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Zongo998

Settle my conscious- Khorne and Night Lords

Hello folks,

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I have noodled around with a model here or there, mostly fantasy but now I want to start a side of 40k.

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I want it to be fluffy, not OP or anything like that. So that is what is most important to me.

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I like the idea of the Night Lords being very bloodthirsty and gruesome, but I also like the Khorne Berserkers and Kharn.

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Would they ever work together, or is the behind the scenes blood and guts too far gone from the Khorneboys to ever have them mesh together?

Posted Feb 5, 2019, 3:42 PM UTC

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Irraz•

All the former traitor legions are splintered into a thousand different warbands. If you want khorne alligned blood crazed night lords go for it. In the book Sons of the Hydra one of the alpha legions warband member is a former night lord that thought his warband became too much "chaosy".

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GrudirCS Marines•

Chaos Space Marine warbands can and do ally, even those who serve opposed gods. It's a World Eater and sorcerer of the Thousand Sons who get on best in Talon of Horus.

So, yeah, it's fluffy for Night Lords to ally with World Eaters or just about anybody. They might sneer down their noses at them, but a certain amount of pragmatism is necessary to survive in the Eye and the Imperium at large. The two warbands don't even necessarily have to mesh behind the scenes, keeping separate until called to raid and battle.

It could even be a situation where the Night Lords trail along in the wake of a World Eaters force, looting and killing, and coincidentally providing fire suppoort.

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Zongo998OP•

See this is what I love about our community. Everyone is so knowledgeable and eager to help. Thanks everyone!

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Thirteenera•

While possible on paper, Night Lords consider all those who are corrupted to be "below them", and despise them. So i doubt it.

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Soap-1987•

Uzas is a Night Lord from First Claw who is very pro Khorne "Blood for the blood God" "Skulls for the throne" a former Khornate Bezerker so it can work

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Heretic_Astartes•

Night Lords, if they're still subscribing to the "old ways" are anti-chaos-gods. However, there are whole warbands that ally with the Pantheon. For instance Talos Valcoran wasn't a Pantheon subscriber and actively refused them, but members of first claw were:

Vandred Anrathi (Heresy era Sgt) - Daemonhood

Uzas - Khorne

Xarl - most closely aligned with Slaanesh, due to his chasing of being the best fighter of first claw.

Cyrion - Khorne, having committed many needless murders in the belly of the covenant of blood.

So, in line with your initial post the answer is "Night Lords are historically anti-pantheon, but theres scope to ally your warband to the gods".

With relation to World Eaters, Night Lords are fellow warriors, so worked with each other as legions often, but shared no true kinship (Ref: Allies Matrix, HH AoD Rulebook).

You can't take Kharn outside of a World Eaters Det, so I use my World Eaters and Night Lords in two separate detachments. They make for a fun combined army, but it's not terribly competitive :)

I also have Night Lords Berserkers (Elites) and they're very effective! Even with the less attacks than their World Water Brethren.

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