Ta-da! Preview codex battle report: Thousand Sons vs Grey Knights

 Exciting times - the new Thousand Sons codex is up for pre-order, and I got to play it!

On Friday, I visited the recording studios (spare room) of Winters SEO, or the Deployment Zone, and found myself presented with a brand new Thousand Sons codex, a very large cup of tea, and an hour to wrap my head around it.

And here's the fight: an epic psychic duel between Thousand Sons and Grey Knights!

In terms of my army selection, the plan was basically to take a little bit of everything to showcase what can be done with the army (and the new Infernal master HQ).

Thousand Sons

• Montu Atash, Exalted Sorcerer on Disc (HQ)
  Prosperine Khopesh, Force Stave, Inferno Bolt Pistol, Paradigm of Change
  Warlord: Otherworldy Prescience
  Psychic powers: Time Flux, Twist of Fate, Swelled by the Warp
• Scynthius Ekurah, Exalted Sorcerer (HQ)
  Force Stave, Inferno Bolt Pistol
  Sorcerous Arcana: Umbraelific Crystal
• Psychic powers: Time Flux, Presage, Temporal Manipulation 
• Hathor Marduk, Infernal Master (HQ)
  Force Stave, Inferno Bolt Pistol
  Psychic powers: Time Flux, Weaver of Fates
  Infernal Pacts: Bladed Maelstrom, Glimpse of Eternity
• 10 x Rubric Marines (Troop)
  Force Stave, Warpflame pistol, 4 x Inferno Boltgun, 5 x Warpflamers, Icon of Flame
  Psychic power: Time Flux, Pyric Flux
• 5 x Rubric Marines (Troop)
  Force Stave, Inferno bolt pistol, 3 x Inferno Boltgun, 1 Soulreaper Cannon, Icon of Flame
  Psychic power: Time Flux, Tzeentch's Firestorm
• 5 x Rubric Marines (Troop)
  Force Stave, Inferno bolt pistol, 3 x Inferno Boltgun, 1 Soulreaper Cannon, Icon of Flame
  Psychic power: Time Flux, Psychic Stalk
• 10 x Tzaangor (Troop)
  Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
• 10 x Tzaangor (Troop)
  Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
• 10 x Scarab Occult Terminators (Elite)
  Force Stave, 8 x Inferno Combi-Bolter, 9 x Prosperine Khopesh, 2 x Hellfyre Missile Rack, 2 x Soulreaper Cannon, Protégé
  Psychic power: Time Flux, Glamour of Tzeentch
  Protégé psychic power: Weaver of Fates
  Aspiring Magister relic: Stave Abominus
• Mildraed, Tzaangor Shaman (Elite)
  Force Stave
  Psychic power: Cacodaemonic Curse
• 4 x Tzaangor Enlightened (Fast)
  Fatecaster Greatbows
• 4 x Chaos Spawn (Fast)
  Hideous mutations
• Mutalith Vortex Beast (Heavy)
  Enormous Claws, Betentacled Maw
• Chaos Rhino (Transport)
  Inferno combi-bolter, Inferno combi-melta
• Chaos Rhino (Transport)
  Inferno combi-bolter, Inferno combi-melta

Points: 1999 | Battle-forged - Aspiring Magister - Sorcerous Arcana: 10 CPs

Grey Knights

• Grand Master In Nemesis Dreadknight
  Powers: Gate of Infinity, Empiric Amplification
  Relic: Sigil of Exigence
  Heed the Prognosticar: Servant of the Throne
• Brother-Captain (Warlord)
  Trait: Psychic Epitome, Vortex of Doom
  Heed the Prognosticar: Gem of Inoktu
• 5 x Strike Squad
  Nemesis Daemon Hammer, 4 x pairs of Falcions
  Power: Hammerhand
• 5 x Strike Squad
  Nemesis Daemon Hammer, 4 x pairs of Falcions
  Power: Hammerhand
• 5 x Strike Squad
  Psycannon, 4 x pairs of Falcions
  Power: Hammerhand
• 5 x Terminators
  Force swords, force halberds
  Power: Hammerhand
• 5 x Terminators
  Force swords, force halberds
  Power: Hammerhand
• 5 x Interceptors
  Incincerator, 4 x pairs of Falcions
  Power: Ethereal Castigation
• 5 x Interceptors
  Incincerator, 4 x pairs of Falcions
  Power: Ethereal Castigation
• Venerable Dreadnaught
  Twin lascannon, Missile Launcher
  Power: Armoured Resilience 
• Venerable Dreadnaught
  Twin lascannon, Missile Launcher
  Power: Armoured Resilience 
• Nemesis Dreadknight 
  Psilencer, Heavy Incinerator
  Power: Hammerhand
• Nemesis Dreadknight 
  Psilencer, Heavy Incinerator
  Power: Hammerhand

Points: 1995 | Battle-forged: 12 CPs

Although I will say, this doesn't even scratch the surface of what can be done with this army. There are so many combinations of psychic powers, cults, traits, relics, stratagems, legion commands, infernal pacts and cabalistic rituals that it melts my brain. 

I can't speak about how competitive it is, which doesn't particularly interest me, but with the range of options on offer, I'd say it is a fantastic codex, and I am going to have a lot of fun mixing up these combinations in future battles.

Now, where are those Space Wolves hiding?