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I only got into 40k about a month ago so currently I have a very limited collection of models and would like to know what I should get to improve my army, and if possibly incorporate noise marines. Currently my army is only about 600 points. My idea was to focus on close combat, but I'm currently haveing trouble getting there without getting killed so I'm certainly going to invest in a rhino to mitigate that. Any and all suggestions are welcomed, thank you.

HQ
Dark Apostle (105 points)

Troops
1x Cultist Champion 9x Culsists 10x autoguns 10x mark of Khorne (80 points)
1x Aspiring Champion 1x Meltagun 1x Power Fist, Melta bombs 9x Chaos space marines 2x flamer 9x close combat weapon 1x icon of excess 10x mark of slaanesh (258 points)

Fast Attack
1x Warptalon champion 4x Warptalons 5x Mark of Khorne (180 points)

I know it's a bit of an investment, but a single Heldrake will make a fairly large difference in small games. I'd also suggest some Obliterators, perhaps two with MoN. My favorite combination is infiltrating Oblits by using Huron's warlord trait. I would personally drop the warp talons as they are a huge point investment at 1000 points or less, and really not very much payoff. Which is a shame as they are really cool models. I would also throw in another squad of marines, perhaps with melta or plasma. Flamers should be swapped for melta. Just some random thoughts, hope it helps.

take auto pistols instead of autoguns if you MoK your cultists.

drop the fist and rewrite because I think you ment combi melta on champ.