Saturday, June 4, 2011

2k Daemon List - Hit-n-Run Specialists of DOOM!!!!!!

So this is a bit of a random and for fun post. Got a little bored at work and was thinking about how important movement and speed are in 40k. This in turn got me thinking again of an idea I tossed around a few months ago but haven’t gone through with yet due to the sheer amount of conversion work I’d have to do.
Herald of Slaanesh(50)-80
Chariot(15), Sporific Musk(15)

Herald of Slaanesh(50)-80
Chariot(15), Sporific Musk(15)

Herald of Slaanesh(50)-80
Chariot(15), Sporific Musk(15)

Herald of Slaanesh(50)-80
Chariot(15), Sporific Musk(15)

6 Fiends of Slaanesh-180

6 Fiends of Slaanesh-180

6 Fiends of Slaanesh-180

5 Horrors(85)-95
Bolt

5 Horrors(85)-95
Bolt

5 Horrors(85)-95
Bolt

5 Plague Bearers-75

8 Screamers-128

8 Screamers-128

Daemon Prince(80)-170
Slaanesh(10), Sporific Musk(20), Iron Hide(30), Pavane(30)

Daemon Prince(80)-170
Slaanesh(10), Sporific Musk(20), Iron Hide(30), Pavane(30)

Daemon Prince(80)-170
Slaanesh(10), Sporific Musk(20), Iron Hide(30), Pavane(30)

1,986 Total

So there is a tiny amount of room to play with and I’d suggest grenades on the Princes personally but I think this looks like a blast. Granted only 3 ranged anti-tank weapons but you have 10 units that can hit-n-run giving you an enourmous mobility advantage over almost everyone. Granted your gonna take hits on the drop but the entire army gives you the ability to pretty much land at distance and then move in, making it more viable against a certain silvered codex that just came out. The speed also allows for concentration of forces as needed which is a big thing I took away from using Raveners recently with my Tyranids.

Just something fun that I wanted to put pen to paper on. Thoughts?

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Personally, I've never seen Slaanesh Heralds to be that good. To me they're just a more expensive version of a fiend. A fiend has 1 more attack, +2 strength, and +1 toughness, and in return you have WS5 and initiative 7.
But seeing how there's 4 of them, if they were all in 1 squad, that could be very interesting, to see them in action. This would definitely be a very fun list to play, but it's not all that competitive.
Brad, you're not seriously thinking about playing daemons again? I mean, before they get a new codex so you can bandwagon onto them?
I'll have you know that I'm always only one to two steps away from playing Daemons. They are just some pretty huge steps being that one is converting & painting up the new stuff I'd need to match my others and the other being whether TO's would find it an acceptable counts-as. Besides, they're fun!

Oh and speaking of Bandwagons are you ready for us both to be playing Necrons once they actually have some flavor and personality? :)
STAY AWAY FROM MY NECRONS or I shall taunt you a second time!
Sigh, i swear i come here to watch you two take the piss out of each other. Come for the fun, stay for the win.
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whitedragon · 721 weeks ago

Brad, I feel like this is similar to the list I wanted to run, except I was running a more Monstrous Creature oriented Mono-Slaanesh list!

KoS
KoS
6x Fiends
6x Fiends
12x Demonettes
12x Demonettes
6x Seekers
3x Flying Musk Prince
Mono-God is FAIL...hehe, not really but it does seem like fun. I'd look into dropping the seekers and making 5 squads of 5 Fiends but otherwise it looks like fun!
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whitedragon · 721 weeks ago

The only reason the seekers are there is because the Flying Princes are so many points! I just like the monstrous creatures, but I may drop one prince for 6 fiends, I don't know.

And I can only play mono-god because I'm old school like that ;-)

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