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hello everyone
Today I manged to pick up the new CSM book and its okay I am slightly disappointed in it if I am being honest. But I have manged to make a list out of it but I am not sure about it, I feel its just a bit too small. Anyway would love know your opinion on it and any advice on how to make it more competitive. So here it is


hq lucuis none 165

troops noise marines x10 271
7 sonic blasts
blastermaster
doom siren
icon of exces

troops noise marines x10 271
7 sonic blasts
blastermaster
doom siren
icon of excess
dedicat rhino extra amour 45

troops noise marines x10 271
7 sonic blasts
blastermaster
doom siren
icon of excess
dedicat rhino extra amour 45

heavy forgefiend normal 175

heavy forgefiend normal 175

forts skyfelid landing pad normal 75

1493
by the way I want to keep it to a slaaneshy theme but still make it competitive
thankyou.

blast masters are 1 per 10 man right :?

also if you want it to be slaaneshi make the units 6man not 7 aside from that looks solid. maybe add a sorc to boost your sonics

 DPBellathrom wrote:
blast masters are 1 per 10 man right :?

also if you want it to be slaaneshi make the units 6man not 7 aside from that looks solid. maybe add a sorc to boost your sonics

There are 10 guys per squad so he can take Blastmasters, alsao taking 6 man squads means you cant take blastmasters as you said lol.
Taking a sorc to boost your sonic weapons seems a pretty solid combo for sure.



I agree that the book does feel a bit small, I read through it then thought, oh thats it?

yea, as people have pointed out, it seems like you are a big fan of the "sonic rainbow". It wasn't good in the gavdex to spam all of the different sonic weapons, and it won't be good in the kellydex.

Specialize your noise marine squads- 6 Guys with Excess, bp + ccw and VotLW and a champ with a power weapon + doom siren, throw Lucoius in there, and cruise around in a rhino giving people double doom siren loving, daring them to charge into your overwatch, and rewarding them with Lucious and the Champ at i6 and i5 respectively.

Long Range fire support squads should load up on blasters and blastmasters, and an icon of excess, otherwise you should be cutting costs. Specialization is going to be key. Don't put a Doom Siren into your Blast Master Squads!

If you want to bulk your numbers, you should ally with Chaos Daemons. That gets you access to Daemonettes, as well as one or 2 slaanesh heralds- possibly on Chariots. That gives you more av11 saturation, some more up close and personal units to support your close range noise marines, and some pavane to move enemy troops around a bit.

okay cheers guys for the advice
i have come up with a new list now which i think is better after taking some of the things you said on board


hq dameon prince dameon of treentch 315
mastery level 3
wings
signil of corruption
spell familiar

hq lucuis none 165

troops noise marines x10 232
9 sonic blasters
blastermaster

troops noise marines x9 224
7 sonic blasts
doom siren
icon of excess
dedicat rhino extra amour 45

troops cultists x21 94

heavy forgefiend normal 175

heavy forgefiend normal 175

forts skyfelid landing pad normal 75

1500
and I know I said I wanted to keep it slaaneshy but I couldn't resist that demon prince what do you guys think?

@ Marbo54 I play a slaanesh force, and I agree - a slaanesh army seems even smaller than it did before. I think its a fail that sonic blasters halve their range if they move, and having to take 10 men for a blastmaster is scandalous.

Personally i'd do as Xeriapt says, and swap out that Daemon Prince for a sorcerer to try and boost the effect of your sonic weapons

@ akaean - I hadn't really thought of that either, and I suppose bulking out the scoring units with some cheap daemonettes is a good folly to the expensive NM squads, whilst Pavane is looking very nice, due to the loss of Lash for Slaanesh armies

I think something people are missing from the new codex is that it needs more finesse. Also for some like NM their roll has changed a little. NM should be a fire base sitting on objects killing stealth scouts and the such.

When their troops move to take you off the objective... that is when you end up in close combat, after receiving the charge.

DP too expensive unless used VERY carefully. sorc better in most cases.