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FOR CHAOS!! Faction Breakdowns | Warhammer 11th Edition New Player Guide
Episode 9518th September 2026 • TTP Field Manual • TTP Field Manual
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We're back to where it all started; we are redoing our original four episodes! Those inaugural episodes served as both an introduction to and a metrics-based review of each playable faction in Warhammer 40,000. With 11th edition landing hot and new players joining the scene, we feel it's a great time to revisit this faction breakdown format.

For our third of four episodes, it's all about CHAOS. From the daemons of the four dark gods: Khorne, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, and Nurgle, to their mortal champions of the Heretic Astartes, we cover all the factions of the traitor and the warp.

This series blends matter-of-fact orientation with opinionated review. We give each of the four categories a ranking between 1-5, and an overall score out of 20. We call this the S.L.A.G. ranking. We feel these categories cover all you need to know:

STYLE - the overall aesthetic and whether we feel it is fully realised.

LORE - their place in the universe, how they are represented, and how they carry themselves within the epic.

ACCESSIBILITY - whether the faction is easy to acquire, paint, and get going with.

GAMEPLAY - how all of the above comes to life on the tabletop, whether their rules serve the faction well, and whether the faction does well both casually and competitively.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro and recapping this mini-series

03:56 Chaos DAEMONS

21:01 Oh, Chaos Knights..

31:42 Let the Galaxy Burn, CHAOS SPACE MARINES

42:40 DEATH GUARD, heck yeah, I mean Yuck!

51:35 Emperor's Children, tehe

1:01:01 Thousand Sons, man, look at that time stamp!

1:11:00 Titanicus but bad

1:12:01 !! WORLD EATERS !!

1:20:24 Outro

Website/links: https://ttpfieldmanual.captivate.fm

TTP Field Manual is brought to you by Joshy and Jonny, best friends and tabletop gaming fans from their local group, Trust the Process Hobbies. We use this podcast to share our ramblings about the hobby (though we cannot shut up about Warhammer).

By day, Joshy is a therapist; by night, an RPG aficionado raised on Final Fantasy and years of crafting his own Dungeons & Dragons worlds. Jonny, a technician, spends his downtime conquering more video games than Joshy can track.

Our occasional guest Zakky has a passion for buying things he then has to build.

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