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Hello all, im a new 40k gamer, i had a ultramarine army, but canned it in favor of a Thousand Sons army, starting out with 6th ed, luckily everyone esle is learning the new rules too so its a good time fo me to pick up the game, im out in hawaii and enjoy it here. Like i said still new to the game so if you have any suggestions, stratigiesor thoughts to share im open to all input.
feel free to email or message me any time

my current army im building is

1 Ahriman
8 Sorcerers
6 Raptors
7 Havocs
30 Chaos Space Marines
16 Thousand Sons
2 Rhinos

im looking to add two land raiders, two preators, two more sorcerers, 16 more thousand sons, a defiler, some terminators and possibly a dreadnought or two

waiting for the new Chaos Codex before i shell out too much for more models

so once again, hello everyone looking forward to learning and playing alot

I don't know what it would be like there, but with the new ap values to CCWs, terminators get their ordinary armor saves against power swords.

What kinds of armies do you expect to be fighting against?

Welcome to the fold!

Welcome to Dakka,Guilldog, from a fellow army vet.
And welcome to chaos. You have chosen wisely.
I play a thousand sons army and it has done very well so far in 6th edition..
May I recommend the telekenisis powers. Most people don't like them, but with options like gate of infinity and vortex of doom, you end up with a powerful combination of spells. I personally run 2 termi sorcerer HQ's, a Defiler, obits, and the rest are all thousand sons squads. I often also take an aegis line with quad cannon in case any flyers decide to make an appearance.
Anyway, hope this helps.

Welcome to Dakka!

I myself have been interested in starting a Thousand Sons army, but until the new dex I'm just sitting on my hands.

TechMarine1 wrote:I don't know what it would be like there, but with the new ap values to CCWs, terminators get their ordinary armor saves against power swords.

What kinds of armies do you expect to be fighting against?

here in hawaii warhammer is pretty big so i expect to fight a little bit of everything, i know for a fact ther are orks, tau,necrons, eldar, bloodangels, codex space maines, chaos space marine, and salamanders, those are just the people i know that play, no telling the people i will meet


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KalashnikovMarine wrote:Welcome to the fold!

thank you


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Chaos Legionnaire wrote:Welcome to Dakka,Guilldog, from a fellow army vet.
And welcome to chaos. You have chosen wisely.
I play a thousand sons army and it has done very well so far in 6th edition..
May I recommend the telekenisis powers. Most people don't like them, but with options like gate of infinity and vortex of doom, you end up with a powerful combination of spells. I personally run 2 termi sorcerer HQ's, a Defiler, obits, and the rest are all thousand sons squads. I often also take an aegis line with quad cannon in case any flyers decide to make an appearance.
Anyway, hope this helps.

Cool, what did you do in the army? Just curious, anyway yeah, i was looking at the terminator sorcerer lords but i have Ahriman, who i know is expensive and alot of people dont like but i like and i also have two deamon princes i could use and make them pskers with the mark of tzeentch but like i said its still a work in progress and im waiting for the new codex, but thanks for the adivce, i'll look into it again

Just be careful that us Space Wolf players don't wolf your wolf. The best way to beat a Space Wolf player is to wolf his wolf before he wolfs your wolf because if he does then your wolf is wolfed. Wolf!

Welcome! Thousand sons are awesomeness!!
your original post is very small and very blue :3

never played against them and i honestly have no clue what you mean but um ok,
ive seen space wolves and grey knights be played and i can honestly say both of them seem very powerful


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Overlord Zerrtin wrote:Welcome! Thousand sons are awesomeness!!
your original post is very small and very blue :3

thank you, and yes, i was playing around with the settings just to see what it looks like. I havent gotten to play with mine yet, still collecting, building and painting but soon! Hopefully i get them done before the new codex so once its out i can jumb straight into it

Guilldog wrote:never played against them and i honestly have no clue what you mean but um ok,
ive seen space wolves and grey knights be played and i can honestly say both of them seem very powerful

Oh, It is kind of an inside joke with how many times the word wolf appears within the Space Wolf codex. Anyways, it is good to see a Thousand Sons player, they're rare for how awesome their models are.

ShatteredBlade wrote:

Guilldog wrote:never played against them and i honestly have no clue what you mean but um ok,
ive seen space wolves and grey knights be played and i can honestly say both of them seem very powerful

Oh, It is kind of an inside joke with how many times the word wolf appears within the Space Wolf codex. Anyways, it is good to see a Thousand Sons player, they're rare for how awesome their models are.

i like the models and i like that you can have a spell caste (psyker) as the leader of every squad, from what read tho you dont want to get locked in close combat with them, but thats why i want my army to be heavy on vics ( two predators, two landraiders) and i'll most def get some terminators and i already have my raptors, rhinos, and havocs, so hopefully will be enough long range support to weaken the enimies close combat units at a distance and then have the raptors and the terminators tie the rest of thier squads up in close combat while i have my thousand sons and sorcerers tear up thier tactical squads and use my own tactical squads to as scoring units to take the objective......

still new to the game but thats my plan

I wonder if we took everyone in the world thatplayed chaos
and compared how many god specific troop models they have what
the results would be i dont thing 1k sons would be last?

Overlord Zerrtin wrote:I wonder if we took everyone in the world thatplayed chaos
and compared how many god specific troop models they have what
the results would be i dont thing 1k sons would be last?

Oh I think Slaanesh would rank last, to be honest. Pink and black? Yeck.

Overlord Zerrtin wrote:I wonder if we took everyone in the world thatplayed chaos
and compared how many god specific troop models they have what
the results would be i dont thing 1k sons would be last?

No i dont think they would be the last, but i know khorne would be first, think of all the bloodlettersthere must be.
the main issue with thousand sons tha i have is thier models are much more expensive than other chaos space marines, some of the older ones are going for 10 dollars or more for a single model, ive had all my luck on ebay honestly


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ShatteredBlade wrote:

Overlord Zerrtin wrote:I wonder if we took everyone in the world thatplayed chaos
and compared how many god specific troop models they have what
the results would be i dont thing 1k sons would be last?

Oh I think Slaanesh would rank last, to be honest. Pink and black? Yeck.

yeah i know a guy who plays them, his army is very well painted... but still pretty ugly

thousand sons are wat $41 a box from gw for 9? thats not bad well considering i love the models

Overlord Zerrtin wrote:thousand sons are wat $41 a box from gw for 9? thats not bad well considering i love the models

yeah, not bad but still kinda up there if you plan on making a thousand sons army, for 4 squadsi s 160 dollars.... maybe its just expensive to me, i have a 1 year old so my warhammer budget isnt as free as some others. But i was mainly talking about the older metal models which are the ones you find most often unless your getting them straight from GW

ah actually me and my dad both play so we have are own armys but we both wanted to play chaos so we share the army when we got are thousand sons we split the cost so we got a terminator lord 30 1ksons and 30 terminators for only $220!

cool sweet deal,

My first army i got on a nice deal too, it was 500 dollars and i got about 1400 dollars worth of space marines, right now im currently trying to strip and sell them to fund my thousand sons army.... stripping models is a pain!!!

Is that all you run in your ksons? just a lord ksons and terminators?
Have you seen the storm of change spell for ahriman and his sorcerers?
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1180921_Chaos_Space_Marines_Datasheet_-_Thousand_Sons_Warcoven.pdf

I thought it looked pretty cool and if i ever played a big game i would use it, thats why i want so many socerers.

nah i also use daemon princes! and oblits! and whatever ally i think is cool at that moment lol

Overlord Zerrtin wrote:nah i also use daemon princes! and oblits! and whatever ally i think is cool at that moment lol

I have two deamon princes who i was gonna play as psykers, and i was focusing mainly on a pure k sons army maybe get two terminator sorcerer chaos lords,and honestly i dont really know who i would use as an ally....

Guilldog wrote:

TechMarine1 wrote:I don't know what it would be like there, but with the new ap values to CCWs, terminators get their ordinary armor saves against power swords.

What kinds of armies do you expect to be fighting against?

here in hawaii warhammer is pretty big so i expect to fight a little bit of everything, i know for a fact ther are orks, tau,necrons, eldar, bloodangels, codex space maines, chaos space marine, and salamanders, those are just the people i know that play, no telling the people i will meet


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KalashnikovMarine wrote:Welcome to the fold!

thank you


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Chaos Legionnaire wrote:Welcome to Dakka,Guilldog, from a fellow army vet.
And welcome to chaos. You have chosen wisely.
I play a thousand sons army and it has done very well so far in 6th edition..
May I recommend the telekenisis powers. Most people don't like them, but with options like gate of infinity and vortex of doom, you end up with a powerful combination of spells. I personally run 2 termi sorcerer HQ's, a Defiler, obits, and the rest are all thousand sons squads. I often also take an aegis line with quad cannon in case any flyers decide to make an appearance.
Anyway, hope this helps.

Cool, what did you do in the army? Just curious, anyway yeah, i was looking at the terminator sorcerer lords but i have Ahriman, who i know is expensive and alot of people dont like but i like and i also have two deamon princes i could use and make them pskers with the mark of tzeentch but like i said its still a work in progress and im waiting for the new codex, but thanks for the adivce, i'll look into it again

I'd suggest giving one sorcerer the telepathy base spell ( 3d6-enemy unit's leadership, the difference are casualties to his unit with no armor or cover saves).

Hope this helps and welcome to Dakar.

Hello and welcome to Dakka Dakka!

Hi,

Welcome to Dakka

Byte wrote:Hello and welcome to Dakka Dakka!

Thank you, and hello to you too.


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Knightley wrote:Hi,

Welcome to Dakka

Thank you, hello to you as well.

Welcome.

Hi, welcome to Dakka!

Welcome!