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This is Game Theory — Khorne's Berserkers

Khorne: The Blood God
• Chaos God of war, bloodshed, and rage
• Doesn't care about strategy, politics, or whose blood is spilled
• Only that blood flows
• His followers: The World Eaters, a Space Marine Legion that fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy

Before the Fall: The War Hounds
• Originally one of the Emperor's Space Marine Legions
• Primarch: Angron, a gladiator slave from his homeworld's arenas
• The Butcher's Nails: Cybernetic implant in Angron's brain that amplified aggression and suppressed pain, fear, empathy
• Only rage remained
• The Nails were killing Angron slowly but made him the most dangerous fighter in the galaxy

The Emperor's Mistake
• When the Emperor found Angron, he didn't remove the Nails
• Took Angron as he was and gave him a Legion
• Angron, bitter and broken, implanted the Butcher's Nails into his own sons
• The War Hounds became the World Eaters
• They became addicted to violence: every battle fed the Nails, every kill brought pleasure
• They stopped being soldiers and became butchers

The Fall to Chaos
• When Horus turned against the Emperor, Angron and the World Eaters followed without hesitation
• Khorne saw them and claimed them
• The Blood God didn't need to corrupt them—they were already his
• The Butcher's Nails had done the work; Khorne only amplified what was already there

Khorne Berserkers: The Purest Expression
• World Eaters who have fully embraced the Blood God's gifts
• The Butcher's Nails have fused with their bodies, becoming part of their biology
• They don't feel pain or fear—only the need to kill
• When not fighting, they're in agony: the Nails scream in their heads, demanding blood
• The only relief is combat; the only peace is slaughter

On the Battlefield
• Charge into melee with chainaxes roaring
• Cut through enemies with inhuman speed and strength
• Don't take cover, don't retreat, don't stop
• Keep fighting even after losing limbs or taking mortal wounds
• The Nails won't let them stop; Khorne won't let them stop

Wargear
• Chainaxes: Brutal close-combat weapons designed to tear through armor and flesh
• Power armor painted red and brass (Khorne's colors)
• Helmets shaped like snarling daemons
• Armor covered in skulls—the currency of the Blood God
• Every kill is an offering; every skull is a prayer

Tabletop Rules (Warhammer 40K)
• Melee blender: Extra attacks on the charge, fight twice in combat phase
• High Strength and Weapon Skill
• If they reach your units, they will shred them
• Challenge: Getting them into combat
• Not durable, no invulnerable saves—glass cannons
• Delivery: Rhino transports or deep strike, get into melee fast

The Dark Lore
• Berserkers don't distinguish between friend and foe when the Nails take over
• Stories of World Eaters killing their own allies in battle because the Nails demanded more blood
• Khorne doesn't care: Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne—it doesn't matter whose

Angron: Daemon Primarch
• Ascended to daemonhood, becoming a Daemon Primarch of Khorne
• A towering monster of rage and brass
• Leads his World Eaters in the Long War against the Imperium
• Even as a daemon, still a slave to the Nails
• He can't stop; he'll never stop
• Only the scale of the slaughter has changed

The Ultimate Corruption
• Khorne Berserkers represent the ultimate corruption of the Space Marines
• Created to be humanity's protectors, the Emperor's finest warriors
• The Butcher's Nails and Khorne's influence turned them into mindless killers
• Tragic figures: slaves to their own rage, unable to feel anything but the need to kill
• Not evil because they chose to be—evil because they can't be anything else

What Makes Them Terrifying
• Not conquerors, not strategists, not even soldiers anymore
• They're weapons: living, breathing weapons that exist only to kill
• When you face Khorne Berserkers, you're not fighting an army
• You're fighting a force of nature—a tidal wave of blood and rage that won't stop until everything in its path is dead

Fear Across the Galaxy
• The Imperium fears them
• The other Chaos Legions avoid them
• Even the other Chaos Gods keep their distance
• Khorne's Berserkers are too far gone, too consumed by rage to be useful for anything but slaughter
• They're the Blood God's perfect servants
• They'll keep killing until the galaxy runs out of blood to spill

Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne. Let the galaxy burn.

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