

The supplement still can’t address the massive gulf in power with regular Space Marines, or their seemingly endless access to new weapons, vehicles, and flyers (and here’s me thinking that seeking out new technology was frowned upon?) but it does make playing a chaos army a heck of a lot more fun.

These new(ish in some cases) rules add bags of flavour to a legion army and will be perfect for a narrative campaign or a fluffy throw-down with Imperial Scum.

The Word Bearers get access to artefacts that feed off their hate-fuelled fervour and the World Eaters get more and more ways to spill blood and collect skulls. Without giving too much away, the new rules, traits, and artefacts are fluffy as hell and finally give Chaos armies some much-needed buffs. In recent times I’ve been adding Kharn to my army to cause a bit more, well…Chaos, so it naturally fell to me to review the Word Bearers and the World Eaters sections of the new Traitor Legions supplement. In their raw state, Crimson Slaughter are pretty close to the Word Bearers – Dark Apostles, Possessed and Chaos Undivided being common to both. I quickly fell prey to the voices of the damned and after painting the Dark Angels in the set for some practice moved on to my first proper army, the Crimson Slaughter. I’m a relative newcomer to the 40K scene, having picked up the Dark Vengeance starter set just under two years ago in March 2015.
