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Howdy Gang!


I've been collecting since about 2001, and I just restarted the hobby by picking up Cult Mechanicus as well as Skitarii, and I just love the aesthetic!


This morning I found out about BLOOD SLAUGHTERERS and now I want nothing more than to field a couple of those things in a game. They're just....AMAZING.

So what is the cheapest possible, lowest tax possible, way of taking those things? First time looking at the Imperial Armour codex and I have no idea what I'm doing. I didn't know how big those things are (the Imperial Armour books). I pulled up 1d4chan to try to help me out, but I just do NOT get it. There have to be Covenants and Demagogues, but also guard, but also daemons? Do I have to pick a Chaos God to align with? Ugh.


Any tidbits or help would be mucho appreciated! Thank you <3

The 1d4chan tactica is a good starting point.

To get blood slaughterers, you need to take an arch demagogue with a dedication to khorne. He also has yo be your warlord.

You don't have to theme your whole army khorne, but it does lock out some other options

Captyn_Bob wrote:
The 1d4chan tactica is a good starting point.

To get blood slaughterers, you need to take an arch demagogue with a dedication to khorne. He also has yo be your warlord.

You don't have to theme your whole army khorne, but it does lock out some other options

Okay that's really helpful thank you! If ever I were to field this in large games, I'd probably just go with Infiltrating Alpha Legion as my main objective grabbers and meat of the army.

Renegades and heretics are a good way to go, but you are limited to bringing a single unit of them. You could also just bring a daemon CAD with a herald and 2 units of nurglings, that would unlock all 3 slots for 3 units, as well as free up your warlord slot if needed for any needs.

AD of khorne + 2 units of mutants is about 120pt I think.
Herald of choice +2 nurglings is 135pt

Go daemons and you could do tzeentch+pink horrors for 180pt and get 2 warp charges plus shenanigans.

In any event, always upgrade the blood dude for the harpoon, shoot it after deep strike and it allows fake charges.

They are also a heavy support choice for daemons or CSM so basically any CSM or daemons army can have them.

In a standard combined arms detachment you could take 9.