Chaos Mortals Rumors and Updates

More Chaos Mortals chewy goodness. As it is supposed to be released in November we should see the new book make an appearence in the newest White Dwarf soon. Reading over various rumors the following has been compiled, thanks to Warseer and the rest for the rumors. OK here we go…

New models in the first wave
- Plastic Chaos Knights (5)
- Plastic Marauder Horsemen (5)
- Plastic Warhounds (10)
- Metal Chosen Warriors with great weapons

- Metal Chaos Lord of Khorne on Jugger
- Metal Chaos Lord of Khorne on foot
- Metal Chaos Lord on Chaos Steed
- Metal Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle
- Wulfric the Wanderer
- Sigvald the Magnificent

Coming up in febuary:
- Plastic Daemon Prince(!)

Spearhead box contains 36 minis and the army book:
-5 Knights
-5 Marauder Horsemen
-10 Warhounds
-10 Chosen
-6 metal characters

Battalion box is rumoured to contain:
-12 Warriors
-20 Marauders
-5 Marauder Horsemen
-10 Warhounds

Army special rule
All units in the army can re-roll failed PANIC tests.

Mark of Khorne
Frenzy

Mark of Nurgle
attacking models get a penalty of -1 WS and BS

Mark of Slaanesh
Immune to Psychology

Mark of Tzeentch
- 6+ Ward save (or +1 to your Ward save if you have one already)
- Wizards also gain a +1 bonus to cast spells
Chaos Gifts
Additonal points a character can spend very much like Vampire Powers work
Eye of the Gods
There is apparently a table of chaos rewards that characters and units can get to roll on before or during the game.

2: Gain Stupidity (no extra effect if you have it already)
3-6: various boosts
7: No effect
8-10: various boosts
11: Gain Fear
11: Gain Terror
12: Stubborn and 4+ Ward save
Duplicate boosts are re-rolled. Effects last for the rest of the battle.
Chaos Magic
There will be separate lores for the mortal followers of Chaos, they will not use the Daemon lores from the Daemon book.

Lore of Slaanesh
-Not changed much from the Hordes of Chaos list

Lore of Tzeentch
#6 Unknown name, cast on 15+. Does 2D6 hits at 2D6 Strength. On an 11 or 12 for Strength the unit (and any characters in it) is removed

Lore of Nurgle
No details

Lords

Chaos Lord
- some new metal models (a generic one on steed and a couple of Khornate ones)
- heaps of options
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Sorcerer Lord
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Daemon Prince
- can be given Marks of Chaos
Heroes

Exalted Hero
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Sorcerer
- new metal model for a Sorcerer of Nurgle
- can be given Marks of Chaos
Character mounts
- Chaos steed
- Daemonic Steed
- Juggernaut of Khorne
- Steed of Slaanesh
- Disk of Tzeentch
- Palanquin of Nurgle
- Manticore
- Chaos Dragon – takes up extra Hero choice
Core units

Chaos Warriors
- the boxed set stays the same for the moment, but there is a new direct order upgrade frame
- all units get Chaos armour, not just Chosen
- normal Warriors get 2 Attacks (but are still “only” WS5)
- 1 point more than in the old book (for a much better stat line)
- presumably all units can get a magic standard
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Marauders
- presumably the boxed set stays the same for the moment
- base cost 1 pt cheaper (not known if they get any more equipment as standard)
- can get Marks of Chaos

Marauder Horsemen
- new plastic set of 5 models
- can get Marks of Chaos
- can re-roll pursuit rolls if they wish

Warhounds
- new plastic boxed set of 10 models
- only unit that does not count towards the minimum number of Core units in the army
- can buy scaly skin and/or poisoned attacks
- can’t get Marks of Chaos
Special units

Chosen Warriors
- now a separate entry
- Weapon Skill 6, otherwise similar to Warriors
- start the game with a roll on the Eye of the Gods table (sort of like Possessed in 40K)
- new set of metal models with great weapons
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Chaos Knights
- new plastic boxed set of 5 models
- 40 pts each, with stats equivalent to old Chosen Knights (i.e. 2 attacks, and chaos armour), though base S is now 4
- units start with magical weapons that also give them +1 Strength (i.e. 5 total) and may swap these for (non-magical) lances
- cause Fear
- there is no longer any Chosen knights, though normal knights get nastier since they (like the new Warriiors) have the profile of 6th edition Chosen
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Chaos Chariot
- new plastic boxed set at some point
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Forsaken Warriors
- apparently a unit of Chaos Warriors that are on their way to getting a bit too many mutations for their own good
- Frenzied
- Movement 6, but Weapon skill 4
- D3+1 attacks, including the bonus for Frenzy
- heavy armour only and no weapons (so no additional hand weapons, as was rumoured)
- Otherwise quite similar to Warriors, and only slightly more expensive.
- They are human-sized guys and come on standard 25 mm square bases. They don’t skirmish.
- can’t get Marks of Chaos

Chaos Ogres
- Get Chaos Armour
- Can be given Marks of Chaos

Chaos Trolls
- base cost 10 points cheaper, but back to 3 attacks
- If they regenerate 2 or more wounds in the same phase they get a roll on the Eye of the Gods table
- can’t get Marks of Chaos

Dragon Ogres
- now get command options
- can’t get Marks of Chaos
Rare units

Chaos Giant
- can be given Marks of Chaos

Hellcannon
- only take up 1 Rare choice
- can’t get Marks of Chaos

Spawn
- still 1-2 per Rare
- Marks have supposedly changed a bit

Shaggoth
- better stat line for essentially the same cost
- only take up a single Rare choice
- can’t get Marks of Chaos

Chaos Warshrine
- Similar to the VC Corpse Cart in that it is on a chariot base, but moves and fights like a monster.
- In the shooting phase, can give any unit within 12″ a roll on the Eye of the Gods table
- lets champions gain rolls on the Eye of the Gods table if they kill enemies in challenges
- can be given Marks of Chaos
Special characters

Archaon
- 685 pts
- Mount of the Apocalypse lets him ignore difficult terrain
- there is only 1 version and he is still on his mount.

Galrauch

Valkia the Bloody (female khornate Daemon Prince)

Kolek Suneater (Shaggoth)
- second-oldest Shaggoth
- Strength 8 with 6 attacks and a weapon that does D3 wounds
- several 8s for stats
- can call down a special lightning attack (details unknown)
- attracts lightning spells cast within 12″ of him

Sigvald (Slaaneshi Chaos Lord)
-has a mirror shield and can suffer from Stupidity due to looking at himself in it

Wulfrik the Wanderer (Undivided Marauder Hero)
- captain of a magical ship called the Seafang which he said around in. It basically allows him and a unit of Marauders to enter the battle from any table edge, similar to how Dwarf Miners work.

Throk, The Troll King (Troll Hero)
- WS5 S6 T5 W4 A5
- 175 pts
- makes Chaos Trolls a Core unit, even if he’s not the army General
- all monstrous units (Ogres, Trolls, Dragon Ogres, Warhounds, Monsters) can use his Ld (of 8), even if he is not the general AND they can also re-roll break tests
- his vomit attack (called Copious Vomit) does D6 hits at S6 and can also be used as a one-shot S5 breath weapon that also ignores armour saves

Scyla (Khornate Spawn)
- an old special characer from 5th edition
- re-release of existing model
- upgrade for a Spawn, but treated as a character

Vilitch the Curseling (Tzeentch Sorcerer Lord)

Festus the Leechlord (Nurgle Sorcerer)

Warriors of Chaos Spearhead on the Way

With the new Chaos Warriors army book on the way Games Workshop has released the Warriors of Chaos Spearhead. Looks like we are going to see new plastic kits for Chaos hounds, Chaos Marauder Horsemen, and Chaos Knights along with a number of new metal models.

Spearhead box contains 36 minis and the army book:
-5 Knights
-5 Marauder Horsemen
-10 Warhounds
-10 Chosen
-6 metal characters (Khorne Lord on foot & Jugger, generic Lord on steed, Nurgle Sorcerer, Sigvald the Magnificent and Wulfric the Wanderer)

 

What I am looking forward is the new Chaos Prince model that is to be released in plastic. I will need one if not two for my Chaos Marine army so I am looking forward to its release. I hope the new rules live up to everyones expectations…..