Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hq:

Chaos lord, mark of nurgle, gift of mutation, termie armor

Troops:
8 plague marines, 2 melta, rhino
8 plague marines, 2 melta , rhino
30 cultists with the chaos lord for fearless

Fast attack:
Heldrake, baleflamer
Heldrake, baleflamer

Heavy support:
3 oblits, mark of nurgle
Predator, autocannon with las sponsons
Predator, autocannon with las sponsons

Seems pretty solid. Opinions?

Looks solid enough. Well balanced, fairly good against most lists. I would recommend making the plague cultists zombies, but I can't remember if you have to take a special character to do that.

Yea you need typhus for that. The main benefit to zombies is fearless. The chaos lord provides that for us

Yes, you have to take Typhus to get zombies,
How are yours cultists set up? They're 4 points a model if I remember so that works out at 134pts for 30 base guys. Thats a pretty big scoring squad. If you really want your cultists then you should consider taking them with 3 flamers (5pts each) making them truly dangerous.

Also a special note about the Cultist Champion. He is really important, large Cultist squads can break many units, but it requires your Champion to sacrifice (Challenge) itself to an Independent Character. They are the cheapest character in the game throw them to the wolves accordingly.

Absolutely, especially in a list with kharn it comes in handy have the cultist champ take the challenge, and kharn goes ape gak

But another big benefit to typhus zombies is feel no pain. Also once there is contact the lord has to involve himself in challenges if he goes down so does the fearless . Not so with zombies.
And lastly , although expensive , typhus can be pretty handy in hand to hand and also has some nifty powers etc

Typhus though is a huge tax to the army list to get Zombies. I'd think a Lord is just fine at 1500 points.

I may say an Aegis Defense line with gun is another possibility to add as insurance against flyer lists.

 WarOne wrote:
Typhus though is a huge tax to the army list to get Zombies. I'd think a Lord is just fine at 1500 points.

I think you coud be right at 1500 , at 1850 though you can field 89 zombies , 16 plagues , 3 heldrakes and 3 oblits , aegis , coms relay that's a real good tourney list , I would be inclined to work backwards from that . Lots of zombies can be reaaaal troublesome

WHy would you put points towards a gift of mutation when he doesnt even have a good weapon?

or termy army for that matter.

Imo, go big and give hi ma power sword or drop everything but the MON.

A more appropriate loadout:

Lord with Mark of Nurgle, Sigil of Corruption, Blight Grenades, Lightning Claw, Power Fist.

Gives you a bit of everything in terms of defense and offensive punch. The blight grenades especially give you more survivability on defense.

I think we all aggree Obliterators are the best HS role, and Plauge Marines are the best troop choice. Building your HQ and list off those guys will be win enough.

 Ozomoto wrote:
WHy would you put points towards a gift of mutation when he doesnt even have a good weapon?

or termy army for that matter.

Imo, go big and give hi ma power sword or drop everything but the MON.

you do realize when you give him terminator armor he gets a power weapon right?

Solid list. I wouldn't change a thing about it.