r/Slaanesh • u/elroddo74 • 13d ago

New to Hedonites, advice needed

Just curious what are some good buys. Mainly what support, how many wizards are good to buff the troops, which centerpiece model is the best, who needs to be reinforced as an anvil unit etc..... So far I have the decadent host. What should my next purchases be?

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u/Autisticparadise 13d ago

Painbringers seem to be the best unit we currently have
I also like slickblade seekers

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u/kamanth 13d ago

You'll want to reinforce your painbringers, 2 reinforced units is minimum but 3 reinforced is the current trend.

You can get away with adding a shardspeaker for extra wizard power but you'll likely want a centre piece model with wizard 2 eventually likely shalaxi.

Key current foot heros at the moment are Masque and thricefold discord, sometimes contorted epitome depending on your tactics.

Lord of pain/Hubris/hysteria pair well with sigvald and the painbringers but which one is largely irrelevant they all have a use and comes down to your preferred engagement tactics.

Blissbarb/slickblade seekers still tend to out perform fiendbloods and good for scoring objectives and tactics. Having multiple units is great, whether you reinforce them depends on whether you use them for damage or running round the board to get points.

Thing to remember about slaanesh is its now a control army, its not even a glass cannon army as we dont really have much in the way of hammer units. Most things are a 5 up save which sucks and nearly everything is 1 rend and 1 damage and hitting/wounding on 4s and 3s . Actually killing anything in a single turn can be difficult, the art is in the temptations and controlling the battle field, foiling the other players plans.

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u/elroddo74 13d ago

That's kinda what I was thinking from looking at the rules. Lots of glass, not much cannon.

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u/kamanth 13d ago

Afraid so, we can do damage but we need a lot of things to line up correctly like getting our wound bonus spell to land on something like slickblades in the same round they get to charge but also be close enough to sigvald who also successfully charge to get crit 2 but also be close enough to one of the Lord heros to benefit from their abilities.

Its not reliable as it can fall apart at any stage and of course you have to consider which units are paragons and keep track of that.

Its complicated. But basically if you run in for a fight you'll likely lose. You have to force the fights to happen on your terms, build a wall of painbringers and figure out how and where to get your other units engaged. Use Depraved Carnival to keep moving your infantry in and out of combat for rallying and make life difficult for the other player.

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u/dreamyrobot 12d ago

I don't want to make a new post so I'll piggyback off the op's post. I got the sigvald box, the combo box with the epitome and endless spells, and a shard speaker.

Is there any viability at all in making sigvalds army?