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So I am playing a little 1750 point game in the next week and was wondering what you gentlemen thought of the list I'm using. Criticise away, the more personal the better.

HQ

Chaos Lord
Veteran
TDA
MoN
Lightning Claw
Burning Brand of Skalathrax
175

Sorcerer
Mastery Level 2
Spell Familiar
Veteran
MoS
120

Primaris Psyker
70

Troops

Chaos Space Marines
CCWs
Meltagun x 2
Power Fist
MoS
Icon of Excess
Veterans
263

Plague Marines
Plasma gun x 2
Power Sword
Plasma Pistol
Veterans
Meltabombs
315

Penal Legion
80

Elites

Chaos Terminators
Power Fist x 3
Chain Fist x 2
Combi-Melta x 2
Combi-Plasma
Combi-Flamer
Reaper Autocannon
MoN
Veterans
292

Fast Attack

Heldrake
Baleflamer
170

Heavy Support

Chaos Vindicator
Dirge Caster
Havoc Launcher
Daemonic Possession
152

Ordnance Battery
Basilisk
125

I'm a huge fan of fluff, and I would love to see this build get more towards what it should be to represent the Iron Warriors.

The Iron Warriors are unparalleled masters of siege warfare as well as building defensive fortifications and fortresses.[1] Right after they set up their fortifications and before the initial bombardment, they will commonly send infiltration units ahead of the main force to disable the enemy's defenses and set up ambushes and flank attacks while the main force charges the fortifications.

Vindicators were the favourite platform for the IW, which means you should be running two. As the quote above also states, they loved to use Fortifications. Now I wouldn't go out and buy one just for this list, but if you had one on hand, I would find a way to get it into the list. There is also mention of Infiltration units, but I know we don't get those standard anymore (Chosen).

Plague Marines don't fit the theme for me either. Iron Warriors would be normal vanilla Chaos Space Marines kited out with the heaviest possible weapons (Missile Launchers, Autocannons, Plasma Cannon available???)

The Chaos Lord to me should have a Power Fist, again for fluff, not for practicality.

Just my 2¢ - Hope it helps.

Well, I mostly took the plague marines because they're in my opinion at least, one of the single finest units for sitting on an objective in the game and can only use special weapons (plasma cannons are loyalist only, by the way). I didn't take fortifications because IWs are more about cracking fortifications than defending them and I use my infantry fairly aggressively. I only have one vindicator because it was either a second vindicator or the bassy and those things just ooze IW fluff. Thanks for the reply though, man.