Which of the non-Chaos Dwarf fantasy factions do you collect?
The miniatures do not need to be assembled or painted, and do not need to be GW miniatures - only miniatures you intend to use as this army, which you currently possess. Ideally, it’s enough to field a full army, but if you are only part way there, feel free to opt-in
You can double-count your Daemons / Warriors of Chaos under the mono-god options if you have an army that can be entirely or predominantly run as one god. If you only ever run a mixed-god list, don’t select a mono-god
My theory is that people were starring so long at traitor dwarfs in search for chaos dwarf conversion material, that they became accustomed to them and developed unnatural feelings towards them.
Give me a few years and I’ll add a pity vote for Dogs of War. By then I’m sure I’ll have painted enough auxiliaries for my Chaos Dwarfs to justify a standalone faction of proxy mercs.
I’m starting to feel good about the stats, 20 is a decent number showing a reasonable signal strength. Prior to this the prevailing myths, many strongly perpetuated by myself, were -
Greenskins would be top
This appears to hold true but I expected more than a little over half. “A Chaos Dwarf army is halfway to a greenskins army already”, or so the adage went. Perhaps not, as the many dawi-zharr-only blogs attest.
Order dwarfs would be under represented
This was clearly incorrect. There are many easy theoretical reasons to diagnose - I don’t care - what matters is, it was wrong.
Tzeentch would be strongly correlated
This exceeded my expectations in signal strength. I remain fascinated by this and am very pleased that we now have data to substantiate. Had I more than these crude psephological tools, I would have done a subquestion under every faction to collection qualitative opinions. Instead I am left with the open intellectual sewer that is your comments on this thread. Please, by all means, continue to piss your thoughts into it.
Chaos factions would be more strongly correlated than Order
I think this is in the woodchipper. There is no such correlation and Order factions fight for top billing. You would get further saying we all love artillery armies.
Elves would be unpopular, especially Wood Elves, commonly cited as the “opposite” of Chaos Dwarfs
It appears the thematic and aesthetic connection to Dark Elves, rarely explored except in some conversion work, trumps this principle. Tree Hitler has however been BTFO’d and for that we can all praise Hashut (by lighting another tree on fire)
Factions with a “lost civilisation” theme - Lizardmen, Tomb Kings - would be strongly correlated
I think this one is in the dumpster, at least as a prevalent theme.
Dogs of War, as another “lost” army, would be well represented
Just me then? I’ll show myself out.
Another sorcerous chaos faction and Tzeentch usually have quite big hats, it’ either Khorne or Tzeentch with tallest hats, other has more skulls on them, other has living eyes, tentacle or two and maybe extra mouth on them…
Do AoS voters choose Warriors of Chaos as that’s a common proxy force for chaos dwarf models? A short stride away from a fieldable army in the same way greenskins could be.
One of the main origins of this investigation is the anecdotal phenomenon on Discord of Thousand Sons collectors, the nucleus being @Reaver, @Lord_of_Uzkulak and myself. That specific correlation will be investigated in a dedicated 40k thread later, of course, but to see the principle show up here is very satisfying.
Despotic, inhuman sorcerers filled with ambition is a key commonality - use of chaff, bold colourful aesthetics… and the traditionally high intellectual barrier needed to be a Chaos Dwarfs fan (consider how much Warhammer one needed to be immersed in to be on CDO prior to the release of Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs) could all be factors. But the question is wide open, and to see no clear second place among the other three monogods is extremely edifying.
