Which Chaos Space Marine Legion to Choose in Warhammer 40K? Every Army Reviewed in 10th Edition 

None - choose World Eaters and shadow box your opponent and do press ups during their round - gains for gains god

Word Bearers technically, but my boys, The Seventh Seal believe they are the only true worshipers of the Emperor... But the Emperor is not yet ready for their worship. They believe one day they will rescue him from the prison called the "Golden Theone," and on that day he will aacend to become the 5th Chaos god. Then he will lead his true followers to destroy the false worship of the Ecclesiarchy and reign as the one true god for the rest of time.

To be honest, if you're in doubt of which Legion to play, you could just invent your own Renegade Chapter warband. Its what I've done with mine. They're called The Malignant Revenants, and were formerly known as the Argent Harrowers, an Ultramarines Successor. On the tabletop they play as, well, whatever detachment I fancy.

Ave Dominus Nox

IRON WITHIN IRON WITHOUT!

Hydra dominatus, of course

The answer is always Death Guard -unique models - unique daemon engines -has a primarch - has Typhus who is objectively better than the primarch - Granddaddy Nurgles embrace - many many (too many) characters - can play fast pace even though slow - Best terminators - AGAIN NURGLE!! Edit: third place is Thousand Sons

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, GAINS FOR THE GAIN GOD, MILK FOR THE KHORN FLAKES AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

27:00 if people are looking to make their own Fallen conversions GW still sells the Dark Angels Company Veterans box, which is also sold as the Fallen box. The box contains 5 robed minis and various dark angel themed upgrades (including terminator parts), so combining them with tactical marines or legionaries can give you a very flavourful force for quite cheaply when compared to standard resculpts and upgrade sprues

Iron Warriors don't have their dedicated miniatures but honestly speaking Mark III HH minis are perfect for them. All they need is some minor kitbashing - and even that can be avoided tbh.

I like the Iron Warriors because they are less hysterical compared to the other chaos options.

Iron warriors. Because I can double-dip with 30 and 40k

as i saw Huron did not go the way of legends i had to convert a model of him. as for what legion/warband you can make whatever you want, there are also Chaos followers of most loyalist chapters. i got Fallen and Cypher as some of my CSM converted from old Dark angels models. and then i use the homebrew warband of Brethren of hel a warband of fallen Iron Hands.

Night Lords and Thousand Sons are my favorites. The Night Lords series was amazing and I love the look of the Thousand Sons. Ahriman is also an interesting Character with a ton of lore. Scrab Occult Terminators are great models.

The word bearers are nor represented by pact bound zealots as it goes completely against the word bearers lore. While there are some among the legion who are devoted to one god those are rare as the legion looks down upon those who devote themselves to one god.

I love the Night Lords and Emperor's Children, but god DAMN I love Word Bearers as the antagonists of the Sisters of Battle.

The Fellhammer siege host -1 to wound and FNP should have been a deathguard thing imo >.

I’m still working on 3D printing myself a Night Lords army. I won’t be able to take it to any tournaments but the money I’ll save is worth it lol Originally I wanted to do Night Lords out of the sheer irony of also being a Salamanders player, but honestly the more I read about them the more I like them. I still think Konrad was a punk bitch, and I’m not a huge fan of the flayed-skin-as-cloaks thing, but the community has been very welcoming despite that. It also helps a lot that I think the Dread Talons detachment is probably the most fun thing I’ve seen in 10th edition so far, and that includes all of the stuff my other armies (Salamanders and Eldar) can do.

Thousand Sons; love the Egyptian themed armour and the story of Magnus's fall. Though 16th Legion and Nightlords are good looking as welll.

Hydra Dominatus

Started with CSM (Black Legion Style), then Thousand Sons and now are doing World Eaters with Death Guard models already on my pile waiting. Hope for Emperors Children next. ^^

Word Bearers for true scions of Chaos

Slaanesh will always be my favorite chaos god for what she represents. I don’t mean funny “haha sex and drugs” Slaanesh is supposed to represent excess, passion, pleasure, obsession. Yeah, sex can and is a part of that. But it should really be different depending on the person. Slaanesh takes what you find pleasurable, and cranks it up to 100. But at the end of the day, it’s what YOU find enjoyable. In the world of 40K, that’s an interesting concept. It’s such a miserable setting and you have a chaos god going “hey, do what you like to do”. It’s not like Khorne where it’s just fight and murder that corrupts you. Nurgle where it’s just peepee poopoo and you effectively have to be forced to join. Tzeentch where it’s just a complete mess cause “I knew the outcome all along” or some shit but you like magic so you have to deal with him. Slaanesh doesn’t have to sell you on anything. It’s just, “you want to do that? Then do it”. The main way Slaanesh corrupts you is to just reveal your deepest desires that you didn’t even know you had, but they’re still your desires. It upsets me that GW and Black Library literally give zero lore for Slaanesh and her followers because they want to avoid sex and drugs, (But Nurgle body horror and Daemonculaba are okay I guess), when she’s so much more than those two concepts. That’s why I hope when EC come out there’s some real variety in their appearance. There should be clean pristine sword duelists, cranked up drug fueled berserkers, super obese glutton space marines, noise marines, etc. They shouldn’t all be the same because they shouldn’t all have the same passion. But this is GW, I’m used to being let down.

Been trying to build a WB army for years. Will get it finished then go xeno or imperium (I'm sick of trim and the bangles) and return to build one or two small other chaos forces

What is the mini in the picture of the world bearers? That sword looks really nice. Edit: it’s the word bearer - legion praetor

Iron warriors and Daemon engines sound my forte here

I'm planning to start Emperor's Children, but I can't until we get the index. The other three god specific legions are missing a bunch of units from normal CSM, so I'm conflicted on whether or not I want to risk buying one of the battleforces and immediately discover that I have to give 75% of it to a friend.

Love word bearers, not a fan of the detachment Same with Iron Warriors Probably going to pick Renegade Raiders because the obscure Iron Warriors warband I picked from the lore is called the 7th Assault Company, and the dread talons is kinda lame (along with the idea of jump pack IW)

WORDS BEARERS FOR LIFE 😤😤😤 THE EMPEROR OWES MY WARBAND $20

You left out Kharn when talking about the WE

CRIMSON SLAUGHTER MY BELOVED

As someone who's main strategy for their CSM is loads of Legionnaires in Rhinos and is Red Corsair themed, I'm at home with the Codex. I'm getting a Mastodon to really spec into the pirates in space theme.

Word bearers

Just a nitpic, you said that they were theyvwere the sons of horus before they were the lunar wolves. Love the vid tho!

I love that the intro lists of Iron Warriors, World Eaters, and Thousand Sons, but the thumbnail only shows the thousand son. The other two are an Iron hand and Word Bearer

I made Crimson Slaughter and just updated the list. And might consider building Iron Warriors

Uh what about the Alpha Legion... wait Im not sure if they really are Chaos.

I chose Death Guard. Originally I went with them because they seemed like the most wretched of the chaos legions, but what I’ve grown to love about them is the amount of character put into each sculpt. There are tons of unique characters and each plague marine and terminator has his own special little cursed mutation. My aspiration is to field a full army of death guard without any duplicte sculpts

I have Word Bearers, Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, and Black Legion. I also have World Eaters but they’re not in the main CSM book anymore.

If I didn’t have three separate piles of boxes and primed miniatures, I’d convert my old first born space wolves into a Red Corsairs warband. We need rules for Sons of Malice!

For anyone who doesn’t want to paint trim, several of the ones at 29:00 don’t have painted trim in their schemes

You missed the best rogue/alt god one, the Sons of Malice!

Skyrar's dark wolves sound's like a good idea.

I feel like Alpha Legion themed detachment will end up strong when combined with the new bonuses to Battleline units

Huron will probably be updated later on, something like an army box with new bikes, I feel. Probably this edition.

So I'm an EC player - rather than being down about this I'm gonna try out a couple of different detachments since we don't have our own right now. I also have a small force of Night Lords that will be fun to use - but yeah they have got the best rules.

Red Corsairs, listened to a YT audio bit about a SM trying to infiltrate the warband and Huron ( I love a bit of Taxation is theft memes too) being just brilliant as a villain (that's before i learnt his little demon buddy whispers into his ear about unknowable info, even more kick ass) I was hoping to run the old 20 man squad and his redeploy shenanigans,

I like the Creations of Bile, mostly because I love the lore.

Crimson Slaughter 😈. But if we’re talking non renegades it has to be Word Bearers! Deamon possessed things are so fucking cool.

If i was to start a chaos army, it would be world eaters/khorne demons or Iron warriors, depending on how good Perturabo s lore and appearance is when he returns.

Iron Warriors. "Because screw you!!" That and they are just oddly relatable lol

Word Bearers here, but I probably won’t use Pact Bound Zealots since it’s not actually appropriate to the fluff of the legion. Maybe the renegades detachment is more appropriate for them.

started an EC army for my second force around start of covid, been waiting forever for their new codex thats been rumoured f-or-ever! whole thing stalled during covid and subsequent moves, and job changes. at least i was smart and focused on basic units from the old chaos apocalypse box and converting them all in to kit bashed noise marines using third party weapon kits. im expecting Bile to rejoin his legion when Fulgrim returns, i have a feeling the new EC models are going to be primaris/chaos perfection, and im left wondering if the greater possessed might be the EC's prmarised versions of them

As a Word Bearer player i quit 40k after the codex was revealed and will start playing One Page Rules instead. GWs misses have sadly piled up too far at this point for me. OPR seems fantastic in actually giving you a fair playing field and free reins to play your dream version of your army. Excited!

I run dèathguard, emperors children, and the purge. The Purge actually being my first army

I chose the Invocators, I really liked the lore of their doomed crusade that served them up to chaos directly

I have a Fellhammer question. So I realize there's a wide gulf between casual play and highest level professional play. Your mileage may vary with the detachment. But how do we *know* it isn't competitively viable before it's been put into practice? Are people's ability to conceive and visualize good enough to know what'll work on that level and what won't? And do we think GW designs these detachments to work on different levels? Is Fellhammer supposed to be casual/narrative? Or do they just base these rules on lore and some of it turns out to be broken enough to get you to the top tables?

The generic Chaos legion is my favorite. Just wish it could be easier to make it all Iron Warrios or Night Lords. Everything modeled after corrupted Black Legion. The non demon looking ones like IW, NL, and Alpha Legion got screwed. Atleast it works well for Word Bearers

The Night Lords upgrade set isn't out yet , i can't find it atleast ... man didn't they annouced that like 7 months ago ? :/

What about the chaos cults? hereticus militarum, Vrakian Militia?

Actually Word Bearers were first among traitors, who manipulated Horus Lupercal to turn to Chaos.

I chose red corsairs with men of iron proxies for their helbrutes and chaos prince with a kitbashed Huron blackheart XD

It crushes me that I've decided to finally get into Warhammer and I find out everywhere I look that the Alpha Legion just has no support in 40k rules. Worse even they function as "chaos" Space Marines/models despite not having nearly as much interaction with the warp/chaos as any of the other legions to have as many mutations/daemonic units in their roster. I'm supposed to use a Hellbrute instead of a dreadnought (contemptor or not) all because GW doesn't think Chaos should have dreadnoughts? Wtf?! Hopefully they get a codex eventually but till then I'm painting my MKVI armor to be my eventual Alpha Legion army for Horus Heresy AND 40k. And I'll just run the Horus Heresy Alpha Legion codex in any friendly games I might get into, even if it's in a 40k game. Because if Imperials get to have Primaris Marines, Dreadnoughts, and every flavor of unit GW keeps breast-feeding them, then my "Chaos" Alpha Legion gets Horus Heresy Era-equipment, as it is in the lore.

a bit sad to not see the dark angels being mentionned... although part of them was with the fallen...

The Black Legion, for Horu's Legacy!

Lorgar did nothing wrong, justice for Monarchia, Ultrasmurfs are hypocrites for burning Monarchia and now Guilliman is the Lord Commander of the Imperium, which includes the Ecclesiarchy

What's that model with the rocket laucher and tech-arm in the thumbnail?

I’ve been loving my Thousand Sons since 9th edition and it’s mid tier codex. They are my legion. The CSM codex has been a distraction but I haven’t purchased anything

so sorry ….i am a noob a bit on the delay side… unable to decide as of yet … reading into the LORE to help the decision… 1-The Talon Of Horus 2-Black Legion 3-Word Bearers (Omnibus) Once read I will decide. in the meantime… LET THE GALAXY BURN.

Problem with night lords, you would need a fortune to outfit more than 2 squads

Word Bearers all the way, but who knows what rules I'll use.

Whichever one you can get someone else to paint for you.

I would choose renegades and paint them in varous colour schem for veteran of the long war or as renegade raider detachment for in the theme of 40k equivent of 30k traitor's blackshield . As much as i like Nightlord stories there rules for dread talon rely too much on the opponent failing their battleshock test roles depending on the army . As some armies are better at this and can negate what the dread talon detachment excel at for rules. When it come to renegades their stories are interesting to read why they turn traitor to be a renegade or why their formerly loyal SM chapter serve Abaddon now. One thing i like about renegade stories is the sense of individualism despite many of them eventually betraying the Imperium for a common reason among renegades in the Black legion.

Pretty sure the Black Legion claims not to be a continuation of the Sons of Horus. While mostly made up of that legion, they except any traitors who will serve Abbadon.

I started painting traitor blueberries.

Cries in Sons of Malice for being forgotten....AGAIN

Started collecting Space Wolves and plan to use my troops for Deathwatch and Space Wolves in the short term....in the primer black and proxies to play and learn the game

Imagine taking the NL detachment and facing DA... you'll be wiped out.

im trying too collect so every team in my legion is a diffrent space marine chapter. so far i have black legion, word bearers alpha and then soon some nightlords XD

Blood for the bloodgod!!! Skulls for the Skullthrone!!!

Is there any way to take Fabius Bile in an Emperors Children force in 10th Ed?

Do Chaos Knights count as a "Warband?" Cause I think one or two Big Spikey Boys vs an army might be funny.

Blood for the Blood God!

I am going to be building mine as wordbearers, as I enjoy their theming in contrast with my other armies, black Templars, and necrons. So I have the two extreme ends of fanatics and then the robots who forged the bodies of their “gods” and then enslaved them after revolting.

My firstborn dark angels are now going to turn to chaos as fallen renegade raiders. All my first born ravenwing will continue to ride and crush the imperium that turned their backs on the original space marines

World Eaters! Blood for the blood god!

Thousand sons is obvious ❤😊

The betrayed sons of Caliban for me, fighting to slay the monster that ruined and destroyed their homeworld - the Imperium of Man

Hydra Dominatus !

Ahriman succeeded where Magnus failed.

Magic and Might: I have Thousand Sons and World Eaters

Renegades enjoyers are blessed with codex. My Company of Misery will teach imperial minions real misery and hopelessness!

Did GW threaten Auspex about leaking info? Don’t see the brass tacks like he usually drops

Emperor's Children every time!

Just pick world eaters we have bunny eared helmets and skulls nothing is as cool as bunny ears and skulls

Im not going to start a CSM army im not going to start a CSM army im not going to start a CSM army im not going to start a CSM army............i am going to start a CSM army iam..... Damn it!

Yes is my answer

Black Legion all the way! Let the Galaxy BUUUUUURN!!!!

Witch 1 likes useing knives and whips on the picture for steller blade # 12 for the radbrad, and likes scareing people, is extremelly violent, but cares about moralls, has lightning claws, has dark blue, would be a night god,if a god, (and uses phycoligy to attack,forgot to add on.), and extremelly dystopia?... ITS ALLMOST LIKE SOME1 MADE A LEGION FOR ME,PERSONALLY!!!!

Chaos miniatures look goofy versus the new Primaris