1850 Tournament CSM List

[alshrive]

So i am taking part in an upcoming Tournament and want some feedback on the list I am planning on. (Please note that this tournament stipulates that a Special Character MUST be used)


Typhus 230

7 Plague Marines 269
- 2 Plasmaguns
- Champion; Powerfist, Combi Bolter
- Rhino; Combi-Melta

14 Chaos Space Marines 254
- Mark of Nurgle
- 2 Meltaguns

28 Cultists 122
- Plague Zombies

14 Cultists 80
- Autoguns

Heldrake 170
- Baleflamer

7 Havocs 162
- Mark of Nurgle
- 4 Autocannons


Allies

Great Unclean One 160

14 Plaguebearers 210

7 Nurgling Swarms 91


Fortifications

Aegis Defence Line 100
- Quad Gun

This totals 1848 and is the second version of this list (to see the evolution check my blog alshrive.blogspot.co.uk)

Anybody got any idea's?

ALShrive

[DrLove42]

My concern is that in 1850 list, you've got 1 ranged AT unit, and the one quad gun. Close range you add the melta guns.

I'd be tempted to stip out the rhino and half the squad of normal marines, and use the points to get a MoN Obliterator or 2.

Otherwise you're will really suffer against any gunline army, or any long ways table deployments.

[alshrive]

i could drop the rhino and swap the normal marines back to a plague marine squad which would give me 78 points for a start (as per the 2 plague marine choices on blog original list) I was also debating dropping the nurglings or cultist squad (most likely cultists as nurglings are contribute more wounds).... I do like the idea of a few obliterators for the force....

[DrLove42]

2 MoN Oblits. 4 Wounds, immune to ID except for weapon that always cause it. 2+, 5++.

Assault Cannon, Lascannon, Plasma Cannons and lots more.

I think they are necessary

[alshrive]

yeah i am just reworking the list now, also dropping the nurglings and Great Unclean one and going to just take a blob of Herald and Plaguebearers for a definite turn 1 delivery......

[DrLove42]

See i'd have kept the GUO.

A deep striking hard MC can help your forces move forward as they need to prioritise destroying the big guy.

Considered Epidemus?

[alshrive]

I have considered him yes, so maybe a blob of Plague Bearers and a GUO for daemons? who do i take as first wave?

[DrLove42]

Take the Plague Bearers first wave.

Then your long range AT may have killed some of the enemy big guns, making your GuO more suriviable when he turns up

[alshrive]

mangling the army list together now and i like the look of it now- more rounded (like a GUO! *Imitating a drum roll and cymbal crash played as a comic sting*)

[alshrive]

ok revised army list looks like this......

Typhus 230

7 Plague Marines 229
- 2 Plasmaguns
- Champion; Powerfist, Combi Bolter, Melta Bombs

7 Plague Marines 216
- 2 Meltaguns
- Champion; Powerfist, Meltabombs

14 Cultists 66
- Plague Zombies

14 Cultists 66
- Plague Zombies

14 Cultists 80
- Autoguns

Heldrake 170
- Baleflamer

7 Havocs 162
- Mark of Nurgle
- 4 Autocannons

2 Obliterators 152
- Mark of Nurgle


Allies

Great Unclean One 160

14 Plaguebearers 210

Fortifications

Aegis Defence Line 100
- Quad Gun

This leaves me with just 9 points that I don't know how to use!

[DrLove42]

Lose a autogun on one of the cultists. Gives you 20 points.

Gift of Mutation to both the Plague Marine Champions

[alshrive]

just altered list to make it 9 points (i made the plague zombies in to 2 units of 14). however i drop one autogun and i have 10 points and can do that to one of them!

[alshrive]

minor update. merged the plague zombies back together (28 works better than 2 units of 14) and have dropped the autogun cultists in favour of 7 bases of nurglings... more wounds overall.....