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Chaos Chosen get the special rule "Chosen of the Dark Gods" which allows them to roll once at the beginning of the game on the Eye of the Gods table. Now a chosen champion can take a magic item up to 25 points. Favour of the Gods which allows you to add or subtract one from a roll on the Eye of the gods table.

Now if a chosen champion takes favour of the Gods does it help with the beginning roll because technically he is rolling, or am I hoping for too much?

It's viable, as you are rolling on the EoTG table, but don't expect much.

I think you can actually expect quite a bit, I mean you reroll 2s and 7s and really the only bad ones are fear and leadership. And you never have to take those, you also have a pretty good chance of getting armour save or toughness increase.

If there is a warshrine or two in your list then it would be a great investment, if not, then I wouldn't bother as you're probably not going to go around beating up other people's heroes with a unit champ.

Well its not really to beat heroes. Its because you're paying 3 pts for an extra weapon skill and a roll on the EOTG table, so even with a min sized unit paying 1 pt per model for an item that modifies that roll by one is pretty good I think. And the more models you take the better it becomes.

About 90% of the chosen champs I've seen have favor on them (and the other 10% have nothing). If you're taking chosen than definitely spring for the 5 pt buff boost, no sense in not. There might be some other neat items to stick on the champ - Book of Secrets comes to mind - but nothing that helps out his whole unit for so cheap.

I remember not too long after the WoC book was out that some people were running chosen deathstars, with 2 warshrines + favor to really jack a big unit of chosen up. Cool concept, but frankly that block is so slow - and warshrines so ineffective beyond buffing - that I'd guess only the sorcerers bunkered in amongst the chosen were doing any killing

- Salvage

Yes, I use this all the time! With Valkia and a Warshrine in your army you can get a pretty Badass unit going! Re-rolls and the +1/-1 modifier means I get just about exactly what I want.

I have had them be T5 with 5A before and other times a 2+ save and S5.

Its a prety powerful ability
with the +1/-1 item the only bad roles on the chart at the begining are 8,9, and 10. all others are good with some being better than others.
And really, causing fear/terror isnt that bad.