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I Now Have Chaos Space Marines!!

Thanks to John from Santa Cruz Warhammer, I now have no more Imperial Guard left, but I do have a heafty army of Chaos Marines.

This came at a great time too as my FLGS is about to start a campaign/league called Mittennacht.  If I wasn't able to trade away my IG in time, I was going to run my Daemonhunters (which are always good for a sure loss).  Fortunately, I will be running my new CSM.

I've worked up a quick list to try out.  I'm a bit short on time (and the holiday season isn't giving me more time), so I need to get some list-testing done ASAP to weed out any problems and get used to the new army quickly.  Here's my initial list (trying to be somewhat fluffy too):

HQ: Daemon Prince with MoK & Wings (140 pts)

HQ: Daemon Prince with MoN & Wings (150 pts)

Elite: Dreadnaught w/ Plasma Cannon (105 pts)

Elite: 4x Terminators w/ 2 Combi-Meltas & 1 Reaper Autocannon (155 pts)

Troops: 7x Plague Marines w/ 2 Plasmaguns, Champion w/ Power Fist, & a Rhino w/ Havoc Launcher (281 pts)

Troops: 8x Khorne Berzerkers w/ Skull Champion w/ Power Fist & Rhino w/ Combi-Melta (268 pts)

Troops: 10x CSMs w/ Aspiring Champion, Icon of Chaos Glory, & Rhino w/ Havoc Launcher (225 pts)

Troops: 10x CSMs w/ Aspiring Champion, Icon of Chaos Glory, & Rhino w/ Havoc Launcher (225 pts)

Troops: 10x CSMs w/ Aspiring Champion, Icon of Chaos Glory, & Rhino w/ Havoc Launcher (225 pts)

Heavy Support: 2x Obliterators

Heavy Support: 1x Obliterator

Total: 1999 Points

That gives me 60 models with at least a 3+ save that should be a task for any army to whittle down.  I wanted to keep everything Khorne & Nurgle (and in their sacred numbers no less) and originally I was toying with 2 of each Cult Troops instead of just 1 each (too few models for my taste though). I'm going to go back through in a bit to try to see if I can find a bit of room to make to give the DP with the MoN a Psychic Power (possibly Nurgle's Rot since I want him up close and personal, but Warptime is awesome too).

What sucks a bit is that I really like Lucius the Eternal and alot of the Slaanesh stuff, but I also really like the Berzerkers.  Mixing the 2 would kinda kill the fluff thing I want to keep, but it's be fun.  For this, I want to keep a bit of fluff going, but in a future fluff-be-damned list, I may play with them together a bit more.

Another list I'm playing witht hat I think would be a really fun list to play is a Black Legion army fielding 1 of each Cult Troop in their respective sacred number (Tzeentch,= 7, Khorne = 8, Nurgle = 7, Slaanesh = 6).  Fill that out with other units divisible by 4 (to model evenly amongs the Chaos gods) to get more support and a bit more variety.  I've toyed around with it a bit, but so far, no list I rally love yet.

About Rob

Just a Wargammer in general. Mostly skirmish-level, and not big on historicals (although I do like some Flames of War now and then). I play Daemonhunters/Imperial Guard in 40k and Daemons in WFB. Outside of wargames, my wife and I enjoy all sorts of boardgames from Alhambra to Zombies!!!