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So, it's me, fart once more! I got some Chaos Warrior models from a friend who sold them, real life stuff! So I ended up grabbing like 125? Units of Chaos, no daemons; maurders, warriors, A METAL Archaon mounted, GOODY! And the 'Start Collecting to Slaves to Darkness' kits, so handful! He already had some models painted; Chaos Warriors with great weapons a shade of red, and he has some chaos warriors with hand weapon and shield. Now, from what I looked online; it's okay to have an army with more than one chaos god working together, but never the reason why? Try to find a reason why say with Archaon cause he is an important fellow and that he's marked(Correct me if that's wrong) by all four gods, so would it be possible if I was to deploy him on the field that he's leading the best warriors from all four gods under his banner? I want some fluff reason for 8th edition.

Yes, i know how to strip models! Just weather what is told will be the shove to 'Strip and repaint' or 'It's okay, have a multi-colored' army.'

Chaos is uniting under Archaon's banner against Sigmar... The daemons have forfeit their allegiances to the chaos gods and follow Archaon... You won't find a hard coded reason for many things in AoS - you'll have to come up with something by yourself. Some players like this total open endlessness and embrace it making the game "their own" so to speak (as I've heard multiple times AoS being advertised about that)

 CoreCommander wrote:
Chaos is uniting under Archaon's banner against Sigmar... The daemons have forfeit their allegiances to the chaos gods and follow Archaon... You won't find a hard coded reason for many things in AoS - you'll have to come up with something by yourself. Some players like this total open endlessness and embrace it making the game "their own" so to speak (as I've heard multiple times AoS being advertised about that)

Perhaps I should've stated what edition, will be edited, 8th edition. Heard about the rules of AoS and dislike them, I'm now to WHFB and the warhammer models itself, so I do ask a lot of questions.

It has always been ok to have followers of more than one Chaos God in the same army. It just means that at some point, there could be a betrayal of some kind.

Archaon is the obvious example, but many other Chaos Champions have followers belonging to more than one God.

Other armies have this going on as well, Orcs and Goblins can be in the same army even though they often fight amongst themselves (and in some editions of warhammer, their units will attack each other even when in part of the same army).

Archaon, as the Everchosen, is pretty much the Voice and Will of the Four. And as such all the Daemons will have to bow to his will and should be forced to work together regardless of their animosity - should he command it.

However, Archaon knows that the best way to keep Daemons around for as long as possible is to keep them as stable and "happy" as possible - that is to say, not keeping them close to their sworn enemies. If you look at the ET, you'll see that he sent the combined powers of each specific god alone in a grand army, and only forced the Four to come together in the final assault.

It should also be noticed that it's easier for Archaon to control human followers (Chosen or not) than Daemons.

endur wrote:
It has always been ok to have followers of more than one Chaos God in the same army. It just means that at some point, there could be a betrayal of some kind.

Archaon is the obvious example, but many other Chaos Champions have followers belonging to more than one God.

Other armies have this going on as well, Orcs and Goblins can be in the same army even though they often fight amongst themselves (and in some editions of warhammer, their units will attack each other even when in part of the same army).

Actually, not always. In the 6th Edition Hordes of Chaos armies, if your general had one of the four marks, then that's the only mark you were allowed to use.

In fluff terms of your warlord is Chaos Undivided, especially in the case of Archaon, then it's very characterful to have units from all of the gods in the same army.

Otherwise if your general does have a god mark you can just say he forged a temporary alliance with a lord from another god, or that he subjugated or enslaved another tribe who now fight under his banner. Considering that Chaos forces are always fighting each other these options are very viable.