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Well, I've decided it's time I get a new fantasy army, that isn't a horde like My gobbos...

And I wrote up a list for WoC, and I figured it would fare pretty well, it came to a pretty cheap price for 2400 points, but then... disaster struck.

It involved getting 7 boxes of warriors. And that's pretty much it.

I don't know about you, but chaos warriors are cool, but SEVEN BOXES of them would just be soul crushing, as they would look pretty identical. Fair enough that 40 of em will be converted into chosen, which is a challenge on its own costing even more money.

My question is, what do you of dakka do with you chaos armies to keep them fresh and exciting to build/paint etc?

Is it worth forgetting the chosen in favour of something else?

Also, is a full cavalry force any good these days?


Von Chogg

(P.S. I hate maurauders, or their models anyway. Maybe horsemen would be alright.)

You want a WoC army, but you dont want to buy/build Warriors? And you hate marauders..... Well Id say you have chosen the wrong army then.

But anyhow, I imagien you could find some alternative moddels for the previosly mentioned moddels. Warlord games has several options, and they too are 28mm so it should fit.
A full cavalry army will struggel against hordes, but if you have a good tactical mind it may work. Althou I would never personaly build one.

Trolls and Chaos Ogres are always a good choice

Supposedly the new book is coming, and supposed it will have monsterous cav, which if nothing else will cut down on the number of warriors you will have to paint.

Not so much that I hate chaos warriors, just 7 boxes of em being the entire army...

I may try the cavalry, or the troll king...

Von Chogg

If you do not require it all to be 100% GW models go with the avatars of war warriors in resin. Cost slightly less than GW too and can be ordered with specific weapons.

If you do require them to be GW models it gets trickier.

Converting them might be an option, or at the very least using conversion parts which will up the cost. Spartanesque shields and helmets for example will give a regiment a different look, bit of green stuff for cloaks/robes perhaps.
Easiest way if you wanted to do a fully converted army would be a nurgle theme probably.

Perhaps mixing in some of the older warriors would appeal to you too, theres usually some on ebay, plus those ones come with halberds if you get the 6th ed boxes.

All cavalry is a bit iffy still I think, but WoC cavalry is still good. Marauder horsemen for warmachine hunting/redirecting and chaos knights still currently pack a punch nicely. Mine have luck going after BSB units and running them down, usually on the charge for some odd reason .

The new book is rumoured for this year so if you go the conversion route I would advise starting now and playing with the new book as the army will be well underway by sept/oct .

I like my units to look uniform with their own unit but different from one another.

add mutations to them, battle damage, cool bases, different symbols on capes. um ya just don't make all units have hw shield or 2 hand weapons.

If I do WoC again I'm definitely mixing it up. Right now I'm waiting on the next release before I do anything. Since my lgs doesnt care anymore and I already will have 2 "legal" armies I may go overboard with conversions, taking things from all sorts of game systems.

My favorite ideas thus far: avatars of war warriors for warriors. Legion blighted Swordsmen for marauders with gw. Crix bloated thrall for nurgle shaggoth. Really you can go wild with it if you don't limit yourself to GW. It's one of the reasons I think I'm going to sell my WoC and see what happens when the new book comes out, going wild on conversions.

The new release will hopefully be soon. But ya there are some cool models.