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2018/04/09 20:28:32
Subject: [2000] - Thousand Sons - Help Pick My List For Tourney
I'm headed to a tournament in a few weeks that is running the NOVA rule set and coincidentally the missus is tentatively letting me go to the NOVA Open. I plan to bring my camera and hopefully record my games. These lists are limited to what I can paint in time so please no "just take 60 tzaangors".
Results are non-binding.
A note about NOVA...they have standard terrain placement and it is pre-defined by the tournament. Below is an example. This means there will be plenty of ruins to hide my Rubrics for up to 1+ armor saves.
NOVA Terrain
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Option #1
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I bought the negative outlook on Magnus when the book came out, but realistically most lists do NOT take enough weapons to remove him turn 1. Even 7 Hive Tyrants somehow dropping within range of him get him to just half. If they have enough LC to take him down turn 1 then they also have enough LC to take out roughly 3 Predators and there's little I can do about that with any list other than straight infantry.
Spells Magnus - Glamour, Weaver, Temporal, Boon of Change (optionally: drop Boon and make someone else the WL)
DP - Gaze of Fate, Diabolic
Ahriman - Firestorm, Warptime, Prescience
Rubric #1 - Firestorm //Backup for when Ahriman smites
Rubric #2 - Firestorm
Scarab - Temporal //Backup heal when Magnus needs to smite
Shaman - Doombolt or w/e
Strategy Deploy Magnus last (with a cultist buffer). Place him in a corner to minimize the number of guns that can target him. Survive the round and get -1 to hit, +1 invuln, and heal on. Gamble for +1T with Boon. He is now a massive distraction and hopefully lasts 3 rounds soaking up as much as possible when the rest of the army does their thing.
Major Concerns I'm slightly worried people may react to the tyrants and bring extra big guns, which puts Magnus in more jeopardy.
Strategy Blob of rubrics drops in with Abaddon, SoT, and TA Sorc. Array the sorcerers to be w/i 6" of each other. Get prescience, glamour, and possibly weaver on Rubrics - use CF&Familiar to force one through (probably glamour). Shoot with VotLW on. Ahriman supports and heals the back field. Scarabs shoot something and warp time to get stuck in. Abaddon will keep Rubrics from fleeing and is great melee support.
Option #3
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Spells All of them!
Strategy A ton of CP and a some target saturation. Ignore the helbrute and vindicator at your peril. Multiple units of rubrics helps me get through straggling spells and get CF to my big casters. Pump stratagems like it's no tomorrow. Spells to keep vehicles efficient.
2018/04/10 17:41:57
Subject: [2000] - Thousand Sons - Help Pick My List For Tourney
If you're going to take Abbadon and Cultists, you should take a LOT of Cultists, in order to come back from the dead (whatever that stratagem is). Fearless resurrecting Cultist blob is terrible to play against, I'd rather have more of the Black Legion Cultists than the full Tzaangors.
I think I like Option 2 the best, but I also feel like it's missing something.
I know that Prescience on 20 Rubrics is better than on 10, but you could split them up and move those TSons Cultists over to BL?
And you'd get another cast for it.
"[We have] an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay." 1 Peter 1.4
"With the Emperor there is no variation or shadow due to change." James 1.17
“Fear the Emperor; do not associate with those who are given to change.” Proverbs 24.21
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