Monster Mash

Wow. New chaos warrior army book. wow.

I rolled with a pure Nurgle army twice yesterday and boy it brought back memories of warhammer 15 years ago but not overly overpowered. It was a real Monster mash.

Daemon Princes are back and the new book is freakin' awesome.

I played one game with Nurgle Chaos Warriors Versus Daemons

Fully Kitted out Nurgle Daemon Prince
Festus
BSB on palanquin
2 units of 18-20 Halberd Chaos warriors of Nurgle
Chimera
2 Nurgle Spawn
Dragon ogre Shaggoth
1 unit of Marauder Horse

Then Versus new Slaaneshi Chaos warriros I went with
Fully Kitted out Nurgle Daemon Prince

BSB on palanquin
2 units of 18-20 Halberd Chaos warriors of Nurgle
2 units of 5 Poison hounds
1 unit of Marauder Horse
Nurgle Shrine
Nurgle Giant (Bruce)
2 Nurgle Spawn
Chimera

My Thoughts.
Dragon Ogre Shaggoth whilst being cheaper dies too easily. he needed to be tougher or have more armour. He's better than he was but not for competitive lists when you have better options in there.

Nurgle Giant(Bruce) is hard as tacks, T6 at 215 points, he is a must include.

Chimera really needs like 1 or 2  more wounds but the Threat generated by it was awesome.

Chaos Warriors of Nurgle are very hard to hit, they are very surviveable, except against a slaaneshi Damon Prince with 8 attacks from Cacaphonic Boosted. They are probably toughest in the game.

Daemon Familiar is a must have, extra spell and twice the chance to generate an extra die.

Scaled skin is great. Must have.

Palanquin is awesome, T5 BSB with, 4 wounds, 1+ armour, enchanted shield, chaos armour and -1 to hit.

Lore of Nurgle is lots of fun. At one point with Curse of leper I had a T8 spawn blocking a Slaaneshi damon prince. Plague wind is a great spell but Stream of Corruption is where it's at, I puked at least 6 times over 3 games. Plus my Daemon Prince got to T6 5W in the first turn. Even a Winged Daemon Prince with level 1 Signature and wings means he can do up to 6 Pukes a game.

Daemon prince with Scaled skin, Chaos armour, Charmed shield he gets 1+5+ with ignore first wound on a 2+. Cannon protection.

Shrine would have been good in the first turn when My Nurgle BSB rolled snake eyes's on Eotg and then 11 on leadership and got turned into a spawn, Yay! but Chaos is fickle.

Spawn are good fun, I think you'll see a boat load of Spawns of Tzeentch.

From Lore of Slaaneshi, Cacophonic Choir boosted is all kinds of awesome for slaaneshi spell. plus you get extra ws and attack on a roll of 6 for each wound caused. This can turn a Daemon prince into a Mincing machine.