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I just got the new csm codex and after looking through and forming my list I was having a hard time deciding which troop setup would work the best for fighting against Dark Eldar. In your opinion which one would be the most effective in 1500 point games?

Medium sized squads of cultists with autoguns, 10-man squads of chaos space marines, or many squads of 5 plague marines with special weapons (flamers?)

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

As a DE player I would be afraid of blobs of cultists, but basic CSM are also a good choice, plagues are good too, but poisoned shooting mitigates their strenghts somewhat.
I reccomend normal CSM with 2x specials.

Make sure to have flamers in your squads, d3 auto hits on wyches does hurt quite a bit.

Use some cultists, but the bulk of the army should be marines, Try to find some synergy with plague marines and chaos marines.

What do you think about khorne berzerkers viability vs eldar?

If you are building a list to specifically beat DE, you want auto cannons, assault cannons, flamers, and fnp or tons of wounds. Sonic marines, regular marines, maybe zerkers but more likely not. Forgefiends would be amazing though.

Forgefiends with ectoplasm or hades autocannons?