This is confusing already. on the surface, this looks like 10 Chaos Marines, 2 Greater Possessed and a Chaos Lord. However… This is your option for bog-standard Chaos Space Marines, though thanks to Kill Team: Nachmund, they now have a ton of options and ways to be kitted out that make Legionaries useful includes in a Chaos Space Marines army. While they’re not the most efficient units in the codex, they definitely have some real play depending on your Legion and playstyle. You get these free if your Apostle has a mark. They’ve all got their uses, and do more than just buffing your Dark Apostle these days. His fall led many other legions to go with him, either manipulated to Chaos’ side, or drawn through promises of power beyond imagination, more often than not aided by Primarchs’ simple hatred of the Emperor himself.

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 you’ll be kitting them out for melee, giving them a couple of power fists if you upgrade them at all. If you do manage to kill an enemy unit with your Chosen they get to count as engaged in all three Wanton modes for the rest of the game, which is a fun bonus if they can shoot something to death early but most games won’t matter as they’ll be geared out for melee. Secondly, we have several varieties of shapeless, many-mouthed tentacular terrors – ranging from the apparently cute Horrors (which start off one colour, then gleefully split into multiple, different-coloured copies just when you think you’ve killed them) to the fast-moving, sharp-spined flying Screamers– ravenous airborne stingray daemons that’ll descend upon you in the blink of an eye and embrace you in a warm blanket of oscillating fangs and digestive acids. Marks represent the benefits units get for devoting themselves to the Chaos powers. Non-Cultist UNDIVIDED CORE or CHARACTER units in CHAOS SPACE MARINES detachments can be upgraded to have a Mark of Chaos, and every DAEMON PRINCE model must be upgraded. When you upgrade a unit, you increase its cost by 15 points and 1 PL, and it loses the CHAOS UNDIVIDED keyword and gains the relevant MARK OF CHAOS keyword, i.e. KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE, or SLAANESH. Note that Psykers can’t have the Mark of Khorne. This saw him embrace Chaos earlier than any of the other Primarchs, leading him to begin seeding traitors throughout his brothers’ legions. It was one of these, Erebus, who oversaw the final corruption of Horus, leading the way to over ten thousand years of endless war.On the battlefield, Nurgle Daemons pair perfectly with their Astartes allies in the Death Guard, but are equally viable as a standalone force – perhaps even more than the other Daemon armies, due to the uncommon survivability gifted them by their Disgustingly Resilient rule. Then comes the complexity of how many issues are in each delivery. because this is different for everyone depending what isue you stared your sub with! to keep it easy, I’m going to assume you started with Issue 1 and if you want to risk playing about by getting some issues in shops and subscribing with premium from Issue 5 onwards the results be at your own risk. Field a Word Bearers army and you’ll likely have a core of heretic Astartes warriors, led by psychic Chaos Sorcerers and Dark Apostles, driving before them a host of brainwashed cultists to soak up enemy fire while the psykers summon daemonic allies to your aid. Based on the cost of the Start Collecting Box, devided by the number of models in that box then multiplied by the 12 models you get in this premium kit.

On the whole, the Enforcer is just OK. The Ogryn’s an interesting beater, but ultimately there’s no shortage of good melee threats in the Elites slot for Chaos Space Marines. The attrition benefit is OK, but given your traitor guardsmen are 7 Ld and only come in units of 10 it’s not super likely you’ll use it in most games. Chaos Terminator Squad If you’re taking the Master of Executions, chances are you want him to have the Mark of Slaanesh so he can fight first after intervening. This turns him into an especially deadly counter-charge threat, as staying more than 6” away from him is a real challenge. Traitor Enforcer As a unit, Cultists are fragile and they don’t shoot or fight particularly well. They have insanely low Leadership (6 with a champion), and so will likely lose models any time they take casualties. They aren’t worth spending points to upgrade, and you’ll almost never want to expose them to blast weapons by making them units of 11+. The Thousand Sons– the powerfully psychic, scholarly philosopher-soldiers of the XV legion – followed an especially tragic path into the damned service of the Ruinous Powers, and the well-intentioned, yet disastrous actions of their copper-skinned primarch Magnus the Red live in infamy, as crucial links in the chain reaction that brought the Imperium to its knees. You can find out the story of all the many things Magnus did wrongin our guide to Warhammer 40k memes. Inferno Tome – PRIEST model only, can be given to a CULTISTS model. The bearer knows an additional prayer and each time they chant, if they succeed, the closest enemy unit within 18” and visible takes D3 mortal wounds. This is a pretty nifty way to open up your options and turn your Apostle into a Smite machine, but will likely just lose out to other options. The ability to hit the closest visible enemy for mortals is a lot less useful when you can’t move before firing it off (though you can save your prayer for the Fell Prayers Stratagem in a pinch), so the real value here is on the extra prayer. C

From there, you should look at providing yourself a little defence. What’s more defensive than a meat shield? Nothing, sograbsome Chaos Cultists. These won’t do much in either melee or ranged combat, but they will do two thing: draw fire whilst you get your units into position, and hold objectives while your marines take the fight to the enemy. Don’t feel sad about seeing them get mown down; they’re only humans. These so-called Chaos gods are the personifications of all the deepestmetaphysical aspects ofmortal beings; they are our darkest sins, dreams, fears, and vulnerabilities made manifest:immortal, immaterial avatars ofevery thought and emotion westruggle to master, but can never escape. Other Primarchs joined the ranks of Horus and Lorgar: Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons; Angron and the World Eaters; Alpharius of the mysterious Alpha Legion; Fulgrim and his perfection-seeking sons, the Emperor’s Children; Perturabo and the Iron Warriors; Konrad Curze of the Night Lords; and, finally Mortarion of the Death Guard. Cheap Melee Trading. Five models with chainswords, the Mark of Khorne, and an Icon. These guys come in at S5 on the charge and AP-2 and if you’re in something like Creations of Bile they get even nastier.

Horus was the fulcrum around which the Chaos Space Marines pivoted from loyalty to heresy. He was the Warmaster of all Space Marines until a combination of hubris, plotting, and a magic knife led him to the welcoming arms of Chaos. 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 work in Warhammer 40k 10th edition.

In any legion but the one they foremost belong to, these units are Elites choices and can never gain a Legion Trait. However, this doesn’t mean that they aren’t worth taking – to the contrary and as we’ll see, these units can be very powerful in standard Chaos Space Marines armies, though some more than others. 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. Score 2 VP if you control any objective markers that were controlled by your opponent at the start of the turn and a TRAITORIS ASTARTES unit from your army is within range of any of those objective markers. You can score a maximum of 3 VP per turn from this secondary objective. One of the new additions to the faction is the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword, which helps differentiate the more standard Chaos Space Marines from the likes of the Death Guard (Bubonic Astartes) and Thousand Sons (Arcana Astartes). This is separate from the HERETIC ASTARTES keyword in that it denotes the faction. Note that Cultists have the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword to mark them as of the same faction, but no longer have HERETIC ASTARTES, so they don’t get Armour of Contempt. Champions of Chaos While Fabius Bile is certainly a Chaos Space Marine (he was one of the Emperor’s Children legion after all), he has long since strayed from any one legion. Devoted to nothing but his own perverted ideal of perfecting Space Marine flesh, he has become a chirurgeon and scientist without peer, mainly because he’ll conduct experiments no sane person would dare consider. 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. At 6/7 Leadership they’re also less likely to flee or kill you on Dread Tests and for 10 points more getting a unit that can actually ruin someone’s day with a meltagun and plasma gun is pretty solid. This gives Chaos Space Marines four solid Troops choices in their games, and that’s pretty cool. Elites

The Legion Trait rules apply to all of your units (with the exceptions listed above), not just your INFANTRY, HELBRUTES, and BIKERS, as used to be the case. In addition to giving you special rules, Legions also give you access to Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Relics, and Secondary Objectives. And Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure, is obsession, desire, and excess – the ever-hungry inner void, the whispering voice inside your head that craves constant sensation; they are seduction, addiction, gluttony, selfishness, and self-destruction in one.

World Eaters are the odd men out here, currently working off a White Dwarf article, but they’ll move over to the “own Codex” group when their Codex releases in the future. These provide you with great flexibility when fighting either hordes or high-toughness units like vehicles. However, a unit making a Dark Pact must pass a leadership test afterwards; should it fail, it suffer D3 mortal wounds.