Well had an opportunity to try out the new Daemon Army and it confirmed my suspicion that it just didn't feel right. Fundamentally it felt beardy to choose the separate Chaos God forces in one army, when you have a themed army then you know you get some pretty rubbish troops sometimes but they possibly have a really strong theme that makes up for this. So if you had a Nurgle army then you might take Nurglings even though they are a bit of a waste of space to boost the theme element.
The battle was a straight forward pitched battle with 2000 points, which to be honest is the way that we normally play, against a new Vampire Counts army. For a General I went with a Great Unclean One, and then a herald of Tzeentch amongst some pink horrors and a Herald of Slannesh on a Chariot. Slannesh Demonettes, Plaguebearers, pink horrors, Fiend of Slannesh, chaos furies, and Screamers made up my force.
Things started off okay, and probably got too cocky but in essence the battle dissolved into a slog fest in the middle, which gradually sucked in more and more troops. With neither side running but losing men to instability then it was attritional. I lost my Great Unclean One on the last turn and that handed a Narrow Victory to the Undead. A major problem was that I had failed to realise that the Wight King was also the Battle Standard Bearer, it was a very ethereal banner and not visible in the real world, and I should have tried to take it out earlier.
The other major point was I should have tried to take out the skeleton unit and not allowed any rebuilds since I never managed to defeat the unit. It was a good game but slightly frustrating since we had had to take units from our Slannesh, Nurgle and Tzeenth armies to make the force, and Games Workshop has written three characterful armies that we have spent along time building up out of the game. In my opinion an all Daemon army did not offer enough to warrant this.
The battle was a straight forward pitched battle with 2000 points, which to be honest is the way that we normally play, against a new Vampire Counts army. For a General I went with a Great Unclean One, and then a herald of Tzeentch amongst some pink horrors and a Herald of Slannesh on a Chariot. Slannesh Demonettes, Plaguebearers, pink horrors, Fiend of Slannesh, chaos furies, and Screamers made up my force.
Things started off okay, and probably got too cocky but in essence the battle dissolved into a slog fest in the middle, which gradually sucked in more and more troops. With neither side running but losing men to instability then it was attritional. I lost my Great Unclean One on the last turn and that handed a Narrow Victory to the Undead. A major problem was that I had failed to realise that the Wight King was also the Battle Standard Bearer, it was a very ethereal banner and not visible in the real world, and I should have tried to take it out earlier.
The other major point was I should have tried to take out the skeleton unit and not allowed any rebuilds since I never managed to defeat the unit. It was a good game but slightly frustrating since we had had to take units from our Slannesh, Nurgle and Tzeenth armies to make the force, and Games Workshop has written three characterful armies that we have spent along time building up out of the game. In my opinion an all Daemon army did not offer enough to warrant this.
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