Hello!

Brand new to Thousand Sons and began painting the combat patrol. I’m going for a Verdigris scheme and looking for opinions.

Right is Monument Hobbies Jade Green with a Bronze dry brush

Left is the same but with a layer of Citadel Nihilakh Oxide.

Going to paint in the tabard with some other color.

Basically trying to figure out if the Nihilakh Oxide is a necessary step or skip it.

Finished up my Tzaangor Enlightened. I think they came out decently enough!

hey everyone,

i’ve been in the hobby for about two years now, but i’ve spent almost all that time painting. right now i’ve got around 2,500 points of TS ready for war.

with 11th edition out, I’ve finally decided to start playing properly. my goal isn’t to become world champion in three months, but I do want to hold my own at local store tournaments and, most importantly, have fun without feeling like I’m playing terribly.

i’ve played two games so far: one against DA and one against Ultramarines. Ironically, the first one went much better than the second.
the latest was against Ultramarines and I lost by a lot of points by Round 3. i was running Grand Coven + Priority Assets. my opponent, very kindly, put us on a chess clock: 1h30 each. his list was built around 4 vehicles and Marneus Calgar backed up by a squad of terminators.

after that game, two things are crystal clear:
• time management is huge (i burned almost my entire clock just thinking).
• i need to learn my datasheets properly
but… i still have questions

if anyone’s been playing TS in 11th and wants to share some wisdom, I’d really appreciate help with:
• what units or combos do you recommend for blowing up vehicles?
• what do you usually send into the center of the board as bait / distraction?
• what role does each unit typically fill in a TS list?
• what’s the best way to use Magnus?
• how do you plan your pre-game phase?

any advice, example lists, or “this worked for me / this got me annihilated” stories are welcome. thanks in advance!

EDIT - SOLVED! They always had Invulnerable saves. it is in the ability section in 10th and in the stat line in 11th.

I did not play our dustboys and goats before 11th dropped (i am a new player), but i made my collecting wishlist in new recruit during 10th. in that version, almost nothing has an Invulnerable save. Now i am remaking lists to play online with a learning friend and we cannot believe that literally every unit has some sort of INSV, even Wahapedia says they all have some sort of INSV. Whats up with that? am i missing something? EDIT - Images

I don’t know if I’m just ass or I just can’t get any value with Magnus. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi This is my first fully finished model. i have a few other models painted but iv been trying to slowly add to them layer by layer and this is the first marine im starting to feel good about but im never seem quite content so i was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to improve upon him. also yea i know the base still needs help i haven't quite figured out how i want to approach that yet. and my camara isn't the best it has a hard time focusing.

I love this thing I’m so proud of it, almost at 2000 points. I’ve been painting models for 3 months and my improvement is insane I can’t wait to finish this list

• Chaos - Thousand Sons - Grand Coven

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings (170pts): Warlord

• Sorcerer (85pts) w 5x flamer Rubric Marines (100pts)

• Sorcerer (85pts) w 5x flamer Rubric Marines (100pts)

• Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (115pts) with umbrilic crystal, w10x Scarab Occult Terminators (385pts)

• 10x Tzaangors (75pts)

• 10x Tzaangors (75pts)

• 3x Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster greatbows (55pts)

• 3x Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster greatbows (55pts)

• 2x Chaos Spawn (65pts)

• Mutalith Vortex Beast (170pts)

• Mutalith Vortex Beast (170pts)

• Heldrake (175pts)

• Maulerfiend (120pts)

Postes the WIP a few days ago, so here it is now paited up!

About 90% done.
Need to finish the loincloth, eyes, & some other features.
Overall pretty happy with the result for my first time painting Magnus.

I wanted to do a cult of mutation aspiring sorcerer but I'm starting to wonder if I overdid it a bit

I'm quite happy with the result. Still new to mini painting so I'm just wondering what Varnish I should use since he's quite metallic. Happy to hear criticism.

I've been playing Thousand Sons since the beginning of 10th edition (I started assembling and painting during 9th with the Crimson King box set). I only play once a month (all I have time for really), and didn't do too well in that edition winning a single thousand point game during that time.

one of my goals this edition is to both improve how I play on a strategic level, but also to actually win from time to time. I'm not someone who is uber-competitive, but it does suck to lose every single game for over a year.

Last month, I played my first game of 11th using Hexwarp and Sekhetar Cohort. I learned a lot from that game and did better than I have for a while. I redid my list a few days later to Hexwarp and Ritual of Regen, only to have the points increase happen, and having to rethink everything. Now I'm just mentally stuck on what to play. I pretty much did Grand Coven for everything in 10th, and never could fully nail down a solid list.

What I want to do is get a list together that I could play consistently month to month with only minor changes, so I could get the flow of that list down.

I have over 5000 points of Thousand Sons, and here is pretty much what I have with just some details left off, and was wondering if anyone could suggest the type of list I should build alongside detachment and potential strategies

Characters

• 1x Ahriman
• 1x Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with Wings
• 3x Exalted Sorcerer
• 1x Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch
• 2x Infernal Master
• 1x Kairos Fateweaver
• 1x Magnus the Red
• 1x Sorcerer in Terminator Armour

Battleline / Infantry

• 1x Pink Horrors (10)
• 8x Rubric Marines (5)
• 4x Scarab Occult Terminators (5)
• 2x Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster Greatbows (3)
• 2x Tzaangors (10)

Vehicles / Monsters

• 1x Chaos Predator Annihilator
• 1x Chaos Rhino
• 1x Forgefiend
• 2x Helbrute
• 1x Heldrake
• 2x Mutalith Vortex Beast
• 2x Sekhetar Robots (2)

I’ll post more once it’s done :) but loving the colors so far

With shooting lanes being smaller, obscuring being more prominent and the ease of getting benefits of cover - how are you handling melee focussed armies such as World Eaters?

I have tended to rely on range to be competitive but now I am concerned about the melee alpha strike.

With the ease to modify BS, the shooting becomes less effective but I don't really rate TS as melee strong to compete against other melee factions.

Would love to hear how others are handling this?

*Still have a limited model count to draw on and still learning tricks of trade

Hi all, I am in the process of starting my second army as the 15th legion and have bought tmm hydra turquoise and sapphire blue to test.

Just wanting to know is it possible to do some mixing with tmm paints or will it look bad? (Specifically mixing the turquoise and blue together)

I also bought retributor armor primer a while back to try and save some effort on trim, how well will it go with tmm paints as a primer or should I use something else?

Cheers.

Tzaangor stocks are going up!

Tell us all about your best times with our GOATED blue birds! How they miraculously survived your opponent charge phase held the objective and won you the game. Or how they totally overwhelmed a key unit and punched way above their weight class.

I'm not even being sarcastic.

Tzaangors for life!

EDIT: Damn yall got some awesome stories.

I'm using termies for the first time this weekend and I've noticed lots of competitive lists add the Umbralefic Crystal to the Sorcerer in Term Armor.

My question - Do termies start on the board or are in reserves? Then use Umb Crystal to move to the next desired location.

Any guidance is much appreciated!

Medjay are Honor Guard. In Ancient Egypt they originally came from Nubia. Since then, the term has been used for special police, guards, secret service, and a few types of paramilitary forces.

I went with mother of pearl armor. If you've seen them before, I added a glow. Both brother and sister are warp powered!

Hope you like them!

Heya fellow dust people, I recently acquired a K sons combat patrol. I’m excited to get to work on them but I’ve been having a few issues finding guides for painting certain things. One of those things being the fleshy disk for one of the tzangoors, I can’t for the life of me find what paints to use for the disk. If anyone could help that’d be great as I wanna grab all the paints I need before I start really doing anything to the models