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1500 pt CSM Earthworm Jim List (because they are worm-ridden Plague Marines, with tons of plasma!)

Sharkvictim — GMT

1 Daemon Prince, 150 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker; Wings

1 Daemon Prince, 150 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker; Wings

6 Plague Marines, 286 pts Personal Icon, Plasma gun x2
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma Pistol
Rhino

6 Plague Marines, 286 pts Personal Icon, Plasma gun x2
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma Pistol
Rhino

3 Obliterator Cult, 225 pts

3 Obliterator Cult, 225 pts

3 Chaos Terminators, 175 pts Icon of Nurgle
Power Fist x3; Combi-plasma x3

1497 total

The idea here is to run the rhinos up and deep strike everything else on the personal icons. I have had bad luck in the past trying to get reserves in, but with everything coming in on 3+ now I feel like the forthcoming turn two shooting phase will be a truly special thing. i'll be rolling on pyromancy for both princes, hoping for spontaneous combustion. This should be a fun and annoying Sunday afternoon list. Comments and criticism welcome!
PLASMUH! PLASMUH! PLASMUH!

I may have to sculpt a EWJ plague marine, if this list wrecks face like I hope it will.

Re:1500 pt CSM Earthworm Jim List (because they are worm-ridden Plague Marines, with tons of plasma!)

Mizzri — GMT

List looks good. If you want the Princes to take a Psychic power from the 6th edition rulebook, you need to have a power to replace. Meaning, take the cheapest codex power (Doombolt, 10 points) and then replace it with a book power, most likely from Telepathy. Or for 15 points, you could get Nurgle Rot - great for sliding right into the middle of his Troops units and nuking everything within 6" (well....nuking might be a strong term, hehe).

The Plague Marine Squads look good, but I think I would run 7 of them (for fluff and durability).

I also think running only two Squads of Troops at 1500 points is a mistake. The general rule of thumb is one Troop Squad for every 500 points, so another Squad of Plague Marines (or even CSM with MoN) is sorely needed. To me, the Terminators are the first thing I would drop. Spending 40 points to give 3 models Mark of Nurgle is too expensive.

My recommendation would be to drop the Termies, and drop 1 Oblits from each Squad.

The modified list would look something like this:

HQ:
1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker, Doombolt; Wings

1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker, Doombolt; Wings

Troops:
7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon

7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon

7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon

Heavy Support:
2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

1478 total

Spend the last 22 points on Pintle-mounted Combi-Plasmas for your attacking Rhinos, or buy one Havoc Launcher for your Defensive Rhino.

As always, just my 2¢. Hope it helps.

Re:1500 pt CSM Earthworm Jim List (because they are worm-ridden Plague Marines, with tons of plasma!)

Sharkvictim — GMT

Mizzri wrote:List looks good. If you want the Princes to take a Psychic power from the 6th edition rulebook, you need to have a power to replace.

I was doing that initially when 6th ed hit, and someone told me it was wrong. So yeah ten more points is an easy fix.

The Plague Marine Squads look good, but I think I would run 7 of them (for fluff and durability).

6 plus a champion is 7. That's the way I had paid for it in the initial listing, not 6 with a champion upgrade. It's in the points.

I also think running only two Squads of Troops at 1500 points is a mistake. The general rule of thumb is one Troop Squad for every 500 points, so another Squad of Plague Marines (or even CSM with MoN) is sorely needed. To me, the Terminators are the first thing I would drop. Spending 40 points to give 3 models Mark of Nurgle is too expensive.

For a friendly game at home it wouldn't be so bad, but I think you're right. I'll get more bang for my buck with another unit of Plague Marines.

My recommendation would be to drop the Termies, and drop 1 Oblits from each Squad.

Termies will be dropped. Going to fiddle with the oblits as well and see what I can shake out.

The modified list would look something like this:

HQ:
1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker, Doombolt; Wings

1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts Mark of Nurgle; Psyker, Doombolt; Wings

Troops:
7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon
**I'm getting 286 pts out of this via both calculator/codex and army builder. Don't know what you're doing wrong here**
7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon

7 Plague Marines, 271 pts; Plasma gun x2; Rhino
Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma PIstol; Personal Icon

Heavy Support:
2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

1478 total

Spend the last 22 points on Pintle-mounted Combi-Plasmas for your attacking Rhinos, or buy one Havoc Launcher for your Defensive Rhino.

As always, just my 2¢. Hope it helps.

Here's the amended list, coincidentally with all of your suggested changes . I made a 2k list earlier that already had the termies dropped and sports 3x3 oblits as well.

1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts
Wings; Mark of Nurgle; Doombolt

1 Daemon Prince, 160 pts
Wings; Mark of Nurgle; Doombolt

6 Plague Marines, 296 pts
Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2
1 Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma Pistol
1 Rhino w/combi-plasma

6 Plague Marines, 296 pts
Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2
1 Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma Pistol
1 Rhino w/combi-plasma

6 Plague Marines, 286 pts
Personal Icon; Plasma gun x2
1 Plague Champion w/ Power Fist; Plasma Pistol
1 Rhino

2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

2 Obliterator Cult, 150 pts

Re:1500 pt CSM Earthworm Jim List (because they are worm-ridden Plague Marines, with tons of plasma!)

Mizzri — GMT

Your math is correct. 286 points. Not sure where I went wrong. Probably didn't add the Plasma Pistol for the Champ. My bad >.<