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Originally Posted by Stubber  Including Heavy weapons and combat orientated troops (pistol and combat weapon) in one squad is a waste.
If you're shooting the combat troops will just be sitting around doing nothing.
In combat heavy bolters won't be able to shoot so are wasted.
You need to specialise your squads, two heavy weapons in one squad while the other is fitted for for combat and little else.
That way you'll find your squads become cheaper and much better at one thing rather than over expensive and alright at everything. |
Except that, alas, unlike special weapons, you cannot put two H weapons in a squad unless it's a havoc squad, which is heavy support.
Ok, well, with that knowledge, I think this would be cool and fit your ideas:
Make your Lord a Daemon Prince and (consequently) a CC monster. Don't go overboard, but don't skimp. Give him Daemonic Stature and a Dreadaxe. That will take care of the armour of a range of nasty things, from Chaplains and SMs with Iron Halos, to Farseers, Warlocks and daemons. Since your lord counts as a monstrous creature, he ignores armour saves and with the Deadaxe he ignores invulnerables as well. After that, you should either give him wings and have him go character-hunting, or put him with a cheap Chaos Marine squad tooled up for close combat.
On the subject of Chaos Marine squads, NEVER MIX WEAPON LOADOUTS! Give them ALL either bolters or bolt pistol and close combat weapons. Never mix. Ever. You can put special weapons in the CCW squad, and a heavy weapon (and a special weapon) in the other squad if you want.
Now, for possessed and Khorne Berzerkers, you should decide on one or the other because they're both there for the same thing: infantry massacre. THey also both take the same Force Organization slot, and are both kinda expensive points wise. If you take possessed, give them Daemonic Talons. If Khorne Berzerkers, be sure to give them all Chainaxes because that's why they're so cool (and better than the average CSM at killing things with 3+ and 2+ saves). With possessed, they have the potential of being a retinue for your lord if you want an absolutely devastating CC squad. If you give your lord wingsm the possessed will not be able to join hims as they will not have daemonic flight (don't give it too them, it makes them too expensive. use a rhino instead). In that case, go with Khorne Berzerkers.
Ok, so you've got plenty of infantry-terror. You need some tank-busting. You could make a smaller squad of CSM and give them a lascannon, or get a Havoc squad and giv them Missile Launchers/Lascannons (missile launchers will give them versatility, but they won't be as effective as a team of lascannons in the tank-busting area).
That's all I've got for now.