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Hello,

I recently came into the possession of a small mass of mostly Chaos figures.

8 Plaguebearers

10 CSMs

Kharn with one arm

3 Bloodletters

an Ogre-sized demonish figure of unknown manufacture, in pieces. bat or bird wings as required.

two Gor Shamans and a Beastlord - not really 40k

4 Chaos Cultists with laspistols, knives, and pointy hats

8 Chaos Warriors, boltguns as needed, includes champion body sans head with fine chain on axe

a wounded Cadian

so, what's a good list for these figures? I don't own a copy of Codex: CSM, so am somewhat at a loss as to how I'd go about arranging them.

Cheers.

Well here it goes:

HQ

Lord - MoCU, furious charge, great weapon, stature, flight, aura, resilience, essence, mutation, strength, spiky, ikon = 203
Give that ogre wings to get a bloated monstrocity with gross stats on the charge: 6 3 8 6 4 6 5 10 3/5+

Lt - MoK, furious charge, power weapon, ccw, speed, mutation, strength, feel no pain, spiky, meltas, frags = 152
Give Kharne a ccw arm to get a khorne speed lt, also sick on the charge: 5 5 6 4 2 6 7 10 3/-/4+

Troops

8 CSM - MoCU, infiltrate, AC w/ power weapon, strength = 172

5 CSM - MoCU, infiltrate, (25 points in guns) = 105

5 CSM - MoCU, infiltrate, (10 points in guns) = 90

8 Plaguebearers = 128

5 Bloodletters = 130
Find 2 'letters (those beastmen could almost work if you absolutely had to) to get these cc heavy hitters.

Total
1000 points

That's what I've got for you based on what models you have.  I don't know what the CSM are armed with, but I'm guessing that either some have special or heavy weapons, or you can bitz some up.  Ideally, you should get a plasma gun & lascannon for one squad and a plasma gun for the other, with the rest of the CSM armed with bolters.  The 8-CSM squad is made up of your Chaos Warriors, with their shield arms replaced with pistols if you can manage that.

Cunning Plan:  The HQ start on the table, deployed behind terrain where possible, but with an eye toward using the Demon Prince's ikon in turn 2 and getting that speed lt into combat ASAP - he's got a 19-24" charge, making a turn 1 (if you go second) or turn 2 assault easy.  The smaller CSM infiltrate into fire support positions, and the larger CSM squad infiltrates close, mostly to launch demons into combat and then follow them in.  The DP can take tanks apart in combat, and the speed lt can melta them too in a pinch, to take the pressure of your CSM lascannon a bit.

This is pretty old school CHAOS in my mind.  Brutal combat capability, very limited ranged fire power, and a weird collection of models

- Boss Salvage