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Right now I have about 1000 points of 1000 Son's, or so. I have 16 Rubrics and 2 Aspiring Sorcerers, 2 Rhinos, and 2 Custom Vehicles I use as either defilers or vindicators. I am wondering what I should be next to support my army and grow it to 1500 points. I was thinking either a Demon Prince/Sorcerer, Terminators, or more Rubrics.
Any thoughts, Ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Definitely needs a Sorcerer, and maybe a Daemon Prince too.

Do you know of any good alternate non-termite armored sorcerer models? I don't particularly care for the few that GW produces. I was thinking of using the tomb kings sepulchral stalker models for thousand sons demon princes btw

Have you considered kitbashing one from either the storm of chaos WFB minis, or Dark Angels vets mixed with some CSM bits. GK bits might be useful too, lots of books.

You should convert up some 'orrible looking spawn too, just to turn your opponents favourite models into.

Oblitz and a Sorcerer.

I love converting spawn. I actually had some weird zombie looking 28mm models from a third party that I kitbashed with leftover Space Wolf bits to make the 2 spawn I currently have. That way it can be WYSIWYG when I Gift Logan Grimnar I'll post pics of them later. I was thinking of using GK terminators and then using plasticard/greenstuff and TK great weapons to give them a more 1000Son feel.
As for obliterators, I'm still trying to think of a creative way to make some good looking ones for 1000 Sons, but I definitely want to include some!

+1 to Obliterators even if you try to stay as Thousand Sons/Tzeentch based as poss you'll likely need these guys to add punch and las/plas cannons.

Also consider some bikes with the mark of tzeentch they are expensive but give you some CC punch you don't get from Rubrics, and are very durable with the inv save. Also are good to get a Lord into combat who also has a good inv save.

Thousand Nuns wrote:+1 to Obliterators even if you try to stay as Thousand Sons/Tzeentch based as poss you'll likely need these guys to add punch and las/plas cannons.

Also consider some bikes with the mark of tzeentch they are expensive but give you some CC punch you don't get from Rubrics, and are very durable with the inv save. Also are good to get a Lord into combat who also has a good inv save.

Bikes are criminally overcosted in the Chaos codex. I would probably avoid them altogether. They're also not terribly good in CC, just fairly durable.

Brother SRM wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:+1 to Obliterators even if you try to stay as Thousand Sons/Tzeentch based as poss you'll likely need these guys to add punch and las/plas cannons.

Also consider some bikes with the mark of tzeentch they are expensive but give you some CC punch you don't get from Rubrics, and are very durable with the inv save. Also are good to get a Lord into combat who also has a good inv save.

Bikes are criminally overcosted in the Chaos codex. I would probably avoid them altogether. They're also not terribly good in CC, just fairly durable.

True but it depends on what type of army you are building if you're doing tzeentch only then "counts as Berzerkers" are out so you need to work with the rest of the codex. A Tzeentch based army will bring certain challenges high points cost being a major one, 60pts for a aspiring sorcerer!! So you need to try and maximise with what you've got and getting a bike squad + Lord into CC is a stretch but can do a lot of damage if you can pull it off, same with Raptors expensive bit just might pull it off. Just to caveat this is for casual not tourney games.

Full Tzeentch armies have a horrible time with armor. Combi-melta terminators are nearly required for busting tanks. Oblitz will also help with this.
My favorite combo for dealing with elite combat units, is to have a LR with Ahriman in it. Drive it really close and have him cast Gift of Chaos X3. Snipes those characters right out.

axeman1n wrote:Full Tzeentch armies have a horrible time with armor. Combi-melta terminators are nearly required for busting tanks. Oblitz will also help with this.
My favorite combo for dealing with elite combat units, is to have a LR with Ahriman in it. Drive it really close and have him cast Gift of Chaos X3. Snipes those characters right out.

What about sticking combi meltas on rhinos? Could provide a small boost to AT, what about Bolt of Change on the aspiring sorcerers too? Or Chosen loaded up with melta, in a combi melta rhino, possibly outflanking.

In 6 games with my pure Tzeentch list, I have killed Zero tanks with my "Bolt of Change" and that is because it never has range till it's too late to use. I've actually stopped more tanks with wind. My only reliable tank busting comes from immobizing a tank and then using the Sorcerer's manditory melta bomb (as without it you are very vulnerable to dreadnaughts).