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Hi, I am making a chaos space marine list for the first time. I already have some troops that I want to use but am wondering what I should get next. The troops I have are the cultists from the dark vengeance box. A squad of warp talons. A chaos terminator Lord. And a helbrute.

I would get a Daemon Prince, A Heldrake, and a Rhino for those marines to start.
I have 2 squads of Warp Talons myself... I don't really use them anymore because they just don't do that well on the tabletop. They are better when allied with daemons, you can use a daemon banner to help with their deepstrike due to them being daemons. There are 2 schools of thought when using them. A Mark of Tzeentch gives them a 4+ invul. A mark of slaneesh gives them a better initiative. I like the MoS. They strike before loyalists and shred them up.
A couple more squads of cultists and you can run the Helbrute in a helcult formation to make him a bit more survivable.

 KhorneontheCobb wrote:
I would get a Daemon Prince, A Heldrake, and a Rhino for those marines to start.
I have 2 squads of Warp Talons myself... I don't really use them anymore because they just don't do that well on the tabletop. They are better when allied with daemons, you can use a daemon banner to help with their deepstrike due to them being daemons. There are 2 schools of thought when using them. A Mark of Tzeentch gives them a 4+ invul. A mark of slaneesh gives them a better initiative. I like the MoS. They strike before loyalists and shred them up.
A couple more squads of cultists and you can run the Helbrute in a helcult formation to make him a bit more survivable.

It sounds good but I don't want a Heldrake. Sure it's good and all but i just don't feel like moving such a large model around with me every time i want to go and play. A daemon prince sounds good but in a 1000 point game i don't think fielding 2 HQs would be worth the points, but if you think it is please say so and why you think so.

I was thinking of using bikes to protect the warp talons so they could get into combat. what do you guys think of that?

Bikes are awesome with a mark of Nurgle. Toughness 6 makes them pretty hard to kill!

I would really recomend getting some Rhinos in that list. They almost always give up first blood, but their cost, coupled with obsec and the mobile terrain they provide more than makes up for it IMO

How do you think I should load out my terminator Lord in order to get the most use out of him without making him too point heavy?

It would depend on how you would want to go mark wise you could go unbound and give different ones according to different units and roles. Or you could go theme MON is a really good one to use cause for the most part nothing can kill a T5 character and than depending on if you want him shooty or stabby depends on what to give him I'd go power axe and lightning claw for CC or power axe and combi weapon for shooty type it's a hard decision I give my lord combi-melta and a power axe MON plus VOTL makes him beast against space marines

You can deep strike your lord with bounch of termies , but it will make him very easy target, you could also attach him to a big blob of cultists and run , or landraider but it's expencive, also you could make him a sorcerer , I also sugest cheking moulerfiends , obliterators , if you choose nurgle plague Marines are nice you can stick a lord to them and throw em in a rhino . About lords lookout I'd say gieve him power axe and some mark , maybe comby weapon but don't overload him with useless gear

shake my head. Good luck young cultist. Check out IA13 R&H

Priority probably goes to
1.Rhino
2.Regular CSM
3.Khorne Bezerkers

Why Khorne Bezerkers? Cos its your first list you don't want ultra cheese right away. The Bezerkers are super fun and hit like a train in CC. CSM cos troops, and Rhinos help the two things I said and the stuff you already have.

Just remember- berzerkers can't assault out of a rhino...

 KhorneontheCobb wrote:
Just remember- berzerkers can't assault out of a rhino...

Huh?.. They can assault right out of a rhino, meaning they don't need to disembark in order to assault? I'm starting out a new 500 point army with some zerkers and kharn in a rhino.

A Rhino is not an assault vehicle. They cannot assault the same turn they disembark. They would have to be in a Land Raider (an assault vehicle) in order to assault the same turn they disembark.