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Yes this is for daemons, but no; I'm NOT talking about having the Warp connect to Mantica (although I'm sure someone uses that as fluff for their army). This is about bringing your army to KoW.
It will come into play, but which model looks like what and which particular unit is like what has been covered already. I'm more interested in the "feel" of the armies, because we all want our little daemonic minions to feel like they belong.

The options in Mantica are the abyssals and the night-stalkers, so the question is which chaos gods fit better in which, with regards to how the army plays and how similar "the idea" (i.e. the motivations to do things in terms of fluff, sort of, this is hard to put into words).

I've been thinking that abyssals seem to work for Khorne and Slaanesh, MURDER and be depraved, right? Also the succubi are a shameless analog (I had to, please don't hate me )

Nurgle and Tzeentch seem to work better in the night-stalker list, the shambling though stuff sound nurgly and the faster, weaker stuff with assorted weird and/or dirty tricks feel familiar (to the extent that that can apply to a Tzeench player).

Thoughs?

Here's a fine Tzeentch Abyssal army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1ZP9euQE8

DarkBlack wrote:Nurgle and Tzeentch seem to work better in the night-stalker list, the shambling though stuff sound nurgly and the faster, weaker stuff with assorted weird and/or dirty tricks feel familiar (to the extent that that can apply to a Tzeench player).

lord_blackfang wrote:Here's a fine Tzeentch Abyssal army.

As a Daemons of Tzeentch player, I feel like Abyssals is a far better fit, as you have many more shooting / magic options, including a straight up Lord of Change port! Nurgle is certainly cooler using Night Stalker rules, though for Red and Pink I'd consider doing Abyssals + Night Stalker allies maybe? Or vice versa? Depending on what you wanted to emphasize - maybe NS + Abyssals for a spookier Slaanesh, Abyssals + NS for an angrier Khorne.

- Salvage

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Here's a fine Tzeentch Abyssal army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1ZP9euQE8

That is a very pretty army, thank you.
Is it a Tzeentch army though? Yes they are Tzeentch models, but that's exactly what I don't mean.

While the flying monster casting spells and maneuverable troops that throw out loads of fire sound like Tzeentch, the tanky infantry and hard hitters with fury don't.

 DarkBlack wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Here's a fine Tzeentch Abyssal army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1ZP9euQE8

That is a very pretty army, thank you.
Is it a Tzeentch army though? Yes they are Tzeentch models, but that's exactly what I don't mean.

While the flying monster casting spells and maneuverable troops that throw out loads of fire sound like Tzeentch, the tanky infantry and hard hitters with fury don't.

What do you class as tanky infantry though? The lower abyssals are only really tanky because they are in hordes and all hordes are tanky (that's their point). Could always take regiments instead and make space to put some not-screamer harpies in so there is at least something in the fast cavalry role. I quite like the regeneration for representing horrors splitting under damage. And the hard hitter units were there because using them as flamebearers hadn't been working out for him. Using them as flamebearers again would give an army which is more fragile but has a mass of short-range magical firepower which sounds pretty Tzeentch to me.
Not much you can do about fury though as it is the army-wide special rule. I figure it is just that demons become pretty fearless once they are mixed up in a melee.

All three of my KoW armies were WHFB armies originally and I started by recreating their GW feel in KoW using allies and magic but now I've switched over to thinking of them as part of the Mantica universe and adjusted the lists accordingly. It helped a lot when GW decided to blow up the world and my engagement with their background died with the planet