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Making Chaos Work – Sorcerors, Titans & Strike Batteries

By Rob Baer | September 7th, 2016 | Categories: Chaos Space Marines, Tactics, Warhammer 40k

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Checkout this competitive way to play Chaos Space Marines without silly dinobots and flying dragons. This may be Chaos the way it was meant to be.

Want to bring the heat with a competitive Chaos list that’s got that old school flavor? Checkout Austin A-Dawgs new Chaos army using that sweet Vraks Renegade Tech from last week.

Editor’s Note: Austin placed 4th Overall at NOVA, with a slightly tweeked version of this list .

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1850 Chaos

The Purge

  • Ordnance Tyrant Command Squad (Nurgle)
  • 2 Wyverns
  • 2 Wyverns
  • 2 Wyverns
  • 2 Earthshakers
  • 2 Earthshakers
  • 25 Zombies

Forsworn Knight Detachment

  • Renegade Knight
  • Renegade Knight

Cabal Formartion

  • LVL3 Sorcerer, Familiar
  • LVL3 Sorcerer, Familiar
  • LVL3 Sorcerer, Familiar

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Checkout all the rules that stack together to make the Strike Batteries really shine!

  • Salt the Earth – Command benefit that creates areas of difficult terrain around the battlefield, and can be a real initiative pain for Monstrous Creatures, Knight Titans and heck just launching assaults in general.
  • Ordnance Tyrant – His rules allow placing blast templates on FRIENDLY models as long as the hole of the template is on the enemy. Additionally he allows you to also target enemy models locked in combat as well.

So The Purge may be is a neat little way of shoehorning in Renegade Wyverns into any Chaos Army list, as they are allowed to ally with Chaos Space Marines per their faction rules.

Time to stock up on your small blast templates?

Checkout how it plays with the Astra Militarum even, on the Tabletop Battle Report below:

About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.