Rogues Gambit wrote:well for me it's the colors of chaos...there so damn colorful lol, pinks, blues, purples, oranges, reds, yellow, golds, silvers, browns all in the army....and you can field it too.

they do have some very cool physical vibe in my opinion, colorful and interesting to look at. i can't put my finger on it....maybe thats the definition of cool?

Jimsolo wrote:Army wise I think that they appeal to people who like very 'busy' models. Personally, I prefer a neater, more austere look, but if you like the sort of active aesthetic that seems to prevail in much of the 40k artwork, Chaos comes through in spades. I think that Chaos Daemons as an army could be very easy to love, and very simple to play. Tabletop wise, I think that Chaos has two army choices, one a MEQ choice, and one a wholly unique option. I think that they are competitive and fun to play.

That being said, fluff wise I neither like nor love Chaos. I think that the Chaos Marines are frequently poorly defined as characters, and got the short end of the motivation stick. I think that some writers (most notably Aaron Dembski-Bowden) can carve some sense into them, but most of the Chaos Legions are pretty silly at best, and cartoonish at worst.

For all that, I like the concept of the Chaos Daemons still. I'd love to have a Daemons army some day.

loota boy wrote:I find Chaos daemons very cool, but they are kind of a turnoff for me because I have a hard time dishing out a bunch of cash for single models, and Chaos needs a lot of those to be competitive. Perhaps one day when I have money.

loota boy wrote:I find Chaos daemons very cool, but they are kind of a turnoff for me because I have a hard time dishing out a bunch of cash for single models, and Chaos needs a lot of those to be competitive. Perhaps one day when I have money.

Shredsmore wrote:I play chaos marines in 40K and I Play Demons in Fantasy.

GimbleMuggernaught wrote:What initially drew me to them is that they were the greatest villains in the 40k universe. At the time I started playing them, Dark Eldar and Necrons were still fairly new, and the later was all but mindless. Tyranids never really seemed that "evil" to me because they always seemed to be to animalistic. More of a survival thing than anything else, and Orks are just to hilariously incompetent/goofy to be real villains. This left me with Chaos.

Once I got into them more (the 3.5 codex) I loved them for the simply insane amount of options and versatility of the codex. You could go Iron Warriors with extremely heavy mech, or word bearers with up to 9 daemon packs (before they became generic lesser daemons). Unfortunately this was not to last, and we were eventually left with the current 4th edition codex with less options and lacklustre units.

I have high hopes for the new codex though. My only concerns are that we'll get Matt Ward doing the codex, and/or become the latest flavour of the month. I'd really rather not have to suffer through a codex of fanfic-y writing and ridiculous out of the blue rules. Fingers crossed for a Kelly dex.

Joey wrote:

loota boy wrote:I find Chaos daemons very cool, but they are kind of a turnoff for me because I have a hard time dishing out a bunch of cash for single models, and Chaos needs a lot of those to be competitive. Perhaps one day when I have money.

What competitive models do Chaos Deamons have that are prohibitively expensive?