WARHAMMER ARMIES: CHAOS DWARFS

An Unofficial Supplement for Warhammer: the Game of Fantasy Battles

Rules by Thommy H, with suggestions from Baggronor, Grimstonefire and

Servius
Background material by Thommy H, based on original content by Rick Priestly
and Games Workshop
Art by Baggronor, John Blanche, Grupax, Ishkur Cinderhat, Igorvet, Karl
Kopinski, Marcus Leitdorf, Mark Gibbons, Adrian Smith and Xander

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 CONTENTS
THE CHAOS DWARF ARMY .................. 3 COLLECTING CHAOS DWARFS ......... 43
THE DARK LANDS .................................... 4 Lords of Zharr-Naggrund .............. 44
CHAOS DWARF HISTORY ...................... 7 Priests of Hashut ............................ 46
THE CHAOS DWARF ARMY ................ 17 Soldiers of the Tower .................... 48
Chaos Dwarf Warriors ................... 18 Slaves ............................................. 52
Chaos Dwarf Stormcallers ............. 19 Immortals ....................................... 54
Slaves ............................................. 20 Hobgoblin Wolf Riders ................. 55
Immortals ....................................... 21 Daemonic Engines ......................... 56
Acolytes of Hashut ........................ 22 Mortal Engines .............................. 59
Priests of Hashut ............................ 23 Mercenaries ................................... 60
Captains of Zharr-Naggrund .......... 24 Bull Centaurs ................................. 61
Bull Centaurs ................................. 25 THE TRAILS OF HASHUT ..................... 62
Tauruses ......................................... 26 ARMY LIST ............................................... 63
Hobgoblin Wolf Riders ................. 27 Lords .............................................. 64
Daemonic Engines ......................... 28 Heroes ............................................ 66
Mortal Engines .............................. 30 Core ............................................... 68
Ogres .............................................. 31 Special ........................................... 69
Petrified Sorcerer ........................... 32 Rare ................................................ 71
Ghorth the Cruel ............................ 34 CREATIONS OF
Zhatan the Black ............................ 36 THE CURSED FORGES .......................... 73
Lord Bhaal ..................................... 38 DAEMONIC GIFTS .................................. 78
Astragoth ....................................... 39 APPENDIX ................................................. 80
Rykarth the Unbreakable ............... 40 REFERENCE ............................................. 84
Kthaark Daemonbane .................... 41
Gorduz Backstabber ...................... 42

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 THE CHAOS DWARF ARMY
Beyond the Worlds Edge Mountains, in the toxic smog. All of their labours have one end:
midst of the Dark Lands, a stark and cheerless the construction of their single mighty city,
wasteland that spans the thousand miles and in order to complete this endless task they
between the green lands of the Old World and are reliant on a resource far more valuable than
the towering peaks of the Mountains of Mourn, stone, metal and gems: slaves.
is the empire of the cruel and industrious
Chaos Dwarfs. Almost unknown in the realms Chaos Dwarfs raid from their homelands with
to the west, the Chaos Dwarfs are the dominant only one goal; the accumulation of prisoners
force in the Dark Lands, holding sway over who will labour as slaves in their pits, mines
hundreds of leagues of territory and thousands and factories. Most of their slaves are Orcs and
of tribes of warring Greenskins that exist in the Goblins, but others are drawn from the races of
shadow of their dark empire. Unlike their the Old World and beyond so that Man, Dwarf,
western kin with whom they share an ancient Ogre and Elf must toil alongside their hated
origin, they have become masters of corrupt ancestral foes until the end of their days. When
sorcery and twisted technology and they the Chaos Dwarf march to war, they are
worship a monstrous deity they call Hashut, armoured in the ornate suits of Chaos armour
the Father of Darkness. which they forge and sell to the northern
barbarian worshippers of the Chaos Gods, but
The Chaos Dwarfs live in a vast obsidian city they are also accompanied by vast engines of
called Zharr-Naggrund that takes the form of a destruction that are powered not only by their
gargantuan stepped pyramid. It lies in the mastery of science and technology, but by their
middle of the Plain of Zharr, a massive impact darkest art of all; the ability to summon and
crater that is replete in mineral wealth. The bind living Daemons into machines. Alongside
Chaos Dwarfs have extensively strip-mined their elite infantry, wielding axe and
this region and have sunken mines, workshops blunderbuss, and their towering soul-engines,
and refineries into its blackened soil. Their they also drive mobs of wretched slaves before
industry has encompassed the whole of the them often simply to blunt the enemy's attack.
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 THE DARK LANDS
The seemingly endless waste between the feet into the sky, and populated by hundreds of
Worlds Edge Mountains and the Mountains of thousands of slaves and Chaos Dwarfs, Zharr-
Mourn is unlike any other land. It is a barren, Naggrund is not really a city in the way the
desiccated realm that takes its name from the term is used in the Old World, but instead a
omnipresent black soil that covers everything. single building that is equal parts fortress,
There is almost no water beneath the earth, factory and temple. Within its red-lit depths,
instead the ground is a fragile skin that covers the Chaos Dwarfs live and work, creating
vast magma ducts beneath. The Chaos Dwarfs arcane machineries that are beyond anything
believe that the Dark Lands' location between Men could begin to understand. They have
two great mountain ranges means that it is a harnessed both the energies of the earth and
particularly weak point on the world's crust. the empyrean, making slaves of both fire and
Doubtless it was further weakened by the Daemons to fuel their awesome engines. The
ancient impact that created the Plain of Zharr. River Ruin flows through Zharr-Naggrund and
Whatever the cause, the Dark Lands are a the Chaos Dwarfs make use of it in their forges
region of extreme volcanic activity, where and factories. Its waters are pumped
boiling tar pits, exposed mineral seams and throughout the city, flowing into every
rivers of smoking lava pockmark the workshop, and then join together before the
landscape. It is these features that make the great southern water-gate, out of which they
Dark Lands so useful to the Chaos Dwarfs, as flow, now polluted with tar, chemicals and all
they can easily find the minerals that they the effluence of industry. The River Ruin
covet and plunge mines deep into the bowels makes its way sluggishly through the Dark
of the earth, making use of the infernal Lands after this, staining its banks with
energies below their very feet. vibrantly-coloured toxins and choking all life
that attempts to drink from or live in it until it
The heart of the Chaos Dwarf empire is the finally washes into the ocean in the distant
Plain of Zharr. Thousands of years ago, a south.
meteorite descended from the sky – perhaps it
was a chunk of one of the moons that orbit the Though the Chaos Dwarfs only have one city,
world, or just a nameless wandering lump of they have built fortresses throughout the Dark
space debris – and blasted a vast crater in the Lands that enable them to keep watch on their
earth. It pulverised the very rock, creating in realms. The largest of these is the Tower of
an instant crystals and ores of immense value. Gorgoth in the south. The way is marked by
They were left lying there, exposed to the the Gates of Zharr, an awesome edifice that
uncaring skies for millennia until the ancestors serves no practical need equidistant between
of the Chaos Dwarfs discovered them. Since the Plateau of Gorgoth and the Plain of Zharr.
the coming of the Chaos Dwarfs, the Plain of It was built in the time of Zhargon the Great as
Zharr was changed irrevocably. Now, it is an a warning to the Greenskin tribes that the
immense network of factories, mines, smelting Chaos Dwarfs were mighty beyond their
plants, workshops and forges. As far as the eye reckoning and able to find them wherever they
can see, chimneys pump out clouds of might hide. Gorgoth itself is a black tower that
multicoloured smog and rivers of tar and ooze pierces the grey skies, clogged with the output
snake their way through the maze of stinking not of Chaos Dwarf forges, but by the fires of
industry. Slaves in untold millions must live in the earth itself: the great volcano known as
this hellish warren, their lungs clogged with Azgorh lies to the south. Gorgoth is rich in
foul vapours and their eyes never knowing mineral deposits and the whole plateau is
anything but the pallid sunlight that peers highly volcanic. The Chaos Dwarfs have dug a
wanly through the smoke and the ruddy vast network of mines beneath it and Gorgoth
infernal light of the soul-forges. is populated almost entirely by slaves. Their
misery contributes to the growth of the Chaos
The capital, and the only true city of the Chaos Dwarf empire as endless trains of caravans
Dwarfs' empire is the obsidian tower of Zharr- carrying the coal and precious minerals that
Naggrund. It rears up like a lonely mountain they mine travel across the Dark Lands to the
from the flat blackness of the Plain of Zharr, Plain of Zharr.
utterly singular in a way that warps perspective
so that it is not clear until one approaches the To the north of the Dark Lands is the
enormous gates of beaten gold and iron just windswept plateau known as Zorn Uzkul, or
how immense it truly is. Rearing thousands of the Great Skull Land. It was named thus by the

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ancestors of the Chaos Dwarfs because the power of Chaos in ancient times, hold sway.
barren, lifeless region was littered with the They are captured and tamed by tribes of
bones of primeval beasts, who perhaps died in Hobgoblins – a form of steppe Goblin native to
the aftermath of the impact that created the the Dark Lands and the lands to the east – who
Plain of Zharr. Unlike the Plain of Zharr, Zorn ride them into battle, usually in the service of
Uzkul is completely without value, and the the Chaos Dwarfs. The Blasted Wastes are
Chaos Dwarfs have no settlements there. home to more Greenskin tribes and especially
Instead, they watch over it from the fortress of Black Orcs who were created by the Chaos
Uzkulak which sits at the mouth of their great Dwarfs as a race of super slaves many
underground canal, stretching from the Falls of centuries ago. The Black Orcs rebelled and
Doom to the Sea of Chaos. Here, the Chaos were driven from the Plain of Zharr, but the
Dwarf fleet – a mighty armada of ironclad Chaos Dwarfs still allow tribes of them to
steamships – musters so that it can raid the roam the Dark Lands so that they can be
shores of distant lands in their search for more recruited into their armies as mercenaries. Far
slaves. The fleet also cruises the River Ruin, to the south, beyond the Ash Ridge Mountains,
their ships' metal hulls being the only ones that is the haunted Plain of Bone where an area
can resist the corrosive waters, ensuring that larger than an Imperial province is carpeted in
the Chaos Dwarfs always make their presence the bones of ancient beasts, slain in some
felt to the south. Their other fortresses, cataclysm. Here, the carcasses of more
Daemon's Stump and the Black Fortress, are recently killed monsters are picked clean by
havens for their ships and allow them to guard degenerate Ghoul tribes who gather on the
over the Howling Wastes, which are traversed shores of the Sea of Dread, drawing power
by caravans seeking trade with the Ogre from their terrible master, Nagash, supreme
Kingdoms and distant Cathay. The Chaos lord of the Undead, whose lair is close by.
Dwarfs suffer the trade routes to exist because
they have a vested interest in keeping their Though the Chaos Dwarfs claim lordship over
hulking and dim-witted neighbours powerful all the Dark Lands, it would be impossible for
so that they can trade with them and even use any race to actually govern such a vast tract of
them as slaves. However it is not unknown for land. Instead, the Chaos Dwarfs rule by fear,
a caravan from the Old World to run into a constantly raiding from their fortresses without
slaving band of Chaos Dwarfs, and in that case warning so that the Greenskin tribes always
they rarely complete their journeys. know they may be brought to heel. The Chaos
Dwarfs extract a tribute of slaves from the
The Dark Lands are not entirely uninhabited tribes that live under their shadow, exerting
for, while almost nothing can grow there, there control over thousands of leagues of territory
is enough sustenance to support scavenging as the Greenskins capture Men and Dwarfs to
creatures such as wolves and Greenskins. sell to their distant masters so they can avoid
Across the great moors of the Wolf Lands, the fate they so readily thrust upon their
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 CHAOS DWARF HISTORY
Once, the Chaos Dwarfs were just like their why stop here? They broke from their kin and
cousins who make their homes in the Worlds journeyed north, passing beyond the Worlds
Edge Mountains, and the two peoples share Edge Mountains and onto a vast and desolate
much in common despite their ancient northern plateau. This land was barren and
sundering. Both respect wealth, age and cold, lashed by bitter winds that prevented
prowess in battle, and both lust for the mineral anything but sickly, stunted thorns from
wealth of the earth. Both races are masters of growing. The bones of primordial monsters
cunning artifice and engineering, producing that littered this region caused the Dwarf
machines that seem wondrous to less skilled explorers to name it ‘Zorn Uzkul' – the Great
peoples, such as Men and Orcs. However, this Skull Land. The explorers kept in contact with
is where the similarity ends, for the Chaos their kin in the Worlds Edge Mountains all this
Dwarfs are a dark and twisted parody of their time, but generations began to pass as they
western kin: their sense of honour and racial crossed Zorn Uzkul, surviving as best they
pride is warped into slavish devotion to their could, and eventually it became impractical to
society and xenophobia, their craftsmanship is send messengers so far. The explorers began to
turned to the construction of engines bound build their own settlements, making the best
with the souls of daemons and their strength they could of the poor land, but it was a
and martial prowess is used to enslave anyone meagre and hard existence, and they became
who dares to cross the lands they claim as their an increasingly tough and embittered people.
own. The Chaos Dwarfs – or Dawi'Zharr as All this hardship was as nothing compared to
they call themselves, meaning ‘Dwarfs of Fire' what would follow, however.
– are utterly evil, and despise all other living
things. It is fortunate for the rest of the The Coming of Chaos
Warhammer world that they live in the Dark
Lands, surrounded on all sides by desolate Unbeknownst to the lesser races, the polar
wastes and towering mountain ranges, and gates of the Old Ones were about to collapse,
their desire to conquer and subjugate all other enshrouding the world in the tides of Chaos.
races is mediated by the presence of vast This was the darkest time any of the young
mineral wealth in their own lands. races had ever experienced as the winds of
pure magic engulfed their lands and they were
The origin of the Chaos Dwarfs lies in the assailed by the monstrous Daemons of the
same place as their kin, for once they were a Chaos Gods. Many creatures were mutated and
single people. The Dwarfs rose in the warped by the power of Chaos, and it was
Southlands when the Old Ones still walked the during this time that many strange beasts such
world, and slowly migrated north along the as Chimera, Griffons, Beastmen and Skaven
Worlds Edge Mountains, becoming a hardy were created. The Dwarfs proved resistant to
people with a great love of mining and craft. In the taint of Chaos however, and remained
these early times, the Dwarfs were guided to secure in their mountain homes, waiting out
their eventual homelands by the Ancestor the storm of magical energy. However, the
Gods, and they were guided well for it took Dwarfs of Zorn Uzkul were not so fortunate:
only a relatively short time for them to conquer exposed on the great plateau, they had
the mountain lands and found holds below the nowhere to hide from the warping tides, and
peaks. The Dwarfs fought against the Orc and Chaos began to visit terrible changes on them.
Goblin tribes that infested the caverns and they The unfortunate Dwarfs were mutated, slowly
became the mortal enemies of these creatures, at first, but then more and more, until fully a
but they never posed a serious threat to the tenth of their number sported some examples
intelligent and powerful Dwarfs in those days. of the curse of Chaos. Some of the Dwarfs
even turned to worship of the Chaos Gods
themselves and migrated further north to join
The Exodus the growing hordes of the Dark Gods. Most of
the Dwarfs of Zorn Uzkul simply tried to
Though the Dwarfs had travelled far and survive. Abandoned by the Ancestor Gods,
fought hard for their new homelands, there whose voices were silenced by the tides of
were still those among them who were not Chaos, they called out for salvation, praying
satisfied. These brave – some would say for some deity or hero to save them from the
foolhardy – individuals argued that the mutations and the Daemonic attacks.
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 Hashut some primordial impact thousands of years
ago. The crater was rich in minerals, gems, oil
Their call was answered. What Man, Dwarf or and other things the Chaos Dwarfs needed to
Elf can say who Hashut truly is? Tales abound survive in the harsh lands, and the only
in ancient tomes; some say he was once a inhabitants were Orcs, Gnoblars, Goblins and a
Bloodthirster of Khorne who rebelled against sub-race of Greenskins that would come to be
his master, and grew in power in his prison called Hobgoblins. These creatures were
below the earth, mastering fire and rock. primitive and savage, and were unable to make
Others say that he is the spirit of a mighty use of the mineral wealth of the crater, so the
volcano, given life by the power of Chaos. Chaos Dwarfs had no compunction about
Others claim he fell to earth in the heart of a driving off or killing them all. In time, they
huge meteorite – the very same that created the spread across the area, which they named the
Plain of Zharr – and that he is some disgraced Plain of Zharr, or ‘Zharrduk'. The Chaos
Chaos God who once haunted the black orb of Dwarfs had abandoned all their old ways, just
Morrslieb. The truth will most likely never be as they felt the Ancestor Gods had abandoned
known, all that is certain is that, in their time them, and cast aside their runic heirlooms. In
of need, Hashut came to the Dwarfs of Zorn giving themselves over to Hashut, they had
Uzkul and offered them an alternative to death given up their ancestral magic, but gained
and suffering. Hashut was a god of fire and something powerful in return: sorcerers of
darkness, and he came to the Dwarfs in the their own. The envoys of Hashut were able to
form of a mighty bull whose hooves sparked use the magic of their god, whom they now
thunder: at first they were terrified of this called the Father of Darkness, to hurl flames
Daemon-lord, but his promises were their only and shadows at their enemies, and a certain
hope of salvation. No one knows the true percentage of the Chaos Dwarfs who were
nature of that terrible bargain, and what the born each generation had the same powers.
Dwarf explorers had to sacrifice in the name of These individuals quickly became a separate
their new god, but when the Time of Chaos group in the fledgling Dawi'Zharr society, held
ended they were changed forever: their apart from the rest and keeping their own
mutations had stabilised, but they still bore the counsel. They lived in their own walled
taint of Chaos on their bodies. Many of the communities and only emerged rarely to offer
Dwarfs bore long, snarling tusks, and their advice to the Chaos Dwarf Warlords who were
overall complexion and demeanour was more beginning to grow in strength.
dark and glowering. Their beards, previously
lustrous and brightly coloured, were now This period, beginning some three thousand
bristling and black. Some of their number years before the birth of Sigmar, was known as
sported small vestigial horns, or even hooves, the First Kingdom. The Chaos Dwarfs were
and some were mutated even to the point of ruled over by powerful Warlords who
becoming a new kind of creature: the commanded armies of their own kinsmen.
monstrous Bull Centaurs, who had the upper Amongst these kin were also numbered the
bodies of the Dwarfs they had once been, but powerful Bull Centaurs, who were still being
the lower bodies of fearsome, red-skinned born to ordinary Chaos Dwarfs at the time:
bulls. The explorers were Dwarfs no longer – they formed their own units of shock cavalry,
they had become the twisted servants of and revolutionised the way Chaos Dwarfs
Hashut and named themselves ‘Dwai'Zharr' – made war. Unlike their western kin, they did
the Dwarfs of Fire. To the rest of the world, not rely on stalwart defence and solid infantry
however, they would simply become known as that were so useful in the subterranean tunnels
Chaos Dwarfs. below the World's Edge Mountains, but
developed a style of warfare that relied on fast
The First Kingdom moving chariots pulled by boars and
devastating charges by the Bull Centaurs.
Hashut told the Chaos Dwarfs that he would Ranging across the Dark Lands, the Chaos
lead them to a promised land of great riches Dwarfs began to subjugate and massacre the
that was just beyond Zorn Uzkul. Speaking Greenskin tribes, sacrificing large numbers of
through his envoys – Chaos Dwarfs with them to Hashut.
whom he imbued some of his dark power – he
led his people on a second exodus through the For four hundred years, the First Kingdom was
desolate lands to the Falls of Doom in the unopposed, but a coalition of Greenskin tribes
foothills of the Mountains of Mourn. There, joined together and defeated the Grand Army
they followed the River Ruin south until they of Lord Khrazathk in the Howling Wastes and
came to a vast crater that had been created in drove them back to the Plain of Zharr.

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Emboldened by this victory, the Greenskins would outlive them, so the Priests were forced
started to fight back against the Chaos Dwarfs to cooperate with one another to run Chaos
and eventually forced them out of the Dark Dwarf society. All this changed with the birth
Lands, but stopped short of advancing into the of the mightiest Sorcerer of all: Zhargon.
Plain of Zharr, which was now choked with
fumes and pollution from the furnaces of the Zhargon the Great
Chaos Dwarfs. The power of the Warlords was
finally shattered, and the Sorcerers of Hashut Fully nine hundred years before the birth of
emerged from their isolation to usher in the Sigmar, a Sorcerer of rare power entered the
next period in Chaos Dwarf history. Priesthood of Hashut. His name was Zhargon,
and he swiftly outstripped his masters in
The Rise of the Second Kingdom knowledge of the rites of the Father of
Darkness and magical potential. Within a
The Sorcerers were the Priests of Hashut, and century, Zhargon was ordained as the High
promised to lead the Chaos Dwarfs to glorious Priest of Hashut and began introducing
victory. They told the warbands that the sweeping reforms to Chaos Dwarf society.
Dawi'Zharr were not destined to rampage Inspired by the ziggurat shape of Zharr-
across the land like the hordes of the north, but Naggrund, he codified the system of Castes
instead must organise themselves so they that restricted certain professions to certain
might be a force to be reckoned with. They layers of the city. Highest were the Priests,
began to reconstruct Chaos Dwarf society with who lived in the Temple of Hashut atop the
themselves at the top, housed in a great city city and they were served by the Bull
which they built with their sorcery from black Centaurs, who now began to breed true,
obsidian. The mighty tower of Zharr-Naggrund becoming an entirely separate sub-race of the
was large enough to house all the Chaos Dawi'Zharr. The warriors lived in the level
Dwarfs, but the Priests demanded more, and below, followed by smiths, masons and other
all the labours of the Dwai'zharr were bent to craftsmen, then finally the labourers. The
constructing the vast edifice. They strip mined numerous Greenskin slaves occupied the very
the Plain of Zharr, turning the ground into slag lowest levels of all. Under Zhargon's direction
and building thousands of acres of workshops many fortresses were built along the River
and factories. When the demand for labour Ruin and the Dark Lands were utterly
outstripped what the Chaos Dwarfs were subjugated by the Chaos Dwarfs. To celebrate
capable of, they began enslaving the tribes of this conquest, the Gates of Zharr were built as
Greenskins. Now possessed of a dark purpose, a symbol: alone in the most desolate part of the
the Chaos Dwarfs were once again expanding. region, serving no purpose and hundreds of
This time they didn't travel far from the Plain miles from any other Chaos Dwarf enclave,
of Zharr at first, but instead expanded their they were nothing more than a demonstration
sphere of influence steadily so that the of the power of the Dawi'Zharr.
Greenskins could never unite against them
again. The furnaces of the Dawi'Zharr burned Zhargon was obsessed with one thing. He
bright with the fires of industry and the city of knew that all his labours would come to
Zharr-Naggrund grew larger every day. The nothing in a few hundred years when his body
Sorcerers began to wage wars of their own in was transformed into stone. With this in mind,
parallel with their people: they scoured the and the Second Kingdom at the height of its
Realm of Chaos, using the magics granted to power, Zhargon locked himself away in his
them by Hashut to summon and enslave inner sanctum and began researching methods
Daemons. Although the artefacts they created to stave off the Sorcerers' Curse. The realm of
by these means were primitive and unstable, the Chaos Dwarfs continued to expand, and
they would continue to perfect the technique in untold millions of slaves were brought to the
the coming centuries. Plain of Zharr. The Chaos Dwarfs began
trading with instead of simply subjugating the
By this period, the so-called ‘Sorcerers' Curse' Goblin tribes in the foothills of the Worlds
was already well documented. The magic of Edge Mountains and, through such means, first
Hashut wrought terrible changes on its came into contact with their estranged kin at
practitioners, gradually subverting their Dwarf first as prisoners which they took into slavery
nature and transforming them into solid stone. and then in small groups ranging from their
This limited the lifespan of the Priests and strongholds. These early meetings were not
meant that no single Sorcerer was ever capable civil, for the western Dwarfs immediately
of wielding too much power – invariably, they identified their cousins as corrupted by Chaos
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 ancient abandonment by the Ancestor Gods. Zhargon. He was forced to put down rebellions
The two races would always despise one using increasing force, and began to rule
another utterly, and attack on sight in every Zharr-Naggrund with an iron grip. He
future encounter. suppressed the advances of Chaos Dwarf
technology, strangling progress and stagnating
In the far south of the Dark Lands, a new his society. Eventually, this policy became too
threat arose. The degenerate ghoul tribes much for even the Sorcerers to take: the
lurking below Cripple Peak, the descendants of Dawi'Zharr had become the dominant force in
the ancient tomb-scavenging servants of the Dark Lands thanks to their superior
Nagash, united for the first time under Vorag weapons and technology, and now they were
Bloodytooth, the first and only Ghoul King. forbidden from researching further to reclaim
Vorag made war on the Goblin tribes of the what they had lost. Finally, the new laws
Worlds Edge Mountains, and several bands of became too much and the Chaos Dwarfs
Chaos Dwarf slavers also became involved in rebelled en masse, beginning a devastating
the conflict. Vorag was victorious in his wars, civil war.
and enslaved the Goblin and Chaos Dwarf
survivors, forcing them to build the Fortress of At this time, Zhargon was pursuing rumours
Vorag in the Plain of Bones. This affront made about a prophecy regarding the Everchosen of
the Chaos Dwarfs furious, and they called Chaos, a champion of great power who would
upon Zhargon – who was now the undisputed lead the hordes of the north in open war
master of Zharr-Naggrund and Dawi'Zharr against the rest of the world. Zhargon hoped to
society as a whole – to declare a campaign of become the Everchosen himself, but he would
genocide against the ghouls. Zhargon had not need to stave off the Sorcerer's Curse for
been seen in public for over a century, and several more centuries in order to fulfil the
many assumed he had succumbed to the conditions of the prophecy. The rebellion of
Sorcerers' Curse already, but he proved them his subjects infuriated him – he required total
wrong and emerged from his isolation. loyalty and unity in order to bring his plans to
Zhargon had not been turned to stone, indeed fruition. As the battle raged throughout Zharr-
he appeared remarkably hale and healthy and Naggrund, Zhargon hid himself in his
was encased in a suit of golden Chaos armour. chambers again and prepared a great
It was clear that Zhargon had used some enchantment that would turn the tide of battle
powerful enchantment to preserve himself and in his favour.
now led the armies of the Chaos Dwarfs atop a
huge golden altar carried by dozens of slaves. The Chaos Dwarf rebellion was, ironically, led
Zhargon also went to war accompanied by a by the Immortals, who had suffered the
bodyguard of elite veterans he called the greatest in the ill-conceived war against Vorag,
Immortals – perhaps showing the depth of his but had received little sympathy from Zhargon
obsession with maintaining his own life. who blamed them for the defeat. The Bull
Centaurs, on the other hand, remained loyal to
The greatest army of Chaos Dwarfs ever Zhargon and defended the Temple of Hashut
assembled marched across the Dark Lands, with their lives. In the final battle, the
lead by Zhargon on the Altar of Hashut. The Immortals fought the Bull Centaurs at the iron
great volcano Azgorh was especially active gates of the Temple and finally broke through
that season and shrouded the host in rolling at the cost of many lives. To this day, there is
clouds of black ash, which Zhargon called a still a fierce rivalry between the two groups of
sign of Hashut's favour. As great as the army elite warriors.
was, however, they were far from home and
not equipped for a siege. They attacked the Lord Khal Drakaz, the leader of the Immortals,
Fortress of Vorag, but were repelled. The force led the charge into the Temple wielding the
was too large and unwieldy, and they had too Hammer of Zharr, but Zhargon was ready for
few supplies. Zhargon refused to retreat and him. The High Priest emerged from his Inner
the ghouls took their toll on the Chaos Dwarfs. Sanctum and faced down his former lieutenant.
Despite Hashut's alleged favour, the Drakaz made to strike off Zhargon's head, but
Dawi'Zharr were defeated and forced to flee the mighty spell that Zhargon had prepared
back to the Plain of Zharr. was unleashed at that moment. What that
terrible enchantment might have done can
The Fall of the Second Kingdom never be known, though Drakaz was vaporised
instantly by its power. However, any further
The Chaos Dwarfs were embarrassed by their effect was prevented as the spell backfired and
crushing defeat, and blamed the arrogance of caused Zhargon to lose control of the wards

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that protected him. In one horrifying instant, Most importantly, however, the Chaos Dwarfs
the ravages of time took their toll on Zhargon began to research technological advancements.
and he was transformed into stone, which then They blended their skills as craftsmen with the
crumbled into a dry pile of lifeless dust. dark magic of Hashut and created Daemon-
Zhargon's reign of terror had ended, but the engines of terrifying power. Their increasing
Second Kingdom was in ruins, and the reliance on slaves also lead them to research
Dawi'Zharr would take many centuries to magically-aided breeding programs so they
recover from the effects of the civil war. could create an improved variety of slave that
didn't squabble in the manner of other
The Modern Age Greenskins. The results of these experiments
were the Black Orcs, a new race of Orc that
After Zhargon's death, Chaos Dwarf society was hardier, stronger and less prone to
was in turmoil. Zharr-Naggrund itself was infighting. Unfortunately for the Chaos
heavily damaged, with fires raging on every Dwarfs, the Black Orcs rose to their natural
street and fully half of the population killed. position of leaders over the other Greenskins
The Priests of Hashut began to coordinate the and their ability to plan and coordinate their
repairs as soon as possible, and the Bull brethren led to the largest Orc and Goblin
Centaurs, despite being on the losing side, put rebellion ever seen. A second civil war
themselves at the Temple's disposal once engulfed Zharr-Naggrund not two hundred
again: their first loyalty had always been to years after the end of the first one, and it
Hashut, after all. In order to repair Zharr- seemed that the Chaos Dwarfs would be
Naggrund, the Priests ordered the acquisition exterminated as they fought further and further
of tens of thousands of slaves and bands of up through the layers of the city. Finally,
Chaos Dwarf warriors scoured the Dark Lands salvation came from an unlikely source: the
for captives. Though there were already Hobgoblins, who were intelligent enough to
numerous slaves working in the mines, forges see that the Chaos Dwarfs could potentially
and workshops of the Plain of Zharr, from this reward them in a way that the brutal Black
point onwards the Chaos Dwarfs themselves Orcs would not, switched sides and helped to
were outnumbered by their slaves and their defeat the other Greenskins. The rebellion was
society became completely dependant on them. ended and the Hobgoblins were indeed
Within fifty years, Zharr-Naggrund was rewarded by their masters; though they
restored to its former glory and the Dawi'Zharr remained slaves, they were no longer required
were ascendant once again. to work in the mines and forges, and instead
served in Chaos Dwarf armies as warriors and
Zhargon's legacy was to convince the Priests as overseers for the other slaves. The Black
that no one of them should ever rule Zharr- Orcs were driven from the city and out into the
Naggrund unopposed again, and they began to Dark Lands. Chaos Dwarfs no longer use
govern as a Conclave, each with their own Black Orcs as slaves, but they did leave
followers and armies drawn from their own several tribes roaming the nearby lands so that
kin. These ties of blood and honour meant that they could recruit them into their armies in the
Chaos Dwarf society became divided into future. Groups of Black Orcs are still found in
many disparate realms, each of which occupied the warbands of their creators, though they are
different areas of the city, but they were never slaves, but instead paid mercenaries.
nonetheless unified by the same broad aims:
the maintenance and construction of Zharr- The Chaos Dwarfs were even less numerous
Naggrund, and the empowerment of their after the rebellion, and so the lust for slaves to
twisted race. Though Zhargon had made many work the forges and pits became even greater.
mistakes, most of his reforms were kept in The Chaos Dwarfs expanded their influence,
place, most notably the strict Caste system. mining deposits far to the south at Gorgoth and
Even now, Chaos Dwarf society is divided building a great fortress there. They also
both vertically down the terraces of Zharr- established colonies near the Flayed Rock and
Naggrund and radially by the dominions of the at Daemon's Stump. They quarried stone from
Sorcerers. The Bull Centaurs continued to Gash Kadrak, the Vale of Woe, and recruited
guard the Temple of Hashut, serving at the the vile Sneaky Git tribe of Hobgoblins into
command of the Priests, while the Immortals their armies. Increasingly, the Chaos Dwarfs
remained an independent unit, deployable only became the masters of industry, and built
by a majority vote of the Conclave, made up of massive engines of war as well as huge ships
veteran warriors and serving for a strictly that began to ply the River Ruin. They
defined period of seven years before returning excavated a great tunnel beneath Zorn Uzkul –
to their previous masters. a labour that took almost a century and

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 claimed the lives of millions of slaves – and Sorcerer plots against the others in hopes of
built Uzkulak on the coast of the Sea of Chaos. increasing his influence.
This gave their fleet an exit to the north, so
that they could plunder even further. They also In recent centuries, the most powerful Sorcerer
began to trade with the Ogres in the Mountains has been Ghorth the Cruel, whose increasing
of Mourn, and established ties with many influence has begun to alarm the other
tribes that benefited both races. Sorcerers. He has placed his own loyal servant,
Zhatan the Black, in command of the
Now, the Chaos Dwarfs care only about Immortals, and so now wields power almost on
acquiring more slaves so that they can mine a par with Zhargon, millennia ago. He has
more mineral wealth from their lands. The already begun to subtly influence the outside
Chaos Dwarfs are now outnumbered many world, increasing his people's trade with the
times over by their captives, but the Warriors of Chaos, in particular providing
Hobgoblins are loyal to them and keep the Archaon, the Everchosen, with batteries of
other slaves in line. By this method, the two fearsome Daemon-cannons with which to
races have evolved a symbiotic relationship, as invade the Empire of Men. The influence of
they are both dependent on each other to the Chaos Dwarfs is greater than ever, but they
survive. The disparate nature of Chaos Dwarf are too divided to threaten the Old World yet.
society means that they never unite in wars of In time, Ghorth may unite his people, but they
conquest as they did in the past and each are unlikely to follow willingly after the events
of three thousand years ago.

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T he fires were already beginning to die
down throughout the city. Here, at the
highest level, the choking smoke was
rising up from all the lower tiers, covering
everything in a filthy haze. Lord Kronos rose
He would die standing. He would die holding
his axe.

The Bull Centaurs gathered closely around him

so they could hear him.
up stiffly. He could feel his awesome strength
ebbing from him, but he kept a firm grip upon "The command I am about to give you – my
the haft of his rune-encrusted axe. He turned last command, as I know it must be – will be
his massive head back and forth, looking over the hardest you ever receive. Look now upon
the remnants of his once mighty garrison: no the ruins of this, our great city. See how the
more than three score Bull Centaurs had struggle of these rebels has torn it apart, how
survived the battle, and those that remained its temples have been thrown down and its
were scored by many wounds, blood and sweat people slaughtered. This war has destroyed all
staining their ruddy flanks as they stood that we have laboured for since time
surveying the ruins of the Temple's gate. immemorial, and in its fiery crucible, we have
forged only our own doom."
This, the ultimate gate, the very threshold they
had sworn to defend to the death, had been Kronos's eyes were growing dull, fading from
subject to a violation that was utterly their fiery red to a deep crimson. But he could
unimaginable in ages past. Its great doors of see in the eyes of his brethren an abiding
iron and gold had been beaten and hacked anger. They were prepared to visit vengeance
apart, torn down by the axes of the Immortals, upon their enemies even now. Zhargon and all
and the inner sanctum penetrated. None of his followers save themselves were dead, but
those Chaos Dwarfs who had fought their way they would sell their lives in this forgotten
past the iron ring of the Bull Centaurs now cause nonetheless.
lived. Those not cut down in the aftermath had
been slain by Zhargon's enchantment. But "We are the mightiest followers of Hashut,
though they had all perished, the battle had first amongst all the Dawi'Zharr, and our duty
been lost. None save these last few surviving has always been to maintain this great society.
Bull Centaurs were left to contest this civil We are the guardians of the Order of Things,
war. and that is why so many of our number have
died in the service of Lord Zhargon, the High
"What now, Lord?" a hulking Guardian asked. Priest of Hashut. We have done this well, and
His axe was notched and his armour rent by a must not regret our noble sacrifice. Your
dozen cleaving blows. His heavy, furrowed brothers died well, and they shall not be
brow was divided by a deep gash that oozed forgotten."
dark blood, but he paid it no heed.
Heavy heads nodded, and knuckles whitened
Kronos looked down upon the devestation that as they gripped the hafts of axes.
had brought Zharr-Naggrund to its knees. He
could feel his mighty heart beating in his "But know this: our cause has failed. Zhargon
massive chest, and knew it laboured hard now. is dead. To give your lives in the service of a
The terrible battle had driven him to the limits dead cause is sheer folly. So I give you this,
of exhaustion, and the wounds he had suffered my last command: go forth, and place
would, he knew, prove mortal. It filled him yourselves at the disposal of the Temple that
with anguish that he had not died fighting, but you fought so hard to protect from this
he knew he had at last earned his rest in the desecration. You must renew your vows to the
bosom of Hashut. Now, however, he must Priesthood of Hashut, even though they were
perform the hardest task of all, and give his our enemies in this war. Zharr-Naggrund will
last command. It would not be an easy one. need you if it is to rise again. The battle is over
and we have been defeated. Now is the time to
"Harken to me, my brethren," he rasped, his win back what has been lost, though it be
deep voice coming in trembling, breathless under the banner of our hated foes."
gasps as his lifeblood trickled from his body.

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 Events
Chaos Dwarf society has been largely isolated from the events in the Old World throughout its
existence. Only rarely has the outside world been unfortunate enough to have contact with the cruel
masters of Zarr-Naggrund, but they have left a lasting impression on their enemies, who still curse
their names.

IC Events requires stone and rare minerals. The

-4500 The time of the Ancestor Gods. No Second Kingdom period begins.
written records of these times survive
although legend tells of the gradual -2600 In order to work the new mines and
colonisation of the Worlds Edge forges, the Chaos Dwarfs begin
Mountains. enslaving the Greenskin inhabitants
of the Dark Lands.
-4300 The most adventurous Dwarfs
journey across the barren upland -933 Zhargon is born.
regions north of the mountains which
they name ‘Zorn Uzkul', or the Great -901 Zhargon enters the Temple of Hashut
Skull Land. as an Acolyte. He soon surpasses his
teachers.
-4000 Contact is lost between Dwarfs of the
World's Edge Mountains and Dwarf -824 Zhargon is ordained as the High
settlements in Zorn Uzkul. The Priest of Hashut. He begins instituting
Dwarfs of the west believe their the Caste system.
eastern kin have perished, destroyed
by the tides of Chaos from the north. -785 The Gates of Zharr are built.

-3500 Abandoned by their gods, the Dwarfs -761 Red Bulls of Hashut are first
of Zorn Uzkul turn to the worship of discovered roaming Zorn Uzkul, they
Hashut, the Father of Darkness. are brought to Zharr-Naggrund and
stabled below the Temple of Hashut.
-3450 Hashut leads his worshippers to the Soon after, the first Lammasu is born.
Plain of Zharr, where they begin to
build mines and quarries. -714 Zhargon goes into isolation, seeking
the secrets of immortality. During this
-3400 The Chaos Dwarfs drive the time, he first hears of the prophecy of
Greenskins from the Plain of Zharr the Everchosen of Chaos.
and begin their expansion outwards.
The beginning of the First Kingdom -650 The Chaos Dwarfs begin trading with
period. the Goblins of the Worlds Edge
Mountains. Through them, they first
-3273 Lord Khrazathk's host is defeated by a encounter their distant western kin,
Greenskin coalition in the Howling who they take as slaves.
Wastes. Emboldened, the Greenskins
force them back to the Plain of Zharr -601 Vorag Bloodytooth unites scattered
and prevent the Chaos Dwarfs from tribes of Ghouls that lurk below
expanding their influence further. The Cripple Peak, becomes first and only
First Kingdom falls. Ghoul King. The Ghoul army all but
destroy the Red Cloud Goblin tribe
-2821 The Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers emerge and their Chaos Dwarf allies, the
from their isolation and begin to survivors are forced to build Fortress
institute reforms that will save Chaos of Vorag to the east of the Plain of
Dwarf society. Bones.

-2745 Construction begins on the City of -600 Zhargon re-emerges and assembles a
Zharr-Naggrund. The industry of the vast host of Chaos Dwarfs to destroy
Chaos Dwarfs is increased a Vorag. They are defeated and return
hundredfold as the building of the city to the Plain of Zharr in disgrace.

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-598 Continuous uprisings eventually 781 Black Fortress is built to guard
result in Zhargon declaring against marauding Ogre tribes
increasingly draconian laws, moving west.
restricting even the freedoms of his
fellow Sorcerers. 1000 The great sea canal is constructed,
linking the Falls of Doom with the
-595 The Civil War begins, shaking Zharr- Sea of Chaos in the north. The
Naggrund to its foundations. After fortress of Uzkulak is built on the
over a year of fighting, Zhargon is coast to act as a gathering place for
killed when his devastating spell the fleet.
misfires. The Second Kingdom period
ends. 1720 The Banner of Gods and its twin, the
Banner of Hashut, are forged from
-545 The Sorcerers finally succeed in Daemonbone in the depths of Zharr-
restoring Chaos Dwarf society to its Naggrund.
former status. Tens of thousands more
slaves are acquired from throughout 2148 Astragoth becomes High Priest of
the Dark Lands. Hashut.

-150 Experiments on captive Orc and 2099 Aekold Hellbrass, Champion of

Goblin slaves by Chaos Dwarf Tzeentch, seeks out the legendary
Sorcerers result in the creation of the forge known as the Volcano's Heart.
Black Orcs. His path across the blackened
wasteland of the Dark Lands is to this
-100 The Black Orcs prove unruly and day marked by the trail of unnatural
difficult to control. After leading an vegetation that sprung up in his wake.
armed revolt that ravages the lower
levels of Zharr-Naggrund they are 2218 Ghorth the Cruel enters the Temple of
purged from the ziggurat when the Hashut as an Acolyte.
Hobgoblins turn on the other
Greenskins. Fleeing Black Orcs 2387 Zhatan joins the Immortals where he
escape to the Worlds Edge Mountains gains the attention of Ghorth and soon
and the Mountains of Mourn. becomes his protégé and bodyguard.

500 Rich volcanic deposits are first mined 2452 Zhatan becomes the Lord of the
at Gorgoth. Immortals. Ghorth's power is
unmatched.
624 The fortress at Daemon's Stump is
constructed. 2523 The Storm of Chaos erupts.
Hellcannons are sold to Lord
Archaon, the Everchosen of Chaos.

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 THE CHAOS DWARFS
This section of the book details the forces immolation. Models with the Blessing of
available to a Chaos Dwarf army. It provides Hashut are immune to flaming attacks. If they
the rules necessary to use all of the elements of are hit by an attack with the flaming special
the army in your games of Warhammer. Every rule, they simply ignore it.
character and regiment is described, including
some of Zharr-Naggrund's greatest heroes, Expendable: Chaos Dwarfs make use of many
such as Zhatan the Black, Commander of the slaves whom they drive into battle allowing
Tower of Zharr, and the feared Daemonsmith them to die in droves simply to blunt the
Kthaark Daemonbane. Any special rules that enemy's attacks and choke their lines with
apply to a particular model are given here, corpses. Expendable units are ignored by other
including the rules for any Magic Items they units for the purposes of Panic, except by units
may carry into battle. who are also Expendable. Unit standards in
Expendable units do not confer any additional
Special Rules Victory Points if they are captured.
Relentless: Chaos Dwarfs are determined,
stoic foes, who do not baulk at advancing Chaos Armour: Chaos Dwarfs manufacture
under a hail or fire or the threat of foes close suits of magical Chaos armour, imbued with a
by. Relentless units may march even if within tiny fragment of the very essence of Chaos
8" of an enemy unit. itself. Chaos armour endows its wearer with a
4+ armour save which may be combined with
Resolute: Chaos Dwarfs do not willingly give other armour as normal.
ground, nor do they abandon their well-built
defensive positions except under extreme Daemons: The rules in this book sometimes
duress. Resolute units pursue and flee 2D6-1" make reference to 'Daemons'. This should be
instead of 2D6". understood to mean any models in a Daemons
of Chaos army as well as Daemon Princes in
Bondage of Hashut: The nobility of Zharr- Warriors of Chos armies.
Naggrund are arrogant and contemptuous of
the threat of lesser races, and at the same time
they command absolute obedience from their
followers. Models with the Bondage of Hashut
are immune to Panic, and extend this ability to
any unit they join.

Blessing of Hashut: Some of Hashut's

mightiest creatures are endowed with his
unholy blessing, protecting them against

CHAOS DWARF MAGIC

Unlike their cousins from the Worlds Edge Mountains, Chaos Dwarfs are adept in the magical arts.
When they first turned to the worship of Hashut, he granted them knowledge of the Winds of Magic
and gave them mastery over fire and stone, and the magic Lores to which they have access reflect this.
Chaos Dwarfs are also masters of Daemon-binding, because they have no fear whatsoever of the
denizens of the Realm of Chaos, and treat them as just another race to be enslaved. This use of
Daemons is represented by some of the Chaos Dwarf Magic Items, their Tauruses and Daemonic
Engines and the additional magic Lores to which Sorcerer Lords have access.

Chaos Dwarfs are as resistant to magic as their western kin, and this is why the mutations they suffer
as a result of their exposure to Chaos in ancient times are relatively stable. It is also why their Priests
are afflicted by the Sorcerers' Curse. However, because they have embraced the dark arts, Chaos
Dwarfs lack the kind of focused resilience to harmful magic possessed by other Dwarfs. Chaos Dwarf
armies do not receive the additional Dispel dice that normal Dwarfs do as described in the
Warhammer rule book.

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 CHAOS DWARF WARRIORS
The bulk of Chaos Dwarf slaving bands are nothing of pouring out the blood of his
composed of members of the Warrior Caste. Warriors like water if it benefits himself, and
These disciplined and loyal soldiers are all the Warriors accept their place without
bound to a particular Sorcerer, with whom they question. To a Chaos Dwarf, obedience to their
share ancient bonds of kinship. The Warrior leaders and conformity to the norms of their
Caste are the only Dawi'Zharr permitted to society is the most important thing in their
wear the suits of enchanted Chaos armour, and lives. Without it, they are nothing.
when they march to war, standing shoulder to
shoulder, they present an unbroken wall of Within the Warrior Caste there is a many-
nigh-impenetrable steel. Chaos Dwarf layered hierarchy, and each Warrior in a
Warriors carry the traditional armament of garrison knows his place and his role.
their people; broad-bladed axes that can cleave Foremost amongst the soldiery are the feared
a foe in two. Some they wield in one hand, Ironguards, Warriors possessed of particular
using them in combination with heavy round skill and cruelty. Chosen as much for their
shields, and others are large enough to be used loyalty as their experience, Ironguards ensure
with two hands. These heavy axes make Chaos obedience to the Order of Things and also lend
Dwarf Warriors excellent defensive troops, their considerable abilities to the fighting.
and they are usually deployed in large blocks Often, they sport one of the symbols of Chaos
by their masters, daring their enemies to Dwarf authority: tall, ornate helms or
charge them. grotesque skeletal masks forged from
blackened iron.
Unlike their western kin, Chaos Dwarf
Warriors are not bound together by oaths and M WS BS S T W I A Ld
camaraderie, but by unspoken and unbreakable Warrior 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
bonds of blood and Caste. A Chaos Dwarf Ironguard 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9
Warrior serves his Sorcerer master with
unthinking loyalty, and to disobey a command
from him is utterly inconceivable. They are SPECIAL RULES
wholly devoted to war and the acquisition of Resolute, Relentless.
slaves for Dawi'Zharr society, and do not baulk
at even suicidal orders. A Sorcerer thinks

The Order of Things

Dawi’Zharr society is divided in
two directions: the sorcerers are
the undisputed masters of zharr-
naggrund; every inhabitant of the
city belongs to them and, in
addition, each sorcerer divides his
subjects into discrete castes. the
sorcerers themselves are at the
top, followed by the warriors,
then artisans, then labourers and
finally the great teeming masses
of slaves. the castes have no
contact with one another except
when serving their sorcerer
masters, and fraternisation or –
worse – breeding between castes
is strictly forbidden. there is no
way for a chaos dwarf to improve
his caste, he may only advance
within it, but no true Dawi’Zharr
would even consider going against
the sacred Order of Things.

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 CHAOS DWARF STORMCALLERS
Though Chaos Dwarf society is dominated by
tradition and order, it is not beyond them to M WS BS S T W I A Ld
develop new methods of war that take Stormcaller 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
advantage of their advanced technology and Stormguard 3 4 4 3 4 1 2 1 9
murderous innovation. While most Warriors
march into battle with broad shields and SPECIAL RULES
wickedly sharp axes, there are those amongst Resolute, Relentless.
the Warrior Caste who have the honour of
being trained in the Chaos Dwarfs' most Blunderbusses: Blunderbusses are a weapon
unique signature armament: the feared unique to Chaos Dwarfs that become more
blunderbuss. This firearm is extremely deadly when firing en masse.
dangerous, with a wide flared end which
produces a highly unusual effect when fired. Range: 18" Strength: 3
Instead of using solid shot like the primitive Special rules: Armour piercing; Ignore hit
firearms of the Old World, the Chaos Dwarf penalties; Fire in three ranks.
blunderbuss fires razor-sharp shards of iron
that are loaded into the muzzle. The black- Blunderbusses ignore all 'to hit' penalties when
powder propels the ammunition at high they fire, including those for moving, long
velocity and the shape of the weapon causes it range, shooting at units in cover, and shooting
to spread out, filling the air with spinning at skirmishers. Conversely, they do not receive
pieces of red-hot metal. Accuracy is almost a bonus for firing at Large Targets. In effect,
irrelevant when firing a blunderbuss, instead Stormcallers always fire using their basic BS.
weight of fire becomes the most valuable asset.
Warriors with blunderbusses – known as Blunderbusses may be fired in up to three
Stormcallers because of the thunderous noise ranks. However, they do not shoot with an
generated by a blunderbuss blast – form into additional rank if positioned on a hill.
blocks just like their fellows, their numbers
making them all the more deadly. In this
fashion, Stormcallers are able to blast "hold...hold...hold...
advancing foes with their blunderbusses and
then absorb the charge of any that survive, "...fire!!!"
unsheathing sharp axes and deadly curved Stormguard zaghaz blackheart
swords to defend themselves.

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 SLAVES
The Chaos Dwarfs who inhabit the Plain of Orc rebellion, their future was assured. Since
Zharr are outnumbered many times over by that time the Chaos Dwarfs have used their
their wretched slaves who labour in the depths Hobgoblin slaves as overseers and warriors in
of Zharr-Naggrund. Chaos Dwarf society their armies. They are not forced to perform
would not be able to function without its backbreaking labour, and instead enjoy relative
slaves, as it is their suffering and toil that freedom. Hobgoblins even have their own
makes their industry possible. Because the tribes like other Greenskins and follow their
Chaos Dwarfs' empire is constantly expanding, own leaders – in battle, they are even allowed
they always need new slaves, and so many of to march beneath their own banners. The most
the captives who work under the lash of the well known Hobgoblin tribe are the Sneaky
Dawi'Zharr are captured in raids and battles. Gitz, vile and black-hearted traitors who are
Most of the slaves are Greenskins, most often reviled even amongst their own treacherous
Goblins and Gnoblars as these are the weakest kind. They fight in battle with long, venom-
and most numerous inhabitants of the Dark coated knives which they use to stab enemies
Lands. Hundreds of thousands of these in the back.
miserable creatures are worked to death by
their cruel masters, labouring in the forges and When Chaos Dwarfs go to war, they often
factories to make the industry of the Chaos have Hobgoblin Drivers herd their slaves
Dwarfs possible. before them, driving them forward with whips
in great packs of wailing, chained individuals.
Not all the slaves held by the Chaos Dwarfs In these disorganised mobs, Elf and Dwarf rub
are creatures so used to servile behaviour shoulder with Man, Orc and Goblin, racial and
though. It is not uncommon for Dawi'Zharr to societal divisions – so vital to Chaos Dwarfs
make use of burly Orcs, whose strength and themselves – ignored for their wretched
endurance makes them extremely useful. captives. In this manner, slaves participate in
Rarer, but more valuable, are the races of the the acquisition of more slaves, who fuel the
Old World and beyond – Men, Elves and dark industry that produces weapons of war to
Dwarfs, captured in wars or traded for with take more slaves. The cycle perpetuates
Greenskin tribes towards the west. Such endlessly, serving no purpose but itself: an
individuals often have their first taste of the irony only the broken and defeated slaves can
Chaos Dwarfs beneath their whips, and it is a understand.
painful but mercifully short life they can
expect to endure in the pits of Zharrduk. M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5
One race enjoys special favour even as slaves, Driver 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6
the treacherous and conniving Hobgoblins.
These unpleasant Greenskins are a kind of tall,
rangy Goblin native to the eastern steppes. SPECIAL RULES
Chaos Dwarfs found them mildly useful as Expendable.
slaves in ancient times but when they turned
on their fellow Greenskins during the Black

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 IMMORTALS
The Immortals are an elite military formation Sorcerer they were protecting has fallen. Such
in Chaos Dwarf society. They are drawn from Immortals have failed in their first duty and
the Warrior Caste, but do not serve a particular must serve until death as a penance. They are
Sorcerer. Instead, veteran Warriors may be cast out from their former warband, mourned
volunteered by their Warlords for service in as if dead, and must bear the awful knowledge
the Immortals. They are taken to the Tower of of their failure. Their extended service and
Zharr, an annex of the Temple of Hashut itself desire for redemption makes them formidable
and given more training and better weapons. foes and, though they are considered disgraced
They are transformed from ordinary soldiers by their peers, they are given the honour of
into fearless, faceless figures of awe and dread. leading from the front.
Immortals are charged with the defence of the
Sorcerers, and may only be deployed by M WS BS S T W I A Ld
majority vote of the Priests' Conclave. Their Immortal 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 2 9
duty is not to their former master, but to Baneguard 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 3 9
Dawi'Zharr society as a whole. It is their
solemn duty to preserve the leaders of their
civilisation, and any Immortal would gladly SPECIAL RULES
sacrifice himself to ensure a Sorcerer's Resolute, Relentless, Stubborn.
survival. Unlike Warriors, however, they will
not blindly follow a Sorcerer's orders if it Bodyguard: The Immortals are charged with
conflicts with their primary responsibility: the defence of the Priests of Hashut, and will
protecting them. There are tales of regiments gladly lay down their lives to protect them. If
of Immortals who have physically dragged accompanied by a Sorcerer or Sorcerer Lord, a
stubborn Sorcerers from hopeless battles, unit of Immortals is immune to Fear and
leaving the rest of the army to die fighting Terror.
without their aid.
Cursed Axes: Immortals are armed with
Immortals are clad in the same impenetrable broad-bladed axes bearing foul Daemonic
blackened Chaos armour as other Warriors, but runes. They count as hand weapons that endow
theirs is more ornate, covered in unholy icons the bearer with magical attacks.
and vile totems. They bear monstrous axes that
are covered in foul Daemonic runes or "you are the immortals. you are
sometimes the more traditional double-handed without pain. you are without fear.
axe. Whatever their armament, the Immortals you are without death."
have never been known to take a step baneguard h'zharkh
backwards, save to bear an injured Sorcerer
away from battle, and when they form up
around one of their charges, they will defiantly
stare down any threat, fearlessly ignoring even
the most terrible foes.

When an Immortal is recruited, he serves in

the formation for a fixed period of seven years.
Though a Warlord loses a capable Warrior by
volunteering him for the Immortals, the price
is worth it as the Warrior will gain valuable
experience – many Despots and Warlords
served in the Immortals during their youth.
When an Immortal's service comes to an end,
or he dies in battle, he is replaced and his arms
and armour given to his replacement. In this
manner, the Immortals are always kept at full
strength, adding to their dark mystique
amongst their enemies. The only exception to
this strict rule regarding service length are the
mighty Baneguards, who are traditionally
Immortals who have survived when the

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 ACOLYTES OF HASHUT
As in all races, the ability to manipulate the granting them Daemonic boons. Individually,
Winds of Magic is unpredictable. It arises at each Acolyte is as yet unable to perform even
random, paying no heed to geography or the simplest cantrip, but together they are
wealth or, in the case of Chaos Dwarfs, Caste. capable of considerable magical feats.
Sorcerers are born to Chaos Dwarf families of
all social strata and once their abilities are At this early stage in their training, Acolytes of
recognised they are brought to the Temple to Hashut are wholly devoted to the Father of
begin their training. Eventually, they will Darkness – it will be many years before they
become true Priests of Hashut but until that assume control of their own domains and their
time they will serve in the retinue of the ambition grows alongside their power. For the
Sorcerer to whom they are bound, much like time being, they still retain their unbreakable
Chaos Dwarfs of the Warrior Caste. They are loyalty to their Sorcerer master and
know as Acolytes at this stage in their unflinching faith in Hashut. They assault the
fledgling careers, and their training is mostly enemies of the Dawi'Zharr with something
concerned with the religious rites of the Father approaching a crazed religious fervour, the
of Darkness. Gradually, they learn to master Dirges of Hashut constantly on their lips,
their natural skill with magic, first with prayers assailing the foe alongside the Acolytes'
and later with a form of arhythmical hymnals weapons.
known as Dirges. These Dirges are disturbing
and chaotic: they make a listener's skin crawl M WS BS S T W I A Ld
and fill their minds with strange, grotesque Acolyte 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
images. They are not truly random, but in fact Adept 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9
follow a complex mathematical formula
connected to the geometry of a ziggurat. This SPECIAL RULES
encoded pattern, said to have been handed to Resolute, Relentless, Hatred.
the first Sorcerers by Hashut Himself,
resonates within the Realm of Chaos, calling Dirges of Hashut: During their own magic
up the Winds of Magic to endow those who phase, Acolytes of Hashut may select one of
intone it with Daemonic powers. the following Dirges to sing, the effects of
which they benefit from until their next magic
Acolytes take to the battlefield cloaked in phase:
heavy robes, their faces obscured by brass
skull masks. They march in an awful silence, Dirge of Battle: The unit causes Fear.
keeping perfect step until the time comes for
them to unleash the Dirges of Hashut. At this Dirge of Defiance: The unit gains Magic
point they let up a resonant chanting, and the Resistance (1).
Dirge begins to grow in power, surrounding
them with tortured spirits. Soon, magical Dirge of Power: The unit generates an
energy plays in the air around the Acolytes, additional power dice that may be used by any
Sorcerer or Sorcerer Lord in the unit.

Dirge of Warding: The unit gains a 6+ Ward

save.

In addition, Acolytes of Hashut always count

as including a musician.

Sorcerer Caste: Acolytes are minor members

of the Sorcerer Caste, able to aid their masters'
dark invocations. A Sorcerer or Sorcerer Lord
in an Acolytes of Hashut unit gains +1 to all
casting rolls.

"kh-thnzhk-shakn-thnk-kznkn-ka-hia-
zhak-zha-nagh-zkh-hn-kh-iahk.
"kh-thnzhk-shakn-thnk-kznkn-ka-hia-
zhak-zha-nagh-zkh-hn-kh-iahk.-kzn-
hk-nhk-hkanig."
Dirge of battle

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 PRIESTS OF HASHUT
The undisputed rulers of Zharr-Naggrund are Chaos Dwarfs are almost unique in that they
the Priests of Hashut, more commonly known see Chaos as just another tool to be used for
as Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers. They form a Caste their own ends: they believe it can be beaten
unto themselves, living and ruling from the into shape, like iron, and turned to their
Temple of Hashut at the peak of the great purposes. Sorcerers oversee the creation of
obsidian city of Zharr-Naggrund. Each Daemonic weapons and engines that use bound
Sorcerer Lord rules a part of the city and all spirits to achieve truly monstrous effects.
the Chaos Dwarfs and slaves who live in those Some of their number are known as
areas. His subjects are utterly loyal to him and Daemonsmiths, Sorcerers raised from the
he uses them as pawns in his machinations, Artisan Caste who have a particular affinity
because the Sorcerers constantly vie amongst with metallurgy and construction.
themselves for influence and power. All
Sorcerers are incredibly ambitious and they
seek to undermine each other at every turn. In M WS BS S T W I A Ld
a very real sense, Chaos Dwarf society is Sorcerer Lord 0 4 3 4 5 3 1 1 10
really just a loose alliance of rival nations each Sorcerer 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 1 9
headed up by a powerful Sorcerer.
SPECIAL RULES
Only one thing keeps the relentless power- Resolute, Relentless.
grabbing of the Sorcerer Lords in check. As a
Sorcerer grows older, the corrupt magic he Bondage of Hashut: The Sorcerer Lords rule
casts beings to wreak changes on his body. over Zharr-Naggrund and have the Bondage of
What once was flesh magically transmutes into Hashut rule, but note that this does not apply to
inanimate grey stone. Starting from his feet, a mere Sorcerers, who are lesser servants of a
Sorcerer gradually beings to literally turn to mighty Priest and do not command the same
stone, until his entire body is consumed and he loyalty from the lower Castes.
becomes a lifeless statue. This terrifying
metamorphosis is known as the Sorcerers' Sorcerers' Curse: As Sorcerers age, their
Curse and aged Sorcerers become increasingly bodies begin to turn to stone. While this will
immobile and must be carried around by their eventually immobilise them, it also offers a
followers. It is this natural limit on a Sorcerer's degree of natural protection. Sorcerers have a
lifespan that prevents the endless cycle of civil Scaly Skin save of 6+ and Sorcerer Lords have
war in the Temple from destroying Chaos a Scaly Skin save of 5+. Note that this does not
Dwarf civilisation. The more powerful and entitle Sorcerers or Sorcerer Lords to use
reckless a Sorcerer, the faster his magic armour, even Chaos armour, which is
transformation occurs, and so the most restricted to the Warrior Caste.
ambitious and destructive Sorcerers rarely
remain in power long enough to upset the
status quo. Once a Sorcerer has become a
statue, he is taken from the Temple of Hashut
to the long highway leading to Zharr-
Naggrund where he is lined up alongside his
fellows, staring sightlessly down on all who
approach, a grim reminder of the Chaos
Dwarfs' dedication to Hashut.

Nonetheless, Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers are

powerful magic users. They are empowered by
the Father of Darkness and have mastery over
fire and stone. They summon infernal storms
and melt rock and metal with but a curt
command. Elder Sorcerers are capable of more
mysterious feats, manipulating the Winds of
Magic to produce visions of darkness and
death. However, the most mysterious powers
of the Sorcerers involve the summoning and
binding of Daemons from the Realm of Chaos.

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 CAPTAINS OF ZHARR-NAGGRUND
The Warrior Caste is privileged and influential terrible, inscrutable foe. Unlike the Despots
compared to the lower Castes because they who crave greater influence, a Warlord has
alone have the opportunity to rise to positions reached the apex of his career – indeed, the
of genuine power in Chaos Dwarf society. A apex of his very existence – and has nothing to
loyal and skilled Warrior can rise up the prove to anyone. Supremely arrogant and
hierarchy, perhaps spending time as an cruel, Warlords often ride mighty Daemonic
Immortal, and emerge as a great leader. A creatures called Tauruses, leading by example
Sorcerer Lord will recognise such an as they plunge to earth on their winged beasts,
individual amongst his followers and reward scattering the enemy. They are the greatest
him accordingly before his desire for power warriors and leaders in Chaos Dwarf society
begins to make him too ambitious. Buying him and, like all of their Caste, are utterly loyal to
with titles and honours, the Sorcerer will the Sorcerer Lord whom they serve.
ensure he has a steadfast lieutenant at his side
instead of a potential threat to his position. M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Warlord 3 7 4 4 5 3 4 4 10
Captains amongst the Dawi'Zharr are known as Despot 3 6 4 4 5 2 3 3 9
Despots, for they are often the right hands of
their masters, enacting their will amongst the
common Chaos Dwarfs. Despots rule with the SPECIAL RULES
same iron fists as the Sorcerers, and their Resolute, Relentless, Bondage of Hashut.
authority is just as absolute. Gifted with
artefacts of terrifying power and ancient
provenance by their masters – often bound
with Daemonic spirits enslaved to their will – "do you really want to give up your
they are extremely dangerous foes in battle and life for 'the Order of Things'?"
always lead from the front, seeking to capture
the attention of their Sorcerer so they can rise "it is not my life to give up,
in his estimation and become more powerful manling...and it never was."
still.
warlord dhurzhan to tzar petyr at the
battle of farside, when ordered to make a
The mightiest Despots eventually ascend to the suicidal last stand
rank of Warlord. Each Sorcerer normally only
has one Warlord serving him, and he acts as
the commander of his armies. A Warlord is a

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 BULL CENTAURS
The mightiest inhabitants of Zharr-Naggrund The Sorcerers only request aid from the Bull
are not the Warriors or even the Sorcerers, but Centaurs in the direst situations. Rarely do
the awesome Chaos Dwarf sub-race known as they leave the confines of the Temple of
the Bull Centaurs. In ancient times, when the Hashut, and they fight only in the name of the
Chaos Dwarfs were first transformed by the Father of Darkness. They do not involve
power of Chaos some of their number were themselves in the petty squabbles of the
mutated into a form more pleasing to the Sorcerers, and the accumulation of slaves
Father of Darkness, part Dwarf and part holds no interest for them. They march to war
ferocious bull. The Bull Centaurs have only when they believe it is required by
remained apart from their brethren ever since, Hashut, when the omens favour them and
forming their own society, separate from the when they can be spared from their primary
Castes and other divisions of Zharr-Naggrund. duty. On the rare occasions when they do take
They are an elite force, blessed by Hashut, and to the field, they pay little heed to the orders of
are given the sacred task of guarding His the Chaos Dwarf leaders, and usually keep
Temple. their own counsel. Such rebellion would not be
tolerated in any other follower, but the
Bull Centaurs are not bound to any Sorcerer Sorcerers know that not only are the Bull
and, indeed, bow to no one but their own Centaurs blessed by Hashut, but also that they
leaders. They instead take responsibility for are amongst the mightiest shock troops in the
maintaining the sanctity of the Temple of world. When the Bull Centaurs charge, they
Hashut and have an important role in some of are capable of breaking the enemies' lines
the darkest rites of the Chaos Dwarfs' twisted single-handedly.
god. Bull Centaurs are extremely arrogant and
cruel, and they see themselves as living vessels Bull Centaurs are led into battle by their
of Hashut's power. Indeed, there may be some Guardians, the veterans amongst them who
truth to their egotism: their hides burn with personally watch over the gates to the Temple
infernal rage and, as they march into battle, of Hashut. Above these awesome individuals
their hooves throw up sparks. As they pick up are the leaders of the Bull Centaurs, the Elders.
speed, smoke begins to billow and they are These creatures are terrifying monsters in their
wreathed in flames and steam. By the time own right, the equal of any Warlord, but even
they reach the enemy lines, the Bull Centaurs they pale in comparison to their ultimate
are engulfed in raging fire, rearing from great master, the First Guardian, Eldest of the Bull
black clouds to strike down the enemies of Centaurs: Lord Bhaal, the Death of Worlds.
Hashut.

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Bull Centaur 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 2(3) 9
Guardian 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 3(4) 9
Elder 8 6 3 5 5 3 4 4(5) 9

SPECIAL RULES
Blessing of Hashut, Flaming Attacks,
Immune to Psychology, Fear.

Trample: Bull Centaurs flail at their enemies

with their hooves when they attack. All Bull
Centaurs have an additional 'trample' attack
which is resolved at their basic Strength. This
is included in their profile above.

“You will not pass these gates. Not

while i draw breath.”
Bull centaur elder kathall

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 TAURUSES
Chaos Dwarfs are the masters of many dark A Taurus is a vicious beast, part Daemon, part
sciences. They are the foremost industrial living creature, part machine. They come in
power in the world, and build mighty engines many shapes and sizes, with many different
both for the purposes of war and the traits. Some have hides of scalding iron, and
acquisition of mineral wealth. Enormous drills their artificial veins pump molten fire around
plunge into the depths of the earth's crust, their metal bodies. Others breathe out
extracting oil and ore, while cannons sorcerous fumes that protect the beast and its
containing the bound essences of Daemons rider from harmful magic, or are clad in great
belch warpfire into the heavens. Chaos Dwarfs plates of steel or gromril to protect them. The
have also perfected the art of selective mightiest specimens are borne on sweeping
breeding, along with the twisted magical pinions that allow their master to fly high
techniques involved in flesh-crafting. It was above the battlefield.
this mastery that allowed them to create the
Black Orcs and while that experiment Not all Tauruses are artificially built. In
ultimately failed, they have continued to ancient times, a breed of monstrous bull
develop their abilities in the field of known as a Red Bull of Hashut or Lammasu
transforming and warping living tissue. emerged from the Time of Chaos alongside the
Dawi'Zharr themselves. Along with the Bull
When the Chaos Dwarfs combine their talents Centaurs, the Chaos Dwarfs believe that these
with machinery, Daemon-binding and flesh- semi-Daemonic creatures are mutated from
crafting they are able to produce horrific Hashut's followers. These blessed beasts are
results. Hideous monsters of living iron and stabled beneath the Temple of Hashut and
brass are caged in the pits of Zharr-Naggrund, selective breeding has turned them into
serving as beasts of burden or mere scientific enormous and ferocious monsters.
curiosities. Sometimes, the Sorcerers create
vicious monsters to serve as mounts for
M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Warlords, Despots or themselves. These beasts
Taurus 8 4 0 5 5 1 3 2 8
are often built in such a way that they resemble
the form most pleasing to Hashut, that of a
mighty bull. For this reason, they are usually SPECIAL RULES
called Tauruses. Fear, Magical Attacks.

Fly: Some Tauruses have mighty wings. Any

Taurus upgraded to a Winged Taurus is able to
fly.

chaos dwarf mutations

chaos dwarfs are naturally
resistant to the warping influence
of chaos, but during the Time of
Chaos even their resilient
constitutions were affected by the
energies sweeping down from the
polar gates. Most obvious are the
tusks that many members of the
warrior caste sport, but some
chaos dwarfs are born with cloven
hooves or even vestigial horns. The
bull centaurs are another
manifestation of the mutations
inflicted upon the Dawi’Zharr and
the chaos dwarfs believe that the
red bulls of hashut and the
Lammasu are also further evidence
of the ancient chaotic strain in
their race, and that these
creatures' ancestors were dwarfs
like them.

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 HOBGOBLIN WOLF RIDERS
Far to the east, beyond the Mountains of will offer up their services as mercenaries,
Mourn, are the vast windswept steppes that putting their considerable skills as wolf riders
stretch thousands of leagues to the Far Sea on at the command of the Dawi'Zharr. They often
the other side of the world. This seemingly serve as scouts and outriders for Chaos Dwarf
infinite wasteland is, against all probability, armies, and many a foe expecting to face a
populated by many different peoples. The force of stalwart Dwarfs has been taken by
human Chaos Marauders of the Kurgan and surprise by mounted Greenskins attacking their
Hung tribes roam the steppes on their horses, flanks. Whether mercenaries or slaves, Chaos
constantly striking south to raid the more Dwarfs know to expect little from their
civilised lands, and there are even foolish Hobgoblin allies. They are backstabbing and
merchants and caravans that try to cross the unreliable troops, but they depend on the
great distances to reach fabled Cathay and Chaos Dwarfs to survive when they cross the
Nippon. However, there is only one race that is Mountains of Mourn, as they are universally
truly native to the steppes: the Hobgoblins. despised by all other Greenskins and rarely last
long in the Old World.
How Hobgoblins became divided from the
other Greenskins is lost in the mists of time, M WS BS S T W I A Ld
but they have grown to be a race apart with Hobgoblin 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 1 6
their own customs and languages. Their Boss 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6
hegemony is the dominant force in the region, Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3
raiding and marauding at will, presiding over
tracts of land that dwarf the human nations of
the Old World, and even mighty Cathay. The SPECIAL RULES
Hobgoblins have mastered the giant wolves Expendable, Fast Cavalry.
that are also native to the steppes. These
beasts, warped in ancient times by the power Treachery: Hobgoblins are infamous for their
of Chaos, can grow to gargantuan sizes, but tendency to switch sides or ignore orders to
even the smaller specimens ridden by the save their own skins in battle. Roll a D6 for
average Hobgoblin warrior are larger and more each unit with this rule at the start of the turn:
fierce than any wolf of the western lands. on a roll of 1 they may do nothing that turn as
they hang back, refusing to commit themselves
Long ago, several Hobgoblin tribes migrated in case the tide of battle turns.
across the Mountains of Mourn into the Dark
Lands. When the Chaos Dwarfs arrived in the
Plain of Zharr, they enslaved them alongside
the other Greenskins they found there. It was
only later, when the Hobgoblins turned on the
Black Orcs, that they were given such a
relatively privileged position in Chaos Dwarf
society. At the same time, the Chaos Dwarfs
began trading with the Hobgoblin hegemony
across the mountains and formed a lasting
alliance with them. In exchange for a tribute of
slaves, the Chaos Dwarfs agreed to respect the
borders between their two nations and not raid
their territory.

Hobgoblins are naturally treacherous and

untrustworthy. They are divided into many
warring tribes and though a Great Khan claims
to lead the entire race, they are actually just as
fractured as all Greenskins. Often, tribes will
migrate to the Dark Lands en masse and are
sometimes enslaved by the Chaos Dwarfs if
they begin raiding – Chaos Dwarfs do not
suffer such things in their own lands. On most
occasions though, Hobgoblins from the east

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 DAEMONIC ENGINES
It is not known when or how the Chaos Dwarfs Daemonic Engines are built by a specialist
learnt the technique of Daemon-binding. Their group of Sorcerers known as Daemonsmiths.
most ancient lore has it that the skill was These individuals are skilled in the magical
taught to them by Hashut Himself, and that He arts, but do not use their abilities to cast spells.
granted them mastery over the denizens of the Instead, they summon and enslave Daemons.
Realm of Chaos when he taught them magic. It Sometimes the Daemonsmiths take to the field
is certainly true that the ability to work magic in order to join the crews of the Daemonic
is linked to their predilection to enslave Engines. Their mastery over their creations
Daemons: like all Dwarfs, they make use of enables them to better control them and ensure
any tool or material they believe will benefit they fire more reliably – or, occasionally, goad
them and, for Chaos Dwarfs, magic and them into rampaging if it serves their ends.
Daemons are no different from iron or coal. It
is also true that Chaos Dwarfs are supremely No two Daemon Engines are the same, as each
arrogant and have many thousands of slaves is individually designed and built. They have
that toil for them in their mines and forges. many different traits, such as obsidian hulls,
Why should a Daemon be any different from a noxious emissions or razor-sharp barbs to
Goblin? To the Dawi'Zharr, the servants of the make them more deadly. They fire different
Chaos Gods are not objects of fear or kinds of ammunition, such as erratic rockets,
veneration, but another resource to exploit for huge shells which cause the earth to tremble
their own vile ends. when they land and bolts of pure hellfire.
Daemonic Engines are often divided based on
Chaos Dwarfs bind Daemons into many their size and power, and upon what manner of
artefacts, such as weapons and armour, which Daemon is bound inside their iron shell.
they use themselves or sell to Ogres, Smaller cannon that contain the lesser servants
Greenskins and the Warriors of Chaos in of the Chaos Gods, such as Bloodletters or
exchange for more slaves, gold and other more Daemonettes, are known as Lesser Daemonic
esoteric goods. The most horrific application Engines, while the huge siege guns that are
they have discovered for bound Daemons powered by awesome Daemon Princes or
though is imprisoning them inside great Greater Daemons are known as Greater
engines of destruction. In this manner, the Daemonic Engines. The most infamous of
Daemon's infernal energy acts as a power these horrific devices are the monstrous
source for machines that would be impossible Hellcannons, which are often seen in the
to build with normal technology. employ of the mortal warbands of Chaos
worshipers.
Daemonic Engines are extremely dangerous.
The Daemon is kept in a state of torment and M WS BS S T WI A Ld
agitation, so that its rage can power the Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
cannon. They must be chained into position so Daemonsmith 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9
that they do not rampage out of control. Like Lesser Engine 6 4 3 4 5 3 1 2 6
all Daemons, they must be fed souls to survive, Greater Engine 6 4 3 5 6 3 1 3 5
and the Chaos Dwarfs shovel living captives
into the Engine's flesh furnace. As this
horrifying fuel burns, it feeds the Daemon SPECIAL RULES
inside, placating it for a short while. The Fear, Unbreakable.
Chaos Dwarf crew, made up of members of
the Labourer and Artisan Castes, can control Daemonic Engine: Daemonic Engines follow
the Engine by measuring the amount of the rules for monsters and handlers with the
corpses they feed it, ensuring it does not rage crew acting as the handlers. A Daemonic
out of control. However, sometimes it may be Engine may fire in the same manner as a stone
advantageous to allow the Engine to break free thrower if it does not move that turn. Like all
of its bonds and hurl itself towards the enemy, monsters, their Unit Strength is equal to their
snarling and snapping, to slake its thirst for starting number of wounds. When determining
flesh and blood. which models are hit by shooting attacks, a
Lesser Daemonic Engine is hit on a 1-3 and
the Chaos Dwarfs on a 4-6, and a Greater
Daemonic Engine is hit on a 1-4 and the Chaos
Dwarfs on a 5-6.

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Rampage: Daemonic Engines constantly Bound Daemon: Whenever a Daemonic
strive to break from their bonds. At the Engine misfires, roll on the following chart:
beginning of the turn, if a Daemonic Engine is
not in combat, take a Leadership test for the D6 Result
unit as normal. If it passes the test, the unit 1 Free at last! The Daemon inside the
may behave as normal. If it fails the test, the Engine violently breaks its bonds.
unit will not fire and instead must make a Every unit within 3D6" takes D6
compulsory move either 1D6" (for a Lesser Strength 5 hits. Then remove the
Daemonic Engine) or 2D6" (for a Greater Engine and its crew from play.
Daemonic Engine) towards the closest enemy 2 Chomp: The Engine sucks its own
unit. If the unit's movement is sufficient to take crew into the furnace and spits them
it into an enemy unit then it counts as out in a shower of gore and bone.
charging. The target may make a charge Remove the crew from play.
response as normal, counting the Movement 3 Thzzzz: The Engine fires great pulses
value rolled as the Daemonic Engine's charge of raw magic. All Wizards
distance. immediately suffer a miscast.
4 Grrr: The enraged Daemon inside the
Daemonsmith: Daemonic Engines are often Engine goes berserk. Remove one
accompanied by Daemonsmiths, arcane random member of the crew.
engineers who are adept at controlling bound 5 Raaargh! The Engine breaks its
Daemons with their magical arts. A Daemon chains and rushes forwards. The
Engine with a Daemonsmith in its crew may Engine rampages as described in the
re-roll the Leadership test to determine if it Rampage rule.
Rampages or not (note that it can re-roll a 6 Boom! The Engine fires a
passed test too). In addition, the Daemonsmith spectacularly devastating blast.
allows the artillery dice to be re-rolled in the Resolve the shot as if every model
case of a Misfire. A Daemonsmith counts as under the template were under the
part of the Engine's crew in all respects. hole (i.e. at full Strength). The Engine
cannot fire for the rest of the game.

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 MORTAL ENGINES
Not all Chaos Dwarf war machines are be produced in vast numbers by the forges of
powered by enslaved Daemons – there is still a Zharr-Naggrund and so are relatively cheap
call for mundane cannons and other weapons and plentiful. In great enough numbers, they
of death. These relatively simple engines make form a viable alternative to Daemonic
use of physics and chemistry to fire Engines, and they are much more reliable – if
ammunition at the enemy, such as shells or only able to muster up a fraction of their
rockets. The most common Mortal Engines are destructive power.
bolt throwers; braced frames that fire
enormous spear-sized bolts into the ranks of M WS BS S T W I A Ld
the foe, punching through armour as if it were Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5
paper. Also common are bazookas which Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
launch explosive rockets, shooting them into Mortal Engine - - - - 7 3 - - -
enemy formations and acting on the same
principle as bolt throwers. Sometimes, Chaos
Dwarfs also employ devices like mortars, SPECIAL RULES
small cannon that contain a mixture of volatile
chemicals so they can launch shells or petards Mortal Engine: Mortal Engines count as bolt
into the air to fall amongst their terrified throwers. A mortal engine upgraded to
targets. Artillery counts as a stone thrower with a
range of 30" that inflicts Strength 3 hits
Because Mortal Engines are ordinary devices (Strength 6 for a target directly under the
that do not involve Daemons or magic, the template's hole) and causes 1 wound, or D3
Chaos Dwarfs trust their slaves to operate wounds to a model under the hole.
them. Even relatively slow Greenskins such as
Orcs or Gnoblars are able to load and fire a Chaos Dwarf Overseer: A Chaos Dwarf
bolt thrower, though they are not often overseer may be added to a Mortal Engine's
accurate with them. For more complex crew. He counts as crew in all respects,
machines, Hobgoblins are employed but even including allowing it to benefit from his
then they often work under the watchful eye of improved Ballistic Skill.
a Chaos Dwarf overseer. Mortal Engines can

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 OGRES
Ogres are giant, monstrous humanoids with an working massive engines and dragging war
insatiable appetite and a savage temperament. machines into battle. Ogres do not enjoy
They are found almost everywhere and captivity, but they are easy to placate by
frequently hire their services out as offering them the opportunity to inflict
mercenaries. Ogres come from the Mountains violence and eat anything they can kill.
of Mourn, where their tribes hold sway, but
they possesses an insatiable wanderlust that Often, service to the Dawi'Zharr represents the
causes them to travel all over the world, first step for Ogres on the road to true Chaos
fighting and eating. For Ogres, eating is a worship. While fighting for the Chaos Dwarfs
religious experience, the focus of their culture they sometimes receive suits of Chaos armour,
and society, which revolves around the giving them a taste of the Daemonic. When the
worship of their ravenous god, the Great Maw. urge to wander takes them again, they head
Chaos Dwarf territory borders with the realms north into the Chaos wastes, destined to join
of the Ogre Kingdoms and, as such, the two up with a warband of Chaos Warriors or
races frequently trade and fight with one Beastmen. Khorne is the most popular patron
another. for Ogres who are seduced by the lure of
Chaos, and it is not unusual for them to walk
The Chaos Dwarfs find Ogres useful as down the path of the berserker, becoming
mercenaries in their armies. When the Ogre consumed with a frenzied bloodlust in battle.
tribes migrate from their homeland, often the
Chaos Dwarf empire is the first foreign nation M WS BS S T W I A Ld
they encounter, and so it is natural that they Ogre 6 3 2 4 4 3 2 3 7
offer the Chaos Dwarfs their services in Ogre Berserker 6 3 2 4 4 3 2 4 7
exchange for food and plunder. Still other
Ogres, vanquished in battle, are sold to the
Chaos Dwarfs by their fellows as slaves. Ogres SPECIAL RULES
make excellent slaves because of their strength Fear, Expendable.
and endurance, and the Chaos Dwarfs use
them for tasks that require brute force, such as

PALANQUIN
As Sorcerers transform to stone, they gradually M WS BS S T W I A Ld
become more and more immobile. Their feet Palanquin 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 4 9
are the first parts of their bodies to petrify, and
slowly the change works it way up their
bodies. Before long, they cannot move at all, SPECIAL RULES
and are obliged to find new methods of Magical Attacks, Unit Strength 4.
locomotion, either riding on a Taurus, or borne
by their followers on a palanquin. Iron Clad: A Palanquin is a solid construction
Traditionally, palanquins are carried by of braced iron. It adds +2 to the rider's armour
Immortals. From their perch atop the shoulders save instead of the usual +1.
of these elite warriors, the Sorcerer Lords are
able to command their troops and cast their
destructive magic.

Palanquins are ornate, armoured thrones. As

well as serving a practical purpose, they are
also a symbol of high status – wealthy and
powerful is the Sorcerer who can rely on the
services of four Immortals to bear him aloft on
their broad shoulders.

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 PETRIFIED SORCERER
Once a Sorcerer has succumbed entirely to the No particular regiment of Chaos Dwarfs bear
Sorcerers' Curse, and has become an immobile the Petrified Sorcerers, and it is not unknown
statue, he is placed along the road to Zharr- for lowly slaves to be charged with the
Naggrund. Here, serried ranks of lifeless stone laborious task of lugging a stone Sorcerer into
Sorcerers stare down at travellers, their battle. Acolytes of Hashut are most often given
sightless eyes a haunting reminder of the the honour though, due to their standing as part
power of Hashut. The Chaos Dwarfs treat of the Sorcerer Caste and their magical
these statues with the utmost respect, leaving abilities which are only enhanced by the
them to be weathered by the elements over the presence of one of their transformed masters.
ages. However, the petrified Sorcerers retain a
portion of the power that they had in life, and a Petrified Sorcerers are not always taken from
miasma of dread and dark energy surrounds the roads leading to Zharr-Naggrund. There
the statues. have been occasions when an aged Sorcerer
Lord, on his way to lead his troops into battle,
Sometimes, as a demonstration of devotion to succumbs to the Sorcerers' Curse before the
their transformed ancestors, Chaos Dwarf fight is joined. In this case, his loyal soldiers
armies will carry a Petrified Sorcerer into will bear his stone corpse both as proof of their
battle, carried on a dais in a manner not dedication and to protect it, lest it fall into
dissimilar to how a Sorcerer's Palanquin is enemy hands.
carried while he lives. The Petrified Sorcerers
are transfixed at the final moment of their
M WS BS S T W I A Ld
horrifying transformation into stone, and their
Petrified Sorcerer 3 * 0 * * 6 * 4 *
faces betray their terror – most Petrified
Sorcerers have faces frozen into a rictus of
pain and dread. As such, they are a grotesque SPECIAL RULES
symbol of Chaos Dwarf devotion to the Father Resolute, Relentless, Bondage of Hashut,
of Darkness and enemies baulk when Blessing of Hashut, Unit Strength 6.
confronted with them.
Petrified Sorcerer: A Petrified Sorcerer must
be placed in an infantry unit which it cannot
leave for the duration of the game. It must be
placed in the front rank like a standard or
musician. It is has the same WS, BS, S, T, I
and Ld as the rank & file models in the unit
carrying it. The Petrified Sorcerer is
considered to be armed with the same weapons
as the unit carrying it, and benefits from any
special rules that affect their attacks. While
there are rank & file models remaining in the
unit, each wound caused against the Petrified
Sorcerer will result in one regular rank & file
model being removed (other bearers step in to
hold up the Petrified Sorcerer if one of them
falls). Only when the rest of the unit has been
killed does the Petrified Sorcerer start taking
wounds. The Petrified Sorcerer endows the
Blessing of Hashut rule on the unit carrying it
and the unit always counts as outnumbering its
enemies in close combat. The Petrified
Sorcerer has a 4+ armour save and a 4+ Ward
save (note that these will only take effect when
its unit has been killed). It is mounted on a
40x60mm base.

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 AT THE GATES OF ZHARR

Helmut cast his eyes skyward, trying to take in the vast dark arch that spanned the purpling
sky. Its size defied rationality; enormous beyond any previous experience in his four decades
of life. Even the great Temple of Sigmar in Altdorf would have been dwarfed beside this
mighty structure. He slowly made a circuit of one of the massive columns that held the arch
aloft, wider than an Imperial highway, and it took him several minutes before he returned to
his starting place.
"I don't understand what I'm looking at," he finally said.
His companion, a wizened scholar from the College of Antiquity, held up an ornate eyepiece
and carefully examined the inscriptions that covered the huge stone column. Every inch was
inscribed with tiny, angular runes, stretching up the full length of the support: the contents of
many hundreds of tomes must have been etched in the stone, and the lack of rain in this
desolate land had ensured they were still legible.
"It appears to be a form of Khazalid."
"Dwarfish?"
"Yes, but a highly deviant form."
"Deviant?" Helmut adjusted his sword in his scabbard and shivered inwardly. His troops,
two-score Imperial soldiers, were all standing idle nearby, trying not to look too hard at the
immense arch that had dominated the horizon for weeks as they approached it from the
south. Up close, it was even more mind-destroying in its vastness. The team of explorers and
scientists they were protecting were all investigating the structure in different ways,
depending on their respective fields. Only the old professor, Doctor Schalzenbourg, was
squinting at the writing.
"It's clearly recognisable as Khazalid all right," he murmured, "but I see the influence of
more...heathen tongues...upon it. There is something of the northman's speech in this
language, I hazard."
Helmut grew even more uncomfortable. He had hated this stark land since they had crossed
the mountains, and the possible presence of creatures that could have erected this arch did
little to assuage his fears. Schalzenbourg had assured him that the only inhabitants of the
Dark Lands were Greenskin tribes and that none of them had the ability to construct
something like this. Whoever had built this awesome feat of architecture was long gone.
"Gunter, could you assist me?" the doctor asked, and presently he was joined by the
mysterious Professor of Astromancy in his elaborate robes. The bearded wizard peered at the
script for a long moment.
"Languages aren't exactly my speciality, Hans..."
"But you know the Tongues of Magic, do you not? I think you can fill in the gaps in my
knowledge here."
The Astromancer looked dubious, but set to the task with a will nonetheless and, as the
weakling sun that shone wanly over the Dark Lands began to set and band began to make
camp, they made quick progress.
Helmut's curiosity eventually got the better of him and he walked over to the two academics.
"So what does it say?"
"It's very interesting, my boy," Shcalzenbourg told him, "this line is repeated often, and seems
to have been given some importance by the builders. Let me give your our translation – it is
imperfect, but adequate. It reads thus: 'My name is Zhargon, king of kings: Behold the Gates
of Fire. Look upon my work, ye Mighty and despair.'"
Helmut felt another chill run down his spine. "Gates of Fire?"
Schalzenbourg shrugged. "I don't understand the significance either."
Helmut looked out across the horizon, feeling that inexplicable shudder again. Were his ears
deceiving him, or could he hear the distant beat of drums? Perhaps it was just thunder.
 GHORTH THE CRUEL
Supreme Lord of the Conclave of Priests, Master of Zharr, The Black Dwarf
The balance of power in the Temple of Hashut side, and that this holds the key to his
has been carefully maintained for untold longevity. In what may be the waning days of
centuries, the Sorcerers' Curse ensuring that no his domination, Ghorth is now even more
one individual ever becomes too dominant in active, safeguarding his realm and crushing
the affairs of the Priesthood. The High Priest rumours about his potential demise. With
of Hashut, the eldest of the Sorcerer Lords, Zhatan at his side, he is borne into battle atop a
holds ultimate sway as he is invariably the palanquin bedecked in twisted runes and sigils
mightiest Sorcerer: although age and power do that assault the eye and the mind. Now at the
not correlate, and a Sorcerer's strength with the height of his magical power, Ghorth
dark arts wanes in later life, precocious young manipulates the Winds of Magic with
Priests burn out all the faster, transforming into contemptuous ease, blasting his enemies with
stone before they can threaten the status quo. the infernal magics of Hashut.
Lordship belongs to the eldest and most patient
Sorcerers. In the darkest corners of Zharr-Naggrund,
rumours have begun to circulate that Ghorth
Ghorth the Cruel has proven the exception to has plans that outstrip the ambitions of even
this rule. For some unknown reason, he has his mighty predecessor, Zhargon the Great.
managed to stave off petrification despite his They point to his bartering with Archaon the
near-reckless abuses of his magical power. Everchosen to supply his hordes with fearsome
Through complex machinations and at times Hellcannons as evidence, and believe this
blatant backstabbing, he has risen to a position indicates that Ghorth's attentions have turned
of absolute dominance within the Temple, and westward, towards the Old World. What is
none have the strength to oppose him. His clear is that, whatever his physical condition,
sponsorship of the savage Zhatan the Black Ghorth is all too ready to demonstrate the
has bought him the loyalty of the Immortals, depth of his power, both in arcane lore and
and through his politicking he has come to over the Chaos Dwarf empire.
claim ownership over much of Zharr-
Naggrund.
M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Ghorth the Cruel 0 4 3 4 5 4 1 1 10
Ghorth is not immune to the effects of the
Black Throne 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 5 9
Sorcerers' Curse though – there are dark
whisperings amongst his enemies and even his
followers that much of his body has now
turned to stone, and that he goes to great SPECIAL RULES
lengths to conceal this, lest a rival attempt to Resolute, Relentless, Bondage of Hashut.
overthrow him. There are mutterings too that
the mysterious golden mask that came into his Sorcerers' Curse: Like all Priests of Hashut,
possession centuries ago now never leaves his Ghorth is afflicted with the Sorcerers' Curse.
He has a Scaly Skin save of 4+.

"the empire of men has trembled at Lord of Sorcerers: Ghorth is the mightiest
the sound of our voice – at the bull- Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer to emerge in over a
roar of mighty hashut – and so they thousand years. He is a Level 4 Wizard who
will again. even now, more knows five spells from the Lore of Fire, Metal,
hellcannons are being built in the Shadow or Death.
forges and we will sell them to
more lords of chaos in time. but this The Black Throne: Ghorth rides atop a
is only the beginning. long have i palanquin of blackened gromril, etched with
prepared my machines and my Daemonic runes. The Black Throne causes
armies for my greatest task. it has
Fear and grants the rider a 4+ Ward save. Like
taken decades, but at last i have
a normal Palanquin, it has unit strength 4, the
almost total control over zharr-
Iron Clad rule and magical attacks, but is also
naggrund. a thousand thousand
a Large Target.
warriors swear fealty to me and me
alone. the time of our coming
approaches."
Ghorth the cruel

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MAGIC ITEMS
The Mask of Zhargon: Long ago, Zhargon
the Great was the supreme master of the Chaos
Dwarf empire, living longer and becoming
more powerful than any Sorcerer before or
since. He wore a suit of golden Chaos armour
that, it was rumoured, staved off the Sorcerers'
Curse. Ghorth found this mask which he
believes comes from that very suit of armour.
In recent times, it has never left his side. The
Mask of Zhargon does indeed protect its bearer
against hostile magic.

Ghorth has Magic Resistance (3).

Daemonic Familiar: Ghorth is accompanied

by a chattering Daemonic imp, slaved to his
will by vile enchantments. He may cast one
random spell from the Lore of Shadow as a
bound spell with a power level of 4. Roll to
determine which spell the Daemonic Familiar
grants him at the start of the battle in the same
manner as a normal spell. If Ghorth chooses to
use the Lore of Shadow and the Familiar
generates one of the same spells as Ghorth, he
may use the same spell twice per magic phase,
once as normal and once as a bound spell.
 ZHATAN THE BLACK
Commander of the Tower of Zharr, Lord of the Immortals, The Banelord
Zhatan the Black began his career much as any
other member of the Warrior Caste and M WS BS S T W I A Ld
showed great promise in his youth. For this Zhatan 3 8 4 4 5 4 4 4 10
reason, he was recruited into the Immortals,
where he served with equal distinction until
one fateful battle. SPECIAL RULES
Resolute, Relentless, Bondage of Hashut.
Zhatan was charged with defending the
Sorcerer Lord H'Kul Firebreath during the Infinite Cruelty: Zhatan is renowned for his
Fourth Battle of Daemon's Stump against a horrific acts of brutality and cruelty even
band of marauding Ogres. The Immortals amongst his own evil race. Zhatan Hates all
protecting H'Kul were charged by a ferocious enemy models.
group of Maneaters who barrelled into the
Chaos Dwarf lines, knocking H'Kul from his Lord of the Immortals: Zhatan is the
Palanquin. Zhatan stepped in to protect the Banelord, the commander of the Immortals. He
fallen Sorcerer and took on a huge Maneater in can muster a mighty force of the elite warriors.
single combat. Zhatan, though young and If Zhatan is your army's General, Immortals
relatively inexperienced, proved a match for may be taken as Core units.
the mighty Ogre and assaulted him with a
ferocious savagery unusual in a Chaos Dwarf. MAGIC ITEMS
Zhatan was unrelenting, and single-handedly The Hammer of Zharr: This huge two-
reduced the Maneater to a mangled carcass, handed warhammer is a mighty relic of ancient
soaking his armour in dark Ogre blood. times, dating back to the founding of the
Unfortunately, in his savage frenzy he had Chaos Dwarf empire and the building of
forgotten his first duty and the almost totally Zharr-Naggrund. It is said that the Hammer of
petrified H'Kul was cut down while trying to Zharr was the tool used to break the earth
stand using his own power. when the first foundations of the ziggurat were
laid.
Zhatan became a Baneguard, serving as an
Immortal from then onwards. Despite his The Hammer of Zharr is a great weapon that
failure in his duty, he continued to fight with ignores armour saves.
unrelenting fury, ferocious where his fellows
were stoic and disciplined. Such was his dire The Ring of Unmaking: The jealous Chaos
reputation that he eventually drew the attention Dwarfs despise the artefacts of all other races,
of a young Sorcerer named Ghorth the Cruel. holding their crude machineries and magical
He saw in Zhatan a protégé – not one who weapons in contempt. Amongst their most
could follow him down the path of the powerful creations is this ring of smooth
Sorcerer, for Zhatan had no skill with magic, obsidian which has the power to resist the
but rather one who could emulate the dark and effects of enchanted weapons made by other
terrible acts that had brought Ghorth his race, reducing them to ordinary steel when
standing amongst the Dawi'Zharr. contact is made between blade and the black
stone.
From that time on, Zhatan became Ghorth's
unofficial bodyguard, following behind him The Ring of Unmaking negates the power of
and protecting him from the political any magic or runic weapons carried by models
machinations of his fellow Sorcerers. As in base contact – treat them as non-magical
Zhatan's reputation grew and he rose to weapons of their type.
become commander of the Immortals, so too
did Ghorth's power, until the entire warrior The Black Mantle: Across Zhatan's shoulders
elite of Zharr-Naggrund served at the Sorcerer sits a cloak stitched from the skins of slaves
Lord's beck and call. Ghorth reached heights tortured in the Temple of Hashut. Blackened
undreamed of, his influence becoming greater by the fires of the Father of Darkness, this
even than the High Priest Astragoth himself. terrible object radiates an aura of dread.
Thanks largely to Zhatan, the balance of power
in the Temple of Hashut was changed forever. Zhatan causes Fear.

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 LORD BHAAL
First Guardian, Eldest of the Bull Centaurs, The Death of Worlds
Few creatures can match the strength, speed On the occasions when Lord Bhaal does take
and ferocity of a Bull Centaur. Half Chaos to the field of battle, he shows little regard for
Dwarf, half bull, they are some of the most any plan a Warlord or Sorcerer may have
feared shock troops in the world. Their devised. He is utterly contemptuous of non-
commanders are even more dangerous, the Bull Centaurs, and kneels for no one. The
mighty Guardians and awesome Elders able to Priests have little choice but to allow Bhaal to
single-handedly break a battle line and slay do as he wishes, because to cross him means
great heroes and ferocious monsters. Like certain death: a Sorcerer Lord may be more
other Dwarfs, Bull Centaurs become more powerful than any other Chaos Dwarf in
powerful and skilled as they age, and so the Zharr-Naggrund, but the Bull Centaurs are the
title of Lord of the Bull Centaurs is given to chosen creatures of Hashut, and none would
the oldest and therefore most awe-inspiring dare raise a hand against Lord Bhaal were he
specimen of their race. Currently, this is the to take exception to a Priest and cast him into
terrifying monstrosity known as Bhaal. the cauldrons with the slaves.

Lord Bhaal is as fierce and arrogant as any of M WS BS S T W I A Ld

his race, but the strain of ancient mutation is Lord Bhaal 8 7 3 5 5 4 5 5(6) 10
especially strong in him. He is a huge,
glowering beast, and wide horns sprout from
his brow. His flesh burns with terrific SPECIAL RULES
intensity, glowing with the heat so his Blessing of Hashut, Flaming Attacks,
hindquarters resemble a living furnace. In his Immune to Psychology, Trample, Terror,
hands, he carries a huge Daemonic axe, Large Target, Unit Strength 4.
encrusted with ancient and terrible Chaos
runes. Fury of Hashut: Lord Bhaal is a barely
controlled whirlwind of rage. He is subject to
Bhaal leaves the Temple of Hashut very rarely. Frenzy. Bhaal extends this to any unit he leads.
As the Eldest of the Bull Centaurs, he has a
vital role to play in the rites of the Father of Lord of the Bull Centaurs: Bhaal is the Lord
Darkness, personally casting captives into of the Bull Centaurs. He may only join units of
cauldrons of molten gold or iron. Because the Bull Centaurs.
heat does not affect Bull Centaurs, they are
necessary to ensure the slaves are fully Fiery Hide: Bhaal's flesh burns with terrific
immersed, plunging them into the scalding intensity, turning aside weapons that strike
depths where their screams are swallowed by him. He has a Scaly Skin save of 5+.
liquid metal, which fills their lungs and hastens
their demise. Above these horrific screams can Bull Charge: Bhaal's head is crowned with a
be heard the gloating laughter of Lord Bhaal, pair of huge horns that he uses to gore his
who takes particular delight in the suffering of enemies. When he charges, he inflicts D3
lesser races. impact hits at his basic strength.

MAGIC ITEMS
Dread Axe: Lord Bhaal bears the Dread Axe,
a weapon of ancient and terrible provenance
that bears vile Chaos runes.

The Dread Axe is a great weapon that wounds

automatically. Armour saves are modified by
Bhaal's Strength as normal.

“Crush them."
Lord Bhaal’s only order at the battle of
uzkulak

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 ASTRAGOTH
High Priest of Hashut, The Stone Who Walks, Rockbeard
Chaos Dwarfs respect age as much as their Sorcerers' Curse: Much of Astragoth's body
western kin, and the title of High Priest of has succumbed to petrification. He has a Scaly
Hashut traditionally falls to the oldest Sorcerer Skin save of 3+.
Lord currently living. Astragoth is the current
High Priest of Hashut and therefore the oldest Steam Attack: Astragoth has discovered that
living Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer. During the he can switch the pistons that drive his limbs
height of his powers, he was the most powerful around and blast his enemies with a gout of
Sorcerer to walk the Plain of Zharr in a scaling steam. He has a Strength 3 breath
thousand years. Now, however, his petrified weapon attack, but he may not use this if he
body can no longer master magic as it once has moved that turn.
did, for almost all of Astargoth's body has
turned to stone. He must be carried from place MAGIC ITEMS
to place by his followers, and his underlings Hammerhand: Astragoth's semi-mechanical
must perform many of the more complex rites body incorporates a piston-driven hammer
of his spells. In an effort to overcome these which sometimes goes into overdrive,
disabilities, Astragoth ordered the creation of a hammering enemies into a bloody pulp.
special device blending sorcery and
technology: a mechanical body grafted to his Astragoth has the Killing Blow ability.
stone limbs that enables him to move and cast
spells. Where other Sorcerers must rely on the The Rod of Obsidian: This short volcanic
help of their servants and become increasingly glass staff forces the winds of magic to bend to
feeble, Astragoth can now take part in battles, the will of its holder.
lending his considerable magical talent to
Chaos Dwarf slaving parties, as well as using The Rod of Obsidian allows any Dispel
his mechanical might to physically pummel his attempt to be re-rolled.
enemies.
The Rune of Hashut: Astragoth's forehead is
Most Dawi'Zharr consider Astragoth quite marked with a burning Rune of Hashut, placed
mad, but while he lives he is still the High upon him by the Father of Darkness as a
Priest of Hashut and they must accept him, symbol of his favour.
mechanical body and all. There is growing
rebellion in the Temple though in the form of Astragoth has the Blessing of Hashut rule and
Ghorth the Cruel, who has now surpassed receives a 5+ Ward save.
Astragoth in power and influence. Astragoth
still maintains a power base of the more
traditional Chaos Dwarfs however, especially
the zealous Acolytes of Hashut who revere
him as befits his station. But it is only a matter
of time until matters come to a head...

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Astragoth 3 4 3 5 5 3 3 2 10

SPECIAL RULES
Relentless, Bondage of Hashut.

Great Sorcerer: Astragoth is a Level 4

Wizard and may choose spells from the Lore
of Fire, Metal, Shadow or Death.

High Priest: Astragoth commands the loyalty

of the Temple due to his position as High
Priest of Hashut. If Astragoth is the army's
General, Acolytes of Hashut may be taken as
Core units.

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 RYKARTH THE UNBREAKABLE
Captain of the Granite Guard, The Hand of Ghorth, Fearless One
Rykarth the Unbreakable is a prodigy of the Zhatan the Black marked well how Ghorth
Warrior Caste. As a young Chaos Dwarf, he took an interest in the young Immortal,
was responsible for some of the great victories sending him on missions that benefited himself
in Warlord Ulzuth's scourging of the Blasted and recruiting him for secretive tasks. In time,
Wastes. He was elevated to the rank of Rykarth became known as the Hand of Ghorth
Ironguard before he even came of age and for, though Zhatan was the Sorcerer Lord's
proved an inspirational leader to his troops, most trusted bodyguard, it was Rykarth who
commanding absolute obedience from them. was most often seen enacting his will outside
He was lauded throughout the Plain of Zharr as the Temple. It was Rykarth who brokered the
an exemplar of Chaos Dwarf toughness and deal with Archaon the Everchosen to supply
stoicism. He was on course to become the him with batteries of Hellcannons and it is said
youngest Despot in history when a directive that when the Lord of the End Times visited
came down from a mysterious source in the the hell-forges below Zharr-Naggrund,
Temple of Hashut: Rykarth became the first Rykarth alone was able to meet his infernal
Warrior ever to be commanded by the gaze.
Conclave of Priests to join the Immortals.
Rykarth leads his own unit of Immortals, an
As an Immortal, Rykarth continued to excel, elite formation known as the Granite Guard.
never failing in his duties and possessing a His prowess grows by the year, and Ghorth
courage in excess even of that usually grows ever more pleased with his young
demanded by the Immortals. After seven years protégé, giving him more and more authority
had passed, Rykarth prepared to return to his and autonomy, grooming him to perhaps
warband and, as Ulzuth had died in the become his Warlord, a position he has always
intervening period, it was assumed he would left unfilled.
become the new Warlord of the Sorcerer Lord
Drazakh. However, the Conclave intervened
again: they requested that Rykarth remain with M WS BS S T W I A Ld
the Immortals as a captain within their ranks, Rykarth 3 7 4 4 5 2 3 3 9
leading as only he could. Drazakh had no
choice but to agree and, even though he was SPECIAL RULES
not a Baneguard, Rykarth's tenure with the Resolute, Relentless, Bondage of Hashut.
Immortals was extended indefinitely.
Granite Guard: Rykarth leads the Granite
Rykarth never questioned his orders, for he Guard, an elite formation of Immortals. If
was unflinchingly loyal to his masters, but Rykarth is included in your army, an Immortal
unit must be taken to represent his Granite
Guard. The Granite Guard always count as a
Special choice, even if Zhatan is your General.
Rykarth must be placed in the Granite Guard
unit and may not leave it for the duration of the
battle. The Granite Guard are Unbreakable
while Rykarth is in the unit. He may not join
any other units.

MAGIC ITEMS
Cursed Rune Axe: Rykarth bears a version of
the Immortals' signature weapon, as befits his
rank. The Cursed Rune Axe is a larger and
more elaborate version of the cursed axes used
by other Immortals.

The Cursed Rune Axe is a great weapon.

When it causes wounds, armour saves are
taken at an additional –1 save modifier.

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 KTHAARK DAEMONBANE
Scourge of the Empyrean, Soul-Slaver, Father of the Kolossus
The most talented and powerful Daemonsmith MAGIC ITEMS
of the current generation is Kthaark Rod of Daemon Binding: Kthaark carries an
Daemonbane. He is accomplished enough in arcane staff that is bound with enchantments
the magical arts to be a Sorcerer in his own designed to capture and enslave Daemons. A
right, but he has chosen to use his abilities to Daemon touched by the Rod will find itself
perfect his Daemonic machines. He serves no ensnared in magical bonds.
Sorcerer Lord – the products of his soul-forges
being valuable enough that he can play Kthaark has the killing blow ability against
members of the Conclave against each other – Daemons. This ability is extended even to
but most of his work is done at the behest of Daemons that have unit strength higher than 1
Ghorth the Cruel, who knows well the value of (such as Greater Daemons and Daemon
having powerful Daemon Engines. Kthaark Princes).
built the Hellcannons that were eventually sold
to Archaon the Everchosen. Soul Armour: Kthaark wears a suit of rune-
encrusted armour that is proof against the
Kthaark is a dangerous and driven individual. attacks of Daemons.
He has pushed the boundaries of Chaos Dwarf
science almost to breaking point in his efforts Chaos armour. Kthaark has a 5+ Ward save
to create larger and more dangerous machines against magical attacks.
of war. Some of his experiments have caused
large scale destruction and many casualties, Daemonic Slaves: Kthaark is constantly
making him distrusted by other Dawi'Zharr, surrounded by a gaggle of chattering Daemons
but as long as the ambitious Sorcerer Lords enslaved to his will. He uses his arcane talents
continue to demand new artefacts from him, to command these creatures to do his bidding.
his prosperity is assured. Kthaark's greatest
invention was a huge, bull-shaped machine Kthaark's Daemonic Slaves allow him to cast
called the Kolossus which proved too unstable Bound Spells at power level 4. Kthaark may
to be useful, but his long-standing dream is to only cast one Bound Spell in this manner each
recreate it in an even grander and more magic phase and must select which to use from
spectacularly destructive form. Each day, he the following options:
nears his demented goal.
Daemonic Apparition: Cast as the Lore of Fire
M WS BS S T W I A Ld spell Burning Head.
Kthaark 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 2 9 Daemonic Curse: Cast as the Lore of Metal
spell Commandment of Brass.
Daemonic Surge: Cast as the Lore of Shadow
SPECIAL RULES spell Unseen Lurker.
Resolute, Relentless. Daemonic Form: Cast as the Lore of Death
spell Walking Death.
Daemonsmith: Kthaark is a Daemonsmith. If
he joins a Daemonic Engine unit, the unit
gains all the benefits of including a
Daemonsmith, though Kthaark does not count
as a member of the crew.

Kolossus: Kthaark's greatest creation was the

Kolossus, a Daemonic Engine of truly
gargantuan proportions. If Kthaark is included
in your army, one Greater Daemonic Engine
may be given up to 150 points of Daemonic
Gifts in order to represent this awesome
machine, or one of its later imitators.

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 GORDUZ BACKSTABBER
Hobgoblin Chieftain, Wolf Master, Sneakiest Git
Hobgoblins occupy a relatively privileged
position amongst the hordes of slaves that M WS BS S T W I A Ld
serve the Chaos Dwarfs. They are allowed to Gorduz 4 5 3 4 4 2 3 3 7
keep their own customs, their own tribes and Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3
their own leaders. Nonetheless, it is rare
indeed for a Hobgoblin to achieve a rank of
any influence in the armies of his masters. SPECIAL RULES
Naturally servile and cowardly creatures, they Expendable, Treachery.
are largely incapable of making use of the even
the meagre advantages the Chaos Dwarfs give Git: Fated...lucky...sneaky: call it what you
them. However, there is one Hobgoblin who will, but Gorduz has an unnatural insitinct for
has risen to a position of power – or at least survival that has allowed him to emerge
notoriety – in the armies of the Dawi'Zharr. unscathed from multiple assassination
Gorduz Backstabber has the dubious honour of attempts by his rivals. When Gorduz is
being the Chieftain of the Sneaky Git tribe, the reduced to his last Wound, he gains a 4+ Ward
vilest and most loathsome of all the save.
Hobgoblins. These treacherous Greenskins
inhabit Gash Kadrak, the Vale of Woe, where Hobgoblin Chieftain: Gorduz is the chieftain
they oversee the great quarries that provide of the Sneaky Git tribe of Hobgoblins. If he is
stone for the Chaos Dwarfs' building projects. included in the army, Hobgoblin Wolf Riders
There, millions of lesser slaves toil under the may be included as Core units. In addition,
cruel whips of the Sneaky Gitz. Hobgoblin Wolf Riders within 12" of Gorduz
may use his Leadership as if he were the army
Gorduz is a traitorous as all his kin, and thinks General.
nothing of betraying his fellow Hobgoblins to
his masters in exchange for their favouritism – MAGIC ITEMS
hence his epitaph. Unlike in almost any other Sneaky Git Knives: Gorduz carries many
species, this does not lead to him being envenomed blades hidden about his person that
despised, but in fact admired and respected by he uses to advance his position, but which also
other Hobgoblins. In a race that has evolved a prove useful in battle.
bony hump on their shoulders due to their
predilection for clandestine assassinations, Gorduz has Poisoned Attacks.
Gorduz stands as an exemplar of those dubious
Hobgoblin values. Wolf Pelt: Gorduz wears a thick wolf pelt
across his shoulders, taken from one of the
savage Great Wolves that roam the Dark
Lands. These beasts were warped by the power
of Chaos in ancient times and possess
unnatural resilience.

Gorduz gains +1 armour save against shooting

attacks.

"Stick 'em wiv arrers. Stick 'em wiv

knives, an' swords an' spears. Stick
'em quick and stick 'em where it
'urts. But most of all...stick 'em
when they's lookin' the uvver way."

Gorduz backstabber

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 COLLECTING CHAOS DWARFS
Amassing an army of Chaos Dwarfs is no easy does exist, and so there are really as many
feat. Because of the scarcity of the miniatures, kinds of Chaos Dwarf army as there are Chaos
it requires either an investment of money (to Dwarf player! Nonetheless, it is worth thinking
obtain them from auction sites), time (to track about your army as you put it together. Chaos
down dwindling stock at small independent Dwarfs are an unusual army because they
retailers or car boot sales) or effort (converting combine solid, well-armoured Core units with
them from more readily available miniatures). extremely cheap, disposable Slaves. They also
However a player chooses to create his Chaos possess the equivalent of heavy cavalry in their
Dwarf army, it is sure to be a labour of love, Bull Centaurs, and fast cavalry with their Wolf
with more heed paid to what he can find or Riders. A Chaos Dwarf army can easily be a
convert than what will be tactically viable! jack-of-all-trades, but they are most powerful
Similarly, because many years have passed when they make use of their fearsome
since official background material was Daemonic Engines, hard-hitting Ogre
published for Chaos Dwarfs, each player will mercenaries and immovable Immortals.
present his own spin on the sparse material that

Baggronor's tournament army, above, is based around large blocks of infantry. Warriors,
Immortals and Stormcallers, supported by Daemonic Engines, make this army a formidable threat
on the battlefield.

Slim's army is larger and features more varation. Alongside large infantry units, it also features a
unit of Hobgoblin Wolf Riders and a battery of Mortal Engines. Like Baggronor though, he has
made good use of Daemonic Engines, including two in his army.

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 LORDS OF ZHARR-NAGGRUND

Chaos Dwarf Warlord riding Winged Taurus

This mighty Chaos Dwarf Warlord sits astride a fearsome Taurus,
replete with Daemonic Gifts.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

Zhatan the Black

Zhatan is the Commander of the Tower of
Zharr, the mighty Banelord of the Immortals.
By Thommy H

Astragoth, High Priest of Hashut

Astragoth's aged body has transformed almost entirely to stone, so
he has constructed a mechanical frame to power his rock limbs.
By Thommy H

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Rykarth the Unbreakable
A paragon of Chaos Dwarf virtues, Rykarth is Kthaark Daemonbane
an awesome foe. The renegade Daemonsmith Kthaark is an
By AngryBoy2K insane inventor who is always attempting to
surpass his previous creation.
By Thommy H

Battle Standard Bearer.

By Grimstonefire

Chaos Dwarf Despot.

By Snotling

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 PRIESTS OF HASHUT

Chaos Dwarf
Sorcerer
This Sorcerer is
accompanied by a
Daemonic Thrall.

Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer.

Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers.

By Snotling

This Sorcerer has been modelled to represent

his transformation as he uses the Staff of
Magma. He is also in the process of casting
the Lore of Fire spell Burning Head.
By Tjub

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 THE RUNE OF HASHUT
The Chaos Dwarfs use many devices and
runes on their banners and artefacts. This
diagram – with its highly precise geometry,
characteristic of the obsessively orderly
Dawi'Zharr – depicts the rune that they use
to represent Hashut, the Father of Darkness.
It is the most holy symbol of the Chaos
Dwarfs and they do not utilise it lightly. It
resembles both the runes used by the
Dwarfs of the Worlds Edge Mountains and
the twisted runes used by the followers of
the Chaos Gods, most notably Khorne,
perhaps evidence of the origins of Hashut.

Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer and Despot.

By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 SOLDIERS OF THE TOWER

Chaos Dwarf Warriors with shields

and hand weapons.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

Chaos Dwarf Warrior.

By Exquisite Evil

Chaos Dwarf Warriors with great axes.

By Bassman

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 Chaos Dwarf Warriors.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

Chaos Dwarf
Warriors.
By Snotling

Chaos Dwarf Warriors.

By Tjub

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 SOLDIERS OF THE TOWER

Chaos Dwarf Warriors.

By Blackgonzo

Chaos Dwarf Warriors.

By Snotling

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 Chaos Dwarf Stormcallers.
By Tjub

Chaos Dwarf Stormcaller.

By Snotling

Chaos Dwarf Stormcaller.

By Grimstonefire

Chaos Dwarf Stormcallers.

By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 SLAVES

Hobgoblin Slaves with shields.

By Xander

Slaves with shields

This Slave unit uses an Ogre as a unit filler.
By Blackgonzo

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 These models demonstrate the myriad
possibilities for Slaves in your Chaos Dwarf
army. The models above represent disturbing
Daemonic puppets, while below is an eclectic
selection of Greenskins.
By Snotling

Hobgoblin Slaves with bows.

By Tjub

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 IMMORTALS
Immortals with cursed axes.
By Thommy H

Baneguard.
By Slim

Immortals with great weapons.

By Slim

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HOBGOBLIN WOLF RIDERS
Wolf Riders with
shields.
By Bassman

Gorduz Backstabber
Hobgoblin Chieftain Gorduz
Backstabber is as vile and
treacherous as all his race.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

Wolf Riders with spears and

shields.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 DAEMONIC ENGINES
Lesser Daemonic Engine with death rockets.
By Bassman

Greater Daemonic Engine with infernal shells.

By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 Colossal Greater Daemonic
Engine with doomfire.
By Xander

Greater Daemonic
Engine with death
rockets.
By Baggronor

Greater Daemonic Engine with doomfire.

By Thommy H

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 DAEMONIC ENGINES

Daemonsmith.
By Dino

Greater Daemonic Engine

This monstrous Engine is surely worthy of the title 'Kolossus'! The Daemonic
Gifts necessary to represent it would require the presence of Kthaark
Daemonbane in the army.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 MORTAL ENGINES

Mortal Engine with Chaos Dwarf

Overseer and artillery upgrade.
By Kris Aubin

Mortal Engine with artillery upgrade.

By Tjub

Mortal Engine.
By Snotling

Chaos Dwarf
Overseer.
By Obsidian

Mortal Engine.
By Ishkur Cinderhat

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 MERCENARIES
Chaos Ogres
These Ogres have
pledged their loyalty to
the Chaos God Khorne.
Their days as servants
of the Dawi'Zharr may
be numbered...
By Thommy H

Ogres
These Ogres have
embraced Chaos
Dwarf culture by
growing beards and
donning tall hats.
By bas_2312

Black Orcs.
By Ubertechie

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 BULL CENTAURS
Bull Centaurs.
By Tjub

Bull Centaur.
By Vexxus and Xander

Bull Centaurs.
By Pulper

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 The Trails of Hashut
The Trails were a highly volcanic region in the north of the Dark Lands. Long ago, a
mighty Daemon Prince of Khorne was imprisoned beneath a monolith at the centre of the
lava flows. The Chaos Dwarfs thoroughly mapped the Trails and used them as a
defensive bulwark against invasion from the north, along with a complex netrowk of
fortresses surrounding it. However, a Khornate warband made an assault on the Trails
and succeeding in freeing the Daemon Prince, causing the Trails of Hashut to turn
dormant. Both races record the battle that was fought at the Monolith in their histories,
and it marked the end of the Chaos Dwarfs' isolation from the northern tribes, since they
could no longer defend their borders from them.
 THE CHAOS DWARFS ARMY LIST
This army list enables you to turn your Options. Many entries list different weapon,
Chaos Dwarf miniatures collection into an armour and equipment options, along with any
army ready for a tabletop battle. The army additional cost for giving them to the unit. This
list is divided into four sections: Characters includes magic items and other upgrades for
(including Lords and Heroes), Core Units, characters. It may also include the option to
Special Units and Rare Units. upgrade a unit member to a champion,
standard bearer or musician.
CHOOSING AN ARMY
Every miniature in the Warhammer range has a Choosing Characters
points cost that reflects how effective it is on Characters are divided into two categories:
the battlefield. For example, a lowly Slave Lords and Heroes. The maximum number of
costs just 2 points, while one of the mighty characters an army can include is shown on the
Sorcerer Lords who rules Zharr-Naggrund chart below. Of these, only a certain number
costs 200 points! can be Lords.
Army Points Value Max. Total Max. Lords Max. Heroes
Both players choose their armies to the same
agreed points total. You can spend less and Less than 2,000 3 0 3
2,000 or more 4 1 4
will probably find it impossible to use up every 3,000 or more 6 2 6
last point. Most 2,000 point armies, for 4,000 or more 8 3 8
example, will be more like 1,998 or 1,999 Each +1,000 +2 +1 +2
points.
An army must always include at least one
To form your miniatures into an army, look up character to act as the general. If you include
the relevant army list entry for the first troop more than one character, then the one with the
type. This tells you the points cost to add each highest Leadership value is the general. When
unit of models to your army and any options or one of more characters have the same (and
upgrades the unit may have. Then select your highest) Leadership, choose one to be the
next unit, calculate its points and so on until general at the start of the battle, and make sure
you reach the agreed points total. In addition to your opponent knows which character you
the points value, there are a few other rules choose.
that govern which units you can include in
your army, as detailed under Choosing Many Chaos Dwarf characters can be equipped
Characters and Choosing Troops. with magic items from the Creations of the
Cursed Forges section later in this document
ARMY LIST ENTRIES and their mounts may be able to benefit from
Profiles. The characteristic profiles for the Daemonic Gifts. Where characters have these
model(s) in each unit are provided as a options, they are included in their profile.
reminder. Where several profiles are required,
these are also given even if they are optional. Choosing Troops
The number of each type of unit allowed
Unit size. Each troop entry specifies the depends on the army's points value.
minimum size for each unit, which is the
smallest number of models needed to form that Army Points Value Core Special Rare
unit. In some cases units also have a maximum Less than 2,000 2+ 0-3 0-1
size. 2,000 or more 3+ 0-4 0-2
3,000 or more 4+ 0-5 0-3
4,000 or more 5+ 0-6 0-4
Weapons and Armour. Each entry lists the Each +1,000 +1 minimum +0-1 +0-1
standard weapons and armour for that unit
type. The cost of these items is included in the
basic points value. Additional or optional Like many characters, some Chaos Dwarf
weapons and armour cost extra and are units can be equipped with magic items from
covered in the Options section of the unit the Creations of the Cursed Forges section
entry. (normally banners, although some unit
champions can carry other items). In addition,
Special Rules. Many troops have special rules Daemonic Engines have access to Daemonic
that are described earlier in this document. The Gifts. Where units have these options, it is
names of these rules are listed as a reminder. included in their profile.

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 LORDS

GHORTH THE CRUEL 535 Points Page 34

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Ghorth the Cruel 0 4 3 4 5 4 1 1 10 .• Hand weapon • Resolute
Black Throne 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 5 9 • The Mask of • Relentless
Zhargon • Bondage of Hashut
• Daemonic Familiar • Sorcerers' Curse
You may only include one Ghorth in your army. • Lord of Sorcerers
• The Black Throne

ZHATAN THE BLACK 330 Points Page 36

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Zhatan 3 8 4 4 5 4 4 4 10 .• Hammer of Zharr • Resolute
• Chaos armour • Relentless
• Ring of Unmaking • Bondage of Hashut
You may only include one Zhatan in your army. • Black Mantle • Infinite Cruelty
• Lord of the
Immortals

LORD BHAAL 425 Points Page 38

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Lord Bhaal 8 7 3 5 5 4 5 5(6) 10 .• Dread Axe • Blessing of Hashut
• Chaos armour • Flaming Attacks
• Immune to Psychology
You may only include one Bhaal in your army. • Trample
• Terror
• Large Target
• Unit Strength 4
• Fury of Hashut
• Lord of the Bull
Centaurs
• Fiery Hide
• Bull Charge

ASTRAGOTH 445 Points Page 39

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Astragoth 3 4 3 5 5 3 3 2 10 .• Hammerhand • Relentless
• Rod of Obsidian • Bondage of Hashut
• Rune of Hashut • Great Sorcerer
You may only include one Astragoth in your army. • High Priest
• Sorcerers' Curse
• Steam Attack

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 LORDS

SORCERER LORD 200 Points Page 23

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Sorcerer Lord 0 4 3 4 5 3 1 1 10 Options: .
Upgrade to a Mount:
Level 4 Wizard.....35pts Palanquin..............50pts
Magic: Taurus...................50pts
A Sorcerer Lord is a Level 3 Wizard. He may choose Magic Items: may be upgraded to
his spells from the Lores of Fire, Metal, Shadow or Any, up to a total a Winged Taurus.65pts
Death. of........................100pts may have Daemonic
Gifts up to
Equipment: Special Rules: a total of.............100pts
• Hand weapon • Resolute
• Relentless
• Bondage of Hashut
• Sorcerers' Curse

WARLORD 145 Points Page 24

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Warlord 3 7 4 4 5 3 4 4 10 Options: .
Weapons Mount:
(one choice only): Taurus...................50pts
Equipment: Special Rules: Great weapon.........6pts may be upgraded to
• Hand weapon • Resolute Additional a Winged Taurus.65pts
hand weapon..........6pts may have Daemonic
• Chaos armour • Relentless
Pistol....................10pts Gifts up to
• Bondage of Hashut
Brace of pistols....20pts a total of.............100pts

Armour: Magic Items:

Shield.....................3pts Any, up to a total
of.........................100pts

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 HEROES

RYKARTH THE UNBREAKABLE 125 Points Page 40

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Rykarth 3 7 4 4 5 2 3 3 9 .• Cursed Rune Axe • Resolute
• Chaos armour • Relentless
• Bondage of Hashut
You may only include one Rykarth in your army. • Granite Guard

KTHAARK DAEMONBANE 160 Points Page 41

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Kthaark 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 2 9 .• Rod of Daemon • Resolute
Binding • Relentless
• Soul Armour • Daemonsmith
You may only include one Kthaark in your army. • Daemonic Slaves • Kolossus

GORDUZ BACKSTABBER 110 Points Page 42

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Gorduz 4 5 3 4 4 2 3 3 7 .• Sneaky Git Knives • Expendable
Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3 • Bow • Treachery
• Light armour • Git
• Shield • Hobgoblin Chieftain
You may only include one Gorduz in your army. • Giant wolf
• Wolf Pelt

SORCERER 80 Points Page 23

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Sorcerer 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 1 9 Options: .
Upgrade to a Mount:
Level 2 Wizard....35pts Taurus...................50pts
Magic: may have Daemonic
A Sorcerer is a Level 1 Wizard. He may choose his Magic Items: Gifts up to
spells from the Lores of Fire or Metal. Any, up to a total a total of...............50pts
of..........................50pts
Equipment: Special Rules:
• Hand weapon • Resolute
• Relentless
• Sorcerers' Curse

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DESPOT 85 Points Page 24

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Despot 3 6 4 4 5 2 3 3 9 Options: .

Weapons Mount:
(one choice only): Taurus...................50pts
Equipment: Special Rules: Great weapon.........4pts may have Daemonic
• Hand weapon • Resolute Additional Gifts up to
hand weapon..........4pts a total of...............50pts
• Chaos armour • Relentless
Pistol......................7pts
• Bondage of Hashut
Brace of pistols....14pts Magic Items:
Any, up to a total
Armour: of...........................50pts
Shield.....................2pts

BULL CENTAUR ELDER 170 Points Page 25

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Elder 8 6 3 5 5 3 4 4(5) 9 Options: .
Weapons Armour:
(one choice only): Shield......................2pts
Equipment: Special Rules: Great weapon.........4pts
• Hand weapon • Blessing of Hashut Additional Magic Items:
hand weapon..........4pts Any, up to a total
• Chaos armour • Flaming Attacks
of...........................50pts
• Immune to
Psychology
• Trample
• Fear
• Unit Strength 2

Army Battle Standard:

One Chaos Dwarf Despot or Bull Centaur Elder in the army may carry a Battle Standard for +25 pts.
The Hero carrying the Battle Standard can have any magic banner (no points limit) but if he carries a
magic banner he cannot carry any other magic items. The Battle Standard bearer may not be your army
general.

CHAOS DWARF MOUNTS Page 26, 31

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Special Rules
Taurus 8 4 0 5 5 1 3 2 8 Fear, Magical Attacks.
Winged Taurus 8 4 0 5 5 1 3 2 8 Fear, Magical Attacks, Fly.
Palanquin 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 4 9 Iron Clad, Magical Attacks,
Unit Strength 4.

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CHAOS DWARF WARRIORS 10 Points/model Page 18

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Warrior 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 Options: .
Ironguard 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9
Additional Equipment:
Great weapons.........................................2pts/model
Unit Size: Special Rules: Shields........................................................1pt/model
10+ • Resolute
• Relentless Upgrade one Warrior to a Musician....................5pts
Equipment: Upgrade one Warrior to an Ironguard...............10pts
• Hand weapon Upgrade one Warrior to a Standard Bearer.......10pts
• Chaos armour may have a magic standard worth up to...........25pts

CHAOS DWARF STORMCALLERS 13 Points/model Page 19

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Stormcaller 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 Options: .
Stormguard 3 4 4 3 4 1 2 1 9
Upgrade one Stormcaller to a Musician..............5pts
Upgrade one Stormcaller to a Stormguard.........5 pts
Unit Size: Special Rules: Upgrade one Stormcaller to a
10+ • Resolute Standard Bearer.................................................10pts
• Relentless may have a magic standard worth up to...........25pts
Equipment:
• Hand weapon
• Blunderbuss
• Chaos armour

SLAVES 2 Points/model Page 20

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5 Options: .
Driver 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6
Additional Equipment:
Spear...........................................................1pt/model
Note that Slave units do not count towards the Bow...........................................................2pts/model
minimum Core choices of the army. Shield..........................................................1pt/model
Poisoned Attacks*....................................2pts/model
Unit Size: Special Rules:
Upgrade one Slave to a Musician........................4pts
10+ • Expendable
Upgrade one Slave to a Driver..........................10pts
Equipment: Upgrade one Slave to a Standard Bearer.............8pts
• Hand weapon
*Applies only to attacks with hand weapon.

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IMMORTALS 15 Points/model Page 21

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Immortal 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 2 9 Options: .
Baneguard 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 3 9
Additional Equipment:
Replace cursed axes with great weapons.2 pts/model
Unit Size: Special Rules:
10+ • Resolute Upgrade one Immortal to a Musician..................6pts
• Relentless Upgrade one Immortal to a Baneguard............12 pts
Equipment: • Stubborn may have a magic item worth up to..................25pts
• Cursed axe • Bodyguard Upgrade one Immortal to a Standard Bearer.....12pts
• Shield may have a magic standard worth up to...........50pts
• Chaos armour

ACOLYTES OF HASHUT 13 Points/model Page 22

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Acolyte 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 Options: .
Adept 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9
Upgrade one Acolyte to an Adept.....................10pts
Upgrade one Acolyte to a Standard Bearer.......10pts
Unit Size: Special Rules: may have a magic standard worth up to...........50pts
10+ • Resolute
• Relentless
Equipment: • Dirges of Hashut
• Hand weapon • Hatred
• Light armour • Sorcerer Caste

HOBGOBLIN WOLF RIDERS 13 Points/model Page 27

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Hobgoblin 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 1 6 Options: .
Boss 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6
Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3 Additional Equipment:
Spears.........................................................1pt/model
Bows.........................................................3pts/model
Unit Size: Special Rules: Shields (will no longer count as fast
5+ • Fast Cavalry cavalry).......................................................1pt/model
• Treachery
Equipment: • Expendable Upgrade one Hobgoblin to a Musician................6pts
• Hand weapon Upgrade one Hobgoblin to a Boss.....................12pts
• Light armour Upgrade one Hobgoblin to a Standard Bearer..12 pts
• Giant wolves

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OGRES 45 Points/model Page 31

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Ogre 6 3 2 4 4 3 2 3 7 Options: .
Ogre Berserker 6 3 2 4 4 3 2 4 7
Additional Equipment:
Chaos armour............................................5pts/model
Unit Size: Special Rules: Additional hand weapon...........................5pts/model
3+ • Fear Great weapons........................................10pts/model
• Expendable
Equipment: Upgrade one Ogre to a Musician.......................10pts
• Hand weapon Upgrade one Ogre to an Ogre Berserker...........20pts
• Heavy armour Upgrade one Ogre to a Standard Bearer............20pts

LESSER DAEMONIC ENGINE 85 Points Page 28

M WS BS S T WI A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 .(Chaos Dwarfs) (Engine)
Daemonsmith 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9 • Hand weapon • Daemonic Engine
Lesser Engine 6 4 3 4 5 3 1 2 6 • Heavy armour • Fear
• Unbreakable
Special Rules: • Rampage
Unit Size: (Chaos Dwarfs) • Bound Daemon
1 Lesser Daemonic Engine and 2 Chaos Dwarfs • Unbreakable (as • Unit Strength 3
long as the Engine
Options: is alive)
Upgrade one Chaos Dwarf to a
Daemonsmith.....................................................35pts
Engine may have
Daemonic Gifts up to a total of.........................50pts

MORTAL ENGINE 25 Points Page 30

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5 Options: .
Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9
Mortal Engine - - - - 7 3 - - - Include a Chaos Dwarf overseer........................10pts
Upgrade to Artillery..........................................20pts

Up to two Mortal Engines may be taken as a single

Unit Size: Special choice.
1 Mortal Engine and 2 Slaves

Equipment: Equipment:
(Slaves) (Chaos Dwarf)
• Hand weapon • Hand weapon
• Heavy armour

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GREATER DAEMONIC ENGINE 105 Points Page 28

M WS BS S T WI A Ld Equipment: Special Rules:
Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 .(Chaos Dwarfs) (Engine)
Daemonsmith 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9 • Hand weapon • Daemonic Engine
Greater Engine 6 4 3 5 6 3 1 3 5 • Heavy armour • Fear
• Unbreakable
Special Rules: • Rampage
Unit Size: (Chaos Dwarfs) • Bound Daemon
1 Greater Daemonic Engine and 3 Chaos Dwarfs • Unbreakable (as • Unit Strength 3
long as the Engine
Options: is alive)
Upgrade one Chaos Dwarf to a
Daemonsmith.....................................................35pts
Engine may have
Daemonic Gifts up to a total of.......................100pts

BULL CENTAURS 45 Points/model Page 25

M WS BS S T W I A Ld
Bull Centaur 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 2(3) 9 Options: .
Guardian 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 3(4) 9
Additional Equipment (one choice only):
The unit must be equipped with one of the
Unit Size: Special Rules: following options:
3+ • Blessing of Hashut Great weapons....................................................Free
• Flaming Attacks Additional hand weapon.....................................Free
Equipment: • Immune to
• Hand weapon Psychology Upgrade one Bull Centaur to a Musician..........10pts
• Shield • Trample Upgrade one Bull Centaur to a Guardian.........20 pts
• Chaos armour • Fear may have a magic item worth up to..................25pts
Upgrade one Bull Centaur to a
Standard Bearer.................................................20pts
may have a magic standard worth up to...........50pts

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PETRIFIED SORCERER 100 Points Page 32

M WS BS S T W I A Ld Special Rules:
Petrified Sorcerer 3 * 0 * * 6 * 4 * . • Petrified Sorcerer
• Blessing of Hashut
• Bondage of Hashut
Unit Size: • Unit Strength 6
1 Petrified Sorcerer • 4+ Ward save
Equipment: • Resolute
• The Petrified Sorcerer is considered to be armed • Relentless
with the same weapons as the unit carrying it.
Note that a Petrified Sorcerer has an armour
save of 4+.

DOGS OF WAR
Chaos Dwarfs often make use of mercenaries and agents in their wars – not to mention slaves of all races.
Chaos Dwarfs may indluce units of Dogs of War or Regiments of Renown according to the rules for those
units. In addition, a Chaos Dwarf army may include Black Orcs from Warhammer Armies: Orcs and
Goblins as Rare units in their armies to represent mercenaries or slaves taken from the Black Orc tribes
that roam the Dark Lands. Black Orcs taken in this manner have the Expendable special rule for no
additional points cost but may not have magic banners.

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 CREATIONS OF THE CURSED FORGES
On the following pages are additional magic items for Chaos Dwarf armies. A
character may also choose items from the Common magic items listed as noted in
their army list entry.

COMMON MAGIC ITEMS OBSIDIAN BLADE 70 points

This sword is made of black volcanic glass, a
SWORD OF STRIKING 30 Points substance the Chaos Dwarfs have discovered
Weapon; +1 to hit to have powerful anti-magic properties. The
Obsidian Blade will shatter magical armour
SWORD OF BATTLE 25 Points upon contact.
Weapon; +1 Attack The Obsidian Blade ignores armour saves. In
addition, if a target takes an unsaved wound
SWORD OF MIGHT 20 Points his armour and shield (including magic armour
Weapon; +1 Strength and shield) are destroyed.

BITING BLADE 10 Points

Weapon; -1 armour save

ENCHANTED SHIELD 10 Points

Armour; 5+ armour save

TALISMAN OF PROTECTION 15 Points

Talisman; 6+ Ward save BLACK HAMMER OF HASHUT 45 points
The Black Hammer of Hashut is one of the
DISPEL SCROLL 25 Points mightiest artefacts of the Chaos Dwarfs, a
One use only weapon blessed by the Father of Darkness
Arcane; Automatically dispel an enemy spell Himself. It burns with horrific intensity,
reducing enemies to little more than a pile of
POWER STONE 25 Points ashes.
One use only Flaming attacks. +2 Strength. Any flammable
Arcane; +2 dice to cast a spell model that takes an unsaved wound from the
Black Hammer of Hashut is killed
STAFF OF SORCERY 50 Points automatically.
Arcane; +1 to dispel
BLOOD GORGER 45 points
WAR BANNER 25 Points This huge axe contains the bound essence of a
Banner; +1 combat resolution Bloodletter of Khorne. It hungers for the blood
of living beings and if it tastes flesh it will
drink deep and drain its victim of life.
Great weapon. Each unsaved wound is
multipled to D3 wounds.

MAGIC WEAPONS BLUNDERPUSS 45 points

The Chaos Dwarfs have experimented with
binding Daemons into blunderbusses, resulting
DARK MACE OF DEATH 100 Points in this disgusting weapon which uses an
One use only enslaved Nurgle Daemon to project a jet of
This ancient weapon contains the bound repulsive filth over the bearer's enemies.
essence of a mighty Daemon Prince. When The bearer has a Strength 3 breath weapon
released, the beast will lash out at anything it attack. Hits count as poisoned attacks. In
can before returning to the Realm of Chaos addition, if the bearer is in a unit of
forever. Stormcallers, he may fire as part of their volley
Instead of attacking as normal, the bearer may instead and his shots will have the poisoned
make a special attack. Every model in base attacks rule.
contact (except the bearer's mount) will
immediately suffer D3 wounds with no armour
saves allowed.

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 DAEMON BLADE 40 points MAGIC ARMOUR
The fearsome Daemon Blade contains the
bound essence of a foul Daemonic beast. As a OBSIDIAN SHIELD 70 points
creature of pure Chaos, it thirsts after magic, This shield is carved from a block of solid
absorbing the protective wards that its targets obsidian and can shatter the enchantments that
use to defend themselves. bind together magical weapons.
Attacks from a Daemon Blade ignore Ward Shield. Whenever the bearer successfully saves
saves. against a hit caused by a magical weapon in
close combat, the weapon is destroyed and
SCOURGE OF GORGOTH 25 points may not be used for the rest of the game.
This flaming whip can bring any foe to their
knees, writhing in agony as the bearer cackles
madly over them, taunting them about the fate
that awaits them in the nightmarish mines of
Gorgoth.
Flaming attacks. The Scourge of Gorgoth
always wounds on a 4+.

TENDERISER 25 points DAEMON PLATE 65 points

Bull Centaur only This suit of arcane armour bears the bound
This arcane engine resembles a wheeled spirit of a mighty daemon. As such, it protects
harness that is driven forward by a Bull against magical spells and radiates an aura of
Centaur pilot. Mounted on the front is an dread that unnerves the wearer's foes.
array of hammers and spikes that crash into However, the daemon resents its enslavement
enemies, pulverising them. and rages against its master – it will betray
When charging, the Bull Centaur inflicts D3+1 him if it gets the chance.
impact hits at its basic Strength, like a chariot. Chaos armour. The wearer gains Magic
Resistance (2) and causes Fear. If the wearer
WHIRLWIND 25 points rolls a 1 when saving, the number of wounds
Bull Centaur only he suffers from the attack are doubled.
The Whirlwind is a kind of wheeled,
mechanical battle harness pushed by a Bull ARMOUR OF THE FURNACE 40 points
Centaur. It is festooned with blades, hooks and The Armour of the Furnace is tempered with
chains which lash out at the pilot's enemies. the fiery breath of Tauruses stabled beneath
When charging, the Bull Centaur gains D6 the Temple of Hashut and can resist any flame.
extra attacks resolved at Strength 3. Chaos armour. The wearer gains a 5+ Ward
save and the Blessing of Hashut special rule.
HELLFIRE PISTOL 25 points
This pistol is a minor but dangerous weapon, HELM OF ZHARDUK 35 points
bearing the spirit of a lesser Daemon that spits This tall, ornate helm is styled in the manner of
out hellish fury in place of bullets. the leaders of Zharr-Naggrund and bears
Counts as a pistol with 2 x multiple shots that enchantments that enhance the wearer's
inflicts Strength 5 flaming attacks. natural authority as a member of the ruling
Castes.
The Helm of Zharduk grants a 6+ armour save
MINDFLAYER 25 points
that may be combined with other armour. In
This monstrous device is an arcane machine of
addition, the wearer and any unit he is with
great power. When used, it generates forks of
may re-roll failed Leadership tests.
sorcerous warp lightning that inflict
excruciating pain on its victim. The Mindflayer
ARMOUR OF GAZRAKH 30 points
is used by high-ranking Chaos Dwarfs to
The nigh-impenetrable armour once worn by
torture prisoners and it takes an iron will to
Lord Gazrakh; Ravager of the Ogres, is
resist its agonising power.
crafted of meteoric iron, forged in the heart of
The Mindflayer may be used instead of
a volcano and proof against even the strongest
making normal attacks against any model in
weapons.
base contact. The target must make a
The Armour of Gazrakh grants the wearer a 1+
Leadership test or immediately suffer one
armour save that cannot be improved.
wound with no armour saves possible (Ward
saves may be taken as usual).

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OGRE MAIL 25 points GEM OF BARUKH 20 points
This suit of scale mail has been drenched in This blood-red gem is mounted on a chain of
the blood of slave Ogres and bears the essence blackened gromril and bears the power of
of their great strength. many blasphemous runes etched upon it by
Chaos armour. The wearer gains +D3 Strength Barukh, a Bull Centaur Guardian who led the
when he charges. slaughter of Peak Pass several centuries ago.
The Gem is said to bear the stolen runic
BLACK PLATE 20 points devices of the Dwarf Lord Borri who died
This suit of black armour is forged using the during the battle.
blood of sacrificed slaves and exudes an aura The bearer has Magic Resistance (1) but all
of dread and fear. models in a Dwarf army will Hate him.
Chaos armour. Any unit charged by the wearer
must take a Panic test. DAEMON STONE 10 points
This magical gem contains the bound essence
SKULL HELM 15 points of a Daemon. It imbues the wearer with some
The Skull Helm is a grotesque face-mask measure of the Daemon's power, protecting it
created by the Daemonsmiths, and is imbued against mundane attacks. However, the wearer
with their sorcerous power to cow even the must have the will to control the Daemon or it
mightiest foe. All who look upon the Skull will betray him.
Helm are confronted with pits of black fire The bearer has a 5+ Ward save that does not
staring into their souls, breaking their will and work against magical attacks. However, he
shattering their resolve. must pass a Leadership test at the beginning of
The Skull Helm grants a 6+ armour save that the game before deployment or start with his
may be combined with other armour. In Wounds already reduced by -1.
addition, any model in base contact with the
bearer suffers –1 WS. ENCHANTED ITEMS
TALISMANS DAEMONIC SCEPTRE 50 points
This black sceptre looks like a rectangular
TALISMAN OF OBSIDIAN 100 points slash in the very fabric of the universe. Within
This highly potent amulet crafted in ancient its absolutely black surface are many dark
times by an insane Sorcerer Lord contains entities, bound to the sceptre by the
strong anti-magic properties, protecting its enchantments of the Sorcerers of Hashut. They
wearer from all enemy magic, but also rage at their imprisonment but may be
preventing him from casting spells of his own. released, surging across the battlefield and
The wearer of the Talisman of Obsidian clawing madly at anything in their path.
cannot be affected by any spells at all, even Bound Spell, power level 5. When used, the
friendly ones. The wearer and any wizard in bound daemons rush from the Sceptre to attack
base contact with him may not cast any spells anything in their way. Trace a 24” line from
(even bound spells). the bearer in any direction. The first unit in the
line's path suffers 2D6 Strength 4 hits and must
immediately take a Panic test.

ICON OF HASHUT 50 points

This unholy icon pulses with barely suppressed
power. On the command of its bearer, it
unleashes the fury of the Father of Darkness,
enveloping its victims in black fire.
AMULET OF AZGORH 50 points Bound Spell, power level 4. May be targeted
This glowing red amulet surrounds its wearer on a single enemy unit with 12” or, if the
in an aura of magical flame, repelling enemy bearer is in close combat, it must be used
attacks and also causing their hands to blaze against the unit he is fighting. Every model in
with infernal energy. the unit suffers a Strength 3 flaming hit.
This amulet grants a 4+ Ward save and, if the
wearer is armed with only a hand weapon,
makes their attacks flaming.

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 ARK OF SOULS 40 points ARCANE ITEMS
One use only
Since ancient times, the Chaos Dwarfs have CHALICE OF DARKNESS 50 points
used the Ark of Souls, an ornate iron chest This icon-covered grail has the power to
encrusted with twisted runes of darkness, to absorb magical power, drawing the Winds of
destroy their enemies. Opening it unleashes a Magic into its twisted surface.
swarm of unquiet spirits that invade the minds The Chalice of Darkness may be used at the
of those attuned to the supernatural. start of either player's Magic phase. Roll a D3
May be used in the Chaos Dwarf shooting and remove this many dice from both players'
phase. When used, all enemy wizards on the magic pools.
table and any units they are with must
immediately take a Panic test. TABLET OF LAWS 50 points
The Tablet of Laws is an ancient record of the
BLACK GEM OF GNAR 35 points covenenant made between the first Chaos
One use only Dwarfs and Hashut inscribed on a stone slab.
This potent artefact was discovered in the The words of the Father of Darkness imbue
ruins of the Fortress of Vorag and its origins His Priests with a portion of His awesome
are unknown. It has the power to trap the power.
wearer and anyone he touches in a bubble of The bearer of the Tablet of Laws gains a +1
stored time, during which neither of them may bonus to all casting rolls.
interact with the outside world.
The Black Gem of Gnar can be activated STAFF OF MAGMA 40 points
during either player's close combat phase, after This magical staff is carved from cooled lava
challenges are issued and accepted but before and its surface is studded with volcanic
any attacks are rolled. The bearer and one crystals. A Sorcerer with sufficient skill may
model in base contact (bearer's choice) may drive the staff into the ground and transform
not attack or be attacked for the duration of himself or an ally into liquid magma that seeps
that phase. Work out combat resolution as into the earth and coalesces elsewhere on the
normal. Steeds may not attack (or be attacked) battlefield.
either. Bound Spell, power level 3. The bearer may
cast the Shadow lore spell Steed of Shadows as
DAEMONIC PHYLACTERY 35 points a bound spell.
Within this sealed gromril container is bound
the essence of a mighty Deamon, enslaved to
the will of its bearer. The tormented creature
imbues its master with much of its terrible
power, but the price is high: the bearer's very
mortality may be lost forever.
The bearer of the Daemonic Phylactery gains
the abilities of a Daemon: he is immune to
psychology, has a 5+ Ward save and his
attacks count as magical. However, he may not DAEMONIC THRALL 35 points
join units and friendly models may never use The mightiest Sorcerers bind to them
his Leadership. Daemonic servants who whisper dark secrets
to them and augment their power. Only the
GAUNTLETS OF BAZHRAKK THE strongest Sorcerers have the will to control
CRUEL 20 points such powerful and capricious entities.
These gauntlets were made by Chaos Dwarf The Daemonic Thrall adds one power dice to
Sorcerer Bazhrakk the Cruel and is made of its owner's pool during each magic phase. In
stone, endowing its wearer with great strength. addition, at the beginning of the close combat
The wearer of these items gains +1 Strength. phase, before blows are struck, the Thrall
However, if he rolls a 1 to hit in close combat, inflicts one Strength 5 hit on a single model
this blow strikes a random friendly model in chosen by the owning player from amongst
base contact instead (this may be the wearer's those in base contact. However, a Daemonic
mount). Thrall constantly rebels against its master – if
it slays a model the Sorcerer must take a
Leadership test to control the Thrall; if the test
is failed, the Thrall escapes and the Sorcerer
gains no further benefit from it.

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EFFIGY OF HASHUT 25 points BANNER OF
This small stone carving of a bull is able to UNYIELDING STONE 25 points
summon a great spectre in the form of Hashut This banner bears incantations that amplify
that blasts enemies with His fiery rage. the nature of the Dawi'Zharr, making them
If the Sorcerer has the spell Fireball its range stand their ground even in the face of
is increased by D6". In addition, he may cast overwhelming odds.
(and attempt to cast) the spell more than once A unit with the Banner of Unyielding Stone
per Magic phase. doubles its unit strength in close combat.

BANNER OF THE TEMPLE 20 points

Acolytes of Hashut unit only
This banner is consecrated in the furnaces of
the Temple of Hashut, inscribed with the runes
of the sacred Dirges that enhance the dark
sorceries of the Father of Darkness.
A Sorcerer or Sorcerer Lord in a unit of
MAGIC BANNERS Acolytes carrying this banner increases the
range of any magic missiles he casts by 6”.
BANNER OF HASHUT 125 points
Forged in the red-lit depths of Zharr- OBSIDIAN BANNER 20 points
Naggrund, the Banner of Hashut induces This banner is festooned with polished stones
dread in the enemy and unshakable courage in of black volcanic glass, giving protection
the servants of the Father of Darkness. against the forces of magic.
The model bearing the Banner of Hashut A unit carrying the Obsidian Banner gains
causes Terror. All friendly units within 6" of Magic Resistance (1).
the banner become Stubborn.
CURSED BANNER 15 points
BANNER OF OBEISANCE 50 points The Cursed Banner is afflicted with the same
This banner is sewn together from the hides of vile energies that bring about the Sorcerers'
tortured slaves and bound with enchantments Curse. As an enemy charges, evil
that whisper of the fate of those who disobey enchantments surround them and cause their
their Chaos Dwarf masters. limbs to become as heavy as stone.
Any friendly units with the Expendable rule As long as a unit with the Cursed Banner does
with 12" of the Banner of Obeisance may re- not move in that turn, they count as being
roll any failed Psychology tests. behind a defended obstacle, and an enemy unit
gains no bonuses for charging.
BANNER OF ZHARR 50 points
Immortals unit only DAEMON BANNER 15 points
This mighty banner is the standard of the The bound spirits of Daemons are woven into
invincible Immortals and is stained in the the very fabric of this standard, and the power
blood of all those they have slain throughout of these fearsome entities suffuses the attacks
the centuries. of those who march beneath it.
All enemy units within 6" of the Banner of All attacks (including ranged ones) made by a
Zharr suffer a –1 Leadership penalty. unit with the Daemon Banner count as
magical.

Zhatan the Black, Commander of the Tower of Zharr, orders that a thousand swords
be made of good black iron, a thousand corselets of ruddy bronze, a thousand arrowheads
of 5 shekels of steel and ten thousand of 2 shekels, and that this be delivered to the
Fortress of Zharr when the moon is full. Let it be known that Zhatan plunders to the
west and returns within the month with slaves for the service of Hashut. So say I,
Zhatan the Black, Commander of the Tower of Zharr. Glory to Zhatan, Glory to
Ghorth the Cruel, All praise Hashut Father of Darkness!

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 DAEMONIC GIFTS
Tauruses or Daemonic Engines may be upgraded with Daemonic Gifts. The term
'Construct' is used to refer to these models in the following rules. In addition,
'Great Taurus' refers to a Taurus upgraded with the Colossal gift. Only one
Ammunition gift may be taken per Daemonic Engine.

DOOMFIRE 30 points TALISMAN OF HASHUT 30 points

Ammunition, Daemonic Engine only Great Taurus or Daemonic Engine only
The Engine fires not solid ammunition but The Construct is etched with runes of the
pulses of raw daemonfire that rend apart Father of Darkness, invoking His divine
targets with their infernal energy. protection.
Hits from the Engine's shots are resolved at The Construct has a 5+ Ward save.
Strength 5, or Strength 10 for the model
directly under the template's hole. FOUL EXCRETION 25 points
As part of the Construct's function, it exudes a
SMOG 30 points vlie acidic ichor that melts armour and burns
The Construct belches forth great clouds of flesh.
foul-smelling fumes that enshroud it, partially The Construct has the Poisoned Attacks ability
obscuring it and also choking any foes who try in close combat.
to attack.
Missile weapons targeted at the Construct RAZOR CLAWS 25 points
suffer a –1 to hit penalty. Enemy models in The Construct is festooned with wickedly sharp
base contact have –1 WS. blades and spikes that can cleave a living
creature in two with ruthless efficiency.
The Construct has the Killing Blow ability.

SENTIENT AMMUNITION 25 points

Kthaark cast his gaze over the workshop, Daemonic Engine only
tuning out the droning of hammers The Engine's ammunition is imbued with
wielded by hand and pistons wielded by animalistic Daemonic sentience and is able to
machine for a moment. To the eyes of guide itself as it plummets towards its targets.
anyone else, the vast, red-lit chamber When the Engine fires, it may re-roll the
would have appeared completely anarchic, Scatter dice.
but Kthaark saw each project unfolding
under the hands of his subordinate lesser SPELLBREAKER 25 points
Daemonsmiths and Artisans and how they The Construct has obsidian built into its hull,
came together to form a whole greater or breathes a sorcerous exhalation that wards
than the sum of their parts. He could see away enemy spells.
his latest creation taking shape in The Construct has Magic Resistance (1). This
fragments around the workshop, and only gift may be taken a second time, giving the
he had the vision to see how they were Construct Magic Resistance (2).
related. A weapon here, a new kind of hull
compound there – it was all part of the THUNDEROUS CHARGE 25 points
same great task. Great Taurus or Greater Daemonic Engine
"Master Kthaark...the chamber is only
prepared..." The Construct hurls itself into combat with
terrifying force, scattering foes before it with
Kthaark ran a hand down his beard and sheer weight.
nodded to his subordinate. All these When it charges, the Construct causes D6+1
things; machines of metal, cannons of fire impact hits like a chariot. This gift may not be
and iron, they were the least of his taken by a Winged Taurus.
achievements. What mattered, as with
living creatures, was the soul of the BREATH WEAPON 20 points
creation, and what a soul this thing would The construct is able to expel a wall of deadly
have! The rituals were ready, and the cage fumes, flames or ichor which engulfs its foes.
was waiting. Now he just had to ensnare its The Construct has a Strength 3 breath weapon.
occupant.

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COLOSSAL 20 points INFERNAL SHELLS 20 points
Taurus or Greater Daemonic Engine only Ammunition, Daemonic Engine only
The Construct is a towering monstrosity that The Engine fires huge shells that cause
looms over the battlefield. tremors where they land, shaking victims off
A Construct with this gift is a large target that their feet.
causes Terror. A Taurus with this gift gains +3 Any unit hit by the Engine's template when it
Wounds, becoming a ridden monster, but has fires (not including a breath weapon) may only
its Movement reduced by -2. A Greater move at half rate in their next turn and may not
Daemonic Engine with this gift gains +2 fire ranged weapons. War machines hit may
Wounds and increases its Unit Strength to 5. only fire on a D6 roll of 4+ on their next turn.

DEATH ROCKETS 20 points WARPFIRE 20 points

Ammunition, Daemonic Engine only Daemonic Engine only
The Engine fires rockets which are controlled The Engine's ammunition is imbued with the
by Daemonic sentience, causing them to spiral mutating power of Chaos, warping its victims
unpredictably through the air and land in bodies and minds as it lands.
unexpected places, sowing confusion and Any unit hit by the Engine's shooting attacks
destruction in the enemies' ranks. (including a breath weapon) must take a Panic
If the Engine rolls a hit and a misfire while test with a –1 Leadership penalty.
firing, do not roll on the misfire chart, instead
the shot scatters 4D6" in the direction ARMOURED 10 points
indicated by the arrow on the hit symbol and is The Construct is bound with mighty iron
resolved there instead. No damage is done at plates, or its hide is capable of turning
the original target point. weapons due to its great heat.
A Taurus with this gift adds +3 to its rider's
FEROCIOUS 20 points save. A Great Taurus or Daemonic Construct
Great Taurus or Greater Daemonic Engine with this gift has a 4+ armour save.
only
The Construct is a barely-restrained enraged GREAT HORNS 10 points
monster that constantly fights against its The Construct has the likeness of a bull, the
bonds. chosen form of Hashut Himself, complete with
The Construct has +2 Attacks. A Great Taurus a mighty set of fearsome horns.
with this gift also has +1 WS and –2 Ld. In The Construct has +1 Strength.
addition at the start of each friendly turn a
model riding a Taurus with this gift must take
a Leadership test or it and its rider are subject
to Frenzy until the start of their next turn.
Also, should the Taurus's rider be slain, it is
automatically affected by the 'Raaargh!'
Monster Reaction result. A Greater Daemonic
Engine with this gift has –1 Leadership and
will Rampage 3D6" instead of 2D6".

FLAMING HIDE 20 points

Taurus only
The Taurus's flesh burns with terrific intensity,
immolating foes on contact and rendering it
proof against fire.
The Taurus's attacks (including any breath
weapon it may have) are flaming and it
benefits from the Blessing of Hashut special
rule.

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 APPENDIX
This section of the book details goes into some of the changes to the Chaos Dwarf
army, and how it affects existing players who have collections of Chaos Dwarf
miniatures as well as some ideas for using the customisable mounts and war
engines that are unique to this army.

USING YOUR OLD MODELS WITH THE NEW RULES

Few armies in Warhammer inspire the kind of devotion that Chaos Dwarfs do. It is their very scarcity
and relative obscurity that makes them desirable for some people – amassing a usable army requires a
large investment of time and effort, and the length of time since their last legal rules were published
means that they are rarely competitive in serious games. For this reason, a Chaos Dwarf army is a
labour of love, and players may well be very attached to their collection. An effort has been made to
keep older models usable with these new rules, but there are some instances in which players may have
to resort to 'counts-as', or alter the composition of units slightly to make them fit. Below are some
guidelines on how to use your old models with this army list.

Chaos Dwarf Lords, Sorcerer Lords, Hobgoblins

Heroes and Sorcerers Hobgoblins on foot can be used to represent
These models are easily translatable into the Slaves. Hobgoblins on wolves should be used
new rules: Sorcerers and Sorcerer Lords have as Hobgoblin Wolf Riders.
even retained their names! (Though you will
have to mount your Sorcerer Lord on a Orcs and Goblins
Palanquin or give him a Taurus to ride, All Greenskins can be used as Slaves too. The
otherwise he won't be able to move!) Chaos only issue with using Orcs is their base size –
Dwarf Lords have become Warlords and players can either rebase them, or use them to
Heroes have become Despots. represent Black Orcs. Remember too that
Slave units can incorporate all manner of
Bull Centaur characters different races, so any reorganisation based
The Bull Centaur Lord has been replaced by around Orcs and Goblins can be made that
the special character Lord Bhaal. The rules for much simpler by using other models from your
Bhaal can easily represent a generic Bull collection to fill in the gaps in Slave units.
Centaur Lord though, if you have a model with
his own name and history that you wish to Black Orcs
preserve. Bull Centaur Heroes have become Black Orcs can be included in your army as a
Bull Centaur Elders. Dogs of War choice, taking up a Rare unit slot.

Great Taurus and Lammasu Death Rocket

These monstrous mounts can be represented by A Death Rocket can be used as a Lesser
Tauruses given the appropriate Daemonic Daemonic Engine with the Death Rockets
Gifts. See the next section for some ideas. Daemonic Gift.

Hobgoblin Heroes Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower

Hobgoblin Heroes no longer exist, however A Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower can be used as a
one model mounted on a wolf can count-as the Mortal Engine.
special character Gorduz Backstabber.
Hobgoblin Heroes on foot or additional Heroes Sneaky Gitz
on wolves will have to be demoted to Like other Hobgoblins, Sneaky Gitz can be
champions of units of Slaves or Wolf Riders used as Slaves. Giving them the poisoned
respectively. attacks ability properly represents their
envenomed knives.
Chaos Dwarf Warriors
Obviously Chaos Dwarf Warriors with hand Bull Centaurs
weapons or great weapons can remain Bull Centaurs can be used unchanged.
unchanged, but Chaos Dwarf Warriors armed
with blunderbusses are now Chaos Dwarf Earthshaker Cannon
Stormcallers. An Earthshaker can be used as a Greater
Daemonic Engine with the Infernal Shells
Daemonic Gift.

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Mortar, Petard, Bazooka, etc. Hellcannon
These ancient models date back to The Hellcannon model is often used by Chaos
Warhammer's 3rd Edition, but the nature of Dwarf players to represent an Earthshaker or,
Chaos Dwarf fandom is such that collectors with an opponent's permission, using the rules
often get their hands on them anyway! They given in Warhammer Armies: Warriors of
make excellent Mortal Engines using these Chaos. In this list, it can be used as a Greater
rules: the Mortar and Petard should be given Daemonic Engine with certain Daemonic Gifts
the Artillery upgrade. that mimic the rules given in that book. See the
next section for some ideas.

DAEMONIC CONSTRUCTS
The customisation rules given in this book provide some excellent opportunities for players to create all
manner of creatures and war machines. However, it can be intimidating for a new player (or even an
experienced one) to try to realise the potential of so many possible combinations. Below are some
suggestions for Daemonic Constructs created using the rules in the main list. Players can use these as-
is, or modify them to taste.

RED BULL OF HASHUT 215 points IRON GOLEM 135 points

Winged Taurus (115) + Breath Weapon (20) + Lesser Daemonic Engine (85) + Breath
Collosal (20) +Ferocious (20) + Flaming Hide Weapon (20) + Flaming Hide (20) +
(20) + Armoured (10) + Great Horns (10) Armoured (10)
The Red Bull of Hashut is a mighty winged Chaos Dwarfs sometimes build large
monster that is used as the preferred mount for humanoid engines powered by Daemonic
Chaos Dwarf Warlords. It may be taken as a spirits which charge towards enemy lines,
mount for a Warlord or Sorcerer Lord. spewing fire. The Iron Golem is a Special
choice.
LAMMASU 185 points
Winged Taurus (115) + Spellbreaker (25) + HELLCANNON 205 points
Spellbreaker (25) + Collosal (20) Greater Daemonic Engine (105) + Doomfire
A Lammasu is a rare mutation of the Red Bull (30) + Collosal (20) + Ferocious (20) +
of Hashut that breathes a sorcerous exhalation, Warpfire (20) + Armoured (10)
protecting the rider against magic. It is the The Hellcannon is one of the most feared
favoured mount of Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer Daemonic engines in the Chaos Dwarfs'
Lords. It may be taken as a mount for a arsenal. It is a huge siege cannon that belches
Warlord or Sorcerer Lord. raw Daemonfire into the air. Its destructive
potential is so well-renowned that Chaos
DAEMON 'COPTER 135 points Dwarfs sell many of their Hellcannons to the
Winged Taurus (115) + Breath Weapon (20) Warriors of Chaos to use in their armies. The
Created in imitation of the Dwarf Gyrocopter, Hellcannon is a Rare choice.
the Daemon Copter is a flying machine that
uses an enslaved Daemon to power its engine. KOLOSSUS 240 points
Its workings can also be rigged to project a Greater Daemonic Engine (105) + Talisman of
gout of Daemonic ichor. It may be taken as a Hashut (30) + Thunderous Charge (25) +
mount for a Warlord or Sorcerer Lord. Breath Weapon (20) + Collosal (20) +
Ferocious (20) + Armoured (10) + Great
JUGGERNAUGHT Horns (10)
OF HASHUT 85 points Kthaark Daemonbane created the Kolossus as
Taurus (50) + Spellbreaker (25) + Armoured a grand experiment. It is a towering, bull-
(10) shaped machine that crushes enemies under its
The Chaos Dwarfs sometimes build massive feet, all the while shelling them from
Juggernaughts for the followers of Khorne, its maw-mounted cannon and immolating them
providing the living hulls for the Blood God to with flame throwers mounted on its broad
breath a portion of his awesome power into. shoulders. The Kollosos is a Rare choice that
However, they have adapted the design for may only be included if Kthaark Daemonbane
their own use, producing their own version of is in the army (it utilises his Kolossus rule).
the Juggernaught. It may be taken as a mount
for a Warlord, Sorcerer Lord, Despot or
Sorcerer.

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THE FOURTH GRUDGE
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT IN ANCIENT TIMES A PORTION OF OUR RACE JOURNEYED FAR FROM OUR
SIGHT INTO THE BLEAK REALMS OF THE FAR NORTH. THERE, THEY ERECTED GREAT FORTRESSES OF
OBSIDIAN IN THE GREAT SKULL LAND IN IMITATION OF THE MOUNTAIN HOLDS OF THEIR BRETHREN.
THEN, WITH NO WARNING, THE TIME OF CHAOS SWEPT DOWN FROM THE THE UTMOST NORTH AND
CONSUMED THE WORLD. THAT TALE IS TOLD IN THE SECOND GRUDGE. OUR COUSINS IN THE GREAT
SKULL LAND WERE UNPROTECTED FROM THE WARPING POWERS OF CHAOS AND, IN THEIR FOLLY,
TURNED THEIR BACKS UPON THE ANCESTOR GODS. THEY BETRAYED THE MOST SACREDSACRED OATHS OF
OUR PEOPLE AND WERE NO LONGER CONSIDERED DWARFS. BUT THIS IS NOT THE FULL TALE OF THE
FOURTH GRUDGE. THE GREATEST BLASPHEMY OF ALL WAS COMMITTED BY THESE SUNDERED ONCE- ONCE-
DWARFS AS, IN THEIR DARKEST HOUR, THEY CALLED UPON FOUL POWERS TO DELIVER TH THEM.
EM. THEIR
BLACK PRAYER WAS ANSWERED BY ONE OF THE MANY GODS OF CHAOS, WHOSE NAME WILL NOT BE
REPEATED HERE, BUT WHO IS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF DARKNESS. THEY OPENED THEIR TRAITOROUS
HEARTS TO THIS MONSTROUS DAEMON AND BEGAN TO WORSHIP HIM IN PLACE OF THE ANCESTOR
ANCESTOR
GODS. IN TIME, THEY FOUNDED A GREAT CIVILISATION IN THE DARK LANDS, BUILT AROUND THE
WORSHIP OF THEIR BLASPHEMOUS GOD, CREATING A VAST TEMPLE-
TEMPLE-CITY TO HIM AND REAPING ALL
THE LAND AROUND OF ITS RICHES. THEIR CRIMES ARE MANIFOLD.

FIRST: THEY BETRAYED

BETRAYED THE ANCESTOR GODS, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

SECOND: THEY WORSHIP A GOD OF CHAOS, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

THIRD: THEY CONSPIRE WITH ORC AND GOBLIN, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

FOURTH: THEY MINE WITHOUT REASON OR PURPOSE, TAKING FROM THE EARTH WHATEVER THEY
WISH WITH NO CONCERN FOR THE NECCESITY OF THEIR LABOUR, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE
DWARFS.

FIFTH: THEY SPORT MUTATIONS OF THE BODY CAUSED BY THEIR EXPOSURE TO CHAOS, AND SO ARE
NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

SIXTH: THEY CONSORT WITH DAEMONS, TORMENTING MACHINES BY BINDING FOUL SPIRITS INTO
THEM, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

SEVENTH: THEY HAVE ON EVERY OCCASION OF OUR MEETINGS, FOUGHT AND ATTEMPTED TO KILL OR
ENSLAVE DWARFS, AND SO ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

EIGTH: THEY ARE KEEPERS OF SLAVES; MAN, ELF AND, MOST TERRIBLY, DWARF. NO DWARF MAY OWN
ANOTHER INTELLIGENT CREATURE AND FORCE HIM TO LABOUR AGAINST HIS WISHES, AND SO THEY
ARE NOT HELD TO BE TRUE DWARFS.

FOR THESE REASONS, OUR EASTERN KIN, SUNDERED FROM US IN ANCIENT TIMES, ARE NOT DWARFS,
AND WILL NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS SUCH. THEY ARE NOT SONS OF GRUNGI, BUT TRAITORS OF
THE VILEST KIND, AND LET THEIR CURSED NAME NOT BE SPOKEN OF OUTSIDE THIS TOME, AND LET NO
RUMOURS OF THEIR EXISTENCE PASS THE LIPS OF ANY TRUE DWARF,
DWARF, AND LET NO OUTSIDER KNOW
THE DEPTH OF OUR DISGRACE FOR SUFFERING THEIR CONTINUED EXISTENCE.

SO IT IS WRITTEN BY I, HIGH KING MORGRIM BLACKBREARD OF KARAZ A KARAK IN MY OWN BLOOD,

AND SO IT WILL BE UNTIL THIS GRUDGE IS AVENGED.

- Translated from the Great Book of Grudges

...AND HASHUT SPAKE UNTO THEM AND BID THEM STAND BEFORE HIM ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP.
HIS VOICE WAS THUNDER AND HIS BREATH WAS FIRE. HE TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD PREPARED A
MIGHTY TASK THAT WOULD TAKE THEIR LIVES,
LIVES, THE LIVES OF THEIR DESCENDANTS AND THE
LIVES OF ALL THEIR CLANS IN PERPETUITY. THEIR LABOUR FROM THIS DAY FORTH WOULD BE
TURNED TO THE WORSHIP OF HIM AND THEIR TASKS WOULD SERVE HIS PURPOSES.

AND LO! FOR THEY WERE TRANSFORMED! MEEK DWARFS OF STONE THEY
THEY WERE NO LONGER, BUT
NOW REMADE IN THE IMAGE OF HASHUT AND IMBUED WITH A PORTION OF HIS AWESOME POWER.
THEY HAD BECOME THE DWARFS OF FIRE, WHO ARE BLESSED IN THE SIGHT OF THE FATHER OF
DARKNESS AND FEAR NO CREATURE THAT WALKS OR CRAWLS UPON THE EARTH, OR WHICH FLIES
IN THE SKY, OR WHICH SWIMS IN THE SEAS, OR WHICH HIDES IN THE SHADOWS.

AND THE ENVOYS OF HASHUT, WHO HAD HEARD HIS HOLY WORD, CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN
TOP TO REJOIN THEIR PEOPLE. AND THE DWARFS WHO WERE THEIR KIN ASKED THEM WHERE
THEY HAD BEEN AND WHAT THEY HAD SEEN, AND THE ENVOYS GAVE THEM THE WORD OF HASHUT,
AND TOLD THEM TO OBEY THE FATHER OF DARKNESS, WITH WHOM THEY HAD SPOKEN.

BUT THE OTHER DWARFS DID NOT BELIEVE THEM, AND THEY DOUBTED THE WORD OF HASHUT.
THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE VOICE
VOICE OF THE FATEHR OF DARKNESS, WHICH HIS ENVOYS NOW
CARRIED WITH THEM. AND THE EVOYS SAID: "BEHOLD! FOR HAVE WE NOT BEEN TRANSFORMED?
IS THE MARK OF HASHUT NOT UPON US? DWARFS OF STONE NO LONGER ARE WE, BUT NOW
DWARFS OF FIRE!" AND AS THEY SPOKE, FLAMES SURROUNDED
SURROUNDED THEM, AND THEIR KIN GASPED
AT THEIR HOLY AURAS. AND THE ENVOYS SPOKE AGAIN: "HASHUT HAS BLESSED US WITH A
PORTION OF HIS AWESOME POWER, AND WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE GIFT OF FIRE SO THAT WE
MAY COMMAND THE ELEMENTS TO DO OUR BIDDING. CAST ASIDE YE WEAK
WEAK AND PITIFUL RUNIC
MAGIC, THE STRENGTH OF WHICH PALES INTO COMPARRISON NEXT TO THE WILL OF HASHUT!"

SOME OF THE DWARFS WERE STILL AFRAID. THEY CLUNG TO THE ANCIENT WAYS AND WOULD NOT
RELINQUISH THEIR BLASPHEMOUS ARTEFACTS. THE ENVOYS THUS COMMANDED THOSE WHO
REMAIND LOYAL TO THEM TO TAKE THEM FROM THE UNBELIEVERS AND THEN SMITE THEM
RIGHTEOUSLY. AND SO THE RUNIC ARTEFACTS OF THE FORGOTTEN WEST WERE SMASHED UPON
THE EARTH AND GROUND INTO DUST, IMMOLATED BY THE FIRES OF THE FATHER OF DARKNESS
HIMSELF, AND THOSE
THOSE WHO HAD CARRIED THEM WERE KILLED AND THEIR BONES LEFT TO BE
PICKED CLEAN BY CARRION AND TURN TO DUST AS WELL.

THUS DID THE ENVOYS OF THE FATHER OF DARKNESS BRING THE WORD OF HASHUT TO THEIR
PEOPLE AND, AS THEY BEGAN TO WORSHIP HIM, SO THEY WERE CHANGED
CHANGED TOO, ALSO BECOMING
DWARFS OF FIRE. HASHUT WROUGHT GREAT CHANGES ON THEM, BESTOWING HIS MARK UPON THEM
AND TURNING THEIR BEARDS BLACK, WHICH IS HIS HOLY COLOUR. THEN HE GAVE THEM GREAT
STRENGTH AND TUSKS AND HORNS LIKE THE BEAST WHICH IS SACRED TO HIM. THEN
THEN SOME OF
THEIR NUMBER HE REMADE IN HIS OWN IMAGE, SO THAT THEIR HINDQUARTERS WERE AS THE
BULL, AND SOME HE TOOK UNTO HIS OWN BOSOM AND CRAFTED FROM THEIR BODIES A GREAT
RED BULL WITH MIGHTY WINGS AND HE SAID UNTO HIS ENVOYS: "THIS IS MY MOST BLESSED
CREATURE,
CREATURE, THIS RED BULL OF HASHUT, AND ALWAYS IT WILL SERVE YOU, BUT DO NOT
FORSAKE OR ANGER IT AND ALWAYS RESPECT AND REVERE IT, FOR IT CARRIES WITHIN IT A
PORTION OF MY MOST TERRIBLE FURY AND BURNS WITH THE HEAT OF MY VERY HEART." FROM
THAT DAY, THE DWARFS OF FIRE ALWAYS HELD THE BULL, WHICH IS THE TRUE FORM OF
HASHUT, TO BE HOLY.

AND THE ENVOYS OF HASHUT GATHERED THE DWARFS OF FIRE WHO WERE THEIR PEOPLE AROUND
THEM AND TOLD THEM OF THE GREAT TASK THAT LAY AHEAD OF THEM. THEY SAID: "WE MUST
GO FAR FROM HERE,
HERE, ON A GREAT JOURNEY TO A PROMISED LAND, WHERE WE CAN WORSHIP THE
FATHER OF DARKNESS. THIS, HE HAS COMMANDED."

- Translated from the Tablets of Law

 REFERENCE
CHARACTERS M WS BS S T W I A Ld Page SPECIAL M WS BS S T W I A Ld Page
Astragoth 3 4 3 5 5 3 3 2 10 39 Immortal 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 2 9 21
Centaur Elder 8 6 3 5 5 3 4 4(5) 9 25 Baneguard 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 3 9 21
Despot 3 6 4 4 5 2 3 3 9 24 Acolyte 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 22
Ghorth 0 4 3 4 5 4 1 1 10 34 Adept 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 22
Black Throne 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 5 9 34 Hobgoblin 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 1 6 27
Gorduz 4 5 3 4 4 2 3 3 7 42 Boss 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6 27
Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3 42 Giant Wolf 9 3 0 3 3 1 3 1 3 27
Kthaark 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 2 9 41 Ogre 6 3 2 4 4 3 2 3 7 31
Lord Bhaal 8 7 3 5 5 4 5 5(6) 10 38 Berserker 6 3 2 4 4 2 3 3 7 31
Rykarth 3 7 4 4 5 2 3 3 9 40 Lssr. Engine 6 4 3 4 5 3 1 2 6 28
Sorcerer 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 1 9 23 Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 28
Sorcerer Lord 0 4 3 4 5 3 1 1 10 23 Daemonsmith 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9 28
Warlord 3 7 4 4 5 3 4 4 10 24 Mrtl. Engine - - - - 7 3 - - - 30
Zhatan 3 8 4 4 5 4 4 4 10 36 Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5 30
Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 30
CORE UNITS M WS BS S T W I A Ld Page
Warrior 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 18 RARE M WS BS S T W I A Ld Page
Ironguard 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9 18 Grtr. Engine 6 4 3 5 6 3 1 3 5 28
Stormcaller 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 19 Chaos Dwarf 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 28
Stormguard 3 4 4 3 4 1 2 1 9 19 Daemonsmith 3 4 3 3 4 1 2 2 9 28
Slave 4 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5 20 Bull Centaur 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 2(3) 9 25
Driver 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 6 20 Guardian 8 5 3 4 4 2 3 2(3) 9 25
Petrified
Sorcerer 3 * 0 * * 6 * 4 * 32
MOUNTS M WS BS S T W I A Ld Page
Taurus 8 4 0 5 5 1 3 2 8 26
Palanquin 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 4 9 31

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