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I run a Nurlge CSM that I finally gathered together. Looks like this:

HQ:
Daemon Prince with Wings, Mark of Nurgle, Warptime-175 points
Daemon Prince with Wings, Mark of Nurgle, Warptime-175 points
Troops:
7 Plague Marines- Plague Champion with Powerfist, Meltabomb, 2 Melta Guns- Rhino Transport-261 points
6 Plague Marines- Plague Champion with Powerfist, Meltabomb, 2 Melta Guns- Rhino Transport-238 points
6 Plague Marines- Plague Champion with Meltabomb, 2 Plasma Guns- Rhino Transport-223 points
6 Plague Marines- Plague Champion with Meltabomb, 2 Plasma Guns- Rhino Transport-223 points
Heavy Support:
Defiler-150 points
Defiler-150 points
Defiler-150 points
Greater Daemon- 100 points

One of the first IG games I played, I practically conceded after he got first turn, and he knocked out all the Defilers, destroyed or stunned the Rhinos, and left me with little chance to close the distance after my next turn to get to his gunline.

His army was a mixture of 6 tanks, 2 Valks, and about 70 or so Infantry, Marbo, some of the ins heavy support and one veteran squad.

Given it was my first match vs IG ever, I didn't deploy correctly (terrain favored IG as there were few hidey-holes to stick my guys behind). Here was how I did it:

I massed the Rhinos between some buildings, put the Defilers together in a corner, and prayed everything turned out alright.

What would be the proper way to handle this IG army, as he basically wiped the floor with me before I even had a chance to move a model.

EDIT: I also don't want to modify the list too much, keeping it a Take All-comer's list. I can swap out things however if I needed to (such as Oblits and the like).

War
here are some pointers for that match up...

1. stay in cover. plague marines are pretty much immune to lasguns but you die just as fast as any other kind of marine to guard artillary if you're out of cover. Its actually worse because your plague marines are more expensive than normal marines so when they die it hurts even more.

2. when on foot deploy in widely spaced strait lines in order to minimize the number of your models covered by guard blast templates. This is very important.

3. give a flame thrower to everyone who can carry one.

4. in the 5 objectives missions place as many objectives as possible in cover and try to concentrate them on one side of the board. if you end up on that side your chances of winning are pretty good. guard are great at holding objectives but pretty poor at taking them.

5. In the 2 objectives mission your chances of winning are pretty bad. you need to hold your objective and contest his. keep some deep striking elements in reserve and hope that he brought the master of the fleet. if they show late enough in the game he wont have time to kill them and you can potentially contest his with them. I would run terminators with mark of tzeentch and combi flamers for this, but if you want to stick with the nurgle theme mark of nurgle is cool too. just remember they must must must come down in cover.

6. In annihilation you are not likely to win with that list against an experienced player with a shooty guard army. your rhinos just cant make it, and if they cant make it, your marines cant either. if your marines cant make it you cant kill him so the odds here are very bad. my advice to you would be to drop two defilers and put in a land raider in order to obscure his line of sight to your rhinos.

7. the guard codex is silly powerful the chaos space marines codex needs some work. dont take it as a reflection of you if you dont pull off a victory because it really is an unbalanced match up. I'm not saying you can't improve if you don't win one, just dont be hard on yourself because you're not playing equally balanced codices.

Good luck
AF

@AF:

3. I would suggest a mix of meltas and flamers...you still have to get the guard out of them metal boxes.

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@WarOne:

I suggest reserving the defilers if you are risk averse.
They are far too fragile and coming in from reserves guarentees at least one shot.

Plague marines have decent guns to taking out Guard Chimeras if he goes mech, while they can take out heavier tanks if they get side armor...the only issue is getting there...so Rhino's are good for that.

Don't forget rhinos are great mobile terrain pieces.

The princes will most likely die, but don't be afraid to send it after a tank you need dead.
Be weary of tanks moving >6", it sucks needing 6's to hit in close combat.

And yes.... cover...when there are no Colossi.

Sanct
if they're meched up. If they aren't you can just hit the battle tanks with krqk grenades.
AF

'Krqk' grenades are an option... not a primary method of dealing with tanks...

It is not to be relied upon.

frankly if you're so in their face with plague marines that you can melt or krak their tanks you're beating the stuffing out of them anyway. as a plague marine player the number of special weapons he can take is very limited so to me the flame throwers are the priority bc he already has something that can fight tanks. if the guard player starts moving his tanks in order to make you need 6's to hit him then his russes and artillary arent shooting anyway in which case mission accomplished.

but sure w/e take a combi melta or two.
AF

The reason I would put meltas ahead is because when you shoot at a chimera, it will likely get wrecked or blow up, in which case you are allowed to charge the contents.

Granted, it won't come up often, but when it does, it saves you resources and gets them stuck in. It allows them the chance to use 3/3 of the phases instead just only movement and charging.

Resorting to hand grenades leads to at least two problems:
1. You are not locked in combat and therefore exposed to enemy shooting with likely no cover saves available.
2. You will naturally clump up as a result of charging rules, making the nastier pieplate/templates that more useful.

Ok Nurgle's only real strength is its toughness it can stand a lot of punishment great, ok then what you have to do, is not be like every player I have met and not hug cover. Charge and spread out your units legal 2 inches apart per fig, and keep moving forward. Take out everything you come into close combat while protecting those units from artillery/shooty stuff as long as you can. HQ units read it careful your only allowed 1 demon prince, try breaking up the army into 2-3 Allied Chaos to gain more HQ, otherwise its not legal. Drop the Greater Demon its really not worth it, get a Chaos Lord in Termie armor and demon weapon, you only need 1 Defiler, take a few CSM units for bullet sheilds w. icons of Nurgle. And trade up those power fists with power swords it will help you in the end. You have not enough heavies try Oblitorators or Predators then your army will be worthy of the Chaos Gods.

Sanct
yes...if they're meched up then bring melta weapons. I agree with that. if it's a strait gunline I think the flamers are stronger bc you have to kill them quick to get to the tanks. assuming the infantry are out in front of the tanks as they should be.
AF

@LordWynne:

HQ units read it careful your only allowed 1 demon prince, try breaking up the army into 2-3 Allied Chaos to gain more HQ, otherwise its not legal

What are you talking about.
2 Princes are legal, plain as daylight.

CSM w/ IoN is prob. the worst thing anyone could suggest.


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@AF:
I know you don't like the bolter statistics, but for what little it is worth to you, bolters and combat attacks are very 'enough' vs. Guardsmen.

Flamers tend to rob you of charges.
Charges is more important than a few roasted Guardsmen due to the possibility of being locked in combat, which means less stuff shooting at your units. And a 2 round combat is likely to work to your favor.
If they do not survive, you have done what you have wanted, gained somewhere aroudn 6+D6" of movment in the process to get closer into the enemy lines and prob. in cover now.