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HQ

Chaos Lord - Lightning claw, Chainfist, Terminator armour, Veteran of the Long War, Gift of Mutation. 152

Chaos Sorcerer - Mark of Slaanesh, Bolt pistol, Forceweapon, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Mastery level 3 (Biomancy and Slaanesh), Spell familiar, Veteran of the Long War. 145

Elites

Aspiring Champion - Combi-bolter, Chainfist, Terminator armour, Veteran of the Long War.
4 Chaos Terminators - Combi-bolters, Heavy flamer, 3 Lightning claws, Chainfist, Veterans of the Long War. 218

Troops

Aspiring Champion - Bolt pistol, Powerweapon, Meltabombs, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Veteran of the Long War.
19 Chaos Spacemarines - Bolters, Bolt pistols, Close combat weapons, 2 Meltaguns, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Veterans of the Long War. 334

Aspiring Champion - Combi-melta, Lightning claw, Frag and Krak grenades, Meltabombs, Veteran of the Long War.
9 Chaos Spacemarines - Bolters, Bolt pistols, Close combat weapons, 2 Plasmaguns, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Veterans of the Long War. 219

Cultist Champion - Autogun, Close combat weapon, Improvised armour.
19 Cultists - Autoguns, 2 Heavy stubbers, Close combat weapons, Makeshift armour. 120

Fast Attack

Aspiring Champion - Mark of Khorne, Bolt pistol, Powerweapon, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Chaos bikes, Veteran of the Long War.
4 Chaos Bikers - Mark of Khorne, Bolt pistols, Close combat weapons, 2 Meltaguns, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Chaos bikes, Veterans of the Long War. 160

Heldrake - Baleflamer, Daemonic possession. 170

Heavy Support

Forgefiend - 2 Hades Autocannons, Ectoplasm cannon, Daemonic possession. 200

Maulerfiend - 2 Powerfists, 2 Magma cutters, Daemonic possession. 125

Aspiring Champion - Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Veteran of the Long War.
4 Havocs - Bolter, 3 Missile launchers (Frag, Krak and Flakk), Bolt pistols, Power armour, Frag and Krak grenades, Veterans of the Long War. 155

What do you guys think?

U do not need to list stock gear, just the upgrades purchased.

I would recommend a plague marine list for a newbie, but I think we can make this work. However, what is the point of imitating tactical marines when you do not have combat squad or atsknf? If I was to use the csm, then I would use marks, icons or make them as cheap as possible n mass them. They are only 1 point cheaper but at 10men, they are the same cost as 10 tactical squads with better rules.

Csm variations

20 csm, mon-330 ( a csm+mon=16pts vs a 14pt tac marine)
10 csm, mok, trade bolter for ccw, 2 flamer or melta guns, rhino, dirge caster- 220
20 csm, mos, IoE-340 (for 10 more than csm with mon, you can have i5 & fnp. 17 pts per mos marine vs 14pt tac)

if only you can get 4 spec weapons or 2 spec & 2 heavy weapons at 20 men squads then I would do it.

Is it possible to have 4 blastmasters in a squad of 20 noise marines? If I could I would totally do it with IoE.

Honestly your troops choice is confusing, you have aspiring champions with more wargear than your chaos lord...wat, troops should fill 1 role not 5 different roles and stocking up on wargear can be a waste. What happened if your enemy got lucky and killed your aspiring champion like 50 points gone.

I would invest in a mark of nurgle to give your troops extra durability, and lose the krak grenades because you have melta bombs. Since your a beginner as flich said a plague marine would be a good anchor or thousand sons there both good as tanking infantry. Perhaps get a predator there super cheap in CSM and you can deck them out for any role your army lacks.

Since you have 19 cultists get typhus cause you can make zombies which will act as a big distraction (camp the objective). However if your going to make them zombies make them base as zombies don't accept any upgrades.

How about this

Typhus
5x 35 plague zombies
5 plague marines - 2 meltas, 1 combi melta
3x heldrakes with baleflamers
ADL with quad gun.

1750 points

Have fun painting 175 cultists zombies. Although they are hard to kill, they do not do a great job clearing obj, but you are going to counter with, "my 3 helturkeys will clear obj for me."

I would scale it down to 3 squads of zombies so you can have a total of 3 plague marine squads with special weapons which can clear an obj. I would also take a small squad of termi to ds him instead of footslogging with zombies just so you can get something behind enemy lines for line breaker.