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Hello all

I’ve been bitten by the shiney new toy syndrome and decided to start a chaos space marine army

This is for use at my LGC so not aiming for ultra competitive

Here’s what I’ve come up with 1750pts

Red Corsair Battalion 11 CP - 856pts

Exalted champion, MOK, power axe (goes with beserkers)
Sorcerer, warlord, unholy fortitude, warp time, prescience, force stave

Troops
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon

Elites
9 beserkers (chain axe & chainsword x9) x1 powerfist, icon of wrath
Rhino - Combi Melta

Heavy
5 havocs, x4 Lascannons

Outrider 1 CP
Raptor host detachment - 1 CP
Field commander - 1 CP
Legion brazen beasts

Hq
Chaos lord jump pack, daemon flesh plate, tip of claw, Mark of Khorne, thunder hammer, plasma pistol

Fast attack
10 raptors, MOK, icon of wrath
5 raptors MOK
5 raptors MOK

Super heavy auxiliary detachment
Renegade knight, x2 avenger cannons and stubber

Comes in 1750pts exactly

Thoughts?

Cheers

I personally wouldn't bother with raptors, get warptalons instead, ( MoP maybee as Backup)


The lone knight seems a bit off for you lgc, altough i have no idea about your meta.

The Thunder Hammer Lord seems decent, altough you could've gone blender with him and gave him 2 chainswords. But you them seem to lack AT.

Also long range at seems with the havoc squad a bit low.

Couple of bits and pieces. I would drop the bezerkers and rhino and take a 20 man csm squad with 2x chain cannons for your red cosairs. Run them as nurgle and make them -1 hit with miasma, they're going to be really difficult to shift and you can bring them all back for 3CP. You could also swap out exalted champion for dark apostle for an extra -1 to hit.

As for host raptorial, as others have said warp talons work better. I also think that flawless host would be the better legion of the two, you can (somehow) make them mark of khorne and you're getting lots of attacks plus stacking prescience on them will make the warp talons pretty deadly. Raptors can be ok if you bring a plasma loadout but they're really a shooting unit that is good for dropping on objectives or targeting a badly screened character.

I've found to make Berzerkers work you need a quite a few of them. As normally you'd be advancing the Rhino up the field and then dropping the 'Zerkers out. One load of them will be a target.

On another side... chosing a powerfist on the Sergeant is a good idea, as he'll do most of the heavy damage on his own.
Consider taking 9 of them (incl Sergeant) and something to buff them like a Dark Apostle or Exalted Champion.

Take the melta off the Rhino. Consider a flamer (as you'll be advancing and their BS is pants) or two combi bolters (yes you can do that). Remember a Rhino CAN fire it's smoke launchers after advancing instead of shooting the first turn.

Either that, or just drop them entirely (as you probably need more of them) and consider more Warp Talons and making it one of the fancy vigilius detatchments with a warlord trait to +2 to charge rolls. Deepstrike them in the backfield, and only have one bunch of raptors w/ chainswords for fleshy targets.

Cheers for responses guys

Still very much wip at present (knight was only in there as I own a knight already)

Made some tweaks

Red Corsair Battalion 11 CP - 856pts

Exalted champion, MOK, chain axe
Sorcerer, warlord, unholy fortitude, warp time, prescience, force stave

Troops
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon
X5 marines, x1 chain cannon

Elites
10 terminators chain axes, icon of wrath (warp time these)

Heavy
5 havocs, x4 Lascannons
5 havocs, x4 Las-Cannons
X2 obilerators MOS

Outrider 1 CP
Raptor host detachment - 1 CP
Field commander - 1 CP
Legion brazen beasts

Hq
Chaos lord jump pack, daemon flesh plate, tip of claw, Mark of Khorne, thunder hammer

Fast attack
10 warp talons
5 raptors MOK x1 plasma gun
5 raptors MOK x1 plasma gun

1750pts