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With the advent of a new WoC book, and the inclusion of Skullcrushers, including the beautiful Juggernaught Lord model is, I feel, more critical to an awesome army than ever before.

So, with that in mind, how would you go about kitting a Juggernaut Khornate Lord in 8th edition to ride with a unit of Skullcrushers? With all the targetable magic in 8th edition, I feel that's likely the biggest threat. Initially I was thinking the Hellfire Sword, 5+ Ward, Charmed Shield (costs as much as a normal shield, don't have anything better to spend the last 5pts of magic items on) and the Soul Feeder gift to help offset the Hellfire sword potentially killing him, or potentially the +2S sword with 4+ ward and MR3 gift.

Thoughts? Other builds?

Unfortunately I think a more solid build may actually be a Tzeentch Lord with the Hellfire Sword (give him the 5+ ward save, makes it 4+, give him reroll 1's on ward saves gift, give him a Daemonic Steed, only slightly less killy but more survivable where it counts) but he can't join a unit of Skullcrushers and doesn't have an awesome model :(

You really don't need to make a chaos lord leading skullcrushers more killy. I'd give him a charmed shield, a sword of might, a 4+ ward and the 6+ ward vs warmachines for the unit.

The Tzeench lord is better, but the khorne lord shows up with friends.

-Matt

Charmed shield doesn't seem as useful on a char within a unit, charmed shield is for solo chars to avoid a cannonball to their heads.

If i were to field a juggy lord i'd fit him with something similar to the past codex

Jugger, MoK, talisman of preservation, helm of many eyes and either sword of might or sword of battle.

With sword of battle you get 7 attacks due to frenzy, 1+ sv 4+ ward and reroll to hits.

 Lord Yayula wrote:
Charmed shield doesn't seem as useful on a char within a unit, charmed shield is for solo chars to avoid a cannonball to their heads.

If i were to field a juggy lord i'd fit him with something similar to the past codex

Jugger, MoK, talisman of preservation, helm of many eyes and either sword of might or sword of battle.

With sword of battle you get 7 attacks due to frenzy, 1+ sv 4+ ward and reroll to hits.

Charmed shield is also useful after the first cannon ball drops rank and file below 5. For 5 points, I'll take the extra precaution.
S5 attacks are easy to come by, the unit is full of them. You want the lord doing something that the unit isn't. Stubborn crown might be a good choice.

-Matt

I would go with Matt´s advise. Give your lord as much resistance as possible and roll with it. There is not much that will stand a jugger charge let alone jugger charge is khorne lord.
I play DoC/O&G and I love my "pure" jugger army with the few letters to fill the needed core slots.