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I am toying with getting a Daemons army for giggles. Part of what I am thinking of getting involves some pink horrors. Question: do they still split into blue horrors once 'killed' or is that rule gone now?

Just trying to work out what I need to buy...

They do split, yes. I believe you have to pay for them to split, if you want though; coming out of reserve points.

Gotcha, cheers.

You can splot them but I wouldn't recomend it. You have to pay for them with reserve points and you could just put them down when you deploy instead now.

Blue horrors are generally not played in this edition. Big blobs of pinks are great, small blobs of brimstones are super cheap and help fill out battalions easily.

Makes it a bit cheaper for initial purchase I guess then.

They can but don't want to is kind of the answer. Splitting has many disadvantages, you start with the base disadvantages of summoning (having the models not in the table to start with) and the combine with the fact that the splitted models then IMMEDIATELY take a morale test against ld7 the second they arrive.

Hey my opponent killed my horrors, now I have 10 blues thanks to split!

Oh, they rolled a 5 on their morale test and 8 died.

the_scotsman wrote:
They can but don't want to is kind of the answer. Splitting has many disadvantages, you start with the base disadvantages of summoning (having the models not in the table to start with) and the combine with the fact that the splitted models then IMMEDIATELY take a morale test against ld7 the second they arrive.

Hey my opponent killed my horrors, now I have 10 blues thanks to split!

Oh, they rolled a 5 on their morale test and 8 died.

That's kinda the strength of it though, isn't it?

You had a blob of pinks, 5 died and gave you 10 blues. You failed morale, 8 blues fled instead of 8 more pinks. Now you still have Assault 3 weapons on 25 pinks instead of Assault 2 on 17.

Squiiddish wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:
They can but don't want to is kind of the answer. Splitting has many disadvantages, you start with the base disadvantages of summoning (having the models not in the table to start with) and the combine with the fact that the splitted models then IMMEDIATELY take a morale test against ld7 the second they arrive.

Hey my opponent killed my horrors, now I have 10 blues thanks to split!

Oh, they rolled a 5 on their morale test and 8 died.

That's kinda the strength of it though, isn't it?

You had a blob of pinks, 5 died and gave you 10 blues. You failed morale, 8 blues fled instead of 8 more pinks. Now you still have Assault 3 weapons on 25 pinks instead of Assault 2 on 17.

Or you could just run MSU of those horrors on the table all at once and splitting your opponent's fire reducing the overall amount of losses while controlling more of the table. Which is usually better over all.

What you are saying is correct if you absolutely have to take/hold one point of the table and space is limited to fit all those horrors on at the same time, but that is an exceedingly rare situation. Usually better just to have everything on the table at the same time. Problem is, Blue Horrors are really worth having on the table compared to either Pink Horrors or Yellow Horrors (aka Brimstones). Combine that with a lethal game system and the nesting doll tactic doesn't usually work out.