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At the risk of being high maintenance, Id really like to hear about effective ways to run demons in your Word Bearer list. I just bought Cor'bax and own an extensive Nurgle Demon host.



Im thinking of running an allied detachment lead by a DUO with a few Flying demon princes

There are very few especially if you take them as allies, a max of 1 hq 2 troops and 1 of everything else makes them useless as anything other than throwaway kill that units.

 King Amroth wrote:
There are very few especially if you take them as allies, a max of 1 hq 2 troops and 1 of everything else makes them useless as anything other than throwaway kill that units.

Not necessarily. The Daemons' rule that lets you take four Heralds as one HQ choice should still apply, so you can probably end up with a decent summon battery out of four Heralds of Tzeentch and two Pink Horror units (18 psychic dice).

That daemon rule only works for a primary detachment im afraid, so its a maximum of 6. You can do 10 if you take the fateweaver and 2 pink horrors and then a daemon prince of tzeentch as a heavy support.


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But that gets expensive for such brittle units.

 King Amroth wrote:
That daemon rule only works for a primary detachment im afraid, so its a maximum of 6. You can do 10 if you take the fateweaver and 2 pink horrors and then a daemon prince of tzeentch as a heavy support.


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But that gets expensive for such brittle units.

The Chaos Daemons faq actually removed the "primary" requirement, so you can in fact take 4 in an allied detatchment

Dayhum son, they added exalted flamers to it as well!

For me, the impact of this FAQ forces a tough choice between taking a GUO vs multiple heralds.

You can cram a LOT of Daemons in an allied detachment. I've played in 2 heresy tournaments as a "Word Bearers" player where most of my list is Daemons.

Herald of Tzeentch,Disc, Lv3, Exalted Reward - 150
Herald of Tzeentch,Disc, Lv3, Exalted Reward - 150
Herald of Khorne, Juggernaut, Lesser Reward, Greater Reward, Exalted locus - 155
Herald of Khorne, Juggernaut, Lesser Reward, Greater Reward - 130

11 Pink Horrors - 99
11 Pink Horrors - 99

8 Bloodcrushers, Command group, lesser reward - 395

9 Screamers - 225

Soulgrinder, Phlegm Cannon - 165

~1600pts

This gives a big deathstar kind of unit that puts out 28 S6 AP3 and 15 S6 AP2 attacks on the charge! Lots of stuff in 30k hates that...Its killed 3 Primarchs and Sigismund for me. The screamers can deal with a lot of vehicles, and the stuff they can't, they're is backed up by a Sicaran Venator or Knight Warden. Depending on psychic buffs / grimoire they can be amazingly durable - just watch out for S8 blasts.

Then take Zardu, a Chaplain Consul rolling on Telepathy for that sweet sweet Invisibility, and 2 squads of Tactical Marines.