Get Your Revenge With Magnus The Red & The Thousand Sons For Warhammer 40,000
November 26, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop is summoning up eldritch powers from the warp to get their revenge against the Space Wolves. Magnus The Red and Ahriman join forces alongside some new Tzeentch models as the Thousand Sons make their mark on Warhammer 40,000.
"The air screams as Magnus the Red descends from the skies, and stone runs molten beneath his shadow. Cyclopean son of the Emperor of Mankind, his very presence is anathema to logic. To look upon him is to surrender sanity, and when the Crimson King gazes back, destruction is loosed in unimaginable measure.
Second only to the Emperor in terms of psychic ability, he rends asunder reality with a sweep of his blade, annihilating even super-heavy vehicles with the sheer intensity of his ire. Then, with a flex of mighty pinions, Magnus the Red is borne aloft, glorying in his unnatural power as he brings fresh calamity to the weaklings who oppose him."
Now that is a wonderful looking sculpt for the Daemon Prince. We've known this is coming for a while now but I don't think it's any less impressive. It's hats off from us for this one.
Ahriman
Following on from Magnus is his servant looking for some sense of redemption in the eyes of the other Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons. As we mentioned when we saw the previews for these models the story of the Thousand Sons isn't simply one of evil...
In reality, Ahriman was trying to do good with his powers and yet the worm turned and the Emperor needed them banished. Some might say that the Space Wolves deserve what's coming to them.
Sorcerer Soldiers
Following in their wake we have a number of different troops on the way supporting their assault on Fenris. First up we have the standard Rubric Marines.
...and the slight more expendable daemons called forth from the warp in the form of Tzaangors.
On the more heavily armoured end of things, we have the Scarab Occult Terminators who look utterly superb and were what was really drawing me towards this force for use on the tabletop.
They are a little static looking but I think for heavily armoured spellcasters this might be alright. The fellow on the left with the staff is stunning and I could imagine someone painting up that cloth with some vivid freehand to make it all the more eldritch.
Backing them up from the solely magical point of view we do also have the Exalted Sorcerers.
It was great to see these join the forces of the Thousand Sons. I still don't particularly like the design of the Sorcerer on the right-hand side but the other two on the disc and on foot really are superb looking. Something about them makes me want to use them in Age of Sigmar too.
The Story Unfolds
Of course, we want to see how the story unfolds and that comes as part of War Zone Fenris: Wrath Of Magnus.
...which also comes with a Limited Edition version of the book too packed with all sorts of extras.
"The skies of Fenris are aflame, the awful truth revealed. The Thousand Sons, hidden architects of the Space Wolves’ darkest hour, have launched an arcane invasion across those realms sacred to the Sons of Russ. The Wulfen’s Curse has taken hold, the daemonic invasions that followed it a precursor to deadly Imperial bombardments that saw Chapter set against Chapter.
The bringer of this system-spanning doom is Magnus the Red, an ancient demigod overthrown by the Fenrisians of yore. With the daemon primarch’s reappearance in realspace, a vendetta ten thousand years in the making has flared into world-shattering violence. The Crimson King is back to conquer Fenris, and the legions of the Warp march with him."
"This 136-page hardback book contains the thunderous, galaxy-shaking story of the Wrath of Magnus; set over three chapters, it features a huge selection of brand-new artwork supporting the story within. There’s also a uniform guide, with colours and icon guides for several Thousand Sons warbands..."
For those of you who like your accessories, you can also pick up some Thousand Sons Themed Dice.
Whatever angle you're coming at this from it's going to be fun to see how it all ends between the Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons. Here's hoping the Wulfen bring back someone decidedly more powerful to combat the Daemon Prince.
What do you think about the new releases?
""Second only to the Emperor in terms of psychic ability, he rends asunder reality with a sweep of his blade, annihilating even super-heavy vehicles with the sheer intensity of his ire""
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Sooo much shiny…
If the space wolves have small doors that army won’t get very far … 😉
Magnus could BFG it through their windows 🙂
Or roller-skate into battle with his feet strapped to two Rhino tanks 🙂
BFG = Big Friendly Giant at Sophie’s Window (Not BFG = Big F’ing Gun from Doom)
Not Battlfleet Gothic? Aww, you got my hopes up then implying Magnus was going to smash a couple of battlebarges inti the Fang.
;p
Whoever made those terminators should be given a guide dog!
Popes in a volkswagon you say?
I really like these figures, must say.
Those are some of best 40k models that I have seen for some time. Also it’s nice to see that Magnus has some head options.
I cant get over how happy I am at seeing the Thousand Sons get all this love
Two words: Nipple Horns.
Magnus the Red looks like something from a carnival (is he supposed to be camp, he looks Slaaneshi to me).
Everything else looks nice though.
I just noticed those. I was considering getting that figure for a demon for another game, but not now. Also, for 80 pounds I can get a bigger better model from Creature Caster, and have 30 left over.
The other guys could fund their military campaigns by selling advertising on the sandwich boards on their heads 🙂 Not a good release IMO.
Really, are the nipple horns the deal breaker for you? You could always…*gasp* leave them off! The price issue on the other hand I can agree with.
I don’t mind him having nipple horns, but I think they’ve been poorly executed, although not as badly as the crown horns
I just wanted an excuse to say “nipple horns” 😉
Batman would be jealous.
Amazing models.
Let’s hope they bring out a Start Collecting box set for them though!
“You won’t believe what Magnus the Red looks like now! – Number three just blew our minds!!”
Is this the first time that GW has gone for the awesome sized Forge World (Avatar) type sculpts? – I really hope the Imperial Knights thing worked and they will be doing other Chaos Primarchs – Angeron or Fulgrim?
The old Realm of Chaos – Demon World – is some of the most interesting IP that GW has
I love the release. Magnus is first on my list.
I like how true to the original design and the ancient egyptian imagery the Rubricae are remaining, very smart of GW to keep them true to their roots.
Great release, I am getting those rubric marines and terminators for x-mas. Concerning Magnus, iT is a great model, not my taste (not a fan of deamons and mutations). Very solid release as a whole.
It’s worth pointing out that on theTzaangor kit, all the 40k components are on their own small sprue.
It looks like they are AoS Tzangor models with extra 40K weapon sprues added. Hopefully they will release them as an AoS kit soon (otherwise I’ll end up buying the 40K ones and chucking the extra sprues).
Yeah it’s hard to tell, but I think there are fantasy components on the sprues too not seen on the finished models too. Maybe someone with a better eye can take a look.
I think the same rumour dump that had genecults and 1ksons also talked about mortal tzeentch for AoS so maybe there will be a mortal tzeentch release for AoS at some point.
From what I can tell, it looks as you say a couple of sprues of the AoS Tzaangors with an add on sprue of chainswords and pistols. Maybe this indicates they’ll get released for AoS at some point in the near future outside of the WQ set (or that the set is designed to pull double duty for both systems similar to the daemon kits)
Moderation? What kind of nonsense is this. Don’t ask for my comments if this is going to happen.
Fantastic release, love Magnus especially as it really captures John Blanche’s artwork that was the founding for the 40K vibe. The paint job is pretty good too! The marines are great, retaining their iconic shape that defines the Thousand Sons with the addition of the terminators that deliberately bear resemblance to the tartaros terminators from Burning of Prospero. Finally for me Ahriman is a great update to Jes Goodwin’s original.
I wonder which primarch will be next?
I was just going to say that. Those feathers and wings are superb, someone put a lot of love into painting that.
Really nice release, love the Rubricae and Scarab Occult and it’s nice to see Ahriman not having a radical redesign. That said, I’m probably not going to be getting Magnus unless I want to convert a Lord of Change; I might need to dust off the half finished attempt at sculpting my own Magnus I started years ago and finish it off.
Btw, @brennon, where are you getting that Tzaangors are daemons from? Unless there’s been a fluff retcon they’re mutants/abhumans, not daemons.
nice GW 40K figure but will it look as good as the FW 30K figure?
So much awesomeness, looks like I’m going to be working on 40k Thousand Sons at the same time as 30k ones i’ve started.
We Thousand Sons fans have been waiting a long time, and while I haven’t seen the rules just heard rumors I don’t care cause these models are friggin sweet.
BoLS have a leak of the weapon stats: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/11/wrath-of-magnus-arsenal-of-the-rubrics.html
In the comments there someone’s mentioned the rules for Horrors and splitting is back, one Pink becomes two Blue and each Blue becomes two Brimstones (which are W2), so a ten strong squad effectively has 110 wounds. And allegedly there’s a way to double the splitting so for a ten strong squad you’d potentially need a 210 minis if my maths is right.
Just seen this posted on CDO: [quote=Skink] SPOILERS AHEAD: Here is a very brief synopsys of Wrath of Magnus. To begin with, the timeline in Warhammer 40k is advancing, although (according to rumors) this will not bring to a complete change of the setting as in Warhammer Fantasy. Right, the Changeling poses as Azrael and tries to create even more enmity between Space Wolves & Dark Angels. Fortunately, the REAL Azrael appears, and DA & SW fend off a Daemonic incursion together, but it’s too late. Magnus, the Thousans Sons, and 9 Silver Towers exit from the warp, and start… Read more »
I mostly like the models. Ahriman is stunning. But this all looks and smells like end times. So I am out till I know what 8th edition holds.