That’s not a huge downside, but it does mean you’ll have fewer options than some other chapters, particularly when it comes to daemon engines. The Emperor’s Children don’t really have much in the way of custom units or things exclusive to Slaanesh. You’ll have some tough choices to make about the stratagems you use and when they’re applied. CP Thirsty. Having a lot of your best rules tied to stratagems means you’re going to need all the CP you can get, and you’ll have to manage your total pretty carefully compared to other “dumber” lists that can spend the bulk of their CP during army construction and plow forward.The other one being that Eldar get to clown on you for having the mark of Slaanesh, which isn’t great when you’re facing Drukhari or Harlequins on a top table and they can suddenly re-roll hits and wounds against your units. The big one being that your units can’t fight twice. Mark-locked. The mark of Slaanesh is arguably the strongest mark you can give to Chaos Space Marines, but being forced into it does have some downsides.This also makes your characters much more dangerous, since they can Heroically Intervene and fight before they get hit. Legion Trait. Fighting first didn’t matter as much in 8th but it’s very relevant in 9th, where it the non-active player gets to activate a unit for melee first after chargers have gone.Daemon Support. Slaanesh daemons are pretty good right now, and they have a lot of great synergy with Emperor’s Children.Arguably the only legion better at fighting in melee right now is the Night Lords. That’s pretty damn good for your melee units, and getting 50% more hits is much better than the +1 Attack bonus World Eaters get. They also have access to Icons of Excess, which allow Death to the False Emperor to proc on a 5+, meaning they can get extra hits on a 5+ or, with the boost from Prescience, a 4+. In addition to shooting, the Emperor’s Children are pretty damn good at fighting in melee, and have a host of nasty tricks they can pull off. Endless Cacophony is only available to Slaanesh units and the ability to shoot twice with Noise Marines, Obliterators, Terminators, Bikes, or Havocs is very strong, particularly when paired with stratagems like Excrutiating Frequencies and Veterans of the Long War. If you want to build a shooting army with Chaos Space Marines, Slaanesh is the key to getting there. They’re even better for Emperor’s Children, where they’re both Troops and are able to use stratagems like Excrutiating Frequencies to massively up their damage output.
Noise Marine Troops. Noise marines are pretty good, and definitely have a lot to offer over regular Chaos Space Marines.
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They’ve gotten even better with the update to the Death to the False Emperor ability in the November 2021 Balance Dataslate. Their weaknesses are few and they have a lot going for them strength-wise. The Emperor’s Children are among the strongest individual legion amongs the Chaos Space Marines’ options right now, owing to great synergy with Chaos Daemons, superior stratagems, great Troops, and a suddenly much-more-relevant legion trait. As a Slaanesh-devoted faction, they’re interesting in soup builds as well, since Slaanesh daemons have some really strong options and make great soup partners. Emperor’s Children have access to a ton of great stratagems and boosts, giving you options regardless of whether you want to make a single big mudermonster warlord, run large blobs of Noise Marines, or play with shooting-heavy squads of Terminators or Bikers. The Emperor’s Children are the primary Slaanesh-aligned faction of Chaos Space Marines, and though for a while they played second fiddle to the Flawless Host, Faith and Fury put them right back at the forefront.
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In this article, we’re looking specifically at the Emperor’s Children traitor legion and how to manage their custom rules and strategies. This is a companion article to our larger Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines article.
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