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Personally, I can't think of a reason to hate any of them. I understand that on the surface of some of the god's themes, they can appear simplistic- yes I'm looking at you khorne. However the exploration as a whole of the aspects of the human psyche that each god offers, whilst not complete, is something that no other army offers.

There is something very principled behind the nobility of certain imperial armies, offset by the callous brutality with which they act. Chaos however, allows you to indulge in something entirely motivated by something else. Aside from a few "noble" traitor legions, there is nothing positive in the motivation of the ruinous powers.

As such you as a player can revel in being the bad guy with no redeeming features whatsover, save the chance to enjoy the thrill of slaughtering imaginary soldiers, represented of course by your opponents models. If this doesn't appeal to you, that's personal taste, but hate? That's a strong word.

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Slaanesh by far, the models are just hideous as they are usually of indeterminate gender and covered in boobs.

Slaanesh. Cant stand the "appeal" of what ever Slaanesh is.

Slaanesh..... just cause of the conversation i had at my FLGS where we were all trying to figure out the horid and many disgusting ways a slaaneshi follower could and would rape you.

Nurgles my favorite just since he is made to sound like a jolly loving fatherly-ish figure

Slaanesh for sure stupid slaanesh.
Tzeentch effs up everyones stuff and tahts fun adn all nurgle at least likes his followers and protects them.
And khorne will kill you upside the head if you talk smack about him but over all red blue and rotting green are cool.
Slaanesh is purple like if it was salmon it would be different but its a lame pink purple.

http://www.moddb.com/groups/warhammer-40k-fans-group/images/chaos-divided


Ps tazz where you in gw victoria by any chance when this happened I remember having a convo like that it was scary.

shealyr wrote:
Maybe it has something to do with my upbringing, but there is nothing about the idea of excess and hedonism that can have any redeeming value.

Oh come on, they are gods of evil, if they had redeeming values they wouldn't be anywhere near as evil.

All your showing here is that Slannesh is actually the coolest because you really can push the boundries and really confront people.

Blood and guts and skulls is just boring same old, same old. So I picked Khorne.

I personally find the hope-apathy axis very interesting, while Khorne and Slaanesh are rather boring and one-dimensional, at least as currently presented.

I hate Tzeentch because lying sceaming and being a sneaky jerk is just lame.
Allso i think my prime minister is a follower of Tzeentch.

The Emperor, I can't stand that guy. He can't get his comeuppance soon enough in my book.

Slaanesh, the models are terrible, the fluff idiotic (you create a sex god but...don't talk about anything sexual)
it doesn't work in what GW wants to do with chaos, but especially in 40K it falls flat on its face
though the old Slaanesh was a ton of fun with the guitars, now they look dumb
in fantasy they do it better but still
a hentai god and they portray it...I don't even know, its hard to pinpoint because a lot of them are such terrible writters

I am going with Nurgle, nobody likes cancer

Ugh, Slannesh is so annoying!!!!!!!!!

I love them all though...

Nurgle- God of Life
Khorne- God of Honor
Slaanesh- God of Love
Tzeentch- God of Hope

Out of all the Chaos Gods (yes, including Malal), Slaanesh would have to be my least favorite.

Khorne I think is okay. Yeah, the whole "Blood for the Blood God!" things gets fairly old, but still. He is the god of martial prowress, war, anger, fury, blood, skulls, pretty much everything violent. It's simplistic, yes, and I know some of you don't really like that about Khorne. But I think that's what makes him a pretty decent Chaos God.

Tzeentch, I think is a beast. The god of all magic, the Architect of Fate, Lord of Change, etc. He's cool because you just can't comprehend what Tzeentch is or what he is trying to do. He's that chaos god where if you try to think about what he is or what he's doing, you just completely lose your mind! Not to mention that his followers are also schemers and sorcerors. Tzeentch and his followers to me just seem the most..... evil, out of all the Chaos Gods.

Nurgle, I'm not a fan of him, but I dont' hate him like I do Slaanesh. I like the idea of Nurgle being the god of death and decay, but I also like how he is the god of life as well (albeit a very perverted form of life). He is probably the only chaos god that cares about his followers to the point where he is a father figure (yes, once again a very perverted form of it but still).

Malal, the only reason I really like him is because he is all about anarchy. He's insane, hates any form of order, including the other Chaos Gods, and just wants everyone to pretty much die as far as I can tell.

Now, Slaanesh..... he's a whole different story. The chaos god of excess, pain and pleasure? I would probably like Slaanesh more if he was just about pain. The idea that he's all about sex, orgies, perfection, stimulating senses to the point where they are burned out, etc., it doesn't really seem to work in my opinion, especially since the only 40k army that does this is Chaos Space Marines (ie. Emperor's Children). Also, GW says Slaanesh is all about sex and all that nonsense but they have removed the models that show any of this. But that I can understand, considering how many kids like to play 40k. I think Slaanesh would work a lot better if he wasn't about the pleasure and was all about pain. It would make him more grimdark in my opinion, and would work so much better for Chaos Daemons and Chaos Marines.

This concludes the ranting of a radical inquisitor. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go run away from the rest of the Inquisitors that are trying to kill me for speaking about liking some of the Chaos Gods.

htj wrote:Malal, 'cos I'm indie.

I was hating Chaos gods before it was cool.

The fact that you have said that makes you very indie and possibly a little unhinged? You are hating an entity invented by a Hobby Game Company. It raises 2 points, one that you hate it, and two it must exist? Ergo you actually believe these gods exist... Very Indie, bring in the Kula Shaker music and lets put on an Old German Army Jacket and talk about how Glastonbury was better back in the day, whilst looking for a dodgy guy to buy drugs off.

Khorne, completely one dimensional and boring as hell!

Nurgle.... even by Ork standards.... he's gross

I can't hate any of them, I'm a Chaos follower!! *evil laugh*

Nurgle, Im just not into the whole decay aesthetic. There are a few Nurgle models Ive been tempted to try and undecay though.

When in the background I don't hate any.

But in the game Nurgle,the marks are so expensive and HQs don't even get FnP.

Slaanesh, the whole "Hedonistic" theme may be cool and appealing, but it doesn't seem destructive enough to warrant him being a Chaos God that would inspire fear into the hearts of the imperium.

Khorne - blood, kill, skulls, blood, kill, skulls, etc

*yawn* - I like how the other gods twist and subvert the more subtle aspects of human beings rather than Khorne just tapping into their murder gene or whatever.

Hate Nurgle.

He corrupted my second favorite group of Space Marines, the Death Guard. They weren't even trying to become traitors either, Montarion was forced to take action with the destroyer virus...

Also the first time I saw a really ~nice~ (if you'd call it that) paintjob of that ForgeWorld plague mass, I gagged at the thought of all that flesh and crap really hanging out...

Nurgle. Fat, smelly.....and just not in any way aesthetically pleasing.

Tzeentch; He's just such an annoying... nerd. Also, he's actually more Order than Chaos, what with his subtle ways and "Wait until it is ready..." and whatnot.

grayspark wrote:He corrupted my second favorite group of Space Marines, the Death Guard. They weren't even trying to become traitors either, Montarion was forced to take action with the destroyer virus...

No, he wasn't. He could have died a loyal ally of humanity, but instead chose to sell their souls to the devil to save themselves.

Mortarion is a coward.

I personally don't hate any of the Chaos gods, but I do have a soft spot for Slaanesh. He/ she/ it isn't just some single minded god like Khorne, but rather stands for excess and, by the greater idea, ambition. Any desire to be greater is in Slaanesh's domain. All the hate for Slaanesh is fine, but I'm just saying I like Slaanesh over the others. Otherwise, I would have to say Khorne is my least favourite. Murgle stands for life and death, Tzeentch stands for change, but really all Khorne stands for is warfare and violence of any nature, taking his lust of the fight to the excess- easily Slaanesh's realm of influence.

SLAANESH i mean

slaaneshi deamonets

noise marines

nipple rings

penis god

need i say more?

Any desire to be greater is in Slaanesh's domain. All the hate for Slaanesh is fine, but I'm just saying I like Slaanesh over the others. Otherwise, I would have to say Khorne is my least favourite. Murgle stands for life and death, Tzeentch stands for change, but really all Khorne stands for is warfare and violence of any nature, taking his lust of the fight to the excess- easily Slaanesh's realm of influence.

Khorne also stands for dedicated Discipline. Usually Martial Discipline, but not exclusively so.

All the Chaos gods have their non-evil aspects.

this was a while ago but if i remember right the books say that the pre-heresy Death Guard were more resistant to pain, and they dink cocktails of horrific posioins. My most hated Chaos god is Tzeentch because he is a Douschbag. He is so dedicated to chaos that he plays with the strands of fate to sabatoge his followers sometimes to cause disarray. I also hate the Eldar for creating slannesh