[Archive] 2500 Daemonologists - Allies (Dwarfs/Khorne Daemons)

metro_gnome:

ok so my first foray into to allies (O&G) didn’t pan out so well…
cause I missed the part about being unable to dispel stuff that affects your ally…
desperate allies is a bit of a struggle… I need independent magic defense…

so now I’m allying my big hats (as dwarfs) with Khorne daemons… I don’t know much about daemons…
but I like including the Lammasu… and Bull Centaurs as blood crushers is much more satisfying than boar boyz…
I would have to buy some models… but not many and I was prolly gonna do that anyway…

Anyway here it is…

Daemon Prince: Wings (Lammasu)
Runesmith: Balance, Spellbreaking
Thane: BSB, Gromril, Warding, Oathstone
34 Dwarf Warriors: FC, GWs (Thane is here)
20 Thunderers: FC, Shields (BB models, Runesmith is here)
15 Bloodletters (gonna have to buy these)
15 Bloodletters (gonna have to buy these)
8 Flesh hounds (I will dismount my wolf boyz I think)
1 Grudge Thrower: Accuracy, Penetrating
1 Cannon: Engineer
4 Blood Crushers: Icon, Render (mmm stompy BCs… for once)

2500 (1220 Dwarfs/ 1280 Daemons)
108 Models

so dwarfs bring numbers and daemons bring hurt… there’s also a lot of Magic resistance here…
every unit except the Thunderers, Prince and the machines has at least a 5+ save vs magic…

anyway… wot do you lot fink?

phierlihy:

So you’re planning on playing two different armies at once?? boggle

metro_gnome:

um… yes…

I am using the ally rules in a effort to represent Chaos dwarfs on the table in a legitimate way…
my first attempt used O&G allies (with dwarfs) for more of a traditional slaver feel…
I found it lacking in magic defense because the dwarf dispel bonuses do not apply to their desperate allies…
and any ally I am likely to use for this exercise will be a desperate ally with dwarfs…
I may experiment with WoC and BoC as well… but I must say I like the way the daemons look on paper…

Its actually quite complicated because I am really using very small armies to combat huge single forces…
these smaller forces don’t scale up well… and percentages make this difficult…

take this list…
I must field 1280 daemons (I would prefer the lions share be dwarfs)…
because this is the smallest army that allows this prince…
and subsequently the blood crushers are also restricted in that they can’t have a musician…
similarly… I cannot swap the engineer out for a 2nd warding on my thane…
because that would bring my heroes outside their allowance…
Unless I dropped the oathstone… in which case I could have 3 wardings on the thane…
and a fiver left over for a burning on a machine I guess…

anyway its a juggling act… and probably not worth the effort…
But keeping a legal chaos dwarf army on the table is my priority…

However… the army will look much like my chaos dwarf army does now…
most of the daemons will be represented by CD models…
the Lammasu for the prince… BCs for the crushers… wolfboyz for hounds…
its just that all my green will switch out for 30 Bloodletters… and they’re pretty good this edition…
prolly better than my 2 units of hobgoblins, some bolt throwers and some orc boyz…