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Primary Detachment: Chaos Space Marines - 895/1500pt.

HQ1: Chaos Lord; Terminator armour;Power Axe: [105]
Troops1: Chaos Cultists [50]
Troops2: Chaos Space Marines [75]
Fast attack1: Heldrake; Baleflamer: [170]
Heavy support1: Chaos Land Raider [230]
Heavy support2: Havocs; 4 x Lascannon [155]
Fortification: Imperial Bastion; Gun Emplacement with Icarus Lascannon: [110]

Secondary Detachment: Black Legion - 604/1500pt.

HQ1: Sorcerer; Force sword; Last Memory of the Yuranthos(18" nova, S4,AP5, Blind, Ignore Cover); Spell familiar; Veterans of the Long War; Chaos bike; Mastery Level 3: [180]
Troops1: Chaos Cultists [50]
Fast Attack1: Chaos Spawns; +3 models; mark of Nurgle: [144]
Heavy Support1: Chaos Land Raider [230]

basic Idea: Cultists in land Raiders disembark on objectives in T5. Havocs inside Bastion. Chaos Lord with CSM manning the Icarus on the roof (2+ armour/3+ cover/5++/Look Out Sir should last him a while). the Black Sorcerer stays with the Spawn behind a speeding Land Raider to remain out of sight, while firing off his 18" nova.

The local meta is quite Tau / Eldar heavy, so the idea is to hide in/behind Armour14 until my own Lascannons have removed the major threats. I tried the Black Sorcerer once in a minor tournament so far, but with no bodyguards, and even then he was amazingly destructive.


Suggestions for improvement?

An option is to get rid of the spawn and bike on the sorceror, maybe even another landraider. With those extra points put terminator armor on the sorceror (maybe a MoT or MoN as well) and get him paired with terminator body guards. You can deepstrike this group of hard to kill people and do Nova and cause chaos. Left over points go towards oblits or another squad of havocs.

I did consider this, but unfortunately there is no shortage of AP2 in the local meta. Especially the Tau are nasty, as their AP2 often come with Intercept from Riptides...

The advantages of bike/spawn is that the Sorcerer can hide behind a Land Raider, as he doesn't need Line of Sight himself for the Nova, and the Spawn provide an additional +1 Toughness and a lot of extra wounds.