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Hey guys I am a new player basically after a long break. I played when I was younger but feel I now understand the game better and can afford to play. Got dark vengeance plus another squad of marines, a defiler and some termies.
spent the last couple of days looking through the codex and a few forums and feel that most of my stuff is pretty pants at the moment...
so I have written a 2k army I feel is good but being new to the game it could be a fail :-)

Nurgle daemon Prince, wings, blind axe, mutation
Chaos Lord, terminator armor, combi bolter, nurgle, mutation
4x5 plague marines, 3 with plasma, 1 with melta, all mutations
2x3 obliterators
5 havocs, rocket launchers
2 helldrakes, baleflamers

Marks of nurgle on all that doesn't already have it
is veteran's of the long war worthwhile?
Should I drop havocs or some obliterators of more marines?
Open to critical feedback.
Prince is for fun, do I need more infantry, transports seem a waste now they are so fragile, too much heavy? I like mutation it adds a random element, I am aware I could afford a few more plagues without it...


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By the way I am buying all next Friday so your input could change things ;-)

Without giving your plagu marines a rhino, they'll never make it across the board

Drop all mutation and use those points to buy 2nd spec weapon for plague marines.

Axe of blind fury is for khorne only.

Keep in mind the black mace has AP:2 instead of AP:4 when wielded by a monstrous creature.

Black mace is what I have in my list god knows why I blind axe there lol thank for pointing that out also didn't realise about the AP bonus that's great :-)

And the plague marines all have 2 of the weapons I specified sorry I was vague I should have written 6 plasma 2 melta

Have revised the list slightly

Taken wings off the Prince
taken mutation off everything except my hqs
added 2 rhinos

Adds up to 2000 exactly now I think

Also £362.50 lol
I'm going to be poor after this ;-)

Already got Windsor and Newton acrylics and sable brushes coming, it's what I always used when I painted properly.

I would take VOTLW on obliterators for sure the +1 leadership is nice, you don't want to see them run.

I have thought about VOTLW on a crew things, cheap, good ability, think I need to see it in practice, or find a situation when it would have saved me tbh. Not a huge number of suggestions so far... All useful though... Chaos seems to be slightly unpopular...