Origins of the Chaos Warriors | Building Warhammer Armies 

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This channel is criminally underappreciated.

Blood and souls for my lord Arioch.. I mean blood for the blood god and skulls for his throne!

I think we should all take a moment to also remember the Chaos Enchanter.....Tim. Perfect example as someone totally focused on his evil craft.

To my mind the Dark Elves of mid-to-late-era WFB resemble Moorcockian Chaos-traffickers more than the Chaos Warriors of the same period - though that's because the RoC books did such a good job of establishing the Chaos pantheon we all know and steadfastly oppose. Really the Chaos Warriors stand as the holotype of GW's practice of taking a fantasy idea, 'Warhammerising' it (to use a term coined by a sceptical friend of mine) and jiggling it about until they find a niche for it in their own mythos. Sometimes, as with the Squats, this takes a while, but Chaos Warriors did it so well that it's hard to imagine a Warhammer World without the horny little buggers. I recall once trying to come up with an expansive fantasy mythos with a friend who shared my concern that our gaming club was too Warhammer-focused; we had armies of fairy-like elves, swamp-dwelling dwarfs with animist magic ripped out of early-period Shadowrun, evil radioactive giants inspired by Rob Zombie videos, cyborgs created by a crash-landed factory spaceship and a dozen other factions, but the project got rather deflated when we were a couple of Fridays into creating the Dark, a faction of all-encompassing demon-worshippers, and realised that we were cribbing the whole idea from Warhammer. Our club focused so much on Warhammer, we realised, because Warhammer is, for all of the jury-rigging and cribbing that went into its early editions, a masterfully well-executed pulp fantasy milieu, and the Chaos Warriors are crucial to that.

Lets just say that the guy who designed the costumes and look of the bad guys in 1982's 'Beastmaster' movie - was a Warriors of Chaos fan, also that first scene in Conan the Barbarian (1982 movie) - there MUST have been some Warriors of Chaos influence there especially with the leaders on horseback.

Looking forward when you eventually do a video on chaos dwarves. They are such a squatted faction, but the Forge World models they got for that one 8th edition supplement were the most amazing thing in existence.

"the Crack of Desolation actually predated the Great Unclean One" 🤣🤣🤣

Loved this, so good as always!

As someone who was a teenager from the beginning ofvthe 80s, and bought all this stuff as it was released, these are just the best deep dives into the history of the company/factions etc.

I need to collect some Eternal Champion miniatures!

Fascinating! Another brilliant video. Thank you!

Kaleb Daark episode!!! Can't Wait!

Nice to see/hear my favorite character/universe getting lots of love and credit. Moorcock

A video about [Redacted]!?!? Looking forward to it! Great video as always Jordan. Seeing all those old lead minis was great!

I still have my 90’s Monopose Chaos Warriors and planning to finally rank them up for Old World

I haven't been with you for a while but i'm back and loving it!

Great video! Excellently researched and written. Top show! More warriors of chaos please. Take us on a tour of how their range and their lore has evolved. I look forward to it.

I've always loved Chaos in Warhammer and played numerous armies over the years. When Old World happened I felt a mighty urge to do a new army and had to go heavily into an Ian Miller inspired force. There are so many themes/styles available for Chaos stuff, they always feel fresh.

This is peak Jordan Socery content right here. LOVE IT! Also, you've helped identify one of the earlier GW models I own: Daethskar from the C35 range. A friend gave me several Chaos Warriors from that era and I've never tried to identify them despite having used Stuff of Legends many times in the past. I didn't realize he was on the cover of the 3rd ed. book! I've gotta paint that guy up now. He deserves it. The other Chaos minis I have (4-5) are mostly similar to Daethskar, although one of them is a Chaos-Cat-Warrior; I've always wondered what his story is. To the interwebs!! Thank you Jordan. :-) (Joey Jar Jar) ;-)

The forces of Chaos have always spoke to me. Whispers of darkness lol. Definitely a solid choice for a army going back to the early days of WFB. I just love the Warriors of chaos look.

I NEED the video about Kaleb Daark, come Chaos, Dreadax thirsts for you!

Great content as usual, Chaos is a fav! 👍🏽

Fantastic video, probably my favourite so far, apart from some of the more iconic interviews. Thank you!

Moorcock interview please! Hawkwind. Thanks for the share!!

Thanks for a great deep dive. Chaos-Squeak, Chaos-Squeak! 🤩🐀🌠 🐀

This channel is the main culprit that I'm returning to Warhammer Fantasy lol

Love your videos, always a swift kick in the nostalgias

Thank you going to be a good video. As far as Chaos as a whole, we know the answer is Micheal Moorcock, at least the eight pointed star. Law was just a straight arrow pointing up btw.

Thanks Jordan Another great video, I love those early chaos warriors and thugs they really fired up my imagination at the time. I wish those early citadel miniatures were still being made. Oh btw MORE MOONSTONE PLEASE! Because of you I have a starter set on order 😊

The World needs more hornaments.

Great video, loved that keep them coming!

Can´t wait to see the video about Kaleb Dark!

Again a great research work, resulting in an awesome video

CHAOS RULES JORDILOOOOOVEEE!!!

Very interesting video! Amazing models!

As I look at the chaoa concept sketches, i can't help but think Rodney Matthews's art had to be an inspiration for some of this.

Cracking video. Thank you!

I've been enjoying these videos. An Eldar related video would be especially cool 👍

As you delve more into lore from old editions, I found myself collecting a Warriors of Chaos army. So this video is like a peak point, Warhammer is not Empire or Space Marines, Sigmar etc. For me, Warhammer is Chaos. Especially Warriors because they have more character than Chaos Space Marines.

Thanks

Love this channel

Like this history channel

If I win lotto I'm patronising Jordan so he can make this stuff forever

My friend plans to join me in getting into The Old World by collecting Warriors of Chaos! 💜

My favorite army by far! Also the easiest to paint for me with a little careful mini selection (I was terrible at faces, you see). And with influences like Moorcock and Frazetta, how could one go wrong?

I've read 1000s of pages of Moorcock and the Eternal Champion!

I love that "Warhammerian" sounds practically academic.

kaleb darkk !! yesssss

Subtly mentioning you've been chatting to Space McQuirk there - foreshadowing a future interview?

Surely it should be "adhornments"!

'Arry the 'Ammer...sorted

In the mcdeath game pack the models used for the knights were also sold as chaos knights.

Kaleb Daark is a funny way to spell Slambo

A few of the older Knights of the Empire are almost indistinguishable from Chaos Warriors. Same as some Norse miniatures

16:57 Do you reckon Ungrim Ironfist is named for that writer?

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Kaleb Daark, and the brothers are most longest sort after minis. So much so I've been tempted to sell my wizard with machine gun to put the funds into them instead..... one day, one day......

Excalibur 1981 and Black Angel 1980

Crack of desolation...🤣