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Fellow Denizens of the Fang, I have finished putting the last polishing touches on my Army List Building Guide just in time for the new edition. I hope this proves helpful to y'all, as you consider how to put your new lists together. In the past, I've put the whole Guide into a single, long, post directly here on the B&C, but it'll be easier for me to update and revise by hosting it off-site on my Google Drive. For those that haven't see it yet, you may also want to check out my earlier Army Building in 9th Edition post, that should serve as a preview of the Guide; that earlier post reinforces some of the Guide's concepts. Val

So after being in a bit of a 40k lull for a while the new CSM releases gave me a big burst of hobby motivation and I've been quickly (by my standards...) building and painting a small 1000pts army. I'm almost done (just finishing up some characters over the next week or so), and obviously that means I have to figure out what to get next! This is what I have so far: This to me feels like a solid core that I could take in many different directions while building towards 2000pts. I think 2 or 3 DiscoLords are definitely on the to buy-list, but apart from that I have a few different ideas: TIME TO GET LOUD I think Don Hoosons idea of using Masters of Executions as chaff clearers supreme sounds really fun (link), so maybe going down the Emperor's Children route could be interesting. Add a MoE or two and some noise marines, crank up the bass and get ready to rock the galaxy. PIRATES OF THE CADIABEAN Red Corsairs! Get some more CSM, and maybe some units that can benefit from advance + charge (Possessed? Berzerkers? Smashy Helbrutes?). Yarr! DOMO ARIGATO MR... DAEMON ENGINE? Venomcrawlers, Maulerfiends, Defilers, maybe even a Heldrake or two? Blood slaughterers for maximum carnage? Full on monster mash, baby! What do you guys think? Any of the above sound like a good direction to go, or maybe there is something completely different I haven't even thought of? I like to play at least semi-competitively, but not on the level where I can't squeeze one or two slightly suboptimal but fun choices in. Hit me with your wisdom, fellow heretics!

Life is a series of struggles – if you fall, you get up again. Accept your flaws – only then you can overcome them. True growth – impossible without failure. Only The Fallen Can Rise In Truth [source] Overview In this project log I want to document a force of Fallen I will do over the coming weeks and months. Maybe years? It is meant as a side project to my many other Chaos forces, and is not focussed on gameplay effectiveness, but variety in modelling. Each model will get a name and its personal backstory – so expect some depth when it comes to their background. This Plog will contain WIP pictures as well as completed models, and I appreciate any and all comments and questions. The second post will contain links to different parts of the project for easy reference. Project goals The main goal is: getting models painted and on the tabletop in a reasonable time. To me this means that I will go for „tabletop ready“, instead of spending hours and hours on every single model. I am a perfectionist at heart, but this has lead to little results in the past. More often than not I got demotivated over the process of painting something, and never finished it. This time I want to purposely shoot for „mediocre painting“, to actually get stuff done. The first intermediate results should stand at the end of this years ETL. I want to have a Vanguard Detachment of Fallen ready to game at the end of August. It will consist of Cypher, a Sorcerer and about 30 Fallen, plus a couple of Rhino transport tanks. If you are not familiar with the details of Codex: CSM, this means using a special detachment from „Vigilus Ablaze“. Being a Vanguard Detachment also means that this will hardly be an „army“ yet, but a starting point. This first detachment should give me something to either field on its own for smaller games, as part of a larger Chaos force of my own, or as something I can bring to larger games in stores or hobby clubs – Apocalypse says hello! Afterwards I will expand the concept into a full CSM army. There are some ideas for this already around, but the details will get worked out later down the road. What I will do – and what not As mentioned already, I want to keep the painting at a level that could be called „tabletop ready“. I will not aim for high-level results on anything other than (maybe) the characters. This approach does not include the building side of things though, so I will spend some time making each model an individual in some way or another. The first part of the force is supposed to represent Fallen in an early stage of corruption. So there will be no Chaosstars, no overly spikyness, no open mutations and the like. There will be no imperial eagles either though. The general idea is: they should look like loyal Dark Angels at first sight, but with clues to their true allegiance obvious for anybody who knows where to look for them... While I am aiming for a gameplay legal force, I have no interest in „competetive gaming“. So effectiveness on the battlefield will never be a major concern. I am fully aware that almost everthing that can be done with Fallen can be done better with Chosen – but for this project I simply do not care. Concerning the background there are some gaps in my knowledge I hope to close soon. I know the general Dark Angels background since the 2nd edition „Angels of Death“ codex, and not a lot has changed regarding the Fallen. There are some bits I missed out on in „Gathering Storm“ though, and I have to read through stuff like „Fallen Angels“ and „Black Legion“ for more – both novels are ordered already, so... soon™. However, I will not follow any of the official background slavishly. If there are things I deem fit to ignore to better represent my own ideas - I will happily do so.