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Alright, I have a list. Please let me know your thoughts. Any Critiques are appreciated.

This is for a tournament. Do you think it is competitive?

HQ - Nurgle Lord on Bike. (PF, LC and Sigil)

Troops:

- Chaos Cultists x 20 (all with Autoguns)

-Chaos Cultists X 20 (all with Autoguns)

- Plague Marines x 8 (with 2 Plasma Guns) + Rhino (with Havoc Launcher and Daemonic Possession)

- Plague Marines x 8 (with 2 Plasma Guns) + Rhino (with Havoc Launcher and Daemonic Possession)

- Plague Marines x 8 (with 2 Plasma Guns) + Rhino (with Havoc Launcher and Daemonic Possession)


Elites:

3x Chaos Terminators (With Mark of Khorne)
+1 PowerFist
+1 ChainFist
+2 Combi-Melta
+Champion (with Power Weapon)

3x Chaos Terminators (With Mark of Khorne)
+1 PowerFist
+1 ChainFist
+2 Combi-Melta
+Champion (with Power Weapon)


Fast Attack:

9x Nurgle Bikers (two meltaguns)
+champion (with PF, Lightning Claws)

Heavy Support:

Chaos Predator - With Lascannon and Havoc Launcher + Daemonic Posession

2x Chaos Vindicators (with Daemonic Possession and Siege Shield)

Interesting .. I like it, good mix of stuff.

Personally I dont rate autoguns.

Id always take blight grenades.

Feels like a bike sorceror would fit well.


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Let me know how well the havoc launchers do, I can never feel like spending the points.


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Maybe trade some plasma for melta

I'd drop the havoc & daemonic possession form the rhinos, with their low armor they will probably be glanced to death or completely destroyed with low AP weapons. Get dozer blades and dirgecasters instead to help your bikes.

I'd add blind and melta grenades to the lord as well, you don't want to get caught by those AV13 Walkers and lose your expensive bikes for more than 1 turn.

The rest of the list looks great, I'd try to squeeze a markless bike sorc in there for some telepathy or biomancy goodies

Daemonic Possession is only worth taking on short range tanks with powerful blast weapons as they cannot snap fire and do not have the range to sit back in cover and fire all game.

What vehicle matches this profile? The vindicator. I would very, very strongly advise against taking it on rhinos because it has a chance of eating one of your really expensive plague marines, and what are you paying to protect? The combi-bolter? The havoc launcher? Hardly worth the points imo, you could buy another havoc launcher with 15 points!

If you really want to take it on the predators that's less atrocious I guess but still a poor use of points IMO as they should be sitting back and taking very few penn hits.

That is a good point. I'll remove the Daemonic Possessions from the Rhinos and Predator.

I'll also add the vehicle killing abilities to the Chaos Lord on Bike. Do you think I should add a sorcerer on bike? That actually might not be a bad idea....summoning daemons and such. lol

If I did get rid of the Havoc Launchers on the Rhinos do you think I would have enough Anti-Air power in this list? And do you think this list could deal with a super heavy or two if I had to?
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Thanks!

AutarchRion wrote:
That is a good point. I'll remove the Daemonic Possessions from the Rhinos and Predator.

I'll also add the vehicle killing abilities to the Chaos Lord on Bike. Do you think I should add a sorcerer on bike? That actually might not be a bad idea....summoning daemons and such. lol

If I did get rid of the Havoc Launchers on the Rhinos do you think I would have enough Anti-Air power in this list? And do you think this list could deal with a super heavy or two if I had to?
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Thanks!

Well Havoc launchers aren't skyfire and even if they were they are blasts so can't target flyers so... you'll have the same anti-air power if you take them off. Honestly you won't have any anti air, but the bikes should be in close combat by turn 2, which means if your opponent manages to get flyers on the 2nd turn you'll only be shot once, which for a T6 unit with sv 3+ and jink, maybe shroud or invisibility if you roll telepathy with a sorc is no threat at all. The rest of the army can stay in their rhinos until they are forced to get down when the flyers arrive or just get locked in combat as well, plague marines are pretty tough, I would worry only about marine flyers with meltas taking out the vindis.

Against superheavy I think you got some good options, the vindi shots with barrage & ordenance will help, the chainfists on the termies and combi-meltas as well,

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Yeah, I decided to get rid of DP on the Rhinos. I may do away with the havoc launchers as well and just add dirge casters and dozer blades as was suggested earlier.

I think this army is well equipped to take out anything, but fliers. So I could theoretically take out or pressure most ground units. And if all I couldn't deal with was fliers, I think I would be alright. Eventually I may want to add a heldrake to the list, but that is not on my current road map.

I like the idea of a sorcerer tho. I am definitely gonna have to invest in one....that would be fun.

One last question... do you think I should go two predators and one vindi or leave the list as it is now?