Chaos Bikes - suggestions

[aeroplane]

I have a new Knights of Chaos sprue ( WFB ) that was bought for a few bits (namely helmets, shields, and CCW's)

This means that I have a bunch of really chaosy horses and mounted riders that would take about 2 seconds to give 40K weapons and make them Chaos Marines 'count as' bikers. (and would look a lot better than the normal bikers)

My problem is that I'm not sure what to do with them in-game. Bikes are a bit expensive in the current codex, and I have no idea about squad size and equipment. An expensive tank-hunting squad that daemonbombs?

They will probably be painted Khorne-y, or fairly neutral. My Nurgle list is packed full, and I have some bikers for my Emperor's Children. Tzeench could be a good idea, but I haven't really thought about it...

Thanks in advance, gentlemen.

[Skarsgard]

It depends on the rest of the army.

One of my armies is a biker heavy force (15 bikes all up).

If you are not using too many chaosy options, you can run them as marines.

However, some of the combo's I use


3 Bikes - 2 meltagun

5 bikes - 2 meltagun, fist, IOCG

5 Bikes - 2 plasmagun, fist, IOCG

In my nightlords I run them in squads of 7. I recently took them as a marine force and was surprised when my 1750pt army came in at 1500pts in the marine codex.

[aeroplane]

I recently took them as a marine force and was surprised when my 1750pt army came in at 1500pts in the marine codex.

Hmmm.... I have thought about making a spiky loyalist marine list... I will look more seriously at that.

[Skarsgard]

If you are not taking oblits/daemons etc then there is no issue.

My guys are a "newly turned chapter". I could not believe how cheap everything was in the marine dex. Also, having bikers (units of 5 or more models) count as troops is gold!!!

[Daemon Russ]

You are not strictly limited to taking them as bikers, being khornate you could also palm them off as being juggernauts of khorne, or if you have/decide to run a renegade list you could also take them as rough riders.

Pretty much as you said though, an expensive antitank option that can daemonbomb (assuming you have an icon)

Ive got 3 bikes left over from my boxed set i got when i first started 4 years ago, never built them up, are they good to use? or do they just attract to much fire?

[aeroplane]

being khornate you could also palm them off as being juggernauts of khorne

Ooooh... That never crossed my mind... Cool!

Thanks!

[Duchat]

If you really want to see a sic point reduction, you need to check out the new wolves codex. Grey Hunters are almost identical to chaos regular troops but better... and cheaper.