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So, here is my first list for the new TS codex

The overall battle plan is to use the good old Risen Rubricae+Master Misinformator to have either a fully defensive or fully offensive setup after knowing who goes first.

20 rubrics and 10 scarabs provide the boot on the ground, with 2 groups of 5 rubrics holding back objectives and throwing defensive buffs on the midfield units as needed.
The scarabs and helbrutes taking the midfield, pouring firepower and punching it out with anyone needed, while ahriman hides in the group throwing a massive number of mortals on his own (he can easily throw 6+ a turn before even going into cabal or command point pushing it further),
The prince will hang around with the midfield units and will look for opportunity to charge something worthy (either locking enemy quality units with his high defenses, or
All while the flamer squad hops around BBQing stuff (or threaten to, forcing the enemy to be ever vigilient of them)

The spell selection is, hopefully, set up in a way that buffs are mostly on the units who's going to want them, so the loss of spells will occur in tandem with no longer having good targets for them, while ahriman (who's hopefully going to be well defended in his scarab nest), can keep throwing the mortals who will never stop being useful.

Wingless Prince kina hurt, but to get the wings I need to really downgrade the scarabs, losing both the rites and both missile pods. the rites honestly feels like an aftertought to me, but the missiles are part of my limited ranged anti-tank.

Got plenty of command points to work with during the game, and plenty of cabal points to start-so I should be flexible enough with switching spells, extra casts, improving casts, etc to allow me to counter specific issues.


++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Chaos - Thousand Sons) ++

Cults of the Legion: Cult of Duplicity

+ HQ +

Ahriman [9 PL, 3 Cabal Points, 160pts]: 11. Gaze of Hate, 11. Tzeentch's Firestorm, 13. Doombolt

Thousand Sons Daemon Prince [8 PL, 3 Cabal Points, 150pts]: 21. Temporal Manipulation, 22. Swelled by the Warp, Conniving Plate, Hellforged sword, Master Misinformator, Warlord

+ Troops +

Rubric Marines [6 PL, 2 Cabal Points, 125pts]: Icon of Flame
. Aspiring Sorcerer: 22. Weaver of Fates, Inferno Bolt Pistol
. 3x Rubric Marine w/ inferno boltgun: 3x Inferno boltgun
. Rubric Marine w/ soulreaper cannon: Soulreaper cannon

Rubric Marines [6 PL, 2 Cabal Points, 125pts]: Icon of Flame
. Aspiring Sorcerer: 12. Glamour of Tzeentch, Inferno Bolt Pistol
. 3x Rubric Marine w/ inferno boltgun: 3x Inferno boltgun
. Rubric Marine w/ soulreaper cannon: Soulreaper cannon

Rubric Marines [12 PL, -1CP, 1 Cabal Points, 264pts]
. Aspiring Sorcerer: 32. Pyric Flux, Aspiring Magister, Incandeum, Inferno Bolt Pistol
. 9x Rubric Marine w/ warpflamer: 9x Warpflamer

+ Elites +

Helbrute [7 PL, 115pts]: Helbrute fist, Power scourge

Helbrute [7 PL, 115pts]: Helbrute fist, Power scourge

Scarab Occult Terminators [21 PL, 1 Cabal Points, 445pts]: 2x Hellfyre missile rack
. Scarab Occult Sorcerer: 21. Presage, Inferno combi-bolter, Rites of Coalescence
. 7x Terminator: 7x Inferno combi-bolter, 7x Prosperine khopesh
. Terminator w/ Heavy Weapon: Soulreaper cannon
. Terminator w/ Heavy Weapon: Soulreaper cannon

++ Total: [76 PL, 11CP, 12 Cabal Points, 1,499pts] ++

12 Cabal Points is dismally low. Have you considered dropping one of the Helbrutes and taking an Infernal Master or a Sorcerer (or a walking Exalted)?

You could also consider taking a second detachment as Cult of Time to resurrect Terminators, since you probably won't want to teleport them out of center field.

The big warpflamer squad would give you an extra Cabal Point if you split it in two, and while it will be more difficult to teleport two units intstead of 1, it also gives you better board coverage with your threats and makes the unit easier to hide.

I don't think a single extra flamer in a unit that already contains 9 is worth a CP, especially considering how many fabulous strats there are to use.

And finally, the soul reapers on Rubrics isn't that stellar. You'll get a lot of mileage out of the Reaping strat on the Termies!