Dreadnoughts still don’t have the HELBRUTE keyword, so none of them get legion traits. This also means that they largely don’t matter, outside of a few potential exceptions. Here’s the tank built before I set about painting it. The gun shield and the radiator things that go on the sides of the gun are magnetised here, so I can get at the gun to paint it. I decided against a pintle weapon because I think it makes sense for it to be buttoned up. In-game you’d be snap-firing a pintle weapon if you moved, as the main gun is ordnance, which decreases its value. The bits might come in handy for other kits though. Dreadnought ( Castraferrum Dreadnought • Siege Dreadnought • Hellfire Dreadnought • Ironclad Dreadnought • Venerable Dreadnought • Mortis Dreadnought • Chaplain Dreadnought • Librarian Dreadnought • Furioso Dreadnought • Death Company Dreadnought • Redemptor Dreadnought ( Brutalis Dreadnought • Ballistus Dreadnought) • Wulfen Dreadnought • Doomglaive Dreadnought) • Nemesis Dreadknight • Invictor Tactical Warsuit

You can include PLAGUE MARINES units in a CSM Detachment, using their datasheet from Codex: Death Guard, in which case their faction keywords become CHAOS, NURGLE, HERETIC ASTARTES, TRAITORIS ASTARTES, and . If you do this they get Let the Galaxy Burn , have to be upgraded to have the Mark of Nurgle, and never get a Legion Trait. At the end of the battle round, score 2 VP for each Character, Monter, or Vehicle model destroyed that round by a Traitoris Astartes Character from your army. If that target had 10-19 wounds, score an extra VP, and 2 extra VP if it had 20+ wounds or was the enemy Warlord. You can score a max of 5 VP per round from this objective. Each time this happens, roll 2D6, and if you roll under the wounds characteristic of the dead model, you get +1 Command Point. To the Disco Lord’s detriment, he’s no longer the force multiplier he used to be: His previous +1 to hit aura has been replaced with the ability to give a single VEHICLE +1 to hit in melee for a round, or alternately he can curse a vehicle, hitting an enemy vehicle for a few mortal wounds. This latter ability is pretty solid against larger vehicles where you’re more likely to get close to the 6-wound cap. Lord of Terror (Aura). When enemy units take morale tests within 6” of your warlord, they roll 2D6 and take the highest result. Also, they count as half strength for Attrition tests. This is OK, but the number of situations where it matters are pretty small and usually you want other effects on your Warlord. C- There are a few army-wide special rules that Chaos Space Marines have access to regardless of which legion they hail from, or which god they’ve devoted themselves to. The TRAITORIS ASTARTES KeywordWhile the armour plating is being added, the Demolisher Cannon is blessed by Tech-priests. Each Vindicator takes a very long time to be converted from the Rhino chassis. From a durability standpoint, Daemon Princes are… OK. Toughness 6 isn’t amazing and having a 4+ invulnerable save against shooting is helpful but 5+ against melee much less so. You generally want to protect your Daemon Prince with Look Out, Sir until it’s time for him to fight. Chaos Lord • Exalted Champion • Sorcerer Lord • Daemon Prince • Dark Commune ( Cult Demagogue • Mindwitch • Iconrach • Blessed Blades)

Gifts of Chaos (1 CP). Gets you an extra Relic for a Character if your Warlord is a CSM Character. Very useful, because we have some great relics. In a fun twist, this can be used to give your model a second relic, provided it’s replacing a weapon, so your murdermonster warlord can have two relics if one is an upgraded weapon, though note you can’t use this if the model has a Daemon Weapon, limiting its effectiveness. You can use this twice in Strike Force games and three times in Onslaught games.

Mark of Nurgle

This is probably the best of the Chaos Space Marine secondary objectives and even at its best it’s just so-so. Its value is largely tied to your characters, your ability to keep them alive, and their ability to destroy enemy units in melee. Your biggest obstacle for scoring this objective is that you have a very limited number of characters in your army to do this with – 3 HQs, possibly Abaddon, and however many Masters of Execution you’re going to take. One of those is probably a Master of Possession, and you won’t be fighting with him, which leaves at most 2-4 characters to work with. Only melee kills count, and against the armies that offer you lots of said juicy targets, you’ll often have Bring it Down or Assassination to turn to instead. Greater Blight drone (the CSM one) weapons fixed. The silly typo giving the CSM Blight drone a 6” shorter range on its bile maw was fixed, increasing its range to 18” (from 12”).