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I am completely new to warhammer and minatures and wargaming. I have started creating a chaos space marine army and would
love some advice on tactics how to play and good combo's to use my first game will be against a friend who has grey knights so any advice there would be great too many thanks

Hard to say as theyve got a new Codex and units around the corner......let us know what point limit you guys play around and we can go from there. Smaller games you could roll out a Chaos Lord/Sorcerer, reg Chaos Marines, and build from there.

If you are able, wait a little bit till the new codex and starter set is released. The new starter will have CSMs in it and is always a good way to get models for real cheap.

If you can't wait, pick up a Battleforce and an HQ of your choice just to get started. Don't buy a codex though, it'll become invalidated shortly. Just see if you can borrow one or use the store's codex till the new book comes out.

I already have a set of 16 chaos space marines 10 of which are from a set with a standard bearer and i have six more (two bought packs of three chaos space marines) the set of ten has a heavy bolter etc but i am completely new to this i have a chaos marine codex and a 6th gen 40k rule book but i am as i say a complete nube so no idea what i am doing

Well don't worry too much.

Simply read and listen for now, don't buy anything extra. Talk to others, post about the codex and learn.

As it stands, you should get an idea for what kind of army you want it to be. The new chaos marine codex is coming, very soon, so do your best right now to learn the 6th edition rules and get a feel for how you want your chaos marine army to play.

Remember this golden rule: It's your army, don't play what someone else says unless it's something you want in your force. If you end up building an army that someone else built for you, you won't enjoy it as much.

I also suggest you check CSM rumor threads as I'm planning on starting them myself and am doing the same.

One thing you can do is try and come up with a play style. Do you like to run up and chop things to bits? Do you like to hang back and shoot? Find your play style and choose Gods that match it. Feel free to mix and match as well. ex:

you like to chop things up, so you have a couple of squads with khorne icons in rhinos to dash up and chop things to bits. However, so you can actually win games (Who doesn;t want to win?) You may include a Nurgle squad just for holding objectives and giving support fire.

another thing to decide is if you want a god-themed army (world eaters, death guard, emperors children, thousand sons) or a chaos undivided (Black Legion, Iron Warriors, Nightlords, Alpha Legion). As Cult Marines will be elites, you need to decide this before hand so you can invest in the proper lord to unlock them as troops. Also realize you cannot mix cult units as troop choices, only one cult unit is considered a troop unit per game, if that.

Finally, as the new book i about a month away, If you get the hobby jitters, buy something thats rumored to be good. Predators will be nice with the new shooting boost, Oblits too. And one can never go wrong with a rhino, 3 hull points actually may make it more survivable. If you do get a rhino, pick which squad will use it and paint their god symbol on the hatch (or somewhere else easibly visible) as this will help in the long haul (rumored marks for vehicles, transport gets same as squad)

Good Luck

We are all excited for the new Codex to drop soon so you'll get to learn the new book as everyone else is!