The board had a good spread of low single story buildings as well as a few other rock features for lighter cover. Two ten man units of Kroot Carnivores with sniper rounds. Large unit of Fire Warriors (Strike Team) Tau Commander with marker drones (attached to Broadside battlesuits).Įthereal (attached to a Kroot Canivore squad)Ĭadre Fireblade (attached to the Fire Warrior squad) The demon prince rolled for gift of mutation and got eternal warrior, the champion of the warp talons rolled and got icy aura or something equally useless and terrible.

Three fully Kitted out squads of 10 chaos warriors with power weapons on champions and special and heavy weapons (wysiwyg). Unit of ten warp talons, champion has gift of mutation. The squad had a Chaos Land Raider as a dedicated transport and this had a dirge caster and dozer blade. My force comprised a single combined arms detachment.ĭaemon Prince: Mark of Khorne, Axe of Blinding Fury, Power Armour, Warlord.Ĭhaos Terminators x4, 3x power axes, aspiring champion with power fist. I’m not going to go into precise detail as I don’t have my opponents army list, but there should still be enough detail to give you a good idea. I was using my 30k heresy era models, but with 40k Chaos Space Marine rules for fairness and because…well the Tau didn’t exist as an advanced civilisation in the 31st millennium!

I was taking a 1,500pts force of Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines, my friend the same points of Tau Empire. It was our first game for a while and we were both eager to try new lists. Last weekend myself and a friend went down to our local gaming store to play a 1,500pt game of 40k.

Space marine vs tau