First, I helped explain the core concepts behind the Imperial Navy. Now it's time to take a look at the other side of the coin, for Chaos rely more on a slow and steady type of play style to get victory.
A common misconception - Helldrake Forge has nothing to do with assault ships. Despite the requirement of having launch bays, it only increases broadside boarding, just like Khorne Berserkers, but ONLY for carriers. Lots of things are not quite clear from the descriptions in this game. Like did you know that Reload Stance does not benefit lances, only macro weapons? And description says "basic weaponry". What is even basic weaponry? Couldn't they just call it macro? I personally wasn't aware of this since BFG1.
Truly understanding how to play Chaos, yes it is difficult at the start. But what I will do often is keep Malos Vrykan (your leader) somewhere nearby special operations. But having said of constant threat urgency rising, it is problematic if your fleets are too stretched out. I suggest to those who have difficulty playing Chaos, make sure that you also save enough battle plans, ensure that your fleets have decent ships such as Acheron battle cruiser, Devastation cruiser for fighters/bombers/boarding if you want to pour constant damage in terms of hull and crew and the Renegade fleets should at least be equipped with augur probes with navigational shields or power of the damned due to their skill and upgrade being limited 1 so this can ease things out for Renegade fleets engaging against invasions (especially Tyranids). For Marked Legion accompany Malos Vrykan with a World Eater and Emperor’s Children fleet to combine boarding action to ships disabled with Slaanesh’s Promise skill
Awesome video! Now that the campaign is out, will you make a guide? I’m struggling to fight through the systems with the chaos missions, the enemies are always really tough and the urgency keeps rising so it’s hard to rebuild because the urgency counter always pushes you forward. I’m playing on medium difficulty.
Alas I will not be able to for the Campaign, for even now I have hardly been able to play the campaigns themselves outside of occasionally playing Imperial Navy. Early on you will have a bit of difficulty playing since Chaos rely heavily on doing damage at max range without getting shot in return, once you have a good number of Cruisers/Battlecruisers that becomes a lot easier, but it will still take some time due to their slow and steady style.
@@bulthaosen1169 If they get in close, it's hard to disengage: they can use Inertia-less Drive to cut off your retreat and pin you during the cooldown. But if you keep your distance, their molasses-slow running speed means you can stay ahead of them. If they get impatient and use Inertia-less Drive to try to jump a bit of the distance, that's when you gun it and really leave them in the dust during their cooldown.
Unfortunately the Chaos Navy doesn't include any proper Frigates in the PC games (Some Imperial Frigate classes can be used by Chaos fleets in the tabletop game I believe though that might have just been my GM and opponent letting me do so). They just have Raiders and Destroyers. The lack of proper Frigates is the main reason they aren't my favorite fleet in the game because IMO a navy with no available Frigates either has very limited resources, or had the ship types it uses selected by an incompetent or a saboteur.
I agree, I was not a fan of the chaos frigates either outside of the essential scout role they play, but there are some fleet compositions that rely exclusively on mass frigates to take advantage of some of the upgrades unique to chaos. Main upgrade I can recall is when your shields recharge, all nearby enemy ships take morale damage, which I've seen one opponent deliberately use a disruption bomb on their own frigates to combo into massive morale damage, and when you have 12-16ish frigates that is a lot of morale issues at the you have to deal with at the start of the fight.
Mr Bencroft Geez, I’m hell? All I lacked was forgiveness, and you dare to claim I’m hell? What exactly I’ve done that made you think I am the worst nightmare for all mankind? What absurd reasoning you can use to deem that those who corrupted, abused, and enslaved me should not be punished by the fiercest punishment? Your judgement is so twisted. My mere arrogance is enough to deviate you from the righteous path humanity was set to walk on. Your kind is hopeless, and so are you. You have already ran out of Jesus’s grace and will now suffer your sins all on your own.
Mr Bencroft well, okay. Thanks then. But I’m very serious about the Jesus matter. If anything, you should discuss with your fellow comrades to come up with solutions.
