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So i am looking to expand my army but really dont know where to go from what i have.
I dont have the new codex or the new rulebook so any advice is welcome
my army so far
chaos lord
20+ bezerkers
16 plague marines
20 regular chaos marine

Get some stuff to take advantage of this editions new dimension: flyers.
Blight drones, heldrakes, helblade etc are good. Land raiders are your only assault vehicle choice, but you'll pay the cost in points and cash to get your berzerkers into combat (worth it IMO). Bikes/juggernaut/maulerfiend/spawn are all new fast movers in the codex and worth a punt too. A sorcerer for psychic defence/buffs is also handy.

does this look like its going in the right way

HQ
1 chaos lord MON

troops
3x 5 plauge marines
1 plasma
10x2 regular marines
fast attack
2 heldrakes
Heavy troops
2 vindicators
3 obliterators

since i dont have the codex i have no idea of any of the point costs so if you take away the point costs does this list look competative?
any advice is welcome.

load up 1 more plasma gun on each 5 men plague squads. You can get 1 rhino and put 2 squads of 5 men into them. Only one squad will be embarked, while the other squad starts disembarked. On your turn, embark the 2nd squad and move the rhino.The odd one can foot slog it behind the rhino as cover.

then give the regular marines MoN. It will be 1 point more than a regular vanilla marine. Instead of giving them a pair of plasma, try flamers or meltas. If not try a heavy and flamer. Also get them into rhinos.

at least get melta bombs for each champion. I personally dont arm them with any other weapon, because they die to every challenge.

demonic possession on vindi is still good, but shaken and stun results do not occur often as glancing hits strip away all the haul points quickly.

Give oblits MoN and VotLW

You gotta get the codex before I help you anymore.

edit: you can not embark 2 separate squad into one rhino during deployment.