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Hello World,
Ive been thinking and how effective is an all plamsa list? Would it hold up to current tournament meta?
Heres a sample of what im thinking.

1850

Karn

Chosen x 10, rhino, mark of chaos, 5 x plasma

Chosen x 10, rhino, mark of chaos, 5 x plasma

Chosen x 10, rhino, mark of chaos, 5 x plasma

Plague Marines x 9, rhino, melta, plasma

Plague Marines x 10, rhino, melta, plasma

Obliterators x 2

What do you all think?

I think No.

If you trimmed the chosen and plague marines a bit, saved some points and added a bit more scoring you might have a fun army that doesnt do too badly.

But you wouldnt be winning any tournaments.

You would be a bit stuck if you rolled lots of 1's

Yeah the Chosen are expensive, I think I'd be relying on the Outflank ability too much, and it's way to random. I need to get into a 3000 Point tournament where I can run full havocs too and then bring like 30 plasma guns to bare. Probably one unit would be competitive, but this list lacks range and melee hard core.

If your goal is to simply spam plasma, you'll be more effective by keeping the squads smaller. Chosen and Plague marines don't need any more than their minimum squad size to take multiple plasmaguns. You'll save points for more plasma-spamming fun by cutting out the extra marines.

Hmm... true true... I must revisit the list

Pilau Rice wrote:You would be a bit stuck if you rolled lots of 1's

lololololol I was thinking the same thing.

Remember you can put combi-meltas on your rhinos. Chaos has few good things going for it, the Rhino is one of them.

Just be ready to lose models. You will be rolling ones every turn with that much plasma. Run the oblits in separate squads so long as you have the heavy slots. Keeps them alive a little longer, which is important seeming how they are the only unit you have that can pen AV 13/14