3000 Daemons (8th)

I hadnt realised how badly plaguebearers get affected with the new rulles- the herald should be hidden in a deep dark hole, he'll not be needed again.

I think a lot of the daemon players up by me are looking at Lv4 horror units to cover their core requirement- lv4 means extra to cast but more importantly you get extra addiitons to all your dispel roles (and tzeentch magic is still awesome). I dont think the bloodthirster will be as effective as before.. instead I would prefer a keeper- set it up so the enemy is going to have trouble hitting him (torment blade, allure) and with the life sorcerer it should live forever... add into that its ability to force people to charge and you have an enormously powerful unit. They dont even need to make it into combat: if you have first turn then you can move up, force almost anything in the enemy deployment zone that isnt shielded to charge you and then if they dont make it you can charge them in return- a unit such as outriders can potentially charge 20-21", they are unlikely to but that doesnt matter... you've stopped them from shooting and will smash them next turn.

I think that daemonettes may well come to the fore with the new rules- higher numbers of attacks, addition of ASF and their speed will all do well: they'll be hitting most things on a 3+ with a reroll, and wounding on a 4+/5+ with huge numbers of attacks (and forcing people into charges or to hold against you is pretty mighty).
I cant see plaguebearers being used so much anymore, they are quite easy to kill without the regen and are very very slow (sure the charge is easier but you still have to get in a position to charge). The only benefit they get is the new fear rules, which help them more then the other core (except horrors) as they now have the chance to be hittingthe enemy on a 3+ while they gte hit on 5+... no auto-breaks but it is now every single turn of combat... gotta love that,

I would stick with units of 5 dogs- ranks is just way too expensive and they should be looking at killing outriders/warmachines anyway (although the new rules are a little iffy- only 2 beasts fight vs a warmachine at a time- fleshounds can still win though). If you do see an open flank go for it- you wont negate the rank bonus and the unit will be incredibly unlikely to break but you also will inflict casualities without much blowback... and fot the enemy to beat you they'll have to turn to face (hopefully letting one of your blocks get into their flank- but its not that easy: if they dogs die in the enemy turn when they have faced then that unit will get a free reform to face front again).


Daemons have the huge +ves that they always have saves and dont break... but the downside to them now is that they are too expensive to really have that many ranks and cant put out the very high number of attacks that'll be needed to totally wipe out teh enemy- I think a lot of their games may well turn into slow slug fests while you beat the opponent by a few wounds and they dont break- to win I think it might have to be the combo of a +3 rank block unit with BT/doggies in the side of the enemy... you'll need to do quite a few wounds to kill any excess ranks though (and having a unit large enough to keep +3 ranks after taking damage is very expensive).