Editing Warhammer 40,000/10th Edition Tactics/Chaos Space Marines (section)

====Tactics====

*Take Abaddon and a Nurgle Helbrute and mark all of your units to be of Tzeentch or Nurgle; re-roll even successful hits to fish for crits.  Now a BS3+ shooter will hit critically 5/9 (56%) of the time (and hit non-critically another 2/9 or 22% of the time); each critical hit is an automatic wound that must roll to penetrate and a hit that must roll to wound.
**Add Nurgle Forgefiends and fire in Hazardous mode so the hits that roll to wound are hoping to Devastate and ignore saves.
**Give Abaddon a Chaos Terminator escort full of combi-weapons and a reaper cannon; he has Chaos Undivided, so you can use the Profane Zeal strat to re-roll wound rolls on the whole unit to fish for critical wounds for Devastating Wounds. Odds are good Abbadon will refund the cost of the strat anyway.
***Then you can add a Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour with a second unit of Termies and the Liber Hereticus enhancement (make sure you mark the whole squad as Chaos Undivided): this use of Profane Zeal will work whether or not Abbadon uses it and will cost 0 CP, and since the entire thing is mobile, it doesn't need to deep strike anywhere near the rest of the army to function.  It won't hit as hard since you won't critically hit on 5+, but it'll still do pretty good work.
**Nurgle Vindicators are good in any list but will synergize with this combo as well - it's just that at S14 '''Lethal Hits''' is less significant.