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My first attempt at a chaos space marines build at just under 2000 points that tries to cover most bases. Not sure how well I've done but I'm more than happy to hear and take any suggestions that may come up. So here goes.

HQ
Chaos Lord, MON, Bike, P.fist, SOC, BBOS 180 pts
Daemon Prince, DOS, Wings, Power Armour, Black Mace, 260pts

Troops
7 Plague Marines, 2 meltas, melta bombs 193 pts
7 Plague Marines, 2 flamers, melta bombs 183 pts
7 Plague Marines, 2 plasma, melta bombs 203pts
20 Cultists, 2 flamers, MOK 140 pts

Fast Attack
3 Chaos Spawn, MON 108pts
3 Chaos Spawn, MON 108 pts
5 Chaos Bikers, MOS, 2 plasma gun, 1 power sword, melta bombs, icon of excess 205 pts

Heavy Support
6 Havocs 88, MOS, 4 autocannon, 1 power sword, icon of excess 185 pts
3 obliterators, MOT 234 pts

1,999 pts. Spawn and Bikers moves forward, Plague Marines move up behind, Cultists hang back, Havocs shoot anything close enough, Obliterators deepstrike or hang back in cover, Daemon prince rends and tears, Biker lord goes with spawn breaks off if needed. Thoughts?

Its predominantly Nurgle. Just go full nurgle.

I don't know if it's worth all those points to give the Havocs FnP. I'd just leave them unmarked, give them VotLW (if you want), and maybe take another body to soak some damage. I've also found the Autocannons to be a little lackluster, and I think you could really benefit from some Lascannons in there based on the current list.

A 7-man Havoc squad with VotLW and 4 Lascannons is about the same cost of your current unit.

For the Oblits I would always take MoN, you really need to avoid that instant death stuff. You can fairly reliably hide them in Ruins if you need a better save, but 2+/5++is usually good enough. That's another unit I'd consider VotLW for, since they tend to run away like babies.

thank you guys! redid the list, will post later. took both your suggestions, went full nurgle and feels better.