NEW Thousand Sons Index Review! What's Competitive in 10th Edition Warhammer 40k?



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0:00 Sponsors
1:50 Intro
3:50 Quinton’s Fun Fact
4:08 Army Rule
15:20 Detachment Rule
16:43 Stratagems
25:05 Enhancements
27:45 Ahriman
30:11 Thousand Sons Land Raider
30:53 Thousand Sons Predator Annihilator and Destructor and Rhino
32:35 Thousand Sons Chaos Spawn
32:48 Thousand Sons Vidicator
33:13 Thousand Sons Defiler
33:28 Exalted Sorceror (and a brief relook at Chaos Spawn)
37:24 Exalted Sorceror On Disc Of Tzeentch
40:44 Thousand Sons Forge Fiend
42:06 Thousand Sons Helbrute
45:44 Thousand sons Heldrake
46:44 Infernal Master
50:22 Magnus The Red
1:01:06 Thousand Sons Maulerfiend
1:01:40 Mutalith Vortex Beast
1:06:14 Rubric Marines
1:10:02 Scarab Occult Terminators
1:13:18 Thousand Sons Sorcerer
1:15:46 Thousand Sons Sorcerer In Terminator Armor
1:18:13 Thousand Sons Cultists
1:19:27 Thousand Sons Daemon Prince
1:22:51 Thousand Sons Daemon Prince With Wings
1:24:36 Tzaangor Enlightened
1:26:33 Tzaangor Shaman
1:28:00 Tzaangors
1:29:57 Thoughts

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20 thoughts on “NEW Thousand Sons Index Review! What's Competitive in 10th Edition Warhammer 40k?”

  1. Those Predator Destructors could be cool? Their infernus heavy bolters go to -3 ap vs infantry, but they exist in an army that has blanket -1 ap versus infantry. At least it’s interesting.

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  2. 0:00 Sponsors
    1:50 Intro
    3:50 Quinton's Fun Fact
    4:08 Army Rule
    15:20 Detachment Rule
    16:43 Stratagems
    25:05 Enhancements
    27:45 Ahriman
    30:11 Thousand Sons Land Raider
    30:53 Thousand Sons Predator Annihilator and Destructor and Rhino
    32:35 Thousand Sons Chaos Spawn
    32:48 Thousand Sons Vidicator
    33:13 Thousand Sons Defiler
    33:28 Exalted Sorceror (and a brief relook at Chaos Spawn)
    37:24 Exalted Sorceror On Disc Of Tzeentch
    40:44 Thousand Sons Forge Fiend
    42:06 Thousand Sons Helbrute
    45:44 Thousand sons Heldrake
    46:44 Infernal Master
    50:22 Magnus The Red
    1:01:06 Thousand Sons Maulerfiend
    1:01:40 Mutalith Vortex Beast
    1:06:14 Rubric Marines
    1:10:02 Scarab Occult Terminators
    1:13:18 Thousand Sons Sorcerer
    1:15:46 Thousand Sons Sorcerer In Terminator Armor
    1:18:13 Thousand Sons Cultists
    1:19:27 Thousand Sons Daemon Prince
    1:22:51 Thousand Sons Daemon Prince With Wings
    1:24:36 Tzaangor Enlightened
    1:26:33 Tzaangor Shaman
    1:28:00 Tzaangors
    1:29:57 Thoughts

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  3. I feel like I'm going crazy, people keep glossing over Ahriman on Disc.

    But he seems like he'll be unplayable to me?

    He doesn't have Lone Operative, or any other defensive mechanic that would facilitate him being left outside of a bodyguard. He also still has the +1 to Wound for units he's leading, which makes you want to take him with a bodyguard.

    Yet, he can only lead Rubrics, which don't have a 10" movement or fly, so it feels like you won't be able to leverage his increased mobility most of the time.

    If he's around the same price as Ahriman on foot, it feels like you're just taking Ahriman on Disc every game, because free stats. If he's more expensive, you're paying for 1 extra Wound and mobility he'll only be able to leverage if his entire bodyguard unit is wiped out, but he survives.

    Am I missing something?

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  4. Everyone talks about how magnus broke into the throne room but no one mentions it was a council decision- one swayed by the speech of the guy who Malcador appointed to the thousand sons to watch them after the council debacle.

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  5. Ah yes, the convoluted tzeentchian method of organization known as A̶̟̕͜ḷ̶̢̭̒͛͜p̷̖̪̗̦͐̒̾̃͝ḫ̶͂̿͐͆ả̴͓̿b̷̘͈̽̌́̓ẹ̸̈́̂̾͘t̴̗̀͌͝i̵͔͓̻̫̲͑̑c̵̡̜̭̞̓ạ̷̲̲͓̖̊̐l̸͈̄̿͆ ̴̣̾͝Ō̴̫̹͉͖͉̽r̷͎̝͓͚̄ḑ̶̖̻̜̓͠e̴̢̱͊͌ř̷͕̹͖̳͈͒

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  6. If you use the Demon Prince with Wings ability to leave the battlefield he also doesn't add his Cabal Points to the pool as that happens in the Command Phase and he isn't on the battlefield…

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  7. Great discussion but you missed one thing with the durability; we have no protection against mw shooting, as the tank strat only works afterba failed armor save and with pure mortals you dont get any

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  8. The Mutalith. A model that you can't buy anywhere, but can make out of just about anything. So every 1kSons army gets to start with 3 mini-titans (on top of whatever else you manage to cobble together out of a Leviathan box). Cheapest army ever 😁

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  9. I bought my mutalith about two years ago when I started and entirely forgot to build it. Now I'm reminded I have one and it's like finding a hundred bucks preserved in the wash. Thanks guys!

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  10. Thousand Sons are somehow starting 10th worse than they ended 9th (at the bottom of the barrel).

    The overall psychic damage output has been nerfed that hard, it's basically non existent now.
    The shooting damage overall on terminators bolters has been more than halved (due to rapid fire no longer being auto-4 shots).
    The shooting damage overall on rubric bolters has been buffed slightly.
    The shooting damage overall on rubric flamers has been nerfed slightly.

    Overall, the damage has been nerfed by between 55-70%. While they've been granted a few tools to aid with boosting damage, they effectively have near on the lowest damage output of any faction going in to 10th, compared to every other index that has been released.

    With no codex coming for at least 12 months, the best bet is to bank on the 1st balance dataslate of 10th.

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