Well, historically I’ve run a CSM force called the Retinue of the Ruby Dawn. The loose concept was kharn and a group of bezerkers on the warpath, with A tzeentchian sorcerer and his elite forces following their wake to loot the remains for sorcerous knowledge. It never quite hung together for me, and was a bit optimised – a nurgle set of havocs, slanesshi terminators with power weapons, and tzeentchian terminators with power fists to benefit from the invulnerable save. Good gaming sense – terrible fluff really.
I’m going to rework the list as a pure World Eaters force. Blood for the Blood God! My general thoughts – as World Eaters, I HAVE to take the mark of khorne and veterans of the long war. I suppose I don’t have to technically, but you know its needed for the fluff 🙂 Given I’ll mostly be fighting against Thousand Sons, thats a lot of points thrown away, but hey!
Here’s my 1000pt army (well, 999pts!):
Kharn the Betrayer – 160 pts
Khorne Bezerkers (8 Men, champion with power fist, 2 chain axes, 1 plasma pistol, veterans) – 216pts
Khorne Bezerkers (8 Men, champion with power fist, 2 chain axes, 1 plasma pistol, veterans) – 216pts
Raptors (5 Men, Icon of Wrath, veterans, mark, flamer, champion with power fist) – 160pts
Havocs (5 men, veterans, mark, 2x lascannon, 2 x heavy bolter, champion with power weapon and meltabombs) – 170pts
Obliterator (mark, veterans) – 77pts
Expanding that out to 1500pts:
Kharn the Betrayer – 160 pts
Chaos Termies (6 men, champion with combimelta + gift of mutation, combimelta, combi flamer, heavy flamer, power fist, veterans, mark, icon of wrath) – 288pts
Khorne Bezerkers (8 Men, champion with power fist, 2 chain axes, 1 plasma pistol, veterans) – 216pts
Khorne Bezerkers (8 Men, champion with power fist, 2 chain axes, 1 plasma pistol, veterans) – 216pts
Khorne Bezerkers (8 Men, champion with chain axe, 2 chain axes, 1 plasma pistol, veterans) – 199pts
Raptors (5 Men, Icon of Wrath, veterans, mark, flamer, champion with power fist + gift of mutation) – 160pts
Havocs (5 men, veterans, mark, 2x lascannon, 2 x heavy bolter, champion with power weapon and meltabombs) – 170pts
Obliterator (mark, veterans) – 77pts
I like that the lists feel quite marine. Tactical squads (well, bezerkers!), an assault squad, a devastator squad, and terminators. Its definitely chaos (with the gifts, bezerkers and obliterator), but you can see the legion origins there. None of this new fangled stuff!
Here’s the additional 500pts of World Eater allied list:
Chaos Lord with Power Axe and Plasma Pistol, Mark, Veteran – 110pts
3 x terminators (champion with lightning claws, termie with chainfist, termie with powerfist – 136pts
1 x Chaos marine squad – 10 men, plasmagun, missile launcher, additional ccw, mark, veterans, sergeant with powersword – 253pts