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So I have 100 English pounds and want to start a new army. I've decided that chaos space marines were the best army for me and I need to know your thoughts on what to buy. I went over budget a bit and made up this:

Daemon prince
2x box sets of chaos space marines.
Vindicator

Please give feedback!

Aww, what happened to Necrons? =[

Oh well. As far as I've heard, Vindicators don't really do much. Their gun is good, but short range (relatively speaking). Daemon Princes are good. Is there a specific god you're looking at using on your stuff?

But on the Vindicator note, I would just invest in Oliterators first. By far one of the best/most versatile Heavy Support options.

It's all about redundancy with the CSM. I'd snag up a second vindicator. Make sure to give those guys Daemonic Possession, CSM have the best Vindicators in the game because of it.

What happened to necrons, I hear you say? I honestly don't know, just had an urge to get another army $_$

Da Stormlord wrote:
What happened to necrons, I hear you say? I honestly don't know, just had an urge to get another army $_$

Yeah, I hear ya. I love my Necrons, but I also have Tyranids and just recently started trying out Daemons in 40k, just for fun on the side. =P

I wouldn't go with the vindicator because of its short range for this point level although AV 14 is tough to crack I would rather go with a pred with a twin linked autocannon on top and side sponsons of lascannons or another good choice that I found is to get a HellBrute and give it a plasma cannon and rocket launcher it's just over 100 pts and it kicks butt against infantry or even vehicles if it doesn't get glanced to death

Da Stormlord wrote:
So I have 100 English pounds and want to start a new army. I've decided that chaos space marines were the best army for me and I need to know your thoughts on what to buy. I went over budget a bit and made up this:

Daemon prince
2x box sets of chaos space marines.
Vindicator

Please give feedback!

Um, Dark Vengeance Boxed set is pretty hard to beat. Lots o trade bait plus you get REAL cool looking Chosen that, well... they make admirable Chaos Marines if you want.

But as foir the core you have here:

Make sure the Prince can have wings.
I'd probably prefer 3 Obliterators to a Vindicator.

I think the problem you have is that you're a bit too generic. Those three units are sort of, well, not like bread and butter, but more like plain oatmeal. Good for you, perhaps, but kind of mushy.

I think you'd be a bit better off if you more chose a theme and went with that. Take three kinds of units that sort of work in the same way.

Like perhaps a juggerlord, give the CSM MoK, and replace the vindicator with a maulerfiend for a charge in face off-ripping kind of list, or replace the demon prince and vindicator with a lord or sorc with wings or bikes and then throw some raptors or bikes in there. Or consider some god-warriors like replacing CSM with noise marines and the prince/vindi with a terminator lord and some terminators.

Basically, I'd try to give your army a bit more of a theme. Sort of a thing it does well. A certain playstyle. As it is, the choices make an army that seems, well, a little random.

Gameplay-wise, your list is fine, but I would suggest swapping out one of the marine kits for a bunch of cultists because the marine models are awful so you might just die if you have to paint 20 of them.

Pick a theme and run with it. Right now you can do Iron Warriors with some Mauler/Forgefiends and the Evil Techmarine.

Decide on a mark of chaos first and then buy according to that.

Vanilla marines with a rhino and havoc launcher are a must have.

Vind is good too, I would highly recommend oblits as well.

Cheers

I would echo the statements of those who suggested you pick a theme. This particular CSM codex seems to work best when you make a list to do one thing really well. CSM units have a lot of redundancy but very little synergy so you're better off not trying to make a TAC list. Especially at lower point levels.

I would also recommend avoiding the vindicator. When you have just one of them, they pose very little in the way of a real threat and are easy to take out. You need at least two but then you're basically just paying a tax in the hopes that one of them gets a shot off before it gets killed. I've had much better luck with Predators and/or Obliterators.

Also, Nurgle is a pretty big key in this codex so consider looking at that. Good luck!

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