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My roommate is kinda bad at math, but loves to play 40k so I typically write up lists for him.. I wanted him to try a Noise Marine list instead of a Nurgle list for a change since he usually doesn't do a whole lot of attacking for the first few turns outside of a few plink shots with some helbrutes. He's finally coming around to proxying, which allows me to write him more balanced lists. Here's what he has in the way of models, after that I'll show you guys the list I made.

3 DV Chaos lords (Counts as Lords or Sorcerers)
3 Helbrutes
Abaddon (counts as terminator or oblit)
1 Heldrake
20 DV Chosen (Counts as PA)
3 Terminators (Usually Oblits)
40 Cultists (Counts as whatever needs to fill space)

Here's what I made for him

HQ:
Chaos Lord
-Mark of Slaanesh
-Gift of Mutation
-Sigil of Corruption

Sorcerer
-Mark of Slaanesh
- +2 Mastery Levels
-Gift of Mutation
-Aura of Dark Glory

Troops x2
10x Noise Marines
-Gift of Mutation
-8x Sonic Blasters
-Doom Siren
-BlastMaster
-Icon of Excess

Elites:
2x Helbrute
-Twin Linked Lascannon

Fast Attack:
Heldrake
-Baleflamer

Heavy Support:
3x Obliterators
-Mark of Nurgle (for resiliency)
-Veterans of the Long War

I play space wolves, so I think this list would be some fun for him to use, considering he'll shoot me off the board before I can assault him.

Any advice on other things to proxy instead, or how to use this army would be great!

I run noise spam...

Slaanesh Lord, no frills except maybe the sigil
Go with Aegis w/quadgun
5 base noiseboys w/ 1 blastmaster in a base rhino
5 base noiseboys w/ 1 blastmaster in a base rhino
10 base noiseboys w/ fnp & w/ 2 blastmasters in a base rhino
10 noiseboys; 5 w/ sonicblasters and 5 w/ bolter, bolt pistol and Ccw w/ fnp in a base rhino
20 cultists
20 cultists
Heldrake w/ bale flamer
Laspred

About 30 points to spare

1 Chaos Lord
MoS
BBoS
choose: sigil of corruption or terminator armor w/chainfist

2x sorcs
MoS
Spell Familiar
2xmastery levels more
Optional-terminator armor

ADL

1 squad of CSM or however many for cultists (must give these VotLW)

2xHeldrakes w/bale flamer- one if you only have one

choose: obliterators, 10 man squad of havocs 4 with lascannons, tri-Las predator

however many squads of noise marines with blastmasters and sonic weapons you can manage

psychic powers to roll for: symphony of pain (must), Biomancy= enfeeble, endurance, haemorrage (if you have enfeeble)

I like your original list, but remember squads of 10 noisemarines can take 2 blastmasters, as per the FAQ.