At 75 points for the minimum size unit of 5 mutants and 3 torments, the Accursed Cultists unit is bit on the pricier side to just be “cheap slot fillers” when compared to regular cultists (and losing actions is a big blow), but they have the potential to be quite a bit more durable and can act as midtable objective holders (they still have ObSec), with the ability to trade up pretty effectively if they get the drop on someone. There isn’t really a place for them in most armies but there have been some successful lists that run 1-2 units of them when the strategy calls for a more aggressive approach, or one that’s not running Raise the Banners High. You can also run them as 10 mutants with 3 torments, giving them more ablative wounds to recur every turn – the mutants don’t count for morale when they die. Traitor Guardsmen After many lifetimes fighting in the eternal war, countless losses (including his much beloved friend Argel Tal), and seeing his Primarch, Angron, become a Daemon Prince, Khârn has descended into a rage that will never end.

Naked. Five models with bolters or chainswords. No frills, just a more durable place for 10 Obsec wounds that can hold objectives and raise banners. If your legion doesn’t have great passive buffs for Legionaries, you’re probably going this route. At the end of the game you score 2 VP if your tally is 1, 5 if it’s 2, 9 if it’s 3, and 14 if it’s 4. Our final recommendation for your starter Chaos Space Marine army is a Chaos Rhino. This transport provides survivability and manoeuvrability, so your marines on board them on board and race to the front as fast as you can. Humanity’s Emperor may have gained some of the powers and knowledge he used to create the Primarchs from the Chaos Gods themselves – meaning that the fall of many legions of Space Marines may have been inevitable right from the start.Marks represent the benefits units get for devoting themselves to the Chaos powers. Non-Cultist UNDIVIDED CORE or CHARACTER units in CHAOS SPACE MARINES detachments can be upgraded to have a Mark of Chaos, and every DAEMON PRINCE model must be upgraded. When you upgrade a unit, you increase its cost by 15 points and 1 PL, and it loses the CHAOS UNDIVIDED keyword and gains the relevant MARK OF CHAOS keyword, i.e. KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE, or SLAANESH. Note that Psykers can’t have the Mark of Khorne. So you’ve got your Start Collecting! set and a copy of Codex: Space Marines with which to field them, but where next? Well, they’re all Vanguard Space Marines so why not continue that theme with your new additions?

Chaos Space Marines have four options at the Troops slot and they’ve all got some value, ranging largely from “utility” with Legionaries to “being dirt cheap” with Cultist Mobs. Legonaries You can include KHORNE BERZERKERS units in a CSM Detachment, using their datasheet from Codex: World Eaters (or, at the time of this writing, White Dwarf #477), in which case they are always Elites. Their faction keywords become CHAOS, KHORNE, HERETIC ASTARTES, TRAITORIS ASTARTES, and . If you do this they get Let the Galaxy Burn , have to be upgraded to have the Mark of Khorne, and never get a Legion Trait. Note that as of the time of this writing, Khorne Berzerkers come with the Mark Of Khorne and have it baked into their points cost, so you don’t need to pay additional points for their Mark Of Khorne.World Eaters are the odd men out here, currently working off a White Dwarf article, but they’ll move over to the “own Codex” group when their Codex releases in the future. Being a melee combattant. This is typically done by giving him the Mark of Nurgle and G’Holl’Ax, the Decayed, which significantly improves his melee prowess by letting him bypass the wound roll, ensuring he’ll typically dump out 6-7 hits per combat that autowound and hit at AP-3, 3 damage each. On the whole defilers are frustrating. They aren’t terrible, but you’re paying for them to be OK at two things and in reality you’d just prefer it if they were better at one. But if you made a Defiler much better at one of those two things for cheaper, you just end up with Forgefiends and Maulerfiends. Speaking of which… Maulerfiend

The Chaos Space Marines Detachment included in Index Chaos Space Marines is ‘Slaves to Darkness’; it put no restrictions on how you build your army, and provides several benefits. Yes, that’s right. Stealth troops wearing yellow armour. You know you’re a master of infiltration when you can sneak up on the enemy line wearing the vibrant colours of the Imperial Fists. Take that Raven Guard ! If this unit starts the Fight phase within Engagement Range of any enemy units, it fights first that phase.

Start Collecting! Vanguard Space Marines

The final architect of the Horus Heresy and the Space Marines’ fall to Chaos was the Primarch of the Word Bearers, Lorgar. A religious zealot who worshipped the Emperor as a god, he redirected his faith to an older power when his fervour was rebuffed by the Master of Mankind. One of the new additions to the faction is the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword, which helps differentiate the more standard Chaos Space Marines from the likes of the Death Guard (Bubonic Astartes) and Thousand Sons (Arcana Astartes). This is separate from the HERETIC ASTARTES keyword in that it denotes the faction. Note that Cultists have the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword to mark them as of the same faction, but no longer have HERETIC ASTARTES, so they don’t get Armour of Contempt. Champions of Chaos

As the title suggests - the box set has been silently discontinued on the webstore because it's going to be replaced by a new box with 1 unit of Marines, 1 unit of Havocs, a Dark Apostle, and a Hellbrute. We are a small team of Warhammer Enthusiasts and miniature collectors, hoping to support and further promote the hobby. The result is a unit that’s just not that great outside of being a fast way to annoy enemies and sometimes explode. Granted, it has a bit more value in the current meta, where Harpies and Sunshark Bombers are more common, but even with it hitting on 2s and doing 4 damage per swing to those targets it’s unlikely to actually kill one in a single round of combat. The Heldrake has seen some outside play in some Iron Warriors lists but trust me when I tell you that the Heldrake is just going to break your heart. Other Choices The Warp’s Malice – This relic bolt pistol has 18” range, is Pistol 2, and S5, AP-2 2 damage, plus in Wanton Massacre or Slaughter it becomes Pistol 4. As an added bonus, whenever it rolls an unmodified hit roll of 6, it just does 2 mortal wounds and the sequence ends. Kind of like a ranged version of the Blade of the Relentless. Not bad, given how much you get, but ultimately not good enough to make your list unless you have some way to get hit re-rolls or guarantee hit rolls of 6. B-Each mark confers certain abilities on the unit, based on the mark and their equipment. You can find more on the math behind the marks and how they affect play in our Hammer of Math article on the topic.