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Good morning all,

I am takinga small break from my warriors of Chaos and moving onto a themed list of sorts. I want to stay true to my Nurgle WoC, so I thought I would try my hand with a plague marine army focusing on bikes. That way I do not feel like I am cheating. Anyway, I am hoping to get involved in a tournament at my LGS, and practice a bit with a buddy of mine who runs the Paladin army with Grey Knights. I think they call it a Draigowing or something along those lines. At this point he is not running nemesis knights, and I am looking for something that is fluffy, but fun to play with. This is what i rolled out so far...

Chaos Lord with the Mark of Nurgle on a Chaos Bike with the Burning Brand of Skalathrax. (does he need a sigil of corruption?)

7 Plague Marines, Champion has Melta-bombs and gift of mutation. Squad with 2 Plasma guns mounted in a rhino with a dirge caster

7 Plague Marines, Champion has Melta-bombs and gift of mutation. Squad with 2 Plasma guns mounted in a rhino with a dirge caster

6 Chaos Bikes with 2 flamers, champion has a combi-flamer and gift of mutation, whole squad with the mark of nurgle. (Lord goes here)

7 Chaos Bikes with 2 meltaguns, champion has meltabombs, gift of mutation, and a combi-melta. Whole squad has mark of nurgle.

7 Chaos Bikes with 2 meltaguns, champion has meltabombs, gift of mutation, and a combi-melta. Whole squad has mark of nurgle.

Chaos Predator upgraded to twin-linked lascannons.

Chaos Predator upgraded to twin-linked lascannons.

This army si not meant to be super competetive. But I would like to hold my own against my oppontents. I have been told that if I favor the bikers, that I should just play white scars... I know, I just like the feel of the Chaos Marines more. I have deliberately avoided Obliterators and Helldrakes. I have nothing against them play style wise, but I am not a fan of how the models look. Is this list feasible? Will it stand a chance or be fun to play. It looks decent on paper, but then again, I am not stellar 40k player. Thanks in advance.

I would definitely try to get a sigil on your biker lord. He's also going to want something that he can punch people with in CC. Most people do LC/PF combo but the black mace can work too. Looks pretty tough. That many T6 bikers are no joke. Although you might want to lose a couple bikes to upgrade the preds to have las cannon sponsons

Thank you Astro_nimcon. I have made a few changes to the list absed on your suggestions. I was hoping to keep the units at multiples of 7 for the nod in nurgles direction, but if the extra sponson weapons will make a difference, I will give it a try. I have heard that most people forgo the sponsons and focus on the main gun. How does this updated list look?

Chaos Lord with the Mark of Nurgle on a Chaos Bike with the Burning Brand of Skalathrax, and the Sigil of Corruption. (not sure if I I want to give up that burning Brand for the Power Fist-Lightning Claw combo. Is it really that much better?)

7 Plague Marines, Champion has Melta-bombs and gift of mutation. Squad with 2 Plasma guns mounted in a rhino with a dirge caster

7 Plague Marines, Champion has Melta-bombs and gift of mutation. Squad with 2 Plasma guns mounted in a rhino with a dirge caster

6 Chaos Bikes with 2 flamers, champion has a combi-flamer and gift of mutation, whole squad with the mark of nurgle. (Lord goes here)

5 Chaos Bikes with 2 meltaguns, champion has meltabombs and a combi-melta. Whole squad has mark of nurgle.

5 Chaos Bikes with 2 meltaguns, champion has meltabombs and a combi-melta. Whole squad has mark of nurgle.

Chaos Predator upgraded to twin-linked lascannons.
Lascannon Sponsons.

Chaos Predator upgraded to twin-linked lascannons.
Lascannon Sponsons.

Have you thought about getting mauler fiends instead of Predators? Get everything into cc

My quick thoughts for papa nurgle.

I love nurgle bikers and usually those are my main unit for my csm. I am going to make comments ignoring fluff but I understand if you have something because of fluff.

Gift of mutation drop it from every non HQ. Just not even close to worth a combi weapon (use the point from the plague champions to give them combi plas. That's a whole lot plasma for teq/meq.

Yes lc/pf is that much better. 4 attacks is great with dual specialist and he really shines in cc. Brand wont help yoi that much because you really want to get into those juicy cc amd get a good boon from challenges. And you really want him in combat quick against those loyalist scum so you can stop being shot at

I love maulerfiends but you gotta run more than 1 because 1 will go down but boy they are awesome. If you stick with preds don't go tri-las. You have melta bikers for that.

So I would drop those gifts from everyone save lord and get more combi and give the lord pf/lc.

Hope that helps

I may be alone in this, but I just can't get past the fistyclaws biker lord. I know how great it is and all, but it just seems... funky. I recently ran a similar nurgle lord on biker with black mace and it was a lot of fun. I may have done better with the fistyclaws set up, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Maybe because I'm more of a modeler than a gamer and it just looks ridiculous. Just my meager opinion.

Gift Of Mutation is just wasted points on those Plague Sergeants. Same with the Dirge Caster on the Rhino.

Ya may not look that great but it performs my other recommendation is you use the crimson slaughter supp and instead of pf/lc you take the blade of the relentless. Costs 30 points so you will come out better than pf/lc and if you get into at least 1 cc you will start eating face with it.

The big problem without the cc ability is you are leaving your lord out in the open to get shot up and in cc you will get bogged down for your opponent to refocus or send in their own cc character.

Also dirge casters are amazing. Ignore that comment. Especially for fast biker list stopping overwatch with a rhino is amazing. But do get rid of those gifts of mutation for combi weapons on your plague seargents.