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So my friend is playing in a ‘Young Bloods’ tournament (for beginners) and he gave me this list (fro 1000 points). I’m not a CSM player, and I haven’t really had much experience with them in the past, so I guess just let me know what to keep on this list, and what to add to make it better. Any suggestions help, thanks in advance guys!

Here’s the list
Chaos Lord (140 points)
-Aura of the Dark Glory
-The Black Mace
-Mark of Khorne

TROOPS

X20 Chaos Cultist (142 points)
- Flamers (x2)
-Shotgun
-Mark of Khorne (x20)

X20 Chaos Cultists (108 Points)
-Autogun (x16)
-Heavy Stubber (x2)

ELITES

X10 Chosen (230 points)
-Power Weapon (x1)
-Melta gun (x2)
-Plasma gun (x2)

X10 Khorne Bezerkers (200 points)

DEDICATED TRANSPORT

Rhino (40 points)
-Dirge Caster

HEAVY SUPPORT

Obliterator (70 points)

Obliterator (70 Points)

Hey, man. Who is in the Rhino?

Well AoDG is worthless compared to SoC. Also swap Mace for Axe of blind fury. Try to get some spawns and juggernaut for lord. Also. Zerkers and troops. Oh and Oblitz need MoN so single lascannon can't touch them.

i would not use any upgrades or marks of any kind for cultists. Use those points for a rhino for the chosen (which btw die just as fast as reg csm). Zerkers are ok if they make it to CC. Ive seen some effective methods to get them in quicker. 20 man zerk infiltrated by huron was effective. However infiltrate is a dub edged sword. I would consider MoN or MoK raptors over chosen.

Those Berzerkers are Troops choices dude, thanks to your Khorne lord. Speaking of which, I think the best use of a Khorne lord is to put him on a Juggernaut and run him with some bikers. Also, Obliterators should pretty much always take the Mark of Nurgle. As for your cultists, I have a hard time believing that an offensive cultist squad will be very effective. I'd probably just take 3 squads of 20 with Autoguns and 2 Flamers, then sit them on objectives if you insist on only using Cultists. Of course, Cultists are a huge liability in kill point games. To balance it out, I'd suggest taking one squad of Cultists like I described, and then two squads of 10 Berzerkers each, in Rhinos. As soon as those bad boys get out, your Cultists will look pretty insignificant to a good number of opponents, and Slaanesh help whatever's close to the surviving Berzerkers.

@Brometheus- I assume the Zerkers...

Other than that, thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll let him know!

Any more suggestions are welcome

Hey. So im the guy sir william has been talking about. Ive taken in all the suggestions and made a new list. Check this out and feel free to leave more feedback. Thanks!

Chaos Lord (150 points)
-Sigil of corruption
-Axe of Blinding Fury
-Mark of Khorne

TROOPS

X20 Chaos Cultist (102 points)
- Flamers (x2)
-Shotgun

X20 Chaos Cultists (108 Points)
-Autogun (x16)
-Heavy Stubber (x2)

ELITES

X10 Chaos Space Marine (200 points)
-Power Weapon (x1)
-Melta gun (x2)
-Plasma gun (x2)

X10 Khorne Bezerkers (200 points)

DEDICATED TRANSPORT

Rhino (40 points)
-Dirge Caster

Stolen Rhino (40)
-Dirge Caster

HEAVY SUPPORT

Obliterator (78 points)
-mark of Nurgle

Obliterator (78 Points)
-Mark of Nurgle

In this revised list zerkers are Troop choices. I assume the csms are actually chosen in that case they are elites. Ii would embark the gen with the csm chosen. Hes fearless so the chosen wont run when they lose a couple. Or scrap the chosen and take more reg csms and embark gen with zerkers.

Might want to check the points on the autogun wielding cultists. Each rifle is 1 point.

I'd stick Votlw on the Obliterators btw mate, they aren't fearless anymore so the extra leadership would help
1xObli, MoN, votlw = 79points. Not sure where you got 8pts for a MoN on an earlier post.

Here's another take on a 1k list. focuses more on nurgle, but plague marines are freaking hard to kill.

Throw the lord in with the bikers and run him up into CC sooner rather than later.

If you are going to take oblits, better to take more than 1 in a squad. I'd take them in pairs.

HQ: Chaos Lord (1#, 190 pts)
1 Chaos Lord , 145 pts = (base cost 65 + Mark of Nurgle 15 + Melta Bombs 5 + Sigil of Corruption 25
+ Gift of Mutation 10 + Veterans of the Long War 5) + Chaos Bike 20
1 The Black Mace , 45 pts

Troops: Plague Marines (6#, 190 pts)
4 Plague Marines , 126 pts = 4 * 24 (base cost 24) + Plasma gun x2 30
1 Plague Champion , 24 pts
1 Chaos Rhino , 40 pts = (base cost 35 + Dirge Caster 5)

Troops: Plague Marines (6#, 190 pts)
4 Plague Marines , 126 pts = 4 * 24 (base cost 24) + Plasma gun x2 30
1 Plague Champion , 24 pts
1 Chaos Rhino , 40 pts = (base cost 35 + Dirge Caster 5)

Troops: Plague Marines (6#, 195 pts)
4 Plague Marines , 130 pts = 4 * 25 (base cost 24 + Veterans of the Long War 1) + Plasma gun x2 30
1 Plague Champion , 25 pts = (base cost 24 + Veterans of the Long War 1)
1 Chaos Rhino , 40 pts = (base cost 35 + Dirge Caster 5)

Heavy Support: Chaos Predator (1#, 140 pts)
1 Chaos Predator , 140 pts = (base cost 75 + Twin-Linked Lascannon 25 + Lascannon (each side) 40)

Fast Attack: Chaos Bikers (3#, 91 pts)
2 Chaos Bikers , 54 pts = 2 * 27 (base cost 20 + Mark of Nurgle 6 + Veterans of the Long War 1)
1 Biker Champion , 37 pts = (base cost 30 + Mark of Nurgle 6 + Veterans of the Long War 1)

Or throw out the Chaos space marines and one berzerker, and put the chaos lord and the 9 berzerkers in a land raider with a dirge caster and dozer blade and have fun.
A land raider in a 1000 pt game is good to take because few things can effectively take them out.