Warriors of Chaos. Part Two.

Ok folks, so this should be a fairly short part of the WoC chatter. But this is the one my mate was interested in. How would I run Warriors of Chaos? Well, let's see...

When making this army list the first thing I did was put in four units of 10 chaos warriors with halberds. For 640 pts, each unit dishing out ~16/17 (depending on enemy frontage) S5 attacks at WS5 and I5 you couldn't go wrong. Right?

Then my next port of call was 2 units of 30 marauders with hand weapons, shields, light armour, the mark of tzeentch and a standard and musician. These set me back 424 points, but gave me a pair of anvils to work my force around. So far so good. Already over 1000pts down though. Whew, still, it's a rock solid core. Right, next up we'll add in 4 units of warhounds for 120 points, and a Hellcannon. That's 205pts down.

So currently our list looks like this;

Core
4 Units of:
10 Chaos Warriors
Halberds
160 (640)

2 Units of:
30 Marauders of Chaos
Mark of Tzeentch
Shields
Light Armour
Standard and Musician
212 (424)

4 Units of:
5 Chaos Warhounds
30 (120)

Rare
Hellcannon
205

From here I decided it was a good idea to go get some characters. First up, the Sorcerer Lord! I took him as a level 4, of course. Then I took a BSB. that's 405pts down so far, leaving me about 300 points to burn. Ok I thought, before I splurge all this on goodies, I'm taking another unit of 10 chaos warriors. Putting me at 50 chaos warriors. Considering 5 of these guys can hold their own against 25 empire swordsmen... yeah. Right then, now it came to the goodies. My Sorcerer got the Infernal Puppet (of course) and my BSB got the Armour of Morrslieb and the Mark of Tzeentch. Here I dropped a musician.

Then I realised my Sorcerer would be in combat, so I took an enchanted shield. Realising I was over points, I dropped two units of Warhounds. My exalted picked up a normal shield here. A bit of points jiggery pokery, an extra marauder later and I was sitting at 1990 points. Hurm, what can I get for 10 points? Necrotic Phylactery (immune to poison, the lore of death and the lore of nurgle, autopass all characteristic tests except LD) on my Sorcerer! That'll be great when they use things like Dwellers on him. So on it went. Ta da!

Ok, now, lore for my sorcerer. Honestly, in this army I like fire. Why? Well Chaos Mages aren't super magic batteries and fire, while not that devastating, is really easy to cast. It also helps with something WoC really struggle with (we'll go over this in part 3). Really killy monsters. As a fair few of these have regenerate I decided fire was a safe bet. Finally, it helps burn down small skirmish units. Sure, your opponent may let you thinking "Ha! He wasted a spell on a 60pt skirmisher unit!" but you don't have a better way to deal with them. Also, it helps with some units that WoC can't beat in combat. These tend to be the remnants of the "strike first, strike hard" cult from 7E. For example Black Guard, or all of the High Elves. As a final afterthought I realised my exalted didn't get that much from a shield, and could actually do a fair bit of damage to big monsters and those damned quick units with a flail. So I gave him one. A 4+/3++ will do him.

Then I realised my Warrior units don't have musicians. This needed fixed, so I dropped some Marauders. Swift reform in MSU is way way way too good to pass up.

So the final list is:

Lord
Sorcerer Lord
Level 4
Lore of Fire
Infernal Puppet
Enchanted Shield
Necrotic Phylactery
320

Heroes
Exalted Hero
BSB
Armour of Morrslieb
Flail
Mark of Tzeentch
184

Core
10 Warriors
Halberds
Musician
166

10 Warriors
Halberds
Musician
166

10 Warriors
Halberds
Musician
166

10 Warriors
Halberds
Musician
166

10 Warriors
Halberds
Musician
166

30 Marauders of Chaos
Mark of Tzeentch
Shields
Light Armour
Standard and Musician
212

26 Marauders of Chaos
Mark of Tzeentch
Shields
Light Armour
Standard
188

5 Warhounds
30

5 Warhounds
30

Rare
Hellcannon
205

Right, this army plays MSU. Except a unit of chaos warriors can take a fully ranked infantry unit, or any MSU infantry unit in the game barring high elf ones. That's where your marauder chaff comes in, as well as the fire mage.

Juggernauts? In my 8th edition?!

Speaking of the fire mage, he and your hellcannon are your reach. The only things in the army that can reliably reach out and touch things. But it shouldn't be that much of a problem. With as many units as this army you should easily be able to cover the board. ^^

Finally, the warhounds. There aren't enough to run out in front. Use them as redirectors still, but take advantage of your movement and run them right up in the way. Definitely keep them back early game.


Hope you guys enjoyed the article.