Editing Total War Warhammer/Tactics/Warriors of Chaos (section)

==The campaign und unique mechanics (The Old World)==
*'''Subjugation, Vassalization, and Norscan Awakenings''': The Warriors of Chaos can subjugate lesser mortals and make them their vassals. In TWWH1/2, this was restricted to Norscans, but in TWWH3, the Warriors of Chaos can subjugate human and elf factions by defeating their last settlement. Vassals pay tribute, and count as your provinces for provincial edicts. They ''must'' join your wars, but the inverse is also true, which can be a pain because AI Factions don't factor who the suzerain is of vassal factions; you can have a military pact with, say, Skaven or Ogres, and they'll still declare war on any of your vassals. 
**Archaon and Be'lakor may also force confederations of other Chaos Lords by taking over their last settlement, and considering the WoC are now flush with Legendary Lord options, you can create some terrifying doomstacks in the late-game.
**Finally, taking over certain settlements in the North can lead you to either vassalize the Norscan tribe (if they're still around), or awaken them if they aren't. You'll want to keep just the Dark Fortresses for yourself, as there's really no point in holding minor settlements short of casualty-replenishment on long campaigns. Trading captured settlements to your vassals also lets them get stronger, gives you gold, and lets them worry about holding it.
*'''Gifts of Chaos''': The chaos gods will love to give you gifts in exchange for souls of the fallen. You can sacrifice souls from enemies to gain various boons. These come in the form of undivided gifts, and gifts to specific gods. These can range from buffing units, to gaining new units such as daemons and dragon ogres. You can get souls from defeating any non daemon factions in battle. Fail to pay the tithe of souls however, and the chaos gods won't mind taking their gifts away. Some gifts of chaos can only be unlocked after making a certain amount of sacrifices.
*'''[[Path to Glory]]''': Your lords can devote themselves to the chaos gods and, given enough time, ascend to daemonhood. Every lord can take different marks. For instance, a standard chaos lord can devote to Khorne and give major boons to khornate troops in his army. While a chaos sorcerer of death can devote himself to Nurgle and switch his lore of death for the lore of Nurgle, or just stick with death. At level 20 all chaos lords can ascend to Daemonhood at a large cost of souls. This makes them very powerful and get a mix of their patreon gods magic, lest you are playing Khorne of course. Similar to ogres, Chaos lords can gain titles by completing certain objectives such as defeating a certain race or losing a battle and surviving. This allows your lords to forge quite the name for themselves.
*'''Warbands/Marks of Chaos''': What used to just be glorified banners pre Warhammer 3 are now your ticket to unlocking warriors devoted to each god. On campaign as a unit gains experience you have a chance to upgrade them to superior units, for instance you can upgrade a Marauder unit to Chaos Warriors to Chosen. However, if your army has the proper level of '''Dark Authority''' for a specific god, you can also give them a mark for that god which alters their appearance and stats. Some subfactions will have an easier time with certain marks than others, for instance Sigvald will have an easy time getting Slaanesh units but Khorne units will be hard to come by. You will need a Lord or Hero of a specific god in order to get the authority for it, so you will have a hard time recruiting and maintaining Nurgle units if there isn't a Nurgle lord or hero in the army. In multiplayer, this means that you can take 4 marked units alongside your mostly undivided army, included specialized marked mortals such as Skullcrusher or Hellstriders. In order to make sure half the units below don't get an extra 4 paragraphs of what they do, here is a general list of the stats each Mark does and each unit that can take Marks will be checked below
**The Mark of Khorne gives a unit spell resistance and frenzy in exchange for less melee defense, so if you are looking to play offense you will want to give your blessings to the Blood God.
**Mark of Tzeentch will give a unit Barrier and Magic Attacks, making them great if you are fighting an enemy that has a high amount of physical resistance or if you want them to have a bit of protection going in.
**Mark of Nurgle will give the unit poison attacks extra Melee Defense and HP in exchange for less attack, making this the choice if you are looking to outlast your enemy.
**Mark of Slaanesh will give a unit Immune to Psych, more Speed, strider, a physical resist and Devastating Flanker on cavalry. If you want to play a mobility heavy playstyle or you're fighting a ton of fear and terror this is your mark.