I've been spending some thoughts on Chaos Pact lately and on what makes the team outstanding. Besides their ability to create a lot of cheap yet efficient killer marauders and their unique roster with three big guys and the renegades who have the potential to become various specialists, one fact came to my attention:

They're the only team where the majority of players have access to passing skills. There should be a way to get more out of this than having a cheap leader re-roll early on!

A really unique (and without doubt quite silly) team would be one where all marauders have Dump-Off and/or Nerves of Steel. Why these skills? Because they'd offer additional (passing) options and flexibility, though it's probably not desirable in terms of team value and competitiveness. But hey, this is a strange-team-building fan talking!

So, my efforts in creating a memorable Pact team should focus on passing skills.

I spent more thoughts on synergies, especially between passing skills, strength skills and mutations. Broad access to passing and strength skills on the same players is unique, too. Didn't get too much out of it though. Passing and bashing are quite different roles, trying to merge them leave too few skill options in my opinion. Access to Strong Arm is nice for a thrower, but secondary on a more general approach.
Mutations allow Extra Arms (nice for ball handling, but weak compared to +AG) and Big Hand (a special but limited-in-use skill that only very few teams can come up with).

I played around with some marauder developments in theory, but they'd yet have to prove themselves in game. Still: "Only" six skills for a player seem to be awfully few compared to the possibilities of customization! That's why I even hesitated (actually a lot) on granting them Block or Wrestle at all...
So I left the "complete" designs aside and tried to find good starting skills:

Extra Arms seems useful for the passing game (picking up and catching the ball with less use of team re-rolls), but I actually don't really like to fill one of the precious skill slots with a very weak +AG (despite the fact that I'll for sure not roll a +AG on every player, if any at all).
Dump-Off seems fun for occasionally getting extra SPP without turnover risk early on and adds the uniqueness mentioned above, though it's a high risk to let your ball carrier get blitzed/blocked (and passing out of at least one tackle zone isn't great with AG 3, too).
Nerves of Steel also appealed to me, since it would add a new (but risky) dimension to the passing game.

I didn't find the final answer yet, but since I can't play often and all these guys still need to get SPP (and survive) first, it's not tragic.

One goal however became once more clear to me:
My Pact team will be all about passing (and maybe top 10 entries in the corresponding categories)!


Thanks for reading all this, I hope my loud thinking was at least amusing!