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I've been trying to put together ideas for some Heroes that can be used with Archaon's "Warlord Without Equal" command ability.

I want to play more of a foot soldier chaos list with an anvil of Chosen and Warriors making up the bulk, a medium sized Varanguard unit to flank with and some cheap units to nab objectives (thinking of using 2+ Warcry warbands because I like the models a lot)

A Chaos Sorc on foot to buff the Warriors saves and the Varanguard with Daemonic power is a must have.

MoK Chaos Lord for beatstick and reroll 1s on MoK Chosen seems like a given.

Darkoath Warqueen for rerolling failed charges seems awesome

Valkia is a cool model that could Ally in that seems like the command ability to nerf a fly unit could be very helpful since there is a lot of Fly keyword in newer tomes.

A lot of other Command abilities for Chaos seem to trigger in a specific phase and so don't count for Archaon's Command. What are some other ideas for Commands that are worthwhile in this sort of army?

Disclaimer: this isnt supposed to be for competitive games. It's just for fun, but I like to get a lot of mileage out of the synergy for such an expensive model (both in points and money)

They’ve taken a LOT of command abilities and moved them to different phases. I don’t think Archaon synergizes well w/most leaders out of the four books. I think he’s best used for an incredible painting project until the StD/Everchosen book gets its release.

Archaon is largely trash right now. The only mileage you will get out of him is the mileage from the gaming table to your carrying case.

The only reason to take him is because you like the model and don't care about getting your face rubbed into the table by virtue of taking a bad list unless your opponent is taking an equally terrible list. If your opponent is even taking a halfway competitive army you are going to get mowed over.

I think a big problem is trying to make Slaves to Darkness allegiance work, when it just isn't viable. The allegiance for Grand Alliance: Chaos will get you more, and then you can run literally anything from the grand alliance freely (even legacy units) without needing allies. And if you really want Archaon to work well it would be using a mono-god allegiance. As to answer your question, Nurgle has several command abilities that work well with him; Harbinger of Decay and Glottkin both benefit marked StDs and Archaon himself.

 auticus wrote:
Archaon is largely trash right now. The only mileage you will get out of him is the mileage from the gaming table to your carrying case.

The only reason to take him is because you like the model and don't care about getting your face rubbed into the table by virtue of taking a bad list unless your opponent is taking an equally terrible list. If your opponent is even taking a halfway competitive army you are going to get mowed over.

I think this is completely untrue. IMO Archaon is as good as the player he's used by, every GT I go to I still see at least one player running him.