IG vs. Chaos Space Marines

[Darkdeaththing]

Hey again. I'm facing off against Chaos SM this upcoming thursday and needed some help. From experience, this guys runs a unit of khorne bezerkers, a unit oif plague marines, a defiler (Weird heretic ting with legs but not the one with a sword and a face) some rhinos and thats basically it. It tied him last time so I just want to make this a sure win.

I'm looking for a powerful 1,000 or 1500pt army.

Any help?

[krasimirova]

Autocannons and standard Leman russ.. Same as everyother SM codex out there..

De-mech him with the AC's and shoot the content with your Lemans..

At 1000 - 1500 points you should be able to fit in 2 - 3 Lemans and a bucket load of autocannons..

HQ: Orders for the AC's

Troops: PCS + flamers + chimera

2 x Inf. squads to give cover to your HWT's

3 Heavy weapon teams with autocannons

Heavy:
3 x LRMBT

= That is 930 points..

Then you just have to add 1 ekstra troop choice (Lascannon vets for defiler), give the HQ a roll besides orders (Lascannon/MoO for the defiler and fun) both should go into Chimeras.. All this is a ekstra 300 points, and that is without special weapons, which should be plasma for the vets to handle those plague marines..

Hope that answers some of your questions..

And welcome to IGMB..

Cheers Kras..

[Walrus]

Target priority is good here...

The Defiler is right up there, as it can rain pie plates on you... Even if you only get a weapon destroyed It will reduce its effectiveness until it gets real close, but by then the rhinos should be dealt with.

To sum up my fail attempt at explaining tactics, shoot the defiler, then shoot the rhinos, then shoot everything else.

As per usual, Krasimirova gives sound advice...

[havoc]

List tailor=pathetic.

[krasimirova]

Mar 21, 2011 10:13:35 GMT -5 @havoc said:

list tailor=pathetic

You are really helpful here.. But since you can call people pathetic.. Then I will call you pathetic for not using capital letters and not contributing with anything to a person who asks for your help.. And the stuff I wrote in my post is one of the most basic all-comer builds i can think of, so pack up your self-righteousness...

/Rage=0

Ahh sorry about that Darkdeaththing..

About targeting his defiler i would put it down the target-ladder, if he gets his squads into CC with your stuff alot of it will die.. Chainaxes do that to people.. But yes as Walrus says the battle cannon on the defiler is the hard hitter in the stuff you wrote..

[havoc]

Mar 21, 2011 13:24:15 GMT -5 krasimirova said:

so pack up your self-righteousness...

Right after you drop your "holier than you" attitude
If you didnt notice he asked list tailored versus CSM. I said my opinion and you self inflated ego wont stop me from saying it.

[Paradill]

Now now ladies. Don't get your knickers in a twist, list tailoring isn't for everyone but if the OP wants to win that badly, let him make his own mind up.

As for the original question, as a part time chaos player, what scares me is plasma and standard russes. Autocannons really are the best way to deal with transports other than LR's and aren't too bad against plague marines at a push.

Paradill

[Ymmot (M.I.A)]

Actually this might not be the best place for this kind of thread according to the forum rules.

I'd stick this in the tactics section or ask for army building advice in the army list area...



Still, give the guy a break...he's just asking for some help.

[krasimirova]

Mar 21, 2011 13:43:08 GMT -5 Ymmot (M.I.A) said:

Still, give the guy a break...he's just asking for some help.

My thoughts exactly..

[Darkdeaththing]

Oh, I didn't realize not to post this here. Np, won't happen again

Thank you all, I'm giddy for this battle, my only thing has been Plague Marines in the past. They kept walking down the field, slaughtering guys as they went. It was bad. Plasma was on the other side of the board though.

But thank you all for the advice.