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==Why play Chaos==

To crush your enemies; to see them driven before you; to hear the lamentations of their women.

The forces of [[Chaos]] - divided into two army books, Hordes of Chaos and Beasts of Chaos, but written to work as a pair - are savage, brutal, unforgiving barbarians, plus twisted-up gnarly mutants and eldritch monsters from another dimension. It is an army raised for a single purpose: to destroy the world of men (and elves, and dwarfs, and even goblins and especially lizards, although rodents of unusual size may be all right).

In battle, the Chaos army is a relentless melee death machine, forsaking any ranged attack that isn't "throw a melee weapon at someone" or "bind an eldritch horror into a cannon the size of a house and fire it when you want to move castles out of the way". Some Chaos armies opt for weight of numbers, drowning the foe in a sea of low-cost light infantry; others go for the small force of elite hard-cases wrapped in nigh-impenetrable armour. Chaos has access to powerful, aggressive magic to ease their passage across the field, and a variety of fast-moving "chaff" units to distract and harry the enemy, but make no mistake: sooner or later, this army is about bringing axe to face and making damn sure it stays there.