My new focus: Papa Nurgle

[infornography]

Thunderwolf Cavalry are a fairly nasty, fast melee deathstar unit. Depending on how he has them equipped they could make things rather painful for you.

Runepriests still have their runeweapons which act like psychic hoods used to, so be aware of that when fielding psykers of your own.

Long fangs are some of the meanest devastator equivalents in the game, look out for their potential krak spam.

And Grey Hunters are some of the most cost effective troops in the game, keep in mind that they are meaner in melee than tac marines by far and have better gun options as well.

Otherwise, nothing particularly notable I can think of.

[Bukimimaru]

He's got the thunder wolf cavalry, but I'm hoping one of the 4 Daemon Princes take em out. Either that or the Plague Marine's Plasma Guns.
To be honest, the guy I'm playing hasn't used them before and he's used to playing Tau. Hopefully he'll still be in the "sit back and shoot" stuff frame of mind.

[Bukimimaru]

I was just invited to a last minute game at a friends this evening. We were teaching a new friend of ours how to play the new edition. He has recently bought himself quite a substantial Chaos army, and It was really interesting to see how other people run a non-Nurgle themed army.
It was only a friendly game to get to grips with the rules, but we played a 1,000 pointer against Orks, (500points for each for Chaos guy and myself and 1,000 points for Ork guy).

I learnt a great deal about what to expect from each of my units, and I managed to field my Plaguies for the first time.
They didn't do an awful lot, but they certainly took a lot of bullets without losing a wound, so they did their job well.
Once again my Cultists did much more work than I ever expected them to, pummelling an Ork Warbosses before running fearfully in tank shock at the hands of a hilariously weird looted wagon.
The real star of the show was my Hell Brute who Krack missiled his way through 2 Ork Trukks and the Burna Boys.

The other chaos guy was fielding two Tac squads and a really cool looking Chaos Lord in Term armour.
I was actually really impressed by how much of a scrap the standard chaos guys could take in both a fire fight and close combat.
The chaos lord however soon succumbed to a huge mob of 30 Ork Boys who ate him alive in just 2 rounds of CC.

I've got Monday off work, so I've resolved myself to painting as much of my army as possible.
I'll post pics as soon as I have some decent ones.

As always, ideas, comment and tips are always appreciated as I still don't have a great deal of experience when it comes to Chaos.

[infornography]

Cultists are great for swarming an enemy, especially if you attach your lord or something with fearless to them.

Plague Marines are mostly good for camping an objective and not dying. They are ok in melee and as good at shooting as any other marine squad with bolters, but they are HARD to kill.

[Bukimimaru]

Ok, so here's the plan for my 1,500 Chaos army with Daemon allies:

(Chaos_Space_Marines)

HQ - 220
Daemon Prince
Daemon of Nurgle; wings; power armour.

Elites - 440
7 Plague Marines
power fist; 2× meltagun; Veterans of the Long War.

7 Plague Marines
power fist; 2× meltagun; Veterans of the Long War.

Troops - 90
20 Chaos Cultists

Detachment: (Chaos_Daemons)

HQ - 270
Bloodthirster
Unholy Might.

Troops - 192
6 Bloodletters of Khorne

6 Bloodletters of Khorne

Heavy Support - 290
Daemon Prince of Chaos
Iron Hide; Unholy Might; Mark of Khorne.

Daemon Prince of Chaos
Iron Hide; Unholy Might; Mark of Khorne.

1,502 points

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The guy playing Spacewolves has never used them before and isn't quite as sharp as his ally, the Space Marine player.
The Space Marine player is quite a tactical player and will probably be expecting us to go heavy on the Daemon Prince. I therefore expect him to be fielding lots of heavy weapons, maybe a few Dev squads. Either that or he'll go with a really fast army, full of bike to manoeuvre around all the Daemons who will be coming in from reserves.

ideas?