Personally, I'd struggle with the list due to the lack of transports and ranged capability.
In particular the two Retinues only have small arms, which won't combine well with them being on foot and therefore easy to avoid/hard to assault with. A canny opponent will place their two objectives at the extreme sides of the table, badly affecting your ability to garrison forwards with the Retinues. Time to paint up your hump-back Rhino designs! Or, if you want to garrison with them, swap out some Plague Marines for Plague Marine Havocs, and add some Walkers. A single Contagion Tower in a garrisoning Retinue can also be surprisingly effective, starting up the table and in Overwatch orders, able to reach all the way into the enemy deployment zone.
Nitpick wrote:
I think the reapers won't do much - taking them anyway 'cause cool. Also, I dont think the Vindicator option is going to get much use as it unlocks nothing...
The Plaguereapers are bit dependent on terrain density. I try to stick to the guidelines in the rules which can be a lot denser than you usually see people using for EA as the guidelines
potentially allow up to 50% coverage! They are very
very good at clearing enemy formations out of cover and inflicting lots of Blast markers. I've also used them with good success on Overwatch orders as a Blitz guard against Drop Pods or airborne assaults.
Fester Titans are even better then Plaguereapers at clearing out terrain and obliterating broken formations, but are obviously coming out of the Titan/Air/Space third, and a pair of them is a full 200pt more expensive than a pair of Plaguereapers.
For the Vindicator formation, it's not that they don't unlock anything, but that they don't use up an elite or support 'slot'! I generally use them to double up and still have good odds of getting hits on formations in cover to prep and then support an assault.
Nitpick wrote:
Also - It would be super if the list rules and generic chaos stuff were added to the current pdf - bit of a hassle tyo crosscheck lists to get the full picture atm.
Yeah, that's a good idea.