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I haven't made a non-themed CSM list for a while (2009 was my last competative list I think) so i've decided to have a try. This is based off my last one which saw great success:

HQ:
Daemon Prince w/ MoT, Wings, Warptime and Wind of Chaos - 205pts
Khârn the Betrayer

Elites:
3x Chaos Terminators w/ 3x Combi-meltas - 105pts

Troops:
8x Khorne Berzerkers w/ Skull Champion and Powerfist - 208pts
Rhino - 35pts

8x Khorne Berzerkers w/ Skull Champion and Powerfist - 208pts

Heavy Support:
Defiler w/ Extra CC arm (only 1 due to lack of a second) - 150pts
Vindicator w/ Daemonic Possession and Pintle Combi-Melta - 155pts
Land Raider w/ Daemonic Possession and Pintle Combi-Melta - 250pts

Total - 1481pts

Reason for stuff:
Termicide - I lack dedicated anti-tank. The Land Raider's main focus is to carry the transport-less zerkers and khârn upfield with the Rhino in its AV14 shadow and flanked by the defiler for CC deterrance (or indeed sacrifice) and Vindicator + Daemon Prince (2+ armour saves? FNP? Wind of Chaos doesn't care! Although the amount of psychic defense in the game now might limit my potential here; the lash might be welcome for pie-plates but I don't care a huge amount for Slaanesh).

Berzerkers - Favourite unit in the game.

1 Defiler and 1 Vindicator - Ran this set-up with a Destructor Predator at 1000pts and was quite successful (the vindi might've done more in 1 game against marines had my opponent insisted the Siginum (or whatever it's called) from a Devastator Sergeant wasn't one use per game and wrecked the vindi after my predator); now the pred has been upgraded to a Land Raider, i'm going to run them both again and see which does better at 1500pts; no sense buying 2 defilers and 2 vindis only to find out 1 of each was fine and 2 of each were overkill.

Combi-meltas - A bit of punch if main weapons get destroyed and can add a bit of resillience; the LR will now take 4 Weapon Destroyed results before the 5th immobilises it, and the vindi can simply rush up to the nearest tank if its cannon is taken out and unleash a melta shot.

Daemonic Possession - I'd like my vehicles to be able to shoot please. Land Raider's TL cannons don't care much about BS3, nor does the vindi's demolisher cannon; 1" less of scatter isn't likely to make the difference any time soon.

Now, i've got 19pts to spend on stuff, if it was 25 pts it'd be fine, maybe even 20pts would be okay, but 19 is a hard number to work with. I could get extra armour on the rhino, but at 1500pts what is shooting the rhino will most likely kill it anyway; the LR, Vindi, Defiler and DP would eat most of the dedicated high-strength stuff, but would EA be worth it? Alternatively, I could get a combi-melta on there; A rhino running around doesn't look harmful until it melts a hole in the back of your tank; but it's pricey and there's no guarentee it'd ever live long enough to get into range of anything, let alone see use.

Was going to wait another 10 hours, but seeing as it's already halfway down page 2...

I like it, but i can't see it being overly competitive.
Your comment about extra armour on Rhino, just because something is strong enough to kill a Rhino, doesn't mean it won't glance instead, and end up stopping its movement, if you have extra armour, your opponent then has to shoot it again. So it is more than worth it.
A couple of generic comments, that really only you can decide if they are right: Solo Land Raiders aren't that effective. Yes they are still hard to kill, and quite a few armies focus on closer range ways of killing AV14, but against anything spammy like Guard and Wolves your LR may not survive (although ML won't be much good against a Demonically possessed LR) And pairing (or tripling) up Heavy's normally works best, but if you have had success with Vindi and Defiler, you might as well stick with it. Although i'm not too keen on a Vindicator costing 155 points.

As long as the Zerkers make it into combat, you should be able to do more than enough damage to win games, obviously objectives will be an issue, but really you just want to kill the enemy

a lot depends on that land raider staying alive... could run into trouble if somebody can drop it turn 1

The lacking in troops units makes me nervous. The Land Raiders point could easily amp up your troops number with another Berzerker unit, and a rhino as well. Either that or drop the vindicator and add in more bodies, hell even Kharn for that matter. I just think your sinking too many points into things that won't be able to kill enough stuff to make up for your lack of models.