Chaos Space Marines

How to beat Chaos Space Marines With Orks - Warhammer 40000

Fighting Chaos space marines is a nasty business. A very very messy battle that generally ends bad for the ork player if you make any sort of mistake. Here I'll try to discuss how I think you should be able to defeat them. First off they aren't much different than regular marines in some aspects.

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So the problem against marines isn't beating them in shooting which you will never do and its not beating them in hand to hand since even if your boyz that make it lose they'll still take so many marines with them that your reserves will be able to catch up. The problem against marines(and most other shootie armies) is utilization of battle field and cover. You should do whatever you can during setup to be sure that the marine player has to setup in a fashion that affords you the most cover and sticks them with the least number of opportunities to set kill zones and shoot your boyz to bits. Some things that help in bending terrain to your favor are:

Don't give him tall hills to set his devastator squads on. They'll shoot you down.
Charge hard on his heavy weapons squads so that they can't take out any of your special weapons and armor or blow up transports. I line up and charge 24" across the board with a couple of trucks and then lay waste to their heavy weapons squads before they can react. They may blow up your transport but with truck boyz this isn't a problem. Ride them up next to the nearest cover and if they nuke your transport you have a place to hide. Just stay away from the assault troops long enough to tear him up and you'll be fine.
Keep your units small. Smaller units can use cover in their favor. Trukk boyz(or any boyz in trukks) work wonderful as small units.
Avoid the woods or other hindering terrain. Go around this stuff. You'll most likely get shot down due to it.

Some unit tips that help against marines or Chaos or Necrons or Eldar or every other shoot your ass to bits army.

Stormboyz, though most people don't like them due to their points cost, are excellent for quick strikes over long distance. 12 inch move then a 6 inch charge. You can get through most kill zones.
If you can put a looted Basilisk behind some large obstical waaaaaaay on the other side of the battle field you'll make his stand n shoot policy a little more difficult.
Warbike Boyz can perform wonderfully as a shield in a quick strike situation where you have to take some casualties via shooting before you can reach them for hand to hand.
Leave the dreads at home. Use trukks with trukk boyz and if you must have heavies use a gun trukk or a looted vehicle. One situation that I hear works but have yet to try is to have a unit of burner boyz w/ mekboy accompany a killa kan squad. The mekboy equipped with his tools and a force field will allow your cans to make it across the battle field.
Don't be afraid to engage anything! Games I've won have been through damn near suicidal strategies. Orks don't care about dying much. To them there will always be more boyz to come back for another round. Slam your boyz head long in a Waaagh against terminators, Grey Knights, anything. As long as you get that Waaagh check off you're going to hurt them and I mean bad.
Every unit of boyz should have a Nob. Leave the guns at home and arm your Nobz with power claws and choppas. Cyborg bodies, 'eavy armor, bionic bonce are a great combo to make your Nob a serious X-Factor in hand to hand against anything. Just a week ago 1 Nob wiped 3 Grey Knight terminators in 1 round. That boy will be warboss before too long!

Thats my info thus far on marines. Now for my information based on my recent beating taken from Chaos.

Stay the hell away from his special characters. You can't kill them. You have no chance of killing them. Nobody has a chance in hell of killing them as Chaos is so over powered there is no way anyone can put them down. Forget about taking on those nasty demons as you have no chance in hell.(no pun intended)
Charge across the board and take out his gun units then try to go after his transport troops. You'll never wipe Chaos off the board but you can cripple all the support and run long enough to win on V.P.

8/04/2003