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So I'm resuming 40k after a two year hiatus and will be using a Nurgle/Khorne CSM army and I insist on using 2 squads of zerkers. Should I kit them out with dual plasma and a champion with lightning claws or take them cheap and cheerful (this will be a huge 3k pt army)? Also I assume it's mandatory to have them in rhinos, correct? Anyhow thanks for reading, any advice on using zerkers would be appreciated.

If you can get dreadclaw drop pods, use them over rhinos.
Using land raiders in unimpressive. A big squad in a spartan.. would be glorious but ubsurd points.

if you are dead set on zerkers, the new formation from traitors hate gives them a boost, but you need four squads.

Alternatively, running them from the daemonkin codex gives them access to the blood tithe which is pretty good.

The best way to run khorne is probably black legion formation - Hounds of Abaddon. You need a squad of zerkers and marines as tax there. Go min, zerkers are bad. But lord and raptors with WAAAGH! are nice.

I would recommend running the Zerkers out of the Khorne Daemonkin Dex. The blood tithe is amazing once it gets rolling.

If you want nurgle I would run an allied detachment or something from the traitors hate/chaos dex/black legion book.