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I know I've flirted with chaos before, but I'm serious right now. I have owned a chaos lord for a while, and I have finally managed to convert him to a point I'm really happy with. Anyway, I put in the order last week, so I will be having this army coming in the mail. All I need to do is purchase the final rhino.

What pushed me to do it was I really enjoyed my lord conversion, and I realized that it would cost less to get 1000 points of CSM than to increase my IG from 500 to 1000 points. Crazy I know. I'll still keep plugging away at the Vostroyans though. Only increasing points when my entire army is painted :x

Anyway onto the list. The main non-negotiable element is the Chaos Lord. I know he sucks, I know he is a massive points sink. But hes also the only reason I'm starting this army, so hopefully we can get past that

[170] Chaos Lord- MoS, Wings, Daemon Weapon, Combi Melta, Melta Bombs
[155] Daemon Prince- MoS, Wings, Lash
[235] 6 Noise Marines- 5 Sonic Blasters, Blast Master : Rhino- Havoc Launcher
[215] 6 Noise Marines- Champ, Doom Siren, Power Weapon, Melta Bombs : Rhino- Combi Melta
[75] Obliterator
[75] Obliterator
[75] Obliterator

General idea is that chaos lord rides with the assaulty marines. He can branch off and assault his own target if he wants, or just add punch to them. I added the Melta bombs to the lord and champion becaues I had 10 points laying around and that seemed as good an idea as any. Of course I could toss a few more points onto the rhino's as well.

Anyway, I'm interested to hear what people think. I've never played an MEQ army before, and I feel like this list will primarily rely on lash and blast techniques anyway.

Personally, I like the Blissgiver, although, I've never fielded a CL.

Obliterators are always good, especially with the lash.

Honesty, I'd give the CL a personal icon if you can swap something out.

He can use wings to pop to where you want the oblits, then they can come straight in or have the oblits come and powerfist into the combat.

thats a good idea. I'd probably get more use out of an Icon than Melta bombs on the lord anyway. I actually had an IoS on my Lord but I took it off because it made the model too "cluttered"

I'm excited to start trying this out, hopefully I won't get steamrolled too hard.

For my first game as Chaos Space Marines (my first true game of 40k as well), I ended up with all of my rhinos stuck in the start, a dreadnought chasing me, and was outnumbered 3-1 by Tau. In the end, I had 4 guys, and had slaughtered 30.

Chaos is easy to survive with, hard to win. Remember that those noise marines will do really well in CC too, because of the +1 I.