by Sam Keville
some people think that chaos is the best army to play because its easy, well its not. people think this because being chaos you have the best h+h troops in the game. well when you go up against and elf player then you get the crap shot out of you all the time and guess what you cant shoot back. there is only one chance and that is to get some fast troops in there and take them out. i have found this to be very effective against most people. i always use the chaos lord fully equiped with things like the hydra or the deamon blade(against lizardmen) and the talsmin of obsidian is a must when your khorne. what every protection you put on him is your own choice. then i tend to use the level three mage not the four becase one you can always use the book of ashure to make him four and also its a better points cost. the four is a hundred points more for one more spell and wound. i like the slannesh magic the best because it has a good mix of offensive and defensive spells. for troops i use the cheapest guys i can, marauders. for thirteen points to have a flail you can just keep putting in more. and for a hundred points you can have a charoit w/scythes thats great. their horsmen are now oop but its worth making the conversion so you have them on horses(being fast cav and all) they can take out unwanted war machine crew. chaos warriors i only use in big games because they are so expensive. but when i do use them 33 points is what the are because chaos armor is a must and i use the halberdiervso they have strengh 5. i find it nesissary where they get all the attention from characters. knights i love. at 80 points they can kick most buts. on a charge they have 2 S6 attacks even a treeman has to take a wound from that. make them khorne and its four, thats very killer. i have never actually use chaos hounds myself but of what i saw of them they arent all that good. i dont really use ogres all that much but they arent all that bad for their points. i put in beastmen if im going up against someone that uses lots of troops instead of strong ones. and deamons i tend to through in some flamers if i have the points because they rule. greater deamons i dont like because they dont have good armor(if any) and i dont tend to like them much. normal deamon i like though because they can get very nasty if used right. bloodletters are great with there D3 hits and pink horror have a good thing w/ the split. plaguebearers are very good w/ the plague sword that kills on a 4+ and deamonets have the steeds that make them good when used w/ the siren flute. 2 foot where your cant stand and fire is great. harpies are only good when you have at least 10 because of the low leadership so the ranks help alot. i like dragon ogres because of the 4 wounds but you need to have a couple to do any good damage w/ them. anything i have always has a standard and musician but i dont usually have a battle standard. chaos charoits i put a standard on because its free but i dont put one on the marauder(it makes it 200pts). i almost always use a magic standard because that makes troops even better. but my tactic in general is just use a hard hitting lord w/ alot of troops that are cheap to back him up.