NAVIGATING THE EYE OF TERROR LIST C: The New Red Skulls

To make it a 1,700 points list again in the new Codex: Chaos Space Marines.

HQ

Chaos Lord (60) with Mark of Chaos Undivided (5), Terminator armour (25), spiky bits (10) and lightning claws (30)
- 130 pts

Retinue

Five Chosen Chaos Space Marines (85) with Mark of Chaos Undivided (5), Terminator armour (95), three power fists (15), two chainfists (16), a reaper autocannon (20) and two combi-meltas (20)
- 256 pts

ELITES

Two Chaos Obliterators (140)
- 140 pts

TROOPS

I. Squad Hereticus
Six Chaos Space Marines (84) with bolters, one lascannon (15) and one flamer (6)
- 105 pts
Rhino (50) with havoc missile launcher (25), dozer blade (5), extra armour (5), pintle combi-bolter (10), searchlight (1) and smoke launchers (3)
- 99 pts
- 204 pts

II. Squad Night Fire
Nine Chaos Space Marines (126) with Mark of Chaos Undivided (9), one lascannon (15), one plasma gun (10) and an Aspiring Champion (13) with a combi-bolter (3)
- 176 pts

III. Squad Furious
Nine Chaos Space Marines (126) and Mark of Chaos Undivided (9), one melta gun (10) and an Aspiring Champion (13) with power weapon (10), servo arm (30) and spiky bits (10)
- 208 pts
Rhino (50) with extra armour (5), searchlight (1) and smoke launchers (3)
- 59 pts
- 267 pts

IV: Squad Corona
Six Chaos Space Marines (84) with Mark of Chaos Undivided (6), two plasma guns (20) and Veteran skill Move Through Cover (6)
- 116 pts

HEAVY SUPPORT

Basilisk (100) with indirect fire (25), pintle combi-bolter (10), extra armour (5) and smoke launchers (3)
- 143 pts

Predator (85) with autocannon (15), lascannon sponsons (25), smoke launchers (3), extra armour (5) and searchlight (1)
- 134 pts

Veteran Squad Metal Storm
Six Chaos Havocs (84) with four heavy bolters (60)
- 144 pts

TOTAL NEW LIST 1,700 points

In two simple moves my list is back to Tourney-Legal despite all of the changes in the new Codex. So, why did I make the changes that I did?

1. Two new Obliterators are easily worth more than three old ones, so dropping one for a 70 points saving was no effort (net savings of 40 points off the first list and I get twice as many lascannons).
   
2. By switching the Squad Metal Storm to a Havocs unit and dropping the Infiltrate skill I was able to add two more heavy bolters to the mix (for a healthy four in total) and I came in at only 16 points more than the original Veterans unit with TWICE the firepower.

See? That didn’t hurt now did it?

Look out for more work with the translating of armies from the old Codex to the new Codex, along with my Chaotic partner in crimes against the Imperium, Tim Pearce. If you have any commentary or questions on the articles, feel free to join the Chaos Warhammer 40,000 list at Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/40k-chaos/  and ask away (I am usually hanging around there most days).

And remember: Let the Galaxy Burn!

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