I've been looking at the avaliable chaos units(the mortal kind) an found that the chaos warriors look like heavymetal band posters from the 70's, and thats not kewl... not kewl at all, so I was wondering, can you make an competetive army using almost nothing but marauders and marauder horsemen, cause if I make an army I want too capture the viking feelin'... maybe use a converted kislev lord as the general so he's got pelts and such so he's really furry and dont have that awful armor... the army is ment to be small, maybe 5-600 points so it is only for skirmishes and borderland type missions( might be boring with 2k points of marauders...)

so: is it plausible with an all marauder army at 500 points? can it win?

sounds a good idea, at the matter of the marauder arm ythey are effectively vikings as many did not wear too much armour as they prefured to prove themselves to their gods of war. why not have a 1500pt army with just marauders and horseman? you can also use the marauder leader rules found in the British "White Dwarf" which give u rules and conversion ideas, (might use them) September issue.

so give it a try and see where it gets you, also marauders have horned helmets like vikings (i no it's a myth but they have them in some books)

Don't want to take it too high in points 'cause I already got a 2000pts+ lizzie and an equally big Vcounts army so this is just a little sideproject, my next 2k army will probably be an all gobbo army with LOTS of magic and spearchukkas and ofcourse lots of nightgobo regiments with fanatics, just cause its beardy/hilarious...

must find the rules for a marauder-hero , cause an aspiring is to much points for a 500pts army(80pts without EQ...)

The north american augest Issue has some rules for norse heros from the Skeggi tribe... they are essentially just an aspiring champ and a Chaos lord without chaos armour, and for cheaper points. If you can find the rules, then it may suit your theme.

Stratos

I love the theme :)
Have you worked out a list?

and this would be a nice cnversion for a marauder hero not? :

nice model ^_^ , shame that not all of us have that much time and ability as that. is that going to be your Golden demon entrant?

i would be happy to give you the rules for the norse hero if only copyright did not exist <_<

Lol are you crazy that one aint mine!!! It's from the site on the foto my skills are not that great :unsure: hehe

the list isn't ready yet bu it will probably consist of a big block of marauders with the hero and 2 small units of marauder horsem taking the flanks, no nonsense just storm straight on, thats what a viking should have done...

true, not many tactics just burning and pillaging as you go, "Grrr"

for example here is my force which is basd around a viking type theming:

The Devils Disciples

“Black Death” Exalted Champion of Slannesh: Book of secrets, shield, 162pts

“Son of Satan” Sorcerer of Slannesh: Level 2, Spell Familiar, 155pts

”The Devils Shield” 12 Warriors of Slannesh: FC, Shields, 230pts

”The Devils Sword” 12 Warriors of Slannesh: FC, Shields, 230pts

”Chieftains of the tribes” 5 Marauder Horsemen: Flails, Musician, 81pts

”Horseman from the north” 5 Marauder Horsemen: Flails, Musician, 81pts

“The Dogs of Despair” 5 Warhounds of chaos, 30pts

“Satan’s Slaves” 5 Warhounds of chaos, 30pts

999pts

my force started out as all marauders and after many battles a few of the men were granted horses which they quickly learned to ride (marauder horseman) the army then began to worship slannesh to help defeat it's foes and as a gift from the lord of pleasure all the foot marauders got given chaos armour and then became chaos warriors.

i just made that up on the spot and seems a pretty good background IMO so you can easily do the same for your vikings ^_^

dan

as I said earlier the reason I don't have chaos warriors is the fact that they are the ugliest soldiers in the game(prove me wrong) saw I looked at what mortals Ihad left and based a theme around them(vikings if you haven't been paying atention... xD...) and the army will not be big, to much work and probably ain't that fun to play 1k+ of marauders, and now that I have settled for the viking feel(being a swede and all) daemons are pretty much out of the picture.

the list at the moment looks something like:
hero(must find the marauder one)
~80pts( ? )
block of 24marauders with full command GW and light armor

2x marauder horsemen(5)
spear, shield, champ, musician

rough scetch but thats the feel I want... a bunch of crazy norse with big axes that ruch against the enemy(the block) and the small horsemen units get the flank charges(so i have a chance of winning...

Yeah you 're right, i hate the old models to ^_^ but if you make the chosen they look alot better (with mutations and stuff ;) ), the new new models from the Storm of Chaos are alot better not?

I know you've already chosen a theme but let me say this: withou alot of conversion skills you could easely make Chaos warriors from another race. I made Chosen knights from Silverhelms and ungor heads and mutations. yust a thought.


well let me see at your list.

hero = +-70pts(i geus because he's cheaper then a asp. )

block of 24marauders: full command, GW and light armor = 217pts

5 marauder horsemen: spear, shield, champ, musician = 86pts

5 marauder horsemen: spear, shield, champ, musician = 86pts


you would still have 41 points left, what will you do with that?

the hero will have greatweapon and a shield(I got the image of the hero in my head so thats what he'll have to have. 41pts eh... mayb split it into 2 blocks, one with 15 and and one of 14+hero, that should be doable and will make for a wider more impressive frontage for the raging vikings xD

ps. I know that chosen knights of nurgle are probably the most impressive looking cavallry in the game...

marauder hero- *cough* same stats as a aspiring champ for only 65 pts *cough*

sorry bout that ^_^

anyway i like the new warrior models which look perfect as if you can paint them well they look wicked IMHO. viking army you say seems a pretty cool idea, you could also try to possibly include some chosen warriors to represent grizzled veterans who have been on many a fine pillage (stats wise and models if you decide to like them) plus you could make these by taking your marauder models and giving them the chaos warrior heads to show they have some armour, just an idea?

good luck with the pillaging and burning, dan