Thousand Sons

The Goonhammer Hot Take: The September 2023 40k Balance Dataslate – Chaos Factions

The first balance dataslate of 40k's 10th edition comes screaming down from the Games Workshop Strike Cruiser and unloads a drop pod full of rules updates, accompanied by version 1.3 of the Munitorum Field Manual which incorporates a broad...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Ready to Fall?

OK, so Games Workshop have done me the gracious mercy of announcing that the Balance Dataslate is coming out tomorrow (yes, good, more of this), providing me with an excellent excuse to keep this brief after a busy weekend running...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Resigned to Our Fate Dice pt. 1

Look, people often say things get worse before they get better, and week after week it feels like the Aeldari are reaching new heights of depravity. This has never gone wrong for them before, pride being commonly known to...

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics The Thousand Sons are a traitor legion dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways and master of sorcery and duplicity. Originally one of the first founding legions of space marines, the Thousand...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Signature Look of Superiority pt.2

Ah, hey, didn't see you there. Welcome. Welcome back to the hell I have made for myself. I'm sorry I ever played Aeldari, OK? I'm a Necron player now. Please release me. Once again, President Stu, our metagame yearns...

Hammer of Math: Thousand Sons Kindred Sorcery

This week's Hammer of Math looks at the effects and synergies of the Kindred Sorcery detachment rule for Thousand Sons Cults of Magic in Warhammer 40k.  I don't envy the folks who write rules at Games Workshop. There's a lot...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Wraithknights at the Warmaster pt.2

We soar across the Atlantic to the US for the second part of this week's Competitive Innovations. Are the Wraithknights here too? Who can say? Well, me. That's my job. I write the column where I tell you about the...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 15: Tacoma, Day 3

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing chronicle of misadventures through competitive Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I chronicled my second day at the GW US Open Tacoma GT, wherein my hopes were dashed against a series of golden, Custodes-shaped rocks...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 13: Return to Tacoma (Day 1)

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing chronicle of misadventures through competitive Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I was busy getting ready for 10th edition games at the GW US Open Tacoma event - playing practice games, painting models, figuring out...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Slain by an Elf

OK so the good news first - a reasonable number of TOs have rushed to adopt last week's balance changes, so this week's results are somewhat less elf-oriented. Only somewhat though - between a mixture of some events not updating,...