Chaos Daemons Codex Break Down: Troop Choices
May 7, 2013 by dignity
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Day two of the Chaos Daemons Codex Break Down and the guys are moving on to have a quick look at the troops section of this monstrous tome before delving into the darker secrets of the Warp!
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Good show guys. I actually bought the codex a while back but never got round to looking through it. I might now have a game the week end with them.
I was initially disappointed with the troops. T3 Bloodletters and T4 Plague Bearers with no FNP. But they are considerably cheaper now. Maybe I should give them a chance.
Trouble is the numbers don’t add up. Let’s take horrors. You get to use the power: 1/6 chance of failure. Opponent gets to ignore it completely, again 1/6 so already 1/3 chance of nothing. Now we shoot, taking maximum number of shots we get 4d6. So let’s be generous and say we get 16. Half miss (BS 3). Now, against marines so 8 hits, 4 wounds. 1 failed save. All that from 180 points of models. A big, hard to hide unit. Even taking the beam power in 10 you’re still rolling acres of dice for little reward. Horrors are… Read more »