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Haven't played CSM since mid 4th edition, but I do own the codex and decided to throw a list together of what I thought would be fun. Went with the idea of transports being fun, and loving special weapons. If this list is any good... HOORAY, if not, oh well! C&C welcome as always!

HQ~ Daemon Prince- wings, mark of slaanesh, lash of submission=155
HQ~ Daemon Prince- wings, mark of slaanesh, lash of submission=155

ELITE~ Chosen- 7 marines, 1x power weapon, 2x melta, 2x flamer, Mark Slaanesh, rhino 35= 226
ELITE~ Chosen- 7 marines, 1x power weapon, 2x melta, 2x flamer, Mark Slaanesh, rhino 35= 226

TROOP~ Plague Marines- 7 marines, 2 plasma guns, rhino=226
TROOP~ Plague Marines- 7 marines, 2 plasma guns, rhino=226
TROOP~ Plague Marines- 7 marines, 2 plasma guns, rhino=226

HEAVY~ Havoks- 7 marines, 3x melta, 1x flamer, Mark Glory, rhino=185
HEAVY~Obliterators- 3 Obliterators=225

TOTAL: 1850 on the nose

Changed it up so now the 3x plagues and 1x havoks follow up behind the empty chosen rhinos, lash princes do what they do, chosen come in, assault weapon the hell out of whatever they can and then charge in at higher init. Oblits do a lil long range AT for me.

Interesting - meltas and flamer love everywhere!

You are very light on the long range heavies, although the empty rhino wall might provide just enough shelter...

I however share your concern - 2 scoring units is not enough at this point size - consider dropping 3 marines from each chosen, and get yourself 162 points for squad of something else (vanilla CSmarines?) maybe Drop the spare havoks to0...

Would be an interesting game!

darkkt wrote:I however share your concern - 2 scoring units is not enough at this point size - consider dropping 3 marines from each chosen, and get yourself 162 points for squad of something else (vanilla CSmarines?) maybe Drop the spare havoks too...

Play some CSM with MoS in rhino.

I'm trying to teach a friend 40k using Chaos and this is very similar to what I was thinking awhile back. Keep us updated with how this works.

maybe instead of double lash you could get a DP with MOT and WOC and warp time. lash prince sets them up the wind prince blowes them away and assaults the rest.

P.S.Lash prince is 155 pts

Wow... I need to stay away from my computer after half a handle of tequila and 4 corona's. Or maybe I don't, I like what I came up with lol, and I only got one bit of math wrong! Thanks for the input, I'm gonna have to test this out!

What is the definition of fun?
I think anything with double lash princes is only fun for the user (maybe) and not fun for any 'mid tier' opponent's lists that are not entirely meched up or full of rune priests.

As for the list
Lash Princes: meh.

Chosen: IMO 2 is enough, last chosen for some CSM squads as a third troop choice, that should be minimum number of troops at 1750, so 1850 you are hurting with only taking 2 scoring units.
Troops are the backbone of the chaos army.

Plagues are ok... I prefer 7 man squads if this is a 'fun' game.

Havocks: I find them so so, I'd rather have more troopers and maybe some fists... even with lash princes you won't get out of combats if the opponent wants to get into combat.

In addition, they are called Icon of Chaos Glory.

Good Luck.

With gaming group we do play to have a good time, but it gets very competitive. We expect each other to take every advantage, and use every dirty trick available.
I see what ya mean about cuts. I think I'll drop 1 plague marine from each squad, and 1 whole chosen unit to add more regular CSM's and try to get some power weapons scattered about for melee clean up. I'll edit it when I get done with work as my Blackberry is unable to do everything on the forums that I can do from my PC.

Apart from what everyone else has said, it needs some long range fire support.

I'd take 2 Chosen units and 3 PM units, not vice versa.

By the way, your math is wrong: a DP is 155 pts.

Yeah, darkkt pointed my math mistake out. I will fiddle with this list after work based on input received. My whole goal is as many special weapons as I can muster.