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====Special Items====

Great Axe: 25 gc, Rare 8, only models with the Chosen of Chaos skill can equip it. It’s two handed, with a strength as User +2, and its strike last effect can be deleted if the warrior has the Strongman skill. A Great Axe has an extra save modifier of –1, so a model with Strength 4 using a Chaos Battle Axe has a –4 save modifier in hand-to-hand combat.  

Barbed Whip: 15 gc, only one hero can have it, with a strength equal to user’s. It cannot be parried, has the whipcrack rule (see sisters of sigmar), the Hero may use his whip to make the Enrage: Warhounds charge wildly. As long as he is not involved in close combat all Warhounds of Chaos within 4” gain +1 attack.

As you can see, taking the Strongman skill is important.