Horus Heresy 500p Challenge: The Thousand Sons by Bothi

First of all I had to come up with a list to paint. As you might have guessed from the first post, I am not the greatest fan of Magnus. I think he is a very interesting and well written character, but just not very likable. So I didn’t want him for my army. On the contrary I really liked Ahriman in the Horus Heresy Books. So. Ahriman it is.

Next up I wanted a lot of psyckers and some of the Thousand Sons specific units. So I decided to go with the “Pride of the Legion” Rite of War. This means I can use Terminators and Veterans as Troops. And I want Veterans, because they can be Psykers. Normal Troops can’t. Said and done: I am going for 3 Squads of 10 Veterans each for my Troops. Give them the awesome special Bolt Ammunition which only 1k Sons can have (Apshyx Shells) and there we go. Why 3 squads you ask? Because there are 30 MK3-Marines in the Burning of Prospero Box 😀

Onto the special Units. I just love the look of those Sekhmet Terminators. They are just awesome. So we need a 5 man squad of those. They can levitate? Let’s give them Combi-Meltas. Although there is that awesome 1k Sons specific Contemptor Dreadnought. The Osiron. The model is one of the best Forge World has ever produced.

Not many points left. I also like those 1k Sons specific Battle Automata. The Castellax-Achea. Great looking models. And very fitting with the Osiron. Let’s take two of them and make them a squad.

I would have loved to round the list out with Magistus Amon. Another great model. Unfortunately the points don’t allow that. So I’ll just go for a normal lvl 2 Psyker and use Amons model. Done!

Overview:

• HQ:
  • Ahriman
  • Lvl 2 Librarian (Model of Amon)
• Elites:
  • Osiron Contemptor Dreadnought
• Troops:
  • 10 Veterans, Brotherhood of Psykers, Asphyx Shells, 2 Heavy Bolters
  • 10 Veterans, Brotherhood of Psykers, Asphyx Shells, 2 Heavy Bolters
  • 10 Veterans, Brotherhood of Psykers, Asphyx Shells, 2 Heavy Bolters
  • 5 Sekhmet Terminators, Force Axe + Combi-Melta each
• Heavy Support:
  • 2 Castellax-Achea Battle Automata with Maulter Bolt Cannons

With this done I could already plan out the blocks:

• Nov-Dec ’18: 20 Veterans
• Jan-Feb ’19: Ahriman +  10 Veterans
• Mar-Apr ’19: Sekhmet + Librarian
• May-Jun ’19: Contemptor + Castellax