hey guys Im playing against spacemarines next week using my daemons but the points value has been lowered to 1000pts and I really cant see how I can field an effective force.. any ideas guys?

models I have available to me are:

bloodthirster
4 crushers
30 letters
6 plague bearers
3 grinders

ok ive just had a quick look at making a list and its as follows (im not convinced it can do anything but die tho)

Bloodthirster - might
10 letters
10 letters
6 pb
2 grinders - phlegm

hopefully start with grinders and thirster or pb's

could you drop the pbs and take more BLs instead? have 3 squads of them?

well being a Khorne freak I would drop the PBs.

1x Bloodthirster
1x 3# Crushers w. instrument
3x 8# Bloodletters (8 is the number of Khorne)
2x 1# Soul Grnders w. phlem

999points total.

Play very aggressively. Avg roll with 2D6 is 7. So DS about 7-10" away with your guys and get stuck in quickly otherwise ur dead.

Which goes in which half is tricky with this one. I would go Crushers, 1x SG, 2x Bloodletters. Put the SG very close to his line and the crushers with the troops behind if possible.

When placing objectives, place them as close together as possbile as u want the fight to be all in the smallest part of the board as possible.

thanks for the advice on deployment and strategy DS is a big worry of mine.. surprised you play the grinders close up with them having such good range.. any particular reason for that? also Im a little unsure on the list you've given as I typed it into army builder to print out and its come out as 1079 pts..

250pts
125pts
128pts x3
160pts x2

Yes SGs in combat and close proximity will scare ur opponent and he'll shot at if rather than the troops. If he don't have a fist in his unit they will all die to the SG in combat.

Funnily enuff mine came to 1079 too. I forgot to increase crushers to 3

ok drop and SG, take 2 more Crushers and split them into 2 units of 2 and 3.

just thought I'd post the result of the game.. turn 1 wasnt pretty I rolled a 1 for Daemonic assault so I only had bloodthirster and bloodletters coming in.. the 2nd of which ended up in impassable terrain so after my turn 1 i had a bloodthirster right on my enemys gunline.. to my surprise at the start of turn 2 my bloodthirster had only taken 2 wounds and had I managed to get the rest of my units to deepstrike in of which my last unit of bloodletters rolled a 1 on mishap table lol so with no troops left I thought it was all over.. somehow in the following turn all my units were in combat (this was my 1st game using daemons I couldn't believe how quickly they carved through units) and my grinder had dropped a template on a squad of marines killing half.. anyway to cut a long story short at the end of the battle I had lost 1 crusher and wiped out my opponent completely =)
Im starting to like daemons alot =)
next week I've been asked to play against daemon hunters but I don't fancy the sound of that just yet lol

Daemonhunters aren't really a massive issue over any inquisitor army.
The risk comes from an Inquisitor + 2 Sages which means that he can get a free round of shooting wit one of his nearby units everytime one of yours deepstrikes within 4D6".

Apart from this only the Book of True names (half weaponskill in b2b) and Sacred Insense (-1I in b2b) have any real risk.

im gonna have to try n get hold of a copy of the codex.. I remember they mentioned somethin about a guy (think they said his name was somethin like hector) that halves your ws. Then somethin about being able to summon a greater daemon.. And then some mention of lots of exorsists..
We'll see what happens lol..

lostandthedamned wrote: + 2 MYSTICS which means that he can get a free round of shooting wit one of his nearby units everytime one of yours deepstrikes within 4D6".

Sages just up BS skill