40k Army List

Army-list ideas for Warhammer 40,000 (11th Edition), Chaos Daemons. Model roster, painted status, and both 40k/AoS datasheet links live on the Roster page — this page is just about building a playable list.

Reference: Wahapedia — Chaos Daemons (11th Edition)

Points (11th ed)

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Notes / Ideas

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• Core of the collection is already Tzeentch-flavoured shooting/psychic: Pink Horrors → Blue Horrors → Brimstone Horrors split chain gives durable objective-holding troops for relatively few points.
• Screamers and Flamers are the fast/deep-strike elements — Screamers threaten backfield objectives, Flamers punish grouped infantry.
• Lord of Change or Kairos Fateweaver as the single big psychic threat/beatstick — probably not both in the same list at this collection’s size.
• Heralds (Changecaster on foot, Fluxmaster on disc, Fateskimmer on chariot) are the cheap character glue — attach to whichever unit needs the buff/screen.
• The Changeling and The Blue Scribes are the utility/support pieces — worth checking current detachment rules before relying on them, since the Blue Scribes has no current 11th-edition datasheet (see Roster notes).

Army Ideas by Points Level

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Starting sketches to tweak in NewRecruit — not locked lists yet.

Combat Patrol — 500p (built list)

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Detachment: Lords of the Warp (switched from Warptide). Warlord: Fluxmaster. Secondary: Assassination (1 Character). 5 units, 500p — NewRecruit link.

• Fluxmaster (Herald, disc), Warlord — 70p — Arcane Fireball, Herald combat weapon
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p — Blue claws, Coruscating Blue Flames
• Pink Horrors ×10 — 160p — 8 with Coruscating Pink Flames/Pink claws, 1 Musician (Instrument of Chaos), 1 Standard Bearer (Daemonic Icon) — Enhancement: Soul-hungry Slaughterers (+10p)
• Flamers ×3 — 65p — 1× Pyrocaster, 2× Flamer, Flamer mouths, Flickering Flames
• Screamers ×3 — 80p — Lamprey bite

Total: 500p, exact.

Incursion — 1000p (built list)

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Detachment: Lords of the Warp. Warlord: Kairos Fateweaver. Secondary: Bring It Down, Assassination (5 Characters). 9 units, exactly 1,000p — NewRecruit link.

• Kairos Fateweaver, Warlord — 305p — Infernal Gateway, Staff of Tomorrow
• Changecaster — 60p — Arcane Fireball, Herald combat weapon
• Changecaster — 60p — Arcane Fireball, Herald combat weapon
• Fluxmaster — 70p — Arcane Fireball, Herald combat weapon
• Exalted Flamer — 65p — Fires of Tzeentch, Flamer mouths (Character)
• Pink Horrors ×10 — 150p — 8 with Coruscating Pink Flames/Pink claws, 1 Musician, 1 Standard Bearer
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Screamers ×6 — 160p

Total: 1,000p, exact — 5 Characters (Kairos, 2× Changecaster, Fluxmaster, Exalted Flamer), 4 non-character units for board presence.

Strike Force — 2000p (built list)

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Detachments: Lords of the Warp + Warptide + Cavalcade of Chaos (3/3 Detachment Points). Warlord: Kairos Fateweaver. Secondary: Bring It Down, Assassination (10 Characters). 18 units, exactly 2,000p — NewRecruit link.

• Kairos Fateweaver, Warlord — 305p — Infernal Gateway, Staff of Tomorrow
• Lord of Change — 320p — Bolt of Change, Staff of Tzeentch
• The Changeling — 105p — Infernal Flames, The Trickster’s Staff
• Changecaster — 60p
• Fluxmaster — 70p
• Fateskimmer — 95p — Screamer bites
• Fateskimmer — 95p — Screamer bites
• Exalted Flamer — 65p
• Exalted Flamer — 65p
• Exalted Flamer — 65p
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p
• Pink Horrors ×10 — 150p — 1 Musician, 1 Standard Bearer
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Screamers ×3 — 80p
• Screamers ×3 — 80p

Total: 2,000p, exact — 10 characters (62% of points), 8 non-character units. Three detachments stacking: Lords of the Warp buffs the characters, Warptide buffs the Horrors, Cavalcade of Chaos buffs both Fateskimmers. Needs a 2nd Fateskimmer body (1 more Herald to print) beyond what’s currently built.

Onslaught — 3000p (everything owned)

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Detachments: Lords of the Warp + Warptide + Cavalcade of Chaos (3/3 Detachment Points). Warlord: Kairos Fateweaver. Secondary: Bring It Down, Assassination (13 Characters). 23 units — NewRecruit link.

• Kairos Fateweaver, Warlord — 305p
• Lord of Change — 320p
• The Changeling — 105p
• The Blue Scribes — 75p — unconfirmed current/Legends status, double-check before relying on it
• Changecaster ×2 — 120p
• Fateskimmer ×2 — 190p — Screamer bites
• Fluxmaster ×2 — 140p
• Exalted Flamer ×3 — 195p
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p
• Blue Horrors ×10 — 125p
• Pink Horrors ×10 — 150p — 1 Musician, 1 Standard Bearer
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Flamers ×3 — 65p
• Screamers ×3 — 80p
• Screamers ×3 — 80p
• Screamers ×3 — 80p

Total: 2,410p — 590p short of the 3,000p cap. This is the honest “everything currently owned or already planned” list; the collection doesn’t stretch to 3,000p without new purchases.

Needs 6 Herald bodies (2 each of Changecaster, Fateskimmer, Fluxmaster) — 3 more than the 3 currently owned, and this is the first list that doubles up the disc Herald too.

Cheap top-ups, if built:

• +2 Flamers (own 10, need 12) unlocks a 4th Flamers unit — +65p
• +2 Blue Horrors (own 38, need 40) unlocks a 4th Blue Horrors unit — +125p
• Both together: +190p, landing around 2,600p — still short of the cap

Bigger asks to close the rest of the gap:

• +8 Pink Horrors (own 12, need 20) for a 2nd Pink Horrors unit — +150p
• +3 Screamers (own 9 loose, need 12) for a 4th Screamers unit — +80p — note this is beyond the 3 already permanently glued to the chariots as pull-team
• Or bring in a non-Tzeentch-locked generic unit (Daemon Prince of Chaos, Soul Grinder) — new models from scratch, not a restock

(All four brackets need a real pass through NewRecruit before they’re fully playable — Combat Patrol, Incursion, and Strike Force are built and confirmed; Onslaught is the honest ceiling of the current collection.)