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First attempt at a 1k sons army, using the models I already own.

--Battallion--

Ahriman on disc - 166
- Tzeentch's Firestorm
- Doombolt
- Gift of Chaos

Daemon Prince with wings - 180
+ Dark Matter Crystal
- Gaze of Fate
- Diabolic Strenght

5 Rubric Marines with Boltgun - 96
- Prescience

5 Rubric Marines with Boltgun - 96
- Infernal Gaze

11 Cultists - 57
+ Heavy Stubber

--Battallion--

Exalted Sorcerer on disc - 140
+ Helm of the third Eye
- Temporal Manipulation
- Glamour of Tzeentch

Sorcerer - 98
- Weaver of Fates
- Warp Time

11 Cultists - 57
+ Heavy Stubber

11 Cultists - 55

11 Cultists - 55

-----1000 pts-----13 cp-----


Battleplan: Double Battallion will give me enough cp to play around with, and the helm will propably refund itself within turn 1 or 2. The army has 6 caster on the field that can all smite without -1 (if i understand the errata correctly, 1k sons dont suffer -1). Basically 54 bodies will hold objectives while the casters smite whatever possible. Ahriman got all the spells to snipe important characters.

Thoughts?

Hey man, I have a couple of thoughts. I don't think you really need 13 CP for a 1,000 point list. What you need is some offense and a focus for all those psychic powers plus dark matter crystal.

Most people take a big blob of goats, magnus, helbrutes or scarab occult terminators. Although you could use anything really. You're going to struggle against any armour, smite and 1 daemon prince will only get you so far. And with knights, eldar flyers and IG attillary being so popular you're sure to run into some.

2nded; either Magnus or a renegade knight would give this list the teeth its missing

I always run magnus at 1k and above
and you def need more offense.....loose some (or all :/) of the cultist and fill with goats, termies or helbrute

You have Dark Hereticus powers on the Rubric squads. They can only choose from the Discipline of Change, so you’ll have to do some power rethinking.

After trying out the army as shown here (i only changed some spells)... I quickly learned that you all were right.

Unfortunately, having a lot of psykers is not enough.

After ditching the second battalion and juggling some points around i tried different combinations of renegade knights and renegade armigers. I had a lot more success with something big on the field.

Magnus is ordered. I am itching to try him out, but i have to get him painted first :-(