Minor Chaos Factions Where will the "Minor" Chaos factions go armywise?

[Indy Techwisp]

So far the "Minor" Chaos factions we have on the tabletop (Lesser CSM, Traitor Guard and Chaos Beastmen) have all been rolled into the base CSM codex.

For the lesser CSM Legions this makes sense as they lack enough unique units to really be their own thing (Nightlords seem to be making an effort against their as of late) but for the other minor factions it feels like a stopgap solution in a way.

 

Traitor Guard are lorewise the most common form of Chaos faction faced besides Cultists but there's simply not enough avaliable now for them to be a full army. Likewise for the Chaos Beastmen as the Fellgors are our only representatives for that group (Tzaangors don't count).

 

If (or when) GW decide to add DarkMech to the tabletop, they will probably also end up in CSM alongside the above units but unless they're released as their own brand new army from the jump I doubt there'll be enough DarkMech for them to not be in CSM.

Unless they take all the other Damned units with them.

 

CSM already has rules for poaching other Factions units, so it stands to reason they could just be given the ability to poach units from a spun-off Chaos Mortals codex.

On the other hand it could end up being something like the IA codex where it's primary function is letting every other Chaos faction steal units from it which would give the Cult Marines the ability to take things like Traitor Guard.