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so I'm thinking I want a fake deathstar (distraction) in the form of 20 power-armored bodies and if I'm going to be doing this I want bang for my buck. Do I go Khorne Berzerkers for the WS5 or do I go with normal CSM. And if I go CSM do I go Khorne or Slaneeshi mark (nurgle is gross) and If it's a squad 20 big should I invest in Fabius Bile for enhanced warriors?

P.S. CSM would have VOTLW and the appropriate icon and i'd probably give the champ melta bombs and maybe a power lance or something

In my list I run both. I roll about 2 squads of 15-17 Slanesh CSM with chainsword and the icon of excess (FnP is win!!!). I rock 9 zerkers with kharne in a land raider, and 10 other berzerkers in another squad. other than that I'll bring a cheap 20 MoK cultists. After that I rock a defiler, a predator, a hellbrute and a Daemon prince. I like this list a lot. I always when points allow upgrade all the units I can to VoTLW because even for the leadership boost it's awesome.

The thing with the zerkers is you can't footslog them. I'm debating cutting out my predator and sacrificing some of the CSM to include a second land raider for my other zerker squad. The two twin linked las cannons are boss. The fact that you can throw havoc launchers on them for cheap is nice and the dirge caster is fun times. It's not too many points when you consider it's getting your zerkers across the table and you have cheap scoring units like cultists. I've been throwing the squad of 10 zerkers in a rhino and the rhino usually is a free kill point and leaves my guys stranded. Also, if they get across the table in the rhino those dudes can't attack the turn they disembark which is no fun.

I would always recommend CSM.

They are cheaper, can have bolters, take special weapons, and can get fabiused.

I always enjoy running a 20 man blob with khorne, icon of wrath and fabius upgrades. Str 6 on the charge is magical, with re-roll charge range I almost always get into melee.

Try Apostle with Blob of CSM. Hatred against everything is much better than regular bezerkers with kharn. Throw Axe of Blind Fury on apostle and he can really pack a punch. Take CSM because they are cheaper, more survivable, and can pack just about the same punch as zerkers can, especially with re-rolls to hit with all of those attacks. I would always mark your guys Khorne, as more attacks will do better than fewer attacks at slightly higher initiative

CSM with Huron, so you can get up there and rapid fire down at people, 20 guys with FNP is fairly tough.

I would definitely go with CSM with MoS over Zerkers.
Give them an icon of excess and they can be a far more effective distraction than zerkers.

csm is cheaper, they kinda got nerfed with this codex though unfortunatly. I would say CSM because it gives you several options of how you can distract

 Malferion wrote:
I would definitely go with CSM with MoS over Zerkers.
Give them an icon of excess and they can be a far more effective distraction than zerkers.

Hmm, i would say the only major benefit to giving them the MoS is giving them the Icon of Excess. But then you are talking easily more expensive than zerkers unless you take more than 15 of them. And also, they are really not as strong in CC than zerkers or even MoK CSM. I don't think it would be too worth it