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Hello All, been attempting to play CSM for a while now and picked up the supplement
The other day, so tryiny out this list.

Edit: Wrote this out late last night, and on my ipod, now I'll just clean it up

HQ

Dark Apostle (170 pts )
Combi-plasma, Gift of Mutation, Mark of tzeentch, Prophet of the Voices

Elite

Helbrute ( 100 pts )
Multi-melta, powerfist

Troops

Cultists x 10 ( 50 pts )
Cultists x 10 ( 50 pts )
Chaos Space Marines x 5 (161 pts )
Rhino ( combi bolter ), plasma gun, ccw x4, Champion has power axe and melta bombs and GoM
Possessed x10 ( 299 pts )
Mark of tzeentch, Champion has GoM x2

Fast Attack

Heldrake x2 ( 340 pts )
autocannons on both

Heavy support

Forgefiend x2 ( 350 pts )
x2 HAC
Land raider ( 245pts )
Combi bolter, dirge caster, dozer blade

Aegis w/ icarus lascannon

Hello,
Just a few thoughts...

The Aegis with Lascannon doesn't give you much anti-air, compared to the two heldrakes with the cannons. If you are cultists behind it you are paying a whopping price to get a las cannon shot a turn. Is it worth it? You could trade it in with one of the cultists and get some havocs with autocannons and have them camp out in a building.

The possessed must be rolling in near 300 pts, I presume they are going in a Landraider. You could kit out a 5 marine MOT terminator unit for much less than that and have some AP2 close combat capability with kombi melta potential. That also puts the Landraider in the dedicated transport section so you have another heavy slot. Terminators also give you the potential to deep strike.

Forgefiends are nice and shooty, they look solid. The AV14 landraider looks good. The helbrute seams out of place. I like to whack a twinlinked lascannon on them so they can pop armour from a distance then you can sit them back field to guard other things or go for a wander. I've also had a multimelta one hit nothing all game.

Personally I prefer a quicker army but you're looking okay with this one.

Thanks for the advice!

I basically have the cultists in reserve for late-game objective holding on my side of the board, and you are correct, the possessed are in the raider with the apostle for assault.
The Aegis I thought about tossing the CSM on it and plugging away since my main opponents field skimmers a lot ( tau / eldar and Dark Eldar ).
The Helbrute is there because I just wanted to make him feel useful lol. He's been gathering dust in my case for a while now.
Been thinking of trying to squeeze in a few points out to toss the Slaughterers Horns on the Apostle as well, just to give him a little more
"Oomph" , but I tend to overdo it on HQ's lol

Have you already bought the 2 heldrakes? If not, I suggest looking at the Fire Raptor in the Imperial Armor 13 codex.

If they are nippy then maybe keep the ADL but you gould do with something decent to put behind it. The quad gun would definitely be better against eldar/dark eldar because:
1. You get it in the ADL pack.
2. You get more and TL shots.
3. They have painfully low AV on their flyers.

There are places to save points so throw everything on the dark apostle.

My Dark Vegence helbrute got the very end of the milti-melta (that little recess at the end of the barrel) filed off and that will then nicely fit the shafts of lascannons from the predator kit (cheap on ebay).

I always forget basic troops in reserve. Quite a good idea againt the eldar/dark eldar as they will probably walk on and have something nearby to shoot at at the very least.