Are the weapons of the Stalk Tank really called Plulse Lasers? The only novel i read which featured them was Double Eagle in german and there they talk about Lascannons.

Btw The Red Corsairs have the same Warlord Titan configuration. I named it "Inferno Weapon Configuration".

The Bondsman Commander has no Missile Launcher?

i'm not that fond of the name.  Red Bucaneers sounds more like a pirate warband but is odd too.
Hmm Red/Crimson Reavers? Red/Crimson Marauders?

@Name: Oh i immediately thought about Blood (= Crimson) Pact (= Bond) and so thought that the name is only a placeholder....

I'm in favour of this list.  Not quite L&tD, which is kind of 'Cultist/Mutant Rabble with Renegade Guard Allies'.

A proper Renegade army, with all the special skills and training that entails, with serious Chaos leanings, a la the Blood Pact is what I've currently got a hankering for.  Given that Guard forces fled with the Corsairs in to the Maelstrom, they will likely be as curropted by Chaos as the Red Corsairs are.  This gives scope for a proper Renegade army that isn't just rabble, with additional Daemon Engine and daemonic units, if neccessary.

I've been thinking of ways in which the current 40k Codex would be adapted for doing this sort of army, without the daemonic elements anyway - thinking of how I might take allies for my 40k Chaos Marine army.

To start with, certain units would be off limits, or only available in limited numbers, representing that when an army turns rogue they lose the support of the Munitorum to replenish their vehicles and supplies.  But it doesn't stop them turning to darker forces to supply these...

So, I would drop Valkyries from the list, and make all tanks a 0-1 choice, as would Storm Troopers and Ogryns.

Then it's a case of 'count-as' units.  Commissars would be the Enforcers or Dictators that keep the forces doing the will of the dark gods.  Priests would be fanatical, rabid zealots (nothing new there!), only to the dark gods.  Conscript PLatoons would be Cultist mobs, the general citizenry that have grabbed/looted small arms and are fighting as part of the larger army.  And so on, and so forth.

Some units would need weapons options changing, e.g. make Cultists (conscripts) equipped with CCW, then additional points for Laspistols or Lasguns.  Ogryns would be limited in how many Ripper Guns the sqquad can take, representing them having broken down or run out of ammo long since.

So, I'm just throwing these ideas out there, whilst they're to do with the current 40k Guard Codex, I hope that something might prvide a seed of an idea that contributes to the Traitor Guard list.

Why would this army only have Ragnaroks?  I think they may still have Leman Russes, granted they would be rare, so why not allow them to use a mix in their armour formation?

Also, would they have Daemon Princes?  I know there's no precedent that says that a Traitor Guard leader couldn't ascend to Daemonhood, it seems more likely that, in the universe of the 41st millennium, Marines would be more likely to survive long enough to acheive what is neccessary for this to happen.  So perhaps there's a case to keep the DP, but make it 0-1..?

Otherwise, I can't see anything I'd do too differently - the Thaumaturge Coven is such a clever idea it needs several smileys        

Speaking of which, do you think there's space for a sort of 'Rogue Alpha Psyker', either as an upgrade for a commander, or as a unit to add to a formation?

In terms of stats, I've never seen the 40k rules for a Stalk Tank, I always imaginesd they were just a slightly larger version of a Sentinel, more heavily armed - so wouldn't it be in that case an LV like the Sentinel?

Finally, I could actually play test this list, as I have a L&tD force I made using Exodus Wars minis, plus various assorted Guard & Chaos Marine stuff, so I could cobble together a decent force of this.

I agree that they should have Russ's. They only "recently" turned traitor and I'm sure they raid enough to re-supply.

With that thought I would also think they would have access to most SHT still in large numbers to have full company sizes. Shadowsword, Stormblade etc.

Also why don't they have space ship option? They had to get there somehow right? And if they are a organized traitor guard unit then I would assume they would have some ships and/or be part of a larger fleet.

As for the Red Corsairs Retinue, is it 8 units of marines and 1 lord unit totaling 9 units? Or 7 marines and 1 lord unit totaling 8 units? If its the former than your short a rhino.

Makes sense, they shall get space-support.

As I noted above, the list is supposed to be similar to the Blood Pact from Dan Abnett's books, and their tanks are not as good as Leman Russes.

The Ragnarok seems to fit that description (slower, less secondary guns, worse range on the main gun).

I've got 6 Ragnaroks in my L&tD force, using as Leman Russes with the rationale that they're PDF variants that have been 'acquired' by the traitors.