1500 against new deamons codex

first game against the new deamon codex and i had no idea of what to expect as i haven't even had a look.
the lists;
Dark Eldar
Archon, HB,SF,PGL
Hemo X2
6 incubi, bloodstone,klaivex,demi klaives.
raider,ff
10 kw,sc
raider, NS,FF
10 KW,SC
5 wyches HWG
Venom,sc
5 TB, X4 blasters
Venom,SC,NS
Ravager,NS,FF
Ravager,NS,FF Dissie
razorwing

the deamons (roughly cos i cant remember everything)
great unclean 1
soul grinder
plague bearers and herald
horrors and herald
bloodletters (deepstriking)
screemers (deepstriking)
nurglings
nurgle cav/jump packs.

game set up.
DE 1st turn
no night fight
warlord trait, DE,reroll reserves. Deamons,-1LD on fear tests!
relic
dawn of war
no steal


i set up on the left flank with the ruins on the left BLoS to the ravagers, the blaster venom right on the line, hoping for something directly opposite, KW set up in a dilapidated bunker and tower, venoms giving cover to raiders. the soul grinder set up exactly opposite the blasters was a gift.


a poor round of shooting from the blasters and the lance ravager just 1 glance (oh dear). the dissie rav, lined up the new cav on the left dissintergrating the 1st one. (focused fire as they have shrouded and 2 where behind cover) opened up with a venom and caused 2 more wounds. both raiders and both SC from the KW squads fire at the plague bearers killing 2 (huh)


everything ambled forward except the fleeting ! nurgle cav. the new pre shooting table in the deamon book did nothing of note. the horrors tried to target the blaster born but NS kept us out of range. the soul grinder opened up......bounced off the FF. the Cav assaulted the Blaster born boat (overwatch kills 1) and again failed to even scratch the paint work.


silent kiss enters the fray and targets the horrors, scatter means i get more plague bearers then horrors from the Missiles. the incubi and archon get out and line up the last cav model, everything shuffles, the soul grinder gets it from the ravager, the blaster born take a wound off the great unclean 1. all other fire is in effective against the shrouded nurgle stuff. assault see the klaivex cause 1 wound and then die.


the gods are with me and both deepstriking units fail to arrive. the plague bearers go for the relic everything else rumbles forward. the incubi and archon are cursed, -1T and -1S, i get 1 6 to wound in the challenge and the save is made another draw.


silent kiss wipes the horrors, everything else targets the unclean 1 til it dies then moves onto the nurglings removing a base and 2 wounds. assault draws again


the blood letters arrive and hit exactly and spread out. the warp storm destroys a raider and the explosion kills 7 KW, the plaguebearers pick up the relic, the nurglings cant do anything so stay in cover. assault sees the SF expire!

EDIT; the archon should have been instant death here as he was cursed again -1 T and S and took a str 5 wound.


silent kiss moves onto the bloodletters, everything spreads out around them and the wyches get out ready to assault. shooting kills 3 bloodletters! he made soooo many saves. 1 more base of nurglings is removed and the plague bearer carrying the relic dies.


the sceemers arrive and Blade vine!!! the raider causing 3 glances 2 bounce off the flicker field. the warp storm (double 1) kills all the plague bearers and 1 wound on the nurglings. the archon fails again and takes a wound. the wyches kill 4 bloodletters and 3 die in return.


silent kiss flies off to re arm, everything shuffles. all but 1 sceemer dies under weight of fire, the nurgle herald goes down under SC fire. the wyches wipe the bloodletters and lose 1 in return. the archon wiffs again and manages to save 1 wound and then saved the second with FNP.


the screemer runs in to steal line breaker, the archon (yes you guessed it wiffs again) fails, 1 wound to save which saves.

the high toughness of the nurgle cav are not a problem to us except a S2/3 archon lol. i should have just shot it but i was greedy for a pain token. when both deep stricking units failed to arrive i thought i might have been able to table him but his saves were amazing.

Nice report, chuckled a little at the archon for fighting almost the entire game that single cav unit
While that could be a little unlucky, its quite lucky that almost all of your vehicles survived!
Also, who are those "Soreens" who stayed at the back? Kabalite warriors?

yeah 10 man squad with a splinter cannon the other hemo just sat with them giving them a pain token, if they get shot at they get a good cover save and FNP that way. i dont have any more vehicles yet so they foot it out, i got another ravager a few weeks ago over a raider or venom.

As for my Archon (lmao) I never seem to get any luck with him in any way shape or form, his SF always fails quickly, and i always need 5/6 to wound. normally he gets a venom blade which up to this point he has never used as he ends up in combat against 2+/3+ saves and FNP and generally he cant hit for toffee, LOL thinking of taking the duke now just for a change swap out the incubi and put in wyches and then i will have points spare for Hemo upgrades or something

baster wrote:

As for my Archon (lmao) I never seem to get any luck with him in any way shape or form, his SF always fails quickly, and i always need 5/6 to wound.

One of the reasons I have started using a venom blade/blaster archon, he just seems to meet my expectations a lot more. If I were to run a melee archon I would just give him a venom blade and shadow field and be done with it.

Sounded like a fun game, thanks for sharing the pain (added it to the sticky).

Good report, nice to see someone fighting the new daemons already so we all get to know more about them: Having read the daemon dex I noticed that you said the nurgle cav (Plague Drones) fleeted and then assaulted. This is not possible! They are Slow and Purposeful, but have Jet Packs. So they get to make a move in the assault phase even if they don't actually assault, but they can never run, and not fleet.

i was trying to get across how graceful!!!! and quick they where against the rambling slowness of the rest of the army. they are as you said slow and purposeful and have jet packs and are cavalry. as far as the rest of the army is concerned they are as agile and fleeting as butterflies. at T5 with i think 3 wounds each with a poss 3+ cover save they are gunna be tough to take out and difficult but not impossible to out manuvor.

Sorry, my mistake then. I didn't spot the narrative element at the first reading.

Dogmar wrote:

This is not possible! They are Slow and Purposeful, but have Jet Packs. So they get to make a move in the assault phase even if they don't actually assault, but they can never run, and not fleet.

They are "jet pack cavalry", cavalry get fleet. Slow and purposeful doesn't stop you from using fleet. So they do have fleet, rather ironically.

slow and purposeful just stops you from running... which their jetpack move helps them out with...

I'm feeling seriously stupid now Thank you for the heads up, Mush. I totally missed that! Mainly because I never ever used a cavalry unit in 40k

It makes Heralds on juggernauts pretty fast.

it makes juggies stupidly fast...

great post. i have a friend who owns a daemon army. i hope i do as well as u when i fight him next

on the topic of juggies: A shame that a basic ML or DL can insta-death them now. With a herald though you could at least try to tank a few hits.