BaneLord Topic #2: army construction

From: Jarreas Underwood <jarreas_at_...>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:13:53 -0400 (EDT)

Well, it looks like there's motivation to put together a Chaos / Titan Legions army list. This is awfully alike a Chaos / Space Marine list, which is a lot of work and repetition I'm not willing to do. So how about this:

Chaos armies:
1) Standard Chaos Army: 50% from the Standard Chaos List, <50% from any other Standard list except Eldar.

2) Codex Chaos Power Army: 75% from that Power and the Standard Chaos lists, <25% from any other Power(s), or any one Standard List except Eldar.

3) Codex Chaos Marine Army: 75% from that Legion, the Standard Chaos List and the Standard Space Marine lists, allies as in #2.

4) Codex Chaos Titan Legion Army: 75% from the Standard Chaos List and the Titan Legion lists (the entire Adeptus Mechanicus book), allies as in #2.


The Standard Chaos List would have Reavers and Warhounds. The Power lists would each have a warlord-class titan (Banelord, Bubonis, etc) that would be slightly better than a standard Warlord. We can make them all customizable, taking the weapons from all the unique titans and putting them in the generic 'chaos titan weapons' list.

This will allow for all the types of armies I think we've talked about. If you want a Chaos/something army you can get a few Chaos titans as special cards. If you want a Chaos Legion it'll give you access to all the Marine equipment and the Warlord (via the SM Special card). And if you want to run lots of chaos titans you can put together a Titan Legions army (assuming your opponent agrees to the Battle Group rule) and stick on some Chaos units (from both the standard and Power lists).

I remember the 'which Marine units would the Chaos Legions have been able to field?' discussion, and I no longer think it matters. I can put in a note saying 'these units are pre-Heresy', but the Chaos legions aren't entirely static - some of them have modern weapons. A Pre-heresy list should cover things, rather than publishing a cut-down army list for them.

And yes, the existing list that all the Chaos Legions can use would go away. I'd move the units that weren't available through the Space Marines into the Standard Chaos List. Nobody would lose a thing, and it'd be almost completely similar to how you'd put together a Space Marine Chapter army.

How's that work?
-Yar


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