DIY Chaos units

Part of the changes to the Epic Chaos list are a rather sharp reduction in the number of figures that will be created for the army. One effect of this is that the new Chaos War Engines will most likely not be produced and they, as well as the Chaos Titans, will be left as DIY projects for Chaos players.

There was some mention of pre-existing Banelord figure that was created for Epic 40K that may be available for release.

Luckily enough the Death Wheel and Decimator are quite easy to cobble together. Audrey already has posted info on her site about how to build a Death Wheel and I believe that she already has plans to do the same for her conversion of a ForgeWorld Shadowsword into a Decimator. I've had quite good luck at building very formidable looking Death Wheels as well and given my utter lack of talent that should be good news for everyone :-)

One change is that the background for the Decimator is going to be rewritten to change it into a corrupted version of an older Imperial SHT. The stats for the Decimator re also going to be slightly tweaked to make it more in line with an SHT. Currently this means that the DC has been reduced to three from four.

Chaos Daemon changes

Some rather substantial changes had to be made to the daemons in the Black legion army list. Due to recent changes at Fanatic the new Chaos army list will have to "make do" with the older plastic sprue created for Epic 40K. Meaning that the army can only have those units that actually existed on that sprue and in terms of daemons that means that the Furies, Nurglings, Screamers, Daemonettes on Steeds and Horrors had to be removed.

One side effect of this is that there were now no Undivided daemons. It also means that Khorne would have had two daemonic units when all the others had one. In order to rectify this I have removed the Flesh Hounds from the list (leaving Khorne with just Bloodletters) and added a generic Daemonic Beasts unit. That unit will be able to be summoned by Undivided factions and you can use the Flesh Hound model to represent it.

New Chaos Black Legion army list

Version 3.3 of the Chaos Black Legion army list has been sent off to Jervis for approval. Here is a quick list of the changes made:

• Changed Strategy Rating rules
• Changed Banelord to match the recommendation
• Removed Nurglings, Furies, Horrors, Screamers and Daemonettes on Steeds
• No Khorne formations may take Sorcerers
• Changed price of Daemon Prince and added limits to purchase
• Removed Doomfire and added Helltalon
• Changed stats of Swiftdeath to make it a fighter as per future FW fig
• Added Daemonic Beasts for Undivided formations
• Added Flamers for Tzeentch formations
• Changed cost and formation size for Helltalon and Swiftdeath
• Changed stats of Decimator to match those of an Imperial SHT. Reduced DC to 3
• Removed FF from Plaguebearers

Notes and comments on some of the changes will follow