Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Chaos Space Marines (section)

===Dataslates===
*'''Wrathborn (Start Collecting! Chaos Space Marines)''' - 1 Terminator Chaos Lord, 1 unit of Chaos Space Marines, and 1 Helbrute. The Lord and all units within 12" of him gain Hatred. That's it.

*'''Fallen Champions:''' Cypher grabs up to 3 Chosen Squads as Fallen goons.  The Chosen aren't much more useful than normal, as they lose a lot of stuff to use.  However, their use shouldn't be to much more than to guard Cypher himself as he fucks with people's shit.
** The Chosen cannot take Artefacts, Rewards, Marks, or Transports.  He can take Icon of Vengeance though. And apparently the chosen can take power fists for 5 points.
** Chosen within 12" of Cypher uses his leadership.  They also grab ATSKNF.
** Enemy Dark Angels with Deathwing get Zealot against your entire army.

*'''Mayhem Pack:''' This formation of 3 Helbrutes gives them all IWND (AWWWW YEAAAAA), Deep-Striking, and a shared roll on the Crazed table, even if they've never been hit (Giving them a 2/3 chance of being rather useful, though it's still a crapshoot).  All-in-all, a rather decent way to boost their survivability <s>but not their usefulness.</s> FUCK THAT NOISE! Getting a dreadnought in close out of nowhere is one of the best uses of them in the loyalist army and this dataslate improves upon it tremendously by tripling the amount of dreadnought and making them harder to kill in the process! Then there's the crazed rule which makes shooting the brutes a dicey prospect. NOTE - although the brutes get to share a reserve roll AND a crazed roll every round, they are NOT a single vehicle squadron. This means that they won't deepstrike in the manner a terminator squad does, and you'll have to scatter each one of them separately - and you don't have to move them as one squadron either.
** Note - With the Errata boosting Helbrutes' attacks up to 4, this makes them even more effective as DISTRACTION CARNIFEXes. 4 attacks is enough to threaten most targets other than giant hordes (and in those cases, you have heavy flamethrowers) while being able to pack a ranged weapon allow the helbrutes to be effective 2/3rds of the time right after they drop and continue to threaten targets up until it dies. In addition, something few people realize is that this formation is essentially the Chaos Version of a Drop Pod Dread, but you do not need to pay the extra 35 points for a Drop Pod, which is a great boon for it's role as a Distraction (cheap, moderately hard to kill, and killy).
*** No deepstrike mitigation means they're still very unreliable. Add 1/3 chance of doing not what you want them to do each turn on top of that. Then again, you could take the risk and take two Mayhem Packs

*'''Helcult:''' A Helbrute joins 2 squads of cultists.  This gives the brute some walking meatshields, though their use is...debatable. This formation is useless now because only Troops in Combined Arms and Allied Detachments get Objective Secured - your units in Formations don't get it. Who cares if you have 20 (Two units of 35 means 70!) fearless T3, 6+ models when everything else is also scoring and it's too easy make enough of a dent in the cultists to contest or outright take whatever objective they were sitting on. But makes a great wall of tar-pitters and fire magnets regardless.
** The whole group gets Rage (When the Helbrute dies).  However, any rolls of 1 from the brute get transferred to anyone else within 6" of him.
** The cultists get the Fearless USR regardless of how far they're from giant hulk of Warp-machinery.  The moment he goes down, however, they exchange Fearless for Zealot. 
** If the cultists block any incoming fire for the Helbrute, the giant thing gains a 3+ Cover save.  Each successful save kills one of the cultists, no saves allowed. So totally worth it since you have 35 of the shlebs in front of him. Right?
** For added lulz, hide a warpsmith in with the cultists. There, you got yourself a reliable meat shield for both the Helbrute and a unit in which the smith can hide so he can repair any of the hits that actually make it to the Helbrute (assuming it doesn't kill it, that is).
** Give them the Mark of Nurgle for an extra slurpy tarpit. Also consider that Sonic Weapons ignore cover so they are a great walking buffer for your Noise Marines.

*'''Helfist(er) Murderpack:''' Out of the 5 Helbrutes in this formation, one of them must be designated a Champion, thus making them like a squad with a sergeant.  The Champion becomes a Character and gets the Aura of Dark Glory and the brutes within 6" can LOS! for the big guy.  The Champion also makes the entire squad choose what Crazed result they want instead of rolling it.  However, once he dies, not only does this Crazed selection end, but the others also get Rage.  While this sounds nice on paper, the issue is that they're still forced to footslog it all the way to the enemy, and a 5+ Invul and the ability to choose Fleet and Rage when they get hit is not going to help them out much with that. Can't really use this for insane helbrute dakka to double your shots every single turn, since only the 'brutes that have taken damage will be able to make use of the Crazed table. Bare in mind that you can technically abandon any Helbrutes affected by Fire Frenzy as they count as immobilized and according to the rules of the formation you can still pick their crazed result even when they are no longer part of the squad. This is a good way to bypass the sqaud having to all fire at the same unit.
*This formation is surprisingly good when you add in some protective wizardry. Or fly them across the table on top of a magic ruin.

*'''Kranon's Helguard:''' Chaos Lord, Chosen squad , Pack of Termies, Two mobs of Cultists, a pack of Raptors, a 'Brute, and a Land Raider.  Just from the DV starter kit and Crimson Slaughter Expansion.  It's decent, as it forces all units within 12" of one unit here to take -1 Ld, while anyone within 12" of two or more units take -1 BS, as well as giving Fear and Stubborn, but...just like the Unrelenting Hunt, it's absolutely not worth forking over all that cash for both kits.  Or even just the expansion.

*'''Kharn's Butcherhorde:''' Formation with Kharn (Shocking, right?), 4 CSM squads with the Mark of Khorne and 4 Khorne Berseker squads. They all get Adamantium Will and for every 6 to hit they get another attack (and yes, with another 6 you get another attack and so on). Then, if you get an 8 on the charge (beign the number of Khorne and all) you double the attack value on your models. It looks nice, but that's a lot of models. That's why it's called Butcherhorde and not Butchergroup. 

*'''Cult of Destruction (Apocalypse)''' This packs in at least a 3-man pack of both Obliterators and Mutilators.  If you get more Obliterators, you can gain a combined fire bonus ability.  Lascannons get 48", Strength D and AP1, Flamers become Hellstorm templates with AP3, and the Artillery gets 48", Strength D AP 4 apocalyptic blast.  Mutilators meanwhile get Furious Charge and get another attack per unsaved wound.

*'''Heldrake Fear Squadron (Apocalypse)''' 3-5 of the Drakes get grouped up, and they get effectively infinite Daemonforge, though they have to take another roll per turn for damage.  They can also make an extra 60" pre-deployment move.  They can then make an out-of-sequence Vector Strike that can't force morale tests if they cause casualties and forfeit the ability to Vector Strike for the first turn, though they can still shoot.  USeful?  Well, it'll at least let them live a little longer.

*'''Legionnaire Warband (Apocalypse)''' - A Chaos Lord grabs a 3+ Troops, 2+ Elites, and any number of HQ, Fast Attack, and Heavy Support choices.  Everyone must take Veterans of the Long War and the same Mark of Chaos.  They can also re-roll failed to-hit melee attacks against Space Marines and Fearless within 12" of the Marines.

*'''Lords of the [[Black Crusade]] (Apocalypse)''' - Abaddon gets to lead Kharn, Lucius, Ahriman, and Typhus (or their equally marked Chaos Lords).  For this, they get to use all their Finest Hour/Sons of their Primarch abilities at once.  Also, Abaddon can make a Magma Storm Unnatural Disaster and become the Master of Disaster.

*'''Lost and the Damned (Apocalypse)''' - 1+ Dark Apostles can use 3+ Cultists, giving them Infiltrate, FNP and Furious Charge (for Cultists), and can resurrect a single cultist during each break for free.

*'''Thousand Sons War Coven (Apocalypse)''' - Ahriman (Or a ML3 Tzeentch Sorcerer) with 3+ additional Sorcerers get to use a new Warp Charge power called ''Storm of Change''.  It's a 48" Witchfire with S:D and AP1, Assault X, Blast, and Vortex.  It also sacrifices Sorcerers for pieplates, making it very risky to use. Alternatively, just activate all of their force weapons with one power, then throw a huge unit of them at anything. That thing will die, no ifs, no buts. Or, it's a fucking Titan, in which case you're fucked anyway.

*'''Tide of Spawn (Apocalypse)''' - 5+ Chaos thingies get to swarm up.  They can't be used as normal, instead replacing an equal number of normal, unengaged infantry models.  Other than that, they're no different from any normal ones. If you have the money and time and are a massive troll, take a squad of 35 cultists.... replace with these and watch as a literal tide of flesh smashes into that greentide or tyranid swarm of gaunts. Your opponents face will drop when they see that a measly cultist squad manages to wipe their way through their entire formation.