2x210 wrote:
It's gonna be tough since Plague Marines are a popular choice and the Nightlords don't like cult troops, you could always make a count as maybe undead Marines or something.

Heldrake for sure at least one, Night Lords are a quick hitting force so you could try lots of rhinos (even though they get shredded nowadays) or maybe Huron (do up a count as) and try for a sneaky approach.

Basic list
Chaos Marines
Plague Marines (or suitable count as)
Heldrakes 1-2
Oblits (for firepower)

Expanded List
Small group of terms for suicide deep strikes
Huron (or count as) for quick hitting
Raptors for the fluff
Maybe toss some wings on your Lord and put him with the Raptors
Havocs
Cultists (if you have the points)

Fluff wise it'll be difficult to field anything competitive but with a little count as creativity you should be able to build a decent force

 Zed wrote:
Excellent, Night Lords are really cool. Welcome to Chaos!

Regarding HQs, either a Sorcerer or a Lord, if you want to go for the lower-cost options. As has been said, Huron Blackheart as a counts-as would be helpful to the sort of style Night Lords have in-fluff, due to allowing a unit to infiltrate.

Heldrakes are awesome at present. You'd be mad not to grab one or two.

Basic Chaos Space Marines aren't terrible, and you can usually find something for the models to do, either as CSM, Havocs or Chosen.

Noise Marines are pretty tidy when used well, if you wanted to back Slaanesh.

If you're definitely using a Land Raider, you could (and should) grab some Terminators to put in it. A Land Raider is more effectively used ramming Termis down the enemy's throat than as a very expensive pair of lascannons. Alternatively, you could use Khorne-marked CSM, but I'd go with the Terminators myself.

After that, whatever floats your boat, be it Bikers, Raptors, Defilers... it's a big book, put it that way.

 Wyzilla wrote:

Out of curiosity though, is there any actual reason to buy the Night Lord blitz packs yet when in lore, their armor is normally scavenged and the only thing they bear in common with the rest of their brethren is a deep blue color and typically gold trim?

EDIT, and which are better, Raptors of Lightning Claws?

 Badablack wrote:
If you're running a pure Night Lords army, according to the fluff they're pretty ambivalent towards all that dark mutation tentacle stuff. So of all the legions to run counts-as with the Space Marine codex, I'd say they'd fit the best. Run them as Raven Guard, their combat doctrine fits Night Lords really well and Shrike makes a good Raptor Lord.

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Ailaros is right about Dark Vengeance, no good for PA Chaos armies. If you kit bash Huron, there's a power axe in the Space Marine Assault Marine kit, though it's not exactly big or evil looking. The Sanguinary guard kit has an axe in too, as well as jump packs. Could work for a conversion with some good Chaos bits.

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Granted the Sanguinary guard would be more expensive than Huron, but you still get another four Raptors out of it...

The axe from the Assault marines would simply be there to say you have one, but then the rest of the kit would be pretty intimidating, especially if you had a spare torso front from the raptors. Your call of course, but both are viable options.

General Annoyance wrote:
If you want extra inspiration for Night Lords, then buy Lord Of The Night . My friend gave it to me because he collects Night Lords ( ), and apart from being the best book I've ever read, it really gives an insight into the uncorrupted Night Lord soldiers. He started with the DV set and is struggling to build a tough list, so, like Ailaros said, I'd give it a miss unless you want a cultist following (frankly you'd be better off getting them from eBay). In my mind DV is a very difficult set to expand for Chaos Space Marines. Cultists are only good in numbers, and you only get 20. You get Chosen - flexible, but not here since you don't have a choice in loadouts. The Hellbrute is simply a gamble (an expensive one at that ), and the Chaos Lord struggles to get around WYSIWYG without being useless.

Don't get me wrong DV is awesome value, but only if you plan to collect DA too, or wish to get some fancy Chaos models.

Hope this all helped

G.A.

 Ailaros wrote:
Well, you can always bitz order. You don't need to buy the entire box to get just the axe.

and huron's other weapon is the tyrant's claw. That's what the raptor claw is for. Get a flamer bit from somewhere, and you're good.

 Deadshot wrote:
Night Lords (were) all about hitting,l hard, fast, without mercy and with everything you can get. Overkill was a foreign language to them. And they loved to scare the gak out of things.

So anything that fits that bill works wonders. Raptors, Warp Talons and Heldrake all fit the fluff profile and the Heldrake is a demon of hell on the table. The heavy support will also serve you well with Land Raiders and Daemon Engines for support.

To back the NL themes of hard fast and scary I recommend aggressive CC troops like CCW CSM squads, Berserkers, Termies, Chosen and anything from the Fast Attack region, with an HQ that looks suitably Batman and awesome.