Four Flavours of them in the sky! Which one is best?

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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - Datasheet Review post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit in the game of Warhammer 40,000

The last of the Indexes! A new challenge!

Right, I am finally ahead and by my best estimations as I explained in this Post, I should be able to keep ahead of the release curve and get the remainder of the Indexes reviewed before those Codex releases.

So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all. That means that I am aiming at Day 96 being the 21st of July 2025!

Today is Day 18/96.
I have reviewed 27/148.

Time elapsed: 18.75%
Review Completion: 18.24%
Slightly under Par.

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Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Daemon Prince of Chaos with Wings

10th Edition Index

Same as the counterpart on foot, this one can be dedicated to each of the major Gods. While there was a place for each amongst different builds on foot, I feel that the rules for the flying one will lean towards close combat and thus Khorne and Slaanesh would probably be the way to go.

When you select this unit, he will have to pick his patron deity.

This model is 180pts. Cheaper than the walking one!

Let's check their stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 12"
Toughness 9
Save 2+/4++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 10
Ld 6+
OC 3

Weapons

Standard weapons: Infernal Cannon, Hellforged Weapons

Daemonic Allegiance

When you pick this unit, you must select one of the four Greater Chaos Gods as its patron. When it does, it gains the corresponding buff!

Khorne: Add 2 to Strength of this model's Hellforged Weapons
Tzeetch: Add 3 to the Attacks of this model's Infernal Cannon
Nurgle: Add 1 to this model's Toughness
Slaanesh: Add 2" to this model's Movement.

Ranged Weapons

Infernal Cannon

24" Range, 3 Shots, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.

Melee Weapons

Hellforged Weapons - Strike

6 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-2 and 3 Damage each.

Hellforged Weapons - Sweep

14 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S6, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Abilities

Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.

Harbinger of Death

Each time this model fights, select one of the following abilities that its Hellforged Weapons gains until the end of the phase:

Lethal Hits (Auto-wound on a Hit roll of 6)
Sustained Hits 1 (Extra attacks are generated on a Hit roll of 6)
Precision (You can target a character in a unit, ignoring a Bodyguard)

Malefix Destruction

Once per battle, at the start of the Fight Phase this model can use this ability. Until the end of the phase add 3 Attacks to its Hellforged Weapons.

Thoughts

Like I said. A Khorne heavy hitter or a Slaanesh 14" flyer would probably be best here. Even the Nurgle one is OK with +1T but I would not expect to see the Tzeetch one.

This model can go Character assassinating or hunt and Kill big things.

+3 attacks once per game for a 9x attack Strike with a Khorne S10 would be the deal!

Or a 17 attack Sweep at S8.

Plus they are so cheap I know they will make Hive account@nicolaasmuller poop pellets! haha!

That makes 15 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 30% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 118.

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule Review #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Bloodcrushers	#371
Chaos Daemons	Bloodletters	#372
Chaos Daemons	Bloodmaster	#373
Chaos Daemons	Bloodthister	#374
Chaos Daemons	Blue Horrors	#375
Chaos Daemons	Burning Chariot	#376
Chaos Daemons	Changecaster	#377
Chaos Daemons	Contorted Epitome	#378
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Daemon Prince of Chaos	#379
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82