Ahh, the glue frenzy, mine was a modelling disaster rather than a efficiency hiccup, I got too many multi pose imperial marines handed down all at once and stuck them all in similar and boring positions rather than taking my time. (sniff) So now having applied most paint to most minis I'm now sawing a few up at a time and redoing them and pinning bits and bobs, tis a pain.
Do you [ben] also use an allocation of "fun" units, e.g. footsloggin multimelta dreads, a 7man command squad with counter attack all honours and no vehicle,7 man sword brethren with honours, shields, krak, seals, counter attack and no transport? If so then it would be a fine environment for those units.(Its hard to guage the kind of games people have, I don’t want ben to have to hold back too much,or have new folks think the game doesn’t rock because they use sub par units, so I'm just going to go off on one, in case you get thrown in the deep end
) If I were using those models to make a list,(I would probably play in 1500s for a while) my core would look like this:
HQ
Demon prince (as was) (MOS
LOS)=135
(Would be nice to fly, but adding wings to a model is a pain, and saying "he just floats" is what gave chaos a bad name in the first place
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Elites
1x6 Termies with IOCG , combi weaponsx6 Abaddon is now your termie champion- he just looks really pretty, use his weapons to represent some sort of fist and combi weapon. =240
I might be tempted in really low points brackets to split it into 2 squads of 3.In a really high points bracket (2000 ish) I'd bring out abaddon, but thats just me.
Troops
Berserkers 10 man led by champion with power weapon (plas pistols - just ignore em, they're bolt pistols in everyones mind)+ a personal icon (245)
They go in the landraider, the icon inside such a big vehicle is really handy by the rules of summoning (p61 ish, having 6" from a huge vehicle hull is a big chunk of the table, handy for demons etc) they don't shoot well, because you want to be in assault and you don't want to shoot folks that stop you being able to charge thenm through clever wound removal.
FA
6 Raptors (as was) champion (claws+ melta bombs)1 flamer 1 plasma IOGC=195
Heavy
Land raider possessed, havoc launcher (255)
(cut back a bit, I'd add a dozerblade if the modelling idea worked for you)
That comes to 1070
Your second troops choice, I've got a bit confused over, does the champion have a plasma weapon? If so I'd follow (A) if its a squad member I'd follow (B)
A) An 8 man Csm with IOS the champion has a plasma pistol (or perhaps more versatile a combi weapon depending on how you play) and one squad member has a melta gun + Rhino with blade and armour, squad cost= 235
I try to put icons not on champions as most of my opponents arrange sniping on anything that looks too costly.
Havoc squad takes the 2 spare bodies from the IOS
CSM squad
5 man (that combi bolter champion is just a gruntling whose picked up a rather fancy bolter from somewhere) 2 missiles =115
(steady fire base, which can absorb 3 casualties and still operate at 100% efficiency, take down 2 meq a turn or really threaten armour around the place)
1420
You could then play 1500 point battles really brutally, by either buying\making 1 obliterator (did the customising oblit thread move on?), or using your possessed as 5 demons and buying the csm rhino a havoc launcher.
B)10man csm, with champion glue a scabbard (paint it a bit first) onto the champions leg to represent a power weapon sheathed, leading blokes with a plas and a melta, + Rhino EA and blade =280
Which puts you at 1350, you could then use 2 possessed to represent obliterators to make it up to 1500, or take your possessed as you wished (although I might play test the idea of it being the icon of slannesh to be dead on 1500, and to attack first,
Expansions of this sort of army?
I think if you decide to not take power weapons all over the place and instead add a greater demon, that might be a fun switch around and as the chaos fan bois keep telling me modellers love it because you could use a giant tree to represent your demon (basically any big model that you really want to paint) He’d be really nice tactically popping out of the IOS plas pistol champion or the khorne bloke.