Contents: 1 Lord-Aquilor (Hero), 5 x Vanguard Hunters (Batteline if General is Lord-Aquilor), 3 x Vanguard Palladors, 3 x Glyph-Hounds As a Starting Thousand Sons player, you want all of these models in your army, and the savings on this box are pretty great. One of these is a fantastic near must-buy for someone who wants to start their own Thousand sons army. The big downside is that because Ahriman is a named character, you don’t really want more than one of these. Though the box savings more than offset Ahriman’s cost, and if you can convert your second copy of him into a regular sorcerer, it’s worth it to buy two so you can make a battalion, and of course there’s the fringe use of having one version of him on foot and another on the disk. Twisted, one-horned humanoids made of diseased flesh, endlessly counting as they shamble forward, armed with rusty blades Svelte, androgynous, humanoid-animal hybrids with revealing clothes, iridescent lilac skin, and usually somecrustacean or arachnid limbs

For a time Invaders were a popular choice in the meta, though since then Syll’Esske’s Host and Godseekers gained some traction as well. They get to have 3 generals to represent their more anarchic nature and given how dependent you are on your Heroes, you will not be short of candidates. Allegiance Abilities Figureheads of the Dark PrinceThe named variant of the Keeper. As you’d expect, Shalaxi is like a side-grade and unlike a lot of greater daemons, actually cheaper than their unnamed counterpart. They have an Aegis and Whip instead of choosing a weapon, which otherwise work the same. So while it’s not the ideal weapon loadout, they have other things going for them. Cloak of Constriction gives them a +1 to saves for melee weapons, totaling a 3+ save.Combined with Shalaxi’s unique spell Refine Senses which lets them reroll all hit rolls and saves and Shalaxi is pretty hardy. Without the chariot you have 230 points. The most expensive chariot is 220 points, bringing you to 550 points. The point costs of most everything has been changed so don’t rely on the battletome. The cheap stuff remains the same while other stuff gets vastly more costly to summon. The updated version is below: Daemonettes of Slaanesh, armed with piercing claws, featuring a host of extra part and accessories for customization. If you’re up against Thousand Sons, Tyranids and other psyker-heavy forces often, it’s well worth grabbing an Infernal Enrapturess, who significantly increases the risk of enemy psykers accidentally suffering Perils of the Wap. Making Friends

This is a great box for starting Sylvaneth or Living City. The Treelord can be built as one of 2 different heroes too, either the Treelord Ancient or the Spirit of Durthu. You could easily buy 2 of these boxes and convert one of the Branchwyches into a Branchwraith for a decent sized 1000pt list. Until their Warhammer 40k codex comes out (which won’t be before Summer 2024), there’s really very little in the rules to say you shouldn’t mix and match to your heart’s content. Each god commands legions of daemons that take wildly different forms appropriate to their patron deity’sgeneral mien. As well as fighting in their own right, these tribes often march to war beside their particular god’s pledged legion of Chaos Space Marines: Nurglish daemons beside the Death Guard; Tzeentchians with the Thousand Sons; Khornate daemons with the World Eaters, and Slaaneshi creatures with the Emperor’s Children. Despite that, it holds its own. It’s gained a lot of popularity due to its ability to generate depravity points at a ridiculously fast rate. Allegiance Abilities Common PurposeThese are your subfactions: The Invaders, the Pretenders and the Godseekers. Were going to explore these a bit different than we usually do as the subfactions work very differently from other books from Age of Sigmar. In most books with subfactions you gain a new allegiance ability and command ability but are required to take a specific warlord trait and relic when possible. For Slaanesh you have 3 subfactions, these are not optional. Each one grants its own set of Allegiance Abilities, Command Traits and Artefacts. So rather than breaking down Command Traits and Artefacts into separate groups like usual, I’m going to divide the guide into the 3 different factions instead to keep things coherent. Remember they all get to keep Feast of Depravities, Locus of Diversion and Euphoric Killers. Invaders An Exalted Seeker Chariot of Slaanesh, with 4 claw-armed Daemonettes either atop the chariot or riding the horned beasts that pull it; The Start Collecting box that gets our vote for “the next one to be discontinued,” there’s not a ton this particular box has to offer. Tactical Marines just don’t have much value when you’d rather run Scouts or Intercessors, the Terminator Captain doesn’t bring much to the table when you have other, more mobile, better-equipped, cheaper options, and the Venerable Dreadnought is only OK. You’re better off skipping this one for the Marine half of the Dark Imperium Starter. On the upside, though, that’s one of the big draws of the Chaos Daemons army: it’s one big, weird, terrifying patchwork quilt, and you can freely throw together a horde from whichever gods’ daemons you fancy.