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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - Datasheet Review post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit in the game of Warhammer 40,000

The last of the Indexes! A new challenge!

Right, I am finally ahead and by my best estimations as I explained in this Post, I should be able to keep ahead of the release curve and get the remainder of the Indexes reviewed before those Codex releases.

So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all. That means that I am aiming at Day 96 being the 21st of July 2025!

Today is Day 20/96.
I have reviewed 32/148.

Time elapsed: 20.83%
Review Completion: 21.62%
A little ahead! Good!

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• Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
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At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $226 to pay off!

Every bit counts!

Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Fiends

10th Edition Index

Despite getting a new model set that is around 50% more menacing and serious, the Fiend is still a unit that looks a bit dorky. They are iconic though and I think GW prides themselves on keeping themes and evolving looks slowly. It is kind of needed when it comes to the kind of fans that they have!

But, do not underestimate this unit. Loads of speed and massive amounts of damage is the Fiend's strength. They have no ranged firepower and their saves are not great but they have a fair toughness and wound count.

A good Daemon player will strike hard and fast with these beasties and get them into combat really fast!

A unit of 3 is 110pts and a unit of 6 is 220pts.

Let's check their stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 12"
Toughness 5
Save 7/5+++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 7+
OC 2

Weapons

Standard weapons: barbed tail and dissecting claws.

Ranged Weapons

None

Melee Weapons

Barbed tail and dissecting claws.

5 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Devastating Wounds (Rolls of 6 to Wound cause Mortal Wounds)

Abilities

Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.

Soporific Musk

Enemy units wishing to make a Fall Back move while in engagement with this unit (Excluding Monsters and Vehicles) must take a Desperate Escape test. If the unit is Battle Shocked subtract 1 from their Desperate Escape tests.

Thoughts

Like I said... lots of damage.

5 Attacks per model makes it 15 attacks for 3 or 30 attacks on a unit of 6.

They hit on 3's so we are looking at 20 hits. Rolling to wound will give you 3-4 Devs on average and this results in 6-8 Mortal Wounds!

Not being able to Fall Back will be great when dealing with units that can Fall back, and shoot and/or charge.

That makes 20 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 40% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 113.

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule Review #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Bloodcrushers	#371
Chaos Daemons	Bloodletters	#372
Chaos Daemons	Bloodmaster	#373
Chaos Daemons	Bloodthister	#374
Chaos Daemons	Blue Horrors	#375
Chaos Daemons	Burning Chariot	#376
Chaos Daemons	Changecaster	#377
Chaos Daemons	Contorted Epitome	#378
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Daemon Prince of Chaos	#379
Chaos Daemons	Daemon Prince of Chaos with Wings	#380
Chaos Daemons	Epidemius	#381
Chaos Daemons	Exalted Flamer	#382
Chaos Daemons	Fateskimmer	#383
Chaos Daemons	Feculent Gnarlmaw	#384
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82

Thank you for reading!

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