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Hello there,

I have been working on a 2000 points list for some time now, and now that I almost have all of the models assembled and painted I am having some trouble deciding on a few things. I was hoping you folks could lend your opinions.

The basic list:

3x Daemon Princes with Wings
2 have double Talons, one has Sword + Plague Spitter/Spewer/Launcher/shooter/pooper/whatever
The one with the sword and gun is the Warlord, with Arch-Contaminator and Fugaris Helm. I wlll probably put Suppurating Plate on one of the melee DPs.

3x Plagueburst Crawlers with Spitters
2x Leviathan Dreadnoughts, each with a Siege Drill and Butcher Cannon Array

3x Foul Blightspawn
3x 3 Nurglings

Basically, the general idea is to run mass 8 Toughness units, reroll lots of wounds from the PBC's plaguespitters, and just slay everything. I'm not afraid to charge things with PBCs to soak overwatch and then send in DPs and Levis to tear them apart. I feel like I have a lot of Anti-Armor and Horde-clearing potential. I'm hoping to be able to use the PBCs' and Blightspawns' auto hit vs Eldar flyers as well as units trying to charge me, and really there doesn't seem to be a lot that these particular units won't demolish if you're average on your dice rolls.

So, I have went back and forth with changes for this list for an ITC tournament, and I'm trying to decide what I like best.

Where your input comes in:

Ideally, I'd like to fit in an additional 3x3 Nurglings, for a second Batallion. This isn't a very CP-hungry list, though I certainly wouldn't let them go to waste, I primarily just want more troops for screening and objectives and I think having them is probably a big deal. To do this, I'd also need another HQ, for that I want to run Poxbringer to give my PBCs +1 strength - 8 STR Plaguespitters are great for killing tanks and everything else really. One drawback to having 2 Batallions would be losing the Spearhead detachment; which is only a problem because my Nurgling troops will break my Death Guard detachment and deprive my Leviathans of Inexorable Advance - though they're still awesome so this may be Ok. I could also save the points on the Poxbringer and just add more Nurglings to my existing Batallion.

Having said all that, the question, as always, is: What do I cut? I'm not sure if I value the PBCs more, because of how tough they are, or the Blightspawn because of how lucky rolls = deleted units. I could also go down a DP or Two and run cheaper HQs, though it wouldn't save me a lot of points and I'd still have to drop some PBCs and/or Blightspawn. 3x3 Nurglings + Poxbringer is about 250 points, to free up enough points I'd have to lose all 3 of my Blightspawn or 2 of my PBCs - basically, I really love these units, but I love my Levis more and they're probably also just better so they aren't going to be cut and damn it I have to cut something . In the end, I'm not even sure that I should make room for more Nurglings - but it seems like I probably should, 3 units just doesn't seem like enough screening.

So... Is the list good as is, or should I fit in the extra Batallion; if I should, what do I cut? The meta for the last tournament I played at this LGS had one each of Eldar Fliers (2nd place), Custodes Jet Bikes (which won), Tau suits, 5x Knights, 1 Knight + Admech, and then some more random lists (1k Sons with Magnus, Dark Angels Ravenwing, other 'fun' lists).