Editing Fiends of Slaanesh (section)

==On The Tabletop==
Sadly, few companies have ever produced good proxies for such a niche creature. Kitbashing may be the best way to have Fiends without giving [[Games Workshop]] your money.
A popular way is using [[Drider]]s, or kitbashing insect monsters with humanoid females.

[[Raging Heroes]] created a unique alternative which is a horned woman's upper body, and the lower body bing a quadruped with the torsos of screaming men as legs.

===[[Warhammer Fantasy]]===
So, you want to play a Daemon army? 
You're not playing full [[Nurgle]]? Good. Take 6-12 Fiends and make an appointment with a proctologist for your opponent (and one for you too, treat yourself, you deserve it).

===[[Warhammer 40000]]===
Fiends in 40k are... underwhelming at best.
While rather fragile they can potentially be useful in 8th. Their main appeal is that they keep units without the fly keyword from falling back, meaning a single one can tar-pit a vehicle, potentially very annoying.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
Fiends are all around nice, with good (if unreliable) abilities and all around good stats.
They are less killy and more tanky for the Host standards, which is a nice change of pace (they are still very fast and fragile, just not as the other units), and, more than other units in the Host of Slaanesh, can act alone and hold important objectives and enemy units in place. If followed by Hellstriders with their Icon, they can be straight up annoying, giving the enemy a -2 malus to hit them.
However, they suffer from a crippling defect; they are the only overpriced unit in an all-around very balanced army. A single Fiends cost as a Herald, and 2 Fiends cost as a single unit of Daemonettes or Seekers, which is insane.
It's expected for them to drop in price in the next update, but until then use them only in friendly games.

===[[The 9th Age]]===
Since T9A rewards playing a monotheist army far more and has generally great internal balance, you'll be seeing a lot less Fiends from now on. In a mixed god army you may still want them, they are no longer mandatory however.

In a full-Lust (Slaanesh) army you'll still want 6-12. But with internal balance improved, feel free to replace them with [[Seeker Chariots of Slaanesh]] if that's more your style.