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Greetings,

Let us pretend for one moment that someone is making a Codex for each Chaos Legion. However, they want to know which one the community feels should be released first and this is your chance to decide who comes first.

If you can select which one Legion from the original 9 you wish to be brought out first that would be great.

Discussions welcome.

I had to say Word Bearers. The ability to take chaplains is nice and with their ties to demonic summoning maybe I could take some decent demons other than a prince.

thalor

Black Legion out of principal because its the Legion I play and while the current CSM codex might as well be Codex: Black Legion I'd love to be loved

In all honesty though Codex:Thousand Sons would be awesome

Gaming: I`d have to say the black legion, there really the most versatile of the chaos legions, and would probably make the most balanced list

Personally: Death Guard, i love these guys; an entire army of T5 and FNP (plus power armour),it would be really cool, plus you can come up with cool rules about nurgle tanks and other vehicles; lots of opportunity there

Personally: I have to say World Eaters. I have alot Khorne figs. With an entire assault army with furious charge and +1 attack would be the gak! Plus entire units riding juggers for an another additional attack and strength. Bloodthirsters mopping through units.... ah bliss!

Personally, I'd like some love for the Night Lords, Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, and Alpha legion. (Yes, a hefty order, I know) but I really think that some o fthe pure essence of what makes Chaos Chaos is to be found in the armies that don't favor any dark god. Thousand sons is going to be invuln saves and slow, Nurgle's going to FNP and slow, Khorne's Furious charge and bonus attacks, and Emperor's Children will be drowning out the cries of their foes with noise marines. While I'd liek ot see armies based on the dark gods, I first would like to see the more interesting (to me) armies go. Dark Chaplains, Super Raptors, Chaos Tech, and Deceit are the rules I'd like to see first.

I'd like to see Night Lords, as they have never been a "broken" or unfair list, and have interesting Fluff themes.

I expect the voting will come out for Iron Warriors, because they simply weren't fun to play against.

But GW will probably start with Khorne, because they always start with Khorne.

i wouldnt mind seeing world eaters

but, i want night lords 1st lol, only thing holding me back from starting a small 1,500 army is i cant paint blue to save my life.

I go for Iron Warriors.

Ive payed them for quite a few years (no not the super broke version) and would liek to see soem stuff added in.

The basic book does well for them now no doubt, but I think a bit more creative concepts of engines of war and seige etc would be neat.

Black legion, khorne, nurgle, slannesh, and tzeentch are pretty well covered in the current codex. Their basic soldiers are troops choices. There is also a character for every faction. I don't see the need for a seperate codex for any of them. Any of the remaining four would be fine with me: word bearers, iron warriors, night lords, and alpha legion.

Emperor's Children. We lost sonic dreads, preds, havoks, and bikers in the new codex, and a lot of us still have nicely converted models for these entries. Plus, all four god-specific legions should be able to summon god-specific daemons, not the generic tripe.

I didn't vote because I don't want to see this happen. Yeah that's right.

I don't want to have to wait something like 9 years for them to release all these books. People would be complaing the entire time that their legion doesn't have it's book yet. They would have to release them in sets of 4. One for The gods, the other set for the legions except the Black Legion. Codex CSM is basically codex Black Legion.

Redbeard wrote:Plus, all four god-specific legions should be able to summon god-specific daemons, not the generic tripe.

I totally agree!
They suck so bad now nobody wants to use them.

well, the whole generic daemons thing is annoying, but it allows more converts. with models
if you theme your army around vampires (what i should be doing with night lords) then you could have vampire related daemons ect.


as for books, i would be happy with 1 main book, then a sort of angels of death book for the smaller legions.

return the khorne berserkers to what they once were! I love the -1 to a armor save rule

Iron Warriors.

Hand of Dume wrote:

Redbeard wrote:Plus, all four god-specific legions should be able to summon god-specific daemons, not the generic tripe.

They suck so bad now nobody wants to use them.

Huh?

For 13 pts, they're perfectly fine as inexpensive Scoring Troops that can Deep Strike and Assault in support of CSM.

IMO, the more expensive Cult CSM you have, the better the cheap Daemons are to help bulk up on wounds and models.

Codex: Legions
Thousand Sons: Sorceror Termies /w Warptime + GoC army of spawns! or AP3 Twin-Linked Bolters / Alpha Level Psyker or a juiced Ahriman anyone.
Khorne: Axes that allow no better then a 4+ armor or 5+ invul save for the HQ.
Nurgle: Poisoned Lightning Claws /w FNP + T5 nuff said.
Slaneesh: Noise Termies / Dreads with Blastmasters.

Codex CSM is basically black legion, so you have to think which legion would be significantly different to this to be allowed their own book.

All the godspecific legions probably deserve variant lists, but maybe in the same book, and no one more that another.

Other than that, I reckon, given the recent fluff changes, that an Alpha Legion force would probably be the most 'different' from your standard CSM force. What with no really chaos/daemonic units and lots of operatives...

All of the above.

Emperor's Children because I just love thier background and style of play

World Eaters. It's gotta be Khorne first.

My mistake, I meant to put Sons of Horus instead of Black Legion.

Seeing as SoH have their favoured tactic the "spear tip assault" I thought would make for an interesting army play.

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Huh?

For 13 pts, they're perfectly fine as inexpensive Scoring Troops that can Deep Strike and Assault in support of CSM.

IMO, the more expensive Cult CSM you have, the better the cheap Daemons are to help bulk up on wounds and models.

If they're so good, why don't you see anyone using them? There are more useful troop choices to take. They are shot up easily because of a crappy save, have no ranged weapon and suck in assaults. The only way for them to be effective would be for them to come in the last turn when your opponent doesn't have a chance to shoot or assault them and sit on an objective. But when they come in is something you can't control.

Since I play Emperor's Children, I selected them. It'd be nice to be able to use Slaanesh Daemons instead of generic ones...

Also Cultists would be fantastic... even for vanilla CSM. I'd like to see those return.

Hand of Dume wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Huh?

For 13 pts, they're perfectly fine as inexpensive Scoring Troops that can Deep Strike and Assault in support of CSM.

IMO, the more expensive Cult CSM you have, the better the cheap Daemons are to help bulk up on wounds and models.

If they're so good, why don't you see anyone using them?

Probably because Generic Daemons require actual "Tactics" to use.

Thousand sons. So cool. No spikes or skulls either.

World eaters, Berserkers aren't angry enough.

None, because none of the Legions require their own Codex. A brief list of special rules and maybe some FOC changes and new Wargear options - hell, maybe even a new unit or two - but whole books? No.

BYE

I agree with H.B.M.C. and Typeline, new mulitple codex's for CSM would be a bad idea.

Just look at how many SM books their are - SM, DA, BT, SW, BA (did I miss any?). These books dont come out often and cause their armies to lag behind the ultrasmurfs. Its a long shot but I would rather see DA, BT, SW and BA crammed into 1 dex instead of 4 different ones, just a short list of FOC changes, special rules, units and characters.

Now just imagine CSM were like SM in my example it would be a living nighmare and slow down the releases of other cool armies. Besides would you really want to wait 2 editions for a new Alpha Legion book?