u/Ingmaster

Brothers! I bring news of victory against the sons of Fulgrim!

32 to 17

I took a lot of the advice I was given on the previous post. Moved around the enhancements and prepared for a crystal missile play turn 2 or three.

I deployed evenly on a dawn of war deployment causing him to deploy his new Defiler (De-Smile-er, he calls it) to one side of the board. With Ahriman's redploys I moved everything except the MVB, a block of tzaangors and the 10 man rubrics with the umbralific crystal on the side with the Defiler.

End of turn 1 the tzaangors vanish into reserves to return to my home objective with the Forgefiend (forgefriend), and the sorcerer pops the crystal to join the other end of the board as well. The defile, and 2 squads if tormentors are now alone at one end of the table, the only way back to the action in line of sight of the forgefiend. Scarab drop and clear his home objective rubrics and rhino clear enemy squads, FF and bow goats destroy one rhino. DP bullies noise Marines and some infiltration units by himself, taking no wounds for the entire game.

The Defiler shuttles back to the home objective, and recieves an over watch from the Terminators. With the help of lethal hits the Defiler explodes on his home objective taking more noise Marines with it. Fulgrim deep strikes onto his own home objective, ready to kill the Terminators. He takes out three, and then I activate maelstrom on the next turn. Terminators manage to fall back from fulgrim, 2 sorcerers, 15 rubrics and vortex boosted DP down him in one turn.

I kind of feel bad because by the start of his turn 3 he had nothing left to play the game with.

In the end, the only casualties were a Vortex beast, 23 tzaangors, 3 Scarab Occult Terminators, and Azek Ahriman.

Below is my final list. Thank you all again for the help and support!

eclipse (2000 points)

Thousand Sons

Strike Force (2000 points)

Grand Coven

CHARACTERS

Ahriman (100 points)

• 1x Black Staff of Ahriman

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Transmogrifying Blast

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with Wings (205 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Dark Blessing

1x Hellforged weapons

1x Infernal cannon

• Enhancement: Eldritch Vortex of E’Taph

Infernal Master (95 points)

• 1x Fires of the Abyss

1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

Sorcerer (100 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Pandaemonic Delusion

• Enhancement: Umbralefic Crystal

Sorcerer (80 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Pandaemonic Delusion

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (85 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Gaze of Hate

1x Inferno combi-bolter

BATTLELINE

Rubric Marines (190 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 9x Rubric Marine

• 9x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

8x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Chaos Rhino (90 points)

• 1x Armoured tracks

1x Havoc launcher

1x Inferno combi-bolter

1x Inferno combi-weapon

OTHER DATASHEETS

Forgefiend (130 points)

• 3x Ectoplasma cannon

1x Forgefiend claws

Mutalith Vortex Beast (170 points)

• 1x Betentacled maw

1x Mutalith claws

1x Warp vortex

Scarab Occult Terminators (360 points)

• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno combi-bolter

1x Malefic Curse

• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator

• 2x Hellfyre missile rack

7x Inferno combi-bolter

9x Prosperine khopesh

2x Soulreaper cannon

Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster Greatbows (55 points)

• 1x Aviarch

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Fatecaster greatbow

• 2x Enlightened

• 2x Close combat weapon

2x Fatecaster greatbow

Tzaangors (70 points)

• 1x Twistbray

• 1x Autopistol

1x Chainsword

• 9x Tzaangor

• 9x Autopistol

1x Brayhorn

9x Chainsword

1x Herd banner

Tzaangors (70 points)

• 1x Twistbray

• 1x Autopistol

1x Chainsword

• 9x Tzaangor

• 9x Autopistol

1x Brayhorn

9x Chainsword

1x Herd banner

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Im playing against a friend this weekend and want some advice for dealing with his play style.

He's very focused on killing all enemy units on the board, more so than taking objectives most of the time. The last few games we've played, (spearhead, and a 1k point 40k game) he's trapped me in my deployment zone turn 1, and claimed victory by preventing me from moving up the board.

This game will be 2k points, and he'll be playing soroitas.

My list is as follows. Should I make room for a squad of tzaangors for screening?

eclipse (1995 points)

Thousand Sons

Strike Force (2000 points)

Grand Coven

CHARACTERS

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with Wings (170 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Dark Blessing

1x Hellforged weapons

1x Infernal cannon

Exalted Sorcerer (80 points)

• 1x Astral Blast

1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

Infernal Master (130 points)

• 1x Fires of the Abyss

1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

• Enhancement: Eldritch Vortex of E’Taph

Sorcerer (80 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Pandaemonic Delusion

Sorcerer (80 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Pandaemonic Delusion

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (105 points)

• 1x Force weapon

1x Gaze of Hate

1x Inferno combi-bolter

• Enhancement: Umbralefic Crystal

Tzaangor Shaman (60 points)

• 1x Baleful Devolution

1x Force stave

BATTLELINE

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (100 points)

• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno bolt pistol

1x Malefic Curse

• 4x Rubric Marine

• 4x Close combat weapon

1x Icon of Flame

1x Soulreaper cannon

3x Warpflamer

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Chaos Rhino (90 points)

• 1x Armoured tracks

1x Inferno combi-bolter

OTHER DATASHEETS

Mutalith Vortex Beast (170 points)

• 1x Betentacled maw

1x Mutalith claws

1x Warp vortex

Scarab Occult Terminators (360 points)

• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer

• 1x Force weapon

1x Inferno combi-bolter

1x Malefic Curse

• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator

• 2x Hellfyre missile rack

7x Inferno combi-bolter

9x Prosperine khopesh

2x Soulreaper cannon

Sekhetar Robots (80 points)

• 2x Sekhetar Robot

• 2x Close combat weapon

2x Heavy warpflamer

2x Hellfyre missile rack

2x Pyreflux meltagun

Sekhetar Robots (80 points)

• 2x Sekhetar Robot

• 2x Close combat weapon

2x Heavy warpflamer

2x Hellfyre missile rack

2x Pyreflux meltagun

Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster Greatbows (110 points)

• 1x Aviarch

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Fatecaster greatbow

• 5x Enlightened

• 5x Close combat weapon

5x Fatecaster greatbow

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