How to play daemon, especially Shadow legion ?
So i'm a new daemon player. To give some information about me. I principally play Necron and Deathguard.
To make it quick i'm someone that like to play with centerpiece, i generally always bring one in any of my army list (mortarion, Silent king, C'tan) So since i'm a big tww3 fan and like belakor, i of course wanna play his detachement.
But i have a problem, i'm not good with daemon it seem. I think i'm lacking some dark enlightenment on how to play them.Any tips would be welcome to be honest.
First of all i'm gonna say i find the army rule about leaderships test pretty weak/irrevelant most of the time maybe i do something wrong ?
->I run Belakor with a Bloodthirster and fade to Darkness, they are my two center piece.
No complain about the bloodthirster because of Belakor aura, he can have a indecent range turn 1 and clear chaff and become more and more dangerous at each turn with some good rapid ingress threat.
But i have hard time using Belakor out of this. His range attack and sweeep on D1 dammage make me overstimate the dammage he does. His strike with D6+1 make him really swingy in the dammage he can does and i have hard time figuring with who he should go for the reroll hit +1.
I'm trying to have a chaos lord on terminator armor for the -1cp on Stratagem. It allow me to remove 2 units from battle field for free, doesn'T sound too bad for scoring.
Feel like dameon units are mostly really glass canon. The invulnerable at +5 and only T4 for most battleline and infantry and beast units doesn'T help. Tried Bloodletter, they soundeds good on that detachement, great mouvement and range to go into melee. They hurt yeah, but pratically anything kill the entire units and no fight first. No tanky units anywhere on army list out of some character and soul grinder. Most of the units just get wiped out if your opponent can force enough wound save because of evrything save on 5. Even on some wepaon i would consider 'Weak' with my other army can greatly weakening my daemons units.
I also run a soul grinder of Tzeentch for a little bit more anti vehicule and to replace him with Terminator lord and shot at something.
But it make alreayd a lots of big fig and all the map i play are generally full of building, so because of this i'm not a fan of Mounted units maybe it's a mistake, i dunno.
I'm also a bit lost on allied untis i should bring, tried Havoc, but wasn't a fan, i have 20 cultist mob to secure my zone and objective.
that's what i tested for now and i feel i still ddin't understand how to play dameon correctly