Slannesh Chaos Marauder Minis

Old Citadel Barbarians or Norsemen from around 1986 which I now use in my Slannesh Chaos army as Chaos Marauders. This was before they got rid of the combined Chaos force with the release of Chaos Daemons. Talk about a backward step.

Using the new Games Workshop Daemon Army

Well had an opportunity to try out the new Daemon Army and it confirmed my suspicion that it just didn't feel right. Fundamentally it felt beardy to choose the separate Chaos God forces in one army, when you have a themed army then you know you get some pretty rubbish troops sometimes but they possibly have a really strong theme that makes up for this. So if you had a Nurgle army then you might take Nurglings even though they are a bit of a waste of space to boost the theme element.

The battle was a straight forward pitched battle with 2000 points, which to be honest is the way that we normally play, against a new Vampire Counts army. For a General I went with a Great Unclean One, and then a herald of Tzeentch amongst some pink horrors and a Herald of Slannesh on a Chariot. Slannesh Demonettes, Plaguebearers, pink horrors, Fiend of Slannesh, chaos furies, and Screamers made up my force.

Things started off okay, and probably got too cocky but in essence the battle dissolved into a slog fest in the middle, which gradually sucked in more and more troops. With neither side running but losing men to instability then it was attritional. I lost my Great Unclean One on the last turn and that handed a Narrow Victory to the Undead. A major problem was that I had failed to realise that the Wight King was also the Battle Standard Bearer, it was a very ethereal banner and not visible in the real world, and I should have tried to take it out earlier.

The other major point was I should have tried to take out the skeleton unit and not allowed any rebuilds since I never managed to defeat the unit. It was a good game but slightly frustrating since we had had to take units from our Slannesh, Nurgle and Tzeenth armies to make the force, and Games Workshop has written three characterful armies that we have spent along time building up out of the game. In my opinion an all Daemon army did not offer enough to warrant this.

New Games Workshop Deamons

Well have just read the May White Dwarf. I haven't got it for awhile since the quality has been a bit iffy, but wanted to see what they up to with the new Deamon army list. I liked the fact that they had articles for both Warhammer and 40k using Daemon lists, and it helped since the 40k used Dark Angels.

I have a 40k Chaos list mainly based on Chaos marines and wouldn't be using the new Codex anyway.

But the Warhammer list was another matter, and must admit that I was rather peeved by the way that the list has gone, with from what I understand the only option being to have an all Chaos Warriors or an all Demon army list. Well that buggers up my Slannesh army which is based on the Hordes concept, and has a mix of Warriors and Deamons, and I would imagine most of brothers lists who has armies for Nurgle , Tzeentch and Khorne.

The Chaos Warriors armies are not characterful enough in my opinion on their own. All you can do is change the colour scheme, whereas with some Demonettes thrown in or a flamer unit you can tell which Chaos God they support. Well I think we will ignore that one but we will use the revised instability rules. The old ones were so bad anyway that we treated it the same as the Undead rules. Oh look my entire unit just disappeared, glad I spent £70 and 2 months painting them!!

Slannesh Warhammer Army

As mentioned before have built up quite a few Games Workshop armies over the years, and one that I have for Warhammer is the that of the Slannesh Chaos Champion Valsav of the Hrud. Yet again since it has been built up over time it has a number of old models in it as well as some of the newer ones. So for example the Chaos Lord incarnation of Vaslav is the latest Chaos Slannesh hero, but the Demon Prince alternative uses the original Keeper of Secrets. I also have some of the first Chaos Warriors from the first box set in there.

Below are two figures, mostly finished although the bases need more work. A Chaos Warrior and a Marauder. The Chaos Warriors are using a basic black scheme for speed of painting whilst the Marauders unifying element is the red and white shield design.