40K: Chaos Marine Hopes & Dreams
One veteran gamers wonders… what does the community REALLY want from a new Chaos Marine codex…
Mr Mystery quips…
I’m no Chaos player myself (at least, not yet. Calth may change things somewhat) but it really strikes me as pants that there is currently no delineation on the board between say, a Khorne Berzerker, and a World Eaters Berzerker.
Your more Vanilla Berzerker is someone who has fallen to Khorne and gone a bit crazy in the head.
A World Eater Berzerker? Fighting for millennia, or at least during the Heresy, and has Butchers Nails driving them even further into a frenzy.
Same goes for the other Cult troops. Have your basic or garden variety as Troops options, and your Traitor Legionnaires (very different to modern Space Marines) as your Elites. Slaanesh with better weapons (they have the originals, after all), Thousand Sons with more potent Sorcerors (they’ve got good over the millennia. You can tell, because they still have their own soul), Plague Marines more infectious (same diseases, but with millennia of co-evolution with one another..mmm….virulent!) and Berzerkers as above.
Cultists Slot buffed
Give them the option of being lead by a Dark Apostle. Purely a thematic request. Have their unit organisation closer to IG – so potential for a single squad, or a ‘command squad’ lead by a Dark Apostle, and additional Brotherhoods.
Veterans of the Long War
As is, but also pick from a list of USR. They’ve been doing this for a long, long time. A very long, long time. Show it.
Enmity Rules
To offset the suggested Veteran Legionnaire rules. World Eaters and Emperor’s Children should not get on. Reflect this. It lets those who want a hotch-potch force have some background rules to consider, and helps to encourage and reward mono-theistic forces
Steal from the Cult Mechanicus!
Dunno if you’ve read it, but the Canticles of the Omnissiah get better the more units you have on the board. Something similar, but for Gods and their followers. Again, this helps to encourage and reward mono-theistic forces, without necessarily punishing mixed god forces.
Lexington wants:
Cult Terminators. That’s my one big wish from a unit standpoint. Not Khorne-marked Terminators, but actual friggin’ Berzerkers in Terminator Armor.
and Charistoph wants:
Legion Traits for Black Legion, Iron Warriors, Night Lords, Alpha Legion, Fallen, Word Bearers, and Renegades.
~What do you think the new codex MOST needs, and why? What will it take to bring the CSM codex up to top tier status with the other power codexes?
