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I play noise marines and lately I've been wanting to do a pure force multiplier list
at 2000 points I can get 6 HQ's, 2 are allies from dfoc (I have 4 primary +1 HQ allied). This is what I have

2x Chaos Lord
MoS
lightning claw


190 points

Sorcerers x4
MoS
level 3 mastery
SoC
spell familiar
(2 sorcerer have VotLW)

770

Troops:
9 NM (1x blastmaster, 7x sonic blasters, naked champ,icon of excess, rhino w/dirge)
8 NM (1x blastmaster, 6x sonic blasters, naked champ, rhino w/dirge)
8 NM (1x blastmaster, 6x sonic blasters, naked champ, rhino w/dirge)
9 NM (1x blastmaster, 7x sonic blasters, champ has melta bombs,icon of excess, rhino w/dirge)

Allied:
10 cultists (reserves)
10 cultists (reserves)

1141

Total of 2001 points

my plan is to stick one sorcerer per squad and the Lord in one of the squads too. For the sorcerer's it is a necessity that I get symphony of pain for each one. After that I roll on biomancy in the hopes of getting enfeeble or/and endurance. I will then use the sorcerer's to make my opponent snap shot all the while making it so my weapons get stronger (first turn 2 symphony of pains on the unit= str 6 sonic blaster shots from me; second turn if I do 2 more symphony of pains, that is str 8 shots).

Most people will say that blastmasters shouldn't move/ be mixed with sonic blasters but I say meh. I'm trying to get them in the ideal position to just stand and fire off at the best profile they can, or get endurance on my sorcerer's so it doesn't matter. The main problem I see from this list is that most models will be taking armor saves

less than 2 turkeys in 2k or above will cause you some trouble. CSM isnt very compstative without turkeys for your enemies to worry about.

Dont let that discourage u. The noise guns ignore cover which is what a bale flamers does but with ap3.

I think you are on to something. If you can consistantly give your sonic blasters S8 then marines will get no armor saves in addition to the sonic ignoring cover.

Edit: i am wrong about instant death rule.

The problem I see is that because you're using Allies/Double Force Org you don't have enough Lords to unlock the Noise Marines as troops.
If I'm not mistaken, NM cannot be taken as troops when allied and a second Primary Detachment would require another Lord in order to unlock them.

Still an interesting idea. I've been toying with the idea of in an Apocalypse game taking 4xTzeentch Sorcerers and a couple of Thousand Sons squads along with Abaddon and try go for as many Boon of Mutation casts a turn on Abaddon (Thanks to his immunity to Spawndom and Daemonhood).
Then load up Abaddon and the Sorcerers in a Land Raider and go to town.

 Voodoo_Chile wrote:
The problem I see is that because you're using Allies/Double Force Org you don't have enough Lords to unlock the Noise Marines as troops.
If I'm not mistaken, NM cannot be taken as troops when allied and a second Primary Detachment would require another Lord in order to unlock them.

I believe you're correct about the NM not being taken as troop in allied detachment. I have no idea why I put VotLW on one of the NM squads- cultists are suppose to be from the allied.
I use to have two heldrakes but I found that I was lacking in models in the troops ( having troops consisting of 5 models- not really worth the whole mass sorcerer tactic), so I dropped one for more models.

Just to let people know, the blastmaster will be shooting at strength 10 after 2 casting of symphony of pain on a person (the person will also probably shooting at BS 1 or 2), with a second round of 2 casting on an enemy unit= 14-21 shots from only one squad of 9 NM at str 8, blast master str 10, boltgun- normal. (or in the first round just use all my sorcs to cast on that one unit)

I guess I could drop the Heldrake for MoS LC Lord, another troop of cultists, VotLW on another sorcerer. And the rest of the 20 points would be towards a doom siren, more cultists bodies, or some dirge casters on rhinos

This army pretty much allow's any unit to take out a tank if it works together, completely ignores cover for the armies that depends on cover saves, and tries to hit models with mass wounds that should drown decent armor saves with tons of high power shots that practically disregard the toughness-May be ID. All the while decreasing the opposing models WS and BS


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 Voodoo_Chile wrote:


Still an interesting idea. I've been toying with the idea of in an Apocalypse game taking 4xTzeentch Sorcerers and a couple of Thousand Sons squads along with Abaddon and try go for as many Boon of Mutation casts a turn on Abaddon (Thanks to his immunity to Spawndom and Daemonhood).
Then load up Abaddon and the Sorcerers in a Land Raider and go to town.

I do like this idea alot, give all the sorcs terminator armor and start them in an LR with Abaddon. I believe you can cast on your own unit in the LR so just keep buffing him until you get to the right position. Then let out a roided out Abaddon with his squad of force weapon wielding coteri.