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as the question implies do chaos warships have a use for galler fields?

Most likely. It seems logical that Imperial warships have built-in fail-safes making it difficult to mess with Geller fields.

There is more than just the Big Four Chaos Gods in the Warp. There are Enslavers, lesser Gods, the Lesser Four Ruinous Powers, a whole host of unalighned Daemons, and who knows what else. Only a moron would traverse such a place without the protection of a Gellar Field (which, as it turns out, some Chaos Marines don't use, though it always ends badly for them).

Whilst you may worship and work with the ocean (the warp, chaos etc.) to kill other seafarers, it doesn't mean the ocean won't drown you if you jump in.

Watch some Event Horizon for the answer.

 Filch wrote:
Watch some Event Horizon for the answer.

I only watched this movie recently due to my friend showing me a Reddit thread. This movie is fantastic and is totally like a possible result due to lack of G-Field. Highly recommended!

They use them, but they use them less than the Imperium as they have some resistance to the Warp. They also couldn't considering many Chaos forces live in the Eye of Terror, and keeping the gellar fields up 24/7 would probably sap the ship's power.

It's not like the Astartes mind either if some cultists get possessed or devoured by the daemons that spawn. It only becomes a problem when the important slaves start dying.

 Wyzilla wrote:
It's not like the Astartes mind either if some cultists get possessed or devoured by the daemons that spawn. It only becomes a problem when the important slaves start dying.

Even then it's only a problem if the important dead slaves stay dead.

Yeap, Ahriman worries enough for them to be a problem

It probably depends on how sane they are. A warband of mad berserkers, daemon worshippers or the fanatically religious might want to leave them off.

In the Word Bearer Omnibus. They do not use them. At least not to full power anyway, Harpes fly around the roof of the cathedral they use. And then get very upset when the ship enters real space.

Some do, some don't, I get the impression that the God in question offers some sort of protection, but that's just Conjecture.

I'd say they probably do but when they fail it isn't necessarily as immediately bad.

Probably also depends on the strength and number of psykers and sorcerers aboard, who will have various wards, rune-scripts and protective meditations/arcana and such to keep the worst of the nasties away from the ship.

I doubt it they lIve in the eye of terror i.e. The warp. Thats like living in the ocean but taking a boat to go to other parts of the ocean to stay dry.

OgreChubbs wrote:
I doubt it they lIve in the eye of terror i.e. The warp. Thats like living in the ocean but taking a boat to go to other parts of the ocean to stay dry.

The Eye of Terror is half Warp/half Materium. Basically, you don't need Gellar fields to keep your body from being torn to pieces by the energies.

 Scorpionov wrote:
as the question implies do chaos warships have a use for galler fields?

Think about this rationally. You're the head honcho of a Chaos warband, and you just sacked an Imperial world. While travelling through the Warp, do you want a bunch of daemonettes showing up on your ship to drink/have sex with all of the beer you just stole?

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Scorpionov wrote:
as the question implies do chaos warships have a use for galler fields?

Think about this rationally. You're the head honcho of a Chaos warband, and you just sacked an Imperial world. While travelling through the Warp, do you want a bunch of daemonettes showing up on your ship to drink/have sex with all of the beer you just stole?

If you are a follower of Slaanesh - hell yeah..........that's why you stole the pretty stuff to get to party with her/his handmaidens

As far as I can tell, the Gellar field doesn't just keep the daemons out. It also keeps the Immaterium itself from ripping your ship apart or tossing you about like a rag doll. Its somewhat necessary for reliable navigation as well.

They use them if they want to avoid being ripped apart.

I would vote for the "depends on the sanity of the crew / captain" option


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It is not the best source but rogue trader RPG chaos reavers in Battle fleet Koronus do all have galler fields or warp bane hulls.
it seems that they are sane enough not to embrace all of the warp all the time.

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wile I doubt if possessed ships do have a functional field.

Possessed ships would not need a Gellar Field. Being half-daemon themselves, that places a sort of "I own this" mark on the vessel, which keeps other daemons away (unless they think they are more powerful).

I like to imagine that smaller daemons infest those ships like parasites or perhaps even as symbionts instead of the normal crew

It could. The one thing that can be said about daemons is that no two of them are exactly alike.

A Daemon Vessel replaces most of its need for a living crew with pseudo-biological systems. That is to say, all of the ship's various systems and functions become part of the daemonic whole, driven by its sentience, much like how your brain and nervous system controls the functions of your breathing and heart rate and all that kind of stuff.

Check out the Beast in Homeworld Cataclysm for possessed ships.

I believe the Gellar fields on Chaos ships would serve a slightly reduced function. The need for absolute Warp protection would not be needed or wanted. They would need to protect against dangerous or randomly malicious warp entities.

So it's more like a powerful Citronella candle to repel mosquitoes. You still are subject to rain or the wind, and some mozzys still come around, but not the overwhelming horde of them that would ruin a cookout.

 Filch wrote:
Check out the Beast in Homeworld Cataclysm for possessed ships.

blood of asaheim also briefly features a possessed ship (albeit a smaller one but a splinter of typhus' fleet) the monstrosity controlling the ship is physically hard wired into the ship itself (basically making the ship an extension of itself) and is crewed by plague zombies and cultists.