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