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I know that Hellforged have more melee capabilities, but what do the Relics get for their lack of such bonuses? I know they share the same points cost, so obviously they have to have something better than the Chaos version to counter balance it.

Nope Relic just means it must have a non relic choice in that battle field role for each relic choice. The exception is LOW where you may take a relic LoW without taking a non relic.

Its actually a nerf

The difference is as Ice_Can said and they can be put next to Guilliman as ultramarinos

Yeah it's basically a tax for the imperium stuff. One of my dudes that plays SM hates it. he sees my using all this cool Hellforged stuff without penalty, meanwhile he's gotta bring a tac squad or something to field his Sicaran.

Yep, it's more or less a balancing act because of the general increase in units the Imperium have access too. It's definitely a bonus for Chaos. The Hellforged rules are pretty fantastic for some stuff too.

Hellforged cannot be healed by any means except by eating models and regaining wounds on a 5+ per each model killed. Not a huge downside but it's obnoxious when you're barely below a bracket on a tank and the only way to buff it back is to charge with it. They also explode for d6 wounds against psykers

Relic contemptor has FNP (chaos doesn’t)

Relic leviathan flat 4+ invulnerable, chaos ones have 4+ in cc, 5+ elsewhere

It makes a difference, especially if you are running them shooty, not CC

Not being able to heal them aside from their innate healing

Chaos also apparently forgot how to manufacture smoke launchers..

Yep, and our weapon profiles are different - though in some cases superior (Rapier, etc.)

Good to know! As a WE player, I have no issue with trading smoke and saves for melee capability, but I can see the trade off not being as worth it for a different Legion.