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 Hammerandforgereplicas wrote:
I think Khorne's just annoying, especially since they now gave him a good shooting weapon in the form of the chariot. Why is that for Khorne?

Though in 40K terms I think it's probably Nurgle, because the stuff just doesn't go away and when shooting into it you feel like you're hacking awa at a cliff-face and then the cliff (very slowly and purposefully) falls on you.

Well Khorne is god of war... not god of "this is a beatstick let me whack you to death with it." It just happens to be pretty gory and the most easy to get into the action. A skull cannon makes sense to me and really they should be capable of firing guns at enemies.

Anyways, I like all of the gods... but I feel that Khorne and Slaneesh are the least interesting (I wouldn't say hate). Khorne is simply because well he's into war. It doesn't really feel that interesting or deceptive when the galaxy is awash with warfare. Slaneesh because.... sHe just wasn't executed very well. Where is the desire for perfection? Where is the pride? Where is the gluttony? Where is the greed, slothfulness, wrath, and envy? Even the "lust" is terribly executed. Previously, that was the only element represented. Now, due to some twisted logic of manslaughter and evisceration is worse than boobs, it doesn't even have the lust aspect. So what tare they? They are an odd mess with crab arms shoved on them. (or at least that is how I feel about it)

I don't hate any of the chaos gods, but Tzeentch is the one that I am the least interested in. The way he defeats himself with his own plans just feels pointless, he might as well have not made a plan to begin with, plus he has a thing for f***ing his followers over more than the others from what I've heard.

Also with gods like Nurgle, a previous poster here said that the strength through disease thing was counter-intuitive, < yep couldn't agree more with that, his followers should be in agony rather than immune to pain, if the fluff said that because the diseases caused that much pain that being shot was nothing compared to the agony they were in, then I could understand but with current idea of them being totally immune because of the plagues they have it just makes no sense.

In order of my favs:
1. Malice (because NO ONE knows who malice is)
2. Tzeentch (just cuz hes epic)
3. Slaanesh (murder me, I like slaanesh)
4. Khorne (you cant hate him)
∞. Nurgle (THAT OVER-RATED SOB)

 Georgefancy wrote:
In order of my favs:
1. Malice (because NO ONE knows who malice is)
2. Tzeentch (just cuz hes epic)
3. Slaanesh (murder me, I like slaanesh)
4. Khorne (you cant hate him)
∞. Nurgle (THAT OVER-RATED SOB)

Gotta love the hipsters.. "I hate Malice. Oh, you've never heard of him?"

I am not a fan of Slaanesh, his drugged-up dirty-minded minions have messed up my marines too often...

Nurgles awesome... He's actually the 'kindest' Chaos God... So just lay off

Lavilla wrote:
Nurgles awesome... He's actually the 'kindest' Chaos God... So just lay off

Yes, because the kindest chaos god steals the eldar god of fertility, locks her up in a garden of plagues, poisons her with the galaxy's worst malady's, then has angry butt-sex with her. He is such a nice god.

 Georgefancy wrote:

Lavilla wrote:
Nurgles awesome... He's actually the 'kindest' Chaos God... So just lay off

Yes, because the kindest chaos god steals the eldar god of fertility, locks her up in a garden of plagues, poisons her with the galaxy's worst malady's, then has angry butt-sex with her. He is such a nice god.

Yup.

He's still nicer than the other lot.

I'd say my least favorite would be Slaanesh as StarTrotter said, they've been very poorly executed in recent times.

 Georgefancy wrote:
angry butt-sex

I have definitely not seen a canon source for this. Am I selectively forgetting a CS Goto book somewhere

Tzeentch
1- its hard to pronounce
2- how can you make a model that changes constantly?
3- none of the models do it justice

However Nurgle freaks me out!!!

Actually while I'm at it. Whilst Tzeentch is my favourite god, the models for him (bar flamers and perhaps screamers) don't really suit him that well. Old Tzeentch metal model Pink Horrors were perfect. Some were ripping their mouths open to have two blue horrors hopping out to cause havoc. That was lovely and felt exactly like Tzeentch and the best you could do to make a constantly changing monstrosity. Yet now it is weird pink bubblegum wads that whilst they do have a different number of arms, eyes, teeth, and tongue, they simply don't seem to represent the lord of change nearly as well

I voted all. PURGE THE UNCLEAN!

 CadianCommander wrote:


Who 'doesn't' love Grandfather Nurgle?! I mean really? Once you get past all the disease and pestilence he just always makes me think of Father Christmas.

hahaha, I completely agree

I can't realy hate any of them realy, but my least favorite is Nurgle.
Mostly because of the disgusting bloated rotting part that most of the models have. They do offcourse have to fit with the theme, but I never realy liked the decaying foul smelling not quiete dead/undead appeal.

For instance I like Skaven but the plague lords and clan Pestilence never did anything for me mainly because off that. I preffer the mad warpstone allmost steampunk tech of clan Skyre the most.
The same goes for Chaos I preffere the evil sorcerer and blood thirsty warrior.

That and most chaos models I have seen where always Nurgle themed and alot of the time the same boring brown and green. It makes it look like the easy chaos army for a lot of people. Warhammer 40k ork's suffer the same fate from what I have seen.

But than again 5 years ago I would have said I did'nt like Orks and now I have several models that need painting and a finished Stompa.




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psychosheep22 wrote:

 CadianCommander wrote:


Who 'doesn't' love Grandfather Nurgle?! I mean really? Once you get past all the disease and pestilence he just always makes me think of Father Christmas.

hahaha, I completely agree

"Merry Christmass little Johny! Enjoy your Aids."
"And for little Suzy some Small pox."
"And good news Tiny Tim! You no longer need your crutch! You are now a full Leper. Here is a little cart to be wheeled around in."

well I have always had a thing for Siege of Vraks and that has Nurgle and Khorne in it, so I would much rather play against those haha
I vote slannesh,

About a fortnight ago I was introducing a friend to 40k at the local GWS. The staff member who was giving him a quick painting tut was being really cool and friendly and asked my friend about which army he was thinking of playing; to which my friend replied "Uh, probably Nurgle Chaos Marines."
"NURGLE!?" came the agitated cry of a SW player at the other end of the store. "I HATE NURGLE!!"

I vote Tzeench - or do I?

Malice!

Khorne because he dosen't really do anything that all of the other fractions do [war FYI]

Nurgle- I still have nightmares of my old DE facing off against plague marines. If it weren't for the lances I .... (shivers). Anyway matches that were uphill from the start while hearing praise papa Nurgle has created my hatred for that god.

P.S. Slaanesh isn't bad if it is done in the spirit of how he should be. Greed, excess, pleasing the senses, etc. There are ways of handling Slaanesh themed things that are respectable. The problem is a lot of people go hardcore with the sex and nudity, and tend to get weird with it.

P.S.S. Tzeentch is the best chaos god, IMHO.

I still think Cthulhu ought to have wormed his way into the 41st millenium. Call me old-fashioned, but why are there only four major chaos gods, especially when the star has eight points. What in the warp are those other points for?
Can't say I hate any of the gods really; they based their personalities off of what teenagers have to go through with growing up, so I guess I can relate to that.

psychosheep22 wrote:

 CadianCommander wrote:


Who 'doesn't' love Grandfather Nurgle?! I mean really? Once you get past all the disease and pestilence he just always makes me think of Father Christmas.

hahaha, I completely agree

Ikr... He gives everyone gifts from his big sack of goodies

Slaanesh as his units are not that good and just the story for me is the least appealing for me plus tzeentch reigns supreme so all the other gods are nothing compared to the changer of the ways

Slaanesh is a whiny little b****

Tzeentch because he made the milk go bad in the fridge.


That jerk

 shealyr wrote:
Khorne and Slannesh are both pretty terribad.

The only having grace Khorne has is that he doesn't have to be only "BLOOD AND SKULLS!!!"; he is also the god of martial prowess, which is kinda cool I guess.

Slannesh is just plain dumb. I mean, come on, a hermaphrodite god who burns out his subjects' senses through hedonistic excess, non-stop orgies, and enough blaring noise to drive men insane? It's just dumb.

Maybe it has something to do with my upbringing, but there is nothing about the idea of excess and hedonism that can have any redeeming value.

Khorne can promote martial prowess.

Nurgle works off the fear of death and desire for immortality.

Tzeentch feeds off of lies and schemes, and lays webs of deceit to rival the best politician.

All of the other Chaos gods have at least something about them that we can either relate to, admire, or find relevant to our society. Where I come from, hedonism is a distant, far off, not even understandable idea. I dunno.

Look at you, mr. pure.

But in all seriousness, these guys are my bestest friends:

Betray them for these Punks?

That fat one?
The big dumb angry one?
The really slutty one?
And the enormous ?

No. I hate all of the chaos gods equally.

Tzeentch, definitely. Khorne is a close second, as he gets boring often. I can't hate Slaanesh, because it owns every eldar soul in the galaxy, and it invented noise marines. Nurgle is just misunderstood, yet lovable, huggable ball of pus.

But hey, turning to dust, drowning in blood, burning out on pleasure, or being riddled with every kind of pox in existence is still preferable to spending the average thirty year long life expectancy you have on any one of the millions of hellholes of the galaxy, fighting for a pyrrhic victory to take a hill that you're just going to abandon to the enemy again, subsequently getting ambushed and shot in the gut, then bleeding out while trillions of people you barely know do the same until the enemy's guns run dry and their axes dull on your broken bones. All for a failure of a leader, dressed up as a false god.

So yeah, better than

But a pyrrhic victory is still victory. Whereas chaos just loses all the time.

 Lord Gatlas wrote:
But a pyrrhic victory is still victory. Whereas chaos just loses all the time.

But at least the Khornates and Slaaneshis have fun with everything they do. They, along with the orks, are the blondes of the universe. Also, did you read the line after that?

hashut, chaos god of big hats has my vote...but he isnt on the list


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 Drakeslayer wrote:
I still think Cthulhu ought to have wormed his way into the 41st millenium. Call me old-fashioned, but why are there only four major chaos gods, especially when the star has eight points. What in the warp are those other points for?
Can't say I hate any of the gods really; they based their personalities off of what teenagers have to go through with growing up, so I guess I can relate to that.

Hashut, father of big hats...i mean darkness
Kweethul, God of Destruction
Malal, god of anarchy and terror
dont remember the 8th in the list

There is also a dark analog to the machine god...brought about by those tech priests that sided with horus during the heresy. As well as a host of lesser gods, each representing a strong emotion or ideal taken to an obsessive extreme.

I voted Khorne... While I am fairly good at painting red (did up a buddy of mine who has no skills in modeling/painting's Forge World Blood Thirster), I just don't like it.

I don't particularly care for the standard berzerker marines either.

And, at least with the other "factions" of Chaos, I have been/can dream up a themed force for them. (for instance, if I did EC, the back of the rhino models would be cut out, so that I could put absolutely ridiculously sized "speakers" on the back. They'd be a mix between those idiotic cheap cop cars, and "skrillex marines")