The Chaos Farts on your Face phase

I mentioned the Chaos Farts in your Face phase several times in my first blog. Why? And what does it mean?

Truth be told, it was not a persistent threat to have chaos fart in your face, only if you played against a chaos player. It is however one thing of this edition I genuinenly loathed.

This is what the Chaos Farts on your Face phase was all about.

The normal turn sequence of fifth edition was:
1. Movement
2. Shooting
3. Close Combat
4. Magic

However, a Chaos player got this turn sequence:
1. Winds of Chaos
2. Movement
3. Shooting
4. Close Combat
5. Magic

In the winds of chaos phase, a chaos player got his own special deck of magic cards to buff his allready awesomely strong units and characters or kill some enemy troops with the small/negligable risk of having one of his characters turn into a chaos spawn or whisked away into the realm of chaos by his god to do some menial task for him (Champions of Chaos are also the Janitors of Chaos).
As only the Chaos player received these "winds of chaos" cards, a non-chaos player had no way to defend himself from this situation. Hence, the Chaos farts on your face phase. You just had to suck it up that his already powerfull units were now twice as powerfull, or your best unit was diminished to half-strength with melted armour or weapons turned to goo.
I think it could even destroy magic items... yes, Chaos is the source of magic. No, it's not fair that a chaos player gets 2 magic phases in his own turn, one against which is no possible defence.
so awesomely fixed in 6th edition. Jay!

Consequently, I had the greatest fun with 5th edition against anything but chaos (and lizardmen because of it's playerbase). I could accept being humiliated in every magic phase, at least I had a chance to do something against powerfull spells. by good fortune, I only faced the resident chaos player twice. He was almost a nice guy this fellow, when you needed advice on the game, you'd ask him. He was the guy who organised the events and did it very well. Playing against his chaos in 5th edition however, was... well... not so nice.