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I'm going into a new round for an escalation league. The mission for this round is Cleanse and control. The point limit is 1000 and no allies or Superheavies. Also forge world is legal but frowned upon. I Haven't done to many maelstrom missions so any feedback would be nice.

HQ

Chaos Lord (165)
-bike
-power fist
-lightning claw
-sigil of corruption
-Mark of Nurgle

10 Cultists (50)

10 Chaos Space Marines (155)
-Plasma Gun

Rhino (45)
-dirge caster
-dozer blades

5 Bikes (165)
-Mark of Nurgle
-Power Sword

4 Bike (118)
-Mark of Khorne
-Lightning Claw
-Melta Bombs

Helldrake (170)
-bale flamer

Vindicator (135)
-Siege Shield
-Combi-Bolter

You want to find the room for Plague Marines. You can ditch the Dirge Caster on their Rhino too. Using them in a squad of seven (fluffy reasons but it is actually a good amount of models) and moving that Rhino as fast as possible to an Objective, then getting out and just standing there shooting Bolters and Plasma. You don't have to charge since the enemy loses their bonus charge attacks due to Blight grenades. Which is also why you should have Blight grenades on your Lord. But Plague Marines are tough enough to take a lot of hits on the chin and survive it, holding their Objective with ObjSec. Better in every way than the CSM.

Would also ditch some weapons for some Meltaguns on the Bikes. A lot of the fast things in the game are Vehicles to match the speed of your Bikes. They should have a better answer to that than 'punch it'.

I'd go crimson slaughters as well to give the bike lord a 2+ save