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Chaos Warband

Chaos Lord - Jump pack, Spineshard blade, Sigil, MoS

Terminators - 3x combi melta

CSM - 10 man, Rhino, 2x plasma
CSM - 10 man, Rhino, 2x plasma

Ratpors - 5 man, 2x melta, combi melta

Havocs - 5 man, 4x lascannon

Ratpor talon

Chaos Lord - Jump pack, sigil, MoK, Axe of Blind Fury, warlord

Raptor - 5 man, 2x melta, combi melta, MoK, Banner

Raptor - 5 man, 2x melta, combi melta

Warp Talon - 5 man, MoS

Heldrake Terrorpack

Heldrake - flamer
Heldrake - Flamer


The idea behind this list is to utilize the first turn reserve rolls from the black legion Decurion combined with the the charge out of reserves from the raptor talon, Declared the MoK lord the warlord so that I can have him auto pass his first turn reserve roll and bring him in with the Khorne raptors with the banner for reroll charge, almost guaranteeing a first turn charge with the axe of blind fury. MoS on the talons just incase im fighting marines in order to strike first. Hopefully there will be enough first turn threat on the board that my CSM will be ignored and allowed to flat out to objectives. any opinions?

Any unit you put the lord with the AXe I would bulk up, it lands destroys whatever it charges and then only has 5 body guards.

Not sure if you know this, but black legion isnt first turn reserves for all parties (Heldrakes). It only works for deepstriking units. (so not heldrakes)

Warp Talon are really expensive, even with first turn charge, might not be worth since they could miss the target or fail the charge.

Also, again you may already know this, but The Lord from the War Cbal will not be able to charge first turn with the raptor talon detatchment units.

I might also recommend kitbashing a Dreadclaw (from the Forgeworld book IA13 I think), and take that as a dedicated transport for a unit of Chaos Marines in the Warband. Dump plasma guns for melta guns, stick the Spineshiver Blade Lord in the Dreadclaw.

I'll have to read what the Heldrake formation does. I've never had luck with those, always get shot out of the sky, even from the rear, by bolters! So if one were to dump those....

Seems to me the super strength of the Turn 1 deepstrike reserves should be utilized. Maybe combi-plasmas on the terminators. Maybe a Helbrute instead of the Havocs, would save points and scarier zone defense (both units are super easy to kill anyways, definitely the tax unit).

The Raptor Talon with Axe of Blind Fury is awesome! I don't know why I didn't think of that. If you could somehow fit a Cult of Destruction with them, that would be super bad-arse. The Warpsmith could go in that Dreadclaw I mentioned. I guess the trick with all these deepstrikers is to not mishap. But that's the exciting part