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I've been using battlescribe to plan out my forces and im choosing chaos as the first army to build. I was wondering if one roster for chaos, called crimson slaughter(2014), is 7th edition.

I'm really new to this, and have been having a real hard time finding out what is what. any help would be appreciated.

This is your best start. Crimson Slaughter is what's called a Dataslate and is an alternate way to play CSM that gives you various rules. If you're just starting out, I'd suggest picking up the 40k rulebook and a cheap copy of the CSM codex, that'll get you rolling for now. After that, you can go from there as far as formations, dataslates, etc.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Chaos_Space_Marines(7E)

As stated above, Crimson Slaughter is a supplement to CSM- an alternate way to field your CSM army meant to show recent renegades. Much like Black Legion is another supplement for CSM, meant to show, well, the Black Legion.
Crimson Slaughter is meant to show a recently fallen chapter. Same units available as to a regular CSM army except there are different artifacts, Possessed count as a troops choice, your whole army causes fear (meh) and nobody except cult troops can take the Veterans of the Long War upgrade. There is also a cool upgrade you can give 1 unit of Chosen. Other than that- it's a CSM army.
Totally legal in the 7th edition as it is actually the most recent update that CSM has received. All supplements and the main codex were actually made for the 6th edition though. Rumors are always popping up that a new CSM codexes coming- but most of those are just trolling/wish listing..... CSM is the oldest codex out there right now.

 jreilly89 wrote:
This is your best start. Crimson Slaughter is what's called a Dataslate and is an alternate way to play CSM that gives you various rules. If you're just starting out, I'd suggest picking up the 40k rulebook and a cheap copy of the CSM codex, that'll get you rolling for now. After that, you can go from there as far as formations, dataslates, etc.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Chaos_Space_Marines(7E)

I'm just not sure what to look for, there seems to be multiple CSM codexs and I just cant tell which is the right one.


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 KhorneontheCobb wrote:
As stated above, Crimson Slaughter is a supplement to CSM- an alternate way to field your CSM army meant to show recent renegades. Much like Black Legion is another supplement for CSM, meant to show, well, the Black Legion.
Crimson Slaughter is meant to show a recently fallen chapter. Same units available as to a regular CSM army except there are different artifacts, Possessed count as a troops choice, your whole army causes fear (meh) and nobody except cult troops can take the Veterans of the Long War upgrade. There is also a cool upgrade you can give 1 unit of Chosen. Other than that- it's a CSM army.
Totally legal in the 7th edition as it is actually the most recent update that CSM has received. All supplements and the main codex were actually made for the 6th edition though. Rumors are always popping up that a new CSM codexes coming- but most of those are just trolling/wish listing..... CSM is the oldest codex out there right now.

can you point me towards this most recent update? I'd just like to know what the book even looks like.

Dtox wrote:
can you point me towards this most recent update? I'd just like to know what the book even looks like.

You are aware that GW have a website that, regardless of any negatives you care to throw at it, does have lots of pictures of GW products?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-Chaos-Space-Marines-Softback-ENG

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/mobile/search/searchResults.jsp?searchTerm=Crimson+slaughter

 SilverMK2 wrote:

Dtox wrote:
can you point me towards this most recent update? I'd just like to know what the book even looks like.

You are aware that GW have a website that, regardless of any negatives you care to throw at it, does have lots of pictures of GW products?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-Chaos-Space-Marines-Softback-ENG

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/mobile/search/searchResults.jsp?searchTerm=Crimson+slaughter

Well thanks a bunch, I was so used to looking at everywhere but GW for warhammer stuff that I kinda forgot about it...

Crimson Slaughter is current.

It can be used instead of the Chaos Space Marines codex, but you will need the codex as Crimson Slaughter refers to it.

Think of Crimson Slaughter as downloadable content for a game that adds in a new character and changes some of the skins. You still need the original game to play it.