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I was pondering alternative special choices for the chaos dwarf army list. Now, anyone who has seen my army blog knows that I converted some Robotic slaves; here is my humble attempt at some experimental
rules and possible fluff of Demon Bots. Feel free to comment.

Demon Bots
Demon bots were created by first binding a soul to the body (this was mostly done with slaves). The body is then burned and mixed into molten metal. The metal is then forged and molded into bizarre humanoid-like exoskeletons and thus, Demon Bots came into existence.

[Special Choice]

Unit size 10+

Points: 13

M     WS     BS      S       T      W       I       A      Ld
4      4        3       3       4       1       3       1       8

Demon Bots have a 3+ armor save. No Heroes or lords may be attached to this unit and Demon Bots never use the leadership of the general. Immune to Psychology except to stupidity. The whole unit is armed with either two hand weapons or great weapons. The whole unit can be armed with crossbows at 5 pts a model.

Because of the way that Demon Bots are made, they suffer from stupidity.

The command word guard is pretty useless maybe have along the lines of.
Guard: The Demon Bots can not move more then 8 from the unit they are guarding.
otherwise look good but one thing is bugging me what is a two-headed weapon.

i think something needs to be added to represent their daemon soul.  maybe a 6+ ward?  also, i think that gaurd needs to be changed to a counter-charge rule:

Gaurd: the unit may only move if the unit it is gaurding moves.  when their target unit is charged, the daemon bots may counter charge assuming they are in range of the enemy, and they can see them.

two-headed weapon im assuming is a great weapon?

will if thats the case you could increase there T+1 just to make  it fare

Ya, those commands are not very good, why would anyone freelance? O_O

I definitely think you hit on a cool concept, one that I have thought of myself. I kind of imagined that CDs would create really crazy creatures by binding daemons to machines a la Hellcannon. There's so many possibilities that it really could be endless.

Demonmech magic items
Demonmech mounts
Demonmech units, fast and hard hitting or slow and tough
Demonmech artillery
etc.