Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Chaos Daemons (section)

====<span style="color:#471F5F;">Lord of War</span>====
*'''Zarakynel, the Bringer of Torments:''' Forget your safeword and fluffy handcuffs, this thing is an unholy amount of slaughter on the Battlefield at the cost of the souls of a dozen virgins and something close to a Castellan's worth of pts. The big Z is Toughness 8 with 20 wounds, has a 4++ (which gets a +1 bonus to the roll in close combat for an effective 3++), this makes Z a big and relatively easy target, put Z in Deep Strike with the Stratagem to minimize the damage Z takes before making it into melee. Z can also advance and/or fall back and charge in the same turn, although it cannot move through enemy models while doing so, so you want to try to make sure Z does not get surrounded and trapped. Z is also a potent Psyker being able to both cast and deny 3 powers per turn. Z's ability to put a -0/-1/-2 penalty to Ld on enemy squads within 6" depending on how many wounds Z has left stacks very nicely with the Phantasmagoria and Cacophonic Choir psychic powers from the 2018 codex. Z has two weapons, the claws are mostly useless unless you want to gamble for a potential 6 damage per wound, but forget about the claws... what you really want is the sword; S+1 (8), AP-4, a flat 3 damage, and '''any to-wound roll of a 4+ causes 3 mortal wounds instead.''' Laugh at that blob of Assault Terminators who think they are safe with their 3++ shields! TL:DR when it comes to the ability to Rip and Tear, if you want to give Khornate daemons a run for their money then big Z's got you covered. Make Z your Warlord and take the Murder Dance Warlord Trait, every time you charge (which is hopefully turn 2-7 with Z's ability to fall back and charge) you get to make another D3 attack with the Sword. As of the FW FAQ (available on the community site) all Children of the Warp including Zarakynel have had the {{W40kKeyword|Daemon}} Faction keyword added so you can actually, ya know, use the Daemon Lords in a Daemon army. Hooray!