Chaos Pleb: The Collection: A Choatic Journey

Through the untold millennia Chaos has taken many forms and built it's way into my life. From the age of 9 I have been collecting Chaos Marines for my main army force, sometimes splitting off to collect some Lord of the Rings models and a little Tyranid force that is now kept in my boxes and here is my army so far.

Just fits on the Breakfast Bar, took a while to squish them in.

The army has gone through several different legion and god types throughout the years led by a large number of Lords and other counterparts that have led my forces.

A small warband of Khorne take a flank

One of my earliest Chaos Marine armies where a dedicated Khorne army, they numbered far more than the final 8 that remain. There used to be 3 units of 8, with dedicated bikers, transports, Defiler and Land Raider. That was back when 5th edition was still quiet innocent and there was much simpler fun to be had with assault armies. Regardless of if they won or lost, they were definitely a fun army to play with.

Where did the rest of the Berzerkers end up? Well stick around to see what happened to the blood lusting crazy guys.

Before 5th edition, Daemon Princes were a menace upon the face of the battle field, even when I was young I understood how cruel they could be.

Relic from the mighty days, old DP might get re-fashioned into Be'lakor soon.

Back in 4th, for people who either didn't play 4th or can't remember was when your DP began life as a lord and through upgrades became this monster. At S6 T6 4W and a 2+/5++ it was a hard thing to crack especially when it had ignores armour and invulnerable saves on its weapons. In 5th edition it saw little light as it dropped in my value of what a DP should be like, although many still used it mine went away quiet quickly and struggles to come back out.

In the final months of 5th edition I started to become a lot more competitive with my gameplay, learning how broken Lash of Submission was and how I could brutalize things in combat and survive shooting, so say hello to Abaddon.

Yes, I was an Abaddon guy in the competitive scene as there were 2 lists that where breaking heads for Chaos at the time, Twin Lash and Abaddon. My own list was a hybrid of the two, with a single lash sorcerer in a rhino and a single unit of oblitorators to give me sufficient shooting and a decent back bone to my army, these three components worked separately, Abaddon taking the heat and bashing the heads of my opponents 'beat stick' after the oblits gave them some dakka and the sorcerer pushed them around a bit. Abaddon in his glory slayed many enemies and often fell upon his own blade in the end, unfortunately now the meta calls for cheaper alternatives in a codex that hates its own champions. Another relic till a new codex arrives.

Taking center field and looking good, Abaddon knows exactly what to do

When 6th edition arrived it meant I had to say goodbye to what, in my opinion was an amazing list that performed really well and got me 3rd position in my first tournament going against some crazyly good armies and good players.

6th Edition did also say hello to a lot of new things, mainly Heldrakes.

Say hello to the Duo, who did start out as Black Legion and Night Lord aligned but found themselves bowing to the laws of Slannesh. These two hero units were called 'Screaming Birth' and 'Silent Death' as they plunged into any foe, besides Tom's Blob squad the eyes of my opponents would roll and they would lose models left, right and center. Only a few times have they been shot out of the sky's by either lucky 'many 6 rolling opponents' or dedicated anti aircraft fire. throughout 6th edition they supported my Slannesh Noise army that was based on ignoring all types of cover saves.

Later on, they came into support of my first Iron Warriors army, featuring as one of the main attacking forces with other air units. I would always send the Drakes in after two separate targets knowing that they could deal with what ever I pointed them at within a turn, if not then the 'sister' drake had it's next target ready for cleaning up the next turn. Simple really.

Also in 6th edition came Hull Points, which meant that you either didn't bring tanks or you brought AV13/14 tanks and nothing else. This also made these tanks really annoying and hard to destroy as the mainstream meta dropped melta spam completely for other weapons to knock tanks out Via 'hull point shredding' also with Oblitorators nerfed to the point of extinction it called for some drastic anti tank changes.
Havocs.

Also in this picture you can see The slannesh sorcerer top middle, my first
Chaos Lord, left and my latest 'back line' sorcerer right.

My chaos havoc's have not seen much of the light of day recently as my forces have been taking a more 'barrage or combat' approach to things, however in their brief but well deserved service of mine they saw the destruction of many Land Raiders and Leman Russes, scared a Riptide into a hiding spot he didn't come out of for 5 turns, killed a Blood Thirster and made a Martyr Defence point explode turn 1 killing the pathfinders on top, the fire warriors underneath, several sniper drones and finally the Etheral commanding the force. BOOM!

The Bezerkers unfortunately ended up in employment of my Flawless Host Warband taking up sonic blasters that may have took a little 'convincing' from the Warbands leader, currently indisposed from being such a fragile model.

The Sonic squad on the left seem to be wearing Helms from a different patron, I hope Khorne forgives me

Forge World models, dam you look hot!

Not all purchases turned out to be good units, some where absolutely horrendous but funny as hell to play with. My Dreadnaught may come alive once again for fun games as a Ferum Infernus or Sonic Dread and join the ranks of my Flawless Host Detachment, but for now it remains pretty to look at, hopefully one day coming back to the tabletops for a good game.

Bang, missed... Dam it! *Blows up*

Although not in the 'bum purchases' group my Vindicator has also seen little light, after painting it it did - with the Dreadnaught - appear twice in my 1750 points tournament list. That's right, 5th edition 3rd place with a Vindicator and a Dreadnaught, bet you never have witnessed that.
The vindicator never seemed to do that much special, but was a beloved first target for my opponents to try and crack open, ignoring Abaddon completely, the fools!

They were not the only ones to receive 'hate' or neglectful thoughts from me throughout 6th edition. Meet my waste of time! Raptors.

Raaar! That's the fear test you just passed.

Yes, how? How can raptors be my hate, well I will tell you. 1 I hate the models, or the 5th edition ones anyway. Assembling them put me off painting them, painting them put me of playing with them and playing them just put me off them all together, they didn't work with my play style and since 6th edition included the 'Champion of "All your champions are going to die in combat any your unit is going to get run down"' then they went on the scrap heap, they are not even finished.

Anyway, back to positives! During my rain of 5th edition and mainly beginning of 6th I sometimes played with a Nurgle army, based on having a good old laugh destroying things that couldn't kill me and getting crapped on by Necrons.

It was brilliant having 3 units of 7 Plague Marines kitted identically with 2 meltas and a power fist marching strong beside Typhus himself. They didn't see many battles but every one of them was fun -for me- and I was content with a win or a loss just as long as my opponent removed mountains of models relentlessly.
Typhus is probably the one model I have enjoyed painting the most out of my entire collection, which is saying something as it is quiet big at the moment, easily over 5,000 points. Typhus you lucky guy.

'Forging My Narrative' - GW's go to words

Forward Charge! Size always matters, I can see now why!

Even though I boast much competitiveness I do enjoy a good novel, and one of the novel series's I love is the Dark Apostle series, so the Dark Apostle is my take on Marduk during his trials in Dark Disciple.

Along side the Dark Apostle series was the Night Lords Series following the tail of Talos and company. So I took time out to create Talos and Xarl from 1st Claw.

Late 6th edition came with a distinct change in how I played Chaos Marines, as in all the Marines went out the window and were replaced with Guardsmen, Cultists and as much Aircraft as I could muster.

Imperial Guard Attack! The platoon and Manticore were going to be my main army segments however 7th edition ruined everything.

Late 6th gave me chance to field over 100 wounds worth of models, barrage weapons and all the flyers I could handle. It could dish out enough firepower to knock out enemy armies in a single turn. The Walking artillery pieces came in with 7th Edition and AI:13's Christmas Release.

Joining the 2 Heldrakes was my Imperial Guard Vendetta Gunship with it's 3 Twin-linked lascannons and its team of 10 vets who would jump onto an objective late game, this thing would provide heavy anti tank cover that my ground troops could not reach and knock out any enemy air units that could come my way - after the drakes had kicked it of course.

Completing '633' squadron was my Raptor, able to either focus down a single target (Depending on how your local meta interprets its rules) or knock on 3 different targets in a single round it can be a devastating unit to have to deal with. It also features in my current 7th edition army and carves through back line scoring units with ease.

Finally, a chunk of my force has been dedicated to the Iron Warriors novel featuring Honsu, Kroeger and their conpanions through the siege and titan battles of A Storm of Iron. This is one book I keep reading again and again because the characters are so likeable and cool, also the story seems a lot more realistic in my opinion as it is impossible unit about 40 pages from the end to determine a victor of the siege.