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Hello all, didnt really know where to post this and instead of posting pointless army lists I figured id "man up" and ask for some help and pointers.

First things first what I like. I really like the death guard/plague marines, and the nurgle fluff(not that, that really matters) I like the color scheme of it all the durability and well the over all look. I like the Chaos lord as an HQ and well as Typhus. other troops and of figures I like are the Oblits and havok squads, the bikers, Termies, Heldrake. the transport vehicles.

I have a few hundred dollars to fork over for a new army and I think i want to settle on Chaos Space marines. The help in which you give will be greatly appreciated as building new armies can be intimidating and off putting. I keep stalling on my purchase because i want to be smart about it.

Thanks again.

I have a Chaos Marine army of 33 models. It's got 25 Plague Marines, 6 Obliterators, 1 Chaos Lord in terminator armor, and 1 Chaos Sorcerer in terminator armour. This is about 1500 points, though it can be bumped to 1850 with 3 more oblits, typhus, and plague zombies.

Somehow, I've never lost a game, though I've only played a dozen.

To help you, I just need what are "must haves" in your army? Maybe you like possessed, maybe you want bikes. Let us know.

 Shadelkan wrote:
I have a Chaos Marine army of 33 models. It's got 25 Plague Marines, 6 Obliterators, 1 Chaos Lord in terminator armor, and 1 Chaos Sorcerer in terminator armour. This is about 1500 points, though it can be bumped to 1850 with 3 more oblits, typhus, and plague zombies.

Somehow, I've never lost a game, though I've only played a dozen.

To help you, I just need what are "must haves" in your army? Maybe you like possessed, maybe you want bikes. Let us know.

Must haves/figures I liked

HQ choices: Typhus, Biker chaos lord, termie Chaos lord.

Elites: Termies

Troops: Plague marines, Cultists/zombies

Fast Attack: Heldrake, bikers

Heavy support: Havoks, Oblits.

Another army of plague marines, oblits and helldrakes. This is my shocked face.

But if that's really the army you want to play, then go for it and don't let people like me stop you.

I'd also look at the forge/mauler fiend. They're surprisingly not bad. Two forge fiends in the back put out a lot of dakka and two maulerfiends running up the board put a lot of pressure on the enemy.

 MWHistorian wrote:
Another army of plague marines, oblits and helldrakes. This is my shocked face.

But if that's really the army you want to play, then go for it and don't let people like me stop you.

I'd also look at the forge/mauler fiend. They're surprisingly not bad. Two forge fiends in the back put out a lot of dakka and two maulerfiends running up the board put a lot of pressure on the enemy.

hahaha, i know what I like and dont like, sadly the other gods and deamons dont really appeal to me. Maybe Khorne but meh. Walking puss flled bloated plates or armor seem pretty rad.

Well as far as CSM goes, the models you say you like are pretty much typical Chaos cheese as mentioned so you can't go wrong with them. A Nurgle Lord in termi armor/aka Typhus is a son of a plaguefly and a half to kill, as are Nurgle bikers. And Plague Marines are the best CSM cult troop. Helturkeys go without saying, and Oblits are good with the MoN being auto-take for them.

Havocs are meh in general but of course MoN is pretty much a given for them. You won't be winning any style points lol, but yeah, looks like you've already got the good stuff in mind. Nurgle Sorcerers are not so great though, the god powers are worse than the generic ones and the typical spiel is that Sorcs should be undivided.

 ZultanQ wrote:
Well as far as CSM goes, the models you say you like are pretty much typical Chaos cheese as mentioned so you can't go wrong with them. A Nurgle Lord in termi armor/aka Typhus is a son of a plaguefly and a half to kill, as are Nurgle bikers. And Plague Marines are the best CSM cult troop. Helturkeys go without saying, and Oblits are good with the MoN being auto-take for them.

Havocs are meh in general but of course MoN is pretty much a given for them. You won't be winning any style points lol, but yeah, looks like you've already got the good stuff in mind. Nurgle Sorcerers are not so great though, the god powers are worse than the generic ones and the typical spiel is that Sorcs should be undivided.

Straight forward list is my kind of army.

What would be a good what to start off with an army?

Chaos lord, 2 boxes of plague marines and 2 rhinos?

 stileprojekt wrote:

 ZultanQ wrote:
Well as far as CSM goes, the models you say you like are pretty much typical Chaos cheese as mentioned so you can't go wrong with them. A Nurgle Lord in termi armor/aka Typhus is a son of a plaguefly and a half to kill, as are Nurgle bikers. And Plague Marines are the best CSM cult troop. Helturkeys go without saying, and Oblits are good with the MoN being auto-take for them.

Havocs are meh in general but of course MoN is pretty much a given for them. You won't be winning any style points lol, but yeah, looks like you've already got the good stuff in mind. Nurgle Sorcerers are not so great though, the god powers are worse than the generic ones and the typical spiel is that Sorcs should be undivided.

Straight forward list is my kind of army.

What would be a good what to start off with an army?

Chaos lord, 2 boxes of plague marines and 2 rhinos?

That's a hard question to answer and I actually prefer it when people post a list. What do you want to do with your army? Are you sure you are dead set on Nurgle only? You can go Khorne + Nurgle and still be fluffy. That exactly what I'm doing. While the Chaos gods do hate each other, Khorne and Nurgle have a "you funny guy, I kill you last" relationship. They are not directly opposed, as Khorne hates Slaanesh the most and Nurgle hates Tzeentch.

At 750 points starting out, a Lord and two Plague squads in Rhinos is alright, maybe find some room for some Oblits in there.

Get a box of Zombies (Fantasy or third party) some round bases and a box of guardsmen. Now you can mash those together and get around 30 Cultists/zombies.

Chaos lord, 2 boxes of plague marines and 2 rhinos is a good start but if you are good with green stuff then its not all to hard to make Plauge marines out of a normal CSM box since you get more models for a lesser price.
Thou the plauge marine models are awesome so you should get atleast 1box xD

 salix_fatuus wrote:
Get a box of Zombies (Fantasy or third party) some round bases and a box of guardsmen. Now you can mash those together and get around 30 Cultists/zombies.

Chaos lord, 2 boxes of plague marines and 2 rhinos is a good start but if you are good with green stuff then its not all to hard to make Plauge marines out of a normal CSM box since you get more models for a lesser price.
Thou the plauge marine models are awesome so you should get atleast 1box xD

Im sure there are a few how to videos on that. I do like the models. its really the only reason i want to play them.

 stileprojekt wrote:

 salix_fatuus wrote:
Get a box of Zombies (Fantasy or third party) some round bases and a box of guardsmen. Now you can mash those together and get around 30 Cultists/zombies.

Chaos lord, 2 boxes of plague marines and 2 rhinos is a good start but if you are good with green stuff then its not all to hard to make Plauge marines out of a normal CSM box since you get more models for a lesser price.
Thou the plauge marine models are awesome so you should get atleast 1box xD

Im sure there are a few how to videos on that. I do like the models. its really the only reason i want to play them.

Most likely and the modeling section of the forum can always be of help
Nurgle has indeed some of the most awesome models, and some of the easiest to model/convert.