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Of course, the Thousand Sons didn’t pay the diktat much mind; they saw it a form of cowardice in the face of unbelievable power. And it was through continuing to use this power, walking the web of possible futures, that their primarch Magnus the Red made his most fatal mistake. In addition to Cabbalistic Rituals, a new key Thousand Sons ability is the Infernal Pact. These work much the same as Chaos Space Marine Prayers, allowing the new Infernal Master model to cast various effects, with six to choose from.

Mike P: Sinuous Undulation is great for protecting your Contorted Epitome (which is, surprisingly, Cavalry) from sniper fire. Between access to this stratagem and the 2+ save against Mortal Wounds, the Contorted Epitome survives sniper fire very well and serves as a great caddy for the Forbidden Gem relic. Exalted Keeper of Secrets (1 CP) The Nurgle stratagems tend to favor making your units harder to kill. This works well with their stratagem of being annoyingly difficult to remove from objectives. The last mention goes to the warband reaction: Twist of Fate. It can be used to change the value of a Double ability but depends on an enemy rolling high against you (can be used by a fighter that is going to die so that you don’t waste his actions). However, when we look at Doubles that would benefit from an increased value, we find only Locus of Sorcery limiting notably its usefulness. You could consider it when you have Brimstone dying, to upgrade the next missile action, assuming your opponent rolls high enough. Pros and Cons of the Tzeentch Daemons Warband

Magnus the Red

Bloated with Corruption: This model becomes Toughness 8. This is a big boost in a bolter and melta meta, but it’s not quite as good as Revoltingly Resilient. A Weaver of Fates– this gives a 4+ invulnerable save to a nearby Thousand Sons unit. With many Thousand Sons being a little fragile, this one’s crucial for offsetting some of the damage they’ll take.

Soulstealer – Slaanesh. Replaces a Witstealer sword or Hellforged sword with one that’s S+1, AP-3, 3 Damage and each time you kill a model, you regain a lost wound, plus you re-roll failed wounds against AELDARI units. Going from Strength 8 to Strength 7 on a Keeper of Secrets isn’t great but the ability to regain wounds on a model with a the ability to ignore incoming damage is better than the -1 to be hit in melee. It’s not something every build wants, but it’s worth consideration in the right lists/environments. The big downside is that this has kind of been replaced by Silverstrike, which lets you come in at S8 and 3 damage. The good news is, you probably take both if you’re running Keepers of Secrets. B This Stratagem is used to make a Keeper of Secrets Exalted. You can choose one of the following upgrades during army construction or roll for two before the battle begins, re-rolling if you get duplicates: Realm-Racer: Add 2” to this model’s Move characteristic and 1 to its Advance and charge rolls. This is a big boost that can help Keeper of Secrets rush across the battlefield and make turn 1 charges. With a 14” move, this gives them an average threat radius of 38.5” in a Slaanesh detachment where they can advance and charge. A Contents: 1 Auric Runefather/Runemaster/Runeson on Magmadroth (Hero, Behemoth), 1 Auric Runesmiter, and 10 x Vulkite Berzerkers (Batteline) The first is that, outside of the default invulnerable save many Thousand Sons units have, they can be quite easy to kill. You won’t have many options that can act as a ‘tank’ on the battlefield, with Toughness and Wounds stats being scarce across the board. You’ll have to rely on canny tactics, maneuvering, and judicious usage of stratagems and spells to stay alive, take objectives, and give your opponent a bloody nose wherever possible.The first thing that sets the Thousand Sons apart is their Cabbalistic Rituals. Every turn, during your Psychic Phase, you will generate Cabal Points for each of your units that still live and exist on the battlefield. These must be spent during the Psychic Phase they’re generated in, and you can spend them in a variety of ways. These range from making a psychic power immune to being denied, through to inflicting extra mortal wounds on top of a damage-dealing spell like Smite. Ouch. Nurgle: Disgustingly Resilient. When a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll a D6 and on a 5+, that wound isn’t lost. When combined with the fact that Nurgle daemons tend to have a higher Toughness, it makes them frustratingly difficult to move off the table, especially in large numbers. Buying 4 of this box isn’t out of the question. This is in the top 2 of repeatable boxes to buy and it ain’t 2. Of the four do I have a favorite? Well, if I wanted to start an army immediately, I’d go with Khorne version. Why? Because three boxes and a Bloodthirsterand you’ve basically the core of an army. And again, it can be used in both 40k and AoS. You’re double dipping! Start Collecting! Astra Militarum Chaos Daemons don’t have a ton of complicated army-wide special rules, but they make up for it with a lot of complicated special rules on individual units. Allegiance to the Dark Gods

From here, I will break the collecting side down into these three options. Keeping this inline with a more “basic” guide for the more casual players on their way to 2k. I will also provide some lists that focuses on these avenues, that are a bit more vanilla but also will see you have some fun and can build on later!The Horrors of Tzeentch are the most unusual of the Warcry fighters and are very thematic. Pink and Iridescent Horror have access to the Split reaction that allows to replace that fighter with 2 Blue Horrors, while the Blues can be replaced (again as a reaction) with a Brimstone Horror. Tzeentch has been particularly interested in Chamon, the Realm of Metal, and its ever changing properties. The Bloodwind Spoil is close to the archway to Chamon and therefore heavily populated by Tzeentch followers. The chaos god Tzeentch is the herald of change, represented by mutated flesh and gouts of multicoloured flames that “transform” you into piles of ash. He is also a purveyor of both secrets and lies, hatching elaborate plans so convoluted and nefarious that if one seems to have failed he can simply claim that’s how he wanted it to go all along. Oh and he’s really into birds…? Worst of all, the flesh-change had returned, and Magnus, now merged with a daemon, became both more, and less, than he had been. It was left to his disciple, Ahzek Ahriman, to find a cure for the rapidly dwindling Thousand Sons. His answer was The Rubric: a spell that intended to bring only a cure – but which instead brought death to every marine afflicted by the flesh-change, turning them to dust, and leaving their spirits to haunt their armours as semi-living automatons. This is a really versatile box as many of the units can be build in a different ways and can be slotted in to different Death lists depending on how they’re built. In a Flesh-Eater Courts army the big beast of the box (Terrorgheist/ZD) can be built as a standalone behemoth with a freestanding Ghoul King or as a mounted leader of either the FEC variety or as a Vampire Lord/the named Vampire Lord, Prince Vordrai.