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I was wondering if anyone had any lists that work well for CSM at 1000pts I can find any

HQ:
Sorcerer (MOT, Psyker lvl 3)

Troops:
Chaos space marines (10)
Thousand sons (8

FA
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])

Boom, a list designed to to to taste like cheddar

Haha I was thinking About one that used a warpsmith, 4 rhinos, 4 10 man CSM squads with plasma 2 20 man squads with plasma/ missle launcher and a defiler with two maulerfiends how does that sound


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I know it's not 1000 pts though

Don't use 20 man squads, they are too expensive for what they will do, are a pain in the arse to co-ordinate and with the amount points you have spent on CSM you have you can only glance AV14 and if you have a flier you will have to use 1-2 turns of ALL your anti armour against it. If someone takes out your Forgefiends before you can take out their armour you're screwed, making the army very reliant on two AV12 vehicles

Hmm never thought of that im not very good at building competative lists

The following has served me well over a few games :

Chaos Lord, MoN, Bike, LC, PF, Sigil

5 Plague Marines, 2 x Plasma, Rhino
5 Plague Marines, 2 x Plasma, Rhino

6 Bikers, 2 x Melts, MoN

Chaos Predator, AC/LC, Havoc Launcher

2 x Obliterators, MoN

RedRoss83 wrote:
The following has served me well over a few games :

Chaos Lord, MoN, Bike, LC, PF, Sigil

5 Plague Marines, 2 x Plasma, Rhino
5 Plague Marines, 2 x Plasma, Rhino

6 Bikers, 2 x Melts, MoN

Chaos Predator, AC/LC, Havoc Launcher

2 x Obliterators, MoN

Don't worry man, just remember when you make a list to think not just what you want your guys to do but what casualties you will take and how you can counter enemy attempts to cripple your force.

But this right here is a pretty damn solid list and I can imagine it being a pain to deal with unless you happen to bring a zillion plasma weapons. The predator could deal with fliers (albeit, a tad wastefully) and the troops are really hard to kill.

Cheers for the +1 on the army list :-)

Would you change the Pred at all? Meta currently has very little in the way of fliers - but I'm always open to tweeking

Honestly, RedRoss83 has a great TAC list. I wouldn't change much of anything. If you were actually worried about flyers, you could sub in 4 autocannon havocs for the predator and you'd get a little more versatility for the same price, but the predator is going to be a lot more stubborn.

Cheers quikman - appreciate it.

Alienoid - if you do try this list let me know how you get on with it.

I will I just have to get the bikes and the predator

 thetallestgiraffe wrote:
HQ:
Sorcerer (MOT, Psyker lvl 3)

Troops:
Chaos space marines (10)
Thousand sons (8

FA
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])
Helldrake (baleflamer [free])

Boom, a list designed to to to taste like cheddar

lolz! You might as well go all the way. Make dailymiddleboro proud. drop the lvl3 and MoT, All the marines.

sorc-65

10 cultist-50
10 cultist-50

3 baledrake-510

ally crimson slaughter

sorc-65

cultist-50

drake-170

total=960

BTW, one good thing about the oblits is that if you're going up against lots of high AP weaponry, instead of giving the the MoN you can give them a MoT for a nice 4++.

And the thing is about the pred is although on paper I wouldn't change it, as the TL lascannon is quite a threat to any flier, but I can't help but think that seeing as there are no other vehicles any AT stuff is going to be totally focused on the pred. I mean, it's only 1000pts so there isn't going to be too much but it's just a thought I have.

Maybe drop 1 of the bikes then the Pred could be swapped out for another unit of 2 MoN Oblits?!

It would be good to have a nicely sized unit of oblits ready to deep strike in to support the bikers, as two might get killed a bit easily and it does give you the flexibility to deal with different types of armour and heavy infantry

This is what I run. It's totally combat focused though:

Nurgle Lord: bike, Daemon Heart, Blade Relentless, Slaughterers Horns 180

5 Possessed 130
5 Possessed 130

5 Spawn: Nurgle 180

Maulerfiend 125
Maulerfiend 125
Maulerfiend: lasher tendrils 135

Everything can move 12" a turn and ignores terrain. So you just throw this at your opponent and ask them to deal with it. The Lord sits at the front of the Spawn tanking with his 2+ and pushing any Ap2 back to the spawn. With 18 T6 wounds inthe unit. Basically its just MTO.