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Hi Guys

I have been taking more and more interest in CSM of late and really have loved the Word Bearers for quite some time now, I have tried to make the list as balanced as possible while maintaining my idea of how a Word Bearer force should appear on the table

Total Roster Cost – 1848 Points

Word Bearers Warband – 930 Points

HQ: Dark Apostle – 135
Power Maul, Burning Brand

Troop: 10 Chaos Cultists – 63 pts
8x Autogun, Heavy Stubber

Troop: 10 Chaos Cultists – 57 pts
Flamer, Shotgun

Troop: 10 Chaos Space Marines – 220 pts
2x Plasmagun, Aspiring Champion Lightning Claw
Chaos Rhino

Fast Attack: 3 Chaos Bikers – 115 pts
2x Meltagun, Aspiring Champion Power Fist

Fast Attack: Helldrake – 170 pts

Fast Attack: Helldrake – 170 pts


Allied Daemons – 918 Points

HQ: Keeper of Secrets – 260 pts
2x Greater Rewards, Psyker Level 3

Elites: 6 Flamers of Tzeentch – 138 pts

Troop: 15 Bloodletters of Khorne – 180 pts
Instrument of Chaos, Banner of Blood

Troop: 15 Plaguebearers of Nurgle – 165 pts
Instrument of Chaos, Plague Banner

Fast Attack: 7 Screamers of Tzeentch – 175 pts


Thoughts, Idea's and Criticisms very much welcome (the Cultists I will be using my Necromunda Redemptionist and Cawdor Gangs so have a little wiggle room with weapons, everything else is as yet not purchased)

IMO the only upgrade you should think about taking on cultists is a flamer. Try and take large groups of them too. They will run away on you after taking a couple of casualties.

I think the bikers will eat it fairly quickly too.

My advice: Keep the list mainly as it is. Even though the dark apostle aint great you wanna keep it fluffy so i understand that keep him in.

Consolidate the cultists into a larger group of 20. drop the autoguns. Take 2 Flamers instead and put the Apostle in that unit so theyre fearless.

Drop the bikers they wont get a chance to do much. With the points saved overall take a unit of raptors with meltaguns instead. Deepstrike them behind a target and watch it burn.

Better? I used the additional points (20) for an extra body in each of the daemonic troops

Total Roster Cost: 1847

HQ: Dark Apostle - 135 pts
Power Maul, Burning Brand of Skalathrax

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10) - 220 pts
Plasma gun x2, Aspiring Champion, Lightning Claw
Chaos Rhino

Troops: Chaos Cultists (20) - 100 pts
Flamer x2

Fast Attack: Raptors (5) - 115 pts
Meltagun x2

Fast Attack: Heldrake - 170 pts

Fast Attack: Heldrake - 170 pts

HQ: Keeper of Secrets - 260 pts
Greater Rewards x2, Psyker Mastery Level 3

Elite: Flamers of Tzeentch (6) - 138 pts

Troops: Bloodletters of Khorne (16) - 190 pts
Instrument of Chaos, Banner of Blood

Troops: Plaguebearers of Nurgle (16) - 174 pts
Instrument of Chaos, Plague Banner

Fast Attack: Screamers of Tzeentch (7) - 175 pts

thats the ticcket

Cheers for your help, wherei n Brighton do you play as I pop home to Worthing every once in a while?

Oh i play at warlords every monday. Its a club at the king and queen pub. Really good club

I may drop on by next time i'm down south

Nevermind...

have you thought about the grimore of true names, i bring it up becuse their is nothing more troll worthy than a heldrake with a 4+ invunrable, it also works well on all demons

 chuxfm wrote:
Oh i play at warlords every monday. Its a club at the king and queen pub. Really good club

Dammit, why cant I be british? A club thats also a pub, it can hardly get any better than that

 Blackskull wrote:
have you thought about the grimore of true names, i bring it up becuse there is nothing more troll worthy than a heldrake with a 4+ invunrable, it also works well on all demons

What's a Grimore of True Names, because unless I have missed a whole two pages in the chaos codex for like 5 months of reading it, I'm pretty sure it's not in there. That said, it could be daemons. Would that affect the drake though? If so is that because it's a daemon? And if thats the case, is anyone selling a Chaos Daemons codex on the cheap?

Ah, I quite like the route you took with the allied Daemons. It's quite diffrent to my 1850 Word Bearers. I run both a Lord and the Apostle.

Blakman wrote:

 chuxfm wrote:
Oh i play at warlords every monday. Its a club at the king and queen pub. Really good club

Dammit, why cant I be british? A club thats also a pub, it can hardly get any better than that

Beer, Burger 40k. Monday is the best day of the week!

Ach, next thing you tell me is that they have haggis on the menu. I've been to Scotland a few times and I absolutely love the stuff

I doubt the pub'll sell it but most supermarkets will carry it. The grimoire idea is interesting I may play around with that