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I had been thinking about starting a chaos army for a while. Now I like Chaos warriors but they are really spendy for what they can do. I was thinking tho that without them the static res in a chaos army is about nil. You have to worry about causing casualties instead.

So I wondered if a marauder based army might work. This is what I came up with. It has 3 nice blocks of infantry supported by a character. 5 fast moving elements for redirecting and war machine taking. 2 chariots for some punch (one ridden by the general), a decent magic phase, and some spawn for tying up flanks or preventing flank charges. The bray shaman in the bestigors can make them highly mobile with the staff of darkoth, and with bears anger can be a formidable combatant. The other sorcerer provides magic support to the flail wielding marauders and hopefully with there flails they can provide damage for the sorcerer. The bsb has the banner of the gods to hopefully keep the center stubborn even in the event of being flanked (sense m4 infantry can be easily outflanked). I would like to think that this army packs enough punch to compete and has enough bodies to soak the inevitable magic and shooting casualties. Please C&C any suggestions welcome.


2250 Chaos Marauder Army

Characters

Exalted Champion
-Chaos Armor
-Chariot
-Shield
-Flail
-Trollhide Armor
-Gaze of the Gods
-274

Aspiring Champion
-Chaos Armor
-Chaos Steed
-Battle Standard Bearer
-Banner of the Gods
-246

Bray Shaman (cult leader)
-Level 2
-Staff of Darkoth
-Chaos Armor
-145

Chaos Sorcerer
-Level 2
-Chaos Armor
-Chaos Steed
-Power Familiar
-186

Character Total: 851

Core

23 Marauders (sorcerer here)
-Full Command
-Light Armor
-Shields
-Flails
-209

23 Marauders (bsb here)
-Full Command
-Light Armor
-Shields
-186

5 Marauder Horse
-Music
-Flails
-81

5 Marauder Horse
-Music
-Flails
-81

5 Chaos Hounds
-30

5 Chaos Hounds
-30

Core Total: 617

Special

19 Bestigor (cultists, bray shaman here)
-Full Command
-258

4 Minotaurs
-Great Weapons
-184

Marauder Chariot (tuskgor chariot)
-85

9 Furies
-135

Special Total: 662

Rare

Chaos Spawn
-60

Chaos Spawn
-60

Rare Total: 120

Army Total: 2250
Total: Models: 105
Power Dice: 7
Dispel Dice: 5

troll hide sucks take it out and get a magic weapon wih a shield

Achtung! You cannot take demons or beasts with the revised chaos mortals list that hits in a month or so, so your shaman, bestigors, tuskgor chariot and furies won't be around. However it looks like there will be an actual 'cultists' unit available, the minotaurs will likely be around as 'chaos brutes' upgraded to be minos, and there's always warrior chariots (dropped to 100 points). The furies, well, who the hell knows what will replace them in the list. Possibly some skirmishing unit of some kind (please!) but I doubt it'll fly.

- Salvage