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Hello Dakka. I'm a returning player to 40k and I'm steadily putting together an Emperor's Children army. I want the list to be an all-comers, stick to the lore, and go to a few local tournies for fun. Comments welcome.

HQ:
Chaos Lord - MoS, Power Weapon
Cyclopean Cabal -3x Sorcerers each w/ MoS, familiar, Mastery 3

Troop:
12x Noise Marines - 9x Sonic Blasters, 2x Blast Masters, Icon of Excess
12x Noise Marines - 9x Sonic Blasters, 2x Blast Masters, Icon of Excess
8x CSM - MoS, Rhino, bolt pistol & CCW, melta gun, Icon of Excess

Heavy:
Sicaran - w/Las-cannon sponsons
Forgefiend- Hades Autocannons
Predator - Autocannon turret, Heavy Bolter sponsons

What are you using those CSM in Rhino for? I doubt they'll achieve much with a single Meltagun.
I personally find it better to take 10 man Noise Marine squads, 7x Sonic Blasters, 2x Blast Masters, and the Icon. Put them in a Rhino and have them blast infantry off the table.
I recommend replacing the Predator for Havocs, DakkaPreds tend to be lackluster at best while Havocs with Missile Launchers can handle both infantry and tanks.
Is the Cabal summoning or what? But that's quite some psychic might either way.
I don't know anything about Forgefiends, so no comments there.
You could also give your Lord a Steed of Slaanesh, so they can have a unit of Noise Marines come in from a table edge. It also gets your lord in their lines to get killing.

Thanks for responding.

Answering your questions:
The Cabal is there to boost the Noise Marines. Choosing from the Slaanesh CSM powers, Symphony of Pain is a good synergy with Sonic weaponry by boosting sonic weapon strength by +1, while simultaneously de-buffing the enemy -1WS & -1BS. CSM Codex pg. 71

CSM in a Rhino are kitted for Close Combat. The Lord rides with them. Basically they are a good excuse to use the awesome Forge World Emperor's Children Palatine Blades models! The melta-gun is sort of an 'oh by the way' thing. The CSM Slaanesh power Hysterical Frenzy is a nice CCW boost; so again, the Cabal assists this unit too.

I like the Lord on a steed out-flanking idea.

The Predator was a points filler, and a cheap armour saturation unit for the other AV models,

Also thinking about these things: Demon Prince, Chaos Knight, Slaanesh daemon allies, Sonic Dreadnought from IA 13 and Emperor's Children Contemptor Dreadnought from IA 13.

thanks

Drop the Pred and the rhino squad, give the lord the demon mount and a unit of 3 spawn to go with. use the rest of the points on devs as previously stated. Use the cabal like so, 1 fully into slaanesh powers, 1 fully into demonic, 1 half demo half bio or half demo half pryo. Summon demonets and fiends as soon as you can! You will need the bodies, after that just crank out more and more units and if you can bring on heralds of tzench for more summoning.

The forgefiend should be changed to a mauler fiend in my opinion. I second the opinion on the noise marines with sonic blasters, 2 X blastmasters(always) and an icon. The doom siren can also be amazing for overwatch or scorching a unit with ap3 flamer.

Drop the predator and add another maulerfiend. You will be disappointed by the damage output of havocs. If you want flyers hell drakes are still good although you have plenty ap3 that ignores cover.

You might consider Chaos biker squad of 3. Give them 2 melta guns and the champion a combi melta. Shoudl be about 100 pts and is a great suicide squad to remove a piece of armor that is dangerous or bugging you.