Armageddon Chaos Forces

Chaos Portal

The forces of Chaos were one of the main combatants during the First War For Armageddon, and during the time of the 13th Black Crusade and the period following the creation of the Great Rift the forces of Chaos became primary actors in the Third War for Armageddon.

Heretic Astartes

• World Eaters^[2][3]
  • The Foresworn^[4a][4b]

The Lost and the Damned

• Chaos Cults^[5]
• Mutants^[5]

Dark Mechanicum

• Daemon Engines^[5]
• Traitor Titan Legions^[5]

Chaos Daemons

• Blood Legions of Khorne^[1]
• Scintillating Legions of Tzeentch^[1]
• Slaanesh's Legions of Excess^[3]
• Plague Legions of Nurgle^[3]

Season of Blood^[6]

These are the Chaos forces that took part in the event on Armageddon known as the Season of Blood.^[6]

• Angron's Host:
  • Chaos Space Marines - Broadly controlled by Slaughterbound Jarrok Skreel
    • World Eaters warbands
      • The Foresworn
      • Brazen Butchers
      • Crimson Desecrators
      • Ironspines
      • Sons of Carnage
      • Viscerati
      • 13+ additional warbands
      • Fleet Assets: Battleship Conqueror, 12 other capital ships, 20 escorts, 15 picket ships, large numbers of dropships and super-heavy landers
    • Other Khornate Chaos Space Marine forces
      • Bloodblessed
      • Murderhounds
      • Children of the Crimson Lord
      • Fleet Assets: 4 capital ships, 2 escorts, 20+ dropships
    • Lost and the Damned
      • Jakhal and Goremongers Cults
      • Traitor Guard - 6-7 regiments
      • Mutant and Spawn packs
      • Corrupted Servitors

• Armageddon Renegades - Commanded by Askarra the Ensanguined
  • Hive Thoraddis
    • Traitor Armageddon Steel Legion
    • 34th Armageddon Infantry Regiment - 2 battalions, 8 companies
    • 189th Armageddon Armoured Regiment
    • 56th Volkaros Iron Bloods
    • Thoraddis Desecrators - at least 4 heavy artillery batteries
    • Cultist and Jakhal rabble
  • Hive Hades
    • Cult of the Crimson Emperor
    • Sons of Blood
    • Vremaine Mutilationists - Formerly the VIIth Greythan Exculpators
    • Minervan Tank Legion - 1 Super-Heavy Tank squadron
    • 4 Arphista Penal Legions
    • Hadean Hounds - Corrupted Enforcers
    • 111 artillery pieces
    • 19 mobile anti-air assets
    • Mutant rabble

• Dark Mechanicum
  • Legio Vulpa - 4-6 Titans and 1 bulk lander under Cossus Narek
  • Abheilüng forces - commanded by Archmagos Axemok Roark
    • Heretek agents
    • Daemon Engines
    • Negavolt Cultists

• Khornate Daemonic hordes

Sources

• 1: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook, pg. 52
• 2: Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition Rulebook, pg. 105
• 3: Armageddon Saint (Novel),^[Help]
• 4: Conquest of Armageddon (Novel)
  • 4a: Chapter 1
  • 4b: Chapter 21
• 5: Codex: Astra Militarum (9th Edition), pgs. 36-37
• 6: Crusade: Armageddon, pg. 17