A little deeper into my RoC Warband - "Do I make you Khorne-y?"

Hi All,

Just thought I'd give you a breakdown of my final RoC warband.

	Henricus Seimger
	Chaos Renegade
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP	Sv
Profile:	4	4	4	6	3	1	3	1	7	7	7	7	(4)5
Equipment: Distort Field (4+ Sv, check first, d6” random displacement), Breathing Filters, Communicator, Energy Scanner, Immune (2), Rad Counter, Rad Suit, Sealed Suit, WebSolvent (1).
Rewards: Chaos Armor, Mechanoid Hand (+2 S added)
Attributes: Aggression Bonus (+1 WS/BS/S added), Manic Fighter (Hates enemy within 12”, no rout from HtH, Must contact enemy if fail Cl).
	Sht Rng	Lng Rng	S Mod	L Mod	S	D	Save Mod	Type	Area
Bolt Pistol	0-8	8-16	+2	-	4	1	-1	C	-
Sword					6	1		C

I used this template that was originally made by Bulldog Lopez and added the weapon stats to it. As you can see my fonts are a little all over the place. Some day I'll clean that up. I think I also mislabeled the Displacement field a Distort field.

	Blud Skullz
	7 Orks
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP	Sv
Profile:	5	3	3	3	4	1	3	1	7	6	7	7	5
Equipment: Mesh Armor.
Attribute: Extra Joints (+1 M/I added).
	Sht Rng	Lng Rng	S Mod	L Mod	S	D	Save Mod	Type	Area
Bolt Gun	0-12	12-24	+1		4	1	-1
Hvy Bolter	0-20	20-40			5	d4	-2	1”/S/F
Plasma Pistol	0-6	6-18	+2	-1	6	1	-1	C
Bolt Pistol	0-8	8-16	+2	-	4	1	-1	C	-
Power Axe					6	1	-3	C
Knife					3	1		C

These guys ended up being my best unit. Although the plastic arms and weapons on some were a pain to put on the metal bodies, they ended up being a fun unit. That Power Axe was the best.

	G.O.A.T.
	6 Beastmen
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP	Sv
Profile:	4	4	3	3	4	1	3	1	7	6	7	6	6
Equipment:Flak Armor.
Attribute: Irrational Fear (Color, GM's Choice)(If fail Cl cannot charge, if charged, rout)
	Sht Rng	Lng Rng	S Mod	L Mod	S	D	Save Mod	Type	Area
Lasgun	0-12	12-24	+1		3	1	-1
Missle Lnchr	0-20	20-72						1”, S
Crack					8	d10	-6		0.5”
Tanglefoot								S	2”	Half Move, -1 to hit in/out
Stasis				-1				S	1”	Everything frozen
Las Pistol	0-8	8-16	+2	-1	3	1		C
Power Sword					5	1	-1	C
Knife					3	1		C

These guys were really hard for me to commit to the conversion. I'm really happy with how they turned out, but they were crap on the battlefield.

	There will be Blood
	9 Cultists
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP	Sv
Profile:	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	7	7	7	6
Equipment: Flak Armor.
Attribute: Multiple Arms (additional attack for every two models, shooting or HtH).
	Sht Rng	Lng Rng	S Mod	L Mod	S	D	Save Mod	Type	Area
Auto Gun	0-12	12-32	+1		3	1	-1
Hvy Stubber	0-20	20-40			4	1	-1	1”/S/F
Shotgun	0-4	4-18		-1		1		S	0.5”
Scatter					3	1
Solid					4	1	-1
Gas					3	1
Sword					3	1		C
Knife					3	1		C

These guys weren't great, but somehow they stood up to Blue's Renegades long enough for the Blud Skullz to get stuck in.

	Silent but Deadly
	Assassin
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP	Sv
Profile:	4	5	5	4	4	2	5	2	8	8	8	8	4
Equipment: Conversion Field (4+save,4+ blinded, Flash Radius Weap S”), Cameleoline (-1 to be hit, -1” detect hidden), Breathing Mask, Communicator, Visor, Bio-Scanner, Energy Scanner.
Attributes: Irrational Hatred of Eldar. (If fail Cl test must move toward and charge.)
	Sht Rng	Lng Rng	S Mod	L Mod	S	D	Save Mod	Type	Area
Needler	0-16	16-32	+1		3	1	+1	S
Bolt Pistol	0-8	8-16	+2	-	4	1	-1	C	-
Anti Plant Gr	0-4	4-8	Always Hit					S	1.5”
Knife					4	1		C

I didn't end up getting to use this guy. I also didn't paint him, he came that way from Ebay. The only thing I did was texture and paint the base, repair the silencer thing and slap some matte varnish on him. 

Anyway, there you have it. I hope you get a chance to make your own band. It's a little silly, but awfully fun.

BOYL 2019 - Realm of Chaos mini Campaign

Hi All,

On the Friday a group of us met up at Warhammer World and played in a linked campaign using warbands we had rolled up from the Realm of Chaos books. We rotated opponents and played three scenarios.

Here is the campaign from my Champion's perspective.

So I got very lucky with objective placement in the first game. I barely outlasted my opponent in the second game, we apparently attacked each other with the marked unit. In the third game the bewitched/possessed sword really messed with me. I had won it after the first scenario and it essentially made my champion useless for the next two battles.

Anyway, loads of fun, fantastic models and bonkers shenanigans occurring.

I may do a break down of my warband next before moving on to the next battle report.

Thanks for looking.

We rolled up some RoC war bands

Hi All,

So my son has been read the Realm of Chaos books here and there for a few weeks now. It's interesting the things he is picking up on and showing me as he looks through them. I have never really sat down to read them but just picked through the books at various times when a question occurs to me and then forgetting what the relevant information may have been.

What follows is how we rolled our war bands. Did we do it right? Probably not, but the process once you have the two books in hand is somewhat chaotic. ;)

Slaves to Darkness has this handy dandy chart, but it's still not really a guide to how to roll things up and the "instructions" in various sections have you jumping round the book.

In the back of the Lost and the Damned they have all of the charts you need to roll things up.

One of the things that confused me was this blurb about the marks of Chaos in the back of Lost and the Damned. It appears to be more specific with "Mark of Chaos" one receives.

Here's what we did. It may be horribly wrong, let's look. Shall we?

First we need to select our champion. The Road to Power section on pg 38 of Slaves to Darkness seems to be the place to start. On pg 39, in How the System Works it states "A Champion of Chaos begins life as a randomly generated profile." and later "immediately receives two rewards from his patron Chaos Power: one Chaos gift which depends on the god, and a chaos attribute." I'm getting slightly ahead of myself here.

On pg 40 (StD) we have the starting profile table. One chart each for Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elf, Human and Other. If you had a plan in mind, ie a figure ready to convert or use, you might just pick one. We like to put our fate in the hands of the dice gods, so we rolled. We both rolled Chaos Dwarves. Fitting I think, as I have zero Chaos Dwarf models. He rolled a regular Chaos Dwarf, I rolled a Level 5 Hero.

The next step is where I got a little, and still may be, a little confused. StD pg 44 Rewards of Chaos reiterates that you give each champion on attribute and one gift from his patron. Then further rewards can be earned during a campaign. On pg 45 is the Chaos Rewards Table. The same table, in a slightly different format, can be found on pg 50 of LatD. Then there are the "gifts of the various powers. In StD they are still called rewards, in LatD they are called gifts. StD Khorne pg 47, Slaanesh pg 50. LatD Nurgle pg 51, Tzeentch pg 54. LatD also has them all together in the Summary on pg 284.

I think we started by rolling up my son's champion and then that Marks of the Chaos Powers box from pg 281 of the summary in LatD got my attention. My son wants to follow Tzeentch, so I chose to Follow Khorne as an obvious adversary. So if we look at what it says for Khorne and Tzeentch we get that my Chaos Dwarf has Chaos Armor and one random attribute. I rolled 033 Beaked. I then also rolled for a gift, I see now that the Chaos armor is probably the gift, but I got 54 Frenzy. Aidan's champion received a magic rod of Tzeentch and 3 (rolled on a D3) Attributes. He rolled 452 Headless, 279 Cloven Hooves, and 319 Crystalline Body. His gift was 22 Face of Horror. So again, I'm not sure if rolling for the gift after taking the item was the right thing to do, but since we both did it  they come out in the wash.

With the Champions covered it was time to figure out our retinues. This can be found after the Campaign section in StD, Retinue of a Chaos Champion pg 57. The specifics are on StD pg 58. It says "For every two rewards (attributes or gifts) ... consult the following chart. It's a D6 roll you have a chance for 0-2 rolls on the retinue table. My son rolled up 2 Minotaurs. I rolled up a Chaos Warrior. So then I had to give him Chaos Armor (Khorne) and then I did some thing weird again. I rolled on the rewards table and got 61 Gift, I then rolled 92 Eye of God and got Collar of Khorne and a Fleshhound since he had less than 6 rewards. He then also got another roll, which was 71 Gift, and rolled 51 Chaos armor. So now his Armor is fused to his body and he has a 3+ save. I then rolled 28 Attribute and got 506 Invisibility.

So the question here is, did I do the retinue guy right?  As I look at it now, probably not. I think it should probably be Chaos Armor and roll an attribute. I feel like rolling on the Chaos Rweards table is what you do after a battle in a campaign. I see it states that on pg 55 of StD.

Any thoughts? Have you rolled up a Chaos Warband? Do it differently than I did here?

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Realm of Chaos - goodies in White Dwarf

Hi All,

This excellent post by Whiskey Priest got me thinking about a lot of things, so I went ahead and started looking at the White Dwarf issues around WD 107 which he mentions.

After his post on Renegade Orks I had been starting to think about making my own Renegade war band. Off to the tomes (Slaves to Darkness, The Lost an the Damned) to go back over rolling a war band. I was able to complete my book collection (at stupid prices) a few years ago but the bug to actually do stuff with them had never firmly taken hold. I blame my usual gamer ADD.

So, which issues have Relam of Chaos articles in them? Lets see.

The first set of articles I found was in WD104

The introduction of Slaves to Darkness, the color painted figure gallery that was in the book, and an article showing the process of converting Chaos mutations on your figures, complete with stat blocks of the finished example figures.

Then WD106

An exposition of Beastmen. I haven't read it through carefully, but I think it is more or less the same as what is in The Lost and the Damned section of the same name.

WD107

Another article showing the Rewards of Chaos table. Again I haven't checked to see if it differs from what's in the book.

The Chaos Renegades article is different to what made it to press in the book. I refer you to Whiskey Priest's excellent article linked at the top of this post.

WD108

Now this one is interesting. I was chatting with Airbornegrove about a Warhammer Tabletop RPG light idea and he said I should take a look at the "Survival of the Fittest" article. Apparently Orlygg wrote about it quite some time ago here. (Apparently a little over 5 years ago.) He has the full article embedded in his post, but no indication of what issue it is from. It's WD108. This article is essentially the casualty recovery section from The Lost and the Damned, but it is slightly different. What strikes me is it is also similar to the Casualty Recovery from both Mordheim and Necromunda. Not that that is a bad thing, just an observation. I may delve into that in the future.

WD109

Didn't read the article and only checked a few more issues out. Looks like the same section as in LatD.

So there may be more articles before WD104 and after WD109 but I did not find them in my recent searches. Also I have no idea which numbering system is being used here. I have heard that the numbering for US and UK editions are different, all of the ones I'm referencing appear to have been printed in the UK.

Thoughts? I'm pretty sure I'm missing something, like the errata article for StD. I remember now I was also going to do a post about the terrain articles. I will try to get back to that.

In the future I will delve into how I will make my Chaos Renegade war band and that RPG Lite idea I have had.

Thanks for looking and commenting.