Footslogging Chaos Marines? Say it ain’t so!
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
If you follow popular list building on 40K internet forums, you’ll probably see the popular belief that chaos marines must be mechanized to compete effectively. Or be toting 2 Lashes of Submission and lots of blast templates. I’ve played mech chaos marines for a few years now, and have also tried the double-lash variations for tournie play. They both work well, no doubt about it. But I like being different. So, I aim to see if I can make a competitive foot-slogging chaos marine army.
So far, I’ve gotten in a few games with my proto-list:
Daemon Prince (few frills)
2 big squads of khorne-icon chaos marines (~15 guys each, 2 specials, fist)
Typical 7-man plague marine squad (2 plasma, fist)
Sonic weapon noise marines
Missile Launcher / Autocannon havocs
2 sets of 3 obliterators
It did ok. But it could do better. Noise marines are awfully pricey. They offer some dakka, but I’m not sure I really need more bolter-strength firepower when I’m throwing out about 30 normal chaos marines. And I’d like a cheaper unit to park on far-off home objectives then the plague marines so they can join the forward objective-grabbing fray. After chatting with my friendly opponent (an eldar-zilla list) we both came away with some list tweaking ideas.
The noise marines are going bye-bye. What really makes them shine is either a Lash to bunch things up for a blast master, or a rhino for them to pile out of with doom siren and lots of shooting. I have neither. In their place, a 10-man chaos marine squad with a lascannon, icon, and fist. They’ll be the new babysitters. That still left some points laying around though. I was debating beefing up the prince to normal standards, but got a different idea…
Lesser Daemons are often charged with being mediocre. I’m not so sure. In fact, I think they have some definite uses. Primarily, being able to pop in and support an assault by my big khorne squads, or beefing up the numbers if the plague marines get into it. They can also tie up shooty units that lack assault power (like most heavy weapon or sniper units). And they can also baby-sit objectives that are unlikely to see much enemy attention. A squad of 8 get’s the 3rd ring stared when summoning in, giving them an extra inch or so. So I dropped the khorne squads from 14/15 to 12/13 and used the other left over points to add another icon I the plague squad and field 8 lesser daemons.
To be honest, I’ve wanted to find a way to use summoned daemons for a while, since I had a lot of them for my old Chaos Marine army, and they all got rolled into this one new generic entry. I like the models, so I wanted to find a use for them. Did I? Time will tell. But I have a good feeling about it.
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