Games Workshop Warhammer 40k - Space Marine du Chaos Thousand Sons Exalted Sorcerers

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The first Dataslate update of 10th edition made a number of changes to the game, and several of those hit the Thousand Sons directly – and pretty hard. In the heat of battle, even the most capable psyker may overreach his abilities, and instead of recoiling in horror from the resultant carnage, he may feel a forbidden thrill. Such emotions are the first step on a path to limitless evil.

Hordes are easy to handle when you have warpflamers, and inferno bolters aren’t too shabby for the job, either. You’ve got great volumes of S4 AP-1 shooting to work with before you start adding in buffs on top of it. How Does This Faction Handle Enemy Tanks and Monsters? Necrosius - Necrosius was once an Apothecary of the Death Guard Legion during the Great Crusade whose original name has long been purged from all Imperial records. During the early days of the Horus Heresy, soon after the Death Guard turned against the Emperor of Mankind, when the Traitor Legion's fleet was becalmed in the Warp on the way to Terra and assaulted by the infectious corruption of Nurgle, the man who would become Necrosius the Undying and his fellow Apothecaries among the Astartes of the Death Guard turned their every art and skill against the strange plagues sweeping their ranks. But it was all to no avail. When Necrosius heard the voice of his new lord chortling and whispering to him in the murmerous wings of carrion flies and the sibilant gurgling of rotted, decaying organs, he fully accepted the nightmare truth of what he and his fellows had become, and embraced the service of his vile God. Necrosius became a true convert to Nurgle's cause, casting aside his past learning and cherished role as a healer of his Battle-Brothers. He now Ahriman - Ahriman is the former Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, Captain of its 1 st Fellowship and the Magister Templi of its Corvidae Cult. He was banished from the XV th Legion by Magnus after casting the Rubric of Ahriman using knowledge derived from the Book of Magnus, which halted the corrupting mutations which plagued the Thousand Sons after their fall to Chaos, but resulted in the creation of the mindless Rubric Marines. During his banishment, Ahriman has continuously sought out knowledge across the galaxy to bring him closer to an understanding of Tzeentch and Chaos itself. His actions have recently healed the breach between him and Magnus the Red that was opened by his casting of the Rubric of Ahriman.Profane chants ring loudly above the sound of Inferno Bolter fire as a cabal of Exalted Sorcerers weave their dread magic. Earthly Anathema - Vomiting the words of a twisted world curse, the sorcerer taints his very being with such monstrous energies that the world around him recoils, clearing the Heretic psyker's path rather than endure his loathsome touch.

I normally run of warpflamers with Temporal Surge. The nice thing with having it on the unit is it's only 6" range. But it's also quite unreliable to cast. I've also started to use doombolt a lot and spending CP on Unholy Sussurus to swap out for it, to reduce the CP cost I'm considering running some squads with doombolt (combo's really well with Sorcerous Facade). This has lead me me rethink how I use Temporal Surge.Infernal Masters are Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons, who specialize in Daemonology. [1] Description Gift of Chaos - As the power of the Warp surges through the Chaos psyker's victim, bones snap and flesh rips as a new form takes shape. Sorcerers serve the same role as Librarians do for Loyalist Space Marine Chapters and Sanctioned Psykers do for the Astra Militarum, though many powerful sorcerers can also be considered psychically-gifted Champions of Chaos and Sorcerer Lords.

For an instant, the chanting voices of the Thousand Sons’ champions achieve perfect synchronisation, words of malign incantation rolling out like the peal of some cursed bell.Use this Cabbalistic Ritual after taking a Psychic test for a unit from your army. Add 1 to that Psychic test.Dirge of Decay - As the devotee of Nurgle intones the Dirge of Decay, wounded combatants howl in a chorus as rot and infection take them. As the psyker utters the first verses, fresh wounds begin to leak pus, only to become discoloured and rank in the rising crescendo. At the apex, an infection takes hold that rapidly devours muscle, bone, and organ until nothing is left but a desiccated husk. The martial prowess common to all Chaos Space Marines is magnified greatly when combined with the weapons of the sorcerer, baleful artefacts saturated with the energies of Chaos that can rip the soul from the body of their victim. The Thousand Sons Legion gave rise to the first Space Marine sorcerers during the early days of the Great Crusade. Even before the Horus Heresy, the XV th Legion of Magnus the Red had a thirst for knowledge of the Warp that proved impossible to slake, and ultimately proved their undoing. Through the knowledge gained by such pacts, sorcerers channel the soul-blasting energies of the Warp into potent hexes and blasts of wyrdflame, and they mould the fabric of the material universe with little more than a hate-filled curse.

Point Drops. There wasn’t a lot to celebrate, but Daemon Princes without wings dropped 30 points, and as we’ll see, that makes them a much more attractive option. Likewise Cultists dropping helps, but not as much as Desolators being dropped to 5 models per unit max. Right off the bat we can see how competitive the Rubric Marine spot is – that’s going to be the major factor for many of our character options, but as we’ll see there’s also plenty of reason to take some of these characters solo. Additionally, Magnus the Red and the Daemon Princes cannot lead units, so we’ll be excluding them from this analysis. They’re still pretty valuable, and if you’re running Thousand Sons you’re probably running Magnus anyways. I am planning of trying out a more aggressive build to wreak havoc on an enemy flank, something along the line of Aetherstride, Athenaean Scrolls, Khopesh, Plasma pistol, Disk, Doombolt or Firestorm, Dark Blessing.

Most are driven mad or are torn apart by the sudden influx of empyric energy; others die slow and agonising deaths as Warp-drenched augmentative gene-seed organs mutate the host body. But those few who survive are born anew as witch-warriors of the Thousand Sons. Labyrinthine Conundrum - This power infects the target's mind, weighing down his thoughts and possibly disabling his thinking altogether as he attempts to solve an illusionary and insolvable enigma. Either he succeeds in the only way he can, by realising the problem cannot be solved, or he succumbs to the impossibility and falls into a coma. Scrapcode Curse - The sorcerer opens his mouth wide and vomits a screaming, whining barrage of scrapcode. The barrage of corrupting viral machine code explodes systems and drives the Machine Spirit of the target vehicle to insanity. Amongst the manifold warp-wielders of the Thousand Sons there are those whose skill, cunning and naked ambition burn bright as a raging star. For these Sorcerers, the power that can be achieved within the Legion is bound only by the limits of their own sanity, and they delve ever further into the most forbidden psychic disciplines to perfect their ruinous spellcraft. Those whose souls are not torn to shreds by the empyric forces they encounter may rise to the rank of Exalted. The members of this echelon are the most favoured of Tzeentch’s mortal servants, powerful warlords who command the Legion’s armies and who steer the course of the galaxy towards one of the horrific fates they have foreseen. [1] Each of the Exalted Sorcerers is the master of a dread Silver Tower of Tzeentch - a place of great power and unimaginable opportunities. [2] Sorcerers serve as leaders in the multitudinous thrallbands of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. It is they who command the marching ranks of the Rubricae on the front lines and funnel screaming hordes of Chaos Cultists and Tzaangors towards the enemy.