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As is in the codex,Dreadnought close combat weapon with storm bolter, and assault cannon.

And yes I was thinking the same thing on the Devastators and the Assault squad, only issue with the Devi's is the fact they are good for armored companies and the like, so it depends there.

I am going for a variety of chapters, but I won't mix say, Space Wolf with Dark Angels, they wouldn't work well together in a lore sense.

I don't actually play chaos, but almost all of my friends do, one of which uses Iron Warriors.
Black Templars for the win!

First off, for your lord and chosen, it may be better to make them useful for shredding infantry in assault, as the rest of your army should be able to handle armor, so some weapons that go at initiative, rather than powerfists, also the minimum number is 4 for a chosen retinue.
Going along with the anti-infantry theme, use a pistol on your lord, rather than a combi-melta, plus you can't and don't need to buy both the bolter and the combi-weapon, as they are both 2handed weapons and the combi already has the bolter in it.

As far as troops go, it may be better to give the bolter squad a longer ranged weapon, like a plasma gun, lascannon, autocannon, or missile launcher and the melta to the close-combat squad. Powerfists in squads, are almost a necessity, the ranged squad may be able to get away with not having one, but your close combat one should have it.

Vehicles usually are iffy prospects, sometimes they do good, sometimes not. I don't like them too much, because it just takes one lucky shot to pop them, if you are dead set on using them, I would say use longer ranged ones like a defiler with indirect fire or a preadator, the vindicator and the rhino aren't especially good investments to me.
Rhinos - unless you're going to put two special weapons in them, forget about it, 50 points for a combi-bolter the goes pop at the sight of heavy bolters

Vindicator - decent in cityfight, however not too useful in normal games, as the short range is a disadvantage for vehicles, plus as it is 14 armor front (i think) you really shouldn't use mutated hull on it, daemonic or parasitic possesion would be a better investment if you must have a vindicator.

Defiler - with indirect fire you get the same effect as the vindicator, but with some distinct advantages, enemies can't see you and longer range.
Also it can fight in close combat, so pesky jump troops don't smash it with powerfists

Predator - decent choice as far as direct firing vehichles go, give it all lascannons, 48' range, and mutated hull, 14 front armor, it'll be able to take and deal out hits to vehicles and marine squads.

If you do manage to free up some points, get another obliterator, but if you're going to use even numbers, split them into squads for this list, makes them harder to target, assault, and gives you more shooting freedom. Also, a few words of caution on deep-striking them, as i think you're doing with that teleport homer, most normal boards have 25% coverage with terrain, and obliterators die nice and easy when teleported too close to anything

My last victory was all because my Chaos Lord and his Retinue, Lord took a huge chunk out of the huge mutant squads and killed the other Lord in the first turn of combat. Also, dosen't a Chosen Aspiring Champion count in the unit count for the Retinue?
Thanks for the tips anyways.

Ohhhh thanks for that, fills in another gap in my head. xd I don't really know much, since I haven't been playing for that long.

Theme over ability to not lose.

Sharpshooter's Doctrine
Carapace Armour Doctrine
Something else to fit in with the Korp's feeling.

1 x Command HQ Squad
1 x Stormtrooper Squad - Deep Strike if possible.
2 x Infantry Squad
3 x Heavy Weapon Teams with stubbers because they look.. evil for one HS choice
3 x Sentinels

It's supposed to be Death Korps of Krieg proxying as standard Cadians. I haven't played much since the badly painted space marines hidden somewhere..

..Anyway, is the above army able to take on space marines? I might change the stubbers to autocannons because they too conform to the theme of gritty-ness. If the above works, I might add some Death Riders or some more Infantry Squads.

Heres the list i was going to take to adepticon, but i didnt get to go, so it has yet to be play tested.

1000 Guard

Command squad (87)
Junior Officer
Honorifica Imperialis
Power Weapon
Veteran
Medic
Veteran

Support Squads

Anti Tank (205)
Las Cannons
3 Las Cannons

Missiles
3 Missiles

Special Weapons (126)
Demo/Flamer
Demo Charge
2 x Flamer

Demo/Flamer
Demo Charge
2 x Flamer

Infantry Platoon (177)

Squad 1
Grenade

Squad 2
Grenade

Junior Officer
Shotgun

50 Conscripts (255)
Commissar (Elite choice)
Power Weapon

Tank Hunter Destroyer 160

Doctrines
Conscripts
Close Order Drill
Drop Troops
Independent commissars

*edit* wow i waisted all this time spacing all these things out to be nice and orderly and they all just get left aligned sad

I just started Chaos Space marines ( I know, I'm lacking a heavy support + Fast attack, I plan on getting them this weekend or next, depending on when I get paid)

HQ
Chaos Lord
-Mark of Chaos Undivided
-Daemonic essence
-Terminator armor
-Chainfist
-Combi-Melta

Fast Attack

Chaos Space Marine Bikers
-Plasma gun

Troops
Chaos Space Marine Squad 1 (8 marines)
-Missile launcher

Chaos Space Marine Squad 2 (8 Marines)
-Frag Grenades
-Krak Grenades
-Heavy bolter

Rhino Transport
- Mutated Hull
- Smoke Launchers

Chaos Space Marine Squad 3 (Khorne Beserkers) (12)
- Counterattack
- Furious Charge

Tell me what you think.

PS. (Due to some miscounting errors, I've decided to take off all point values for now, Until A later time when I figure some things out n' stuff, as well as made a few modifications