I can't be dissuaded that the ritual to summon Doomrider is "Here he comes, here comes Doomrider. He's a daemon on wheels."

Ahriman's lesser offences are 89% overdue books return fines, 9% local council planning permission violations (mostly for non Euclidean geometric architecture meaning that proper access to the property wasn't possible and that the sightlines for neighbours were obscured depending on the mood of the observer at the time) and 3% not cleaning up after his dog after it defecated on the pavement.

I think Doomrider should have a chance of showing up even if he's not part of your list. Hell, even if nobody's playing Chaos! Just roll some dice, on a double six Doomrider shows up in the middle of the battlefield, does some wheelies, vanishes again!

RIP Wayne England - always loved that cover. Though the 3.5 book was the better book and, in fact, the best book Chaos Marines have ever had.

To anyone wondering, Doomrider was a meme when the book as new. That model...

I really hope the eventual Emperors Children release will bring back Doomrider. A modern sculpt could look so badass that even the people who hate when 40k gets silly wont notice just how silly doomrider really is.

"Their arrogance is matched only by their firepower." Oh, I remember my 3rd edition Eldar codex. That art got me into Eldar back then, as a little baby teenager.

A new Snipe and Wib video always makes my day.

The days when you could make your army unique. And equip them with anything from your codex.

The interesting this about this quote is that it seems to be the mirror of this Imperium quote from 1998's Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness , attributed to the First Book of Indoctrinations:

"The weak will always be led by the strong. Where the strong see purpose and act, the weak follow; where the strong cry out against fate, the weak bow their heads and succumb. There are many who are weak; and many are their temptations. Despise the weak for they shall flock to the call of the Daemon and the Renegade. Pity them not and scorn their cries of innocence - it is better that one hundred innocently fall before the wrath of the Emperor than one kneels before the Daemon."

I like the irony of it, in that the Imperium quote and the Chaos quote, while providing different rationalisations, both come to the same idea. Really shows that there are no good guys in 40k.

I remember bringing this codex into my local GW store to prove to the store owner Chaos could take Cypher in their army because no one believed me.  Great memories =D

Scatter dice appearance, praise to the dark gods

Doomrider is the greatest Chaos character ever devised. If he shows up in the new codex, I will 100% definitely get that model.

All hail Doomrider!

Both lost legions were originally supposed to be around during the Heresy. That's the reason old books say 'almost half' of the legions rebelled during the Heresy, whereas newer books say 'a full half'. Notice that in background material released before the Horus Heresy novel trilogy, legion listings marked II and XI as 'all records expunged after the Horus Heresy'. Heresy was supposed to be this mythical prehistory that's never expanded upon so it was a safe spot to put the lost legions debacle and keep them mysterious. But when they did start expanding upon it and releasing the books, they had to soft retcon the lost legions to be lost even further back, to avoid having to explain them, and creating an awkward situation where it kinda necessitates ANOTHER and completely separate super-betrayal event EVEN FURTHER back in the past, that's somehow EVEN WORSE than the Horus Heresy since the Heresy didn't result in such stringent record burying and mind wiping.

I missed this video when it was initially released. Finding it randomly in your library was like finding a 20 dollar bill in my pocket.

It seems there's some lore floating around about Doomrider being decapitated and his still-living head taken as a trophy by the White Scars - but I have it on good authority that he escaped by chewing one of his teeth into the shape of a D6 and spitting it out to roll a 1 and vanishing.

With rumours-abound of a fast attack-focused 11th edition, I do hope we see a chaos bikes refresh for Chaos Space Marines in the coming years. And, by extension, Doomrider for the Emperor's Children.

My favourite spine faction motto is

"CITYFIGHT" - a city, while fighting

This isn't a democracy, it's a Doomriderocracy!