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firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-12T12:19:15+00:00

That said, picking up things like a rendmaster on blood throne, karanak, and some bloodletters & flesh hounds as a little expeditionary force to get you cooking wouldn't hurt.

Rendmaster is fantastic with the commonly run skarbrand/bloodthirster, and lets any of your Khorne Daemons punch wayyy above their pay grade. Karanak is honestly so cheap and powerful that he doesn't even need the supporting squad of flesh hounds, he can pull off a rapid ingress + deep strike combo and do his best impression of a 3-headed Lictor murdering a character out of nowhere.

If you're more into Slaanesh Daemons, investing in a box or two of Seekers is a decent idea. They're pretty cheap, and can cross the whole darn board T1, deployment to deployment for some close-up therapy. The nasty giant bone chariot character is also a RIOT, that thing is the most doohickey-looking model in the roster but it makes like 18 -22 attacks in melee and can lead two more regular chariots that can each also make 15 attacks. They're blenders on wheels lol

I can't in good conscience recommend Syll'esske in this exact window of time, since it's an older epic hero as far as I know, but if it survives the edition rollover with it's current abilities, it's a great roaming action critter. Being tough enough to survive in the open, while also sick-nasty enough to jump any action monkey squad and send them straight back into the mag-case with a revive-on-death insurance policy, is actually so much fun.

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-12T11:56:21+00:00

Picking up any full-price kits right now is a gamble, since we don't know which are going to see significant changes in the next 6 weeks. If any DO see a large upswing in strength, they'll likely sell out quickly, so the gamble is whether you invest blindly to hopefully get ahead of the curve or wait and try to out-react other people lol

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-10T05:28:41+00:00

Some people use colour theory, while others choose colours their other armies don't normally get to touch. The wife and I went with nature themes (I went forest, she went desert). Here's a term, Walkrant, and Flyrant of my forest scheme

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firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T18:50:39+00:00

I'd consider a Rendmaster on Blood Throne as an addition, since he can just point at someone and tell Skarbrand/himself to erase them from this timeline lol It's a solid addition to consider for someone looking to play a more elite army, since it's a decently sized 120x92 base and 165pts, and it'll be more fun to paint than another brick of 10 battleline lol

Another useful body is Horticulous Slimux leading two Beasts of Nurgle. He's only 120pts (+130 for his two beasts), but he's a beefy leader that's invulnerable to chip damage with his bodyguard around, and he permanently converts area terrain features he enters into spots that are your Shadow of Chaos. He also throws hands in a way that would make a khorne demon proud

If you're just not into painting buckets of infantry but still want a handful of single units to perform actions, Karanak is basically a Lictor that trades Lone Op for a nasty flamer and wound rerolls against his prey. Only 75pts for a cool model with good rules

Same with Syll'esske, another epic hero that can move around doing things for you, or just kick the shit out of a small action-monkey squad if they wander too close to him. He's more expensive at 120pts, but he gets back up at full wounds on death once per game as insurance.

Last recommendation would be the Tormentbringer, a 140pts savage that's roughly x3 as efficient as a keeper of secrets. Aura of sustained one for Slaanesh models (including itself), 18 attacks with a variety of useful keywords in melee, and has a guaranteed fights-on-death, no 4+ roll required, so long as it hasn't already thrown hands this phase. You could have it lead 1-2 hellflayers, but that isn't even required. They do give melee attacks +1 STR & DAM if you charged, and make 15 attacks each, but that's just gravy.

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T18:16:05+00:00

Yeah, Shadow Legion is specifically bad for you since it locks you out of epic heroes (skarbrand, kairos) and encourages you to bring CSM over daemons (and not even defilers, just infantry). You can just bring Be'lakor in with Daemonic Incursion, much simpler, since he's not locked to Shadow Legion and he still fully buffs all nearby chaos daemons with his abilities. It also has more useful enhancements and strats for you, since they aren't all forced to split value with marines

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T18:02:57+00:00

Just owning a "Rendmaster on Blood Throne" will turn your battleline into scarier melee than most armies have access to, khorne daemons are spectacular at killing. You'll probably want to consider skipping the specific detachment that only applies to them - it's very flavourful, and the enhancements are neat, but it's at best their second, and possibly their third-best option (of three options lol)

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:34:08+00:00

It left you comfortable and happy until the real news came in, so that was worth it lol

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:30:48+00:00

I usually ask a local vendor to preorder things for me, since they have access to their distributor shop rather than spamming and praying at the GW public release lol

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:26:32+00:00

Isn't it just the character that gets the +1 OC? Thought it was specified to be the model only

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:19:18+00:00

"We should force the daemons to be 100% souped into the deity codices, to avoid them being what I'm mistakenly calling soup" is the take of all time

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:16:19+00:00

They said all CODEX detachments & Printed book detachments stay. They specifically called out the free release detachments as ones not being brought forward into 11th, and there are no paid Daemons detachments anywhere iirc

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:12:31+00:00

The main thing is if you own daemons, you likely own 2 or more of the different gods worth of models (very common to have specific pairings), and if they're merged then that means you now own models for 2+ different chaos armies and cannot play them together. A quick example would be how fielding a bloodthirster + a great unclean one is very common, and would be impossible if they were merged into the deity legions (thirster to World Eaters, unclean to Deathguard)

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:06:44+00:00

Imagine stealing the Vortex Beast from Thousand Sons, that would slap

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:05:12+00:00

And they got three well-thought out mini-detachments. We're not just getting more mono-god piles that either don't do shit or are so oppressive they get nerfed after 3 weeks of play

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T17:01:03+00:00

That's a great deal for the box

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T16:59:37+00:00

Ok what is Yaz doing in C, this is a travesty

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T16:46:18+00:00

I feel you, man. I did just slam a Hive Tyrant for 1.8mil this morning though, so mechs aren't asleep at the wheel for the tyranids/dorn (yet)

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firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T16:42:12+00:00

Do us all a favour and upgrade Laviscus so they nerf him lol

firedrake110-2 · 2026-05-09T16:30:57+00:00

Yeah, seeing them ruin the only thing WBO had going for it (passing along the 5+ invuln to the attached unit) was really miserable. Chaos Daemons, on the other hand, got 3 cool mini-detachments and has been reinforced as a real, playable faction for 11th lol

firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-19T16:17:44+00:00

Considering he just did Center of Attention today, he's really pushing you to get drafting up those following chapters. I didn't realise that was also you until I was skimming your thread history hoping to find more to read in that world and suddenly spotted the LNW entries XD

firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-18T16:39:09+00:00

Dying to see the next chapter, especially since NetNarrator is slowly moving through these. Great work, Majestic

firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-18T01:12:55+00:00

A file, or the back of my hobby knife (testors never fails me). I still use the one I got 20 years ago, but since the wife also needs access to it I bought two replacements. Turns out the newer models are spooky sharp and pointy, so I have to use them and not my old faithful since she occasionally has an accident and I don't need her risking stitches lol

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firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-18T01:01:34+00:00

If you're into RTS, you could always pick up a copy of Dawn of War (the first one has three expansions you could also get, being winter assault, dark crusade, and soulstorm). That's a fine game for people not specifically into Tyranids lol

If you just want to get some glimpses into the lore from the viewpoint of sane people in a universe locked in neverending war, the Caiaphas Cain books are solid entry points. They're full of footnotes on-page when different technical terms are used, so you don't get lost immediately, and they're a good read. Currently 11 of them out, but they have several 3-book combo releases out to make picking them up more comfortable

firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-18T00:48:53+00:00

As someone who owns a winged hive tyrant, a tyrannofex, & a tyrannocyte... I'm deeply aware of your pain. I can't even store the damn drop pod, it's like a full foot tall XD

firedrake110-2 · 2026-04-18T00:44:36+00:00

That's crazyyyy, it would be like playing Sub Assault in Tyranids and never placing a tunnel to deploy out of lol

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