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I heard a few things about them but I am not sure what kind of army they are. Are they a swarm like army like Orks or Tyranids or a Finesse army like Eldar and Tau? Or a all rounder like Space Marines? Keep in mind I am not saying Chaos Space Marines I am just wondering what an all Demon Army is like.

They're very hard-hitting, and don't have much real shooting outside of Tzeentchian units. They're fairly numberous, but their elite units (Bloodcrushers, Fiends, Beasts, and Flamers) only come in small units.

Oh, and the entire army has to enter via Deep Strike, in two halves.

Daemons are hard to classify. They can be a swarm of lesser daemons led by heralds so you have lots of invulnerable swarms running around. Or you could have an army led by 2 Greater Daemons with 3 Daemon Princes or Soul Grinders as heavy support.

Depending what you pick you could have an army of rending or power weapon wielding monsters, or a shooty army from hell in the way of Tzeentch Daemons.

Daemons are much better in WHFB though. In fact, they are so powerful that they are considered a broken army, and my gaming group has banned them. It's not a simple case of people being too stupid to find a good strategy, Daemons are just plain overpowered. Tzeentch Daemons have so much magic it's not funny and will obliterate your army in a few turns.

The only real consistent elements to Daemon armies are daemonic assault and invulnerable saves. Other than that, you can tailor any variation you like.

Daemonzilla? Check. Hordes of little guys? Check. SAFH? Check. Rediculously hard to kill? Check. Glass Hammer? Check.

Obviously, there's no fully mech version, but other than that... pick your poison.

I play Tau. I am still trying to figure them out the best that I can and I think i found a good goal for a good strong army thanks to you guys. I also play Orks but until ard boys I never really actually played them lol.

Would you reccomend Daemons as a good army choice for...maybe next year or so to pick up as a third army? If so what type of Daemon army do you concider to be the best for just out right killing the enemy?

Eh, certainly a good theme, and very good with the new planet strike rules.

I'd suggest you try proxying them first, some people I know have tried daemons and just walked away in disgust, finding them very unpleasant to play.

You need to be prepared to accept losses from the deep strike, you also need to prepare for the wrong wave coming in.

They're not for everyone is the message

There are units in the daemons army that are more finesse than hard-hitting. For an out and out kill-all-comers list, stick to Tzeentch and Khorne units (flamers and bloodletters + skulltaker especially). Nurgle units seem to be tailored to camping objectives (though they certainly can deliver a punch when the need arises) and Slaanesh units are going to hit fast, but not necessarily always hard.

A Daemons player I frequently have to take on uses a massive unit of twenty bloodletters...they survive a few shooting phases and then crash right into something and HARD. I've seen three of those bad boys tear through an 8-man scout squad in a single round of combat.

You should know that most of their models are metal.

If you do play them be sure to know your codex to the letter. The units coming in (Especially Tzeetch) have the capability of doing alot of damage in a number of ways. If you don't get it right it's easy to be labled as a cheater. I had a guy deepstrike in his horrors about somewhere between 9 and 12 inches from my army use boon of mutation on my HQ choice that was at least 14 inches away (boon only has a range of 6") then use the icon the same turn he came in on that unit to safely plant a unit of flamers and the blue scribe an inch away from my lines and use seven flamer templates when he should have only been able to use three (the remaining would have also touched his bases as well so they shouldn't have been able to shoot that turn). He repeated this with his plague bringers coming down in the safety of the mid ground and then iconing in his Soulgrinder to avoid mishaps and get in good position to drop a pie plate on my deployment zone. Needless to say when I found out all of that stuff was against the rules I vowed not to play that guy again.

Tyras wrote:You should know that most of their models are metal.

True, to a point. The plastic bloodletters & daemonettes are fantastic, and there are plenty of folks who use the plastic dryads from the fantasy range as pink horrors. If you're willing/able to convert, it's not that hard to have an all-plastic daemon army (as mine is).