"FIRST!"

[wisdomseyes1]

Feel like YouTube yet?

Bloodthirster 
-unholy might
-blessing of the blood god

Bloodthirster 
-unholy might
-blessing of the blood god

4 units of 5 pink horrors with bolt of change 
5 pink horrors with bolt of change and a changing 

5 flamers of Tzeentch
5 flamers of Tzeentch
6 Fiends of Slaanesh

6 screamers of Tzeentch
6 screamers of Tzeentch


Before the new rules I hated flamers. They were really, to me, just better versions of pyrovores... 

With the new rules, they are cheap, survivable, and reliable for their cost. No, I won't be using them to breath of chaos the turn they come down as risk the mishap. Thats silly. Warp fire isn't a bad gun at all. I just before wasn't going to pay 35 points for a 1 wound warp fire node. (unrelated note, anyone with the last issue of white dwarf notice that they used the old points cost for flamers in their 40k battle report?)

Screamers are equally similar in how survivable they are. Basically, they are like fiends of slaanesh now. And I like fiends of slaanesh

Fiends of slaanesh make probably one of the hugest impacts in the game for their points. 6 s5 ws5 attacks on the charge with rending and i5? It's... A lot to say the least. They kill tanks, they kill infantry. The only thing they can't do is kill fliers, and for reason.

Horrors dish out a lot of shots, have a good save, and have ap4 (kills toasters) and bolt (kills tanks and instant kills characters) 

Bloodthirsters are an interesting option. They are heavy in damage capabilities. They are the best answer to fliers daemons have (next to bolt en mass, see horrors) I WON'T EVER divide in perfect half's, I judge the situation and make the half's based on that. I say this because usually the thirsters will try to come down together so that the opponent has to shoot more than one of them at a time. 

Kind of an elite army, but that lowers my numbers for my half's. 2 wound t4 5++ models with powerful impacts on the game en mass. Gives my opponents lots of things to consider shooting at, most of which won't be my punk horrors. And if they do I have a turn to set up for a deviating impact on their army.

Comments and criticism welcome.

[nidzy]

I am less familiar with tzeench and slaanesh than I am with Nurgle and Khorne. My regular daemon opponent tends to only use Khorne and Nurgle because that is the theme of his CSM army as well.

Fiends of Slaanesh are one of the few other Daemon units I have seen in action and I loved their output, nice choice there:)

I would like to play my nid list against this army if only to see how it performs against a dramatically different look. I tend to do fairly well against Daemons (again, with the limitations in my choice of opponents) and it would be nice to see the change up.

Do you think you will swoop often with the 'thirsters if you aren't facing flyers? My thought would be that you would land in a tactically advantageous spot, weather shooting, glide and then donkey punch the opponent with CC badassery. Do you intend to use them more as harrassment? Or to land them further away to avoid shooting, then swoop and look for a turn 3 assault?

[wisdomseyes1]

Hey someone posted on my list! Didn't think that would ever happen

Horrors are for toasters and cheap bolt of change (10 point 24" s8 ap1 shot? I don't are if it's bs3, unlike the Tfex it's 10 points )

I like all the gods for different reasons (by that I mean units). I play "undivided" but Tzeentch is my favorite god and got a rules update recently. I tend to lean towards Tzeentch units. In 5th my list would have still been Tzeentch heavy simply because of my chariots, but I would have also been using plaguebearers (used to be the strongest scoring... Now they are just okay scoring) and more units of fiends.

With my games with screamers, I found them to have a similar impact to fiends on the game with the new rules. 4 s5 ap2 attacks on the charge is fun, even at i4

And to answer your question, depends on the situation. I probably will be swooping the turn I get the chance, inless I am in charge range. It's funny, more than once Bloodthirsters have actually hated the new fearless rules as well, because no "no retreat" wounds ties him down against units of 10 that are fearless.
Likely going to put them both in the preferred wave, assuming they come in pull them away, hope for night fighting from strategic or a dice roll, swoop, and then charge turn 3 or swoop to kill a flier. Really the situations vary to greatly from army to army.

I also want to go second. Period. I don't want my opponent to have a turn of shooting to have a chance to table me. Also gives me more time to set up. There is no reason to go first.