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This is what I was thinking for a fairly inexpensive list to start with.

I was thinking maybe using the "Start Collecting" daemons of Nurgle to expand it, but wasn't sure if that was for 40K or AoS.

+ HQ +

Typhus [Warlord]

+ Troops +

Plague Marines [4x Plague Marine, Plasma Gun]
Plague Champion [Bolt Pistol, Close Combat Weapon]

Plague Marines [4x Plague Marine, Plasma Gun]
Plague Champion [Bolt Pistol, Close Combat Weapon]

$ wise it is not expensive but it is expensive in points.

I recommend swapping out typhus for a nurgle biker lord. Then getting some more nurgle bikers.

Buy cheap marines and paint them green and call them Plague marines to build up a bigger collection.

The less marines you have, play them as plague marines. The more marines you have, run them stock minimal upgrades.

Grief wrote:
$ wise it is not expensive but it is expensive in points.

I recommend swapping out typhus for a nurgle biker lord. Then getting some more nurgle bikers.

Buy cheap marines and paint them green and call them Plague marines to build up a bigger collection.

The less marines you have, play them as plague marines. The more marines you have, run them stock minimal upgrades.

Would I be able to use the nurgle start collecting box to build off this?

Cryo84r wrote:

Grief wrote:
$ wise it is not expensive but it is expensive in points.

I recommend swapping out typhus for a nurgle biker lord. Then getting some more nurgle bikers.

Buy cheap marines and paint them green and call them Plague marines to build up a bigger collection.

The less marines you have, play them as plague marines. The more marines you have, run them stock minimal upgrades.

Would I be able to use the nurgle start collecting box to build off this?

Nope. The Nurgle box is daemons. No actual CSM.

I think Darth_Mox misunderstood. You can use the "Start Collecting! Daemons of Nurgle"box to expand your initial army. It comes with Daemons which can be used in both 40k and Age of Sigmar (same models, just different rules). You would need to pick up Codex: Chaos Daemons to use it though. The War Scroll that comes with it doesn't work in 40k.

It's a good value, and you can easily bring your Typhus/Plague Marine army to 750+ with it. In order to add them in you make a separate detachment for the Daemons and add it onto your primary detachment of Chaos Space Marines.

However, I think you should focus on the basics here. Typhus is decent, but he costs as much as a Land Raider. His big benefit is making cultists into Plague Zombies. At 500 points he's too expensive in my opinion (that's half your army in one guy who moves 6 inches). If you want him then I'd get rid of a unit of Plague Marines and add in some Plague Zombies. 35 of them is 150 points.

I'd recommend picking up either Dark Vengeance cultists and painting them zombie-ish (not a bad deal since you can just use them as regular cultists too).or pick up the box of zombies from Mantic games.

Put in enough zombies where you can get 2 plasma guns (or melta guns) in your other squad of Plague Marines, and get them a Rhino. Then stick Typhus with the zombies.

I often run a dp as my hq instead of a nurgle Lord to make plague Marines troops I just throw in 2 squads if cultists. Good for like a 700 point game. Nice for the objective holding.