You might be better off taking Typhus instead of Abaddon, then having the cultists be Zombies.

 

I had thought about that, but decided against it because of the fact that typhus gets insta-killed by any MC, and I play against a lot of them. The best he could do in that situation is throw the termi champ at the MC challenge to stall it for a turn, but would then get killed in the next round of combat when the MC can challenge him. At least with abaddon, he is expensive, but he isn't much of a gamble, and will kill anything they throw at him with a good rate of success.

Though, that said, if you know a good way to run typhus and avoid the MC issue, I could give him a shot. I am not sure if 230 points is worth FnP and fearless on the cultists if Typhus gets killed without doing anything. (Though it would definitely help to have the zombies).

 

If you play against MC's a lot.. perhaps dropping a squad of PM's and maybe even the Terminators then toss in a couple cheap squads of chosen with Melta guns. you can get 4 Meltas in a rhino that can outflank for half of what a PM squad in a rhino costs. I also say get rid of the Terminators because they have one shot each, and if they get into cc they usually flub.

If you play against a lot of MC's I would say its going to be an uphill battle regardless of how you play it. You may as well focus purely on fire power and focus on one MC at a time and hopefully with a little luck you can hold out.

 

That is an interesting idea, and also gives some purpose to Abaddon's |Chosen are troops" ability.
Though, the only issue that I am having is that I cannot seem to find what would give my Chosen outflanking? I have read over the rules for them and have not been able to see where that would come from.

 

My solution to monstrous creatures is to give them a bigger monstrous creature. Almost nothing kills a fully kitted out daemon prince rolling on biomancy except a turn or two of focused skyfire shooting and you should be in combat the second turn the dp is on the board anyway.

 

Last codex Chosen were able to outflank, but no longer. Huron or Ahriman can infiltrate them, though that's neither here nor there, for this list, I suppose.

Against MCs, Chosen with Plasma might be more effective than Meltas. In addition, if the're within range of Abbadon's 12" bubble of Preferred Enemy, then they reroll 1s, so you'll be overheating 1/36 shots rather than 1/6 shots. A trifle expensive and no less fragile than normal marines, but they'll be dropping a MC per turn, almost guaranteed (as long as your opponent lets them live).

Warsmith: unfortunately, your Princes are the smaller of the Monstrous Creatures, and unless you roll Iron Arm (no guarantee), their being T5 means any enemy MC can Smash them to death in a phase or two.

 

You're definitely right about the plasma, and it is unfortunate that Chosen can no longer outflank, as that would be awesome (and make their price sting a bit less).

I have revised my list quite a bit, and came up with this:

Lord (MoN, brand) (in rhino with chosen) 110

Abbadon (LR) 265

Land raider (Dirge Caster) 235

chosen x5 (5x melta, MoN, LR) 155

chosen x8 (4x plasma, MoN, rhino, Dirge Caster) 267

PMs x7 (2x plasma, rhino) 258

PMs x7 168

Cultists x25 110

Cultists x25 110

Havocs x8 (4x ML) 161

Havocs x8 (4x ML) 161


The idea now is to not rely on the randomness of DSing abaddon with termis, and instead roll him up in a Land Raider with a bunch of melta chosen. He will drive up with the LR, the LR will shoot as many las shots as it can depending on how far it moved, then the unit pops out and meltas something to death, then charges whatever is in range for abaddon to eat up. I'll then use the LR to drive around, shooting at what it can while providing Dirge Caster support for my assaults. If I can manage to kill or scare away a good amount of what is around, it can pick up whichever squad is done first and drive it over to a better spot to unload again, or onto an objective.
The plasma squad in the rhino with the lord will drive up, possibly using the other 2 vehicles as a wall, and will unload the chosen as soon as it can, shooting 10 plasma shots at something, almost definitely killing any 6 wound MC or a vehicle, and then dropping a brand template on a nearby bunch of troops etc.
I will keep the cultists in reserve to come out and pile onto my home objective(s) once my vanilla unit of plague marines likely starts to thin out a bit.
The Havocs will either shoot str 8's at whatever MCs or vehicles need to be dealt with, or start blasting some hordes if they are too much for me to keep up with.

I think this list feels a good deal more well-rounded than the original list.
Once again, poke any holes you see into it. One thing I was not sure about was the numbers of special weapons on the chosen. Some might consider 5 each to be overkill, but in my experience I often end up coming up just short of killing what I need to, so I figured I would max them out to boost my chances of taking dangerous things off the board ASAP. If it is a poor idea, I am opening to changing that up.

 

palanquin of nurgle - dont think they can fit in a rhino as it gains the " VERY BULKY special rule" if im wrong ill take 2