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Hi all. Recent convert to chaos from 6 yrs. of playing marines (my first and only army until now) since I don't want to be playing the flavor of the month with the new marine book. Also, it gets a little boring playing the same army for so long. I've basically exhausted all variability with it, so here is my take on a daemon and chaos marine list. Yes, there are 5 princes/greater daemons, but I have those models. I haven't played a single game with chaos, so critique would be helpful. Thanks, and have at it.

-[HQ]-a Bloodthirster: exalted treasure, greater treasure. @300pts.
-[HQ]-a Lord of Change: exalted treasure, greater treasure. @280pts.
-[TROOPS]-a gaggle of ten Plaguebearers: instrument of chaos, icon of chaos. @110pts.
-[TROOPS]-a gaggle of ten Plaguebearers: instrument of chaos, icon of chaos. @110pts.
-[HEAVY SUPPORT]-a Daemon Prince: daemonic flight, warp-forged armor, daemon of
tzeentch, exalted treasure, greater treasure. @280pts.
-[HEAVY SUPPORT]-a Daemon Prince: daemonic flight, warp-forged armor, daemon of
tzeentch, exalted treasure, greater treasure. @280pts.

-ALLIED DETACHMENT-
-[HQ]-a Daemon Prince: wings, power armor, daemon of nurgle, the black mace, the
burning brand of skalathrax. @295pts.
-[TROOPS]-a band of ten renegade marines: plasma gun, chaos champion, missile
launcher (with frag and krak missiles), icon of vengeance, chaos rhino. @230pts.
-[TROOPS]-a band of twenty chaos cultists: two heavy stubbers, chaos champion, 15
with autoguns, two rank and file. @115pts.
-ARMY TOTAL:@2000pts.-

Nobody?

I would make the 10 man double plasma gun squad if you re going to walk them so you can go up field and shoot infantry with their bolters as well. You want to get the most out of the whole unit, so shooting a plasma and a missile at a tank is wasting a ton of points that could be doing other things else where.

Greater daemons are okay how you have them kitted out but if you ware playing to win most games then you need to do two greater gifts, as they make them insanely hard to kill for no reason.

Biggest concern here is that you have 4 troops at 2k. Most players are going to just kill them and no matter what you lose at that point as long as they hold one objective. I would suggest maybe dropping one DP and getting horrors to shoot people and go to ground.