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So, I recently put together a 10 CSM unit consisting of Aspiring Champion, Icon Bearer, 4 Bolter Marines, a Heavy Bolter Marine, a Plasma Rifle Marine, a Flamer Marine, and a Multi-Melta marine

I already have a force of 9 CQC Marines from like 7 years ago when I got my first Chaos Marine models (I didn't have the money or the space to really keep doing it for awhile so I basically just had them for awhile) which is 1 Aspiring Champion and 8 Bolt Pistol and Chainsword Chaos Marines. After that point I picked up a Chaos Rhino which I put together, but I never put together its marines. Including the 19 Marines I have currently built, I have enough equipment on the Sprues for a total of 27, including enough mutation bits and some Tyranid bits to make 7 Possessed Marines.

So right now what I'm thinking of doing is adding one more marine to my CQC squad, and I don't know what to do with the rest. I'm leaning towards making a squad of 7 Possessed Marines. It should be noted my army also includes a Chaos Sorcerer (who has a power axe and a mutated arm which I guess now counts as a Daemon Weapon?) An old metal Chaos Dreadnought with a plasma cannon and lightning claw (which I guess is a Helbrute now) a Chaos Rhino as previously mentioned with Combi-Bolter, A Chaos Vindicator with a Combi-Bolter, and a Chaos Predator with a twin-linked Lascannon turret and two Heavy Bolters.

given my current bits and what I can make, what suggestions would you guys have for my remaining 8/7 Marines to be?

Given how awful our basic marines are, I would consider modeling them as Plague Marines. Just need to add some disgusting bits to them to make them look more disease infested. They use the standard Bolters mostly but you'll also want some Plasma Gun and Meltagun ones since the squad can take a few of them.

If you want to keep them as regular marines... same advice... more Plasma Guns and Meltaguns, a few more Bolters. Close combat is something better left to the Elites.

While Possessed are in my opinion bad, if you like the Crimson Slaughter supplement you will need a few of them. They're also required for the Khorne Daemonkin formations. So that might be an option if you want to use those books.

more plasma if anything. otherwise i used to just blob bolter or CC marines

Hmm, I could make the 7 guys into Plague Marines instead of Possessed or more standard marines. I'm generally trying to stick with a Slaaneshi theme but i don't really have anything to try and make Noise Marines and Plague Marines could be workable in a mostly Slaaneshi army.

Nurgles' sacred number is 7 after all, it could bring my army great fortune.

If you want your chaos space marines to look like plague marines the biggest visual cue you can give is to have them 'pistol grip' a bolter in their right hand (basically use a pistol arm but either remove the bolt pistol and add a bolter OR remove the pistol and hand and add a bolter and hand). In the left hand swap out the chainsword for daggers.

Try to use the heads without horns. If you look in the codex you will see some examples of plague marines and you will see once you give your marines a bolter and knife in each hand they become very similar. If you want/need to use some horned heads try removing, maybe shortening, and reattaching the horns so you have a mixture of horn sizes, orientations and textures. Asymetrical horns work quite well for Nurgle.

For noise marines you can make some sonic weaponry from spare vehicle bits, The dirge caster makes a good basis for a 'guitar' body or a doom siren.

Note noise marines don't have to use sonic weaponry; you could just use them with more standard equipment. They are not much more expensive than bolter/bp/ccw marines with mark of slaanesh, but they come with fearless.

I'm tempted to use a Venom cannon as a sub/base for a Blastmaster, but I'd have to either compromise filling out my CQC squad, or a potentially numerically ideal Plague Marine squad (I could switch out the flamer in the standard squad into the CQC squad and then get a Blastmaster for my "Noise Marine" squad hmmm..)