Wednesday 26 December 2018

From Behind The Paywall It Rises: Thousand Sons vs Death Guard

Merry Christmas! Here's something to help you sleep off the turkey.


The Thousand Sons return to Swindon!

Back in the summer, I was a guest on the Winters SEO YouTube channel, where my Thousand Sons took on the Primaris Space Marines.

I returned this month with a bigger, badder army led by no less than Magnus the Red. We took on his long-hated brother primarch, Mortarion and his Death Guard.

This report is now live on the subscription channel Deployment Zone TV - for £5 a month you get access to a new 40k batrep every week, plus tactical tips, lore discussions and some other fun stuff (really to be seen to be believed). Or I guess you could just drop a fiver and binge-watch thirty-odd batreps in one go.

There is something of an explosion of 40k battle reports at the moment, so no-one needs arm-twisting to pay for more. For my twopenneth, my hobby time is finite, and I'd rather pay to ensure I'm watching a cracking report, rather than roll the dice (so to speak) and watch a mediocre one for free.


We played the new Chapter Approved mission "Vital Intelligence" and I was able to bring a whole brigade of Thousand Sons for 2500pts:

  • Magnus the Red (LoW)
    The Blade of Magnus
    Warlord Trait: Lord of Forbidden Lore)
    Psychic powers: Death Hex, Infernal Gateway, Warptime, Weaver of Fates.
  • Daemon Prince with wings (HQ)
    2 x Malefic talons,
    Psychic powers: Boon of Change, Gaze of Fate
  • Exalted Sorcerer on Disc (HQ)
    Two Power Swords, Inferno Bolt Pistol)
    Psychic powers: Diabolic Strength, Glamour of Tzeentch
    Relic: Seer's Bane
  • Exalted Sorcerer (HQ)
    Force Stave, Inferno bolt pistol, Frag & Krak Grenades,
    Psychic powers: Prescience, Warptime
    Relics of the Thousand Sons: Dark Matter Crystal
  • 10 x Rubric Marines (Troop)
    Force Stave, Inferno bolt pistol, 6 x Inferno Boltgun, 2 x Warpflamer, 1 Soulreaper Cannon
    Psychic power: Tzeentch's Firestorm
  • 15 x Tzaangor (Troop)
    Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
  • 15 x Tzaangor (Troop)
    Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
  • 10 x Chaos Cultists (Troop)
    Shotgun, 9 x Autoguns
  • 10 x Chaos Cultists (Troop)
    Brutal Assault Weapons, Autopistols
  • 10 x Chaos Cultists (Troop)
    5 x Autoguns, 5 x Brutal Assault Weapons & Autopistols
  • Tzaangor Shaman (Elite)
    Force Stave, Weaver of Fates
  • Tzaangor Shaman (Elite)
    Force Stave, Weaver of Fates
  • Helbrute (Elite)
    2 x Helbrute Fist
  • 4 x Tzaangor Enlightened (Fast)
    Fatecaster Greatbow
  • 4 x Tzaangor Enlightened (Fast)
    Fatecaster Greatbow
  • 1 x Chaos Spawn (Fast)
    Hideous mutations
  • Defiler (Heavy)
    Battle cannon, Reaper Autocannon, Defiler scourge, Defiler claws
  • Mutalith Vortex Beast (Heavy)
    Enormous Claws, Betentacled Maw
  • Mutalith Vortex Beast (Heavy)
    Enormous Claws, Betentacled Maw
  • Heldrake (Flyer)
    Baleflamer, Heldrake claws
  • + 25 reinforcement points

Points: 2500 | Level: 150 | Battle-forged + Brigade + Super Heavy Auxiliary - Relic: 14 CPs

2 comments:

  1. I bet you a fiver you rolled at least one Perils of the Warp result at a critical juncture.

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