40K Grimdark Armylist: Kravek Morne’s Excellent Chaos Terminators!
Goatboy here with a 40K CSM Terminator themed army that uses Warpstrike Champions to the max. Kravek Morne approves!
A ton of Chaos Space Marine boxes lately have had Chaos Terminators in them. They even gave us a new Chaos Terminator Character that is pretty good as well and a new detachment I want to try and get to work. The Warpstrike Champions is what I want to utilize today and so let’s brew something to get this to work.
This detachment wants you to take things from Chaos Space Marines that can deep strike on the table top. The army gets to take up to 2 units a turn that you can return to space at the end of your opponents turn if they are not in engagement range of anything. This seems pretty good and while it wants you to take Terminators you can also utilize the other Deep strike options in the game if you want. I think this time will just try to utilize Terminators so will see if we have anything else left over after building up something cool.
Putting the List Together
First will for sure be using Kravek Morne as he just seems like an amazing character for your Terminators. That is the first leader for the boys in bulky army and the question I have now is what about the other 2 units? We could always use Abaddon as another leader but what about that 3rd unit?
Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor
He gets a discount to CP but then that is really about it. He isn’t making the unit any better beyond getting a few more attacks and his other ability to halve the damage of an attack really only does wonders for him. I think we don’t utilize him as a leader and maybe just use one as a utility piece to be annoying.
Sorcerer in Terminator Armor
Now this one has a lot more going for it. You have a powerful shooting attack, a special to increase your AP on your weapons versus a specific target, and you get the ability to reroll charges for the unit he is attached too. I think we for sure add this to the 3rd unit of Terminators.
Alright this gives us 3 leaders for the Terminators so the question is do we do 3 units of 10? Do we do 3 units of 5? Do we do one unit of 10 and then 2 units of 5 to give us more utility options?
I think we for sure do one unit of 10 for Kravek Morne
Kravek Morne – 120pts
Chaos Terminators X 10 – 360pts
Abaddon – 270pts
Chaos Terminators X 5 – 180pts
Sorcerer in Terminator Armor – 80pts
Chaos Terminators X 10 – 360pts
Total – 1370pts
Now we don’t have a ton of points to “mess with”. We need some utility to help score some points and do some missions. I think we could look at the simple upgrade of a Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor to keep the theme and give us a bro to land in a zone and do something fun.
Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor – 85pts
From here we need some sticky objective holders as well as some other damage dealing options. I also think we need some things to sit out in the way and help ensure our Terminators have somewhere to drop. We have two options for that – either we go with Nurglings for an Ally bit of help or Red Corsairs Raiders. I don’t think the Raiders are really going to help out for the points so will go with 2 units of Nurglings to round things out.
Cultists X 10 – 50pts
Nurglings X 3 – 40pts
Nurglings X 3 – 40pts
Total points currently sit at 1585pts which doesn’t leave a ton of room for damage options. I think we have to look at some of the tanks that can help us punch through with some ranged damage. The Predator Destructor seems the best of the option with some Lascannon sponsons and an amazing Autocannon. I think we should put in 2 of these in the army to ensure we can kill things at range if needed.
Predator Destructor – 140pts
Predator Destructor – 140pts
We now are sitting at 1865 points and have some fun options and damage dealing things. We have a 135 points to mess with and I do know I might want some of the Enhancements. Looking at all the Chaos Space Marine options I think we can throw out some disruption in the simple addition of Cypher for 90 points. This leads us 45 points which is more than enough to get an Enhancement.
Let’s add this all up for the finish.
Kravek Morne’s Excellent Chaos Terminators!
Warpstrike Champions – Chaos Space Marine Detachment
-HQ-
Abaddon – 270pts – Warlord
Kravek Morne – 120pts
Sorcerer in Terminator Armor – 100pts
Enhancement: Akshur’s Binding Runes
Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor – 110pts
Enhancement: Tzagulla
Cypher – 90pts
-Battleline-
Cultists X 10 – 50pts
-Non Battleline-
Chaos Terminators X 10 – 360pts
Chaos Terminators X 10 – 360pts
Chaos Terminators X 5 – 180pts
Predator Destructor – 140pts
Predator Destructor – 140pts
-Allies-
Nurglings X 3 – 40pts
Nurglings X 3 – 40pts
PTs: 2000
Kravek Morne’s Excellent Chaos Terminators Tactics
The army is set up where you can deep strike the 10 Terms with Sorcerer Lord round 1 if you want and the regular Chaos Lord can come down and be a pain in the butt with some extra damage if needed. It means you will have to be smart with your Nurglings to ensure you get a good place to come down and see if you can make a 9 inch charge with a built in reroll. This seems like a neat army with some cool tank, some powerful board controlling play, and Abaddon that can wreck this as needed.
Iron Within! Iron Without!
