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I'm trying to come up with my first army list and I want to stick with it because every time I come up with something I change my mind and change everything. How do you think this would fair in a typical 1500 point game and what would you change?

I'm going for a fluffy black legion list with cheap vanilla units to keep the numbers of power armor high and a group of deepstriking terminators because I think that's what the black legion likes to do. also mauler fiends because I like the model and it's cheap. I'm hoping votlw will compensate not having fearless but it is required for the Black legion supplement. and I don't add marks because if I do I would rather bring the cult marine equivalent and that would increase the points very fast.

Chaos Lord
Sigil of corruption
Spineshiver blade
Veteran of the long war
125p

Terminators 5
4 Power Axes
4 Combi weapons (plasma)
Champion pair of Lightning claws
Veterans of the long war
214p

Chaos Space Marines 18
CCW
Veterans of the long war
262p

Chaos Space Marines 10
2 Plasma guns
Veterans of the long war
180p

Chaos Space Marines 10
2 Plasma guns
Veterans of the long war
180p

Heldrake
Bale flamer
170p

Chaos Havocs 5
4 Heavy bolters or autocannons
115p

Mauler Fiend
Magma cutters
125p
Mauler Fiend
Magma cutters
125p

Total 1496p

The lord joins the 18 man unit of ccw marines making them fearless and he has a +1 Initiative daemon sword and 4+ invul

two groups of tactical marines with plasma guns for dakka

A deepstriking group of Terminators with combi plasmas to rapidfire on arrival and kill stuff with power weapons next turn

Heldrake because cheese

Havocs with heavy bolters because I have a lot of them and think it might be fun. and moar dakka

Two mauler fiends to destroy vehicles and put pressure on the enemy quickly


what do you think? please help, I want to really be sure about my list so that I don't change my mind again.