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Howdy all. I wanted some ideas about a 2 force org chaos list based off the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.

For the horsemen:
Khorne lord on jugger is my idea for war
Nurgle biker lord of course has to be pestilence
Slaneesh lord on a steed will be famine
Tzeentch will be death, but I don't know if I should go lord or sorc, and also if I should run a disk.

After that I need units to run with these guys. Nurgle marked spawn make an obvious choice for the nurgle bike lord. But after that I am at a loss for what unit to run with each lord. Also, I do kind of want to have effective units despite the 4 lord constraint.

After that is sorted, with any left over points we can figure what support units fit the 4 horseman theme. If it takes all the points with just the lords then 4 cultist back field units will have to round everything out.

Finally, is there a cause to use the daemon codex to represent some of the horsemen/bodyguards, or should this stay chaos marines only?

Not a bad idea at all for fluff, very much like this.

So you have:

Pestilence - Nurgle Lord on steed/bike.
War - Khorne Lord on steed/bike

Famine and Death are a little harder to do because Tzeentch and Slaanesh don't really fit.
What you could do is go for unmarked and do your own theme for these.
Or you could look at the Skulltaker for Death from the Daemons codex. He can ride a steed or Chariot.

For Death I would probably go unmarked Lord and add your own configuration to fit Death as close as possible. Or... you could just go for Typhus as Death, he has a sythe like weapon and take him in a massive unit of Zombies.

Concerning troops, Spawn is a great idea for both pestilence and war. MoN/MoK

Having Typhus would be very themed with a load of walking dead surrounding him, only thing is today he forgot his Horse...

Very cool idea. I think you should get a box of chaos knights and make your lords riding the steeds. You could just put CSM upper bodies on the them and would be a straight forward conversion.

You could use them as count as bikers. Would be sweet. I think I have a box lying around... Brewing in head... darn you...

So the old nurgle chaos knight of chaos looks sweet for death, any issues with running him as typhus despite typhus being on foot?

As for list, the khorne lord with axe on a jugger with sigil in a unit of 8 khorne bikes I think is set. The bikes do more for the lord on jugger than spawn despite costing more, as they get the furious banner which transfers to the lord right?

I like the idea of typhus as death, just the issue of the horse holds me back from using him without reservation.

Famine makes a lot of sense as slaneesh as oil and wine remain in abundance despite the food shortage. Thank you wikipedia! so the issue I have is what to do with slaneesh. While the steed is cool, who should he ride with? I considered allying demon seekers of slaneesh with a slaneesh herald on steed, as hit and run helps them out from the demon herald. If I stick with the chaos Marine steed I could outflank with some noise marines or some such, but he doesn't have great combat options. Just stock power weapons/fist/claw. I could put the burning brand here as well. Thoughts?

Finally, the original white horse was not pestilence but the Conquerer, who used a bow.

A demon ally tzeentch herald with flamers or tzeentch lord on disc both get ranged attacks to emulate the bow. A tzeentch sorc can make use of the scrolls, but as a jet bike I can't figure out where he would go in a unit. Tzeentch lords with the 3++ can lead warp claws for a 4++, but he can't deep strike with them on a disc can he?