Based on what you're saying, it sounds like you've got a chaos vs biker space marine army in the works. A great place - in my opinion - to start is the Dark Vengeance box from 7th edition. It will come with outdated rules, templates, etc, but you can throw them away or sell them on ebay. What you really want are the miniatures. It comes with a Dark Angels force, and a Chaos force. You would probably still want to get Ahriman, and some Thousand Son specific models for her, but it would give you both a solid core force to start with. (Yours would include super iconic units, including bikes, and terminators; hers would include very useful stuff to complete 1k sons, and a unique dark vengeance only Helbrute) To me when someone wants to do bikes in 40k, I think of Dark Angels, and Ravenwing. It's literally what they do, and they are a unique flavor of space marines, rather than just a footnote on the Ultramarine codex, like White Scars. My personal opinion would be to avoid Dark Imperium. You can mix Death Guard with 1k Sons, but they are totally the opposite aesthetic, and her army will feel (in my opinion) rather disjointed. When my lady was starting 40k, I got her a start collecting box and we built up from there, because she was interested in Chaos. If i could rewind time, i would have bought the Dark Vengeance boxed set (on top of also buying a winning lottery ticket). It's pretty cool IMHO, and the models are easier to build. I ended up buying her a Dark Vengeance Helbrute on ebay because we both liked it so much. I don't know how good and fast you are at painting, but another thing I should have done, was get her first set of models professionally painted. It would have made the transition easy, and instead of starting with a tabula rasa in regards to scheme she would have had something tangible to mimic. But that's expensive and not for everyone. Good luck! Do yourself a favor, don't even research competitive play. Just grow naturally into the game. The open war cards are nice, the missions in chapter approved are rumored to be really fun. Data cards are helpful shortcuts but not essential.
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