Editing Lost and the Damned (section)

==The Old School (ain't no school like it)==
Cast your mind back to the dark days before the Internet of things to the hallowed days of Rogue Trader when this... well, we hesitate to call it an army, ''a loose confederacy of units,'' yes? Right, This was when Realm of Chaos was released as a two-part supplement to the game. The first book, ''Slaves to Darkness,'' had a lot of rules for Fantasy as well as a limited set of rules for some chaos space marines and daemons, particularly those in service to Khorne and Slaanesh. The second book, ''The Lost and the Damned,'' is where you find stuff for Nurgle, Tzeentch and most importantly for our purposes, an army list for "chaos renegades".

This catchall term included the now familiar items we expect to see in a LatD army, namely traitor guardsmen, mutants and their vehicles backed by a whole bunch of shit you would otherwise find in WHFB: beastment, minotaurs and a whole bunch of other nasty monsters you could add to the list. Because fuck yeah, why not? Luckily, second edition would continue this wholesome content and slam all this stuff into one, single book - and it was great and you know it!

After that, we all know the story - third edition, blah blah blah. Hard rules change, Instant Death, bizarre power creep etc. Chaos Space Marines enjoyed two releases during this time, though their second, infamously OP codex came during the waning days of 3.5. Alongside them, the vaunted Eye of Terror Codex was released for the eponymous global campaign backed by the early 2000's internet and, well, that's more or less the basis for our nostalgia.