Editing Age of Sigmar/Tactics/Chaos/Disciples of Tzeentch (section)

==Army Building==

===1000 pt.===
Here the core tax is 1 '''Leader''' and 2 '''Battleline''' units.

Your basic choices here are to focus either on Daemons, Tzaangor, Mortals or a combination thereof. A Lord of Change is probably overkill, and an Ogroid and another support mage working in tandem will likely serve you better. Taking Kairic Acolytes over Pink Horrors is seldom a good idea unless you have a specific Battalion in mind. Also, do not be too proud to look into the Slaves to Darkness. The Chaos Sorcerer Lord provides wonderful support, and Chaos Warriors provide a hardy Battleline choice. Avoid Chosen and Chaos Knights, though, as your Tzaangor Enlightened leave them in the dust regarding mobility and damage output. Also, hands off those Flamers. A single unit is already 20% of your points budget. They are massively scary, but once the opponent has a target lock on their asses, you'll lose a huge part of your army.

Another possibility is to buy a Start Collecting: Slaves to Darkness box. Since all those Mortals can elect to take the '''TZEENTCH''' keyword, they are entirely compatible with your allegiance, though not with your Battalions. The Chaos Warriors give you some more survivable Battlelines, the Knights and the Chariot give you a nice balance of beefy and fast and the Chaos Sorcerer Lord is just flat-out better than your Magister.

Yet another option is to pick one of the Battalions from the Battletome and build your army around it. A Changehost can complement just about any Tzeentch Daemons and provides a fun bonus for example. Ideally, for this you want to pick a Battalion you can expand upon when taking the hurdle to 2000 points.

An example Arcanite list could be:

* Tzaangor Shaman (General)
* Ogroid Thaumaturge
* 10 Tzaangors (Battleline)
* 10 Kairic Acolytes (Battleline)
* 3 Tzaangor Enlightened on Disc
* 3 Tzaangor Skyfires

Now that Generals Handbook 2.0 has dropped Acolytes got cheaper and all Tzeentch wizards and Skyfires got pricier. The Tzaangor coven battalion is now a no go as it's also more expensive to take. The above list <strike>gives you dead on 1000</strike> is 950 points (following drop in points in GHB2019) and with a squishy force like the Arcanites it's probably better to prioritize bodies over trying to fit a battalion in. You could also remove the Tzaangors and Enlightened and replace them with another unit of Skyfires and Acolytes and have 40 points left for an endless spell, but this leaves you without any melee units.

===2000 pt.===
Here the core tax is 1 '''Leader''' and 3 '''Battleline''' units.

Example list with 0 Battalions but could still be pretty fun. Decided on a Balewind Vortex for the Curseling to really annoy other magic users with crazy reliable unbinding and spell stealing ability 48" range on glean magic sounds pretty fun. Comes to 1980 points.

Heroes

*Lord of Change
*Tzaangor Shaman
*Ogroid Thuamaturge
*Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch

Battleline

*20 Tzaangors
*10 Kairic Acolytes
*10 Kairic Acolytes

Other Units

*3 Tzaangor Skyfires
*3 Tzaangor Skyfires
*3 Tzaangor Enlightened

Scenery 

*Balewind Vortex

===2500 pt.===
Here the core tax is 1 '''Leader''' and 4 '''Battleline''' units.