AOS 40k crossover daemons

[dandc]

The group of lads I game with have decided to give AOS a try. I dunno, I guess they have too much money. And because I'm easily led, I'm going to give it a go too. But 40k remains my true love, and I hear crossover is possible using daemons. Has anyone built an AOS daemon list that is functional in 40k? And is it any good in either system? I once got drawn against a nurgle daemon army at a 40k tournament and blew it away (it finished last) and the player assured me it was a top tier AOS list...

[tomb]

Apr 8, 2019 21:39:45 GMT dandc said:

The group of lads I game with have decided to give AOS a try. I dunno, I guess they have too much money. And because I'm easily led, I'm going to give it a go too. But 40k remains my true love, and I hear crossover is possible using daemons. Has anyone built an AOS daemon list that is functional in 40k? And is it any good in either system? I once got drawn against a nurgle daemon army at a 40k tournament and blew it away (it finished last) and the player assured me it was a top tier AOS list...

From my experience AOS lists require different characters to 40k lists. For example whilst my 40k Tzeentch Daemons use DP's, Arihman and Magnus my Sigmar list would require a Change caster, Ogroid and  tzangor shaman. There is overlap in the core Daemons Loc, horrors, flamers etc but they are hardly competitive without the character buffs etc.
Nurgle and Khorne are similar usually needing some Dakka for 40k.
However Slaanesh may prove to be a great cross over army. The new battle tome will be released soon for AOS and they are allready doing very well on the tournament scene with pure Daemons. Of course these lists would not fair so well in 40k.
But, as a Nids player they (slaanesh) are very similar to our playstyle and let's face it Nids always require skill and determination in the face of the nerf bat to consistently play well, so if you can play Nids you can play Slaanesh...

[tomb]

Additionally, you should try AOS, it's a great game that's improving rapidly.

[Overread]

There are variations in how each works so a "top tier" list for each is going to be different. Plus how armies are formed and setup varies. For example in AoS each Demonic god has its own army book (battletome) whilst in 40K its slightly differently setup and there's a combined "demons of Chaos" army list. 40K also has allies in the form of Chaos Warriors whilst AoS has Slaves to Chaos and others as potential allies. Plus the allied option of another chaos patron god.

The allies rules in AoS are also more restrictive, so if your core army was Nurgle you could only take 1/4 in points and unit count (remembering units can be made up of one or more models) of allies. So "souping" is less of an issue, esp since the "grand alliance" books are very out of date so grand alliance armies are far fewer in general (those being armies where there are no allies restrictions save for the armies all being the same grand alliance).

That said you could certainly a demonic army core that would serve as a strong backbone to both.

[dandc]

Thanks for the feedback!

So I can't just buy Wrath and Rapture and call it an undivided daemon list? They would have to Blades of Khorne or whatever the Slaanesh book will be called?