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I'm heading to the Student Nationals this year and am trying to revise my Chaos army for the new book.

This is altered from my old army so some units I don't have yet and so haven't tried.

Lord
Lord of Khorne with shield, Chaos Runesword, Crimson armour of Dargan, favour of the gods and Diabolic Splendour on Dragon ~ 725 (365/360)

Heroes
Sorcerer of Chaos with 2 dispel scrolls on Barded Steed ~151
876

Core
5 Marauder Horsemen with flails, light armour and musician ~ 86
5 Marauder Horsemen with flails, light armour and musician ~ 86
5 Marauder Horsemen with throwing axes, light armour and musician ~ 86
258

Special
4 Dragon Ogres with great weapons ~ 308
5 Knights of Chaos with standard bearer, musician and Banner of Rage ~ 265
536

Rare
Warshrine of Chaos ~ 130
130

Total 1847

P3
D3

So a rather under pointed at the moment, I need input.

Tell me to add things/remove things or even to rip up my army list and write it again, I will listen

thanks

~ bob

So no blocks eh? Well with the extra points there's always the classic:

5 Knights - standard, musician = 230

Drop 1 dragon ogre and you got that covered for 2000 even. I wonder if you really want MoK on the lord though, aren't frenzied monster-riders kinda bad? Waaay easily baited because they can see everything in front of them (i.e. no screening with friendly units)? On the flipside though he has what, 7 attaks? And his dragon gets +1 too? Yikes.

- Salvage

I would drop the warshrine. No need for it on knights and slower than your other forces. It is more effective on infantry blocks, especially cheap ones like marauders. MoN will help keep the Banner of Rage knights around.

Drop light armor and axes on the horsemen. Pick up flails, musicians, and MoS. Or go LA+shield+Spear for medium cav. Then MoK isn't bad.

Swap MoK and Splendor on lord for MoT and pick up Collar of Khorne (MR 2 and 5+WS) or go MoN for the help against shooting. Killing things shouldn't be a problem!

Get some warhounds. 2 units of 5 to screen at least.

@ Boss_Salvage - that knight idea looks like a good one, but i find that few baiting units can keep the dragon out of the battle for more than a turn, due to flying and breath weapons when I don't get a charge in.

@ jmurph - Hmm MoS used to stop you from using flee reactions thats why i didn't use it before, but you are right it's a good choice now. and dropping the light armour wouldn't be too bad if I'm immune to panic anyway.

I'm going to run with the warshrine for a few games, so far my luck with it has been awful so it probably will go

On the lord~
I also agree that splendor it over priced, replace it with bait dogs?
I don't think i have the magic item allowance for a Collar of Khorne, and the armour of dargan lets me shrug off cannon balls and such (persuade me otherwise)
MoN is a possibility in both cases, but the knights start to get real expensive

thanks

~bob

Id say yah drop the shrine, and possible get some spawns going. They are cheap and get the job done. Also you may want a regiment of Warriors/Chosen. Something that can take a beating and deal some damage (warriors with hand wep sheild and Chaos armor 2+ armor save, and they get 2 Attacks). A good start tho