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STORM OF CHAOS

Okay, let's start from scratch on this one. Most of you will know a lot of this, but there are a number of posts appearing which would suggest that not everyone does! So, from the top:

As you cannot have failed to notice, the stories in White Dwarf and army books have been angling towards a major event which will culminate this summer in Storm of Chaos. Archaon has gathered the "Sacred" items he needs to truly proclaim himself Lord of End Times, and is about to start rampaging south through Kislev and into The Old World.

Archaon has split his forces into two main groups: one, he is leading through the Empire on a direct course towards Middenheim. The second - under the command of Crom - is wreaking havoc amongst the Dwarfs and Orcs as he travels through the mountains in an attempt to come at Middenheim from another angle - maybe to cut off any reinforcements to the beleagured city. Unfortunately, his presence is guaranteed to upset the brooding Sylvanian vampire, Manfred von Carstein...


Major Lists Summary:

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The book will feature a number of variant army lists - four lists for the major combatants, and some for other armies which are involved to a lesser extent.

Middenheim Defence Force
Led by the charismatic high priest of Ulric, the standing army of Middenheim are traditionalists. There will be a severe limit on gunpowder weapons (yes that does include cannons) and "New fangled technology". Expect to see Teutonic Guard (Great hammer wielding, full plate wearing elite state guard) on a battlefield near you.

Archaon's Horde
GW are trying to get Chaos players to re-think their army composition with this one. This army is composed mainly of mortals, humans and nearly humans, as well as the TRULY AWESOME Hellcannon (more on that later). The emphasis is on pure, brute, relentless and blunt assault!

The Slayer Host
Garagrim, son of Ungrim the Slayer King, is Warmourner of his clan. In an attempt to save his own son from the duel geas of King and Slayer, Garagrim is attempting to die gloriously in battle.
The idea of Slayers has been expanded, with different types of the crazed fanatics appearing. You will also see new artillery, and - it has been rumoured - a Forge World airship.

Grimgor's Ardboyz
Still smarting from the his defeat at the hands of Crom, Grimgor is set on killing as many ummies/stunties/beasties/fings as he can. The army will contain a greater number of Black Orcs (to represent the near elite status the army now has) and an emphasis on big hard troops. This is also an excuse for GW to release a few Orc miniatures to complete the range...


Lesser Lists Summary:

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Bretonnian Errantry army
King Louen is on the march to support his sometime ally, the Empire. This list is based on the King's Army varient in the back of the Bretonnian armybook - so expect to see a larger number of knights of all types than normal.

Be'lakor's Horde
A return to the purely daemon army, including command groups - and most importantly - daemonic cavalry!

Delvis Slanneshi Cult
Well, we always knew it was going to come in one form or another!

Sylvannian Undead
Manfred's minions are on the march (or should that be 'the stumble'?) and it looks like they are also homing in on Middenheim.....but as a new danger or an ally? To represent manfred's hatred of Necromancers, there will be new summoning rules, as well as new equipment for the troops.


More lists as my sleep deprived memory allows...


Die Listen im einzelnen:

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DEFENDERS OF MIDDENHEIM - the army list

Ar Ulric
Rules to be confirmed.

Teutonic Guard
Stats equivalent to Greatswords. Full plate armour, Great Weapons.

Reduced access to gunpowder weaponry.


Valten
Goes from strength to strength. He (effectly) has a charge of 18 inches, a 2+ armour save and a 5+ ward. Can anyone say "Terminator"?

In addition, he has Magic Resistance 2, and can stop magic items in base contact from working!

Emil Valgeir - High Priest Ar Ulric

Reliability: 9/10

Armour Save: 4+, 5+ Ward. Magic Resistance (1).

Hammer of Skoll: Roll 1D6 before the battle:

1-3: +2 Strength
4-5: Killing Blow
6: +2 Strength AND D3 extra attacks on the charge!

More appearing as it comes in.


RELEASE SCHEDULE:

29th May
Middenheim Defence Force boxed army

5th June
Empire Battlion

12th June
Ar Ulric
Teutonic Guard
Teutonic Guard Command

26th June
Valten Exhaulted!


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THE SLAYER HOST - the army list

A selection of new Slayer Skills for heroes.

Troll slayers may upgrade to Great Weapons at no extra charge.

Garagrim Ironfist
Rules to be confirmed.

The Goblin Hewer
Makes D3 Str4 attacks against EACH RANK of targetted unit. -2 armour save.

Translated from Funstore4u.de by JaqTaar, and confirmed by me.


Doomseekers
Elite skirmish unit, along the lines of Goblin Fanatics. All models in base contact with the Doomseeker are automatically hit. Meanwhile, models in base contact with those automatically hit are also struck on a roll of 4+.

1-5 are bought as a single choice (believed to be Core) and you must have a different Core unit to use them in the first place. The Skaven Mainstay rule concept applies to them.

Posted by me, confirmed by Loosemoose.

Slayer Hero's and Lord's will have access to these. No idea what the limitations are.

Deathblow: When the slayer is killed the slayer attacks his enemy with all of his attacks again. He is then removed from play.

Killing blow: One guess what it does.

Beastslayer: Every wound caused doubles for the result of the close combat.

Vampireslayer: Against enemies with T5 or higher he does D6 wounds for every wound caused.

Skaven/Dragonslayer/Daemonslayer: The attacks of the slayer are multiplied with models in base contact with him up to an maximum of 10 attacks.

More appearing as it comes in.


RELEASE SCHEDULE

29th May
Garagrim's Slayer army

19th June
Garagrim Ironfist
Goblin Hewer
Doomseekers


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ARCHAON'S HORDE - the army list

Humans, near humans and former humans.

The Hellcannon
Guess range artillery, using the small template - to begin with. A unit struck by the small template has the option of fleeing. If however, it chooses to stand and fight, you get to pull out the ordinance template! Hits by the smaller template are at Str 10, the ordinance is at Str 5.

Enemy units approaching the war machine need to be wary too. If the Hellcannon can sense them, it will charge them in close combat (charges 2D6 inches). Oh, and to make it more fun, it causes Terror too...

First posted by Luthor Heph, and confirmed by me.

In addition, I can add that the Hellcannon eats the crew on a Misfire (confirmed) and charges a friendly unit (unconfirmed).


The Marauder Mutant Thingys
The beasties mentioned in last month's White Dwarf have 2 attacks (LooseMoose - though I have yet to confirm) and Killing Blow.


More as it comes in...


RELEASE SCHEDULE

29th May
Archaon's besieging army

5th June
Hellcannon
Chaos Warriors boxed regiment


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Grimgor's Ardboyz - the army list

Possible to make an army entirely of Black Orcs. Black Orcs now have the option of Great Weapons.

Boargut Facebeater
This little tinker gets to make a free Edbutt attack when he charges.....and when he gets charged too. LooseMoose has this down at Str 7, though I could have sworn it was Str 5. Either way, injured survivors are at WS1 for the rest of the turn...


Effigy of Gork
I haven't seen this one myself (not an Orc player) but LooseMoose (he gets about a bit! ) has reported that it has the ability to make all Orcy banners magical - or at least, a roll on the Big Waaagh Table. The effigy counts as terrain, and cannot be destroyed.


More as it comes in...


RELEASE SCHEDULE

3rd July
Boargut Facebeater
Black Orcs with Great Weapons

10th July
Orc Shaman on Boar


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THE DEAD OF SYLVANIA - the armylist

New options for skeletons and zombies:

Sylvanian Levy are skellies with slightly better stats. May have bows or crossbows. (me)

Sylvanian Militia are Zombies with light armour and shields. (Me)

Absolutely NO Necromancers - Manfred doesn't like to share power. Instead, new "recruits" can be summoned from pre-determined areas of the battlefield. (Me)

Grave Guard have the option to wear Full Plate and wield Great Weapons. This is, however, limited to one unit - the Drakenhoff Guard. (Me)

Black Knights are limited to 0-1, the Knights of Drakenhoff.


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BEL'AKOR TRIUMPHANT

Causes Eternal Terror in opponents - must make Terror tests every turn.

All Leadership tests (opponents) are at -1 around Bel'akor.

The return of Daemonic cavalry for all four Gods, as well as Daemonic chariots.

RELEASE SCHEDULE

17th July

Bel'akor


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SEA ELF LIST

Confirmed: Mark Chambers
Reliability: 8/10

Special rule: All units with the army that carry a bow get a free round of shooting after the enemy has set up in thier first turn. There are no penalties OR LINE OF SIGHT!

The list will also get two new spells.

Seawrym- (grimtuff) 200pt monster that is bound to its master. Basically a monster with dragon stats but no wings.


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BRETONNIAN ERRANTRY LIST

1+ Knights Errant, rather than 1+ Knights of the Realm.

No Grail knights.

Und hier der Rest!

SKAVEN CLAN ESHIN LIST

Attack in the Night: After both armies have set up roll an artillery dice and triple the number. A misfire means the battle takes place in daylight. This is the range that can be seen by both armies. If an enemy is out of the range it cannot be targetted for the purposes of magic and shooting.
(Probably charges too.)
Only if the whole Eshin army is skirmishing.

The Triad: 3 Skaven asssassins. Same stats as the ones in the book.
Come with throwing stars and hand weapons. Have the option of smoke bombs. No magical items.
Count as a Rare choice.

CULT OF SLAANESH - Army List

Units you can have in the Cult of Pleasure SoC List:

KoS
Sorceress
Nobles
Furies
Deamonettes
Mounted Deamonettes
Marauders
Chaos Warriors/Knights (not chosen)
ColdOneKnights
Shades
Spearmen
RXB
RBT
DR
Spawn

Uses slanneshi magic (Dark Art, Shadow and Death are also available in the normal manner)... and there will be new magic items.

Units that are not allowed:

Witchelves
Execs
BG
Hydras
Manticores
COC
CoB
Harpies
Asassins
Corsairs

Greetz Ruad Rho-fessa

@Verlorener Sohn:

Das ist der neue Blutdämon von Forgeworld.

Updates:

Blackorcs:

- unberittene Black Orc Helden und Generäle nehmen nur einen Charakterslot
- Rugluds Schützen als reguläre seltene Auswahl

Vampire:

- Armee kann auch von einem Baron angeführt werden
- neue Vampirfähigkeit: Spruch 1 kann dann auch W3/2W3/3W3 Todeswölfe beschwören

Hochelfen Seeliste:

The rule covers Lothern Sea Guard, Lothern Rangers AND Bolt Throwers, but not Ship's Company (Core unit with Shield and hand weapon. They may have Light armour, Spears or bows) with bows. The list will also get two new spells.
Sea Rangers (Shadow Warriors) are currently a 2+ Special choice.

Greetz Ruad Rho-fessa

P.S:

Gerüchte stammen von Portent.net, Göttingen und weiteren Foren.

Neue Updates:

Hochelfen:

new special char - The Sea Lord Aislinn
Bolt Throwers are a Rare choice.

Dunkelelfen:

general must be a sorceress.
The Annoited: charakter half-demon/half-elf, ~250P. WS8, S5, T4, may ride a steed of slaanesh. can get new DE magic items/demonic gifts. (first strike 40P., can get a bsb like ability for all slaanesh units 35P., weapon 50pt and requres two hands "draich of dark power" +2S killing blow.)

Chaos:

Hellcannon: Nahkampf: 4 Attacken, Stärke 6

@Alpha:

Es zählt nur für die SoC- Liste.

Greetz Ruad Rho-fessa

Allgemein:

release date:
lists will be downloadable 16th of April, 2004 (these will not be totally complete, some surprises will be only in the book like the merwyrm.
SoC book will be availible in june.

Slayerupdates:

- Special SoC Slayer rule: before the game starts, all Slayer units and chars (except the goblin hewer) surge 2D6 forward.
The rule is called "Look, Snorri, Trolls"
- SoC Slayer armys gain 20 victory points for each slayer who gets killed in cc by an enemy with original strength and/or toughness of 5 or higher (includes chariot impact)

Slayers will get the usual 4 dwarven dispell dise plus one die for each Lord choice your army may have (depends on the points played).


- Special unit:
Brotherhood of Grimnir
same as normal slayers, but 14 points each
musician +6 pts., standard +12 pts.
any number of giant slayers +13 pts.
wards of Grimnir: MR 2

- Slayer Pirates are Special.

goblin hewer is a 0-1 rare choice, crewed by two slayers and Malakai Makaisson, the slayer techy from Gotrek+Felix novels

Doomseekers will have MR2.


Orkze:

Black Orcs are Core. Black Orcs now have the option of Great Weapons.

Effigy of Gork
the effigy or gork does three things. It is placed in your deployment zone and can't be damaged.
1. all banners in the army get a one use only bound spell (either ere we go,hand of gork, or bash em lads) power 4, the bound spell is random and essentially determined by a d3 roll.
2. all black orc characters within 24 of it generate one dispell dice.
3. all orc units within 24 that could charge that turn are imune to animosity


Hochelfen:

offenbar existieren derzeit 2 versionen der HE liste in denen einmal das obrige erlaubt(siehe vorherige posts) ist und einmal nur die Sea Ranger einen Freischuss bekommen.

The list has 2 new spells around mist and water, no new magic items.

Sea Rangers (Shadow Warriors) are a 2+ Special choice.

Lothern Seaguard - when unit gets charged, they have the option to immediatly reform adding up to 2 extra ranks. lothern sea guard can have a magic banner worth 25 points, and the champion can have up to 25 points of magic items.

Merwrym- scaly skin 3+ save, regenerate, i think it cause terror, 200 points, it is bound to a mage, so if you have 3 wizards in your army, (doesn't matter wether its a lord or hero, or what lvl) then you can have 3 merwyrms. each turn they have to take a ld test on the mage that they are bound to's ld, no range on that or whatever, even if they on opposite corners of the board, and its a 12' by 12' board, it doesn't matter. if they fail I think they have to role on the monster reaction table. if the mage dies, they take it on their own ld.

Bolt throwers are 1-3 per rare choice.

Dunkelelfen:

- bound spell item : Doombolt and the cost is 40 pts. Cannot burn out.
- generic 4+ ward save 50P.
- The Annoited: 20*20 Base

Greetz Ruad Rho-fessa

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THE DEAD OF SYLVANIA - the armylist

army special rules:
- summoning each of the allowed grave marks on the playground = bound spell lvl 4,
- invocation of N. at lvl 7 each turn each mark on the field;
- number of gravemarks: 2+number of lord choices allowed in army

von Carstein Vampires:
army can be led by a baron.
new powers:
- wolf lord=invocation of N. works with wolves (W3/2W3/3W3 Direwolves/summoning) ;
- earthbind=MR1;
- spectral attendant=enemy -1 to casting roll

Absolutely NO Necromancers - Manfred doesn't like to share power. Instead, new "recruits" can be summoned from pre-determined areas of the battlefield.

New options for skeletons and zombies:
- sylvanian levy: zombies with l. armour, shield, spear
- sylvanian militia: skellies with light armor, shield, spear or halberd for 10 pts.; may change for Xbow

Grave Guard have the option to wear Full Plate and wield Great Weapons. This is, however, limited to one unit +3P/Model - the Drakenhoff Guard.

Black Knights are limited to 0-1 rare, the Knights of Drakenhoff.

Direwolves: One unit may be upgraded to scouts at +1 pts./mod.

0-2 bat swarms.

fell bats are core but do not count towards minimum core req.

black coach is 0-2 special unit at 175 pts.

Magic Items:
- Drakenhof Banner = Summon powers in 12" are doubled and MR2

Original von Ruad Rho-fessa


Magic Items:
- Drakenhof Banner = Summon powers in 12" are doubled and MR2

Ich glaube, dass die beschworenen verdoppelt werden, denn wen der spruch schon durchkommt soll er auch was können.

Greetz Ruad Rho-fessa