If you beat the units toughness, one model in the unit is destroyed. The Defiler has some nasty melee attacks with its claws, hitting at S16 and D6 damage, but only has 5 attacks, plus another 3 with its 2-damage scourge. The one exception is when you really want to take an action secondary in a matchup like Abandoned Sanctuaries against Harlequins, where none of the other actions make any sense. You get these free if your Apostle has a mark. Chaos Space Marines have access to some great character options in the form of Daemon Princes, Lords Discordant, Dark Apostles, and Sorcerers, to name a few. They can be solid mid-range support in other armies, though many armies may find Havocs are a better play thanks to the legion trait. Who are we?'. A 6 Heroic is solid, and the extra attack is a nice little bonus. 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But if you made a Defiler much better at one of those two things for cheaper, you just end up with Forgefiends and Maulerfiends. Four guys with chainswords or bolters (it doesnt really matter), and one with a balefire tome and Prescience. Night Lords players can also have some fun with their extra -1 Leadership aura. The rest of your army will be forward/push threats, which take the battle to your opponent, disrupt their plans, and ideally pin them in their deployment zone. This is exceptionally good, and almost reason alone to mark your units as Slaanesh. Leader of the loyalist Red Corsairs, he was assigned to patrol the Maelstrom, a much smaller area of warp instability like the Eye of Terror. If theres a downside to this, its that you cant combine it with a Mark of Chaos. This is another very solid durability buff, and can pair well with Nurgle Terminators who want the added durability. With the recent updates to Lords of War in the GT missions pack and the FAQ allowing passengers to climb out the turn it arrives, the Kharybdis is much more playable, but still too expensive to be competitive. At the end of the game you score 2 VP if your tally is 1, 5 if its 2, 9 if its 3, and 14 if its 4. These returned models cant be set up within Engagement Range of enemy units, unless those units are already within Engagement Range of the unit. This is one happy Chaos player! Note that some named Characters like Lucius and Abaddon enjoy getting powered up by this spell in their specific Legions, and its sometimes useful for making one model with an upgraded melee weapon like a Chainfist or Heavy Chainaxe hit extra hard. Each time this happens, roll 2D6, and if you roll under the wounds characteristic of the dead model, you get +1 Command Point. Pick a TRAITORIS ASTARTES HELBRUTE model in your army hit by one or more of those attacks and not currently in Engagement Range of an enemy. 2 Wounds confirmed! Chaos Marines are going to get two wounds each. Typically these units add a number of combi-meltas, power fists, and chainfists in order to maximize their damage output, though your mileage may vary based on how many points you have left. It also gives you access to the Chaos Space Marine version of Transhuman Physiology, which can make your Characters much more durable in a pinch. If you pick this, keep a Dark Gods tally and add 1 each time you do the secondary action. World Eaters Heavy Gunner. Note that weve split this article up, and are now covering the major Chaos legions in separate articles. To build out some character in your force, wed recommend looking at a Sorcerer with Jump Pack, to be able to take advantage of more Psychic abilities while zipping around the board, giving Warptime to your troops in unexpected places, and keeping your opponent on their toes. Give them the Warp Vision fell bond to prevent their targets from getting Light Cover and youre set. Having to use a Lord of War slot on this is, obviously, kind of terrible, but its also extremely hilarious, and has been pushed hard enough cost wise to make it at least fun to use. At the end of your turn, score 1 VP for each enemy unit that was destroyed by a TRAITORIS ASTARTES unit from your army this turn and was within range of an objective marker at the start of this turn. 2 Wound Chaos Space Marines are FINALLY coming! Until the start of your next Psychic phase, roll a D6 each time a model in that unit loses a wound; on a 5+ it doesnt lose that wound. Theres some real value to be had in doing this, primarily the ability to just dump three units of flamers into your roster. Thats more than fine, given how unlikely it is youll want to take more than two of these. This article took weeks to write and ended up being more like a short novel in length, so theres probably something I missed or didnt get right. This volume 10 attacks total makes him an excellent target for the. As an added bonus, this model is a WARP LOCUS, so he can drop in any Daemon codex units that have tagged along a mere 6 from the enemy. The Master of Executions is basically designed to be a mortal wounds machine, and pairs well with Hatred Incarnate (+1 attack/strength on the charge, re-roll hits), to let him fish for mortal wounds and get the extra attack, and also with Ulocca, which lets him generate extra mortals on the hit rolls that dont immediately become two mortal wounds. We invite you to delve into the darker side of the Warhammer 40,000 universe with us and learn just who the Chaos Space Marines are, where they come from, and how they play on the tabletop battlefield. The Mark of Slaanesh is just really, really good. This is pretty solid, and helps a unit that otherwise just doesnt have enough damage output. Now you should be more acquainted with the fearsome, fun-loving chaps who make up the Chaos Space Marines, with a few ideas of what to watch for on the battlefield, and who you might want to pick up when building a force. In addition to giving you special rules, Legions also give you access to Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Relics, and Secondary Objectives. This got a big glow-up, and is great for increasing your damage output. And once you factor in all the other weapon changes they are also going to get access to, well, I think they might have just gotten the better end of the deal than Classic Marines. There are a few niggles for some fans, such as the lack of custom Legions (you have to simply copy the Legion thatbest matches your intended playstyle), the removal of some wargear options for popular units (jump packs for Chaos Lords are a thing of the past), and some Dark Hereticus Discipline powers feeling a little underpowered. be upgraded. Chaos Space Marine armies have access to a large variety of subfactions, each with their own special rules called. Khrn the Betrayer wasnt always known as the Betrayer. Recurring tactical nightmare of the Imperium. Namely that its big, hard to deploy, and will sit in your deployment zone all game while the majority of your units want to be pushing toward the middle of the table grabbing objectives. Theres typically no reason to take this over Banners or even Retrieve Nephilim Data. The Decimator is a unit thats managed to stick around in some competitive lists despite losing its access to easy re-rolls and the ability to push out tons of extra hits with modified hit rolls. Berzerkers (World Eaters, White Dwarf #477), Noise Marines (Emperors Children, Codex: Chaos Space Marines). The real value of these units is that you have another cheap ObSec option that sits between Cultists and Chaos Space Marines, with significantly more firepower and durability than the former. Let's take a look at those cult troops and just imagine the possibilities. On the whole, the ability to toss out mortal wounds at 24 is pretty solid, and Decimators offer that on a fairly durable platform. Where the real value comes in for Terminators however is in the upgrades and synergies available to them. Its not great, but its not terrible, either. Whatever their beginnings, Chaos Space Marines have become one of the most well represented forces in Warhammer 40k. While there are other ways to soup, including lists that run Abaddon, Mortarion, and Magnus, the most common and popular ways to soup for Chaos Space Marines are to either include Chaos Knights in the army or a detachment of Chaos Daemons. It also has a much more sturdy defensive profile, and an improved version of the thermal jets rule for stuff it flies over. who has 6 attacks and gets +1 to wound on the charge. Hes always got the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword, and if your army includes any CHAOS LORD models (which includes the likes of Abaddon, Lucius, Haarken, and Huron Blackheart, he can be included in a detachment without taking up a slot. Custom40k Homebrew - Alternate activation, huge customisation, better balance and more fun! If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. This is pretty solid, moreso than the +1 to hit it used to be, and it pairs very well with the Black Legions Legion Trait, which gives +1 to hit when shooting the closest eligible target. On the more generic side buffs tend to be more useful than debuffs, and Benediction of Darkness and Illusory Supplication are both solid, with the latter being extremely useful for keeping your black rune Terminator brick on the table. When Horus fell, it was a time of great despair for all Chaos Space Marines and none felt that despair more keenly than his own legion, the Sons of Horus. All TRAITORIS ASTARTES units (excluding CULTISTS, SLAVES TO DARKNESS, and AGENTS OF CHAOS) with this ability gain a Legion Trait, provided every unit in your army is from the same Legion. Being able to psychic action and still cast one power is pretty solid, and that makes this a decent pick for psykers who need to cast Psychic Interrogation. Still a very good power, though the WC 7 requirement does make it a bit of a crap shoot compared to other powers. Otherwise, this is generally the mark of choice for Terminators and Chosen since getting to S6 with the Mark of Khorne isnt as useful as getting to fight first. Flamers are one of the games best units, and immediately make any army better. Phew, that was an odyssey! Once an also-ran to the Dark Hereticus Discipline, these are now the money powers for Chaos, and there are several here that youll want to include in every army you field. This mostly helps Bikers and Terminators live up to their full potential by giving you four shots per model with their Rapid Fire 2 guns, albeit still at S4 AP0. Note that Noise Marines come with the Mark of Slaanesh built into their points cost, so you dont need to pay additional points for their mark. Im starting to think thats not a Tyranid wing. As a unit their best value is loading them up with melee wargear like the cleaver and flail so they can do a bunch of high-damage wounds to opponents, but this just makes them a very slow melee unit in an army that is already flush with melee options that move faster and hit harder. This is a fine ability, and will let you fish for 6s while Wanton Slaughter is active. Youve got better, cheaper options, though. Noise Marines are the Slaanesh-devoted Elite unit in the Chaos Codex, armed with a fun host of stellar abilities and some of the better shooting weapons in the game. The Malefic discipline is the clear winner of the two from a power level standpoint, but there are some gems in the Dark Hereticus Discipline youll want to consider. A carryover from Death Guard, this one looks better than it is. On the flip side, this unit can be incredibly annoying to remove thanks to its. There are 9 original traitor legions, three of which Death Guard, Thousand Sons, and soon, World Eaters have their own codexes (and their own Start Competing articles). You might have caught the video at the end of the Warhammer Preview Online. Though he is not a Night Lord, he weaponises fear much as they would, able to drive his foes to madness and worse through manipulation of terrifying messages and broadcasts. and their inbuilt re-rolls to wound to wound T6-9 targets 75% of the time. Games are so much better. At 250 points a 10-model Chosen unit starts to get on the pricey side, but thats still getting you 30 wounds that you can protect and buff with a variety of effects. This article took weeks to write and ended up being more like a short novel in length, so theres probably, I missed or didnt get right. Up for pre-order on June 25, 2022 and released on July 2, the 9th edition Chaos Space Marines codex is now alive and kicking, and we can get up to speed on the long war. Each time a model in this unit makes a melee attack, if the models unit made a charge move, was charged, or performed a Heroic Intervention this turn, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack. In addition to these there are three god-aligned psychic powers youll get if your psyker has the appropriate mark. Warhammer 40k's Chaos Space Marines wreak havoc from the Eye of Terror across the galaxy - here's our guide to lore, tactics, and collecting. Blackstone Fortress Chaos Ogryn by Craig MasterSlowPoke Sniffen. While well cover Abaddons impact on Black Legion armies in the legion article for them (spoiler: Hes a must-take), when Abaddon is your Warlord (and he must be if you include him), then he gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword, allowing you to mix him with other legions and armies in the Supreme Command Detachment. This is a solid durability boost, and having the mark essentially means that the unit can only be wounded on either a 5+ or a 3+, depending on the strength of the attack. Chosen come in units of 5-10 and can be given several different weapon options, including combi-weapons and double accursed weapons, though most of the time youll be kitting them out for melee, giving them a couple of power fists if you upgrade them at all. On top of that, the Mark of Slaanesh gives you the Murderous Perfection Stratagem, letting you change a die roll for a hit/wound/damage to a 6 in the Shooting or Fight phase, while Excessive Cruelty lets you punish enemy units attempting to Fall Back by consolidating 3 or shooting the unit leaving. Though unity has long since fled the Chaos Space Marines (many legions are now little more than pirates or raiders) they still occasionally work together under the direction of the new Warmaster; Abaddon the Despoiler. The Lord Discordant is an absolute blender in melee, coming with 6 attacks base that hit at S6, AP-3, 2 damage but with +1 to wound on the charge, plus another 8 attacks from the Helstalker and his tendrils. You can only make one attack, you get +1 to hit, and if you hit you do 2D3 mortal wounds and the attack sequence ends. Which is to say, not very high. The beat their toughness rider isnt amazing but if you think about this as just a targeted D3 mortal wounds for WC 6, thats pretty solid just on its own. In case you missed the news from AdeptiCon, Games Workshop snuck this one in late last night. ". Its about freakin time! Thats not something you actually want to do most games you want to be sitting on and controlling those objectives when your turn starts so you can score primary points. Although the Heldrake can drop into Hover mode and reliably make a turn 1 charge with its 20 movement, with only 5 attacks that do 2 damage against most targets, its seldom going to do real damage, and because its an AIRCRAFT it cant actually hold anything in combat units can just make a normal move to get away. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. The priest gets +3 Attacks and you improve the AP of his melee weapons by 2. This is pretty solid, and can make a fine stealth inclusion in a terminator, chosen, or raptor unit on a champion who can throw out some nastier-than-expected attacks. Youll need to be aggressive early and often, and work on when and how you can crash into your opponents lines early. as they are not a CULTIST MOB). Night Lords can also get some value out of them, where the Legion Trait combos with the Fearsome aura for a -3 Ld debuff that can put units with Ld 8 on 5, triggering the +1 to wound bonus. Its cheaper, but what you get isnt quite worth it. Its also one of the few ways to get hit re-rolls on your characters. Our final recommendation for your starter Chaos Space Marine army is a Chaos Rhino. Plague Marines come with T5 and. Still, there are a few basics that every Chaos Space Marine army can benefit from, so lets take a look at them. The Lord of Skulls comes with the Khorne keyword baked in and comes with a big axe and two guns a gorestorm cannon and a hades gatling cannon. Specifically, there are 4 powers that are eminently playable in the mix, with two that you want to build around Pact of Flesh and Cursed Earth, specifically. Considering basically every army gets rerolls to hit or hits on 2s or 3s with their dangerous units, this prayer is a near auto-include for most lists. Thats not a bad profile for what you pay, and if you take an Ogryn, you use its Toughness for attacks against the unit and you have to allocate attacks and mortal wounds to the Ogryn first. In the second round, youll move into Wanton Massacre, where the same applies, but for Rapid Fire, Assault, and Pistol weapons. In addition to having a decent statline with 6 attacks, the Daemon Prince must take a Mark of Chaos for one of the four Chaos Gods, giving him +1 Strength and attack if you Khorne or making him a Psyker if you take one of the others. Upgrades a melee weapon. At T5 and 3 wounds with a 5+ invulnerable save, Possessed have enough durability to weather a bit of shooting, particularly with help from Cursed Earth and Pact of Flesh, but are more valuable as forward combat units that crash into enemy lines early than as midtable objective brawlers. If you beat the leadership of that enemy unit, then pick one: Either that unit cant perform actions and any actions it was doing immediately fail, or it cant fire Overwatch or Set to Defend, and fights last in the Fight phase. The mighty Leviathan offers a 2+ save over its Contemptor-bodied brethren, but still comes with the 1 CP cost and the challenge of being a unit that neither shoots nor fights well enough to be worth its cost. Which trait a unit get depends on which legion theyre from. This is still a Mark youre going to want to have access to in most lists, because its Chaos Space Marines only access to a Stratagem to Deny the Witch, though Abaddon will be most lists backdoor way into getting access to that. Also great for getting out some of those extra god powers, or occasionally throwing out a random smite after youve cast your buff powers to help finish a target off. On the more generic side buffs tend to be more useful than debuffs, and. This latter ability is pretty solid against larger vehicles where youre more likely to get close to the 6-wound cap. Theres a lot more to Chaos Space Marines than just understanding the units; if you want to be successful you have to put them all together in a way that will work for you on the table. 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Outside of Creations of Bile and Word Bearers, youre mostly going to end up taking standard secondaries, and even those present challenges. While Fabius Bile is certainly a Chaos Space Marine (he was one of the Emperors Children legion after all), he has long since strayed from any one legion. Once per battle, the bearer can use an Epic Deed Stratagem for 0 CP, plus they can re-roll hit rolls in melee, and at the start of the Command phase, you can pick a CORE unit in your army on the table to automatically be in range of one of the bearers abilities, if those abilities are Lord of Chaos (re-roll 1s to hit), Aspire to Glory (re-roll 1s to wound), or Demogogue (Use the models Leadership). Chaos Space Marines look like Marines, but dont let that fool you: They have a very different feel and play style to standard Space Marines, with a much more aggressive melee-focused approach to the game. Hellbrutes used to have some weird outside play when they had 8 movement as cheap, mobile melee threats but since every 9th edition Codex has dropped them back to 6 movement theyve become slow vehicles that neither have enough attacks nor enough shooting to be good enough to see play. This can throw a real wrench into your opponents plans, and against some armies can make a big difference. From there, you should look at providing yourself a little defence. Pick a visible enemy unit within 18 and roll 3D6. Its ability to deep strike and drop off 12 models is great to have, particularly for Emperors Children armies that can use. Otherwise, this is generally the mark of choice for Terminators and Chosen since getting to S6 with the Mark of Khorne isnt as useful as getting to fight first. This is fine, though the positioning restrictions make it really difficult to use effectively. This is particularly a challenge when it comes to your Psyker characters: Youll typically want a Master of Possession, but will seldom want to waste his casts on doing Psychic Interrogation, forcing you to find a way to fit another psyker character into the army and that has to be an HQ choice. Youre going to have to do double the damage you were doing before only to get slapped right back in the process. This is solid for taking down big targets, but youve got other ways to do that and very limited spell slots to work with. The Heldrake has the choice between a Baleflamer and a Hades Autocannon and you will take the Baleflamer 100% of the time as it spits out a minimum of 4 hits every time it shoots. KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE, or SLAANESH. This is also great, and something youll use frequently if youre playing with the likes of Maulerfiends and Decimators. Also great to use on your opponents attempts to Interrogate. Youll use this sometimes to increase damage or reduce variance against a key target, but its a lot harder to justify given how limited CP are for CSM in general. This is pretty nasty, and can make a huge difference softening up a key enemy unit with a high toughness. Useful for adding some Cultist models onto an objective in your Command Phase to score some more Primary points. A unit of Accursed Cultists comes with 5-10 upgrade Cultist bodies S4 T4 and 2 attacks each plus between 3 and 6 Torment models, which are basically 3-wound, T4 Chaos Spawn, though they trade the Spawns new regeneration ability for a 6+ feel no pain roll. keyword, so they wont get that wonderful AP boost, sadly. We talk about the special characters in their relevant legion articles: Chaos Space Marines have four options at the Troops slot and theyve all got some value, ranging largely from utility with Legionaries to being dirt cheap with Cultist Mobs. This is primarily a review of the units and options that are specific to Chaos Space Marines, but Chaos Space Marines can be combined with Daemons and Chaos Knights in interesting ways, and well talk about those as well. Almost every competitive list runs this. The CSM Land Raider comes with the same 2+ save, but has Toughness 9, making it considerably tougher to crack. Overall Obliterators are very good but not amazing and just dont really make the cut in most competitive lists, particularly because you can just punch things to death and in part because theyre slow and expensive. Chaos itself has existed in the setting as long as sentient beings have drawn breath, but for Chaos Space Marines we have to look instead to three select individuals: the Emperor, WarmasterHorus Lupercal, and Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers legion. box. No challenge to their status intended. NURGLE model only. They really need a Rhino, Dreadclaw, or other transport to get them to the fight, but they can be properly annoying to handle and theyre great for going up against tougher units with damage reduction. Based strictly on the old Aspiring Champion plastic model from the 7th edition version of the Dark Vengeance starter kit, the Exalted Champion comes with an exalted power axe, a combi-melta, and an aura to re-roll wound rolls of 1 for nearby units, making him more like the space marine Lieutenants he resembles. That said, a unit of 5 noise marine with sonic blasters and a blastmaster isnt a bad unit to have for mid-range fire support in more casual environments. The Ogryn is more of a bruiser and can be a legitimate threat, with 5 attacks that hit on a 3+ and a S7, AP-1 2-damage profile, plus an additional claw attack that comes in at S6, AP-2, 3 damage. This contains a Master of Possession, a Venomcrawler, two Obliterators, two Greater Possessed, and a unit of ten Chaos Space Marines. Emperors Children Sonic Dreadnought Credit: That Gobbo. Benediction of Darkness, Litany of Despair, and Omen of Potency. The Venomcrawler got moved to Fast Attack in the 9th edition codex, gaining a 12 move characteristic in the process. It takes effect until the beginning of your next Command phase. Then grab your eight-pointed star and strap in because Chaos Space Marines may be the army for you! Each time an attack with that weapon is allocated to an enemy model, invulnerable saving throws cant be made against the attack. Until your next Psychic phase, that unit gets either +1 Strength or +1 Toughness. And, with a brand new 9th edition Chaos Space Marines codex to play with, theyre finally a flexible, competitive tabletop army once again. Your army will typically have a lot of strong melee threats but a savvy opponent can still divide and conquer those individually if you arent careful. On top of all this, the Warpsmith comes with a flamer, a melta pistol, and either a 2-damage power axe or a thunder hammer. Also, the power that Slaanesh psykers pick up Delightful Agonies is very, very good and helps make your most durable units even harder to remove. The Chaos Fire Raptor may be the best of the bunch but it still lacks the kind of firepower it needs, as do the Storm Eagle, Hellblade, and Hell Talon, and the Fire Raptor and Storm Eagle will each set you back 1 CP to field. With the rise of Primaris Space Marines, he may now have all the new material hell ever need to twist Chaos Space Marines into new forms, finally perfecting his lifes work. New Chaos Space Marine Codex 2022 . This ability replaces and upgrades the usual rules for firing Rapid Fire weapons, such as Bolters. Most are not. But if you made a Defiler much better at one of those two things for cheaper, you just end up with Forgefiends and Maulerfiends. 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