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just wounding

I wouldn't make the poll allow multiple answers if you want to know what Chaos god is hated the most, but I'd have to say Khorne.

Violence is fun and all, but going on and on about SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE gets old after a while. Plus I'm just not a fan of red.

i would say Tzeentch. he likes to meddle and we all know what happens when you meddle in the affairs of humans.

Nurgle, he's fat and smelly.

Slaanesh is just not as perverted as he/she/it could be in the context of a tabletop game. Khorne can embody violence without offending people, but you can't even build some of the models necessary to capture the essence of Slaanesh without visiting some dodgy shops indeed... and then you get kicked out of the local GW store for fielding your d***lord titan...

OK, so that never happened, but I still reckon Slaanesh is unable to be sick enough to live up to the hype!

Slaanesh, he's so obnoxious.

Khorne and Slannesh are both pretty terribad.

The only having grace Khorne has is that he doesn't have to be only "BLOOD AND SKULLS!!!"; he is also the god of martial prowess, which is kinda cool I guess.

Slannesh is just plain dumb. I mean, come on, a hermaphrodite god who burns out his subjects' senses through hedonistic excess, non-stop orgies, and enough blaring noise to drive men insane? It's just dumb.

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.

Khorne can promote martial prowess.

Nurgle works off the fear of death and desire for immortality.

Tzeentch feeds off of lies and schemes, and lays webs of deceit to rival the best politician.

All of the other Chaos gods have at least something about them that we can either relate to, admire, or find relevant to our society. Where I come from, hedonism is a distant, far off, not even understandable idea. I dunno.

Hah, nice, slaanesh is in first. I hate that guy.

It's not that I reaaally hate Slaanesh, it's that I just like the other ones more. Malal is my favorite though, he's just the cat's pajamas.

Nurgle, Chaos God of Cowardice and Abusive Relationships.

Slannesh for me. The nipple rings started to freak me out.

Slaanesh.

If only because of all the morons who think that he's some God of sex, or that he's one they could genuinely get along with 'cos of "orgies and stuff'...

People need to realise that hedonism, decadence and exploring new feelings/emotions/pain is just as likely to end up with you being a burnt amputee than it is you being a raging stud.

As a matter of fact, I think if people were exploring new feelings and experiences, sex would be the first thing to get old.

i hate Slaanesh soo much is it a guy ? with moobs

Malal, 'cos I'm indie.

I was hating Chaos gods before it was cool.

This thread belongs in General Discussions.

I have a Khorne Chaos Daemons force and a Biel Tan Eldar force. Yeah, I think Slannesh is my vote.

I respect intelligence and a god that is so clever he outwits himself, so have a soft spot for Tzeentch

I love paintballing, martial arts, wargaming, I can't help but like Khorne and if I ever turn from the Emperor's light (woe be that day) it will be to field Khorne.

Who 'doesn't' love Grandfather Nurgle?! I mean really? Once you get past all the disease and pestilence he just always makes me think of Father Christmas.

Slaanesh....urgh. The only Chaos god I don't like. I think it's because, even though it's not meant to be and all the Chaos gods have their other aspects that the Imperium doesn't really talk about, it all seems to be sex sex sex and indulgence like some pubescent teenager's wet dream. From what I've been told, Slaanesh is also meant to have aspects of aesthetics and arts but like the discipline of Khorne, it's never really made that apparent.

Slaanesh as he's portrayed makes me feel childish.

I would say Slaanesh because everyone focuses on the sexual aspects of 'pleasure', basically turning him into the Penis God. That annoys the feth out of me. *stares at some of you*

Slaanesh. Not that I really dislike the concept, but Slaaneshi forces and events involving Slaanesh never feel well executed, too much self censorship and vagueness compared with other Chaos forces actions, and often cheap workarounds are found to avoid having to do something truly excessive. I'm not saying it needs graphic depiction of sex acts, there are many other aspects of Slaanesh and excess they could go into but don't, but they also need to stop phrasing things as though they want to put in such descriptions but then end up just making it sound like they had a hard night of drinking instead if they want that to be an aspect of Slaaneshi forces appearances.

They also never seem to focus on the aspect of excess in the pursuit of perfection or exploration which leads many to the path of Slaanesh, generally choosing a simple "we like to be CRAZY" motif instead. There's many aspects from which Slaanesh could arise but simply doesn't. A mathemetician searching for a unified field equation all their life and every waking moment may be gifted with an idea leading to an even more powerful control of energy, fulfilling themselves beyond their wildest dreams, but in the process creating a device which instantly renders those nearby insane and tears a hole open into the warp when activated to fuel its power, leaving a gateway open to daemonic attack as the Mathemetician revels in their newfound genius, caring not for the terror they have unleashed upon the universe.

I think they did a much better job with Slaanesh in Fantasy than they have in 40k.

So really, it's not so much a matter of disliking the Chaos god, but rather how that Chaos God is actually implemented and portrayed.

asimo77 wrote:Nurgle, he's fat and smelly.

Completely agree. He just generally disgusts me. As an Eldar player I was close to picking a certain other Chaos God we may have accidentally created with out own power but I couldn't bring myself to even tick the box in hated so I had to pick Nurgle because he's fat and smelly

I love all of the chaos gods, but Khorne after a while just gets a little old. The others have some strong themes but Khorne is very generic compared to the other three.

Slaanesh,
Khorne is old and all, but Slaanesh just annoys me..

Nurgle is fat and smelly.

Khorne gets boring.

Nurgle. The rules are counter-intuitive (being sick makes you tougher ). The puss-models are horrible and usually an excuse for even more horrible painting skills. The background is beyond the pale. Fat and smelly too.

Ahh but being Nurgle makes you a bastion of life; although you may appear a bloating corpse, your body becomes host to all manner of parasites, bile, pus, blah blah... growths... so you not only lose all perception of pain but also have regenerative qualities.

It does make sense; if the Marines were reduced to skeletal zombies I might take your point, but no, they become fat bullet bags

Infections, pus and parasites do not numb you to pain. Quite the opposite infact.. if you ever happen to have an infection, inflammation or festering wound, try poking the infected part and than a healthy part for comparison.

Toughness and/or FnP would be much more appropriate on Noise Marines (numbed to all sensations but the most extreme) or, most likely, Rubic Marines (cause.. literally.. they do not feel pain).

And even if you can conceive of an explanation of why followers of Nurgle become tougher and/or more resilient, it still isn't thematic. If you wanna bring disease, infection and rot to the gaming table, effects one should look for are poisoned weapons (infection), sapping/de-buffing of strength and/or initiative (aura-effects or again weapons), reduction of armour saves (rot & corrosion) or something along those lines.

As it is, Nurgle an all its forms and incarnations is pretty Fubar.

They don't feel no pain because of their afflictions but rather the bargain all Nurgle's followers make with him; to be free of pain and death. It's supernatural.

And I'd love what you suggest but I think people would call it OP

It's been said already, but "blood for the blood god!" is the most stupidly redundant phrase. Khorne players think it's cool to yell it every time they assault with their zerks. It's not cool. If there were a chaos god of fairy floss, would they yell "fairy floss for the fairy floss god!"?

Slannesh, by far
I like the concept, hate the look of the models and characters for it
With the notable exception of Lucius the Eternals story
Can't even stand to look at a Keeper of Secrets