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Hi people, starting a new fun army. What do you think of it ?

New Roster (1499pts)
Chaos Space Marines: Codex (2012) (Combined Arms Detachment)
(No Category)
Force Options (Supplement options here)
Crimson Slaughter

HQ

Chaos Lord
Bike, Daemonheart, Lightning Claw, Mark of Slaanesh, Power Fist, Sigil of corruption

Sorcerer
2x Additional Mastery Level, Bike, Mark of Slaanesh, Power Armour, Sigil of corruption, Spell familiar

Troops

Chaos Cultists
Cultist Champion, 9x Cultists

Noise Marines
Icon of Excess, 9x Noise Marines, 9x Extra CCW,
Noise Champion : Doom Siren, Melta Bombs, Power Sword
Chaos Rhino

Noise Marines
Icon of Excess, 9x Noise Marines, 2x Replace Boltgun w/ Blastmaster
Noise Champion : Melta Bombs, Power Sword
Chaos Rhino,

Fast Attack

Chaos Bikers
4x Chaos Biker, Icon of Excess, Mark of Slaanesh, 2x Meltagun
Chaos Biker Champion : Melta Bombs, Power Sword

Heavy Support

Chaos Predator : Lascannons, Twin-Linked Lascannon

Chaos Vindicator

What do you think of it for a beginning ?

Noise Marines excel when they have something to stand behind, that can get out of the way when it's time to shoot.

Add another Rhino and put something in it so you can create a wall.

I would like to see more bikers. Am questioning if a larger biker squad would have more impact than the Vindicator. Maybe with meltas?

One Vindicator is a Target. Two Vindicators is a threat.
Vindicators need combi-bolters for a save vs weapon destroyed results!

I'm confused why you have Noise Marines in Rhinos. They excel at shooting, you've geared them for close combat. Why not use Chaos Marines with Mark of Slaanesh instead?

Consider the Raptor Talon formation! Getting a T1 charge is a dream for MoS Raptors, especially with a killy Lord.

Chaos Lord with steed of Slaanesh to outflank with the bikers?

rusty4tw wrote:
One Vindicator is a Target. Two Vindicators is a threat.
Vindicators need combi-bolters for a save vs weapon destroyed results!

I'm confused why you have Noise Marines in Rhinos. They excel at shooting, you've geared them for close combat. Why not use Chaos Marines with Mark of Slaanesh instead?

Consider the Raptor Talon formation! Getting a T1 charge is a dream for MoS Raptors, especially with a killy Lord.

I'd guess his plan is to use the Vindy to draw fire from the remainder of his list turn 1 and at least let the CC noise marines get halfway up the board before their rhino gets popped.

Because MoS marines aren't fearless I'm guessing.

The raptor talon won't get getting a turn 1 charge since it either starts 24" away on the board or deep strikes in on turn 2 at the earliest and would require giving up one of the very few benefits that a slaaneshi list has, which is T5 fnp.

OP, about the only change I think would suggest is ditching the melta bombs and power sword on the blastmaster marines. They should be sitting up the back somewhere in their rhino, not charging forward into glorious combat. Strongly consider a havok launcher for said blastmaster units rhino with the free points. If you're going to have something sitting up the back, might as well make it useful.

One thing to keep in mind is the very real danger of splatting youre bikers with a wild vindicator shot. Oh, that reminds me, strongly consider taking daemonic possession on your vindicator, the -1BS means almost nothing but the 2+ to ignore shaken/stunned is awesome since it means you can still fire your cannon even if someone finds your side armour and sneaks a pen though.

Also, might as well run them as crimson slaughter for free fear. It's not going to matter in 90% of games, but against orks and DE it's pretty decent for being free.

As long as you aren't going up against the big 4, I think you should be able to give a decent account of yourself with the list. As for future plans, a heldrake has a home in every CSM list, so that's definately a thing that should be in your near future.