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I was thinking of a good Armored fist for my CSMs.

First goes a Mauler fiend to soak up hits and eat the biggest vehicle that the enemy has.
Second goes a Chaos Land raider with 4 Chaos Terminators and 1 Terminator Lord. to break through there line.
Third right behind the LR is a Rhino with a Tactical CSM squad to take objectives.
Lastly a Predator with SSLC to snipe at the enemy.

Changes would be loose the LR and take 2 Rhinos behind the Mauler fiend to save points.

Option 2
Mauler fiend to eat enemy armor
Demon prince to fly and attack troops
2 Rhinos with CSM to take objectives
Chosen to infiltrate and take out big ticket items
And a Predator with SSLC to cover them
Then rest would be an Aegis line and a short CSM squad.

What do you think?

Land raiders are probably your best option for an armored vehicle with long range bite that won't get blown up easily. With the prevalence of long range str6-7 shooting that ignores cover your rhinos, walkers and av13 tanks can get glanced to death before they get to move. Maulerfiends have an invuln and iwnd to alleviate this, but land raiders will just wade through all the firepower being sprayed at your army.

The single maulerfiend is going to get wrecked 1st turn. Just think target saturation. Also how are you planning to infil those chosen?

I'm running something similar with both types of fiends, daemon prince, drake and maybe a vindicator.

Throw enough high threat AV targets at your opponent and you'll likely land something in their lap.

I've run it without the land raider successfully vs Tau. 2x Maulerfiend, the 5++ really saved my bacon. 3x Rhino with CSM. 2x Chaos Spawn (units of 3, 4) as a fire screen, also managed to take out a couple of targets.
Low points match so didn't have space for all the heavy fire you've got on the list after that, but it's absolutely successful.

Start with 3x land raiders, and then add 3x maulerfiends for your first 1125 points, with stuff to put in the raiders to fill out the rest of your points. Unless you're talking about 1850, in which case you can probably shoehorn another raider in as the dedicated transport with terminators.

Step 1: everything moves forward 18"+. Step 2: close combat.

 Musashi363 wrote:
The single maulerfiend is going to get wrecked 1st turn. Just think target saturation. Also how are you planning to infil those chosen?

I usually have Huron Blackheart as my HQ.

The Mauler fiend is to do nothing more than soak up fire so the rest of the army can move up.

I was thinking of putting the Chosen in the land raider and pooping out with 6 melta shots.

Pooping out 6 melta shots would be incredibly painful.

Just go with Maulerfiends and Land Raiders. High AV, Invulnerable Saves, Assault ramps. Tasty.

Yea a bunch of chosen and a termi Lord would be leathal.