Goatboy’s Grimdark Armylist – Thousand Sons Love Forgefiends!

Thousand Sons armies are rising stars in Warhammer 40K right now. Here’s a mean one that loves it’s Forgefiend buddies.

I decided to look around at some of the winning 40K lists to see if I find something interesting.  This past weekend a lot of Thousand Sons armies did well even with the resurgence of Adeptus Custodes hitting the table tops.  It is an interesting time for sure as the Meta seems wide open with only one real army kind of lurking in the ole CSM/Aeldari range with Necron HyperCyrpt.

Thousand Sons seemed poised to do well as the army as a whole can be pretty tough, spike damage really well, and just kill things quickly with Mortal Wound spamming.  They also have a pretty spicy Primarch that flies around like a Knight. Plus, the T-Sons have one of the most powerful characters to power them up.  While their Cabalistic rituals are kind of clunky to use at times if you are not used to them – the army is very powerful and can quickly wreck things.

A Sample Winning Tournament List

Anthony Lineberry went even further on the damage train this past weekend by utilizing 3 Forgefiends for Thousand Sons. While they are not nearly as explosive as the CSM ones, they still have a nice secondary ability by suppressing the unit that gets shot and giving it a -1 to hit. Really, the bigger reason to take some of these guys is just having chonky fat-body robots sitting on your backfield objectives.

GT Thousand Sons
Cult of Magic
Strike Force (2000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch (140 Points)
• 1x Black Staff of Ahriman
1x Inferno bolt pistol
1x Psychic Stalk

Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch (115 Points)
• 1x Arcane Fire
1x Force weapon
1x Inferno bolt pistol

Infernal Master (110 Points)
• 1x Force weapon
1x Inferno bolt pistol
1x Screamer Invocation
• Enhancements: Umbralefic Crystal

Magnus the Red (440 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Blade of Magnus
1x Gaze of Magnus
1x Tzeentch’s Firestorm

Thousand Sons Sorcerer (110 Points)
• 1x Fires of the Abyss
1x Force weapon
1x Warpflame pistol
• Enhancements: Arcane Vortex

Thousand Sons Sorcerer (95 Points)
• 1x Fires of the Abyss
1x Force weapon
1x Inferno bolt pistol

BATTLELINE

Rubric Marines (105 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
1x Warpflame pistol
1x Warpsmite
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
1x Icon of Flame
4x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (105 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
1x Warpflame pistol
1x Warpsmite
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
1x Icon of Flame
4x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (105 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
1x Warpflame pistol
1x Warpsmite
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
1x Icon of Flame
4x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (105 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
1x Warpflame pistol
1x Warpsmite
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
1x Icon of Flame
4x Warpflamer

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Thousand Sons Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Inferno combi-bolter
1x Inferno combi-weapon

OTHER DATASHEETS

Thousand Sons Forgefiend (135 Points)
• 2x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Forgefiend claws

Thousand Sons Forgefiend (135 Points)
• 2x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Forgefiend claws

Thousand Sons Forgefiend (135 Points)
• 2x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Ectoplasma cannon
1x Forgefiend claws

Tzaangor Enlightened (45 Points)
• 1x Aviarch
• 1x Close combat weapon
1x Fatecaster greatbow
• 2x Enlightened
• 2x Close combat weapon
2x Fatecaster greatbow

Tzaangor Enlightened (45 Points)
• 1x Aviarch
• 1x Close combat weapon
1x Fatecaster greatbow
• 2x Enlightened
• 2x Close combat weapon
2x Fatecaster greatbow

2000 pts