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HQ: Chaos Lord. Wargear: Manreaper, Terminator Armor, Mutation, Strength, MArk of Nurgle.  145 points.

Elites:Terminator Retinue:6 Chosen, 3 powerfists, 2 reaper autocannons, Champion with Plague Sword/Combi-bolter. 316 points.

Troops:  14 Plague Marines, 2 Meltaguns, Mark of Nurgle, Champion with powerfist+bolter, Infiltrate. 343 points.

3 more squads like this.

Total:1372

Army Total: 1833. Comments?

What will you do in Alpha level missions when you can't infiltrate?

What will you do against mobile shooty armies like mech tau or skimmer-heavy Eldar, who can stay out of your meltagun range while pounding you with tons of shots?

With 56 walking T5 guys it's not so direly important that you infiltrate. Skimmers however will provide problems.

I think the walking nurgle army will do best with more reaper terminators to help out.

I understand that I'd have trouble with Skimmers, but my Marines will probably survive most of the shots.
I could add in two Dreadnoughts with autocannons and missile launchers for one of the Plague marines squads. Would that work for my skimmer trouble?

2 dreadnoughts will just make targets of themselves (at least 3 vehicles is the rule of thumb) and chaos dreads are not well designed for shooting anyway because they tend to rage when you need them to shoot. Putting a missile launcher on a chaos dread just throws away its real strength, which is hand-to-hand combat.

I think the concept of the army is flawed. A 22 point infiltrating plague marine costs 47% more than a 15 point loyalist marine, but is not 47% more effective. This army doesn't play to any of the strengths of a nurgle army (for example, daemons) but accepts all of their weaknesses (high cost per model and lack of ranged weapons, especially problemmatic in alpha scenarios).

For a very large static shooty meq army, go for loyalists or IW. For an infiltrating army go Alpha Legion. An extra point of toughness doesn't make a static, short-ranged army competitive.

But if you would find it fun to play, feel free to prove me wrong.

New List, 2000 points.
Chaos Lord:See my first post. 145 points.
Plague Terminator Retinue: 13 Termies, 4 Reaper Autocannons, 2 Powerfists. Champion with Plague Sword. 311 points.
Troops: See first post, subtract Infiltrate. Al Champions have Nurgle's Rot. 1219 points.


2002 points Total. C&C welcome.

The real strength of Chaos dread is at supremely sucking butt.

Las/hb mutated possessed predators, if you want vehicles in this list.

A 15 pt loyalist marine doesn't infiltrate, have T5 or true grit. If you want infiltrating it's 18 pts, at which point true grit & T5 and fearless starts to look pretty damn nice for 4 pts

I liked your first list, but I think you need more terminators to get some good antitank guns. Try a lord with terminators, more terminators, and then a bunch of walking squads.

I edited the 2nd list, take a look.

At least you can kill you some hammerheads now.

I would split termie squad in two. One as retinue, one as chosen.

Also, don't waste any points on upgrades on characters in a squad with all power weapons. Just put powerfists on the guys with reaper autocannons and everyone else gets power weapons and likes it. The champion can have a power weapon+CCW