Night Lords and Khorne

[Leethal]

Rename Khârn as ....Charn, Talonmaster of Night Lords. :P

[Senseilord Ashahara]

damnyoureyesno!

 

 

You want that many bezerkers, some raptors and to field Khârn?

 

Have you heard of a little-known legion called the World Eaters? They're apparently into that sort of thing....

[Bad News Pat]

I have indeed heard of that so called World Eaters Legion. My Berzerkers will be painted in the World Eaters fashion and my Raptors in the color of the Night Lords. I just wanted to make sure that there wasnt any huge rivalry between the two legions when I decided on the army

 

As for the springs on the defiller, that would be wicked awesome.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

There's a huge riviallry between _all_ the legions.

[Artein]

But they sometimes band together to launch bigger raids or campaigns (Black Crosades being the biggest of course)

[Epic Thoughts]

Sounds perfectly acceptable to me. If you haven't, I'd strongly suggest reading Simon Spurrier's 'Lord of the Night'. It's quiet possibly the best Black Library book ever published. Spurrier's interpratation of The Night Lords strongly suggest that worship of Khorne, while not previlanent or widespread, could easily exist among The Night Lords in the 41st millenium.

 

That's the whole purpose of the nex dex. You're not tied to one legion, or one set of minor rules, because of the way you painted your minis. I'm currently working on a Night Lord warband, heavy on the raptors, with the few heavy support choices being drawn from The Iron Warriors. In the spirit of the old codex, where Night Lords where limited on the number of heavy support choices, I'm going to have The Iron Warriors provide that support, in the form of predators, havocs, and obliterators.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

"But they sometimes band together to launch bigger raids or campaigns (Black Crosades being the biggest of course) "

 

Yeah, occationally, under exceptional circumstances and an extremely powerful leader.

The rest of the time if they're not shooting the imperium or some xenos race, they're cocking the nine all over each other.

 

But then the likes of the Imperium and the Eldar will ally together at times.

 

The only thing that really binds the legions together is that at one point, deep in the past, they were all Astartes on a crusade together. Alot of water has passed under the bridge since then, and they're as mortal enimies in the long run as every other race.

 

Epic - part of that codex means you can use your Night Lords havocs and preditors without having to ally with other legions. Not ever Night Lord is a raptor, not every Iron Warrior tank is a Vindicator.

[Epic Thoughts]

One of the major complaints about the 4th edition codex is it lacks fluff, and that armies created from it are not fluffy. That point simply isn't valid; Night Lord warbands tend to focus on fast attack elements (as shown by their rules in the 3rd edition codex). Iron Warriors tend to focus on heavy support, again, shown in the old codex. I will create a Night Lord warband with Iron Warrior support elements. These two forces will be allied by an agreement between my Night Lord Chaos Lord, and an Iron Warrior Warsmith/Obliterator. The Iron Warriors assist the Night Lords with repairs and battle field equipment, and are allowed to take their share of spoils and any other arcaeo technology from the field. Certainly the two forces aren't best friends, but the situtation benefits both of them.

 

That sounds like a fluffy force to me.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

So what you want, is at heart, consistant with neither legion....?

[meeper]

Thats saying that all the warbands are actually made from the legions. Look at the black legion for example, they make sure the right specialists are picked for the right enemy. That doesnt sound like two warbands coming together as it does careful choice of troops at your disposal.

 

It also sounds like you are just slamming fluff together or hoping that the circumstances arise for the two forces to work together. In the 40k universe it makes sense, but it strays too far from long established fluff.

[Lord_Caerolion]

Actually, I see no reason for the Night Lords to not have a significant supply of their own tanks, given their tactic of "crush them into the ground", as the Index Astartes tells us, and which I prefer to the tactics first written in the 3.5 edition codex of "we attack and then run away quickly". Hence why I'm adding a Baneblade to my Night Lords, and I can easily see some Night Lords turning to Khorne.