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Hq-265
Abaddon the Despoiler-265
Troops-750
x5 Chosen, x4 Plasma Guns, Rhino-185
x5 Chosen, x4 Plasma Guns, Rhino-185
x5 Chosen, x4 Melta Guns, Rhino-165
x5 Chosen, x4 Melta Guns, Rhino-165
x10 Cultists-50
Elites-385
x4 Terminators,x4 Combi-meltas,x2 Power Fists, Land Raider-385
Heavy-450
Vindicator-120
Vindicator-120
x3 Oblits-210
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I've been looking at doing an abbadon chosen spam list but it just doesn't seem viable, your basically playing a veteran style list in chaos power armour with half the bodies, I'd worry about this list versus swarms so maybe a flamer or two wouldnt go astray, love the vindicators but your army has no shooting except your oblits that can shoot over 24" and you have no anti-air

You've taken a very similar approach to my Black Templar list - 24 inches of pain. Sadly yours isn't anywhere near as viable with a distinct lack of anti-air (I spam assault cannons).

Pretty nice as fluff list because everyone likes to field an overpowered champion, and it will be pleasant for you to play, but you're going to find yourself extremely frustrated against Orks and 'Nids, maybe even Necrons and Space Marine infantry spam armies.

For Abaddons squad 4 terminators are not going to cut it.

I recommend:
6 chosen (4 single lightning claws) mark of khorne, Icon of Wrath
1 dark apostle mark of khorne

This gives you 2 guys who can challenge in place of Abaddon and it gives you 16 AP3 str 4 attacks with re-rolls to hit and to wound (first round only). Alternatively you can take 2 power fists and 2 lightning claws. You can go for dual lightning claws but not sure it's worth 15 points for +1 attack.

Other options include:
3 Mutilators with mark of nurgle
1 warpsmith

For your chosen units I'd go with units of 10 chosen not just 5 otherwise you start loosing special weapons right away.

wtnind wrote:
For Abaddons squad 4 terminators are not going to cut it.

I recommend:
6 chosen (4 single lightning claws) mark of khorne, Icon of Wrath
1 dark apostle mark of khorne

This gives you 2 guys who can challenge in place of Abaddon and it gives you 16 AP3 str 4 attacks with re-rolls to hit and to wound (first round only). Alternatively you can take 2 power fists and 2 lightning claws. You can go for dual lightning claws but not sure it's worth 15 points for +1 attack.

Other options include:
3 Mutilators with mark of nurgle
1 warpsmith

For your chosen units I'd go with units of 10 chosen not just 5 otherwise you start loosing special weapons right away.

Did they FAQ it to say that abaddon is allowed join marked units?

I thought he had every mark, so he could join any marked unit?

It's an interesting and thematic list. Two things that would concern me with this list.

-Giving up first blood with all the Rhino chassis on the table.
-Holding objectives. You have a good number of scoring units, but they are fairly fragile and Abaddon can't be everywhere to assist.

Let us know how it fares.

Abaddon cannot join any Marked squad by the RAW. The argument is that while he has the same Mark as the squad he also has 3 different Marks thus disqualifying him.

Read up on it. Yeah....I'll let my opponent run Abaddon with any marked unit. I think it's basically silly. Good luck RAW players.

 Sarigar wrote:
Read up on it. Yeah....I'll let my opponent run Abaddon with any marked unit. I think it's basically silly. Good luck RAW players.

Yeah it's a balls. Though it may be a balancing decision as Abaddon with Feel no Pain is an even more survivable beast.

There was some discussion in the tactics forum about taking Abaddon with a full squad of cultists for the 30 Fearless ablative wounds until you can drop the Aba-bomb. About the only problem is that with only the Cultist Champ as a challenge targer, Abaddon is probably going to get challenged out for a round or two.