Servants of the Dark Gods · Let the Galaxy Burn
Armies of Chaos
The Emperor's greatest enemies are His own fallen sons — traitor legions, plague hosts, daemon armies and corrupted war engines pouring from the Eye of Terror. Choose your faction, or browse everything the Dark Gods can field.
Know the Enemy
Ten thousand years ago, half the Space Marine Legions turned on the Emperor in the galaxy-burning civil war of the Horus Heresy. The traitors lost — and have never stopped fighting.
Khorne the Blood God, Tzeentch the Changer of Ways, Nurgle the Plague Lord and Slaanesh the Prince of Excess — every Chaos army serves, knowingly or not, the Ruinous Powers.
From the Eye of Terror the traitors wage their Long War against the Imperium — ancient Astartes, daemon hosts and corrupted war engines, united only by hatred of the Corpse-Emperor.
The Lore
Ten millennia ago the Warmaster Horus led half the Space Marine Legions into rebellion, and the galaxy has never healed. The defeated traitors fled into the Eye of Terror — a wound in reality where the Warp bleeds through — and there they were remade by their new masters: the four Dark Gods of Chaos.
Now they wage the Long War: ancient Astartes twisted by ten thousand years of hatred, legions dedicated to blood, plague, sorcery and excess, daemon hosts that are the gods' own nightmares given form, and fallen Knights piloted by the damned. They do not fight to win territory. They fight to watch the Imperium burn.
On the Tabletop
Chaos armies span the full spectrum of villainy on the table: the flexible, pick-and-mix warbands of the Chaos Space Marines, the screaming melee flood of the World Eaters, the unkillable trudge of the Death Guard, the spell-slinging control of the Thousand Sons, and daemon hosts that run from swarms of horrors to towering Greater Daemons.
Most are aggressive, character-led armies that reward bold play and getting stuck in — and every one of them is a painter's dream. Choose a faction below for its lore, tabletop guide and full kit list.
More about the Chaos (40k) range
The Dark Gods’ legions — traitor Space Marines, warp-born daemons and corrupted war-engines bent on burning the galaxy. Choose your faction below.
The Traitor Legions
Choose Your Faction
Every path to damnation has its own flavour — blood, plague, excess, sorcery, or all four at once. Pick a faction to explore its lore, playstyle and kits.
The Long War Calls
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