Iron Warriors Mono-Nurgle 1500 Points

I've decided I want the Mayhem pack over the Helcult, simply because I don't want to deal with a small mess and it feels slightly more enjoyable to throw Demon Engines and machines at people than have more cultists spamming about. That being said I have a small dilemma that is causing me a OCD matter, I'm 5 points over the limit and I don't want to be! I have a couple of options to choose, and all of them are light. In the process of dropping the heavy flamers, I added a couple of bikers as I was repeatedly informed elsewhere that having a minimum of three bikers wasn't worth it. I don't want spawn either, so I made the decision to have more marines instead of more beautiful flamethrowers.

Chaos Lord- MoN, Bike, LC, PF

5x PMs - 2x melta, Rhino
5x PMs - 2x melta, Rhino
5x PMs - 2x plasma, Rhino

Helbrute - MM / PF
Helbrute - MM / PF
Helbrute - PC / PF

2x Baledrakes
5x Chaos Bikers - 2x Melta, MoN, Champ w/ Melta Bombs, Power Axe

As it stands, I love the list. Despite hating meta groups, I love the way the Heldrakes look (I love Dragons, I'm thinking of some awesome conversion ideas). However, I want the list to be at the most exactly 1500. So I'm at 1505 and I have a few options:

• Change the Lord's loadout to something without the Power fist (Unwieldy is questionable)
• Drop a Rhino (sounds terrible)
• Drop the Plasma Cannon (headache because I bought a OOP Chaos Dread that I like)
• Drop the Bike Champs melta bombs (Unsure)
• Drop the biker squad from 5 to 4 (My understanding is 5 would be a minimum threshold)
• Change the Heldrakes to (gasp) Blight Drones

I had one time considered dumping 3 autocannons on my Helbrutes, but that was because I was having a dakka moment. Thankfully it passed. When I upgrade to 1750-2000, I will be including lassponsonautopreds or Obliterators.

Kreuger said:

Do what is Iron Warriors about this list, or is it just color scheme on the drakes?

I ask because one of my back burner projects (behind career, family, & grad school) is an Iron Warriors list with a Nurgle focus.

It would include iron warriors units with lots of bionics, oil-like ooze like The Cleaved, and a suggestion of the obliterator virus. There would definitely be uncorrupted Iron Warriors as well.

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I'm making an entirely new scheme for them, new colors. My own take on their heraldry with my own designed banners and badges, my avatar is one of them. I'm planning on changing the wing configuration and possibly the heads to make my Heldrakes more Dragon like. I'll probably try and get some bionics molded into my Plague Marines (thanks for the reminder), I'm still using my plague marines I've been collecting for the last couple of years.

It's more of a mono-god focus derived from the Iron Warriors. Not specifically just being siege specialists, but the use of Bikes would be justified for a scout commander from the Crusades, using Helbrutes as a break in/anti-tank squadron. Plague Marines are excellent trench fighters too, and any justification about why it looks like any other PM list is simply because our meta is designed by uninterested pricks, it's cheaper for me money wise, and I fucking want to do it that way.

As for the Adepticon lists, I was reading the one from last year. The few I see this year (from google top 16/Winner) is a Chaos Demons army with minimal cultists, a sorc and a heldrake. The GDs and Demon princes make up for having a second Heldrake with allocation and flight, minimizing the need for anything by just taking basic essential units for scoring and bleeding. Again, I don't see why this in particular applies to me.

The list is intended to be fun+semi-competitive. If two heldrakes is overdoing it, then I'll likely switch down to two Blight Drones, or go make a fortification defense line. This is entirely subject to cases of shiveagits based on my new local meta, which may be taudar/deathstar spam for all I know. In regards though, I've decided to just take off the melta bombs and keep it at 1500 to maintain the limited sanity I apply to this task. If I keep getting a dead Lord from battles, I'll drop the power axe from the champ and the PC on the one Dread for a sigil.

Thank you gents, ladies, and man children for the feedback. You've been very helpful.