Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour - which weapons?

[RGilbert26]

Evening all, im doing a Word Bearers army and im trying to figure out what to give him.

Currently thinking of giving him the Khorne axe and standard twin-linked bolter, 4+ invul, and maybe one or two other things.

Any better ideas?

[spaceman91]

It has to be the mace or the axe. I prefer the axe on a lord but the mace is so much fun when it works. I put it on a daemon prince and the look on my opponents face, i will treasure that look for as long as i live.

[RGilbert26]

It's a shame that The Lord box doesn't come with a mace - if it want one I have to buy a terminator box.

[spaceman91]

No you dont. There is a back pack piece in the standard csm box. It has a skull at the centre of the 8 point star. I wish i could show you mine but just take the head of the axe very carefully and drill the shaft. Trim this back pack piece. Drill that and bang your done. It looks just as i thought the mace should.
Edit: i have done it to a power armoured dude aswell but that used a space wolf bit instead of the termy axe.

[RGilbert26]

As in take off the end of the staff and put it on the end of the axe? (Obviously remove axe head)

[spaceman91]

Give me a sec to fire up the laptop and ill show you what i did. You can see if you like it.

update: be with you in a mo my dad has remove the driver for my phone. its just redoing now. only be a minute.

[spaceman91]

3695 hope you can see this

the head piece is out of the standard troop box. it is meant to go on a back pack i think.

[RGilbert26]

Yeah I can see what you did, thanks.

[spaceman91]

i used the axe head i cut off for the khorne axe on my PA lord ( i have 3 different ones ). for that i ended up using the thunder hammer from the death company box.

[Learn2Eel]

I agree with the others. The Khorne Lord with the Axe is usually the best, most consistent option. If you plan on running Chaos Spawn, consider the Khorne Juggernaught Lord - it is a nightmare for a lot of armies to deal with. The Sigil of Corruption is a must - or at least the Aura. Another decent variation is a Slaanesh Lord on a Seeker outflanking with the Burning Brand.

[pauljc]

Alternatively, of course, there must be such things in the galaxy as the Sword of Blind Fury, or the Black Axe. :)

As long as you're clear with your opponent what's what, Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, take whatever you like! :D

For example, I'm doing a version of a Biker lord with a Black Mace (axe model), with two Chaos Spawn chained to his bike. Except I don't like gribbly tentacle monsters, so I'm using a couple of the new Gorebeasts from the Chaos Chariot.

[DrLove42]

I gave mine a Combimelta, Sigil of Corruption and a Chainfist, and usually the Mark of Tzeentch.

3+ Invuln and 2+ armour makes him the equivilent of a Storm Shielded. And the chain Fist is higher strength and better against armour, but the same Init as a Axe.

I think he needs an AP2 weapon minimum, especially since he will be challenged and challenging a lot of people. A mace means a guy in power armour can probably beat him.




I also am planning a second, a Lord on a Juggernaut, Mark of Khorne, Axe of Fury and a combi plasma, running with 5 Chaos Spawns (unmarked, MoK is useless on Spawn). These follow my 2nd spawn unit (MoN) for cover and over saturate the enemy with targets

[Archon]

My Iron Warrior Terminator Lord has a big hammer wich i played with the old codex as deamon weapon (undiveded). As I like wysiwyg i could either play it as a powerfist (which is similar to the hammer, that we are denied of) or as the only DW you can get, if you are NOT have a mark of khorne - the black mace.

Last weekend he had his first fight. Clubbing on a loyal captain in terminator armou, he scores 5 wounds an my opponent managed two failed saves and one failed thougness-test ;-) I like this combination. In the following game my lord has killed the entiere servo-armoured retinue of this captain - having only one wound left (resulting from earlier shooting).

His firearm is the trusty combi-melta.

[Belial69]

Weapon wise, lightning claw and chainfist. Pick either reroll to wound ap3 or s8 ap2 i1 2d6 to penetrate armour. Both are specialist weapons, so +1A either way. :)

[nurglez]

For my nurgle lord in terminator armour I went for power axe and black mace, although I am in the process of making a second nurgle lord in terminator armour with a chainfist and lightning claw :D

While the khorne axe is rather tasty, I don't follow khorne, so I decided to go for the mace, and kept a power axe as it was free (if you buy terminator armour and swap the combi bolter for the mace) as well as giving him the option for ap2 attacks if needed.