Here is the first round of rumors and pics from the upcoming Warriors of Chaos army book. Rumors and pics found on TTGN and Warseer (SPECIAL KUDOS TO AVIAN FROM WARSEER FOR THE COMPILATION.)
Based on stuff that may, or may not, be 100% true but from someone who went to GW HQ and purports to have learned this there…
In the upcoming rules (the book, not WD):
Chosen are a seperate unit slot from Warriors, and Chosen Knights have “stats to rape a blood knight.”
Normal chaos warriors are WS6 with 2 attacks, wearing chaos armour.
Plastic box sets for Knights, Hounds and Marauder Horsemen, all £12. 5 of the Knights and Marauders in there, unsure of Hounds, possibly 10.
Two new units in the list, one of which is a unit of semi-spawn chaos warriors. Can’t remember what the second unit was.
New models for Chosen, apparently very large and impressive.
Chosen Knights have lances, or a lance option.
Can’t remember anything else right now, but it made my mouth water at the thought.
The book is due in November 2008. It will focus on the mortal followers of the chaos gods, with more unit choices than currently, and next to no daemons. It will include Dragon Ogres, Shaggoths, Giants, Ogres and Trolls.
The name of the book is Warriors of Chaos, around 128 pages and writteen by Phil Kelly
New models in the first wave
- Plastic Chaos Knights (5)
- Plastic Marauder Horsemen (5)
- Plastic Warhounds (10)
- Metal Chosen Warriors with great weapons (assume two different boxes of 5, one with command)
- Metal Chaos Lord of Khorne on Jugger
- Metal Chaos Lord of Khorne on foot
- Metal Chaos Lord on Chaos Steed
- Metal Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle
- Wulfric the Wanderer
- Sigvald the Magnificent
Coming up in febuary:
- Plastic Daemon Prince(!)
Spearhead box contains 36 minis and the army book:
-5 Knights
-5 Marauder Horsemen
-10 Warhounds
-10 Chosen
-6 metal characters (Khorne Lord on foot & Jugger, generic Lord on steed, Nurgle Sorcerer, Sigvald the Magnificent and Wulfric the Wanderer)
Battalion box is rumoured to contain:
-12 Warriors
-20 Marauders
-5 Marauder Horsemen
-10 Warhounds
There is supposedly a second wave due in the not too distant future, with models for the Forsaken, War Altar, a new plastic Chariots and possibly even more things.
How does this list combine with the recent Daemons of Chaos list and the Beast of Chaos list (due for an update in 2009)?
The new books are all stand-alone, so there will suppsedly be no option to use the other books. However, certain units and characters from the Beast and Daemon books are appearing in this one as well (ex: Daemon Princes, Chaos Trolls, Dragon Ogres…).
Army special rule
All units in the army can re-roll failed PANIC tests. This applies to all units and is a replacement of the old Mark of Chaos Undivided.
Marks of Chaos
- generally Marks appear to be getting cheaper and the effect of the same Mark varies more depending on which unit it is given to. So the Mark of Khorne might do very different things on a Chaos Lord compared to what it does on a Chaos Warrior or a Spawn.
Mark of Khorne
- Frenzy (though not for Giants)
Mark of Nurgle
- attacking models get a penalty of -1 WS and BS
Mark of Slaanesh
- Immune to Psychology
- Characters and Rare units also gain the Always Strike First rule
Mark of Tzeentch
- 6+ Ward save (or +1 to your Ward save if you have one already)
- Wizards also gain a +1 bonus to cast spells
Chaos Gifts
These are in ADDITION to the points a character can spend on magic items, very much like Vampire Powers work. Not know exactly what they do.
Eye of the Gods
There is apparently a table of chaos rewards that characters and units can get to roll on before or during the game. For example Chosen units supposedly start with a roll on this table, while characters supposedly get to roll on it after killing enemies in challenges and if they kill a Large Target.
2: Gain Stupidity (no extra effect if you have it already)
3-6: various boosts
7: No effect
8-10: various boosts
11: Gain Fear, or Terror if you already cause Fear
12: Stubborn and 4+ Ward save
It is not known if duplicate stat boosts stack. Effects last for the rest of the battle.
Chaos Magic
There will be separate lores for the mortal followers of Chaos, they will NOT use the Daemon lores from the Daemon book.
Lore of Slaanesh
-Not changed much from the Hordes of Chaos list
Lore of Tzeentch
#6 Unknown name, cast on 15+. Does 2D6 hits at 2D6 Strength. On an 11 or 12 (for Strength?) it “kills the unit” (wounds automatically with no save?)
Lore of Nurgle
No details
Lords
Chaos Lord
- some new metal models (a generic one on steed and a couple of Khornate ones)
- heaps of options
Exalted Sorcerer
Daemon Prince
- will (thankfully) remain more useful than Daemon Princes from the Daemonic Legion book
Heroes
Exalted Champion
Aspiring Champion
Sorcerer
- new metal model for a Sorcerer of Nurgle
Character mounts
- Chaos steed
- Daemonic Steed
- Juggernaut of Khorne
- Steed of Slaanesh
- Disk ofTzeentch
- Palanquin of Nurgle
- Manticore - takes up extra Hero choice if taken by a Hero
- Chaos Dragon - takes up extra Hero choice
Core units
- there was supposedly a rumoured cultist unit, but that appears to have been incorrect, or possibly mistaken for something else
Chaos Warriors
- presumably the boxed set stays the same for the moment
- all units get Chaos armour, not just Chosen
- normal Warriors get 2 Attacks (but are still “only” WS5)
- cheaper in the temporary list, unknown price in the book
- presumably all units can get a magic standard
Marauders
- presumably the boxed set stays the same for the moment
- base cost 1 pt cheaper (not known if they get any more equipment as standard)
- still no option for Marks
Marauder Horsemen
- new plastic set of 5 models
- can get Marks of Chaos
- can re-roll pursuit rolls if they wish
Warhounds
- new plastic boxed set of 10 models
- only unit that does not count towards the minimum number of Core units in the army
- do not cause Panic in other units if they flee or are destroyed
- can by scaly skin (presumably 5+) or poisoned attacks for +3 pts / model
Special units
Chosen Warriors
- now a separate entry
- Weapon Skill 6 with 3 attacks each, otherwise similar to Warriors
- start the game with a roll on the Eye of the Gods table (sort of like Possessed in 40K)
- unknown which other improvements they get over the new improved Warriors
- new set of metal models with great weapons
Chaos Knights
- new plastic boxed set of 5 models
- 40 pts each, with stats equivalent to old Chosen Knights (i.e. 2 attacks, and chaos armour), though base S is now 4
- units start with magical weapons that also give them +1 Strength (i.e. 5 total) and may swap these for (non-magical) lances
- cause Fear
- there is no longer any Chosen knights, though normal knights get nastier since they (like the new Warriiors) have the profile of 6th edition Chosen
Chaos Chariot
- new plastic boxed set at some point
- cheaper (~100 pts)
- 2 per Special choice
Forsaken Warriors
- apparently a unit of Chaos Warriors that are on their way to getting a bit too many mutations for their own good
- Frenzied
- Movement 6
- D3+1 attacks base. In addition to this they get +1 attack for having two hand weapons and +1 attack while frenzied (so 4-6 A total per model)
- heavy armour only
- Otherwise quite similar to Warriors, and only slightly more expensive.
- They are human-sized guys and come on standard 25 mm square bases. They don’t skirmish.
- can be marked, though presumably the marks work slightly differently for them than they do for warriors (it would be pointless if the mark of Khorne gave them standard frenzy one more time, for example).
Chaos Ogres
- Get Chaos Armour
- Can be given Marks of Chaos
Chaos Trolls
- base cost 10 points cheaper
- If they regenerate 2 or more wounds in the same phase (?) they get a roll on the Eye of the Gods table
- have access to some upgrades (unknown which)
Dragon Ogres
- Can be given Marks of Chaos
- now get command options
Rare units
Chaos Giant
- can be given Marks of Chaos
Hellcannon
- can get daemonic gifts(?)
- only take up 1 Rare choice
Spawn
- still 1-2 per Rare
- Marks have supposedly changed a bit
Shaggoth
- can be given Marks
- better stat line for essentially the same cost
- only take up a single Rare choice
Chaos War Shrine
- Quite similar to the VC Corpse Cart in that it is on a chariot base, but moves and fights like a monster. May not be joined by characters.
- In the shooting phase, any characters within 12″ must immediately issue a challenge if they are in combat and fight it. If they win they get to roll on the Gods table. Note that by this benefit from the Shrine, they can get a roll in the shoot phase and the combat phase if there are enough models to challenge. (details unclear)
Special characters
Archaon
- 685 pts
- Mount of the Apocalypse lets him ignore difficult terrain
- there is only 1 version and he is still on his mount. As the Storm of Chaos is being glossed over by GW as more than a little bit silly, there will presumably be no mention of his failure in it.
Galrauch
Valkyre the Bloody, Bride of Khorne (female khornate Daemon Prince)
Kolek Suneater (Shaggoth)
- second-oldest Shaggoth
- Strength 8 with 6 attacks and a weapon that does D3 wounds
- several 8s for stats
- can call down a special lightning attack (details unknown)
- attracts lightning spells cast within 12″ of him
Sigvald (Slaaneshi mortal)
-has a mirror shield and can suffer from Stupidity due to looking at himself in it
Wolfrig the Wanderer (Undivided Marauder Hero)
- captain of a magical ship called the Seafang which he said around in. It basically allows him and a unit of Marauders to enter the battle from any table edge, similar to how Dwarf Miners work.
Throk, The Troll King (Troll Hero)
- WS5 S6 T5 W4 A5
- 175 pts
- makes Chaos Trolls a Core unit and lets them all use his Ld, regardless of range
- all monstrous units (Ogres, Trolls, Dragon Ogres) within 12″ can use his Ld (of 8), even if he is not the general AND they can also re-roll break tests
- his vomit attack (called Copious Vomit) does D6 hits at S6
- also has a one-use S5 breath weapon
- gets a roll on the Eye of the Gods table at the start of the game
Scyla, Spawn of Chaos
- an old khornate special characer from 5th edition
- re-release of existing model
- upgrade for a Spawn, but treated as a character
Vilitch the Curseling (Tzeentch)
Festus the Leechlord (Nurgle)
Stuff NOT in the new book
-cultists
-mammoth
-any sort of skirmishing unit
-any sort of flying unit
-any kind of generic daemon unit
-any sort of item that allows you to take units from the daemon and/or beast books
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