The bonus Command points received from the Crusade Blessings certainly helped. You would normally be looking at starting an Incursion battle with six Command points, so to have nine at our disposal was a huge boon. It allowed us to make the most of a few crucial moments in the battle, such as the fight with the Daemon Prince, focusing fire on the Raptors, and even re-rolling the Damage result for the Exorcist’s missile launcher to take out Haarken Worldclaimer. When Horus fell, it was a time of great despair for all Chaos Space Marines – and none felt that despair more keenly than his own legion, the Sons of Horus. Eventually they managed to reform through strength of will alone, and that strength came from one of the Sons of Horus’ most powerful and fearsome warriors: Abaddon. Officers, 5 Librarians, 4 Chaplains, 220-330 Battle Brothers from the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Companies. 110 Armoured Vehicles

The Defiler is just a decent unit all-around now. Fairly cheap, good in melee combat against multiple kinds of targets, big but not massive, and able to shoot OK with the battle cannon and reaper autocannon. He can be even more durable with Delightful Agonies and he’s a good target for Prescience and the Chaos Lord aura if he’s firing at a unit where the battlecannon’s Blast effect can max out. Also he’s just a monster in melee combat against characters.He travels throughout the known galaxy, always seeking to create a new version of the Space Marine – one better, faster, stronger, more adaptable. With the rise of Primaris Space Marines, he may now have all the new material he’ll ever need to twist Chaos Space Marines into new forms, finally perfecting his life’s work. Humanity’s Emperor may have gained some of the powers and knowledge he used to create the Primarchs from the Chaos Gods themselves – meaning that the fall of many legions of Space Marines may have been inevitable right from the start. Heldrake • Stormbird • Thunderhawk • Chaos Storm Eagle • Chaos Fire Raptor • Hell Blade • Hell Talon • Harbinger • Chaos Dreadclaw • Kharybdis Assault Claw • Fire Lord • Doom Wing Khârn the Betrayer wasn’t always known by his grim epithet. Once, this World Eater was an intelligent and empathetic warrior who only took pleasure in bloodshed once his terrible, torturous brain implants, the Butcher’s Nails, took hold.

The downside is that both JONK’s list and the table we’re playing on are bad for me and my gameplan. There are 10 terrain features here and 6 of them have the Difficult Terrain keyword, which means they’re awful for landing in and using From the Shadows to charge out of. The list is full of Infiltrators that can deploy forward and box out my deep strikers and if JONK wins the roll-off and goes first, there’s a massive chance I just can’t recover from losing the roll-off and the primary objective points. The smaller deployment zones also box me in and make it harder to Deploy Scramblers in the opponent’s DZ. The upside is that Jon’s strategy relies heavily on his Chaplain’s multiple Aura litanies, which I can turn off with Vox Scream for a turn or two until they just don’t matter any more. JONK won the roll-off, and because he likes to practice playing games where he’s behind or something, decided to go second. Detailed accounts of the major events in the War for Vigilus, from the opening of the Great Rift to the arrival of none other than Marneus Calgar at the head of a Space Marine strike force to combat the invasion of Haarken Worldclaimer — Herald of the Apocalypse and the commander of the Heretic Astartes invasion [2] Other Primarchs joined the ranks of Horus and Lorgar: Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons; Angron and the World Eaters; Alpharius of the mysterious Alpha Legion; Fulgrim and his perfection-seeking sons, the Emperor’s Children; Perturabo and the Iron Warriors; Konrad Curze of the Night Lords; and, finally Mortarion of the Death Guard. As time has passed, the Raptors have become ever more corrupted, their armour mutated by some strange force of Chaos so that it no longer bears anything other than a passing resemblance to the Power Armour it once was. At the same time, the pride and spirit of the Space Marines that became the Raptors has been perverted to a vain belief in their own superiority over all other creatures, which is often expressed in acts of quite unspeakable cruelty. Although the Raptors will fight alongside other Chaos Space Marines, their haughty attitude and obvious disdain makes them unpopular, to say the least -- a feeling that is reinforced by the Raptors' tendency to desert as soon as they have gotten what they want. And what they want appears to be nothing other than death, destruction and the simple infliction of pain and suffering for its own sake. They circle the battlefield, swooping down on the weakest and most vulnerable target they can find, and then depart leaving death in their wake before the enemy can retaliate. These fell servants are truly amongst the most loathsome of all the followers of the Chaos Gods. Many Raptor warbands frequently operate only amongst their own kind, forming Raptor Cults. These Cults usually only consist of those veteran warriors who fought for the Warmaster Horus ten millennia ago.Lufgt Huron was not overly devoted to the Imperium, however, and, over time, began to stray from official doctrine. Eventually he led the Red Corsairs in rebellion, taking over the planet Badab and making it his own personal kingdom. Chaos Cultists • Poxwalkers • Pestigor • Plague Zombies • Plague Ogryn • Thrall Wizard • Tzaangor • Tzaangor Enlightened • Tzaangor Shaman • Dark Disciple