Ultraboy Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I use plague zombies in the majority of my 2000 pt games (Used Zekers a few times, nevermind that) and I'm very happy on how they're working for me. But just a few weeks ago I traded some Templars to my friend for some Plague Marines. I have close to nearly nearly of the Mortarion's boys but I can't come up with an effective way to utilize them for a 2000 pt game. In my collection I have: Obilterators, Heldrakes, Terminators, land raiders, regular chaos marines, tons of chaos bikers, spawn, a couple lords/sorcerors, Necrosius and Typhus and a metric ton of zombies. With everything scoring now, I can save up on not needing Typhus (Still a beast though), but I still can't figure out a viable strategy or lists to use. I'm looking for something fun, yet a little challenging for my opponents to face. Please help! Also, I have a copy of FW Apocalyspe that has some nice (I think so) units for Chaos. I also hve Codex: BL and CS on hand. I've had my eye on the Chaos Eagle and Fire Raptor ships. Any advice is helpful. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Mostly they're used in place of regular CSM for when people want "CSM but tougher." Five to seven PM in a Rhino with either two Meltaguns or two Plasmaguns deployed pretty much exactly how you might use ten CSM with the same load-out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozo69pd Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 The poison nerf of 7th makes Nurgle very sad, but at least PM can still tank shots to the face like a boss. My record with a 7 man squad was 72 Fire Warrior shots with only 1 casualty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urauloth Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Yep, they're just really tough, and although everything is scoring now they're pretty great objective holders with Objective Secured if you make them troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultraboy Posted June 7, 2014 Author Share Posted June 7, 2014 How would complement them with the rest of the army? With zombies, I just push them to objectives while the rest of my units delay or stop my opponent's units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagrath Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Plague Marines were sadly overcosted in 6th and they got worse in 7th. They could be very strong if they had drop pods, but for some reason CSM don't have cheap drop pods. I am holding out hopes for the Imperial Armor chaos space marine supplement and some sort of 40k nurgle supplement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozo69pd Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 on the bright side rhinos are scoring now and cheap so that got a little better. I never used rhinos before because first blood often means the difference for winning and losing with my army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 With Zombies, it's harder - as all your points should probably be in them. 7 man and kitted as described - they're durable enough to do anything really. Entirely up to you. They should offer enough flexibility for anything you desire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Ravensong Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 At 2000 points I usually run 1-2 squads of 8 with 2 flamers and a powerfist in landraiders accompanying a cc oriented character like typhus or a palanquin sorcerer with the 2+ armor relic from the CS supplement. I usually also have 2 or 3 additional squads of 7 with a powerfist and either double plasmaguns or double meltaguns depending on what I'm expecting to run into on any given day and I do fairly well. I typically run the landraiders straight at something I'd like to not see stay on the table and flank that with the plasma squads. Even just the one flamer squad supported by 2 plasma squads turns into a pretty good spear tip that's difficult to deal with. Following some of the previously mentioned wisdom, I use my plague marines like CSM+. They have a pretty good defensive loadout and can be hard to force off of objectives or easily sweep away in close combat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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