The Thousand Sons Get New Legionary Soldiers From Forge World
May 6, 2017 by brennon
In a Legion full of Cults and Cabals the forces of the Thousand Sons are getting themselves two new units from Forge World this weekend.
First off we have this Blade Cabal which is a unit of Thousand Sons Space Marines armed with some deadly khopesh-style weapons. This breaks down to an upgrade kit, plus the base components from a Mark IV Space Marine kit.
They look exceptionally deadly and when done in some of the ruby red schemes that we've been seeing they would really pop on the battlefield. It's a shame that you can't really convey the more agile movements of a Space Marine when he's clad in that much power armour.
Meet The Cabal
As well as them we also have this Terminator Squad upgrade in the Sehkmet Terminator Cabal.
"The Sekhmet, also known widely as the Scarab Occult outside their Legion, were the elite of the First Fellowship of the Thousand Sons, and when called upon to do so, served as Magnus’ personal bodyguard.
Clad in Terminator armour, each of them was a high initiate of the Prosperine Mysteries who had sublimated their abilities and emotions into the highest levels of spiritual control, and were able to shun injuries by mere strength of unified will that even to a Space Marine would have proved mortal."
This lot are some of the deadlier Terminators out there. It's neat to see the cross over between these here and how they eventually turned out in The Gathering Storm supporting Magnus even after being turned to dust in their armour.
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"They look exceptionally deadly and when done in some of the ruby red schemes that we've been seeing they would really pop on the battlefield..."
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There’s something disappointing about the blade cabal. Dunno what it is, but they’re a bit lacking. I suppose it could be the lack of movement to them; maybe if they’d had running legs and/or different poses. As for the Scarab Occult, it should be noted that these are Cataphractii pattern while the 40k plastics are Tartaros pattern. Considering the lack of anything overtly Chaosy on the plastics, at most you’d just need to file off some of the frilly detailing to get Tartaros for 30k (similarly similar tweaks to the Rubricae plastics and you’ll have a something that’s make for… Read more »
On the poses of the BC, something I’ve just remembered – it says something when the recent dreadnought is more dynamic than these guys. Something else; in the fluff they’re supposed to be guards of one of the temples (iirc they guard the Order of the Jackal’s temple), so I think it may be a case that they don’t quite look ornate enough for that roll. Might have been nice if they’d had some ornamentation related to that (either the vents on the backpacks shaped into jackal heads or jackal/Anubis* helmets). The lack of them is probably down to them… Read more »
There are plastic Cataphractii available too. This is a conversion kit for those plastic minis. That is also the reason why the Blade Cabal aren’t very dynamic. They are just conversion bits for the Mk4 plastics.
I’m not disputing these being for use with the plastic Cataphractii, my point was that Ben’s statement about ‘how they turned out in the 40k release’ isn’t exactly true as the 40k plastic SO are in Tartaros armour and as such this kit is to give people a Cataphractii option.
I’m not a big fan of the blade cabal either. Marines with twin blades never look right to me, I didn’t like the World Eater version of this unit either.
The Terminators are pretty sweet though. Thousand Sons were never really my thing but I’m extremely jealous of anyone that plays them. Between 30k and 40k they’ve had a bucket-load of releases over the last year.
I do like those.
Nice mini, blade cult aren’t really my thing. Those terminator however, I need to get some paint on my Sons of Horus before they end up candy red
Well, I’m just not a fan of the *over*-Egyptianization of the Thousand Sons that took hold during there last few years. To me TS look like this: http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=68987.0;attach=22781;image I think already back then when the Realm of Chaos influence still lingered on they had found the perfect triangle balance between slight Egyptian influence, GW’s classical CSM design and somewhat archaic, mystic elements. Sure they looked way more “normal” in the beginnings (in fiction chronology), which I do like very much, but without that too distinct Egyptian and scarab style (just as I prefer the buisiness looking Space Wolves without that… Read more »
The Scarab is just a protective amulet in 30k unrelated to the heraldry. Fluffwise the Ouroboros was adopted post Heresy (likely around the time they switched colours from red to blue); pre-Heresy they have a stialised sun as their legion symbol.
Dang. Right, got confused by the omnipresence of the scarab symbols in 30K depictions nowadays.
I’ve ordered some of these and the dreadnought.
Scheme looks easy enough to do, might pearl the white though could do the red a bit shinier. I don’t know if I would do the gold as worn as that – Essentially they were defending their own base at the start of a conflict, the armour should be near enough pristine.
These guys look like a bunch of budget marines.
The terminators looking like someone has tried to put together a squad of scarab occult terminators out of their bit box.
I always thought that 30k represented the more ornate, gothic art style. By the looks of it, thousands sons got seriously astetihically upgraded over the last 10k years.
Not really liking any of them. FW should stick to doing it’s own ground up models, rather than conversion kits. They really do have the talent to do better than this.
I think that is exactly the problem.. the conversion kits for these guys are just too basic.. making them look cheap. I expect a large degree of detail from Forgeworld stuff.
they look good but pricey.
Those are some beautiful models. I love how FW keep doing the proper Metllic red on these guys.