As promised, here’s the proposed World Eaters Army list. Some of it’s a little controversial, so before you hit Alt-F4 in disgust, read my explanations below! The codex used is Codex: Chaos Space Marines (2012 edition).
HQ
Chaos Lord with Mark of Tzeencth, Disc of Tzeentch, Power Axe, Sigil of Corruption and Burning Brand of Skalathrax
Troops
10 Chaos Space Marines with Boltguns, upgraded with two Plasma Guns
10 Chaos Space Marines with Boltguns, upgraded with two Plasma Guns
10 Chaos Space Marines with Bolt Pistols and close combat weapons, upgraded with two Melta Guns and riding in a Rhino
20 Chaos Cultists with autopistols and close combat weapons
10 Chaos Cultists with autopistols and close combat weapons
Fast Attack
3 Chaos Bikers upgraded with two Melta Guns
Heldrake with Baleflamer
Heldrake with Baleflamer
Heavy Support
Chaos Vindicator
Chaos Predator with Lascannon Sponsons and twin Lascannon
Chaos Predator with Lascannon Sponsons and twin Lascannon
Total: 1685 points
The first question most of you will be asking is: why on Earth does your commander have a mark of Tzeentch? Are you taking crazy pills? Well, the answer is: I really, really like the Forgeworld Space Marine Jetbike model. And the only way to get a jetbike model into an army without causing all manner of confusion is by counting it as a Disc of Tzeentch (the Disc uses jetbike rules). The Lord is then equipped with the Skalathrax flamer because I also like setting things on fire. Arguably, the real man’s way to do this would be just mount him on a bike with the Mark of Khorne and just give the Axe of Rutger Hauer. Especially as the army already has two AP3 torrent flamers on the Heldrakes. However, I’d like to try running with the jetbike flamer Lord for now and see how I get on, as I said, because I really like the model.
The Troop choices are there to take objectives, take casualties and act as my anti-infantry ability. The Rhino mounted squad also give some firepower against things like Land Raiders and other heavily armoured vehicles. The cultists will most likely get slaughtered, but if they’re sat on an objective at the back, they have a chance of surviving and winning the game for me.
The bikes are a fast suicide unit. They’ll be sent against artillery and other doom monsters that need to die IMMEDIATELY. I don’t expect them to survive.
Heldrakes seem to be massively under costed for what they are. Pat and I got regularly roasted by these things at the Doubles tournament, so here are two of them. They’re obviously at their best against power armoured armies, but I think they’ll be handy against horde armies as well. As should be apparent from the images so far, the army is going to be fairly gritty and realistic (or as realistic as genetically engineered super warriors ever get) and robot dragons don’t really fit into that. Therefore, I’ll be using the Forgeworld Chaos Hell blade Fighter, in a blue and white colour scheme. I’ll model them with giant napalm drop tanks to represent the burning fires, and with trailing cables with meat hooks on the end to represent the vector strike attacks. They’re also not much more money than the Heldrake model!
The Heavy Support is pretty obvious – the Vindicator gives me some much needed strength 10 and is good at defending against the enemy’s assault units rushing towards me, whilst the Predators sit on hills using their range as defence and hopefully getting me first blood, in addition to destroying enemy transports and tanks.
Now, as you can see, the army only comes to 1685 points, giving me some options for the remainder. In a couple of test games, I’ve found that the wages of treachery are indeed death, as my cowardly Chaos Marines have fled from the enemy and been run down. These Space Marines, it seems, do in fact know fear. So, Veterans of the Long War is an option. An extra ten cultists for the smaller squad would also be nice. Melta Bombs for squad leaders would also be handy, as would some dozer blades for the vehicles likely to be traversing difficult terrain (the Rhino and Vindicator). However, I cant take all of them, so I’ll need to prioritise. Any suggestions?
