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Ok, I have built a CSM Khorne list that some of you may have seen, in case you haven't here it is:

2000 Pts - Codex: Chaos Space Marines Roster

Total Roster Cost: 2000

HQ: Daemon Prince (1#, 265 pts)
1 Daemon Prince + Power Armour + Wings + Daemon of Khorne
1 The Black Mace

HQ: Kharn the Betrayer (1#, 160 pts)
1 Kharn the Betrayer (Warlord)

Troops: Khorne Berzerkers (8#, 189 pts)
7 Khorne Berzerkers + Chainaxe x3
1 Berzerker Champion + Chainaxe + Plasma Pistol

Troops: Khorne Berzerkers (8#, 171 pts)
7 Khorne Berzerkers + Chainaxe x2
1 Berzerker Champion + Chainaxe

Heavy Support: Chaos Land Raider (1#, 240 pts)
1 Chaos Land Raider + Dirge Caster + Combi-Bolter

Heavy Support: Chaos Land Raider (1#, 240 pts)
1 Chaos Land Raider + Dirge Caster + Combi-Bolter

Heavy Support: Maulerfiend (1#, 125 pts)
1 Maulerfiend

Black Legion Allies

HQ: Daemon Prince (1#, 295 pts)
1 Daemon Prince + Power Armour + Wings + Daemon of Khorne + Ichor Blood
1 The Skull of Ker'ngar
1 The Spineshiver Blade

Troops: Chaos Space Marines (10#, 190 pts)
9 Chaos Space Marines + Veterans of the Long War + Plasma gun + Autocannon
1 Aspiring Champion + Power Axe x1 + Veterans of the Long War

Heavy Support: Maulerfiend (1#, 125 pts)
1 Maulerfiend

I know thIs is more at home in the army list section, but it is so I can get some decent advice on my game today. I am playing a friend who is a thorn in my side. He used to play multiple armies, but since he saw how easy it is to win with a farsight list, that's all he now takes! So far, the only way I have beaten him is with spamming eldar wraiths and serpents - my tourney list. But I want to play him with a more fun list, and I try not to tailor my lists, as I play a few different people with a wide variety of armies.

However, having never faced a farsight list with a choppy choppy army, I need some help to make sure I'm doing it right!

He will take (no doubt)

Farsight,
O'vesa
Another riptide
4 broadsides - 2 with HYMP and 2 with RC
The rest of the points filled with crises suits kitted with fusions, plasma and SMS.

So, I'm thinking the BL DP will go straight for O'vesa, the LR's pop las cannons at broadsides and kharn goes for the second riptide. That tears his shooting throat out, I can use the fiends and the other zerkers for nailing troops choices.

Thoughts?

The main strategy should be to drive the Lard Raiders up the middle of the board flat out and find something to charge with the Berzerkers. Don't try to get cute and fire all the LR guns at something along the way.

The 2 DPs should be enough of a threat to allow this to happen. Instead of going after Riptides first, I would focus on eating smaller units to ensure you get the VPs.

Remember that the LRs are rolling cover if you use them right. Put them between the Tau and your Maulerfiends to ensure the dinos get into combat. Put a DP behind one for a turn and force the Tau to attack your AV14 instead of your monster.

Good luck!

Jus finished....

...it's always good when you remove every single one of his suits off of the board when playing against a 2K farsight list!

 Khaine's Wrath wrote:
Jus finished....

...it's always good when you remove every single one of his suits off of the board when playing against a 2K farsight list!

Can you give us a little turn be turn batrep? I'd love to know how it went down.

 Khaine's Wrath wrote:
Jus finished....

...it's always good when you remove every single one of his suits off of the board when playing against a 2K farsight list!

I play Tau but this statement made me smile.

I want to see a batrep if possible it sounds awesome.

I'd love to, but I didn't take any photos :-( makes a batrep hard. But I managed to get a DP, both fiends, both zerker squad and kharn in combat by turn 2!

 Khaine's Wrath wrote:
I'd love to, but I didn't take any photos :-( makes a batrep hard. But I managed to get a DP, both fiends, both zerker squad and kharn in combat by turn 2!

Then you did it right. With 1st turn there is almost nothing his list could do to Stop you. His DSing FB suits wouldn't hit the table until turn 2 and by then the LRs should already have been at the halfway point of the table and the least of his problems.

Indeed they were! I had 1st turn, and by tthe end of urn 2's movement my LR's were each parked 1-2" from 2-3 units having already released the zerkers. Their dirge casters meant my friends face was a picture when he learnt none of his units could fire overwatch as the fiends hit him too!

Well done Khaine

More blood for the blood god in your future, I predict

 Khaine's Wrath wrote:
Their dirge casters meant my friends face was a picture when he learnt none of his units could fire overwatch as the fiends hit him too!

I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but I believe units of his that have supporting fire outside of that 6" bubble of the dirge casters can still fire overwatch on you.

 chillis wrote:

 Khaine's Wrath wrote:
Their dirge casters meant my friends face was a picture when he learnt none of his units could fire overwatch as the fiends hit him too!

I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but I believe units of his that have supporting fire outside of that 6" bubble of the dirge casters can still fire overwatch on you.

You are exactly right buddy. BUT, his deployment was frankly poor. And it meant with clever raider placement I could stop all overwatch.

Of course if he had listened to me 2 days before about dirge casters and what they do, he might have deployed differently!