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I go to a warhammer 40k club and we only play 500 point games, I know this is difficult for chaos but I want to create a list that will be both fun and competitive. I mostly play against necrons and space marines with the odd game against tau.

[HQ]
Lord with the Mark of Khorne, Power Sword, Gift of Mutation (100 points)

[TROOPS]
10 Cultists (50 points)

5 Chaos space marines, Meltagun, Bolt Pistols & Close Combat Weapons (85 points)

[ELITES]
5 Chosen with the Mark of Khorne, 2 Power Fists, 3 Power Swords, Plasma Pistol on Champion, Veterans of The Long War, Gift of Mutation, Rhino (285 points)

I plan to put the lord in the rhino with the chosen and I will choose if the champion has a powerfist or power weapon depending on the characters that my opponents take. Any advice or criticism is appreciated so please tell me what you think.

Its not hard to play 500pts I love low point games.
As for the list I would go with a Dark apostle to give hatred and he also has an invun save that's what your lord is missing and I would drop the plasma pistol and veterans of the long war from the chosen to fit the Dark apostle and icon of wrath. But part from that looks like a fin list for points.

Well I can't take a dark apostle as I don't have one' I don't want one and I don't like proxyingmodels but thanks for the feedback


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Though after looking at his rules I might give him a go

You lack long-range AT and that IS bad. Half of your points are in a single squad so try to take something out of there, maybe the Swords?

With extra points, take the Cultists awas and replace them with another squad of 5 Marines to sit on an objective (maybe with some Heavy Weapon?)

Just tossing some ideas around...

Ah something I forgot to mention. We only ever play purge the alien. Also wouldn't it be a better idea to drop the powerfists as I am mostly against 3+ armour saves.

heres a list I would suggest:

chaos lord with burning brand of skalathrax and 9 space marines in a rhino- good AP3, good bolter fire, good mobility, good survivability. the center of your army. Use them to mow down troops
2 squads of 15 naked cultists- cheap wounds and bullets. flexable with both shooting moving and melee. use them to tarpit up elites like dreadnaughts
as crazy as it might sound, a naked helbrute- the powerfist helps take out the enemy HQ and the multimelta pops whatever light vehicle they may have at 12" easy. Id never take a helbrute in a larger game, but here it seems viable. Dont let him get caught up with troops, take out HQs and vehicles

thats 497 points.

a single vindicator or heldrake also seems very strong.

the thing about 500 pt games is you have to be careful about specializing squads. Its very hard to do. You will want flexible squads like these. I may be totally wrong, especially since ive never played a 500 pt game but...this just seems right. Hope it helped.