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well the key in this situation was that it was an early third edition army ..just the base rulebook and no chaos codex out yet ...

it was a thousand sons themed army

I used the mark of chaos rules to make my commander a sorcerer and 2 squads of thousand sons became troop choices
I then put in 2 squads of plague marines with blight grenades as close combat support .. since at the time this was not verboten
the dread was a heavy support choice to provide anti vehicle support so he had all the big nasty heavy shooty options to really put a dent in the vehicle heavy armies which were about the only things that really presented that army with an obstacle

it was a thing of gross and usually victorious fun ... the old thousand sons required a str 5 weapon to even deliver a wound .. then they still had another wound
the main weakness being close combat where anyone with a spoon could chew them up.. thus the 5 toughness blight grenade carrying plague marines ..which came with plague knife for free ... 3rd edition plague knife flat out killed a fig on a wound roll of six ..didn't matter if you had 15 wounds ..so that took care of that weakness
the next weakness was the fact that both those troop types aren't real great at taking out vehicles so I was gettin busted up by whirlwinds and basilisks with artilery fire and everyother thing at closer ranges ..thus the dread.. thus the gunned out dread .. and possible a squad of havocs .. I honestly can't remember ..I'd have to go back and find the base rulebook and do math(acckk ..)

anyway ..it worked well several times then one time it was scout kamikaze .. that added to the fact that of the 10 or so 40k players locally there where only 3 of us who played for fun .. all the others cared about was winning at any cost .. which was actually why I built this whole somewhat cheesy army ..because I like to watch men cry

however now I live somewhere completely different and the choice of players seems much more ..pleasant ..so I'm going to have another round of bolt slinging False Emperor overthrowing fun