Chaos and the Night Lords - Part 1

Ah, Chaos. My second love in Warhammer 40k. Or my first, depending on my mood. And an updated Chaos Space Marine codex. Many people don't really find the current version of the Chaos Marines very appealing, me included. There's just not a whole lot in the codex that really pops out at you and yells "I am Chaos incarnate!" By the time you write up your army list it feels like you've got a very generic marine list with a twist of evil thrown in. Not really what I'm looking for I'm afraid.

Don't get me wrong, I think the codex can do very well game-wise. But it has to have that crazy evil feeling to it and I'm hoping an updated codex will touch on this. Or even grab it by the tusks and throw it across the room.

So in the mean time I've decided that the new Blood Angels codex would be a good fit my Night Lords army. After reading Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, I've been itching to get a Night Lords themed list out there. I intend to limit what kind of units I'll take from the BA codex, which includes:

Furioso Librarian Dreadnoughts - Chaos dreadnoughts are supposed to be crazy after being stuck in a metal sarcophagus for 10,000 years and being a psyker may not be a goog thing for these guys. Only regular, Furioso and Death Company dreads in this list.

Baal Predators and Stormraven Gunships - These two vehicles are too new fluff-wise to be common among a Night Lords fleet.

Techmarines - These definitely don't have that Chaos feel.

Sanguinary Guard - I'm on the fence with these guys. I could definitely think of a way they could be represented in a Chaos list, but I'm not entirely sure if they should be. Possibly a possessed version of assault troops.

Special characters could easily be represented in a Chaos list as well.

Part 2 will be the first version of the list I intend to build for these guys.