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So I tried out Prospero and liked it some what but it really wasn't my cup of tea.

Prosperostar
Ahriman
2 Chaos Sorcerers w/ Terminator Armour , Spell Familiars Level 3
2-3 Obliterators w/ Mark of Tzeentch


Cost : Expensive , Minimum 600+ w/ 1 Obliterator


My alternative though was to look at what was available and take a version of that and go with Typhus

Typhus ( Nurgle, has to roll plus get's 2 rolls)
Chaos Sorcerer w/ Terminator Armour , Spell Familiar, Combi Melta , (Sanctic / Telepathy)
Chaos Sorcerer w/ Terminator Armour , Spell Familiar , Combi melta ( Sanctic / Telepathy)
2- 3 Obliterators

Cost Expensive Minimum buy in 620 w/ 1 Obliterator

"Barebones" Death Star

3 Chaos Sorcerers All with Terminator armour Spell Familiars
2 - 3 Obliterators,

Cost Expensive minimum buy in with 1 Obliterator 500 +


Anyway I think the hopping around death star is pretty good w/ 3 Chaos Sorcerers or Ahriman you get some great rolls plus Ahriman gives you the ability to fire off 3 Psychic Screams, which is boss. Typhus is a literal different on the front end he doesn't get the blast them away ability but does give you dirt cheap decent troops to hold and scram for objectives.

Also this requires you to ally with yourself which most consider you can, or you could do CSM and then go CSM: Black legion and still do it.


Anyway I don't know how it's going to measure up to other Deathstars, I like Typhus the most because you should not charge something that can have a ST8 Daemon Weapon, Force Weapon

The 3 Chaos Sorcerer unit is still really good as you know 3 Chaos Sorcerers but doesn't have super great HtH punch. It does most definitely get you access to Telepathy in droves and depending on how you play the game right now whether a unit full of Psykers can cast the same spells or not but you still have access to Biomancy, Telepathy, Sanctic. I don't think you can actually really kill a unit thats a 4++, T5, Invisible, Feel No Pain, It Will not Die but you might. That's if you got Invisibility , Sanctuary ( honestly you can go Malefic and get Cursed Earth and still get the +1), What ever the Biomancy spell that gives Feel no Pain is called and I am lazy and don't wat to look it up.

Addendum

It's actually possible to have 3 Ministars w/ 3 Chaos Sorcerers picking Sanctuary and having 3 smaller units of Obliterarors and just bounce around the board with Gate of Infinity and Obliterators

Whats with the name prospero?

It's a reference I think to Prospero Burns where the Thousand Sons got their gak pushed in by the Space Wolves. I didn't come up with it.

Ahriman can't join a unit with nurgle models.

What about Nurgle bikers with Sorcerers on bikes? Take one from the Crimson Slaughter book to put prescience on the bikers. Give them invis, etc.. cheap (ish), mobile, can be kitted for shooting and assault.

You could replace the bikers with spawn as well. Or ally in some daemons and use screamers or the slaanesh thingies.

Your deathstar looks pretty gnarly, but lacks mobility.

Uh.. it has Gate of Infinity. It's more mobile than anything else in the game?

 Spellbound wrote:
Ahriman can't join a unit with nurgle models.

No where does he.

Ahriman is useless is the above deathstar. For 80 points more than a terminator Sorc with all the trimmings he doesn't add much if anything. Without rerolls for psychic tests he is going to be getting off barely more psychic screams than regular sorcs. Plus regular sorcs can join nurgle oblits.

Prospero is the Tsons Homeworld

 herpguy wrote:
Ahriman is useless is the above deathstar. For 80 points more than a terminator Sorc with all the trimmings he doesn't add much if anything. Without rerolls for psychic tests he is going to be getting off barely more psychic screams than regular sorcs. Plus regular sorcs can join nurgle oblits.

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I think you missed the part where he can fire off 3 Psychic shooting attacks in a single turn.

I feel as though the above death Star still doesn't compare to death stars other armies can take. I hate it, but chaos is like a red headed step child to gw and always seems to get the shaft on rules, equipment and good units

It's decent enough. It completely wrecks some armies deathstars as it ignores cover saves and armour saves. Add in that it can just target who ever that's pretty good.

I like Typhus more that's me though.

Gate is awesome. I used a unit of 17 TS with Ahriman today and it's pretty solid that he's going to have Shriek and/or Gate (if he doesn't, and accompanying Level 3 sorcerer will).

Even just him doing gate + shriek was great. I'd throw 2 charge at Gate, sometimes 3 and if I don't get it, I made sure I could be in a position to use triple shriek anyway. It's not reliable, but there's a low chance of perils spreading your warp charge between gate + shriek x3. If you throw singles, it makes your opponent choose whether or not to accept your bluffs and expect charge to deny, before you throw lots of dice at a big power like Vortex of Doom or something, I dunno.

Played a 2500pts tournament today and all three games Ahriman was teleporting around. It was amazing and I am so happy with his rules.

I feel like there is potential with Ahriman and something, we just haven't found it yet. I fear that it may be quite expensive compared to other powerful combinations 7th gives us.

Ahriman + 15 CSM is a pretty good sweet spot. If I didn't already own so many TS models, I would use that.