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I am just getting started with playing Warhammer 40k and i am working on buying my first army and want to get some ideas on if there is any thing better i can do within a 1500 pnt. escalation league. most of the people already playing use blood angels, gray wolfs, imperial guard, mostly although at lest one person plays the left over races.

i wanted to go with an army i liked the looks of and would would enjoy painting and was told that Dark Eldar and Tyranids were the hardest armies to play so i went with Chaos space marries and so far own a defiler.

i am looking at making a Nurgal based army and my list looks like this right now

Typhus (HQ)
7(8) Khorne Berzerkers with a skull champion with a power weapon and melta bomb
in a land raider equipped with a combi-melta and a Dozer blade (melee rush)


Chaos Defiler with a heavy flamer and Close combat arm equipped (melee and horde killer)

9(10) Chaos bikers with a biker champion that has a power first, they re equipped with 2 melta guns and the mark of Nurgal ( tank hunters and clean up or destraction)

7 plague Marines with 2 plasma guns and are in a rhino with a havoc launcher and Dozer blade ( control points protectors and ranged combat )

thank you for any feed back on alterations or tips on playing with them

Welcome fellow brother against the fasle emperor!

Now I play csm for a bit and even though I don't play green (nurgly) I do know some chaos.

Typhus is pretty cool but he needs a land raider to run around in since he is a terminator. Since 1500 is too small for both a named character and a land raider I would drop him for now and go for a daemon prince or lord... my vote go to prince with warptime.

Also chaos bikes suck, they are expensive and don't pack much of a punch. Even with 6T they will die hard and has when someone wants them dead. You need more marines. a pair of 7man plauge marine squads with 2 meltass and a swaud of 8 zerkers is perfect for 1500.

Defilers are real fun, but if you go that route you need to get another once since they work best in pairs.
I often run 2 daemon princes and 2 defilers for some monster madness.. fun and effective!

By the way, exchange its heavy flammer for an autocannon, sooo much better

OneMeanDuck wrote:

Typhus is pretty cool but he needs a land raider to run around in since he is a terminator. Since 1500 is too small for both a named character and a land raider I would drop him for now and go for a daemon prince or lord... my vote go to prince with warptime.

as for typhus, i had him with the 8 troop KB's with in a land raider since terminator armor counts as two people in power armor and the KB's are in power armor i thought it worked well in theory, i have not tried it on field yet

Plague Marines are probably the best troops Chaos can field. Two special weapons and T 5 with FNP makes them /very/ survivable, but a Rhino or standing in cover really helps with this.

One big thing (Defiler, Land Raider, ect) means it is one big target. If you can't run two, don't run any.

If you want to run a theme army, the sad fact is Marks are sub-par. The real weakness of Chaos Marines are morale issues. Sure, Cult troops are Fearless, but /everything/ else is not... and it just comes down to the fact that if you do not want your Terminators, Raptors, Bikes, Havocs, CSMs, ect, to run after taking 2-3 wounds the only real choice is Mark of Chaos Glory for Leadership re-rolls. This really kicks 'theme lists' in the ass. Only good thing Marks work on are HQ choices.

You will want to avoid things like Dreadnaughts, Spawn, Possessed, and even Demons. They kicked the demons in the balls with generic demons. Greater demons cost you a Champion. Demon bomb is a viable tactic, but I would avoid it for now.

Good luck and I hope this helps...