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Trying to refine a tourney list for next weekend. Max 1HQ Two Of heavy, elite and fast and no doubling up of any of these. No allies

Chaos Lord- MON, Bike, power fist, Burning brand of Skalthrax, Sigil of Corruption 185pts

6 plague marines]- plasma gun, champion with power maule, Rhino 185pts

6 plague marines- champion with power axe, Rhino 170pts

6 bikers- MON, 2 melta guns 186pts

Heldrake- Baleflamer 170pts

3 Obliterators- MON 228pts

18 cultists- MON, Heavy stubber, three autoguns 126pts

I would like some opinions on this and what your thoughts are on how it would play against Tourney armies today

Ouch! Redundancy is really important for CSM...

The best units that work independently are the ones that dont die because they're either very far in the backfield or very durable

chaos spawn with MoN
heldrakes
havocs
obliterators

Might I suggest:

Chaos Lord- PF, LC, Sigil, Bike, MoN, Brand of skalathrax
5 Chaos Spawn- MoN (Lord goes here)
7 Plague Marines- 2 plasma guns, rhino
7 Plague Marines- 2 plasma guns, rhino
Heldrake- Baleflamer
3 Obliterators- MoN

1239 points

Shooty armies reign supreme these days and there are a few daemon and soon tyranid lists out there that can destroy them. CSM isn't as strong atm, but it can still do well.
Lord and spawn move up the board and soak fire, the PM squads are your meat and potatoes, the oblits pop vehicles, and the heldrake swoops in turn 2 or 3 and wipes out 2 or 3 squads of troops

Thanks,

I was toying with Chaos spawn over bikers.

I've played Tau and cannot get near them and cannot think of a tactic to beat them yet :(

No allies is the killer here as I cannot get my orks in to soak up the firepower

I don't have two heldrakes but I have every other Space marine troop available...I can use the above but is this the best configuration of CSM for the points in a tourney?