The secret here is that these are viable targets for Weaver of Fates, and once you drop a 4+ invulnerable save on that many bodies they’re a huge pain to deal with, helping gum up the board durably while your forward units are doing mischief.Īdd in a drill, and a few more units to control space, and you’ve got a super powerful combination – it hits hard and fast, but has the mobility, assets and durability to mix up its plans and play a long game as work. What’s new here is the big block of Thousand Sons cultists, which has popped up in a few lists this weekend. They die easy unless you buff them, but they’re extremely deadly in combat and very cheap for the volume of wounds they provide, making them an excellent second wave. That puts the opponent under the gun straight away, and they’re followed up by two big units of Spawn, which has been a pretty popular choice in this kind of list. In terms of the gut punch, you’ve got the works here – a big squad of Scarab Occults that can be sent forward with the Umbralefic Crystal, pop a bunch of strats to hose stuff with gunfire, then tank pretty much any response, and they can be joined by a big warpflamer Rubric squad, able to either Risen Rubricae post-roll-off with Master Misinformator, just teleport across the table with Sorcerous Facade or ride the drill in a cagier game.
Justin smashes the first major of the year with a build that really leans into the gut punch capabilities the Codex gives you, and includes a new piece of tech to solidify early gains.
Time/Duplicity Why it’s Interesting in 9thĪn auspicious start to the year for the forces of Tzeentch, which I guess makes sense for a god that controls fate, omens and other things of that nature.
Terminator w/ Heavy Weapon : Soulreaper cannon This statement was mostly added because of an unusual number of errors in Best of the Rest lists this week where it isn’t proportionate to chase them all down.
To part the curtain a bit, when I spot a mistake in a list that’s getting a full writeup I always try to follow up with TOs to check if it was fixed on the day, as mistakes often are, but the last thing I want is to end up being the bearer of bad news for someone who won an event with a list that later turns out not to work!Įdit : to be clear as this has caused some confusion – for lists included in full in the article body if we can’t get a correction or response from a TO or player we will add a note if there’s an unresolved mistake as a last resort, as we don’t want people copying an illegal list. That said, with the season’s biggest event coming up soon, this is your reminder to check and check again that your diabolical master plans are actually legal, and if you think you’ve found a clever way around a limitation, maybe double check GW didn’t think of it. The purpose of this column is to be positive community spotlight, so I’m not here to start doing callouts, and the main reason I’m adding this note is so that fifty people in the comments don’t feel the need to highlight these mistakes – yes, I spotted them, let’s be nice and give everyone a start-of-year mulligan. While we’re still a few weeks out from the exciting new Custodes and Genestealer Cults books going live, there’s a new army on the scene in the form of the Crusher Stampede, and plenty of players refining existing builds ahead of LVO, so plenty to talk about.Īmidst all of this, I’m afraid there’s no Lists of the Week section today – we’re coming in hot in terms of number of events for the first weekend of the year and I’m still recovering from having two codex reviews to finalise last week! It will return next time.Ī Quick Note: Clearly many players around the world are still recovering from seasonal overindulgence this week, because when going through armies for the Best of the Rest sections this week I have run into an unusually large number of list errors across quite a few events
It’s a new year and after a brief Sanguinalia truce war has kicked back off on tournament tables across the globe, so we’ve got our first crop of results to talk about.