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Commander join the riptide hidin behind ADL. For anti flyer/enemy reserves.
Helldrakes to clear out hordes.
1 DPs hiding behind cover to kill opponent's ADL. The other guardin troops.
Troops hide and contest last minute.

watchout for SW jaws. They kill the riptide in los.

1749 Pts - CSMTAU

HQ:
Daemon Prince (1 , 265 pts)
Power Armour;
Wings;
Daemon of Tzeentch;
The Black Mace;
Warlord

Daemon (1, 220pts)
Power Armour;
Wings;
Daemon of Tzeentch;

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (5 , 85 pts)
Meltagun

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (5 , 85 pts)
Meltagun

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (5 , 85 pts)
Meltagun

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Ally: (Allies Of Convenience)
HQ: Commander (1 , 155 pts)
2Missile Pod
Early Warning Override;
Velocity Tracker;
Neuroweb System Jammer;
Puretide Engram Neurochip;

Elite: XV104 Riptide (1 , 190 pts)
Heavy Burst Cannon;
Twin Linked Smart Missile System;
Early Warning Override;
Target Lock;

Troops: Fire Warrior Team (6 , 54 pts)

Fort:
ADL+Quadgun 100

3 heldrakes.....ewwww!

Nasty list, unless, of course, you go up against Draigowing....or triptide Tau....or mechdar eldar....or any number of builds that can kill off your troops, including other triple-heldrake lists.

LoL I know right.. Hahaa Yea 3 Helldrakes are nasty arent they.
Yup, draigowing, triptide, and i saw your wave serpent spam as well. They're nasty.

Nasty against some, weak against others. Its certainly a RPS list. Though any competent player should be able to take out your troops. 15 T4 and 6 T3 wounds without transports is pretty laughable at this points level. Any 2+ heavy army is going to cause you some serious headaches.

I'd consider dropping the second DP in favor of putting your troops in tin cans.

You have only the ADL for AA, its not terribly difficult for an enemy to pop the ADL and make way for Flyers, even one and your list can truly struggle. Worse yet if it is Helldrakes as your scoring units are pathetic to begin with. I'd find the points for Velocity Tracker on your Riptide instead of Target Lock considering target lock is unusable without Missile Drones.

Im takin your suggestion for troops. I think that the list need more troops especially for the relic mission. But, I hate givin away first blood/kill points by putting them in a can. Those rhinos dies easily.

My Anti Flyers are the ADL (+chip bonus)+ Commander missile pods (+chip bonus) and have the commander join the riptide to form a unit (+chip bonus). This way the riptide gets the Chip bonus while firing other targets (Target lock) I dunno if this is illegal in some way. Otherwise, we could tweak it so its either:

1749
CSMtau
HQ:
Daemon Prince (1 , 265 pts)
Power Armour;
Wings;
Daemon of Tzeentch;
The Black Mace;
Warlord

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10 , 155 pts)
Meltagun
Flamer

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10 , 160 pts)
Meltagun
Meltagun

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10 , 160 pts)
Meltagun
Meltagun

Elite: XV104 Riptide (1 , 190 pts)
Heavy Burst Cannon;
Twin Linked Smart Missile System;
Early Warning Override;
Target Lock

Fast:
Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Ally: (Allies Of Convenience)
HQ: Commander (1 , 155 pts)
2Missile Pod
Early Warning Override;
Velocity Tracker;
Puretide Engram Neurochip;

Elite: XV104 Riptide (1 , 190 pts)
Heavy Burst Cannon;
Twin Linked Smart Missile System;
Early Warning Override;
Target Lock;

Troops: Fire Warrior Team (6 , 54 pts)

Fort:
ADL+Quadgun 100

or something like this?

1750
CSMtau
HQ:
Daemon Prince (1 , 265 pts)
Power Armour;
Wings;
Daemon of Tzeentch;
The Black Mace;
Warlord

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (5 , 85 pts)
Meltagun

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10 , 160 pts)
Meltagun
Meltagun

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10 , 160 pts)
Meltagun
Meltagun

Elite: XV104 Riptide (1 , 205 pts)
Heavy Burst Cannon;
Twin Linked Smart Missile System;
Early Warning Override;
Velocity Tracker

Fast:
Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Heldrake (1, 170)
Baleflamer;

Ally: (Allies Of Convenience)
HQ: Commander (1 , 157 pts)
2Missile Pod
Early Warning Override;
Velocity Tracker;
Puretide Engram Neurochip;
neuroweb;

Elite: XV104 Riptide (1 , 205pts)
Heavy Burst Cannon;
Twin Linked Smart Missile System;
Early Warning Override;
Velocity Tracker;

Troops: Fire Warrior Team (12 , 108 pts)

Fort:
ADL+Quadgun 100