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I'd personally expect we'll either see a new warrior kit with all 4 equipment combos represented, or the resin upgrade kits cut leaving only HW x2 and HW+S as official options. I could be wrong but we've seen it before.

Yeah, if I could mark Varanguard Slaanesh without needing Archie on the table first I'd have bought an embarrassing amount of them.

Are the White Dwarf battalions usually tournament/matched play legal?

Wait, no, look closer. I just realized it's an eye. Which is very common in Egyptian iconography..

That being said, StD and BoC models are less expensive points-wise, as they don't have the abilities and summonability baked into their points cost like models with the Hedonite keyword do. It might be effective to run mostly mortals or beasts in the list itself alongside a keeper and epitome to use the locus and horrible fascination. Then you can summon demons as needed as you generate depravity, based on whatever it is you need at any given time. Basically no matter what you run as your baseline you're going to at least be summoning demons, completely eschewing them is going to be a handicap.

Blast. Here I thought I was on to something.

I think the sheer output of damage on what will always be multi-wound targets far outweighs the possibility of losing a point of depravity from damage prevention. That's awesome, and our best source of a reliably high volume of attacks on a single weapon that isn't a mount.

Are there any interesting combos we've been finding have potential? I haven't had the opportunity to test them yet, but I feel like a lot of the realm weapons that have an effect on a 6 to hit would synergize well with Euphoric Killers. I was eyeing an alpha strike with the Carving Blade and Into the Fray on a Godseekers Lord of Chaos for 4d6 auto-hitting auto-wounding damage with the reaper blade.

The combat buffs can be pretty good, but without some daemons you will be missing out on an entire portion of the allegiance abilities, and you won't get as much use out of your free terrain piece. Looking at the StD allegiance abilities, yeah, you're probably going to get more out of Slaanesh allegiance between Euphoric Killers and your host abilities. You will definitely be more competitive if you have daemons for summoning though.

Keep in mind the Contorted Epitome can provide a similar effect against multiple enemies while also giving a use of the locus. It might not be a bad support piece if you're otherwise running mortals. Another thing to note is that the locus requires the Hedonite keyword, so daemon princes miss out on that ability despite being Slaanesh daemon heroes.

What are the thoughts on daemon princes at the moment? Are they points-per-wound efficient enough for decent depravity generation, given that we cannot summon them? Does the lack of the HEDONITE keyword hamstring them too much? Do we see them as a possible fail-safe for a whiff on an important locus attempt? Also, do we think marauder horsemen have potential in a godseekers list for something other than chariots that can retreat and charge in the same turn to maximize passive depravity gain?