Bloodletters vs. Chaos Warriors of Khorne

[Falaris]

For a starting Skrabrand army I'm pretty sure the chaos warriors are worth it. 100 armor + shield makes them a LOT more survivable than the bloodletters - and they are cheaper. I am less sure once you get Exalted Bloodletters; they are still not as solid, but a lot more murderous, and much faster, too.

What do you guys think?

[Papa Owl]

Well in my experience, the Bloodletters are more flanking infantry than frontliners. They're kinda glass cannony, best used by having your Chaos Warriors hold enemy infantry while the bloodletters come in from behind

[Googley Eye'd Bastard]

The thing Is I've found that even normal bloodletters will beat out warriors of khorne dual wielding or shielded in melee plus they are far faster, what I believe you are meant to do is have a frontline of warriors to soak missile fire as the letters will fold easily vs a heavy missile front, but if you find that is a bit too annoying to manage you can definitely go full warriors with calv to hammer the backrow.

[Kapika96]

Bloodletters are much better at killing things.

Chaos Warriors are only better at them when defending from missile troops effectively. Maybe against missile heavy factions have a front line of Chaos Warriors to screen the arrows while your bloodletters stay behind them until the melee starts. Against factions with little or no ranged you're definitely better off with bloodletters though.

[Fendelphi]

Have a mixed frontline of daemons and mortals. You can maneuver to ensure they get favourable match-ups. Chaos Warriors keeps cost down and can take a beating, while Bloodletters add more killing power, especially against armoured infantry.

Flanking the frontline is better done by Fleshhounds and your other mobile units.

[Dan]

Exalted blood letters for days. Playing through a legendary camp now, Skarbrand + 17 exalted BL and the two cav squads + shrine you start with. Currently steam rolling Cathay. Largest army ive taken was 3 full stack + a built up garrison. there were 7 or 8 constructs + all elite inf in cathay army. Killed everything and walked away 20/20.

The main reason you should go blood letter ( for me at least ) is that the tier 4 or 5 upgrades for khorne give a bonus to blood letter and exalted blood letter regeneration. HUGE.

EDIT: Diff story when it comes to multiplayer.

[Rhingeim]

At the beginning Chaos Warriors may be slightly better - cheaper, shieled, armoured and enough killing power to handle early fights. Probably has better casualty replenishing, but I'm not sure. I'm using them in mid game as anvil/distract/fire magnet to keep EBL out of enemy ranged before bloodshed begings.

If you're interesting in flat comparison- BL are way better, real killer machines

[kekkuli]

Bloodletters easily. They are not as squishy as some people say they are (40 armor 20% physical resist) and damage is good. In my chaos daemons campaign i had 31 bonus vs infantry on my exalted blood letters, they just murdered everything.

[Lu Bu]

Personally I run Chaos Warriors, but that is because I am spending more time autobattling with my "kids" (Bloodhosts) on legendary than actually using bloodletters.

I think that once Skarbrand gets a few more levels under his belt and can buff his bloodletters (and if you can beat N'kari and take his lands for cheaper bloodletters/upkeep) then they are superior

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Bloodletters for getting into melee quickly/flanking/putting damage where it needs to be, at least in the early game. In the mid- and late-game, you have much better flanking options, from Flesh Hounds to your entire cavalry roster.

Warriors for soaking charges and holding the damn line against whatever you are facing. Also works better against missile-heavy armies.

Exalted Bloodletters slightly outperform both for general usage on account of their melee skill and Hellblade (odd, since ALL Bloodletters wield Hellblades. CA being CA, I guess), but still suffer against mass ranged fire (though no more than the specialist Chaos Warriors), which is rare.

Personally, I ended up just not using bloodletters after a certain point when I did the Khornate campaign, as they tend to lose a lot of HP/models on the charge and are overall much less durable than Chaos Warriors in a campaign where you absolutely need durability because of the required slog through army after army. Worse, Exalted Bloodletters are really upkeep-inefficient, which seems to be the norm for Exalted lesser daemons.

[Edwin]

The chaos warriors are so good, the blood letters are good in a secondary army with a herald leading them, I found that was pretty fun. I made skarbrand lead all humans, and the heralds lead the demons. :P

[Soul]

Bloodletters come in from behind while your chaos warriors have their attention and carve them up.

[Sol]

Really enjoying the khorne campaign, I do think my bloodletters really perform well considering they are available from the start. I use the chaos warriors too in a separate army as I didn't want to put the extra points in red skill line to buff both.

[DarkTemplarlord]

Chaos warriors seem too slow for me compared to bloodletters they are good at holding and siege defences but they missile soaking ability seem not that good and lot of battles i played are offence settlements battles and you want to move fast as possible to into city capture points before enemy builds too much tower to shoot you down
Bloodletters have much better damage overall like against other demon units they have advantage magic attack, armor-piercing, 25% magic and 20% physical resistances make them best basic offensive demon infantry

[Tapo4ekBoga]

100% Bloodletters. They are much faster than warriors. They are anti-infantry and also have armor-piercing damage. And most importantly - they deal magical damage, which will allow you to bypass the physical resistance of the units of the demon factions that you will fight with at the beginning of campaign

[JediMasterDraco]

Warriors of Khorne should be used to compliment your battleline more than form it. The shielded Warriors should be used to block enemy missiles while the halberd-armed ones should be kept back and sent in to counter enemy cavalry or other large units that require AP. But as the other have said, your main battleline should definitely be composed of Bloodletters or their exalted form if you have the funds.