cornixt:
I’ve had a quick look through the book and I’m a bit disappointed with the way you have to mix and match things from different gods in order to get something decent. In fact, stiking to a single-god theme would be a double hinderance - not taking X, plus most items and gifts give you mostly what you already have from the mark. I don’t mind the mixing of marks in an army, but beyond that it feels dirty. I planned on having a cool Daemon Prince general, but the options are so limited and the gifts are really poor. Despite him looking like a Slaanesh daemon, I’d have to give him the Mark of Nurgle and a Khorne-style gift just to make him nearly worth the points and not die. Beyond that, it looks like the rest of the army is pretty viable. Not sure what the Forsaken are for, they are just a cr*p Chosen for the same points!
The book is much more like the older edition Chaos books, tons of fluff and tons of options (can you take both additional handweapons and great weapons? It looks like you can, although it is pricey) so it looks like you’d need a notepad to keep track of all the extra abilities each unit gains during the battle or at least a roster with write-in space.
Could be very confusing (“Wait, those guys are Stupid and have lost Frenzy after losing combat but then got the roll that gains them Frenzy…”). How long before WD comes with a pad of tokens for all of them? Looks like I’ll be making a banner-guy for each unit with a little banner with each special rule written on it (even the default ones) so I can swap them in and out.
And I was thinking that Chaos would soon be the beginner army.