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I've been using a blood thirster for a while now along with a daemonic chained champion.

It's been working out great, I have yet to have the BT fail to show up when I need him.

I'm just curious as to if anyone has tried to use greater daemons without the chains.  Is it worth it to save the 20 points?

I've always summomed the BT as soon as I'm withing 18" of the enemy so I can get into HtH with it.  Has anyone tried to just use the championed new boosted strength?  Str 8 power weapon striking at I 4, or Str 9 at I 5 seems to be devastating.

I didn't use chains on my AC to help/stop the Keeper Of Secrets from poping out from my EC list. Although he was very excited to jump into the fight as I tended to roll a 6 many times when I wanted him to stay in the warp.

Chains are a good investment if you have the points. I really couldn't find the 20 points in my list, so I went without. I'd think that if any model probably didn't need the chains its the Thirster or Master of change. The wings will greatly help keep any unplanned summoning problems to a minimum, and he could make up lost movement if summoning gets delayed because of bad rolling.

However if you really really want your GD out next turn one option is to suicide the AC. Pull him if any casulties are forced on the unit. Sure you suffer instability, but only at the end of your turn. It might be enough time to let the GD do its job, sometimes only one round is all you need.

Meh, Ive lost a 6-wound GUO to bad instability rolls more than once.

Chains are great with a Plague Sword: 50% kill anything as long as you score 1 wound, and at S7 that's pretty easy.

I guess I should try it a few times without chains and see how that works out.

It's just a good feeling knowing that I have control in when the daemon comes out.

Control is often lacking in a world eater's army.