Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest Keep 16 Khorne Army Guide

To defeat higher-power opponents at Keep 16 in Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest, build an unmixed Khorne strike force that concentrates purely on melee attack bonuses and march capacity. High-spending defenders often inflate their total fortress power by massing low-tier units or mixing troops across multiple Chaos alignments without unified statistical bonuses. A specialized Khorne march counters this strategy by stacking dedicated god rituals and warlord command auras, allowing focused burst damage to break uncoordinated garrisons in the opening combat rounds.

Keep 16 Khorne Unit Roster

At Keep 16, avoid diluting your assault marches with Slaanesh, Tzeentch, or Nurgle units. Off-god units do not receive Khorne-specific ritual modifiers or warlord combat bonuses, which reduces overall damage efficiency. Build your march around Tier 3 Khorne unlocks and maintain distinct combat roles:

Bloodletters and Skullcrushers form your main offensive punch. The cavalry breaks through defensive screens, while Bloodletters shred infantry before the defender's bulk can counterattack.

Warlord and Sorcerer's Citadel Priorities

A dedicated Khorne march requires specialized leadership and research to achieve decisive stat multipliers over generalist defenders.

• Assign Khorne Warlords: Deploy commanders aligned strictly with Khorne, such as Skulltaker or Khorne exalted champions. These warlords offer percentage-based increases to unit attack, march damage, and daemonic strength rather than flat utility buffs.
• Prioritize Khorne Rituals: Direct your Sorcerer's Citadel progression entirely into the Khorne ritual tree. Focus on nodes that grant percentage boosts to melee attack, Khorne troop lethality, and march size.
• Expand March Size: Larger march capacities allow your percentage attack buffs to multiply across more active units, creating a lethal offensive threshold during PvP strikes.

Pre-Attack Scouting Checklist

Because a pure Khorne build sacrifices defensive sustain for burst damage, never launch an un-scouted attack against an enemy fortress. Use this deployment sequence before committing your troops:

1. Scout Defensive Setup: Send an advanced scout to inspect the target's assigned warlord, active combat boosts, and defensive wall trap layout.
2. Confirm Isolation: Verify that the target keep is not receiving alliance warband reinforcements that could overwhelm your march limits through pure mass.
3. Analyze Garrison Composition: Check the enemy's troop tiers to confirm your Bloodletters and Skullcrushers will face low-tier padding or vulnerable targets rather than anti-cavalry counters.
4. Deploy Attack Buffs: Apply march speed boosts and temporary attack enhancements right before marching to reduce the target's reaction window and prevent emergency shielding.

Managing Fragility and Fortress Defense

A specialized Khorne army operates as an offensive glass cannon. Khorne units lack the passive health regeneration, attrition tolerance, and defensive retention inherent to gods like Nurgle. If your army is caught unshielded inside your fortress during an enemy rally, your units will suffer severe losses.

To protect your military investment:

• Keep a peace shield active over your fortress whenever your march is not actively striking a target.
• Upgrade your healing tents and hospital capacity to match your maximum march size so wounded Bloodletters survive for recovery.
• Target isolated fortresses rather than entrenched multi-player sieges, as Khorne compositions excel at quick decapitation strikes rather than extended wars of attrition.