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I'm moving over from 40k to AoS and with it im primarily playing my Khorne Daemons, with a supporting amount of Mortal Khorne. How do they fair in the game as it stands? I'm not looking to ever enter tournament play, but im wondering how much thought i'll have to put into list building to hold up in a game. I know I have loads of options, but that only makes it that much more confusing when trying to build a solid list as a newcomer.

They were middling tier 2 in the current edition and word is that they got a lot of price hikes so I would expect them to stay middling tier 2.

From what I've seen, they are decent but by no means a overpowered army. Mortal Khorne with some smattering of Daemons seems to work best, however I've definitely seen Bloodletters do work. The key issue with Bloodletters is their lack of attacks, but with doing Mortal Wound's on 6's, give them a few buffs and they can wreck house.

This is all pre-2nd edition but the tactics and unit breakdowns are still decent.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Age_of_Sigmar/Tactics/Chaos/Blades_of_Khorne

The 'competitive' list was basically Bloodletter spam with buffing Bloodthirster(s).
Bloodletters are becoming more expensive so that's harder to do.
They can be summoned for 'free' now, but they need to be at 20+ to be optimal and I think they can only be summoned in blocks of 20.
Summoning is theoretically a buff, but it's part of our Blood Tithe mechanic, so you're either summoning OR using those other abilities. Other Chaos armies don't have to make that choice.

If you aren't playing at a tournament level you'll have fun. Pick a theme of some kind (mortal, demon, cavalry) just to give yourself some focus so you don't feel overwhelmed by options.

If you have a ton of demons then you might look at getting a bunch of Reapers (should be a lot of cheap ones floating around) as small units to fuel the Blood Tithe, along with Slaughter Priests (again, theyve been in a bunch of discount boxes now so should be cheap) to sacrifice Reapers for more Tithe.

Your best bet is probably a mortal 'horde' with priests and a bloodsecrator with the Gore Pilgrim battaliion that's frantically trying to generate Blood Tithe so it can summon demons in.

They're good, but you can't just toss random stuff in there and hope they work. Khorne relies on a lot of synergistic buffs to build their momentum and get the blood flowing. In a vacuum, Khorne units tend to be overcosted for their statlines (Bloodthirsters not included, they're beastly even without support). It's once all the pieces come together that their otherwise weak warscrolls become absolutely oppressive in a machine far more potent than the sum of its parts.

Their Slaughterpriests also give them access to a strictly better form of magic, since it cannot be denied. Better yet, it stacks, has no limit on the amount of times you can cast the same spell, and tends to be extremely potent. It may sound trivial, but being able to stack a 2+ save (assuming that their version of Mystic Shield didn't get nerfed) on a blob of Blood Warriors along with all the other buffs they can get can end up being quite intimidating.

So I have two Slaughterpriests, you're saying I should for sure run both in a standard game?

Khorne heroes are cheap and offer scary good buff synergy. Worst case scenario, you pay 120(?) points for a unit that pops off an undispellable Dd6 arcane bolt with no limit to the amount you can fire off.

I would run two in anything over 800 points.
Without Gore Pilgrims, they're not reliable, which I think makes that battalion too important, but what can you do. They can still deal mortal wounds at range, and their buffs are pretty important for any army list you come up with.

Plus their models are the best Khorne models ever released. Specially the one with the chain-hammer.

They got hit badly with a nerf bat in 2nd edition. Use them if you have he models but personally I wouldn't start a new army of them

Oh and this is not from a competitive perspective

Sumilidon wrote:
They got hit badly with a nerf bat in 2nd edition. Use them if you have he models but personally I wouldn't start a new army of them

Oh and this is not from a competitive perspective

So dont buy any more mortals eh? i got a small force of mortals and a big force of daemons, and luckily my daempns are cross-game.

Sumilidon wrote:
They got hit badly with a nerf bat in 2nd edition. Use them if you have he models but personally I wouldn't start a new army of them

Oh and this is not from a competitive perspective

How so? I see you edited your post. Did you give a reason why to your thinking? I am not saying you are wrong, but would be nice to see if others can agree with you or not. After all one person says yes they can be played and we have another saying no they can't. Can you give some examples as to why not?

I think the 'this is not from a competitive perspective' part is confusing as...obviously they can still be played.
Does he mean they won't be fun? Maybe.

We don't play competitively but the player that was running Darkling Coven had a hard time enjoying himself while the rest of us had a lot more synergy etc. with battletome armies.

Blades of Khorne really rely on the Bloodsecrator to work. Many believe that this is factored in to the points costs of most of our infantry. Bloodsecrators are now more expensive and...frankly not a lot of fun to use. Plant your stick...and thats your job.

Bloodletters are now more expensive. Skarr and Karnak have become obvious 'must haves'.

For me the big negative is that we have to choose between our summoning and our allegiance abilities, which no-one else has to do.

To the OP: it sounds like you have the army already more or less, you should just jump in.