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im building my second chaos army, already have a great slaanesch army, but to make a chaos warband i need some advice i will playing iron warriors and need one of the next units
raptors, tallos ore bikes what would you use to complete a warband

What is your play style? Raptors are great for deep striking and taking out a priority target. Usually, you trade them for a an opponent's piece. Talons are great if you are fighting chafe units. They cannot be fielded in large numbers and have no way to shoot when deep striking in. Your best bet is to have them out flank and charge something on the edge or take cover. Bikes are great because of the +1 T, they are fast and can have melta weaponry.

My play style works best with bikes and Raptors. Too date my talons have only succeeded in killing blob guard quickly. They might do better as a Night Lords army though. Especially with night fighting for more cover.

From all I've heard from the last few weeks of research getting back in the game, bikes is the only viable option here if you want a competitive list.

Bikes will end up lasting longer from their increased toughness and natural speed. They can perform the same function of the raptors, at about the same point cost; five raptors with two meltaguns come in at 115 points, and five bikes with two meltaguns come in at 130 points. If you were to make the raptors nurgle, they'd be even with the bikes at 130, but if you're dead-set on running iron warriors, you wont be able to mark them.

So it really does come down to preference on movement and tactics. The bikes will move faster across the board on any given turn, but cannot jump over obstacles or hide as easily. Likewise, they lack the deepstrike flavor of the raptors, which really should be used as such. Previously mentioned sacrifice tactics hold true, deepstrike them into a safe position, pop a piece of armor, and whatever else happens is a nice bonus.

Do not consider the warp talons. They just don't make sense in the vast majority of ways you want to use them, they're much more expensive without being equally more deadly/resilient, and while the models do look amazing, they really need a delivery system other than deep strike to be effective. An edition which sees a proliferation of heavy ranged firepower has no room for a purely dedicated melee unit; there's a reason we stopped using swords when guns were invented. If you decide you really want to try and make them work, you'll be better off picking up the Raptor Talon as an aux choice to let them charge on the same turn they deepstrike.

Best of luck!

all thanks for the advice will go for the bikes then.