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i really like chaos warriors and would like to make an army based around them work.
i realize that the move of 4 is a real detriment so what can i do to fix this? how do i make the enemy come to me?
is there anything that will make a chaos warrior heavy army feasible?

the 'full plate' army is possible to do, just make sure they all have shields and they should survive on the way in to cause enough damage.

M4 is not very detrimental the only thing that should be faster than you is elves and cavalry but most of the time its pretty much put your head down and run

Read theory of a deathstar >

M4 is not very detrimental the only thing that should be faster than you is elves and cavalry

Elves and Skaven, meaning pretty much everyone who actually use infantry in decent amounts. Most armies or atleast their business end mostly consists of cavalry and monsters, meaning a minimum movement value of 6".

is there anything that will make a chaos warrior heavy army feasible?

Of course not, but it's all relative. Feasible to someone might be unplayable to someone else. If your opponents are inexperienced or if your gaming group has a habit of building funny armies you should have nothing to worry about.

How competitive is your group? In a "fun" group CWs will be fine. In a very competitive group, start building Daemons.

Chaos warriors are fine
keep the units small (10 ish with a mounted char) and make sure to support them with faster units such as knights and hounds.

in a slap fight most chaos infantry will beat skaven or elves hands down.

Not really. Elves handle them fine:

HElven Swordmasters 5 wide w/champ
ASF- 11 attacks hit on 3s and wound 4+ AS= 2.44 wounds
3 CWs swing back (1 champ)
7 attacks with 4s and 3s 6+ AS= 1.9 wounds
And continues on subsequent rounds. Pretty close, but advantage SMs.

Black Guard should perform similarly.

HElven Spearmen 5 wide w champ (charged)
ASF 16 attacks on 4s and 5s 2+ save = 1.77 wounds
4 CWs swing back (1 champ)
9 attacks on 3s and 3s 5+AS= 2.66 wounds
But spearmen are likely to start at +5 to CWs +2 so CWs lose by 1 on average.

Corsairs should perform slightly worse, but shoot.

Skaven just shoot them.

Throw in the mark of nurgle (honestly, all chaos warriors should have this or mark of slanesh) and re crunch your numbers.
probably should have mentioned that. One of those two marks is mandatory.
Khorn can be fun but is risky.
And losing by .5 against some of the most powerful ranked infantry in the game isnt that bad of a loss.