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Hello everyone, I'm a newbie in 40k gaming and I wanted some help to build a Emperor's Children force. It's a pure fun and fluffy list. I juste want to know if I can have fun with this liste and not being crashed as this is my first army in 40k.

Rapture Battalion : Kakophonie

- Lucius (165 pts)
- Noise Marines (5) with 3 Sonic Blaster, 1 Blastmaster (134 pts)
- Noise Marines (5) with 3 Sonic Blaster (104 pts)
- Noise Marines (5) with 3 Sonic Blaster, 1 Blastmaster (134 pts)
- Noise Marines (8) with 3 Sonic Blaster, 1 Blastmaster, Icone of Excess (224 pts)
- Noise Marines (6) with Close Combat Weapon, Icone of Excess, in a Rhino, Doom Siren (with Lucius) (192 pts)
- Noise Marines (5) with 4 Close Combat Weapon, Doom Siren and energetic weapon on the Aspiring Champ (125 pts)

Rapture Battalion : Spawn
- 2 Spawn with Slaanesh mark (66 pts)

Emperor Children C.A.D. (aka with Slaanesh mark everywhere)

HQ : Chaos Sorcerer lvl 2 with spell familiar (115 pts)

Troop :
Cultist (10) with 1 Flaamer (65 pts)
Cultist (10) with 9 Rifle, 1 Shotgun (75 pts)

Support :
Sicaran Battle Tank with Lascannon (227 pts)

Elite :
1 Contemptor Dread with double two-linked Autocannon (210 pts)

Fast Attack :
2 Hell Blade (200 pts)

Total : 2005 pts

In summary : Fluffy list, based-on a full power Kakophoni lead by Lucius. A rapture Battalion with some balance between Close combat (Lucius + 11 Noise Marine and 3 Doom Siren Strengh 6 + 2 Chaos Spawn) and Shooting (9 Sonic Blaster Strenght 5 and 3 Blastmaster Strenght) so i can benefit of whatever drug (exept the +1 Initiative).

And coz i love tank and really need some anti-tank solution 1 C.A.D. with a Sorcerer, 2 troop of Cultiste as tax so i Can take 1 Sicaran and 1 Contemptor (the fist of the Gods is too expensive and dont let me the point to get an A-A solution, wich i get with the 2 Hell-Blade (don't really like the Heldrake, even if I head it was great).

The Slaanesh mark on the Cultist is for giving the CAD the Emperor Children aspect, so i can take all my spell in Slaanesh and hope for Symphony of Pain (but i'm not sure it's worth it with all my sonic weapon already Strenght +1)
If some Slaanesht want to improve this list it would be great (but again it's not for tournament). Ty


Note : The 1500 pts version is with only 3 squad of Noise Marines and without the Dread

A few thoughts.

- First off, good call with the Helblades and the Sicaran. Will make for a very nice army, would love to see it on the table.

- The Kakophoni is very shooty. It's the most expensive part of your army, so I would not hesitate to call this a shooty list. That aspect could be magnified a bit.

- I wish there were more cultists. You don't have IoE on all your Noise Marines, so you might need to use them as meatshields as you march up the board. Sonic Weapons ignore cover, so you don't suffer penalties firing from behind them.

- The two cc Noise Marines scare me. While they are going to strike with I5, they still need to make it into combat. For the points, I would rather see a Blastmaster on each instead of the Rhino.

- Lucius may not be the right HQ for a shooty army. Sure, you need some cc, but a sorcerer with the Burning Brand may make more sense. He's going to roast whatever charges them, and maybe buff the squad.

- While I understand taking spawn, I am not sure how they fit this army. They are going to be out in front of everything else and taking a lot of shots with only a 6+ FNP save. I see them as the priority target, since the rest of the army is marching up the board. Myself, I would prefer to have more cultists in front of my medium-range-shooting-monster-formation.

- The Contemptor bothers me. For the points, I would rather see another Sicaran just for the advanced targetting. I know we don't have all the models in the world, but am thinking the thing that could wreck this army would be scatter bikes. Sicarans kill scatterbikes better than most other things.

The two cc Noise Marines scare me. While they are going to strike with I5, they still need to make it into combat. For the points, I would rather see a Blastmaster on each instead of the Rhino.

Without the Rhino aren't they just gonna get blasted on the way to CC ? The aim of this squad is to run for the Warlord and kill him (I hope) in a duel. The other is to come forward any enemy CC unit to protect my shooting Noise marines. And with only 6" I dont know if both will be fast enought to do their part.

- Lucius may not be the right HQ for a shooty army. Sure, you need some cc, but a sorcerer with the Burning Brand may make more sense. He's going to roast whatever charges them, and maybe buff the squad.

Lucius got the Doom siren wich is almost like the Burning Brand (Strenght 6 with Kakophoni, AP 3 but less range). But yeah i must admit Lucius is a little whim wich cost somes points. If i'm strong enough i will change him for a cheaper Warlord.

- While I understand taking spawn, I am not sure how they fit this army. They are going to be out in front of everything else and taking a lot of shots with only a 6+ FNP save. I see them as the priority target, since the rest of the army is marching up the board. Myself, I would prefer to have more cultists in front of my medium-range-shooting-monster-formation

One spawn is enough to give me the drug bonus. I took 2 to give some mobility to my army (if I have 4 standing squad shooting, 1 CC NM with Lucius to charge the Warlord I need some units to take objective). But maybe i should take only 1 Spawn.

- The Contemptor bothers me. For the points, I would rather see another Sicaran just for the advanced targetting. I know we don't have all the models in the world, but am thinking the thing that could wreck this army would be scatter bikes. Sicarans kill scatterbikes better than most other things.

Well with (at full effective) 45 Strenght 5 shoot Ignoring cover (+ the Blastmaster) should I worry about bike ? But you're right the Contemptor are a bad idea. Without them and without the Sicaran lascannon i can take 1 Deimos Pattern Vindicator Tank Destroyer. I even got some points to take a Daemon Prince lvl 2 with wings.

Ty for all this advices.

DreamIsCollapsing wrote:

The two cc Noise Marines scare me. While they are going to strike with I5, they still need to make it into combat. For the points, I would rather see a Blastmaster on each instead of the Rhino.

Without the Rhino aren't they just gonna get blasted on the way to CC ? The aim of this squad is to run for the Warlord and kill him (I hope) in a duel. The other is to come forward any enemy CC unit to protect my shooting Noise marines. And with only 6" I dont know if both will be fast enought to do their part.

- Lucius may not be the right HQ for a shooty army. Sure, you need some cc, but a sorcerer with the Burning Brand may make more sense. He's going to roast whatever charges them, and maybe buff the squad.

Lucius got the Doom siren wich is almost like the Burning Brand (Strenght 6 with Kakophoni, AP 3 but less range). But yeah i must admit Lucius is a little whim wich cost somes points. I'll change him for a cheaper Chaos Lord.

- While I understand taking spawn, I am not sure how they fit this army. They are going to be out in front of everything else and taking a lot of shots with only a 6+ FNP save. I see them as the priority target, since the rest of the army is marching up the board. Myself, I would prefer to have more cultists in front of my medium-range-shooting-monster-formation

One spawn is enough to give me the drug bonus. I took 2 to give some mobility to my army (if I have 4 standing squad shooting, 1 CC NM with Lucius to charge the Warlord I need some units to take objective). But maybe i should take only 1 Spawn.

- The Contemptor bothers me. For the points, I would rather see another Sicaran just for the advanced targetting. I know we don't have all the models in the world, but am thinking the thing that could wreck this army would be scatter bikes. Sicarans kill scatterbikes better than most other things.

Well with (at full effective) 45 Strenght 5 shoot Ignoring cover (+ the Blastmaster) should I worry about bike ? But you're right the Contemptor are a bad idea. Without them and without the Sicaran lascannon i can take 1 Deimos Pattern Vindicator Tank Destroyer. I even got some points to take a Daemon Prince lvl 2 with wings.

Ty for all this advices.