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After a lucky haul of a bunch of Chaos Space Marines from a friend who has stopped playing a long time ago, I'm starting again the hobby, and bringing my kids into it. Now, I have about 5000-points worth of stuff, and I'd like to have three 1000-point lists that we can get painted and start playing with, and I'd like for the three lists to be roughly the same overall strength, even if they have different basic tactics. The options and upgrades to units are as close as possible to what is on the models that I have. So, here it goes:

List 1 - Alpha Legion (CSM)

HQ - Huron blackheart - 160 pt
Troop - Chaos Space marines x10
flamer, heavy bolter, lightning claw, mutation -180 pt
Troop - Cultists x20 - 100 pt
Elite - Possessed x5 - 130 pt
Fast - Raptors x5
Plasma, melta, lightning claws - 135pt
Fast Chaos Bikers x10 - 220pt
Fast Chaos Spawn x2 - 60pt

Total : 985 pt

List 2 - Purple marines (CSM - my daughter's list...)

HQ - Chaos Lord
Power fist, mutation - 100pt
Troop - CSM x10
Power fist, plasma pistol - 190pt
Troop - CSM x10
Mutation - 160pt
Heavy - Havocs x5
Missile Launcher, Autocannon, Las Canon, Heavy Bolter. - 130pt
Fast - Raptors x5
Flamer, Power sword - 115pt
Elite - Noise marines x10
Blastmaster, Doom Siren, Sonic BlasterX7
Dedicated transport: Rhino with Havoc Launcher - 294pt

Total : 988pt

List 3 - Iron Men (Khorne Demonkin, My son's army)

HQ - Blood thirster - 250pt
HQ - Chaos Lord
Juggernaut, plasma pistol, power axe - 150pt
Troop - Berserkers x8 - 6 chainaxes - 190pt
Troop - Bloodletters x8 - One bloodreaper - 85pt
Elite - Helbrute - 100pt
Elite - Chaos Terminators x5
combi-flamer*3, reaper autocannon - 219pt

Total: 994 pt

Now, I still have in reserve quite a lot of things including:
Kharn
Abaddon
14 Berserkers
8 Thousand sons and 2 Sorcerers
1 Deamon Prince
6 Chaos Terminators
8 Chaos Space Marines
2 Hellbrute
3 Obliterators
11 Plague Marines
16 Cultists
10 Chosen
1 Dark Apostle
As well as a number of minor Daemons, but that will be for another list...

So, based on the lists I built, do you think that one of them is too overpowered compared to the others? Do they make any sense?
Should I replace some things from the lists by some other units that I have in reserve?

Any advice is welcome, since I have very little experience in building armies...