As multi-model units of expensive, multi-wound Daemons, the ability to bring these models back makes the Great Unclean One a potentially insane threat, able to recur hundreds of points per game.
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That said, whether you actually need a chariot to help with hordes is going to depend a lot on your local meta.
You can only exalt each daemon once, and the stratagem lets you either pick from one of six powerful abilities or roll randomly for two at the start of the game. Notably has no restrictions on the type of KHORNE units it can be used on, which is just lovely.
Khorne dogs are a solid, but overpriced, harassment unit.
Gives you an additional power. This kind of forces an opponent to deal with him first, which takes a lot of firepower and ensures it isnât hitting your other units.Â.
Pick a friendly TZEENTCH DAEMON within 18â.
Thatâs OK though, since they can give you a nasty targeted punch and help make up for your armyâs lack of shooting, softening up targets on objectives before you move in. The look on your opponentâs face when you needed to roll a 13â charge and calmly spike it is incredible. Taken on its own, this all seems pretty good, but Be’lakor’s got three knocks against him: The first is that he can’t take a Warlord Trait from the Codex, which leaves him with the garbage one in the Core Rules.
can be quite deadly on a blog of 30 models. Focus on bringing buffing HQâs only when required (mainly to buff Tzeentch shooting) and invest your points in units like the Lord of Change or Beasts of Nurgle that shine without requiring specific Psychic buffs, and you can build an extremely strong Undivided list.Â.
These days only the Death Guard and Thousand Sons Daemon Princes are worth fielding, since they essentially stayed the same cost going from 8th to 9th.
3.) Iron Warriors Nurgle Obliterators with an effective -1 Armour Save will never not be hilarious, even if thatâs not a particularly effective tactic overall. This is too expensive to be something you use often, but the most fun way to use it is to have it bring back a 30+ point model in a squad of Beasts of Nurgle or Plague Drones.
Use at the start of your Psychic phase and pick a Tzeentch Daemon character from your army. On top of that 9th editionâs deployment rules are actively hostile to fortifications. The re-rolls are the old type that get messed up by modifiers, but unless youâre fighting Plaguebearers, that wonât matter most of the time in melee.
To maximize your Mortal Wound output, you can use Magical Boon to cast Infernal Gateway and Bolt of Change, following up with an additional Smite at +2 at the end of the Psychic Phase.Â. Thereâs arguments to be made for both, and itâs close enough that sometimes Iâm fine with shrugging and taking the 20 points saved by picking the Wrath variant. Flamers x5 [115]
This effect isnât strong enough at 21″, let alone 7.
This list relies on Nurglings to occupy objectives from the start of the game and while it uses the old points values for them – 18ppm instead of 22 – in order to make room for this, you essentially have to cut one of the 3-model squads of Nurglings, which isnât ideal but still leaves you with three units plus the Daemonettes to hold objectives.
M-96 Mattock (Assault Rifle) Powerful, Strong, and Precise. If Daemons want to hit at a distance, they typically need to do it with Psychic Powers or add in Chaos Space Marines. It's a great option for people who want to ⦠Pick the nearest visible enemy model within 12â.
This is a neat deterrent but itâs only going to matter in games against multiple psykers and even then it may not come into play given itâs only a 1 in 6 chance and the opponent will opt to re-roll whenever possible.
Goes off at the end of the Fight phase. Although thereâs only the two squads here, means itâs much more reasonable to swing for.
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The Best Weapons in Mass Effect 3 - Weapon guide. This is a pretty neat suite of bonuses. Mike P: Exalted Seeker Chariots do very little damage despite their 16 Attacks, but thatâs not their role in the current codex.
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Skills with 3 can get [0 to 3] additional Points.
That said, while these bonuses are nice, they are usually overpowered by the benefits of mixing and matching daemons of different gods, and so you seldom see them get used at the competitive level, with the exception of Slaanesh detachments, for reasons weâll discuss in a moment.
That unit takes a mortal wound for each 6 you roll.
Note that you’ll want to avoid using that re-roll until it’s already a do-or-die situation.
Generally, the value of Heralds is tied to the value of a factionâs Troops and how much you need them to get Strength buffs.Â. â Use this stratagem in any phase when a Bloodletter Chariot is chosen as the target of an attack.
Nurglings are too pricey to max out on these days, but 3-5 units are still an excellent way to gain early board control.
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The Scrivener shores up their lousy Movement and boosts their damage output significantly.
They do make good targets for Warp Surge, if youâre taking them. â Gives your Warlord +D3 Attacks on the charge. Pick a unit of Flesh Hounds in your army – that unit can charge even if it Advanced this turn and in addition, it gets +2 to its charge rolls if any enemy non-Vehicle models have been destroyed this turn.
Unfortunately, these tend to be pretty bad, in part because post-FAQ they can be denied by stratagems and abilities that can deny psychic powers, many of which do so on a 4+.
With 30-model Plaguebearer blobs no longer as viable after multiple points hikes, the Bilepiper is tougher to justify in lists.Â.
A great structure for an Undivided Daemons list would be along the lines of an Undivided Battalion that mixes Khorne/Nurgle/Tzeentch and a Slaanesh Patrol to bring in some Keepers and Fiends, A single Bloodletter bomb is a great tool even without any other Khorne buffing elements, as they are still deadly enough to require your opponent to expend resources screening them even unsupported.
Itâs OK on a smaller character or Daemon Prince, but near-meaningless on a Great Unclean One, where even with the extra boost from Disgustingly Resilient, adding 1 wound onto 18 doesnât do all that much for you.
If youâre going to make a Keeper your Warlord with. Roll a D6 for every non-Nurgle unit within 7″ of the psyker. â Used at the start of the battle to upgrade a Daemonic Icon to a Rapturous Standard. The Nurgle stratagems tend to favor making your units harder to kill.
got completely hosed by the PL updates, and are 5 PL base, and 10/15 as the unit increases in size.
Until the end of the phase, when you make an attack with a model in that unit, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically hits and wounds the target (no roll required).
This might have been vaguely useful in the days before Combat Doctrines, but now there’s so much AP-1 and AP-2 shooting out there that you’ll be taking your 5+ invulnerable save all the time anyways. That said, if youâre taking several of these it may behoove you to pick Revoltingly Resilient on one and roll for the rest.
Most great soup lists incorporate the Exalted Lord of Change as their warlord, liberally use Beasts of Nurgle and Nurglings to clog up the middle of the table, add Daemonettes and Keepers of Secrets for a deadly swift punch, and use Noise Marines or Chaos Terminators as ranged support or add in Thousand Sons sorcerers for extra psychic power.Â.
Kairos gives you an extra D3 Command Points if he’s your warlord, but Tyrant in the Warp is a bad enough trait that you’re likely better off making something else your warlord. You can choose one of the following upgrades during army construction or roll for two before the battle begins, re-rolling if you get duplicates: This is a great list of Exalted traits.
That said, itâs never gonna be your first pick over the Impossible Robe and preventing the wounds from being lost in the first place is a much better strategy than potentially regaining them. It is also affected by Wound modifiers like.
Unfortunately Rotigus shares the same problem as the other named greater daemons in that he canât be exalted and his abilities arenât good enough to make him worth taking over an exalted Great Unclean One.
This is a pretty strong attack, and being able to toss out 3-4 mortal wounds per Shooting phase is very solid. That said, itâs still brutally tough to chew through and youâll do just fine in more casual games running one.Â, Bloodletters on Juggernauts. Bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin with the later books in the series, A Court of Frost and Starlight explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends. This is super relevant both for buffing the shooting attack on Horrors and Flamers, where both have attacks that hit at Strength: User and benefit tremendously from a +1 bump.
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This is one of the quintessential Chaos Daemon stratagems, used to put powerful units such as Bloodletter Bombs into deep strike so they can show up, activate their banner of blood, and charge the enemy immediately.
The only unaligned named HQ in Codex: Chaos Daemons, Be’lakor is basically a unique Daemon Prince who comes with a very, very good sword (S+1, AP-5, 3 Damage), Wings and a 14″ movement, 6 Attacks, and the ability to cast two powers per phase (though the powers he knows come from a stripped-down version of the Dark Hereticus discipline), plus an aura that gives re-rolls on hit rolls of 1 to all friendly Daemons within 6″. Unfortunately the new changes to Disgustingly Resilient for Death Guard means that this will lose a lot of synergy since itâll no longer work on the likes of Plagueburst Crawlers and Death Guard Daemon Princes. This drop from 17 makes Bloodthirsters much, much easier to summon, though youâll now face the challenge of getting off a successful charge with them the turn they arrive. Re-roll failed morale tests for friendly Tzeentch Daemon units within 9″. Nurglings [2 PL, 54pts], 3x Nurgling Swarms: 3x Diseased claws and teeth
The favorite weapon type in the Mass Effect franchise, the assault rifle is a versatile weapon that is effective in close-range and long-range combat. At 12W and T5 with a 12â Movement for a mere 80 points, they are the rare Slaanesh unit that can hold an objective or rush up to move block without being blown away immediately.
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All three have the. This list, which Nathan took to a 9th place list at the Objective Secured GT in Perth in February, is pretty much a prototypical Undivided Daemons list, running a Slaanesh Patrol alongside an Undivided Daemons detachment as a way to have both best-in-breed daemons from the faction and the Locus bonuses that Slaanesh Daemons depend on. On the durability side, Daemonettes donât have many ways to get tougher, but you can protect them from shooting by keeping them locked in combat. This is just kind of whatever.
Flesh Hounds got an additional boost from Engine Warâs The Scent of Blood Stratagem, which lets a unit of Flesh Hounds charge even if it Advanced this turn and you get +2 to the charge if any enemy models have been destroyed this turn, was something they really needed to improve their threat range. Mamonâs a bargain at 130 points and has seen success in competitive play giving Nurgle daemons re-rolls to hit.
One of the main benefits he brings to mono-Daemons armies is a second targeted Smite in the form of Infernal Gaze.
The problem is that if the unit has more than 3W worth of models your chances of actually living this dream are pretty small. Blessing Of The Dark Prince is my main preference because it makes the main counter to invulns (and danger in Overwatch), high volumes of mid-strength firepower, half as effective if they go from 5+ to 6+ to Wound. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insiders view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism. These disciplines are pretty good, and each one has some good powers worth using. That said theyâll do well enough without the extra support, and their having a 12â movement characteristic and FLY means they can travel across the board quickly.
Nurgle. Instead of moving, any CHAOS CHARACTER can attempt to summon a unit of Daemons at the end of the Movement phase by choosing one of the four Chaos Gods (if you have an Allegiance or Mark you can’t choose a God you don’t have allegiance to), and rolling up to three D6.
The extra wound they picked up combined with some points drops has made them ever more tantalizing but never good enough to see the table. Taking more than one is probably throwing away points though, and they arenât important enough targets to need redundancy. This also requires you not take the Sinistrous Hand or Aegis, which is another downside. C-.
Theyâre best-in-breed units, and combine with the Terminators to mean that this listâs victims are going to have nowhere to hide on the table, forcing a confrontation many will lose.
This means that a squad of 20 costs 2 CP to put into reserves with Denizens or to outflank with Strategic Reserves, so youâll still end up using Denizens to get them anywhere deep on the table, which doesnât keep upscaling on cost.
Unfortunately, it no longer combines with. Remember that death due to Perils causes wounds to nearby units, making this a somewhat rare but fun treat to use when it goes off, and that the very least having it in your back pocket means that your opponent will almost always have to spend a CP to try and avoid a perils.
In a mono-Slaanesh army, their biggest advantage is their Locus of Slaanesh aura, which gives +1 Strength to SLAANESH DAEMONS within 6â, a benefit that is particularly strong on Chaos Space Marines units that share the DAEMON keyword and can really use the extra strength, such as Warp Talons and Possessed.
Youâll only be able to use Frenetic Bloodlust once per game, if ever, so you want to make sure itâs in a perfect situation to generate a Victory Point swing.
is a massive great unclean one that can actually do some real damage in melee.
Pink Horrors x9, Incandescent Horror [80], Exalted Flamer [60] It is the final game in the Mass Effect trilogy. Note that this no longer causes AIRCRAFT to crash – they just make a Normal Move to get away; they donât have to Fall Back. This is a great way to protect a Skull Cannon or Blood Throne, with the only downside being that youâre unlikely to be running these units. When a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll a D6 and on a 5+, that wound isn’t lost. Seein' Dead
Nurgle only gets 3 base relics, because the followers of Nurgle can’t have nice things.
On their own merits, theyâre decent fighters, with 4 Attacks at S5, AP-1, 2 Damage that can be AP-4 on wound rolls of 6+.
Locket of Iron Solari The recipe to get the item is by merging Needlessly Large Rod and Chain Vest. Kairos is better at casting than the Lord of Change, with the ability to cast 3 and deny three powers each psychic phase (and he knows all of the Tzeentch powers), and a better fighter, since he doesn’t need a Rod of Sorcery to get his cast bonus and the Staff of Tomorrow has a better profile than the Staff of Tzeentch.
The poor Bloodthirster hasnât quite gotten there, but has shown up in lists that have been successful at the RTT level.
Nurglings [4 PL, 72pts], 4x Nurgling Swarms: 4x Diseased claws and teeth Flamers are interesting, durable units that can cover large distances and belt out significant amounts of very respectable AP-1 shooting. This is an adaptation of a famous Rudyard Kipling story, which explains how the elephant got its trunk. The story is set in Africa, when the world was new and elephants did not have trunks.
The downside is that Daemonettes are only 3 Strength, and so they benefit greatly from having a Herald around to get them to 4, which is where SyllâEsske or the Contorted Epitome can be a great help.
Now theyâve been eclipsed by the greater daemons as HQ choices. New to Mass Effect 3, however, is that disabling the Cloak before it wears off will reduce the cooldown of your powers, allowing the cloak to be turned on and off more frequently.
Like other Legendary Class Mods, the Seein' Dead can boost each skill with up to 1, 3, or 5 additional Points. Faster and tougher than Bloodletters, but neither fast enough nor tough enough to be a build-around unit. In part because you usually already know what units you want to play, and in part because you rarely want to give up a character’s movement phase in order to summon. The Goonhammer Open USA – Tickets on Sale now! The favorite weapon type in the Mass Effect franchise, the assault rifle is a versatile weapon that is effective in close-range and long-range combat. You can summon more in once the game starts!Â, In a Battle-forged army, if a Chaos Daemons Detachment consists only of units with the same.
Psychic Powers: These almost always want the Miasma of Pestilence power to make nearby units even harder to kill.
Iâll be sharing the best Talents to prioritize, what it means to choose the Shock Trooper Specialization for your Vanguard, the optimal Weapons, Armor, and Mods to equip, and the ⦠You should rarely be using this for additional damage, instead looking for opportunities to use a second activation to move more Bloodletters onto objectives or into better screening/wrapping positions.
For each 3+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
Skills with an original maximum of 5 can get [0 to 5] additional Points.
Insensate Rage, Wrath of Khorne, or Unfettered Fury?
Itâs true that the Rage Bloodthirster has a sweep attack, but the Wrath of Khorne has 1 + d6 additional attacks from shooting which isnât too far off.
went up from 10 PL to 11, making it a bit less likely youâll summon one on a standard roll of 3D6.
Any Death Guard player will tell you this is very useful.
Other abilities such as auras and unit abilities affect Daemons from other books, though.
B; Frenetic Bloodlust (3 CP) â The Khorne âFight againâ stratagem.
– Played when a non-named Character DAEMON unit is destroyed by a GREY KNIGHTS unit. Plaguebearers [12 PL, 295pts]: Daemonic Icon, Instrument of Chaos, Plagueridden, 29x Plaguebearer: 29x Plaguesword Replaces a Witstealer sword or Hellforged sword with one thatâs S+1, AP-3, 3 Damage and each time you kill a model, you regain a lost wound, plus you re-roll failed wounds against AELDARI units. This is OK.
Thereâs arguments to be made for both, and itâs close enough that sometimes Iâm fine with shrugging and taking the 20 points saved by picking the Wrath variant.
The three Chaos Marine factions each bring different things to the table: Chaos Space Marines proper add ranged attacks and durable midfield objective holders in the form of Noise Marines, Obliterators, and Terminators, and can have synergy with Chaos Daemons through their own Daemon units, notably Obliterators and Daemon Engines.
Taking more than one is probably throwing away points though, and they arenât important enough targets to need redundancy.
The Shield is probably the best pick and the one most commonly seen in competitive lists, but all the options are honestly great besides the Knife.Â, The special character Bloodthirster.
The ability is OK but there are better things to spend your relic slot/CP on.
Engine War was also a huge boon for them, adding the Acidic Slobber Stratagem to boost their damage output.Â.
The bonus Points depend on the Skill's maximum points.
But the main issue is that the Rage Thirster has a horrifying degradation table, losing WS in addition to lost Attacks which is⦠not ideal when youâre an expensive melee unit. Mass Effect Stratagem, which causes 1 mortal wound on a target each time they roll an unmodified 6 to wound (so tragically these donât stack).
â Slaanesh. In Matched play you have to pay the points for these units, but they can be chosen when you summon them and they don’t break anything about your detachment’s rules.
When an enemy psyker suffers a perils, they take another 1D3 mortal wounds.
Units with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.
This is a very powerful effect, but with few ways to modify the Ld roll, it can be difficult to make this work, even after youâve cast it. Note that you can stack this with the stratagem Aura of Acquiescence to to give enemies -2 Attacks, which can completely neuter the output of units like Bloody Rose Repentia that might otherwise cut down your Keepers of Secrets with ease.
In part because you usually already know what units you want to play, and in part because you rarely want to give up a character’s movement phase in order to summon.
The combination of a larger Heroic Range + fight first is huge, and this ability essentially lets you treat the Fight phase like a kind of second Movement phase. And with the changes to Abhor the Witch, you wonât be feeling the pain of taking 3+ psykers per game quite so severely. This is wonderful for protecting your greater daemons both from firepower on the approach and while in combat, improving their longevity significantly. Theyâre individually expensive and youâll find theyâre pretty fragile once they start getting attacked, so using Fiends well requires a lot of planning and careful movement, even after you get them into combat – youâll want to limit their exposure as long as possible.
Goes off at the end of the Fight phase. This is a great way to protect your units in combat against units of marine sporting a crapload of attacks, and because itâs a 3â aura, itâs can really help make large squads of Daemonettes and Seekers work, allowing them to both protect their fragile bodies and also spread out and protect other units by giving their combat opponents an extra -1 Attack. Mike P: Flames of Mutation and Warp Jaws really help Flamers and Screamers hit harder than people expect. Because of the armyâs mobility and the ability to put units into the warp/deep strike with the Denizens of the Warp Stratagem, Daemons can cover large parts of the table pretty easily, and so Engage on All Fronts is an extremely solid pick for the army.
"Previously published as: Arms and the dudes." Mass Effect 3 The poor Bloodthirster hasnât quite gotten there, but has shown up in lists that have been successful at the RTT level.
Though at 230 points, youâre certainly paying for those benefits.
The first time that unit attempts to manifest a psychic power this phase, donât roll any dice for the test, instead assume a 9 was rolled for the test.
The traditional tactic for Bloodletters is the Bloodletter Bomb: Take a unit of 20, give them a, for 1 CP and an Instrument, then stick them into Reserves with. Then Symphony of Pain, Phantasmagoria, and Pavane of Slaanesh are all solid choices.
Stratagem means they can even put a hurt on T8 targets. This is just OK. Itâs a neat bonus for large units of Plaguebearers, but it doesnât combo with.
is now PL 14, making them substantially easier to summon, while Kairos Fateweaver dropped by 5, making it possible to summon him now on 3D6 with no modifiers.
Youâll only be able to use Frenetic Bloodlust once per game, if ever, so you want to make sure itâs in a perfect situation to generate a Victory Point swing.
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went up to 13 PL, making them a little more difficult to summon. Bigger and tougher, but itâs only got 6â Movement. The Crystal Tome is relevant often in a world where Marines are often relying on a Bike Chaplain with Rites of War to provide ObSec and reroll auras in the midfield, but it has too many matchups where it wonât have an effect.
Mike P: Beâlakor is one slight points drop away from being very good. This power is incredibly good, giving you a free additional Fight phase that occurs before the Charge phase, allowing you to clear your way for another charge or just get in an extra round of damage before your opponent has a chance to hit you again.
Oh, and also the Changeling is a psyker that can cast/deny one power. Going all in on hordes of Bloodletters with a Herald and Crimson Crown buffs is a decent list for semi-competitive play, but just has too many hard counter matchups to get really excited about.
Roll a D6 every time the bearer kills an enemy in the Fight phase within 7″ of a friendly unit of Plaguebearers. These bonuses are all pretty decent, but still disparate enough that you wonât want to use this most of the time. This is your go-to pick for the Lord of Change in a competitive list.
Lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home. Taking Daemons as part of Chaos soup is typically about mixing the best units of the Daemons faction with the best parts of the other Chaos factions and taking advantage of 8th edition rules synergies that work across factions thanks to HERETIC ASTARTES units having the DAEMON keyword (though these synergiesâ days are likely numbered). As AP continues to increase across the game, their lack of armour save and reliance on 5++ (or better) invulns has continued to shift from a weakness to a strength.Â.
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Most of the time this will mean mixing Daemons with Chaos Space Marines and Thousand Sons, though there are some opportunities for mixing them with Death Guard and Chaos Knights as well.
Screamers x5 [130] Daemons have very little shooting, and while they have a few longer-ranged options, most of their shooting attacks are short-ranged.
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