Sanguinary
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Post by Sanguinary on Mar 6, 2006 21:10:21 GMT -5
I was looking at a new army. I was liking the feel of the Thousand Sons as far as fluff. Does anyone have any opinions on them? They look a little expensive for what you get as far as points cost. And there is not much variety in the army.
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Iron Warrior
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Post by Iron Warrior on Mar 6, 2006 21:22:34 GMT -5
My personal experince is that the army gets boring quickly. Their deamons are under powered imo, they pay too much for thier mark just to have Librarians negate thier powers 50% of the time. They are very limited to what they can take abd the army is generally small. You will have a diffacult time taking out armor 14 unless you take predators with las-cannons.
Sure you can over come thier Slow and purposeful rule with rhinos and be the rapid fire bolter army of doom. YOur special character, Arhiman :Chosen of Tzeentch: has NO power weapon. Only redeeming factor in thier GD is that it flys.
However you do have 2 wounds on you Rubrich sighn marines and termies oh that and you have cool fluff.
They recently brought out a new unit for the campaign (which one?) and its technically not legal but it helps the army out alot....of course you need you opponents consent to use it since its not technically CA.
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Post by jhobin on Mar 7, 2006 11:23:39 GMT -5
I have been playing the 1ksons for about 2 years now. I like the list alot. I think its has a lot character in it. There are not as many units available to list as the other choas list.
In my opinion to make the army effective you need 3-4 troops squads in rhino's. The marine squads are where its at. They can take a full charge from most units in the game and still be effective.
There major drawback is the lack of any speed and number of units you can put on the board. I usually compensate for it with big bird and a squad of screamers for mobility. It can be a hard game when your playing table quarter and you only have 5 or 6 scoring units.
People have different ideas of whats effective for powers. Most people go heavy on bolt of change. I usually take the other power's wind and gift of choas. I use meltabombs and a pred w/ autocanon, and las to punch armour.
You also usually have to lavish the wargear on your squad champion's.
I have had ok success with the army and find it challenging and fun to play. I would try proxying before you buy models.
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Sanguinary
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Post by Sanguinary on Mar 9, 2006 15:15:44 GMT -5
Couple questions:
1.) Does a psychic hood work vs 1K Sons powers?
2.) Chosen squads with Gift of Chaos power on all them. Fun or effective?
3.) Are all 1K Sons Blue\gold or is there other colors you can use that are acceptable?
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Post by jhobin on Mar 9, 2006 15:34:49 GMT -5
Psyhic hoods work against them. they are leadership 10 though so most of the time it comes down to a role off. IF you want to play anti-psyker 1ksons take a talisman of Tzeentch and a Warp blade. Any time a psyker tries to cast a power within 12 (or 18?) inches the power gets nullified and they take a perils of the warp attack 50% of the time. The talisman gives them a neg 1 to there psyk tests.
I have never tried the all chosen with gift unit. Have thought of it. There is a debate about whether thralls count as taking a space in a transport. If they dont then I have thought about giving them all 4 thralls and the power along with warp focus's for all. That way when they get near a unit on the first round they get 18 cast of GOC. On average 6 spawn. On the next round you do it again and when the spawn out number the sorcer's you get majority tough of 5.
1kSons story line colors are gold and blue you can sub yellow for gold. If you want to paint then purple there's no stopping you just make sure opponent knows.
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Sanguinary
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Post by Sanguinary on Mar 13, 2006 20:09:10 GMT -5
Jeff- I dropped you a privte message.
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Ventris
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Post by Ventris on Mar 13, 2006 20:17:50 GMT -5
f*g
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Sanguinary
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Post by Sanguinary on Mar 13, 2006 22:05:43 GMT -5
Just with you.. ;-)
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Iron Warrior
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Post by Iron Warrior on Mar 13, 2006 22:26:03 GMT -5
Id rather you two stay in the closet lovers... Kthanks.
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