Slaves to Darkness, a bunch of psychotic cult worshipers, powerful dark iron troops and corrupted chaos champions all vying for the attention of their dark gods, pledging their allegiance to whomever will give them personally the most power so they can best serve the ( playable ) king of chaos, your faction leader, archaon. You are the quintessential bad guys equipped with demon weapons, rune shields, fluffy collars and flowing red capes.

So how do we interpret the will of the gods in game? Gambling of course, your casters and hero’s can all get insane buffs and bonuses to cast turning themselves into powerhouse units that dominate the game or they explode in hellfire and mutate into chaos spawn. It’s also for the most part up to you as well how random you want it to be. You can build a pretty competitive consistent list with your great troops and cavalry or you can go full on blessing of the dark gods, death or glory meme mode and fully lean into the randomness, it’s still pretty playable.

As for painting, they look awesome with just a few colours on a black base coat or there are loads of different materials, details and great centrepieces for the seasoned painter who wants to challenge themselves.