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Is there a way to play a four-god Daemons of Chaos army anymore, without buying the Battletomes for Nurgle, Tzeentch and Khorne?

The new GA:C Errata and Core Book Designer's Commentary read like there isn't.

I mainly play 40k, where all the Daemons are contained in one book, and it's fully legal to combine them freely.

I guess if my opponent lets me use the GA:C profiles in a casual game of AoS, then I'd be okay. But I don't want to shell out another $90 for three more epubs, then the minis to make the books worth it.

I understand that there'd be no summoning for a multi-god Daemons army, in any combination. That much I've been able to gleam already, having just bought the Core and Handbook today.

You can still do the Allegiance: Grand Alliance - Chaos and play any mix of daemons you want.

Not sure what you mean about the profiles; the warscrolls are the same regardless. It's only the allegiance abilities, spell lores, and artifacts that are faction specific usually.

Ah - I didn't know how similar the profiles would be. If they're the same [minus the faction abilities/lores/artifacts], then maybe it'll work easier.

I've heard the unit profiles on the AoS App match those in the books, so I'll get the app soon [when I get a new phone].

If you favor one Chaos god over another to some extent, or find you like using certain units a lot, some Warscroll Battalions might be of use. For those, you would probably need the battletomes of the gods.

Nice thing about the battalions is it gives you less drops for deployment to help go first, though many of those cost quite a few points making it difficult to use all four gods in battalion form in one normal sized army. Might be doable though.

Example could be:

Great Unclean One

Warpflame Host of Tzeentch with all Exalted Flamers

Murderhost of Khorne

Fiends of Slaanesh backed by a steed Herald (gotta wait a while til the Slaanesh battletome comes out)


It would also be neat to have one of each greater daemon with one of each battleline unit.

Terminal wrote:
Ah - I didn't know how similar the profiles would be. If they're the same [minus the faction abilities/lores/artifacts], then maybe it'll work easier.

I've heard the unit profiles on the AoS App match those in the books, so I'll get the app soon [when I get a new phone].

Right now the app seems full of bugs, so waiting a bit isn't a bad thing.

The Warscrolls should also be available on GW's site; just go to the page for the model/unit and there should be a download link.