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Im looking to field and explore mostly 500 point armies for the time being, and i particularly love well....everything about plague marines, and am just itching to deploy them

I was wondering if it'd be viable to field only those units as my troop choices, with a MoN HQ while still being competitive. How many plasmas would be advisable, or would you suggets cultists and/or regular CSM to fill a portion of troop selection?

Personally I run pure Death Guard so to help here are 3 lists that i use. They are viable in my honest opinion they are the best cult troops around.

Hope they help


A) Chaos Lord 230pts
MoN, SoC, black mace, combi-plasma, GoM

Plague Marines (5)*2 260pts
Flammers*2
490pts

B) Typhus 230pts

Plague Marines(5)*2 260pts

490pts

C) Deamon Prince 180pts
Power Armor, MoN

Cultists(10)*2 140pts
MoN

Plague Marines(7) 180pts
Flammers*2
500pts

Can abbadon allow for plague marines to be taken as troops?

Thunder212 wrote:
Can abbadon allow for plague marines to be taken as troops?

No only chosen see his entry in codex

Maybe something like this?


chaos lord
mark of Nurgle
sigil of corruption
bike
powerfist
lightning claw
blight grenades
170

2x 5 plague marines
2 plasma guns
300/470

chaos spawn
30/500

 KU'GATH wrote:
Deamon Prince 180pts
Power Armor, MoN

Cultists(10)*2 140pts
MoN

Plague Marines(7) 180pts
Flammers*2
500pts

You cannot take PM's as troop unless you have a lord with MoN or Typhus.

Gundor wrote:

You cannot take PM's as troop unless you have a lord with MoN or Typhus.

He didn't take them as troops. He already has 2 groups of 10 cultists with MoN for 70 points a piece (though I feel like those MoN points would be better spent giving the DP wings). Those are his troop choices.

I'd imagine the Plague Marines are an Elite choice.

Though, he cannot take a Demon Prince with MoN. You can only take "Daemon of ______" on a DP. And while making him Nurgle works thematically, forcing a model who is best in CC to become Slow and Purposeful probably isn't the best of ideas.

I would go with an army like so:

Chaos Lord: MoN, PW of choice, Meltabomb, Sigil 125
PMs: Flamer, Meltabomb Rhino 165
PMs: Flamer Meltabomb Rhino 165

Dump the rest into as many cultists as you can to run your lord with, no upgrades at all. Drop the Sigil on the lord if necessary to buy more cultists.

At 500 points there are several armies you will have lots of trouble with though, among them anything that is fast and shooty (eldar, dark eldar) or long range shooty (guard, tau). 500 points of Nurgle marines are fun, that's what I played during my store's Escalation League, but there are certain matchups that you will be extremely outgunned from the start.

Trekend wrote:

Gundor wrote:

You cannot take PM's as troop unless you have a lord with MoN or Typhus.

He didn't take them as troops. He already has 2 groups of 10 cultists with MoN for 70 points a piece (though I feel like those MoN points would be better spent giving the DP wings). Those are his troop choices.

I'd imagine the Plague Marines are an Elite choice.

Though, he cannot take a Demon Prince with MoN. You can only take "Daemon of ______" on a DP. And while making him Nurgle works thematically, forcing a model who is best in CC to become Slow and Purposeful probably isn't the best of ideas.

True but at 500pts SnP really doesn't matter