Ehldar wrote:Thanks for the help Ozomoto. I think I'm going to go as such:
All Chaos from
DV set, plus:
-5 more cultists - now 25 in total? ( and then have 10 which I think is the max - run as zombies)
-scratch build a Typhus from an old Terminator
-16 plague marines (I read they come 8 to a box?? if not I have a couple of old basic
SM's I can convert to plagues + what ever comes in 2 boxes)
-1 scorcerer
-1 oblit
-1 dreadnaught
-5 terminators
(still getting abaddon

even just to paint)
Can anyone with a codex tell me what roughly it would equal point wise total (less specific gear of course)?
If you go here
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=1000018&pIndex=1&aId=3000006&multiPageMode=true&start=2
you can find the
faq for chaos that lets you run up to 35 zombies in a squad. (which is incredibly hard to kill)
It all depends on how you gear up termies, sorc, cultists etc, but for average upgrades that comes to 1200-1300. (thats without the abaddon)
If you are dead set on abaddon, you want to go with chosen, as he makes them a troop option, (chosen have the abilty to take up to 4/ special weps per sqaud + a heavy, making them very versatile as you can gear them up for
cc or shooting)
(you should have some as you got the
dv box?, great models to)
Typhus also makes plague marines troops as well
If you take a walk around ebay/ other similar sites, you could probably get cultists and chosen fairly cheap. (comparatively to other models that is).
Also you mentioned not having vehicles (which is completely fine
btw), consider converting some guys to have autocannons as a unit of 5 with 4 autocannons runs at 115 points, which is pretty damn good for 8
str 7
bs 4 shots 48" range