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so ive been looking through the chaos book and thought i might try something a bit more exotic

this is more for friendly play, just curious if it could hold its own or is it a complete wipe?

LORDS

Kholek Suneater 605 gen

HEROES

Exalted hero bsb mot talisman of protection charmed shield 195

Exalted hero mot chaos rune sword shield 175

Chaos sorcerer lvl2 120

Throgg 175

CORE

6 Trolls 270

6 Trolls 270

6 Trolls 270

SPECIAL

6 Chaos Ogres extra hand weapon mok banner 320 (front rank 5 attacks each plus stomp)

6 Chaos Ogres extra hand weapon mok banner 320

RARE

Dragon Ogre shaggoth

As a friendly play list, I see this army holding its own. The list should be able to take on hordes with both the Trolls and Ogres while also being able to take on high armor armies with the Trolls (vomit attacks) and the two shaggoths.

I'm not certain what the characters will be doing. Maybe they should be mounted - either on horses or disks - to go warmachine/character hunting.

bsb will go with throgg with a unit of trolls

dropping the other exalted

mounts for bsb and sorcerer and adding 3 trolls maybe a unit by themselves or beef up existing units

I like the idea, I run something very similar . I agree your hero's need mounts of some kind- there's no real unit for them to join.

Will post up some more thoughts and list tweaks when I'm off work!

How many points is this? If that lord costs 605 points then the army needs to be at least 2420. Lords can only have up to 25% of your army.

Lone Crusader wrote:this is more for friendly play, just curious if it could hold its own or is it a complete wipe?

It can definitely work, but your list could use some tweaks to make it stronger / more theme-y

Exalted hero bsb mot talisman of protection charmed shield 195

Exalted hero mot chaos rune sword shield 175

Chaos sorcerer lvl2 120

Throgg 175

I would drop the runesword exalted entirely, mount both the BSB and sorcerer on discs and invest in 3+ / 4+ wards for both of them. I would also consider dropping your sorcerer to a level 1 with third eye of tizz, as the only spells he's casting will be with IF, so might as well either roll up gateway and slam 6 dice into that, or steal something big from the other dude and IF that one. And then, profit.

6 Trolls 270

6 Trolls 270

6 Trolls 270

Combining these into 2x 8 or 10 would be preferable, IMO, but maybe 6 works out fine? Fewer units means fewer stupidities, more killing power, more points denial, etc.

6 Chaos Ogres extra hand weapon mok banner 320 (front rank 5 attacks each plus stomp)

6 Chaos Ogres extra hand weapon mok banner 320

Great weapons benefit the unit a little better - second rank gets the +2S, vs getting nothing with ahw - and add some more oomph to the army, but maybe you've got modeling things in mind? If points are tight, maybe one of each? Also, where are your musicians?!?!?!

Dragon Ogre shaggoth

Buy that dragon-man another hand weapon!

- Salvage

Salvage makes pretty much all the points I would want to. Also, it's worth considering what your list is without Kholek. Without him and the exalted with chaos runesword, you're at 2195. You could bump up the size of your units, and mount those characters on discs, and maybe give the ogres GWs, and you could easily hit 2500.

I definitely agree with units of 8-10 over units of 6. Size really matters in 8th, and with six, if you take any losses you just can't hang...

And the shaggoth Needs AHW! He has decent initiative, but the ogres with I2 might as well go GWs and be sure to dish out wounds when they hit. Makes them pretty scary, from what I've seen.