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#1 · (Edited)
This is my first ever attempt at building an army. I decided to go with Chaos Space Marines. I bought the Chaos Space Marines Battle Force, (I think, the one with the 15 Chaos Space Marines, 5 Posessed Chaos Space Marines, 8 Khorne Berzerkers, 1 Rhino) a box of Terminators (5), and a Deamon Prince for HQ. This is what I came up with.

HQ 205

Deamon Prince
Wings
Mark of Tzeentch
Wind of Chaos
Warp Time

Elites 380

Chosen Chaos Space Marines 175
5 Chosen Chaos Space Marines
Aspiring Champion
2 Plasma Pistols
Power Weopon
Power Fist
IoCG
Melta Bombs

Chaos Terminators 205
5 Terminators
1 Champion
2 Power Fists
1 Chain Fist
Combi Melta
Combi Flamer
Heavy Flamer

Troops 413

Chaos Space Marines 195
10 Chaos Space Marines
Apiring Champion
Twin Linked Bolter
Plasma Gun
Heavy Bolter

Kharne Berzerkers 218
8 Kharne Berzerkers
Skull Champion
2 Plasma Pistols
Melta Bombs

Total 998

Please help give some tips and suggestions. From here I want to add some Obliterators and a Thousand Sons squad.
 
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#2 ·
Not bad for a first list, I would make some sudjestions on the layout. Through my own exprerience.
-Lord = looks good, but has nothing to support him or make use of the Lash, Perhaps some Raptors to keep up with him, or something with a template blast so when you use the lash, you can group the enemey up and drop a template on them to get more.

Chosen - Nice unit, but you could have up to 5 special weapons and you only have 1 PP and 1 Power weapon in the squad, perhaps cutting 2 champions from the terminators, and the Rhino for the Zerkers (personal prefrence to not use Rhino), then you could fill out this squad more, think of outflanking them with 5 plasma guns O' Death. good times!

Terminators - As above, drop the 2 extra champions, Combi-flamer is fun, but I like combi melta to make sure you can deal with any armor they may bump into, that or a Wraithlord/Carnifex ect... All that said though, I dont take Terminators in games of less than 1,500pts, there are just to many other options for small games, dont want to loose too many points in one unit.

CSM - Nice layout, I would not take a champ and use them for fire support, champ only gives 1 more attack, not going to help a fire base.

Khorne Berserkers - Nice layout, Power weapon for champ is good to drop people and you still take advantage of the furious charge, rather than a Pfist. Not big on PP myself in these squads, dont want chance of killing my own off, but the strenght is good for tuffer guys before you hit them.

Those are my thougths on your list, But again its all based on your playstle and what works well for you. :)
 
#3 ·
Hey, a fellow South African! Awesome!

First off, follow Usaal's advice, it's a good list but you can definately I think afford to lose some points on the Terminators and upgrade the Chosen a bit, 5 plasma (as per Usaal's suggestion) would hurt big time!

Another thing, I'd recommend trying to find 50 extra points in the list... (again, this is actually easily done by toning down those Termies a little). This would allow you to change your prince slightly, a Winged Prince with Mark of Tzeentch, Warp Time and Wind of Chaos is firstly more difficult to kill (improved IV save) thereby negating to an extent the level of support required, and Comboing Warp and Wind works pretty well against almost any enemy. I've tried Lash Princes personally and I far prefer the Warp/Wind Combo.

As for changes to your Termies... consider the idea of 5 Termies, each with combi-plasma. They deep strike in, (hopefully near a priority target) and then hit it with the plasma. Hurts like hell for almost any target you hit, and comes in at a 175 points... not bad...

Anyway good luck and Good Gaming

FOR THE DARK GODS!:biggrin:
 
#4 ·
Thanx for all the great advice, I have changed the Chosen squad to be more aggresive and toned down the Terminator squad a bit. I am also definitally going with the mark of Tzeentch combo on the Prince. I'll post my revised list tonight. At the moment I have a limited amount of models and weopons available, so getting 5 Terminators all with Combi Plasma is a bit hard for me at the moment.
 
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