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Flamers in with the melee groups. Yeah they don't come with flamers, it's something of a bummer, I scrounge Marine flamers from a friend. And spikey bits.. they can be done with toothpick tips.

And if you like masses, then you should go with masses. Flamers are just very good for close combat squads, being able to do their job and then run into combat too.

The larger squads just mean more points, so. You can give the AC a power weapon for 10pts less, which is alright. Power fists aren't all that much use against number - just characters. But like I said, they assure you at least one wound; especially with spikey bits, so then if the enemy causes none.. well I don't want to get into trouble by indulging too far in the rules.

smile Just be sure to get DIY tapemeasure and snippers and typical gaming dice. GW stuff is far too expensive for what it is.

You get spikey bits in like vehicle sprues and stuff, but then you still have to take them apart, they aren't intended for troopers.

There's also the point of just *saying* your AC has spikey bits. It is usually spikiest, afterall.

Chaos Raptors also have an EXCELLENT special weapons sprue that can easily be used for any squad.

Good news, I found my other box and its parts that I havent used yet. I havent found the few guys im missing though. This however ends the tragety that is my chaos arent finished (missing shoulder pads, power packs, knifes, and so on)

But I found some stuff that wasnt in the box set, it seems to be a scope, not sure what its for, although I would assume it was for a bolter...

yeah me too, I was starting to worry if I had to get another set just to finish these ones....

More good news, I finally figured out ( by lookin at the box I found ) where those clothes with pistols and knives on them go... sweatdrop
I thought they went on the waist but they didnt quite fit so I didnt mess around with them, but the box illustrates them going on the leg which makes a hell of alot more sense.

hmm, what else...
oh yeah, I see that I used up most of the mutations on the recently found box set mutation sprue, so the guys im missing must be pretty gruesome.

Already thinking of half a** strategies involving using a shooting squad to walk infront of a close combat group while shooting at enemies. When they get close enough to charge, the shooty group will step to the side and continue shooting while the CC squad runs up and starts hacking.

Ehehehe, I'm thinking of using the Death Gaurd rules to make a loyalist group of Death gaurd members that were forgotten.

Amen!

Not possible in the fluff. Also if you wanted to make loyal untainted DG it would be the marine codex using trust your battle brothers and purity above all. Lots of apothecaries. But yeah All the DG were tainted, the only exception is Captain Garro, and hes most likely dead and did not have the men to have an army, only a small society such as the kill team Im making, otherwise theres nothing small enough Im aware of to represent them.