Primal Archons vs Infernals

I have not played that many games vs. Infernals, so I am no expert. But in the couple I have played, a strategy based around removing all the marked souls would have been entirely useless. Opponents always brought tons of them, and had no problems keeping a few safe.

I guess the folks I've been playing have been closer to the 7 side of that average, but ok, call it 6. So on my turn 2 I kill 2, but at the cost of leaving your other support and existing horrors relatively unscathed. By bottom of 2 / mid-3 (depending on who went first) you've got 2 souls left, have a new horror, and have done a bunch of damage to me; probably targeting the things that have a decent shot at your remaining souls. Now I have a choice; hunt down both remaining souls that are way up the back of your line, leaving your horrors free to rampage through my side a second time, or start fighting back. If I fight back then you've got plenty of souls for the rest of the game, so I might as well have fought your horrors from the beginning. If I try to hunt souls down and you successfully protect one, I've screwed myself for nothing. If I hunt souls down successfully then by bottom 3 / mid-4 you have no souls left. I almost never have a game go to 5 turns - on clock, if for no other reason - so you miss out on one horror for one turn. I'm not saying that's nothing, I'm just saying I have to weigh that against the resources I used hunting them down.

(This is not a complaint that Infernals are in some way unstoppable btw. I've won more against them than I've lost. I've just never felt like soul elimination was a particularly viable tactic. Certainly if I had a particularly well-suited list for it, and my opponent had brought fewer souls, I might change my mind...)

Absolutely give it a go, and let us know how it works out!

Most infernal lists have models they plan on losing. If you pop their precious marked ones or cultists as early as possible they will start to tilt I find. It really throws them off their game.

My opponent loves his cultists and Orin. He normally plays Z. If you can light Orin up with multiple shots they end up cascading and killing a lot of cultists. Any dead cultist doesn't cast next turn even if revived, and if you can get Orin before fear even better.

It takes a bunch of reasonably accurate shooting but it's not a bad start. Beyond that anything you can shoot, a lot of infernal support has low armor and doesn't like dying.

Now how to do this in circle... um...