I've just came back from a battle i had against an Ultramarine's army of 1500pts, and although i'm a bit disapointed in how the game went, i've completly swipped his army too well( his terminators ran off the table to add insult to injury!). His army was mostly body count as well but he had a dreadnought( dread vs Chaos is total point sink, my DP even taken a wound from the explosion!). I felt bad when my Obliterators had taken 950pts against Ultramarines, that the rest of my troops barely made any close combat accept my raptors who sweept a squad of assault marines and my squad of Khorn Marines only killed 6 scouts in CC( killed 3 in shooting). After Turn 4 it was over but there was only a commander and a librarian , and he proposed a duel my one DP Vs his libie and Commander, i accepted with nothing to lose( only lost 4 Chaos Marines in total), because his commander and libie are in the same retenue squad, i Smashed both of his Heroes together !!!! Poor guy was mumbling alone in the corner for 15 minutes so i bought him a soda.Now what i've learned so far...
-Obliterators Rocks!!! Deploy them behind cover to obscure LoS and when it's my turn they move inside the cover and fire!!!
-Maybe i should investe my troops with transport after all, if i were to fight against an army that is slow as well. But transports hurts a bit on my obliterators.
-Khorn beserkers might be a good idea for investment for like when i don't need assault weapons on a troop squad they can dish out marines quite fast.
-Daemon Princes with Warptime in my opinion causes more damage against the Wind of Chaos. Its very usefull if your fighting against skilled models or other MC( Like other DPs!), but if 4-5 attacks alone can't kill a squad of marines, at least an icon of tzeentch or nurgle helps a lot against those pesky power weapons and power fists.If paired DP are to attack a squad maybe that would let me drop the Warptime ability.
-DP are intention whores and does it very well, in fact 2 squads of marines jumped right at my DP and remained locked-in for 2 turns.
-Icon of Khorn on a squad of Chaos is ludacrous! with only 6 models of chaos marines, 5 PFs attacks and 20 normal attacks. Killed a squad of 6 scouts completly after my assault. sick....
-poor guy....
Oh well, another victory for the forces of Chaos, spoils for the children of perturabo and wait..... is that a manifactorium with a blue predator over there?!