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Lately I've been having trouble against Tau armies, but I'd like to bring my Chaos Daemons and put up a decent fight. My usual opponent likes to bring a riptide or two, a stormsurge and round out his list with a bunch of crisis suits and fire warriors.

I tried to make a very fast, hard hitting list to get in his face as fast as possible. Any suggestions would be very helpful.


[HQ]

Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage, Armor of Scorn, Greater Daemon Reward - 325 points

Daemon Prince of Nurgle, 2x Greater Daemon Rewards, Daemonic Flight, Warp Forged Armour, ML1 - 285 points


[Troops]

10x Daemonettes - 90 points

10x Daemonettes - 90 points

10x Daemonettes - 90 points


[Fast Attack]

10x Flesh Hounds - 160 points

3x Plague Drones, Death's Heads, Venom Sting - 156 points

10x Seekers - 120 points


[Heavy Support]

Soul Grinder of Nurgle, Phlegm Bombardment - 30 points

If you are facing Tau, the Daemon of Nurgle may not be your best choice because the massive amount of ignore cover they can get. Suggest you change your Daemon Prince into Daemon of Tzeentch, Take Impossible Robe and no need to take Warp Forge Armour, 3 Mastery Level. If you roll the right WL for him, he is 2++ rerollable. Also, roll as many as you can in invisibility, that would make the Bloodthirster safe.

I would also say taking horrors would be a safe be, but replacing what unit is a choice I cannot make.

However in past games, I have seen that trying to out range Tau has proven rather difficult.

Does he usually pack anything specific with his crisis suits? Gauntlet, detonator.. anything like that?

So for his crisis suits he usually goes with fusion blasters and/or flamers. Not so scared of the fusion blasters, but the flamers make pretty quick work of my troops.

Thanks for the advice! I'll try popping in some horrors and definitely swap out the nurgle prince for a tzeench prince. I ended up dropping the plague drones to make some points free for that.

Any tips for the daemons of slaanesh? They're pretty fragile and get popped pretty easily!