Hello everybody, and welcome to the Crowning Man podcast.
And today we have a very special deep dive with the guys going
through the Chaos Army's Warhammer 4th Edition book.
And I hope you guys enjoy their huge one hour, 50 minute talk
today. So it's really, really nice of
them to do that for us and provide all this great content
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from just editing the editing the recordings.
But it's nice for me to listen to as well to hear their
thoughts and to reminisce about the times of playing Chaos when
all the way back in the day in the mid 90s.
And I hope it brings back some good memories for you.
Or maybe if you're preparing your army now, it's a great way
to look at some of the different unit profiles and styles and
maybe give you some inspiration before applying your brush to
your cast models in your collection.
So just a word on the recording itself.
Unfortunately there were some technical issues with our
Goodman Jurgen and he had maybe microphone or Internet problems.
So I've done my very best for him and for the recording that
we included the parts that were audible and I unfortunately had
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listen to and so that you can enjoy another great deep dive.
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So until next time we talk, enjoy the deep dive with Chaos.
All right, so welcome to the hopefully not too chaotic chat
about chaos in 4th edition. And in this one, we will
separate it a bit because the what came before is worthy of
the episode of its own. So we will not talk about third
edition. Maybe we will mention it in the
but we will post or someone will post the entire episode about
that. And today we have a new member
of the team and chaos expert, and it's my countryman Jorgen.
And perhaps you can start out by talking a little bit about your
entry into the hobby and chaos in particular.
Yeah, sure. I I'm not new to the.
Podcasts I've. Talked to Josh.
Before but my entry to Warhammer was when I was 12 years old, way
back in 1994, and a friend of mine, he had the 4th edition box
with the high house and the goblins.
He introduced me to the game and then I wanted an army of my own.
So I just got to look at the front cover of every army book
and I saw the box with the Chaos night and the warriors around
him and the big thing in the background.
And I was like, yeah, this is my army, this is what I'm going to
play. So I started out buying those
monopoles, plastics, both warriors and Britain, and I've
been playing caves ever since. It's my main army in every
edition I have played. So how how big an army did you
were you able to collect in in 4th edition?
Did you have like massive army or did it grow the addition
points? With 10 models, obviously.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Points wise is pretty yeah I.
Think there was. Around 3 or 4000 points before
5th edition and then one 5th edition came around.
They released these regiments, if you remember.
With Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights.
Plastics, multi part regiments and that's when the army really
exploded in. Prince.
Yeah, so today I could probably have 25,000 points of Chaos in
Wow. Yeah, that's a good army.
That's a proper Chaoticon, right?
So I'm not an expert on Chaos armies, I have a small one
myself, the 4th edition. But I know that over the
editions the way you build an army with chaos has differed a
bit. So how did that work in 4th
edition? How?
What kind of limitations and how much could you mix different
gods and so on? How does that work in 4th
edition? Well, you.
Had to have a mortal chaos Lord. As a general, then you had to
have 25% regiments just like most armies.
And the difference with Chaos, I think, was that you could have
up to 50% of demons in your army.
And the stuff like greater demons counted towards that
total and not character total. And you could make some marks
freely back and forth edition. But you have to remember that to
be able to take a certain kind of demon, you have to have a
character with that mark. And the demons had a a demonic
animosity towards each other. And Dave, what was your
connection to Chaos back in the days?
I know most armies I guess, but yeah.
We had something of most armies. Yeah.
Early doors of 4th edition, really.
One of my friends, his dad, had some connection to MB games.
We don't know what it was exactly, and it was a long time
ago, so even if you didn't tell us, I can't remember what it was
now. You know, we were kids at the
time, but that meant he had rather large battle masters
collection that he would sell models off as well.
It wasn't afraid to be Mercer of what his dad had got him,
obviously. So we picked up some of them
from him. We had a few chaos models from
before that. But mostly to begin with, our
army was was kind of was battle Masters Chaos, not really
painted up, just used. And it was before the book came
out. So in some ways less
restrictions, in other ways more so you also had thugs in there
as well. She lost thugs when the book
came out. We kind of took it, you know,
sometimes my brother would use it, sometimes I'd use it.
No, Nigel was really Chaos player.
So I do remember there was Zinch army that my brother put
together using the white box, the white army book that was
just a cardboard army cut out from shoebox card.
It's just coloured in not imposing of an army that I've
got to be honest. Yeah, exactly.
That was before we got the the the bat master stuff.
And then yeah, the Chaos book was one that surprised you when
it came out because I was kind of prepared for the other books
coming out because they were well publicized.
They were coming. I missed any kind of advertise,
you know, pre warning in White Dwarf that it was coming.
Maybe it wasn't that cover or I don't know, but it kind of just
appeared one month. So was that 94 or 93?
Oh gosh, I can't remember probably 94 I'd thought probably
early 94 I think I think might be wrong in that.
And they had the Dwarf versus Chaos back report in White Dwarf
where famously he tried the dwarf player tried to argue that
the power from the sort of change would rebound onto.
To the chaos. General Yeah, no.
Wounds only, not powers of. Of swords.
No, good try. So yeah, we we played a bit of
cast, but it wasn't a main army we, you know, which is why I
reached out really to try and see if anyone else was out
there. That was a Chaos general,
weren't we? Lucky we struck gold whose main
army who's you know who's a who's a chaos Lord, probably
demon Prince by this point, I would say of of chaos.
So that that's really handy. So this is a rarity on the
podcast. I'm I'm a little bit stumped for
words on it and you'll probably get less out of me and a lot
more of everybody else talking, which is quite.
Yeah, and not me too much. So I guess, you know, again,
we'll have to do a lot of the talking here.
We used to mention a little bit about the white book.
So do you did you use that jargon or did you go straight
into the actual army book? The I have read the White Book,
but I have actually never used it for Chaos because and the box
was already released when I started and then back then we
always felt like well this is the official now it has replaced
old ones. So we played the latest thing.
Makes sense. Are you aware of any major
differences? So was it.
Yeah, as Dave said, the chaos fogs were gone.
And also the option for pink holes to ride on discs of cinch.
Can you use that? I'm trying to think back to the
white list now. I think there's a bit more
options character wise in the Chaos book as opposed to the
white list, and maybe some of the creatures in the, you know,
list didn't have character options.
I've got a feeling that was that kind of rough top of my head you
obviously didn't have gameplay wise, you obviously didn't have
the chaos cards. Your spells were massively
restricted. You had four spells per chaos
God from battle Magic because it wasn't into box that came out
that you got the full 10 per race.
So there was that. Chaos armour was only a magic
item you could. So you can only have like I
think I seem to remember that you were allowed to have
multiple chaos armours on his armour.
Sorry, even before the box set, but it was definitely a magic
item. So it took up a slightly magic
item and units couldn't have it. But then the chaos warriors, you
gave them heavy armour and shield.
You know, they were they were foot slogging badly.
You know, same pace as a dwarf. Not great, but that was mainly
yeah, the the the list did flesh it out a little bit.
I I think there's a big miss on I understand why they took thugs
out. They're trying to very much
characterise each army, so chaos was very much a high points cost
elite force. So having thugs that were either
human or just above human level was not something they wanted in
the list at the time. They felt beats men covered that
area and they beats men are funny enough beasts of of a
thing to have to fight. You know, 2 wounds and toughness
4, horrendous to have to fight. So yeah, but there there weren't
huge changes between the two lists.
It was more in actual what you got to play with outside of the
list itself. So like I said, the extra spells
and the chaos cards got chaos rewards.
Obviously with the box, they weren't a thing before the book.
Well, obviously they were in Realms of Chaos.
Oh, we just mentioned it, but but they weren't a magic item.
If you like an item to take with the whitelist, you just used
normal magic items. There were no, there was no
chaotic Y, chaotic Y things, if that makes any sense.
Yeah. All right, so the book came out
and let's focus a bit on that one.
So we used to talk about army wide special routes.
We talked a little bit about the the animosity and were there any
other special routes? We have gotten a bit into the
only books now, so maybe the specialists are starting to get
more widespread, but. Unique.
Yeah. Obviously at the marks
themselves, they were already there in the White Book.
I can't know if there was a change.
There might have been a changeover of what you got for
those. Corn was frenzy and chaos
armour. Mark of Tinch was 4 plus natural
dispel. Marcus Lanish was unbreakable,
and The funny thing is that they stayed unbreakable even if the
unit broke so the character could.
Stay on his own. And then you had no shot.
Not using Mark you.
There's no one divided. No.
You were, you were kind of. You had to have one of the
marks, yeah. Yeah, they were.
Yeah, I'm trying. To remember there's any change
between what the actual marks did between the White Book and
the the Chaos Book. I don't think there was.
There was certainly a change in later editions as to what the
different marks actually did. Things like they they realized
that plus one toughness was it was quite a powerful, actually
quite powerful. It doesn't feel like quite a
powerful thing, but it actually in game it is.
So they came out to causing fear, wasn't that, didn't they?
But that's later editions, certainly.
You're absolutely right. Yeah.
Plus one toughness in force. So what's what's the opinion?
Which what were they overpowered or the were anything powers
extra good? Yeah, because you've got very
much Chaos Lords like Toughness 5 anyway, make him Toughness 6
really hard to wound him, let alone do anything else.
You know, it's almost kind of putting him up to, you know,
monster levels of toughness. So I don't understand where they
were coming from. Fear can be powerful, obviously,
but it's only one model causing the fear.
So it's kind of like the, you know, the screw at the sword.
The the great debate about the the the shrieking blade that,
you know, it actually only causes the character cause for
not the unit, as has been misplayed many a time that it's
the unit. And so it's not quite as
powerful as it seems. So for the extra 15 points, the
drug banner is definitely the better investment.
Character causing theory is nasty, but he doesn't have that
outnumbering thing going on that you know the dread banner does.
So causing fear probably is less powerful than plus one's
toughness, but maybe that's a good tone down.
I don't know, I didn't think else enough to know what.
What would your thoughts be on that?
Well, the change to Fear wasn't until 6th edition, Yeah.
So if we look at the actual list, what were the options for
characters? Do they have plenty of choice or
how they look in the book? Yeah, so it's obviously you can
have your Chaos Lord and your Chaos Battle Standard battle
standard being a hero rather than a champion.
And then you get into Chaos heroes and champions as well.
That's pretty OK. They're powerful.
That's bogged that same as any of this.
You know, you have heroes, you're champion, you're heroes
and the Champions, but you've always got Beast Man Lord
through the levels, you've got minor tour Lord and down through
the levels, dragon, ogre, Centaur Lords.
So you've got all those can have characters.
And then your Chaos sorcerers, obviously Beast Man sorcerers as
well. So probably other than orcs,
probably orcs on the one that rivals them.
But orcs were laid out. Their list is laid out
differently. So the options are under like
champions. All of them are listed under
champion hero, all listed under heroes.
The Chaos 1 isn't it is spit out.
So it feels like there's more, but but yeah, probably less,
less than the Orkin Gobbly one. It just feels like there's more.
That's why it's laid out. Yeah, that's that's that's made
to fill up the book, isn't it? Yeah.
That's a choice. It's out the book, yeah.
So which one were the the preferred use?
Was it the chaos Lord or did it go into the more exotic choices
usually? Well the Chaos Lord was by
default your general so you had to have one always.
So unless you played really big games it was hard to fit the
other Lords. That's where one there's a
differentiation to the White Book.
The White Book alleges of a Beastman Lord as your general.
But I mean, strictly speaking, you could anyway, because, you
know, if you're playing with your mates, oh, can I use this
as my generally instead? You know, everyone will have
those conversations, I'm sure at some point with that, whichever
army you're playing, you know, playing at low points of value.
Let's use heroes as Lords and you know, that sort of thing.
Yeah, well, I'm sure we've all done that.
But yeah, officially with the white.
But you could have a beast man Lord as your general.
So there's there's one strength bat and the thugs are the two
strengths really of the of the white Dwarf book, White Dwarf
white book list. Really.
Yeah. Lured in here. 305 points
minimum cost. Yeah.
I don't think any of the options were exactly cheap.
The characters that's they were certainly powerful.
Yeah, right. So any other of the more the
other choices? Any ideas or thoughts about
those? If you did use them, were they?
Which one were good? If you had a like a dragon Ogle
Lord I suppose that would be insanely powerful, but was it
worth the points? Did you ever try?
Yeah, I tried it in. Very big games, it felt like you
had an extra greater demon or dragon or something, and I think
he could have free magic items back then.
The dragon overload, so really nasty.
I did often take a dragon over champion with the Heart of the
world a nuke Yeah, because you could have units of less than 5
dragon ogres. So you could potentially have a
single dragon ogre and upgrade him to a champion.
It's still pretty hard to kill. I think so, but yeah, so and
well the case. Lord, of course, was good.
I really liked him on the on the share it with and yes, Santos
were maybe one of those who I didn't see I think ever in 4th
edition, but there were some. Did they release any models for
Santos K Santos in fourth? Were they all older models?
I believe they were all older. Yeah, well, there was, there was
classic sitter ones that were quite small and then there were
some, I think they were Marauder ones that were released.
Yeah, they were the plastic half plastic ones.
And you know, the classic central warring of that sword
guy with the helmet on that's kind of jumping into people.
He's jumping towards the front of the.
They were that that he was one of them.
There were like a few torsos, not many.
They're quite rare. You don't really see them then.
I mean, I tried looking for the one eBay I don't think any times
recently. But whenever you do that quite
rarely you don't get many of them come up.
So yeah, the older central models not there was nothing in
certainly in fourth released as centaurs and I don't think there
was anything. No, it was nothing until the
Centigor came out, wasn't there or or alternative, you know,
alternative manufacturer. Right.
So and we had of course the sources and you could you use
Beastman shamans at that point as well, I suppose or yes, the
Beastman shamans didn't get any more.
But the upside was that they could they could actually mix
between which laws they were using.
They weren't like a sorcerer with the Markov chinch.
He obviously had to have the Markov chinch and then use magic
from chinch. But abuse men could actually
draw like one spell from. Chinch Deck and.
Maybe two spells from or something like.
That and talking about magic, if we do that quickly before the
break. So what was the Chaosmatic at
the time and was it? Yeah, we talked about we
initially only had the four spells per Lord, but then that
would expand. So how was Chaosmatic?
Well, it wasn't really chaotic. It had some really, really
powerful spells. Not many that had any kind of
drawback at all. I remember my favorite.
One was a. Power free spell from Spanish,
which would turn any model into a tailspin if the failed
toughness test. Yeah, and I guess yes.
You didn't cause any wounds. You didn't have any saves of any
kind. Exactly.
It doesn't. 'Cause wounds it doesn't.
You know, kill the mammy just turns it.
Yeah, that's. Fine, you got the one that's
dispelled. Yeah.
So did it feel like they were able to sort of theme the magic
for the different powers like you said, did Nergal have like
corruption spells and so on? Or did they sort of just
randomly Chuck in some spells or?
Mostly, yeah, I think they did. And Nergal was and still is
quite close range spells that there's not a lot of range going
on there. So you've got to get in close
slanish more psychological effects and zinch just blowing
things up. And there's a bit more to it
than that, obviously. But but in essence, that was the
kind of distinction. Zinch obviously it was a little
bit tricky as well with blowing things up.
You know, you had a few, you can get extra power and stuff like
that. A bit more subtle, maybe so.
The extremes, probably. There's a few subtle spells
there, and there are literally some.
Just blow things up, yeah. Yeah, and obviously corn doesn't
have any magic, so they are the outsider in this, right.
So did you have a yeah, you said your favorite spell, but did you
usually prefer one or did you mix in different battles?
I actually prefer the the cinch ones because.
As Dave said, they have a lot of.
More ranged attack spells, which I felt was very good with when
you play chaos and you don't have any normal ranged attacks.
So just, I don't recall, but did I know in later editions at
least you could have unit casting spells like horrors.
They could sort of have a spell in the unit.
Was that a thing in 4th edition or 5th?
All demons could castle. Spells except all the core
demons except the blood letters could castle spells.
So did they have like one signature spell that they used?
Could they choose spells? No, they.
Drew. Cards just like a normal spell
castle. Oh nasty.
So they could have a really powerful spell as well to.
One spell level per five models of play, Bearers, horrors or
demonettes. So but what a lot of people make
the mistake of was like, say you had six models that'd only take
one spell. The thought you had to get to
the full 5, so you had to do far, you know.
Oh, OK, so I was 10. We still won.
And that wasn't the case. It was as soon as you went over
the five, you got the extra spell.
So you get 5, you don't get. One.
Yeah, there was a little bit of. Confusion there I seem to
remember back in the day back it's because we were kids and
getting things wrong in that sense, maybe an adult would
correctly. I don't know.
I know why did you later life. Probably still do that.
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start looking at the special characters for Chaos.
So did they have a big choice? Were there many options to use
it? Depends who you're comparing it
to. Yeah.
Comparing it to high holds, yeah, they had loads.
Comparing it to one player, not so many, or any other race
really, not so many. They had five.
They had You had Mordrek the Damned, who was your generic no
chaos gold as it were. Then you had two, two for
disease and two for corn, and nothing for the.
Others. That's uneven.
Well, I think probably they were the two favoured powers at the
time, the two the people took. So did you use any of them in in
games you again? Or were you a non special
character kind of guy? No, I used them.
Not in a competitive way, just to try it out.
I used, I used egg ring, my horseman, I used echo helbras, I
used scalar, scalar or pronounced it.
And I also tried out all the not so undefeated, right.
So which was your favorite ones? One of my favorite ones was Eco
Helpers. And we talked about other races,
for example, Empire, the special cases, I mean, they were the
first one they created basically, and they were
basically fairly underwhelming mostly were the chaos ones, were
they overpowered or were they balanced compared to what you
could make on your own, so to speak?
I didn't really use them, so I don't know.
So you what was your take? Do you think they were they were
more powerful or always frozen? No, Yeah, I.
Thought they were weaker, Arbo didn't have any kind of
protection at all. Adrian and those are the two
most expensive characters I really like in Scala.
And Nico, yeah, I, I remember was a cold.
He was the one that sort of created life or something around
him. Was that the guy?
Yeah. The breath of life, yeah.
I always thought he was. He was really useful to use
actually. Whenever I saw him in print it
was with Chaos Warriors. I thought bad things was
basement because I've got 2 wounds, so regenerating like the
two wounds, surely that's that's going to be more powerful.
But I suppose you can't worry is more powerful in general.
So just one of them is probably worth 3 beastmen.
I don't know, I always thought you can't with beastmen because
of that because it you know with the extra wound on each of the
beastmen could make for a very annoying roadblock unit.
So and pretty distinctive model. I think it's pretty cool.
Yeah, he. Looks like a corrupted
swordmaster, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it kind of looks a bit high open in that sense.
But whether he is or not, who knows?
Who knows? Could have been I.
Do want to pull out because I keep it whenever I look at the
picture. OK so the the the pictures in
the special characters thing and I think it is supposed to be
Igram his picture behind him. I keep seeing the French flag
whenever I look at Igram Van Horseman, that picture because
you've got the dot bit down one side.
I don't know why I think it's the French flag, but it just in
my head I look at that and every time I see that I think the
French flag, I don't. Know why?
Yeah, but it's the gap there that looks like the white stripe
on the French. That's white.
It could be italic. Everyone, you know, whichever
one, any ones that are with those stripes.
But just whenever I look at it, my brain just straight goes to
the French. I don't know why.
Just. Some weird reality of me, but
they go now. Now if you see it now, you won't
be able to stop seeing it. So I'm glad of that when they
look at the picture and goes, oh God, yeah, that's that's my
fault. You're now going to see that
every time. Yeah, now you've planted it, you
know. Right, so and talking about
special characters, do they have a were they fleshed out with the
stories? That's one of my joys with some
of the other armies. I What's the letter?
I haven't read in too much with the the chaos book, the the
fluff and the background, but was it well written?
Not so much. I don't think they really appear
in the story. I haven't read it in a very long
time. I don't remember them really
appearing in the stories. So not like Tyrion Techlist and
those not like, no, not like. That no, there certainly isn't a
whole rambling fluff thing for them.
They're they're very much here are some special characters
rather than, you know, kind of giving you a rambling story that
gives you a sense of understanding the character and
feeling like you owe, you know, you have some part of their
story. There is no story for them.
They just are there being wrong. It's not a bad way of doing it.
It's just a different approach to it, I guess, and probably for
most of the Army books that's how it is.
I don't think there are huge amounts of stories about the
special characters in most of those.
Were kind of an exception. To the rule.
Scaven maybe as well. There weren't really many story
why you know, the undead characters.
OK, you had OK for Nagash the counts you had a long history
wasn't a story, if that makes sense.
Yeah, it was more with the just factual rather than just a nice
rambling story. Now most of the stories in the
chaos book, as I remember it, are kind of stand alone and
unique and there is obviously there is the ABS and we touched
on it in a previous podcast, the.
Beautiful. I don't know if that's the
right. Word but the very poignant orc
take on chaos where you've got an all law when he's boring OK
yes, he's written funny but but it's actually quite poignant
when you think about it you know orcs love fighting things but
not chaos. You know it's different in later
years. They kind of make out orcs just
want to scrap anything whereas in in fourth it's kind of you
can sense that you know they want to fight but they want to
live as well they want to live for the next scrap and the next
scrap. This is this is finite.
This is, you know, we're going in to fight and not coming back.
And there's something very, yeah, poignant, tragic and kind
of sad. You thought you thought sad
about orcs. There you can't.
Get that feeling of, you know, all of them are a bit shifty
about going and fighting the cast boys.
It's got that same kind of feel as I don't know if you guys have
watched Blackadder Yeah, the last episode, the proper lot,
not the one they did later on, but the proper last episode of
Blackadder goes forth where they go over the top and.
Kind of got this bravado. Mixed with I don't actually want
to die. And you've seen that realization
that they're going to die and, and the leaders just come on.
We we've just got to do it. We've got no choice.
We have to do it. And you kind of get that same
feeling. It's only a short story.
It's one page, but it's it's very powerful kind of look at
not just because normally you get the human or the elf or the
dwarf take on fighting chaos. It's rare you get another army's
take on fighting chaos and you get it very strongly in that
story. And I just think it serves a
shout, you know, special shout out.
I'm guessing it was a Bill King. It reads a bit like Bill King.
So I'm guessing it was it might be someone imitating him.
I don't know. But no, I just think it's one of
the best things in the whole book.
Actually good. Piece of writing.
Yeah, yeah. And obviously.
If you go back to didn't talk about previous editions, but
there is of course a lot of text and a lot of background and also
the the role-playing game. It's a bit about chaos mostly
not from their perspective, but Chaos is certainly very heavily
involved in the going ONS in the in the empire and other parts of
the old world, right. So if you want to dig into that
part, there are certainly plenty to be had.
All right, so any other mentions about these special characters
that we haven't talked about? So should we go to the the meat
of the unit of the army, the actual units?
I'm, I'm happy to move on to you next year.
Yeah, Yeah, right. So should we just do a quick
take on what the options are? Someone has the book available
to go through them. See Let the Chaos.
Lord. Kick off Yeah, yeah, sure.
And. The very first.
Unit. Is chaos nuts?
And I guess. The.
Stats of a normal hero for some other armies, more or less,
yeah. And were they the?
1st to get A1 plus save yes yeah.
You could do. With.
Magic items before that, yeah. And they could argue.
But you know, like the banner of.
Shielding, you can get it. And on ball boys, you know, the
Savage ball boys wasn't. If you put the shaman in and he
had the banner of the standard of shielding, yes, you could do
it. But without additional, yeah,
without additional magic items on top of what the allowance was
for the unit. Yeah, they were.
They were. And of course with those.
Tricks. You could get better than one.
You could get 0, maybe even a negative.
I don't know. Well, maybe that was only
character you could. Yeah, yeah.
And 4th edition stopped you doing that, Later edition
stopped you doing that. Even if you roll one, it's still
a save, but it just makes you have a negative and it stays at
what it is. But now in fourth.
Yeah, you literally got A1 plus save or better.
Yeah, I remember there was a. But was that the dwarf and the
chaos battle report where the minus or something got stuck on
A1 plus chaos night unit and they couldn't do anything on
them? Long B is when it yeah and well.
They they would have had a strength force, they would have
had a -, 1 to save, but still AT plus save is horrendous to try.
Oh yeah, it's still. You know, very.
Hard but the you know, just I don't know it's it does make
them tanky, but but it is a against them.
What you need is is volume of attacks, isn't it?
Because if you're rolling, if you get at least as long as
there's a -, 1, obviously if there's a -, 1, then if you roll
enough attacks against them, they should fail at least one or
two. And because when you've got one
wound, they're quite brittle once you get through the armour.
Yeah, and of course no. Armour save attacks or medic
would be very bad old for us. Handguns, probably.
One of the best things to use against them.
Yeah, yeah. We'll have a one in.
Three chance of punching through all right, but then of course
they come at the price. So what was the the reasonable
unit size to use? You know, like two 3005.
And they could, of course, have. Marks as well.
So no, no, they couldn't. OK, so you couldn't make them
corn at least, and I mean that. That was their way of.
Making them dedicated was by putting the banner on them.
Obviously you can only use one banner per power, so you can
only have one unit or too fair enough, 3000 point army in 4000.
You know, in in 4th edition you've probably only got 1 unit
of Chaos Nights and one unit of Chaos Warriors anyway, yeah.
We have someone joining us. Yeah, it's Leo.
I met you guys on the on the Facebook.
Yes, yes. Maybe we can just.
Take a few minutes and you could perhaps talk a little bit about
your experience with Chaos in 4th edition if you started back
then. Yeah, yeah.
That's, that's when. I started, I started with the
the the the box in like 93 and my first, my first touch with
100 fantasy I was in France. As you can tell, it started with
the white book from the box and I used the minis for battle
masters for many years, same as Dave.
Actually, So yeah, yeah, I, I think a lot of us.
Started this way, right? Little by little after that I I
collected something bigger, I think mainly in the maybe like
around I I moved to the UK in 2008 and 2009 and suddenly
hitting minis was much much easier on eBay for for force
edition. So I started collecting some
forces more consequent. 1 then. And then last year I painted a
big Northern army, which was fun.
And I, I tried to do it a bit less peaceful now and a bit more
as a, as a big block. Yeah.
So I painted about 5000 points like track down everything, the
old great and clean 1, the palanquin, all these things.
I played only. Once with it, it was about two
weeks ago. It was really fun.
All right, so maybe an open? Question for everyone.
I don't think we actually talked about that or you mentioned
shortly that they were like, really you like the art you
again and that was sort of what caught you.
Yeah. So for for you, Leo, what was it
that got you into chaos? Was it just by chance or was it
a a conscious choice that you really wanted to do so?
I, I, I. Gotta say I've got one of every
army so maybe I'm not the the. Place that's explaining why an.
Army in particular, but the what?
I remember my style, yeah. Not of everything, yeah, yeah.
Why make exactly? Why?
Make choices. And then when you pick an army,
you just get one of each, right? But I remember very clearly the
artwork from the the books that were in the in the starter box,
but the the matrian Smiths and Steven Tapin, I get names right.
So that's that's like I still still have like that from
memories from that. And it created a very powerful
well, I suppose. Excellent SO.
All right. And we were talking about chaos
lights possibly I guess the is it the most powerful unit?
Well, most expensive unit. About the most powerful, but
it's only the most expensive. You know, given Chaos arm, you
know, we touched on this. Six points given Chaos armour,
they're 80 points on the model. Units.
Wise, have you talked? About.
Putting a standard in the unit, a lot of it's a big points.
Investment so rarely. More than five I suppose.
Maybe you could use 4 on the the champion or something so you
didn't need to. Well, I suppose it it.
Also depends on the size of game you're playing and who you're.
Do you know what you're playing? I mean if you did a chaos versus
chaos and went silly put you know, 6000 points you'd probably
still be able to fit onto a normal 6 by 4 board but have
have decent sized units. So were you limited?
To one unit at least? Or could you have several?
You have any number. Well, within points limits,
obviously. Yeah, of course.
Yeah. So all right.
And then the the chaos was on foot.
I guess there was that wise identical or how was that?
Yes. Yeah, exactly the same.
Just just foot versions of them obviously, and they will.
Still have a pretty respectable 3 plus if they had chaos armour,
could they have chaos armour? Yeah, yes.
Chaos armour, yeah. You kind of, if you weren't
going Shields, really, you had to go Chaos armour because
otherwise they were crawling along at 3 inches.
Heavy armour, Shields, you know, you'd, you'd be -1 so like, like
kind of like Reichsgard, Matthias, yeah.
You know, Yeah, I know those. That that.
Lovely unit that no one uses because they're too too slow,
but I have. Used them and I've actually used
them to some effect, so I don't think they're that bad.
But obviously you you usually can't choose your battles, so
that's a disadvantage. Did you?
Reduce shadows to Mattheus.
No, no I didn't. No.
They were actually attacked by orcs and the orcs just bounced
off. So I yeah, yeah, OK, yeah.
So, so you weren't, you weren't dynamic with them.
There was kind of more of a rock, a hard place for yeah,
yeah, yeah. But still, yeah.
They perform. All right, So warriors on foot
and then what? Or maybe I do want to talk about
those a bit more of are they so were they often in your lists?
Leon Jorgen The case was on foot.
Yeah, I I think they're so. Emblematic.
You can't really miss them, especially if you want to play
something that feels bit like the realm of chaos.
And I suppose you've talked about that.
The beauty of the 4th edition book is that you have everything
in one army. You have your chaos warrior, you
besman your demon and she's like bunch of different things, but
still somewhat cozy, especially if you just play one chaos code.
So chaos warriors, yes, always, but I just can't find the right
size units. 20 if it's too much 1010 not enough and then but 10
is already like 340 points and that's before banner and
everything. So it's it's they're trickier to
play than than you think when you see their start line.
What my? Take my cast wasn't these days.
Is that probably a support unit rather than a frontline unit?
So you you would be and then bring.
This chaos worries. In at the side so you can
probably go possibly can go with five because you don't need rank
bonus. So you'd have long lines, maybe
six or seven in in in one line charging into a flat.
It doesn't look particularly great, I admit, and and it feels
a bit dirty, but it's probably the most effective way of using
them because you get their attacks then without needing the
rank bonus because your rank bonus comes from the beast men.
That'd probably be my take these days, but back in the day, yeah,
I would have, especially with the Battle Masters ones, as Leo
was mentioning about Battle Masters.
You know, you got those lovely halberd, OK, Monopos, but those
lovely halberd guys. And yeah, you got quite.
A few of them in battle. Masters.
So you had at least the unit of 10 or so?
And what were the? Options for equipment, Was it
halberds? Could you use great weapons or?
Yeah, they're one of those ones We.
Got halberds, additional hand weapons, double handed weapons,
all that you know, all the all the lovely flavours of of killy
things they could use. Nothing ranged.
And obviously they got you could have Shields with the heavy
armour or chaos armour as well. Slightly less because they're
not mounted to it's Chaos armour at +7 points, but it's still a
bit of a investment. On the 24.
Points. They already are.
For for an extra. One point of armour save.
I don't know. I don't know, but it means
you're not. Losing.
Yeah, it means you're not losing.
Movement I guess so could combine it with.
Standard of shielding, True. Then you're down to two.
Plus. Very healthy.
For. Infantry.
That's pretty insane. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
So what's next on the list? Beast Men.
Beast men. Yes, we talked.
About them a bit insanely difficult to kill toughness for
two but are they do they do anything in battle except not
dying yeah the kids they're. They're good tricks.
You got Weapons Killer 4 and Toughness of Four too?
Well, yes, they're very good. I mean, they're probably.
The strongest units in the infantry units that that's
available, they're not super. Expensive. 10 points OK it's
more than an elf but double the double the woods.
It's it's extremely worth it. Big block 2025 and maybe several
big blocks and they're hard to shift.
Yeah, they're they're. Like the mainstay unit of your
Chaos army, especially going from the.
White Book where? You still had thugs from
previous editions and you lost those obviously in in fifth,
they came back in the form of marauders, but in fourth of
using the Chaos Army book and yeah, basically a pretty actual
mainstay unit. There's there's nothing else
that cheap that you would rank up that much.
And and you know, with heroes in them, obviously the hounds and
harpies are almost similar sort of points cost.
They're, they're still more, you know, at least five points more
each of them. And they're, but they're not
really frontline combat troops, those two.
Your. Beastmen are pretty.
Much it. So unless you're playing a very
high points game where you can get lots of warriors, beastmen
are pretty much the the main thing in your army.
Yeah, and I guess. Those who could feel like 20
strong without a problem then. And at that point I suppose
there was only one flavour of Beast men.
There wasn't the angles and stuff or how do that?
No, only one. Type of.
Beast, yeah, but a good one. Angles, yeah.
Angles existed in literature, as it were.
They were. They were spoken about but they
weren't officially anything in fourth and without touching on
Realms of Chaos and as a definitely mentioned there, but
again, there's not much actual game wise about uncles.
It's more just talking about them and you know, fluff and
saying mostly they don't get into combat because they're
considered weak and so they're not even taken into battle.
This is just beast men. Yeah, this is just beast men
generic, you know, it could be anything.
When when the book was released, you still had the marauder beast
men that were that were available to buy, but they but
sorry, before the book was released.
Then when the book was released, obviously you had the lovely
Periscope, some of the best beast men, some of the best
beast men ever done ever, ever sculpted.
And they were kind of beast men really for until you got to six
and plastics came out really obviously had the halberdood as
well. You had the halberdood Monopoly
hat plastic you had. Monopoly's Halberds.
And the B and the Battle Masters plastics that were very similar
to they're kind of a bridging between the metal marauders and
the Peri ones. They're kind of the hybrid of
the two. You could see the transition of
beastmen in them. They were very smaller.
Compared to the they were small. Yeah, well, all the law, wasn't
it? It was all.
Slightly smaller scale, the
Battle Masters stuff, but you know not, not if you look at it,
you'll see it at a glance. You won't notice the deal.
Yes, yes, yes. Right, so.
We'll move on. What's more, in the choice of
basic troops, Chariots. And of course, Chariots, I guess
they were very much glass cannon in 4th edition.
They could quite easily be taken off by any shooting.
Pretty much. But maybe the KS ones were a bit
tougher. Or how did that work?
Yeah, slightly tougher. And they had their KS deets.
With topless 4. The crew could either be
warriors or. Beastmen.
But the big thing, in my opinion, was that you could
mount characters on the Genius. Demonic.
Beasts, right? Yeah.
But characters, so you could create quite nasty combinations
with the Chariots and you know, so was that something you used a
lot to put maybe your general or something or did you use that
possibility? Yes, a lot.
Yeah. Has anyone ever done the
Juggernaut Child's combination I've seen?
It I've never played it played against no same.
Same. Same.
There was always like kind kind of a dreamer.
Yes. No ridiculous, but great.
Did you try Jurgen? No.
I didn't own. Enough juggernauts, right?
Yeah, that sounds insane. I I remember actually, I think I
faced maybe Case once or twice, but Juggernauts in any form was
insanely difficult to kill. So yeah, tough guys.
All right, so what's more in the list?
Chaos Hounds. Next. 1.
So what's your? Take on that right.
That right resilience fast talking about the leadership.
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're not as good as Harpies for a little bit more price,
right? So if you have the choice, you
take Harpies, but it's still a pretty good unit.
Small small size so. Whether mostly for harassing and
hunting more machines and stuff for fanatics.
Yeah. They got they got high movement.
Well, no and he's 6 actually. They really got movement of 6.
Maybe they're not. Maybe centaurs are better for
like no for for movement. I was thinking.
About the the flesh hounds and I was looking at, I'm looking at
the book in French and the movement for 4th edition was in
centimetres. So I see 15.
I'm like this is great. And then actually now it's six.
Yeah. That's confusing, but.
Exactly. All the.
Measurements in in morehab. For for us.
Are they centimetres? OK, yeah, because I didn't.
Like that? Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. We had to learn.
Inches In Sweden it was unusual for us, so never occurred to me
that. Yeah, thank you.
I had to learn inches as well because it's it's a apart from
war game is. Pretty much in debt.
You buy milk in pints and stuff like that.
So imperial measurements are there in that sense.
But generally speaking, most things are metric like.
But it's not a completely alien concept.
I guess if you guys come into it, it's a bit more of an alien
concept, yeah, yeah. I.
Don't think I ever used it in other situations more or less,
but. Then they had a centimetre.
Scene. That's a bit weird, yes.
Well, you know. That was That's not good.
No, I see. That's it for the.
The Chaos Hounds, Flesh hounds. I suppose we'll get to them
later. I.
Think. The chaos.
Hounds are quite good for flying attacks and stuff like that.
But like you said, before Yogan, at least it was for us.
I mean, the light cavalry and stuff, we didn't really catch on
the nuances and how to use it. So almost always, you know, oh,
heavy nights, that's the shit. And those light guys we live in.
Yeah, clearly. OK.
And you mentioned harpies. Were they the same harpies as
Yes? And they were in regiment.
And they're not 0 to one choice 0.
No, they weren't. No, you can have.
Loads. Of them, they were in effect a
flying beast man. In effect, they had a slightly
better leadership, but overall they were pretty much a flying
business. They had two wounds.
You rank them up, they couldn't have standards, couldn't have
musicians, they couldn't have a champion.
So they weren't so great in that sense, but for for fighting
against artillery because they can rank up.
Oh, hello. Yeah.
Or holding up. Shooters.
Like you, you, you charge, you just charge the the the
shooters, the other army and you can hold them back even if they
don't win the combat. They just keep them tied up.
Yeah, yeah, so could. You fly high with them or do
they stop? Yes, yes, and.
They're not very expensive. I mean, 15 point spot for that.
It's it's bargain, yeah. Tough life.
For artillery crew, yeah. Everything else have you?
Have you had to? Be subjected to them a lot,
Matthias, in your and your battles as an Empire general,
with your lovely artillery and your Archers and your cross with
your handguns laid out. And you're thinking these are
safe? I'll just shoot your knees,
pieces and harpies up here. Oh God, yeah.
That's rough. But I didn't face those armies
too often, so not the standard one.
But also of course, flying stuff in general, that was always bad.
You got like one or two shots off and then that was it
probably well. It's it's one of these.
Units where you have as a as a chaos player to restrict
yourself a little bit because you could run 456 units of of
five and that's a real Wrecking Ball.
So one, one or two fields acceptable.
More than that, it's just too much.
Yeah. Yeah.
Was it? Considered a bit dirty even then
yes, he's he's, he's. Gone back to undead and carrion
again. Yeah, yeah.
Exactly. Exactly.
Too many. He's just.
Dirty or he's too many units and my brother often has an issue
with I'll quite happy to take 2 units of Carrion.
I haven't gone for three yet, but 2 units of Carrion is
definitely a do it and help. He's I think if you've got the
models then yeah, 2 is probably a good thing, but whether or not
you've got enough to have two units of 20 flying around, I
doubt it. Or 16 to get that +4.
All right, so we're coming. Up to the next break, time
flies. Get.
Started where we. Left off.
We talked about the Harpies being great and nasty and
probably not used in more than one or two units if you want to
keep your friends. And so what's next?
The Minotaur monotours? Yeah.
They had some sort of blood,
greed or something. They were sort of eating.
Yeah, they did. They also had the.
Conundrum of base size with minotours.
Not in later editions, but. In but kind of was it in foot?
It was. Mostly.
Third, we tried not to do the what came before, aren't we?
But it has to be touched upon. Mine's all started off on 25
millimetre bases really. Yeah.
So from 20. 5 millimetre bases. They were supposed to be a
little bit bigger than an ORC and.
The models. Were to start with but they
slowly got bigger and bigger. Kind of kind of mere kind of
territory we're talking here. Yeah, as in some for me was
supposed to be 25 and some ended up being 40.
That was more of a miscommunication on size between
Brian and the sculptors. OK and mine tool suffered a
similar thing. The original mine tools were
quite small, around 25 and then. Slowly the.
Models got bigger and end up on 40.
I think by 4th they were supposed to be on 40, but
because there weren't any 4th edition monitor models unless
she counted the plastics from. Quest.
Yeah, and there was another. One wasn't there, I can't
remember what. One from Quest, one from
Talisman. There was slightly different.
One had a club, one had an axe. So unless you used them, you're
using older models, so you. Might well have. 25 millimetre
base montours who if you took the 25 ones and put them on on
40s looked a bit small for their bases.
Obviously in non competing games, for games for your mates,
whatever size you want, as long as basically you're happy with
it. But strictly speaking
especially, it's a 5. So that's kind of where some of
that comes from is that they were 20 fives to start with and
became 40s at some point between 3rd and 4th.
What was it like stated officially?
Or was it some sort of sliding thing that suddenly happened?
Or the. 4th never had any official base sizes together.
There's nothing that snake. This has to be the size of your
base that really I think you know did that even happen in
5th? I'm sure even in your. 5th.
Really. Well, it got Really.
Official on base sizes because, you know, Tornas had really
taken off I guess, and so you just had to.
Look at the sort of official pictures sometime and figure out
what they were using I guess. And even then, you know just.
You know, whatever feels right, yeah.
OK, so were they popular to use? Did you guys use them in in the
games? Well, it's funny because I
don't. Find them amazing.
They're expensive for what they are.
They only have two attacks. But I always.
Have a units small unit of three, something like that.
It's but because they're emblematic and they look they
look cool. I use the first edition models
fear is mightily useful and they and they, they do some work on
the flanks to support like a unit of Bisman or or Chaos
Warriors. Yeah, I, I, I.
Tend to find a useful obviously you can go double handed
weapons, in which case they're hitting really hard because
you've got a strength 6, but generally I think that mantra's
best thing is is an additional hand weapon so you've got the
actual attack you. Then have you know 3.
Attacks per model that they they, I think they start coming
into their own then, but you've still got to be careful as with
any sort of monstrous, you know, ogres, trolls, all of them,
you've really got to be careful of rank bonus, you know.
More so than cavalry. Almost because they're that much
wider. So yeah, similar.
Similar. For using them as cavalry, you'd
say yeah they are. Little fragile, it's only
toughness for three wounds no save you can them light armour
but yeah you bothers with. Light armour, yeah.
Not worth much. OK so a bit flavourful and they
have that better rule but that was was at a disadvantage.
I don't remember the blood greed or what it's called.
Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
OK, so what's next if we're moving on Dragon no girls.
Hello. Big boys, Expensive.
Boys, Yes, Yeah. 87. Basic points cost.
Almost an Empire general. Not quite, but not too.
Far. I mean they do have 4 wounds.
Yeah, 4 wounds. Strength.
Of this 5 three attacks, they've got that scaly skin you can give
them additional armour on top of it.
You can give them extra hand weapon kind of the magic
standard. So they're very expensive.
The only weakness I think of the main weakness is their
leadership of seven or unit like that.
It's it's low, but they have really exceptional characters as
well exceptionally expensive. So I think it's a.
Unit that works. Well, for very large games and
you give them a hero Lords and. You've.
Got something a bit silly, but and.
They had something. They were became friends by
lightning. That's the thing.
Imports. I seem to recall they were
immune. To lighting.
And did you, you said you pretty much needed a big battle to
field and a number of them that were they standard addition to
your armies in big battles at least, Yeah, you need a. 5 or 6
in in smaller game in smaller game like 3000 points maybe
maybe you had two, but it's they do the.
Same thing as Minotaur. 'S if you do that, you can keep
them on the flank as a support unit and that was, but it's low
initiative as well too. Yeah, well as.
I mentioned when we talked about the characters I also set up.
OK, Yeah. And I really like the models I
have one have intended to paint for some time.
But yeah, I don't know how many different models do they have.
Was it like two or three or or too?
Many, yeah, but I think. You could switch weapons and Oh
yeah. No, you had different bodies.
You had six torsos? Yeah, one.
OK. Cool 6I.
Thought it was 3. No.
OK. Oh, yes, Yeah, there was, yeah.
No, you're right. Yeah, I can see in the in the
thingy in the catalogue that's had you have in the catalogue
pages, isn't it? Yeah.
I mean there. Was there was a?
Prime, one single prime model they released beforehand.
It was a bit smaller than these guys, but yeah, didn't they?
They tended to be a one off modelling an army in a chaos
army. Those ones back in back.
In the day. Before this, this was when they
really became units of dragon Ogas.
Really. And yeah, they were.
They were nasty. I seem to remember there was a
Dragon Ogre Shaman back in the. Yeah, there was a dragon.
Ogre Shame that didn't translate into into 4th.
No, you got you got heroes, shamans.
Yeah, that would be fun. Costing spells.
Yeah. So yeah, good looking upon
themselves. Yeah.
Right, so. And I guess they were like you
said, they were sort of support units, but I guess yes, at least
moderate foe they could expect to punch through pretty well.
So I guess they could go toe to toe with quite a few units even
ranked up maybe if they they do have the attacks to, of course,
the wounds. Yeah, they've got lots of
attacks. And weapons together 4 as well
so you know in strength 5. So again, additional hand weapon
is probably the best choice for them, taking up to four.
Attacks each charging. Into a unit they'll probably do
an awful lot of Ness. I'll.
Have to try them at some point I.
Haven't really tried dragon ogres yet so that might be an
experience to try, but then it's 90 points.
And you you might be better off with three or four minotaur
rather than two Dragon Ogres if you if you play that kind of
size. OK, Yeah, interesting.
I think the. Top just five.
An extra room makes some, yeah, but.
It it. Makes them almost too good then
for support for all or you kind of want them as like Oh yeah no,
I'd say they were. A front line, yeah.
Or Jesus frontline. You need to.
Get them to actually go go into bathroom sneaking around, in
fact. Absolutely, especially given
light. Arms are up to tough to save of
four. Plus then yeah, you definitely.
Put them into without toughness and a good save.
Yeah, they got going to combat, aren't they?
Straight away, as soon as you can.
Well, really. Yep.
Yep, lovely. Models, yeah.
Interesting. Yes, OK.
So what's next? Centaurs.
Yeah, talked A.
Little bit tough. Those before and then we did.
Yeah, about the models. There weren't any for 4th any
models. There was some released before
then. You had Centegos 6th, I think
6th. Yeah, yeah.
Did they disappear? From the 5th book were they
even? Were sent to us.
Even in the 5th book. Nope, they were.
Gone. So there's no news we got.
They. They got.
Mounted chasm and Robust instead.
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
And. I think could you put both on
them if you wanted to? Yes, right.
Now your only. Missile troop in in the book,
yeah. Yeah, I suppose yes.
Maybe not. The most effective ones, I guess
they could, yeah, but they're pretty costly, I suppose for a
bow to yeah, yeah. And officially if you.
Gave them bows, you couldn't give them a champion because.
Champions have to be on the. Exactly the same as the rest of
their unit and Chaos one allowed missile weapons in the
characters points points what they were allowed to take the
equipment so if. You gave missile.
Weapons, they weren't having a champion.
Officially, obviously you would do it and you would probably
would let you unless they were complete rude word, I would let
you. But officially, no, you
couldn't. Yeah.
And I think. By the way, listeners.
To see. I never thought about that.
Yeah, it's the same thing like Outriders can't have Champions
either because Champions is on the.
Same way the rest of his regiment, except that he may
have one magic item. So yeah.
And then if you look at the the equipment list, they're not
allowed any of the missile weapon.
So officially, there was no way to build a champion for a union
of centres with bones. Interesting.
Yeah. Again, I'd let them do it if
they were against me. Yeah, yeah.
It's not going to. Break anything to have a
champion inside to you, Dave Sky.
Era of Nalua. It can.
Oh yeah. Can you remember?
Yeah, but it's. I'm.
Not sure about that one. It's.
Supposed to be a one shot. You could go for the Bow of
Toralesi. There's like a 5.1 from
Chronicles of War. You go, yeah, that's the one as
well. I'll have to read.
The word, in fact. But that's very false edition.
Right, actually have to read the wording of the magic items too
in the. In the sorry.
If you really. Really want.
To you could perhaps claim the case, get away with it like Dave
said, you know, among friends. I don't think anyone would be
horribly upset if you did it anyway and just said, you know,
give him a vote. And if they are, you've got the
wrong friends. Yeah, yeah, absolutely right.
So pretty rare, but yeah. Did you use some deal?
No, never. There's no meanies and Nope.
Right? So if anyone.
Have experience and find the best unit they ever seen.
You know, let's know. But OK, so next song.
Yeah. Trolls.
The. Last The last entry in the units
Trolls. And are they just just trolls?
They don't have any favours or. Well, in fourth it didn't.
You could use anything at the same cost.
So you can either use them as trolls, stone trolls or river
trolls. Oh, OK.
Use use. Whichever 1 you wanted, Yeah, in
actually, it says your army may include any number of trolls on
which there are. Like.
Trolls, stone trolls and river trolls.
OK, so there. Were no chaos troll models in
specific ones in force? No or no?
No rules either. Yeah, it's.
Just literally trolls and and obviously you.
They must be in the book somewhere, probably in the B
street. They've got the rules for the
other types of trolls, I'm guessing.
Yeah, stone trolls are. Yeah, there's a special box on
there on in the B street that tells you the different, you
know, the stone trolls and river troll rules in the list.
It just simply states trolls and they could be only of those 3.
Yep. So they are identical to other
trolls so we don't maybe have to go into that too much.
But did they fit slots in the the chaos army or where they did
other things do the same, better or I think I included?
Them because I had troll models. So they were away bulking.
Out the Chaos army, yeah. Not that he really needs bulking
out, because. Everything is expensive but but
they were and they are quite, you know, trolls are quite
survivable. They just suffer from
leadership. But you know, you could have
them led by a chaos champion on a steed.
So why not go for it? You know, it's they're or a
wizard or something like that. Or or with zinch you can see him
on a disc and then you know, have him fly along with them.
No reason not to so well led by a decent character.
I think trolls are worth it in the chaos.
I mean, they're survivable. They're not brilliant in combat.
But as long as you're not. Running away, you've got a
decent character leading them with a decent leaders.
They're not running away from, you know, losing a combat.
Then they can stick around for quite a while.
Obviously you can go for the crown of command.
Yeah, for, you know, almost indefinitely, especially the
battle standards. You know, the very expensive
hero Battle Standard is knocking around somewhere.
Have them led by the battle standard with the crowd of
command. There you go.
Yeah, you're not going to move anywhere.
So the trolls are good you need but the the the the aesthetic in
false edition felt they they arcs and goblins and when you
included them in the chaos arm, it just it just felt a bit
weird. It didn't felt like very chaosy,
Yeah, I mean. There were some some of that in
in a lot of armies. I think you could, for example,
put a vibe on in an Empire army and we felt no working
government thing, isn't it? So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, not not too hard. I could get into.
You know previous editions but. Trolls certainly were.
In the Warhammer Army's Chaos list for 3rd.
They. Appeared.
I think they they were also in the zinch and the nergalists.
I don't know. I can't rough top my head if
they appeared in the slanish and cool ones from that was a chaos,
but certainly they they were in chaos armies at that point.
So it was, you know, they were in both, but I think from.
Yeah, in, in. Earlier ones, I think there was
an idea that trolls could be an army in their own right as well.
Yeah. So I mean.
From from forth and forward. I think they were very closely
tied to Orson goblets. They made such a big thing
about. It and didn't really make such a
big thing about trolls in a chaos arm if they'd appeared in
back reports. Exactly.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, then you'd have thought
they were chaos as well. Yes, yes, yeah.
And of course. Later, they were actually chaos
trolls that were, yeah, exactly if they'd released.
Models for them yeah as well if they'd released maybe some base
just just non stone or I mean there were obviously non stone
Rivertrol models from previous editions if they'd released some
in force when they. Did the chaos.
Army people were like, oh, those are chaos trolls.
Is it all trolls in a chaos army?
Not chaos trolls as such, but there are trolls in the chaos
army. So yeah, it's it's they weren't
released at the same time. They were released at the same
time as York and Goblin army. So yeah, people are supposed to
meet them with alls and models, right?
So. You have a pretty vast choice of
different sort of that would later call monsters infantry, I
guess, and I guess you would really include all of them have
to be a huge battle, but you can certainly add a lot of flavour.
So if you short summary, which is your favorite of the big boys
if you have to choose, oh those. Three, you mean?
Oh yeah, maybe. All the big stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, OK.
They'll probably dragon ogles for me.
Yeah, I think that's fair. Same dragon ogles, but purely on
their their skulls, their their. Background.
Story. Yeah, well, from a gaming point
of view, I think I would maybe take Minotaur's over dragon
ogles. But the dragon ogles.
Look so much. Cooler, yeah.
And yo-yo yo. Dragon Ogres.
Yeah, so. 30 to the dragon ogres.
Yeah, yeah. OK, so let's go into the
slightly smaller but still pretty devastating demons.
I think if we move up the list, yes.
Who wants to kick off demons? Yes.
Yeah. I mean corn first.
Blood Cell Star. I mean, when I was a kid, this
this unit was dream. It's like 10s everywhere. 800
points. Oh yeah, we're talking about
the. Great, the demons now, Yeah,
these three wounds, I mean, it's the.
First entry in the book, right? It's.
The one that comes first. Yeah, and.
Of course, that was an absolute monster and like when we were
the bloods of. Surprise.
It's just, and of course we were sort of trying to be power
gamers and everyone's OK. That's the biggest thing in the
army book. That has to be the best.
I don't think I actually faced any of them in the in a sort of
normal battle. We had some sort of mega battle
at some point. But yeah, obviously they were
horrendously powerful and yeah, it would probably much melt
anything it came into contact with.
I guess there were some sneaky ways you could kill it outright
with the spells and stuff, but in combat it would be difficult
to do anything because I think he had like D3 wounds as well.
Yeah, yeah. So unlike the flesh hounds, it
doesn't have a color of corn for some reason.
So it's not protected against spells at all and.
In the game we played. Like a couple of weeks ago,
canogal against cinched. I think it's the bulk of change
that has that can just kill. Yeah, you're talking it's
against toughness and yeah, I suppose it's almost 5050 with
toughness of seven. So you could one shot it and and
of course there are cannons that there's also ways to to get rid
of it. But yeah, and it's.
My favorite with Empire, the purple sound, it had a three
plus to kill it. So there were ways of course,
but yes, yes, and some blades as well.
Cross blades. You're getting rid of it.
One wound done. Yeah.
What's? What's happening?
Yeah. Was.
Was the way you could either go with a death.
Rune. Of death something like scarf
black cameras room where you don't need to worry about
wounding scarf scarf or the other I come which way round
they are but one of them you don't need to route wounding so
there's that one but. Again, you've also.
Got a hit? You're gonna have one of those
two. Rooms, OH.
Dear. Maybe the hydro blade?
That against it, but there is a strength as well.
There is a demon. Slayer sword right?
But I can't remember if it kills outright or if it's I think it's
wounds. Automatically or.
Or or plus 3 + 3 strength standard, isn't it?
Yeah, and then wounds automatically.
We've still got a hit that's from with with.
With. It's really hard.
So that's yeah. What actually, what is Wolf
Rooms? Yeah.
Yeah, and you and you really had to attack first because of the
the demons first. You're not going to be doing
anything. Yeah.
So that's profit nasty. And the if we talk about the the
smaller demons as well, the blood letters, I guess they're
pretty nasty as well. Yeah, 20.
Points for two. Attacks.
Weapons Skill 5, Toughness 4. Yeah, 02/3.
Toughness 3. Yeah.
These these three. Wounds.
Four plus demons say yeah, it's they're very.
Good. I would not put them.
On Juggernauts. It's a bit.
Overkill or. It's just as a silly you need
for a very large game. They are they're.
Very solid units. Yeah, yeah.
I agree on foot really good, but mounted probably aren't worth
the points. Yes, no, 90 points.
For that, yeah, 20. Points on.
Foot, you know, we with your OK, it's demonic save, so it can be
effective. It's still a four plus save to
begin with, you know, and and doing D3 wounds per hit with a
you know, strength for web skill of five to attack.
I think that's pretty good. Infantry, that is, Yes, yes.
Did they cause fear or no? They were friends?
Yes. No.
They cause yes.
OK. Yeah, I can imagine that having.
Those guys bearing down on you wouldn't be nice.
All right, so and then were the Flesh Hounds in 4th edition as
well? Yes.
Yeah, well. Very good.
So they're they're expensive. So it's five points and they
only have one attack, which is the shame and feels a bit weird,
especially when you compare them to the chaos hounds.
But the rest is like they've got their their corn cola on
translating. Yeah, of corn.
Yeah. So that was no.
Magic worked against them or no? Magic weapons no.
Spends pretty absolutely. Well.
You probably only had use. About 5 or 6 of them, or if
you're, if you're being, if you're being particularly
flavoursome, you'd have a unit of eight, obviously, because
sacred numbers. Of the which?
Didn't really come into 4th but. Yeah, there was sacred.
Number and eight was for corn, but really they could be OK.
They've got a good save and they haven't talked to some 4 but if
you shoot enough things at them, they will die because they've
got, you know, OK, yeah, two wounds, but yeah, they're a bit
more brittle than the blood letters, I'd say.
I I don't know. Like was there?
Toughness for two wounds at 4 plus save I.
I feel they're actually more resilient than they are an
offensive unit with their single win for 35 points.
It's been low, but then if there are two for this price, they
would be. Yeah, I.
Just think the 35 points is a high price point for what they
are. It depends if you're OK, OK,
maybe you, you by having them in, your opponent knows you're
going to have them. You may be informed that
decision on Wizards. There's that argument.
So it's kind of a tactical choice in that sense.
But I don't know 35 points. Is a lot for SO.
Their features really their movement like their movement 10.
So that goes really fast and you so so you would want to use them
as a as a shock unit, but you end up using them as more of a
like like. Cavalry.
Support units which might. Not be what they.
Should be about, but they work well in this form.
Yeah, and of course. Corn is sort of in your face and
with fancy and everything, so you basically do.
They're not too much tactics about them.
I guess you sort of push them forward and try to hit
something, don't you think? The.
Demons. Frenzy, So you kind of don't
have that defence. You can use frenzy.
Against people. They don't so so.
In in that sense, they're probably better than having a
unit of warriors with the org Knights.
With the banner. Yeah, they're they're probably
better in that sense because the opponent has said can't use
them. Use your frenzy against you.
With them they can just. Yeah, they're they're they're
good choice of demon overall. I think, you know, when you're
looking at the kinds of demons there are core ones, they're
pretty simple, G's point and click and they do what you want
them to do pretty much. So yeah, good stuff.
Do you have any experiences, Yogan?
Did you use the chaos demons frequently?
Yeah, I have used the flash arms a lot.
See what's? Next in the.
Demon lists we have Nergal. Nergal.
We have, of course, the big boy. Yeah, with his 10 wounds.
Yes, 10 wounds. Office.
Of eight. Very, very fast DC.
Yeah, he waddles. Along with the rest of the army,
yeah. So I.
Guess it would be more difficult to get sort of his points back
if the enemy didn't want to. Yes, he's very characterful.
He's what I was. Very characterful, but you know,
I like Leo. You had one, didn't you, in that
battle you played? Yeah, yeah.
And he had the, he had the duel with the Lord of Change.
Obviously the Lord of Change charged and you can see the
difference. It's maybe a bit tougher in
combat than he has an extra attack compared to the load of
change extra toughness. So he he.
They were grinding at each other.
But the the the great and clean one that slightly the upper
hand. I.
Discovered or rediscovered a bit of noggin magic.
There was some interesting spells in our country called
them exactly, but it's it's quite short ranged, but it's
there's some good stuff like halving everyone.
Within 6. Inches stats unless you're a no
girl champion. So that was interesting.
Some of the movements table and that that's that's a feature
across the Nogal army the the cavalry the the piece of Nogal
as movement of three yeah and I. I must say, I really love the
Beasts of Nogal. I think they are absolutely
adorable units and when they write about them, there's like
huge deadly puppies. They just want to play with the
enemy or they don't see them as enemies.
I see them as potential friends and then they slobber all over
them and they die and they become disappointed and look for
new friends. Why?
Do you? Move three inches.
Yeah. Or six if they you know.
It's not the fastest cavalry going, is it?
Slower than infantry? Yeah.
Oh yeah. And.
Like a little aside with the,
the palanquin rules, which I, because the model is so lovely,
I, I, I want to use it, but they, they released some rules
in Citadel journal and they treated as a child with movement
4. So it means that can't March,
obviously. And then they did another
Persian in in. 5th. Edition against the journal and
this time you can move 6 which is a slight progress, but again
like this army will not go anywhere.
Yeah, I've always. Considered.
Using it as a possibly a demonic steed, but then movement 8 feels
a bit too fast by the nagging. On acid or something you know
and and just a base of. Nerglings feels a bit weak as a
mount, so yeah, I almost like Nergal.
I think it's it's a very, it's sort of slightly comedic maybe,
but it's the. Least.
Serious of all the kills Gods, yeah.
And he's. Basically a, you know, really
jovial guy and yeah, I mean, he just wanted with.
Friends to. Become affected by pet stones
and stuff. So yeah, good times for
everyone, yeah. And.
Of course you have the plague bearers, the Yeah.
So what's your take on? Them.
Yeah, I really like Plague. Bearers, I've got a I've got a
load of 4th edition ones I need to get painted up sometime, but
also got some Realms of Chaos ones.
So prior ones, decent size. You know, they're not used them
often, but I just like the models.
Yeah, I think there are there. Are a whole lot of unique
models, right? They have a bunch of choices you
can make pretty much 20 strong and not too.
Yeah, absolutely. Just just wonderful, wonderful
models, very characterful. And the -1 to hit is, you know,
that's, that's fantastically useful.
Yeah. Yeah, they've got.
Plague swords as well, which auto kill on 4 plus that's
that's dynasty. And so the the problem with a
lot of the chaos minor demons is the magic.
So if you want to run many units, you end up with many
spellcasters. So I tend to play them to house
rule them to cost 20 points and not have spells because
otherwise you just spend your your games during the magic
phase. Yeah.
So yes. I I don't remember but how did
it work with? Like you have escape cards and
stuff for when when you use the unit to cuss the spell.
How did that work? I mean, I suppose you can use.
Escape on one plague belt? That might not be worth it.
Yeah, the. Entire unit pops.
That would have been weird. And and and they can.
Pop plague belts can ride Beast of Nogal which makes it.
Creepy. Along.
Yeah. That's.
Yeah, cool, but maybe not very practical.
Yeah. OK.
So we're back. For perhaps the final 40 minute
session here and we had almost finished knurgle, but we had the
little guys left and maybe we should give them a few minutes
at least. The Knurlings.
Little Slimers. Yeah, very cool.
Also. I love those images with the
knurglies crawling all of the the Great Unclean One eating his
stuff. Yeah, pretty disgusting.
But are they useful in combat? Not hugely.
But you're going to take them anyway because they look so cute
and cool, so. Everyone will will have.
A couple of units of them, yeah. So how do they?
Function, are they like swarms or are they more of a normal
units or no they? Can run away.
They have a leadership 7 for some reasons big lower than
everyone else. They've got their demonic save,
OK. They cause fear, OK.
So I don't. Know 33 bases on each end of
your army, something like that. That's that's about what they're
good for, yeah. I'd agree on.
That one they're they're characterful, but not
necessarily useful. So that's farmed, but.
Not. Competitive.
Yeah, I think that's the. That's not good for you.
Yeah, I kind of think. Of of people seeing Ghostbusters
afterlife we've got. The Stay puft.
Little marshmallow men, The tiny ones.
Oh yeah. Yeah, that's kind of.
What they are, isn't it? They're, they've got little,
little children mucking about with each other, probably doing
horrendous things to each other, but just this is fun.
That's yeah, they're, yeah. They're a comedy unit if
anything. We, we, we haven't really.
Talked about the Beast in more details, but they're also
horribly expensive and horribly inefficient.
Yeah. But they're not.
Going to die severely. So they're probably no, but
they're not. They're not going to.
Slowly do their. Thing, but yeah.
Yeah, yeah, if you. Can sort of transport them into
combat maybe that would be nice. But yeah, so if you won't,
doesn't have any displacement spams.
No, but you can. Get around that in various ways.
We'll just. Say that in the book.
Really. All right, so let's move on to
one of the final 2 powers. Yeah, Zinch is up next.
Zinch yes. They change your ways.
Yeah, he's. He's.
Kind of he's my. Main how I like also like noodle
as well, but also like zinch. So they're the two kind of.
Gods that I have troops. For I've got some slanish as
well, little smattering, but it's mainly zinch.
I just love the disc riders for zinch.
You know the the as a beast. The disc is fantastic because
it's yeah, cheap flying, really cheap flying.
Just got to be careful as people don't because the only issue
with with the disc is I do believe that someone can kill
the beast out from underneath you.
I'm not sure about that one. Can you check it as?
A No. The cavalry, yeah.
The the their mouths and the mouse.
OK, so you can't that's. OK then.
OK, that that problem goes away. The the need for a parachute
goes away. That's that's.
They're nice and cheap. And the models actually, you
know, they're just really cool with the thought of them
running, you know, this flying around on, on a, on a demon
disc. It's coming through the air and
so. On yeah, yeah, it feels.
Pretty original. I don't know, maybe they had
some inspiration from somewhere, of course.
But yeah, they're definitely iconic and they survived through
the editions, I guess. So I'm still around in some way.
What's? What's really?
Missing from this this army book is chaos nights on, demonic
steals on on. Discussed.
Steinch would look would be a bit mean, arguably.
Very cool, yeah. Can you have?
A chariot with the discs No yes, can you oh so yes for characters
for. Characters, but characters you
can. Does it fly or not?
I don't. Think so?
It does fly, but. It can't fly hard.
Right. And.
The demon himself, is he compared to the other greater
demons? Oh, does he?
So it's funny because. It's the least flavorful.
It doesn't have any special role.
He's also a cheapest. Isn't he?
Or always cheapest. Yeah, he's by 50 points.
He's he's the cheapest unless you include the great the.
Scavenge. Yeah, but in the book, yeah,
he's he's. Cheapest of the four I.
Like him that. I like his inks then.
All right. And so maybe not too much to say
about the a greater demon compared to the other ones, but
I mean, it's still a greater demon.
So it's still a a monster in combat and it's I guess level 4
cost and and and tinch. Magic.
Which is nastier? Yeah.
So that. Was the ones who had the.
Bolt of change, is it the I would you get it?
Yeah, yeah. Yes.
Right. And then the troops, the
flavours, I guess, horrors. The most, well, horrors are the
most expensive fiscally, in real terms, are the most expensive
demons you're going to get because you've got to pay for
three models per one. You've got to buy them.
You've got physically, you've got.
To buy blue. Oh, OK.
Yeah, you mean that? Yeah, yeah, Blue Blue Horror as
well as your. Pink horror to work.
So yeah, especially these real. Firms.
They are the most expensive. Demon, you're going to buy.
And obviously the Blue Demons must have any cheaper than the
the other ones. I suppose so.
Yeah, of course not. Yeah.
And I guess you would almost always end up with a mixed
units, you would have both in one if they took any casualties.
So yeah, pretty unique route I guess.
Just basically so so fun. It was.
It's really fun to play them or
to play against them. Yeah.
And you? Couldn't.
It's a challenge you never. You know you can't buy them on
their own, but it's a challenge you you never face.
Like as as you fight your enemy gets more numerous.
You don't. Get that anywhere.
Else in the game so it's it's it's fun yeah if.
Your opponent. Doesn't know about it.
It's a very nasty surprise. I should.
What you're not taking away. You're adding.
Yeah, that's. A big surprise.
And are they good? Compared to the other demons,
Pink horrors are pretty good. Blue horrors?
Not as much, no. But I guess they're supposed to
be, you know, yeah, too good. But that would have been awful
if they actually became better when they died.
Can't that be horrendous? No, they have been as far.
As Mike in skill 5. You know, strength 4, that's
pretty good. Only time necessary 2 attacks
still, so they're pretty good. They don't get.
The same they don't get the same No, they don't you're right
they. Don't get that one excited.
Yeah, that makes a difference. And like deals or demons, at
least when I play them. 10 points cheaper Novagic.
But I guess also. They compared to the the blood
letters on the platelets. They don't have any medic
weapons or anything. No maybe medical tax, but yeah,
right. Agree.
So Yep. So definitely a unique unit with
a unique feature. That's right.
So we have some other sense, yeah.
What the? Flavours.
Yeah. Almost like a mini war machine.
If I remember correctly they're quite nasty answer.
Is that the best? Demon units, probably.
Yeah, it's my favorite. I would say the best.
Yeah, yeah. Because I think they, they're
not horrible in close combat either.
And they I know that's two attacks.
Strings five more. They've got weapons history, but
they move 9, yeah. Then they.
Can shoot and. When they shoot D6 hits, yeah,
it it's unbelievable yeah and and and strengths 5 and they
cause these three and they cause these three wounds on top of Oh
yeah yeah that's. Absolutely horrible there.
I mean, they're going to melt them away.
Pretty much any monster or anything they face unless they
have really high toughness. So you you give.
Them you give them a hero or champion or without them
discussed since to help them a little bit, yeah.
So if you face them, it's going to be a priority to try to shoot
them off the ball. I guess if you were able, if you
can, you should. Yeah.
Definitely not expensive 50. Points ahead, yeah, And that's
they're. Very fast as well.
So yeah, they've got to be in your face and.
They can go for obstacles, leap. Leap over.
Anything. Yeah.
Right. So yeah.
And how long do they shoot the shooting attack or what's the
range? Only 6 inches?
Oh yeah. Yeah, at.
Least one limitation on them, but still going to be very
nasty. So how do you use them?
Do you use them for shooting or do you get in?
But that's the beauty of it. You can.
Use them for anything so you can have relatively small units.
They're resilient. Just five.
We do a lot of work. They.
Can charge they. Can harass, they can flank, they
can do anything. You can hunt cocktails and party
areas. Are they 0 to one choice or can
you have several units? No, you.
Can have several as. Many.
As you want. There's no, I'm just looking,
but there's no 0 to one in the army book at all, OK.
Right, so 5050. Percent of your army, isn't it
so? If you want to take all your 50%
as flamers, you can do that, yeah.
But yes, I think so definitely. Borderline Gnostic or way across
the border, I suppose. All right, so if you want to
have a versatile and really nasty unit, flamers could be the
way to go. All right, so is that it for
sense or do they have anything else?
No, that's it. Yep.
OK, so let's move on to the final one.
The slanish, the rude. Dude.
Rude dude, Yeah. And.
Yeah, I guess DWS treated that a bit differently over time.
Maybe earlier it was more outright naughty and maybe they
washed, washed that up a little bit later.
A little bit, yeah. But yeah, it was still about
pleasure, I guess in the 4th edition.
So. So we have we start off with the
greater demon like the other ones.
So what's her thing? Or her, her and he's.
It's mixed, I suppose. Pronoun time.
It's a solid demon. It's a solid great demon.
It's it's not the best, it's not the worst.
It's it's just a solid great demon.
Does a, does a good job, not particularly fast, but he's not
slow. He's got movement at six, but
overall it's certainly not the worst great demon going at all.
Yeah, yeah. It's it's it's funny because the
lot of changes is cheaper, but can't fly and I think flying
makes such a difference. And obviously for the blood
source to even more this one movement 6, you can you can
avoid it, right and. Some sort of special rule,
right? Yeah, it's got a lot of.
Spanish. So you need to test under your
leadership to be able to attack. It could be good.
If you're lucky, yeah. Unlucky though, yeah.
And slavish magic. What's How is that compared to
country? Quite strong if you have the
right space. Yeah, the demonets are.
Next, Yeah. So what's your take on them?
There are. Weapons kill seeks 3 attacks
they're. They're as fragile.
As the. Plague bells and.
The blood letters but. They they can do more damage.
They don't have any special rules for their weapons, but
like these three attacks are really, really good and I and I
think it's the only demon units that's worth putting on on
steeds because the steeds are incredible as well.
Yes movement. 12. I agree, yeah.
That's pretty insane moment. It's at the highest in the game
for ground moving. Could be.
Yeah, I think it. Is.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's it's also bargain.
I think at 25 points. Yeah.
So they've got toughness 5, which?
Is bit useless, interestingly, yeah.
Well, good When? Drawing Chariots.
Yeah, strongly nasty. So.
Super turbo Chariots. I do have to make.
One, I'm not a fan of the form of the.
I'm really not those. Huge.
Some people love them, some people say iconic.
I'm not a fan. I prefer the earlier models, but
I say that with nice things so. Maybe.
I'm biased anyway, but I prefer the slimmer, sleeker look of
the. Realms of Chaos ones to the.
Great big huge fall. The claws are so big they'd fall
over you. Know and.
I and I accept that some. People absolutely adore those
models. It's one of those things some
people love. The first multi part plastic
night goblins, I can't stand them.
Some people like the Wolf edition demonettes, I can't
stand them. But each their own I think.
I think they have a charm. I understand, but do I like the
models? No.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, and they're supposed to be like otherworldly beauties, and
maybe that's not what they comment on.
Yeah, they're a bit monstrous. Yeah.
Huge. Bulging.
Biceps. And and massive claws, human
claws, they. Don't.
Really fit with the aesthetic they were supposed to have
That's that's my main issue. I think they're nicely sculpted
They look ridiculous with the claws, but they're nicely.
I don't think they're badly sculpted.
It's just they don't I think you've hit the nail.
They don't fit the image I have of what they are.
Yep, All right, so and what? Else does slunge have to bring
to the table? Beans of.
Yeah, weird ones these aren't they?
That's a big. Thing right?
Like bugs with. With.
Almost human slash gene stealer like hens.
Yeah, yeah. So hard.
To rank up they're. Supposed to go on cavalry.
Bases and they've got like this massive clothes to the side so
you can't put them next to each other.
It's a nightmare. They like the clothes.
See that that's that's an actual physical downside of the 4th
edition Slanish models. So nasty.
Claws. Yeah, certainly.
Again, they're nice. They're nice enough models, the
things, the 4th edition ones, just yeah, ranking them up is
probably a bit hard, but again, I, you know, yeah, I'm not, I'm
not going to mention it. You know what I'm going to say?
Yeah, they're not. Very good.
They're not very. Good.
Well, they're not, actually. Very.
Giving. I've never really.
Used them. Yeah, So what?
Are their limitations? Why are they not good?
So they've got three attacks which.
Is fine but weapons, skills, strength, toughness 31, wounds
6. So you can't use them as like
fast harassment support units. They're clearly not like a
frontline unit. No, they're going to break.
Very easy. They're very.
Fragile and wouldn't toughness read they've got that the money
save but still and expensive sorts of points model.
Yeah looks right. Have you found any?
Use for them Yoga No not. Really.
I think they're the worst. Team, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so you would even take no. Links for them for the same.
Whoa. OK, so we don't.
Actually, like the models, they're difficult to rank out
and they're not very useful, so clearly not our favorite, but
you still take them. Because they're part of the
Slanish army and they're somewhat favourful.
Yeah. So did you ever feel like feel
pure demonic armies or was that a thing?
Usually you couldn't if you. Follow the rules.
Oh, OK, yes. So what was the you need a a
human general or did you need other stuff as well?
You you mean? Yeah, you can only.
Spend 50% of your points on. Yeah, OK.
And. Technically.
Your your, your greater. Demons are not characters, OK?
They're just demons. So I'm not.
Even sure they can they. Can't be the general right?
They no OK. I.
Mean. You could.
If. You're, you know, of course,
playing your mates and you. Wanted to do it.
There's nothing. Stopping you and it's probably a
good thing to do because it it is insane.
You know, in a 2000 point game you could play and 700 and 5800,
whatever it is of your points are greater demon.
Officially you can do it because you spend up to 50% of your
points on that. But your arm is really tiny.
Really. Even more so than normal for
chaos. So I probably wouldn't.
Do it myself in in anything below a 3000 point game and even
then even in a 3000 point game of demons are big investments.
Yes. Yes, yeah, it was a real small
comment to use the. The troops, various cans, yeah,
OK. And of course, we need to settle
this. Which is your favorite of the
four? Fab. 4.
You don't. Have to rank them all but.
Just pick your favourites for me Zinch.
Closely. Followed by no.
Cinch for me. As well and then slime.
I would say corn. Based on, like, childhood
preference. Yeah, I love them all.
Really now. Yeah, I think we talked.
About that before as well, if you just you know, you don't
know too much about the game, the tactics, you just look at
the stats and the killiness definitely will be the kids
favorite. I think the blood cells still is
so. Iconic.
I think everyone started playing as a team at that time.
Just remember the blood cells tells us 10 wounds and 10
attacks and frenzier. Oh no, sorry, no frenzy.
No, there would have been. 20 attacks.
Yeah, but. 10 attacks, weapons kill 10.
Was it strength eight or seven? And three wounds per attack.
I mean, it was overkill again, almost.
Can I just say 1? Thing actually.
I'm going to change my favorite chaos God, Sure.
Of course. Etsy.
Well. OK, maybe.
You're allowed to do. That, yeah, but yeah.
You'll definitely spoil for choice.
With Chaos, you can do quite a few different, Yeah, armies, of
course. And if you like we talked about
if you don't abide strictly by the rules, you can do a lot of
other things as well. You can do pure cases.
And so, yeah. So that sounds like fun.
And my memory from the times I faced Chaos was that they were
quite strong. They usually beat up my empire
handsomely. I don't know what your take was.
Were they powerful in the 4th edition in the right hands?
Absolutely All right, so yeah. And I think it was quite popular
when it came out. And of course, one benefit was
you could get away with a quite low model count and still get a
viable army. Yeah, when I when I.
Run my painting challenges that I do Chaos is always quite high
up on the list of numbers of people doing chaos because yeah,
small number of points to paint, you know, model count wise.
So yeah it's certainly these days it's probably more popular
than it was back in the day of football.
It may be unclouded in my memories, but typically back in
the day, certainly amongst people that I played, chaos
wasn't necessarily a number one choice for most people.
I. Think it probably is more so
now, but. Then again, also prevalence of
course is probably higher as well, simply because gauge watch
would have made more of a thing of it as well.
Yeah, very cool of everything. Now there, there.
There were not a. Lot of battle report with chaos,
at least as far as I can remember.
They did a lot more on, you know, health.
Oxen Goblins. Yeah, they had one against
dwarfs. And but I don't know if it.
Was anyone against Tails? Yeah.
Maybe that was fifth I. Don't know.
No, it was. Just before 5th.
Yeah, yeah. It was when a grim came out and
they had this like, who was the best magician take this eye
Grim. So they did this sort of duel
with Emerick as well, Yeah. And I remember that was probably
later in 5th or maybe in the sixth, they had that, which was
the best special character, but obviously fourth, Yeah.
And Austrian that didn't they? And they had a love pester that
came off the top. That was a bit cheating.
Yes. Right.
So I think we've gone through the book and it's been a lot to
talk to talk about. And does anyone have any
finishing thoughts or anything they want to touch on that we
haven't. If not, I guess we'll no, we
don't really. Want anything else?
Yeah, and. And.
No, no. Everyone likes chaos.
So. It's.
Very ablimatic. Of the old world, Yeah, yeah.
Definitely and a driver of the lore or maybe that's all now.
Thank you all very. Much yes, thank you and we'll.
See how and who will do the the what are you?
Planning to do next in in the. List of.
What we're doing for the group, as it were, next.
Will be dark out.