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Hi everyone!

I am an occasional Warhammer 40k player for the past 4 years. Now i want to start playing more regularly. Firstly - thank you for any help delivered!

I have built this list mostly basing on Plague Marines. The general idea was to prepare an army which can withstand heavy assault and
at the same time annihilate opponent using Plasma Guns. Obliterators - heavy support - > deployed in most neuralgic moments - assisting Plague Marines.
It would be really helpful for me to hear some feedback from experienced players.

Chaos Space Marines:

HQ:

- [ ] Chaos Lord - 65p.
Mark of Nurgle, Power Scourage, Plasma gun, Icon of Despair, Ichor Blood

TROOPS:

- [ ] 5 x Plague Marines 150 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.),
- [ ] 5 x Plague Marines 150 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.),
- [ ] 5 x Plague Marines 150 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.),

HEAVY SUPPORT:

- [ ] 3 x Obliterators 210 p.

Left - 25 points

Need Rhinos for the Plague Marines otherwise they will die easily to massed fires.

Basically any type of foot marines need Rhinos in the current edition of the rules otherwise they are just shot off the board almost immediately.

The Rhino gives basically 3 wounds of higher toughness they have to blow thru before they start killing your Plague marines and mobility to get in range to use plasma/melta.

An if you do the points the Rhino is super points efficient to soak up the initial shooting compared to losing marine bodies of whatever variety.

Would drop the 3rd plague squad add two rhinos and use any points left over to equip the SGT and add more plague marine bodies to the first 2 squads.

or

drop 3rd squad and add 2 rhinos and a hellbrute think you have the points for that.

With your extra points you should definitely put Mark of Nurgle on the oblits, it makes them much more resilient and can't be insta-gibbed by lascannons/meltaguns.

Not sure what's up with the Chaos Lord there, he's obviously more than 65 points with all that equipment. Also he can't have a Power Scourge, Plasma Gun, or an Icon of Despair, not sure if that was supposed to be there or a copy/paste issue.

I agree with chaos45 about Rhinos, definitely a wise investment. It's tough to run 3 squads of Plague Marines at 750 since they are a bit pricey, so going down to 2 5-man squads in rhinos I think is a smart choice. You can use the excess points for something else.

Not sure how you are getting power scourge, plasma gun or icon of despair on a chaos lord.

Do you mean lightning claw(/power fist?), combi plasma and something else?

As far as I can tell characters can't take plasma guns proper, power scourge is a war machine weapon and icons are only available to squads.

@UncleanOne - Yea - copy-paste fault

Chaos Lord was added to enable Plague Marines became Troops instead of Elite Units. In that case how should I equip Chaos Lord?

- [ ] Chaos Lord - 65p.
Mark of Nurgle,

TROOPS:

- [ ] 8 x Plague Marines 257 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.), Plague Champion with Lightning Claw
- Dedicated Transport - Chaos Rhino (35p.)
- [ ] 8 x Plague Marines 257 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.), Plague Champion with Lightning Claw
- Dedicated Transport - Chaos Rhino (35p.)

HEAVY SUPPORT:

- [ ] 2 x Obliterators 152 p.
- Mark of Nurgle

Dwarf55555 wrote:
@UncleanOne - Yea - copy-paste fault

Chaos Lord was added to enable Plague Marines became Troops instead of Elite Units. In that case how should I equip Chaos Lord?

- [ ] Chaos Lord - 65p.
Mark of Nurgle,

TROOPS:

- [ ] 8 x Plague Marines 257 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.), Plague Champion with Lightning Claw
- Dedicated Transport - Chaos Rhino (35p.)
- [ ] 8 x Plague Marines 257 p.
- 2 x Plasma Gun (2x15p.), Plague Champion with Lightning Claw
- Dedicated Transport - Chaos Rhino (35p.)

HEAVY SUPPORT:

- [ ] 2 x Obliterators 152 p.
- Mark of Nurgle

If you're going with a plasma theme, equip him with a plasma pistol and powersword?