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So i was thinking if every follower who were dedicated to one god only were thrown into an arena and pitched against each other who would win? Im talking about everyone from the grater to lesser demons, the traitor legions including the Primarchs, the cultists the lot. Anyone who worships chaos undivided would not be included and the gods cannot intervene while the battle takes place and once your dead that's it there's no coming back Lucius the Eternal,demons and every other Resurrection trick in the book are included to that rule.

i personally think Nurgle followers would win as they'd cripple the others cultist pretty much immediately with disease and as they killed more and more spread disease to wear down the others numbers while they steadily advance into the other three factions. But that just my opinion i wona know what you lot think about it? Who would win and why?

Agree grandpa Nurgle is DA man...

In terms of brute power, Khorne. In terms of cunning/intelligent application of force, Tzeentch. Nurgle is eldest and more importantly, is tied to the very nature of life, so I would say he has more energy than the other two. In terms of pure power, I'd say Slaanesh is less powerful than the other three, but his/her/its influence is usually enough to break the three-way deadlock, giving him/her/it more influence than pure power alone would give.

I think I remember reading somewhere that Nurgle had the highest amount of followers, so he would probably have a fair amount of weight to throw around.

I simply believe Khorne would win, as I'm in no way biased

Also because in terms of martial prowess he probably has the best quality of fighters, although the other two will have their tricks etc.

If I had to bet, I'd go with a draw and Malal making a suprise rush in at the end to rock bottom everyone and go for the easy pin. (Wrestlings still cool right?)

Khorne's followers get stuff done.

Angron's crusade did more damage than any Black Crusade, and he managed it with only close combat troops

Hands down Tzeentch.

Grand daddy Nurgle

 Arcsquad12 wrote:
Khorne's followers get stuff done.

Angron's crusade did more damage than any Black Crusade, and he managed it with only close combat troops

You sir. You have ended this discussion, and for that I'm eternally grateful

Khorne. It was in the starter guide for AOBR, canonically Khorne is the strongest of the four, in terms of strength and followers. Followers = strength, and Khorne has the most.

Khorne is described as the "mightiest" but none of the Gods can defeat the other nor do they have any real attention of doing so.

Khorne is the strongest, since he's the war god and "there is only war".

Tzeench is a very close second, since anywhere there are humans, there is ambition, scheming and machinations. In fact, Tzeench was apparently more powerful back when he had his staff of every spell evah or whatever that the Blue Scribes are trying to gather.

Nurgle's power is not fixed, and sometimes swells to eclipse the other gods, and at other times bottoms out.

Slaanesh is the new guy, but still no slouch.

Harriticus: No, but the OP was asking for the strongest of the four.

Gork and Mork for the win though :

 Rysaer wrote:
. . . Nurgle . . . would probably have a fair amount of weight to throw around.

Probably nothing, most of his followers are bloated jelly-like fatties. His greater demons alone provide weight that can rival most apartment complexes.

(Ok, enough fat jokes about Nurgle).

Of the 4, I would have to go with Papa Nurgle. Reasons are a follows:

Slaanesh is all about hedonism and pleasure. There will be "pleasure" in slaying the other followers (killing nerds / jocks / and fat-smelly kids) but slaanesh's followers are typically pretty thin and focused more on various forms of getting their rocks off than killing. They lose a combative and tactical edge here and would likely be cut down by Khorne (kill, kill, kill), Tzeentch (if-elif-elif-elif-elif- etc. . .) and Nurgle (splat, burble-burble, HURRRRK) in short order.

Tzeentch is nice and scheme-y. Unfortunately, his forces also work through subversion and overly intricate plans just to do the whole "<dry wash hands> Yes. Just as planned." thing. As the setting is "thrown into an arena" they would lose some of their strength. While they would probably trump Slaanesh's failure of forethought and lack of combat abilities, they would have great trouble with Khorne (built for killing) and Nurgle (built for making things fall apart).

Khorne would put up one hell of a fight. He and his followers embody killing and anger itself. While Khornite berserkers are some of the most feared units in the fluffy universe. They would be in their element here and have an edge above the previous two and be on par with Nurgle as far as "situational bonuses" are concerned.

Nurgle, as others have said, is not the strongest, most depraved, or wisest. Instead he is the oldest. With rot and decay being his primary "concern" he has little in the way of overbearing tactics or approaches to situations. Because of this, he would receive neither bane nor boon from being in an arena situation. However, since his units' stink make even space Marines want to puke out their Preomner and Multi-Lung, anything not demon or SM would quickly be incapacitated before the fight even began. Once the fight did get started, Khorne would do well until Nurgle goo began to rust armor and weapons and Nurgling bites festering and causing limbs to fall off mid swing. This with all of Nurgle's forces working at full capacity would quickly swing things in his favor.

 Omegus wrote:
Khorne is the strongest, since he's the war god and "there is only war".

Tzeench is a very close second, since anywhere there are humans, there is ambition, scheming and machinations. In fact, Tzeench was apparently more powerful back when he had his staff of every spell evah or whatever that the Blue Scribes are trying to gather.

Nurgle's power is not fixed, and sometimes swells to eclipse the other gods, and at other times bottoms out.

Slaanesh is the new guy, but still no slouch.

I wasn't on about the gods them selves i was on about there folowers

Malal.

Khorne is the strongest.

However, Tzeentch is the most Powerful.


Without Change, no champion can be given his mutations. None of the 4 power's plans can come to pass.

Tzeentch is the embodiment of Chaos itself, the other 3 are mearely facets of his existance. They exist because he exists and because of his own contradictions. Plots weaving and interweaving. Connected and yet seperate. Seperable and yet inseperable.

Everything is Tzeentch, and Tzeentch is everything.

Tzeentch was the strongest, when he had the crystal staff.
Did however take the combined efforts of the other gods to get him to give it up. (broke it instead to stop them having it)

Also agree with templar on this one.

And all this time the Bluescribes are going around collecting the pieces

Because no one can work out what they do, how they do it or what they are thinking.
Too busy attacking eachother


Gotta say, the fluff in the daemons dex is pretty damn good

Khorne is usualy described as the strongest of the chaosgods because war and hatred are pretty much omnipresent.
Tzeentch is usualy described as the second in strenght.
Nurgle is said to wax and wane in power. He can become the strongest of the four when the galaxy is ripe with disease and pestilence and untold billions pray to Nurgle for salvation, only to lose much of his might when the diseases run their course.
Slaanesh is the weakest of the great powers, although his influence pervades all layers of society ( especialy on the more developed worlds ).

Khorne. For killing powers him and that's what its al about here.

Khorne has the largest amount of followers so he has a superior advantage, also the CSM who have dedicated themselves to him are the most skilled combatants. Because of the sheer number of chaos worshipers though the fight would take a long time and that is where nurgle will win, armour would rot, cuts will become infected and weapons and armour will decay

They're all about equal.

Nurgle is the God of the subconscious response to the inevitability of death, which is the drive to live life to the fullest.
Tzeentch is the God of hope and the desire for change that fills the hearts of all mortal men.
Slaanesh if the God of ecstasy who finds pleasure in every sensation, the more extreme the better.
Khorne is the God of anger and wrath, the first of the Pantheon to be birthed.

At times the powers of individual Gods wax and wane, especially Nurgle who is at his strongest when his diseases ravage the galaxy and at his weakest when they're finally stopped, but no God ever manages to rise too far about his brothers. For a time Slaanesh was not yet sentient, so Khorne was likely the strongest (facing no opposite from the rest of the Pantheon), but this has changed. Similarly, Nurgle was birthed before Tzeentch and so there was a time when in the warp when hope was hopelessly outweighed by fear.

According to the fluff Draigo is more powerful than any of them.

Well, since this thread seems to be more about the followers, I am of the personal opinion that Ahriman is the single most competent Chaos-aligned individual in the galaxy, so maybe Tzeentch.

 Arcsquad12 wrote:
Khorne's followers get stuff done.

Angron's crusade did more damage than any Black Crusade, and he managed it with only close combat troops

the fluff clearly states that Khorne is the strongest of the four dark gods. So you sir win this tread hands down

Khorne is the mightiest, but Tzeentch is by the most successful.

The powers of the Gods depend of the state of the galaxy, when Disease is ripe, Nurgle is strongest, when Hate and Anger fill the streets, Khorne is the most powerful. When all things are changing and Man is hungry for more power, Tzeentch will be there to whisper words into the ears of governors. Slaneesh will always be there as he feeds of the Sensations of Humans, since they can be passionate about anything.

 DeffDred wrote:
Malal.

Gonna disagree here. Malal's parasitic nature renders him and his followers no stronger than any other chaos god. As they fought, Malal's very few minions would be losing strength as followers of the others were slaughtered. Because of this alone, Malal's followers could hope for nothing more than a close second.

That aside, Malal is perpetually caught in copywrite-hell and thus doesn't officially exist in the 40k universe. Instead he was replaced with "Malice", a general dislike of everything and slightly more insane followers (compared to the other gods).

Khorne is the mightiest, but Tzeentch is by the most successful.

I think if you had a planet and it was a war zone between the four gods something like this would happen.

First off Slaanesh would just loose, sorry not going there.

Khorne has already won

Nurgle has already won

Tzeentch is winning, always.

The fight would be over, and Khorne's followers would be the victors. Blood would be spilled in his name so in his mind hes won. Nurgle would be grinning because all his disease would be brewing on the about to die and dying people. He'd get more followers after the battle. And it would all be apart of Tzeentch's big plan so hes winning lol

Just a funny vision i had