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So Christmas is upon us and I've been asking around for what people want for Christmas, in return they have asked me what I want: the truth is I have no idea. I've gotten to a point where I have a fully built, almost fully painted, no proxy army that I can have fun with and I can do well with, in short: I'm satisfied with my current army (for now). On the hobby front, I have some projects I'm still trying to get through but they're tiding me over for my creative needs. I'm mostly swamped with work right now so I haven't had any real inspirations for where to next go in the hobby.

Now I come to my question: since I'm completely stumped as to what I want for Christmas and going forward in the future I have no real plans for my 40k hobby I thought I might ask you lot for some ideas? Are there any new models (or even older ones that I've looked over during the years) that are really fun to build, paint and then play with? Not necessarily things that are really good, just things with some fun mechanics or something with the potential to be the equivalent of a nuke if you can pull off some feat. I'm first and foremost a Chaos player and have been for almost 10 years, so any cool Chaos models would be nice (since I could run them with my current stuff rather than have to buy a new army), but maybe I could venture a bit out of my comfort zone... Maybe...

Any suggestions would be grateful (since if I don't say anything I'll just get cash for Christmas and I'll likely spend that on something boring), thanks and Merry November!

Khorne Lord of Skulls?

That thing is intimidating and you can do crazy conversions with him if you want to give him legs! (Don't buy the FW ones, thats boring!)
Plus in the table is pretty fun to destroy everything you shoot at, but it isn't OP or indestructible to your opponent.

 Galas wrote:
Khorne Lord of Skulls?

That thing is intimidating and you can do crazy conversions with him if you want to give him legs! (Don't buy the FW ones, thats boring!)
Plus in the table is pretty fun to destroy everything you shoot at, but it isn't OP or indestructible to your opponent.

I've already got one of those guys and I have to agree, it's so fun to use. I took him in a 5000pt game and was so happy about how much more impressive he is in 8th ed.

The model itself isn't my favourite but I don't mind it.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

Maybe if you made a list of what you already have, we can look for sugestions that you don't have? (And I'm not being sarcastic )

 Galas wrote:
Maybe if you made a list of what you already have, we can look for sugestions that you don't have? (And I'm not being sarcastic )

Well I have quite a large collection... Well over 10,000pts in chaos.

The big things I have include:
Lord of skulls, Magnus, Fire Raptor, Shadowsword, Chaos Knight, though a lot of the points come from expensive elite units.

You could convert a forgeworld knight lancers or somthing to chaos?

Or a katyn deamon engine.

Maybe not fun but would make a impressive project.

Vehicles. Doesn't matter what you get, you can always covert it to the faction fo your choice for tons of fun.

 jhe90 wrote:
You could convert a forgeworld knight lancers or somthing to chaos?

Or a katyn deamon engine.

Maybe not fun but would make a impressive project.

Knight Lancer might be an idea, I was going to buy one ages ago because I love the model but decided against it since it didn't really fit that well into my army at the time. Thanks for the suggestion.


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 ChargerIIC wrote:
Vehicles. Doesn't matter what you get, you can always covert it to the faction fo your choice for tons of fun.

Not a big fan of most tanks, prefer something a bit less chunky.

And what about this beauty?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Great-Brass-Scorpion

It looks like a Decepticon. Totally Khorne.

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Maybe if you made a list of what you already have, we can look for sugestions that you don't have? (And I'm not being sarcastic )

Well I have quite a large collection... Well over 10,000pts in chaos.

The big things I have include:
Lord of skulls, Magnus, Fire Raptor, Shadowsword, Chaos Knight, though a lot of the points come from expensive elite units.

Do you have Mortarion? It's a quite enjoyable model to build and paint - his rules are bonkers as well

Galas wrote:And what about this beauty?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Great-Brass-Scorpion

It looks like a Decepticon. Totally Khorne.

Another model I have considered getting in the past (in fact most FW models I've considered getting, but the price: woof!) definitely would live to have it though.

NurglesR0T wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Maybe if you made a list of what you already have, we can look for sugestions that you don't have? (And I'm not being sarcastic )

Well I have quite a large collection... Well over 10,000pts in chaos.

The big things I have include:
Lord of skulls, Magnus, Fire Raptor, Shadowsword, Chaos Knight, though a lot of the points come from expensive elite units.

Do you have Mortarion? It's a quite enjoyable model to build and paint - his rules are bonkers as well

I was going to get him to start my Daemon Primarchs barbershop quartet, but then pictures of the model got released and I got deinflated really fast: the model just doesn't do anything for me.

I enjoyed building and painting Zhufor and a Blood Slaughterer from Forge World (and a ton of Bezerkers), but I bet you already have them!

craftworld_uk wrote:
I enjoyed building and painting Zhufor and a Blood Slaughterer from Forge World (and a ton of Bezerkers), but I bet you already have them!

Don't have any blood slaughterers because they looked like they needed to be in a pack to be useful and I wasn't willing to pay £100 for a couple of models that may not live up to expectations. Do they run very well on there own this edition?

When it comes to Chaos, I like the Daemonforge units. Do you have any Forgefiends, Heldrakes, or Defilers/Soulgriders? Nothing is cooler in my opinion than having a Warpsmith lead his newest creatations straight from the deamonforges to the battlefield.

SYKOJAK wrote:
When it comes to Chaos, I like the Daemonforge units. Do you have any Forgefiends, Heldrakes, or Defilers/Soulgriders? Nothing is cooler in my opinion than having a Warpsmith lead his newest creatations straight from the deamonforges to the battlefield.

I have a Heldrake and a Maulerfiend, I was going to buy a soul grinder when I started to get Daemons but I got side tracked by renegades.

I think I have a warpsmith catching dust somewhere, is he worth pulling out for a couple of games now?

 mrhappyface wrote:

SYKOJAK wrote:
When it comes to Chaos, I like the Daemonforge units. Do you have any Forgefiends, Heldrakes, or Defilers/Soulgriders? Nothing is cooler in my opinion than having a Warpsmith lead his newest creatations straight from the deamonforges to the battlefield.

I have a Heldrake and a Maulerfiend, I was going to buy a soul grinder when I started to get Daemons but I got side tracked by renegades.

I think I have a warpsmith catching dust somewhere, is he worth pulling out for a couple of games now?

I've had success with them sitting in the backfield babysitting a few predator tanks and Forgefiends regening D3 wounds a turn. Also being able to curse an enemy vehicle on a 2+ for a free mortal wound is always nice but nothing game changing.

I can't remember 100% but I think I read somewhere that they are getting a slight points drop in CA as well.


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NurglesR0T wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:


The big things I have include:
Lord of skulls, Magnus, Fire Raptor, Shadowsword, Chaos Knight, though a lot of the points come from expensive elite units.

Do you have Mortarion? It's a quite enjoyable model to build and paint - his rules are bonkers as well]

 mrhappyface wrote:

I was going to get him to start my Daemon Primarchs barbershop quartet, but then pictures of the model got released and I got deinflated really fast: the model just doesn't do anything for me.

Fair enough. Although I thought the same thing when I saw the pictures online as well, but in person the model is much more impressive IMO.

 NurglesR0T wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:

SYKOJAK wrote:
When it comes to Chaos, I like the Daemonforge units. Do you have any Forgefiends, Heldrakes, or Defilers/Soulgriders? Nothing is cooler in my opinion than having a Warpsmith lead his newest creatations straight from the deamonforges to the battlefield.

I have a Heldrake and a Maulerfiend, I was going to buy a soul grinder when I started to get Daemons but I got side tracked by renegades.

I think I have a warpsmith catching dust somewhere, is he worth pulling out for a couple of games now?

I've had success with them sitting in the backfield babysitting a few predator tanks and Forgefiends regening D3 wounds a turn. Also being able to curse an enemy vehicle on a 2+ for a free mortal wound is always nice but nothing game changing.

I can't remember 100% but I think I read somewhere that they are getting a slight points drop in CA as well.

Hmm, if that's true they might just be worth the points, especially since the regular predator getting a points drop that no longer makes the hellforged version 10x better.

NurglesR0T wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:


The big things I have include:
Lord of skulls, Magnus, Fire Raptor, Shadowsword, Chaos Knight, though a lot of the points come from expensive elite units.

Do you have Mortarion? It's a quite enjoyable model to build and paint - his rules are bonkers as well

 mrhappyface wrote:

I was going to get him to start my Daemon Primarchs barbershop quartet, but then pictures of the model got released and I got deinflated really fast: the model just doesn't do anything for me.

Fair enough. Although I thought the same thing when I saw the pictures online as well, but in person the model is much more impressive IMO.

I've seen him in person too, not even close to Magnus IMO.

Kytan Rampager. It looks so bloody cool and on the superheavy scale- it's not terrible.

You could do what I did when I'd bought everything Chaos, go Imperial Guard and use them as traitor guard/lost and damned. You can do it using just GW and standard guard models or go to town with the prohibitively expensive Forgeworld stuff. I guess it depends how good a boy you have been this year and what Santa is willing to bring for you.

This is as far away from chaos as you can come but this thread is a great opportunity to share something. I recently picked up a box of GK terminators to add to my Inquisition army, and oh my Emperor it's fun to build theese guys. I don't recall the last time I enjoyed putting models togheter this much. Making small converstions and posing them is just a blast, and with the large pieces it's really easy to work with. So there you go, you could buy GK terminators and have them be fallen GK or something. The fluff says there are no corrupted GK but that might as well be Imperial propaganda. Fits in universe methinks.

Tzaangors?

AaronWilson wrote:Kytan Rampager. It looks so bloody cool and on the superheavy scale- it's not terrible.

Isn't he a bit like the LoS slower brother now?

Huron black heart wrote:You could do what I did when I'd bought everything Chaos, go Imperial Guard and use them as traitor guard/lost and damned. You can do it using just GW and standard guard models or go to town with the prohibitively expensive Forgeworld stuff. I guess it depends how good a boy you have been this year and what Santa is willing to bring for you.

Already done, have about a 2000pt guard army I use as renegades. Very nice army to try some different tactics with.

Nerak wrote:This is as far away from chaos as you can come but this thread is a great opportunity to share something. I recently picked up a box of GK terminators to add to my Inquisition army, and oh my Emperor it's fun to build theese guys. I don't recall the last time I enjoyed putting models togheter this much. Making small converstions and posing them is just a blast, and with the large pieces it's really easy to work with. So there you go, you could buy GK terminators and have them be fallen GK or something. The fluff says there are no corrupted GK but that might as well be Imperial propaganda. Fits in universe methinks.

Well, I do have one GK that I built and posted here... Would using a whole army of fallen GK go down too well?

pismakron wrote:Tzaangors?

What's So special about them? Looks like a cross between horrors and cultists to me (without having the survivability of horrors or the cheapness of cultists).

How many Spawn do you have? I absolutely love that kit, and a lot of them together looks fantastic. Also, fun unit to use. My favorite so far has been tentacle slapping some Custodes with them. It's lovely as a Chaos player to have some ungodly awful creatures murder the Emperor's golden boys.

I have 10 built and painted, and seven more in the works. I'd like to round it up to 20 at some point.

Great kit, atmospheric and characterful unit, capable of pulling off some fun moves in-game!

 Insectum7 wrote:
How many Spawn do you have? I absolutely love that kit, and a lot of them together looks fantastic. Also, fun unit to use. My favorite so far has been tentacle slapping some Custodes with them. It's lovely as a Chaos player to have some ungodly awful creatures murder the Emperor's golden boys.

I have 10 built and painted, and seven more in the works. I'd like to round it up to 20 at some point.

Great kit, atmospheric and characterful unit, capable of pulling off some fun moves in-game!

I have a couple but certainly not that many, are they more than just extra wounds now?

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:
How many Spawn do you have? I absolutely love that kit, and a lot of them together looks fantastic. Also, fun unit to use. My favorite so far has been tentacle slapping some Custodes with them. It's lovely as a Chaos player to have some ungodly awful creatures murder the Emperor's golden boys.

I have 10 built and painted, and seven more in the works. I'd like to round it up to 20 at some point.

Great kit, atmospheric and characterful unit, capable of pulling off some fun moves in-game!

I have a couple but certainly not that many, are they more than just extra wounds now?

I don't have the codex on me, but from my 8th ed experiences they feel like they hit pretty hard. Off the top of my head I think they have a -2 ap and do 2 damage a hit at S 5. They might only have a 4+ WS, but uf you have an Apostle around (or Abbadon), it doesn't matter. In one of my early games of 8th, I took a couple with some extra points. Most got shot up but just one of them managed a charge againt Azrael and nearly killed him in a single round. The 2 damage goes a long way.

D6 attacks and I think one or two extra on the charge? I forget. Their mutation chart is mostly good options, too iirc. When I get back home I can send a pic from one of my games, I just think they look rad.

Chaos Spawns are very usable. A little unreliable but they can do work. The only problem is the relation money-points but if you don't care about that... they are really usefull ingame and fun to use.

I'm just going to put this out there: the big Tau suits are fun little projects and are completely poseable after snipping the little guide pegs on the joints.

In particular I like the ghostkeel and tau commander. Both could serve as an opponent to one of your Chaos champions in a sweet diorama, or as a mangled heap for a sufficiently epic scenic base.

I found building a legion falchion to be quite fun. Also the forgeworld knights are fun to. Hold.

 mrhappyface wrote:

craftworld_uk wrote:
I enjoyed building and painting Zhufor and a Blood Slaughterer from Forge World (and a ton of Bezerkers), but I bet you already have them!

Don't have any blood slaughterers because they looked like they needed to be in a pack to be useful and I wasn't willing to pay £100 for a couple of models that may not live up to expectations. Do they run very well on there own this edition?

They aren't as durable as other Daemon Engines but with the usual invulnerable save and regenerating wounds they do ok. Where the Blood Slaughterer is better is their speed and the number of attacks they throw out against infantry.

https://dreamforge-games.com/products/leviathan-crusader

Buy 3 of these guys while they are on sale and start a renegade knight house. The weapon arms are also on sale for like 8 bucks. They are a bit complex to put together (download the instructions as the ones they ship with are off a bit)... but super poseable.

And fun to build once you get the hang of it. They are about the same height as a forgeworld knight. They are about right for a Porphyrion if you want to go that route.

I have like 9, keep buying them on sale. $45 bucks a pop is an absolute steal for the quality.


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Oh, noticed you are UK, so shipping will be a bear...