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I'm quite new to Warmahordes, as everyone seems to be

My List is centred on a pretty weak tactic which has worked well so far.

Thyra of the flame.
+Revenger
+Vigilant
+Crusader

Full Daughters of the Flame
Flame Guard Cleansers
Small Choir

+Nicia of the Tear

The list seems to centre of assassination runs, with the Choir and light warjacks hugging Thyra and slowly making their way up field being immune to shots and blasts while Nicia and the daughters make passes at their softer targets to clear the flanks.
The Flameguards have the sad duty of being my bait, while helping to provide cover with their clouds and hope the enemy have some large groups of units to blast.

If the enemy warcaster gets in range though, then the daughters, nicia and Thyra use their acrobatics to bypass any defence and charge in for the kill.
Often works, but sometimes bad dice stop the run and I will of course be totally exposed after that move and usually die

Frankly, this is a terrible list. I assume your opponents are also newbies. As soon as you all become a little more skilled, they're going to start wiping the floor with this list.

Thyra isn't a bad caster, but she is not a newbie friendly caster, and she actually isn't a very good assassin.

The Revenger and Vigilant are completely dead weight. Thyra has no spells worth Arc'ing and the Vigilant has nothing to offer. Thyra also doesn't have the tools to make the Crusader shine. Someone like Kreoss3 does(he also likes Arc Nodes so you might consider him)

Changing to a Reckoner and a Vanquisher will be much better, and work with any warcaster.

Cleansers are... sub par. They can work in a very few lists, but as you are a newbie I would not run them till you get your feet under you. Go with Errants, TFG, and/or Zealots.



The only way to run Thyra with any success is to run her theme force.

Something like

Thyra
-Blood of Martyrs
-Reckoner
-Dervish

min Choir
3 units of Daughters
Nicea

Yeah I didn't think it was a good list, I've only won a few games all with assassination runs.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep it in mind if I revisit adding more models to the collection.

Going to avoid the Errents though, they are not very aesthetically pleasing for me

I will be keeping the Vigilant though, as I really like his cheap toughness that can't be blasted through, plus double open fist is always funny for power attacks!
I'll look at getting the Reckoner though as Def debuffs are always good and would allow Thyra to also keep more focus for damage buffs and extra hits.
I'll look at a replacement for the hammer/mace though, its not very visually appealing to me on that model!

The Cleansers are also putting up a good showing so far, doing well at flushing out units in cover and providing some early game cover for me.

Not sure if you got your pts count right though, would have thought that 3 units of daughters would take me over 25pts?
(Not got anything to check with here )

Yeah, that list Templar posted is 35 not 25. To keep it in theme you need to get rid of choir and reckoner.

TBH you don't need to run pure theme, its one of the most restrictive themes around in terms of what you can run. You miss out on some powerful solos, support, and beat stick options. I've never heard of such a dogmatic stance on her being tier or get out before. She by no means is a main tourney caster anyways, so you might as well not worry about stuff like that.

What she likes: not to many jacks: avatar because of focus requirements, Blood because of 'have you read how good they are together, its like a heavy dervish', and dervish because its cheap and it gets a lot of attacks (possibly supported by a reclaimer). She like in terms of infantry daughters, exemplar units, and even holy zealots (during her feat turn they can get into fun positions even if already engaged) As for solos, reclaimers can help her focus load, as can a hierophant. The covenant is a cheap and potentially life saving model, preventing knockdown preserves her defensive ability.