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I think a 6 man Chosen squad with 5 plasma guns and a power sword and melta bombs on the champ would make a pretty decent objective taker/defender.
Also have the ability to shred that medium? armor coming at them.

Without any spare bodies, casualties will be expensive, plus you'll roll 1-2 Gets Hots a turn, this is not a unit that will survive the game.

However, stick it in a Rhino to increase it's maneauverability and go monster / terminator / centurion hunting!

A similar unit could presumably be made using Havocs (if HS isn't full yet), one less plasma gun and -1A but cheaper?

Gets hot is much less of an issue for MEQ though. Both my guard army and my chaos army run mostly plasma for special weapons. When I run guard I lose at least a few models to gets hot every game, but with chaos I rarely lose one. Don't forget, its a wound you can use your regular armour save against.

OP: If you're just having them as objective campers, why give melta bombs to the champ? Personally I think its a waste of expensive plasma guns, giving them to a unit who might be in the back field, not fighting for most of the game. I think a better use for such a chosen squad would be moving forward in a rhino, hunting medium armour & MCs, while objective campers should be a squad of fearless CSM.

Thanks you guy's!!

Plague marines are better obj holders. Chosen with 5 spec weapon lloadout are ment to clear an obj of infantry.

Noise Marines with the Icon of excess. Not as tough as PM, but better range. They eat anything but Tau.

5 chosen with 4 flamers in a rhino is a good way to clear objectives.

The problem with Chaos Marines is that they lack volume of long range firepower and delivery is poor.

id drop that powersword if keeping the unit though, probably melta bombs too with the limited manouverablity.