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SHOWCASING

Theme:
Nurgle

Overall Theme Performance:
2 Wins, 0 Draws, 0 Losses

List Performance:
1 Wins, 0 Draws, 0 Losses

1000 Pts - Chaos Marines Roster - Death Guard

HQ:
1 Chaos Terminator Sorcerer, 155 pts (Mark of Nurgle; Force Stave; Combi-melta; Nurgle's Rot; Pyromancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

Troops:
5 Plague Marines, 185 pts (Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2)
1 Rhino (Twin-Linked Bolter)
5 Plague Marines, 185 pts (Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2)
1 Rhino (Twin-Linked Bolter)
5 Plague Marines, 150 pts (Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2)

Heavy Support:
3 Obliterator Cult, 225 pts

Fortifications:
1 Aegis Defence Lines, 100 pts
1 Gun Emplacement (Quad-gun)

Total Roster Cost: 1000


Played against Ultramarines with this list and aside from having a terrible start with my dice rolls, they ended up balancing out in the mid-game and allowed me to pull a win. Opponent was playing an infantry based marine army

Feel no pain on a 5+ is just not reliable anymore. However it sure is sweet to be able to take FNP versus anything that isn't double your toughness. I was unwounded by meltaguns and lascannons all day thanks to FNP saves.

List Performance:
1 Wins, 0 Draws, 0 Losses


1250 Pts - Chaos Marines Roster - Death Guard

HQ:
1 Chaos Terminator Sorcerer, 150 pts (Mark of Nurgle; Force Stave; Nurgle's Rot; Pyromancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

Troops:
5 Plague Marines, 185 pts (Plasma gun x2)
1 Rhino (Dozer Blade; Twin-Linked Bolter)
5 Plague Marines, 185 pts (Plasma gun x2)
1 Rhino (Dozer Blade; Twin-Linked Bolter)
5 Plague Marines, 185 pts (Plasma gun x2)
1 Rhino (Dozer Blade; Twin-Linked Bolter)
5 Plague Marines, 145 pts (Plasma gun x2)

Heavy Support:
2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts
2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

Fortifications:
1 Aegis Defence Lines, 100 pts
1 Gun Emplacement (Quad-gun)

Total Roster Cost: 1250

Scaled up to face my friend's necrons on his 2nd 6th ed game. All that AV13 he had from 2 stalkers, 2 barges and 1 doom scythe were a nightmare to fight off. He quickly destroyed my Quad Gun with a volley from his Barge and subsequently his storm lord dropped 2 rhinos with his lightning. Things were not looking pretty.

Awful initial start for me, decent midgame and strong finish allowed me to win. I also got extremely lucky that the mission was The Scouring and I ended up having the 3,4,3 objectives on my side. Giving me a 10 VP lead to start with which allowed me to simply fight to keep him at bay.

The mysterious objective actually came in handy, skyfire nexus let me blast that doomscythe out of the sky.

Looks like optimized lists that scale up to larger pt levels.

Yeah, 2 Squads of Oblits is not enough to deal with a lot of AV13, especially if your opponent is smart enough to double out your Oblits.

4 Squads of Plague Marines at 1250 points seems like one too many to me. Most people use the "1 squad of troops for every 500 points" rule of thumb. Dropping that 145 point Squad and one TL-Bolter from a Rhino would buy you a 3rd pair of Oblits (which you could Deep Strike behind his AV13 and pop with Twin-Linked Meltaguns).

A Defiler can also be had for 150 points (170 if you add a TL-Lascannon). I've found Defilers extremely viable in 6th edition since it's very easy to get a Defiler in 25% cover.

As always, just my 2¢

I feel that 6th ed requires a higher focus on troops than 5th. Because you usually get a lot of objective games with a lot of objectives and ground to cover.

For a slow army as nurgle is, i feel the extra plague marine squad is more valuable than the 3xtra oblits.