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I am theorycrafting a darmonic incursion list for a 2000 point league.

Warpflame Host

Herald of Tzeentch
Disc
Lvl 1
Warlord
Knows all Change Lore book
Exalted Locus of Conjuration

8 Exalted Flamers

11 Horrors

Aux
5 Furies
Slaanesh

CAD
Herald of Tzeentch
Disc
Lvl 3
Paradox
Grimoire

2x 11 Horrors

10 Khorne Hounds

6-9 Screamers

I know Exalted Flamers don't have relentless. They give my opponent 1 turn to overkill a cheap model pointswise or get hit hard. I have points for one greater daemon. Should I add a D Thirster or Lord of Change with Impossible Robes? Let me know what you guys think.

Your 2nd herald can't have both Paradox and the Grimoire. If you get one of the new Helforged relics you can't use an exalted reward for a Helforged artifact.

So with that I would add a Lord of Change with Paradox in. Otherwise I think it looks good, though it might be good if you maybe cut a few points to get another group of Pink Horrors in the Warpflame Host for more S7 Flickering Fire (seems really good to me, maybe it will suck though).

More Polished. I didn't know you couldn't take grimoire and paradox on same herald. I added a lvl 1 herald with paradox. Goal is to 5 dice Summoning every turn with it. This list has 14 WCs. I am not using Belakor or Fateweaver as they are heavily comped.

Warpflame Host 

Herald of Tzeentch 
Disc 
Lvl 1 
Warlord 
Knows all Change Lore book 
Exalted Locus of Conjuration 

8 Exalted Flamers 

11 Horrors, icon, champion

Command

Lord of change
Lvl 3
Impossible robes
2x Greater
1x Lesser

Aux 
5 Furies 
Slaanesh 

CAD 
Herald of Tzeentch 
Disc 
Lvl 3 
Grimoire 

Herald of Tzeentch
Lvl 1
Paradox

Herald of Khorne
Juggy
Exalted locus of wrath
1x Greater
1x Lesser

2x 11 Horrors 
1x Icon

10 Khorne Hounds 

8 Screamers 

I like it, good luck!

I would drop 2 of the Exalted flamers, replacing them with the 2 units of Horrors you have in the CAD, then fill in 2 Nurgling units for your CAD. Should look like this

__________Warpflame Host ________
Herald of Tzeentch 
Disc 
Lvl 1 
Warlord 
Knows all Change Lore book 
Exalted Locus of Conjuration 

6 Exalted Flamers 

11 Horrors, icon, champion
2x 11 Horrors --1x Icon

_______Command________
Lord of change
Lvl 3
Impossible robes
2x Greater
1x Lesser

_____Aux______ 
5 Furies of Slaanesh 

_____CAD______
Herald of Tzeentch 
Disc 
Lvl 3 
Grimoire 

Herald of Tzeentch
Lvl 1
Paradox

Herald of Khorne
Juggy
Exalted locus of wrath
1x Greater
1x Lesser

2x 3 Nurglings

10 Khorne Hounds 
8 Screamers
----------------------------------------Should have 10pts left over from the trade to do whatever you want with.

I think you could put a few Exalted Flamers in the Horror units as they move up, then have a nasty surprise for late-game. I'd still DS some of them as a distraction unit that "might" survive to net you profit. Do the Blue & Pink flames count as Tzeentchian weapons for the +1 Str? Cuz that'd be awesome

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Yes so it should be D3 str 10 ap 2 shots or str6 ap 3 torrent template from the exalted flamers in the formation. Usually there are 2 objectives in or near your DZ so I thought of having 2 horror squads with 1 exalted flamer each on those. Rest of the exalted are DSing on farther objectives. If your opponent shoots the flamers, he is usually commiting more than 50 points worth of shooting to kill 1 model while ignoring the hounds, screamers, and LOC coming down his throat. Target Saturation.

Excited to see how this formation preforms. Even using WC1 Flickering Fire with 2 dice is 2 d6 str 7 shots. Not bad. Tzeentch warlord traits will define what my warlord is doing. 4 or 5 of them are awesome. Only bad one is soul blaze on warlord's unit close combat attacks which can be rerolled because battle forged.

I like the idea of moving the Pink Horrors into the formation and taking out a few flamers for Nurglings. The flamers are really there as a distraction as you said, and Nurglings can do that too. MOAR S7 FLICKERING FIRE!

I like the plan for the Eflamers. You can still do this tactic by swapping 2 of them for Nurglings. Nurglings also have Infiltrate which can be amazing. 1 unit of nurglings is cheaper that an E-flamer and is twice as tough to kill thanks to Shrouded and having a billion wounds

WTF is with the use of furies!!!!!!!

 xSoulgrinderx wrote:
WTF is with the use of furies!!!!!!!

Have you not seen the Daemon Decurion?

Daemon Decurion requires 1+ core and 1+ aux formation minimum. The fury unit is the cheapest way to meet the aux requirements. Slaanesh gives them extra run inches and rending making them not as useless.

I will really miss having my D Thirster in the list as it is a beautiful model, but the LOC fits better. 3++ invul and if I get cursed earth, 10 warpstorm result, or the +1 invul bubble warlord trait, I have a 2++ rerollable LOC.

Will this list be able to stand up to vehicle heavy armies such as knights? I am worried about that.