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Hey all! Another stab at taking an old list and cramming it into 7th to see how terrible it is now. It's a straightforward list with lots of scoring units, special weapons, and sadly a shortage of transports that I hope is offset somewhat by having 5 units that can deep strike if needed. It's no frills, just dudes and guns.

Feel free to use my scale of 1-10 with 0 being "tabled in 2", 5 being "cool army bro", and 10 being "lord of all army list writing". Thanks!

HQ:
-Chaos Sorcerer (152 pts) Biomancy, Pyromancy, Telepathy
-Terminator Armor, Force Claw, Combi-Melta, Mastery 3, Gift of Mutation

ELITE:
-3 Chaos Terminators (141 pts)
-Champion with Claw/Flamer, 2 with Fist/Melta
-3 Chaos Terminators (141 pts)
-Champion with Claw/Flamer, 2 with Fist/Melta

TROOPS:
-10 Chaos Marines (247 pts)
-Champion with Power Sword/Plasma Pistol, 2 Plasmaguns
-Rhino Transport with Havoc Launcher
-10 Chaos Marines (247 pts)
-Champion with Power Axe/Plasma Pistol, 2 Plasmaguns
-Rhino Transport with Havoc Launcher
-5 Chaos Marines (110 pts)
-Champion with Power Fist, Meltagun
-5 Chaos Marines (110 pts)
-Champion with Power Fist, Meltagun
-5 Chaos Marines (125 pts)
-Champion with Power Fist/Combi-Melta, Meltagun
-5 Chaos Marines (130 pts)
-Champion with Power Fist/Plasma Pistol, Meltagun

HEAVY:
-3 Obliterators (228 pts)
-Mark of Nurgle
-3 Obliterators (219 pts)
-Veterans of the Long War

Its.. different. Hopefully will do well in objective games. Will be slaughterered in kill points.
I worry that there are some lists that will shred through it.

Looks like fun. Power fists on the troop champions feel like a waste of points. I would instead give them melta bombs. The extra points can be invested in extra rhinos. I would also split one of your Oblit squads into three 2-man squads, or just a lone oblit in a third squad.
Is there such a thing as a force claw?

There is no such thing as a Force Claw. If you replace the sorcerer's force weapon with a lightning claw, he no longer knows Force. Power Fists are a huge point sink on such fragile units driving around in non-Assault Vehicles. Replace with Melta Bombs, bring more marines. Same with Havoc Launchers. They restrict you to 6" a turn if you want to fire and can't fire at all if you suffer Crew Shaken/Stunned. I you want to get your meltas in range then the Launchers are counter productive. More barebones rhinos is where you want to be with MSU.

This is how I would do MSU with many marine bodies. I would convert them into Plague Marines.

Lord, MoN

6x5 plague marines (3 squads have pair of plasma gun and the other 3 have pair of melta guns), champ with melta bomb.

They are tough enough to foot slog. You run the melta squads, while the plasma marches up and rapid fire.

Convert terminators into oblits

3x3 oblitz, MoN.

I agree with Filch about going Plague Marines though I would go slightly different.

Lord, MoN

4x5 Plauge Marines, Champs with combi, melta bombs in Rhino. Two squads with plasma and two with melta.
The reason I have them in Rhinos is for objectives and then you can always have your squads moving up the field on foot.

Helldrake

3x2 Oblits with MoN.