cover near FW and the Aegis setup.
Horrors will setup where needed and throw down lots of shots, etc.


Thoughts?? Weaknesses, things to change/try, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Hate to come across as that guy, but this is a fun list, this definitely in no way is competitive...

Xethe0n wrote:
Building a competitive but mostly fun Daemons list

HQ

Heralds
- Nurgle (Balesword, Fecundity)
- Nurgle
- Tzeentch (ML3, Conjuration)

Fateweaver (Warlord)


TROOPS

Plaguebearers x 15
Plaguebearers x 10
Pink Horrors x 20


FAST ATTACK

Flesh Hounds x 10


HEAVY SUPPORT

Daemon Prince (ML3, Grimoire, Staff of Change, Wings, Armour)
Soul Grinder (Phlegm), Nurgle)

Aegis Line (Lascannon)


The Balesword herald will move up with the 15 plaguebearers and put some pressure on the objective/target.
Flesh hounds will do the same, running up one of the sides and applying pressure.
The other herald will man the lascannon with the 10 plaguebearers as a meat shield, they'll also hold an objective if needed.
Fateweaver will hang around on one of the sides, within range of the 10 plaguebearers, pink horrors and the DP.
The Prince will lurk around Between the Hounds and FW casting things and using the Grimoire, until things are softened up... Then he'll move in for the kill.
Soul Grinder will camp in cover near FW and the Aegis setup.
Horrors will setup where needed and throw down lots of shots, etc.


Thoughts?? Weaknesses, things to change/try, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Okay. I understand that this is a fun list, so don't take me too seriously:
You have a cross between attempted-horde and threat saturation. Focusing on one rather than the other will give the army a better synchronicity. Right now, the obvious way to deal with this army is to fire big guns at you in this order:
1) Fateweaver
2) DP
3) Soulgrinder.
4) Troops

It's gonna be tough to stop a good shooty army from doing that.

You also have an ADL with a lascannon. While an ADL is often good, it only works best when you're planning on being static and hiding lots of guns in it. You could have the grinder in there for cover save, but you'll be rather inefficient there. And with only three troop units, you're going to need them to get around the board for the objectives. If you're set on keeping the ADL, however, a better gun would be the flakk gun, as it's better at hitting flying things than the LC (if you were hoping to kill vehicles with it, I should mention that multiple flying MC's tend to be quite capable of that on their own).

You also seem to have an unnecessary Nurgle herald with no upgrades, which means he's not going to do much besides be a 50 pts pusbag.