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Hello guys.

So here's the thing. I always make armies for the good guys, and I wanted to change that... Especially since Order armies is almost everything I face in my games, and I don't like doing Order vs Order because of the lesser immersion and storytelling.
This list I made is highly themed around units I like. I'm not fond of any Chaos God, and I dislike the classic colors of Universal Chaos. The difficulty comes from the fact that any other color than black and gold usually ties the unit to one God or the other. So I decided to go with white armor (with heavy weathering), dark iron metal on the edge frames, and red for cloth. Yes, I'm basically making an AoS Chaos White Scars army.

The centerpiece I was most interested in are the Varanguards. But because I don't like Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights much, I needed to find the perfect units to go with them. Those units will be Blood Warriors and Skullreapers. I will keep their Khorne rules on the table, but I'm gonna remove as many Khorne icons as I can from them.

So here is my base list:

- Lord of Chaos
- Varanguard x3
- Slaughterbrute
- Blood Warriors x10
- Skullreapers x5 (bought)

It doesn't look like much but this is already 68 wounds!

I haven't decided what weapons will the Varanguard have yet, and I'm starting with the Skullreapers, the only one I've bought so far, which I will equip with deamonblades.
I will probably need a sorcerer at some point, and I'm looking at Be'Lakor... I don't know.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions?

This is a cool selection for your chaos force.

The Varanguard are awesome models.

The Blood Warriors and Skull Reapers are equally awesome.

You mention that you don't like Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights -- is it the rules you don't like for those units, or the models?

Belakor is a great Daemon Prince. He is more durable than a regular Daemon Prince and a better spell caster than a Tzeentch Daemon Prince.

Your Lord of Chaos can transform into either a Daemon Prince (if he slays the enemy general) or a Chaos Spawn (if he dies in combat) during a battle. So I would recommend adding both a Daemon Prince and a chaos spawn to your figure collection.

For expanding the force, Archaon gives a lot of buffs to the Varanguard. So you might consider having Archaon as your general for large battles.

You might also consider the Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch that works for Archaon as a chaos sorcerer for your army.

The Chaos Warshrine is a great model for buffing your army.

If you like the rules and/or models for Khorne Bloodbound, but don't want to use the Khorne colors, some of the other Khorne models that really help from a buffing perspective are the Blood Secrator and the Skull Grinder.

The SlaughterBrute is a great monster. There are lots of other monsters too. And units of monstrous creatures, like Dragon Ogres and Minotaurs.