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hey all, still in the toddler stage of learning Fantasy and so far I'm really enjoying it, here's a list I cooked up with the help of my good friend Laughing God, tell me what you think!

Hero:
Lvl 2 Sorcerer w/MoT, Blood of Tzeentch, Conjoined Homunculus - 190pts

Core:
17x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoT, Hand Weapons + Shields, Blasted Standard - 362pts
10x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoK, Halberds - 220pts
10x Chaos Warhounds w/scaly skin - 70pts

Rare:
Chaos Warshrine w/MoT - 150pts

Total: 992pts

Solid list only thing I can think of is maybe there is someplace better to spent those points you have on your hounds for scaly skin? IDK

Anyone else have input or is this a good starting point for WOC?

thanks for the love Doug, at least you still care lol

Looks neato to me. I like that you are using hounds. Maybe fit in another squad of them?

I think the scaly skin probably isn't worth it. I might also split the hounds in to two packs of 5 to try to get one through to any war machines. Might be wrong on that, though- 10 certainly gives you a better shot at chomping other chaff and is still cheap...

I think it looks pretty good. I think I would add more bodies to that Khorne warrior unit though. Can you still disrupt if you lost one model from them? You could just run 5 hounds for 30 points and squeeze in 3 more warriors to that unit.

Here's a few edits everyone:

Hero:
Lvl 2 Sorcerer w/MoT, Blood of Tzeentch, Conjoined Homunculus - 190pts

Core:
17x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoT, Hand Weapons + Shields, War Banner - 347pts
12x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoK, Halberds - 220pts
5x Chaos Warhounds - 30pts
5x Chaos Warhounds - 30pts

Rare:
Chaos Warshrine w/MoT - 150pts

Total: 999pts

I think your points might be off. I am also not sure if the war banner is the cost in the rule book or the army book. The rule book is 10 points more.

Here is what I was thinking of;

Hero:
Lvl 2 Sorcerer w/MoT, Blood of Tzeentch, Conjoined Homunculus - 190pts

Core:
17x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoT, Hand Weapons + Shields, Blasted Standard - 362pts
13x Chaos Warriors, Full Command, MoK, Halberds - 268pts
5x Chaos Warhounds - 30pts

Rare:
Chaos Warshrine w/MoT - 150pts

Total: 1000pts

I think I might change the load on the sorcerer too. I need to look through the book again though.


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How about this build?

Hero:
Lvl 2 Sorcerer w/MoT, book of secrets, spell familiar, necrotic phylactery - 190pts

I dunno. I HATE the book of secrets for that d6+1 on the miscast table, but that's just me being defensive again.

Definitely keep the Blasted Standard around though. So good. So cool.

A solid list, though. Both versions.

If I may ask, why 13 on the Khorne warriors block? and I agree about the blasted standard, new thoug I may be, I grasp the greatness of that thing, the only reason I didn't take it was because I was trying to squeeze another two khorne wariors into the list

I really didn't have a reason for 13 other than the fact it is one more model you can lose and still disrupt with a flank/rear charge. You could drop him and throw in 2 more hounds.

That was my bad on the book of secrets too. For some reason I was flipping the miscast chart in my head and thinking the lower numbers were better. Not sure what I would replace it with though, maybe drop the phylactery too for the crown of command.

Lvl 2 Sorcerer w/MoT, book of secrets, spell familiar, necrotic phylactery - 190pts

Book of Secrets now makes you a Level 1 Wizard; it's in the FAQ. The changes to BoS make it so that the only suitable candidates are exalted heroes or level 1 sorcerers.

The list itself seems fine; i'm not a huge advocate of Warhounds, especially since they don't break ranks anymore unless run in a unit of 10+ They're only really good at harassing flankers, but their lack of reliable armour means that it's easy for them to get shot to pieces; marauder cavalry is more reliable.

I'm tempted to say put the blasted standard on the halberd unit; your sword and board warriors already have a 3+/6++ against missiles, and since they're more of an anvil, they're going to be in combat for most of the game. Your halberds are menacing and deadly; perfect candidates for a stone thrower or bolt thrower etc. and since they're aimed at killing whatever they meet in combat, they'll provide a better target than your HW/S warriors.

Your sorcerer set-up seems fine from here. You might try to find a way of grabbing some sort of armour (since a chaos sorcerer is one of the rare wizards that can take magical armour) to defend against challenges (remember, your characters cannot refuse challenges and must issue them when possible); alternatively; you could swap out conjoined homonculus for stream of corruption.

Since breath weapons can now be used in combat (2D6 auto hits at the attacking model's initiative; in this case a solid 5), SoC can be used to devestating effect in challenges. Sure, it's S3, but it's 2D6 automatic hits with a nice -1 armour modifier. Since most challenges will come from 2 wound models at this points level, all but the hardiest should struggle to survive a good SoC.

The warshrine is fine.

gotcha thanks for the input, I'll have to play around with the stream of corruption bit for sure.