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Was hoping to get some thoughts on this. Everything obviously has mark of nurgle and VoTLW.

I have what i consider mostly my essentials in the core warband and spawn, the sorcerer rides with the bikes and the warlord goes with the spawn. This leaves me about 549 points to play with which for now i'm thinking a raptor talon, lord +3 units of min raptors each with 2 melta guns., which fills up those points completely. But i'm not sure if that's the best use of those points. I'd like to fit 'oh crap' powerfists into the biker and chaos marine squads, and the raptors just in case, but that's a good 150 points, so i'm iffy on where to cut to get those points and if it's even worth it. Or put something totally different in the 549 points like a deamon prince and more bikes or upgrades (like combi-flamers for the termies.)
How would you change this force, or what would you fill in those last 549 points with?


The Army So Far (1301 pts)

Chaos Warband

Chaos Lord: bike, lightning claws, power fist, blight grenades, sigil of corruption

Sorcerer: bike, ML3, pandemic staff, bolt pistol, blight grenades, sigil of corruption

5x Chaos Terminators:
Champion: combi flamer, chainfist
combi bolter, power axe
combi bolter, power axe
combi bolter, power axe
reaper autocannon, power fist

3x Chaos Bikers
chamption: bolt pistol, close combat weapon, melta bombs
2x plasma

5x Havocs
2x lascannon
2x missile launcher

5x Chaos Space Marines
champion
extra CCWs
plasma gun
Rhino: Dozer Blades, Havoc Launcher

5x Chaos Space Marines
champion
extra CCWs
plasma gun
Rhino: Dozer Blades, Havoc Launcher

Aux Spawn

2x Spawn, mark of nurgle

Have you considered a min terminator annihilation force with combi melta led by a level 3 sorceror with burning brand of skalathax? Risky but I think you just about have the points

 Intercessor wrote:
Have you considered a min terminator annihilation force with combi melta led by a level 3 sorceror with burning brand of skalathax? Risky but I think you just about have the points

I actually didn't think that would fit, it's a great idea though so i added it up. Funny thing, it comes to exactly, to the point, the same point cost as the min raptors talon with meltas. 545 points. so it's just enough to fit. Thank you.

the terminators i feel benefit from the nurgle legion rules more than raptors. but the question then becomes, which is better, 3x5 man raptor squads with 2 meltas each. or 3x3 man termi squads with combi-meltas. I'm intersted to try both and it's cool that since they cost the same it's a simple matter of a swap without needing to re-write the whole list to fit.

I like that with the termi option I can add a sorcerer instead of another lord. I'm partial to psychers despite them being pretty random.

I think you'd do well adding a prince then just boosting the size of the existing units. More spawn and more bikes for a start (those are very small retinues for your IC's). More chaos marines since they're such good value with Death Guard rules. Extra bodies for the havocs as ablative wounds. A power fist for the bike champion since the extra bikes will keep him safe.

 Snake Tortoise wrote:
I think you'd do well adding a prince then just boosting the size of the existing units. More spawn and more bikes for a start (those are very small retinues for your IC's). More chaos marines since they're such good value with Death Guard rules. Extra bodies for the havocs as ablative wounds. A power fist for the bike champion since the extra bikes will keep him safe.

That was my other option. Honestly i was looking at adding one of the auxs mostly because i like the variety in their special rules and wanted an excuse to paint some different models. But I do think the nurgle rules benefit those core choices so much, especially tough as nails bikers and spawn, plus relentless havocs.