hermanista Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 How do, So I'll be honest, I'll more than a few years out of date on the novels side of the HH, so looking at some help from you keeners who have kept up. But this could be a useful project to help inform others, especially when it comes to representing their favourite legions on the battle field. So I have a slowly WiP Thousand Sons army on the go, but I have no idea of what a typical TS force organisation would look like. Do they favour certain tanks or units of others? Just how many Librarians would they deploy in a battleline in comparison to other leaders, do they favour certain weapon loadouts to others? Basically my list at the moment would look something like this Librarian 2x15 Tactical Marines 10 Missile Devestator Squad 10 JP Assault Marines 10 Tartaros Terminators 10 Volkite Caliver Support Marines But where, from a background PoV would I go from there do folks think? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus1138 Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 I'm just starting my own as well, and one thing I really want to include are Landspeeders or possibly attack bikes. Like you said, we don't have much information on favored units or weapons but one of the most iconic ancient Egyptian units was the war chariot and the TS's draw heavily from ancient Egyptian themes. Speeders and attack bikes seem to be the 30k equivalent to chariots. For the same reason I plan to favor power axes over other power weapons and your choice of a volkite caliver squad nicely fits in with Egypt's feared archers. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4562892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalvationOfReason Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 As a note, one of the BoP tiles features a crashed 1kSons Javelin. Another good place to look would be Visions of Heresy. There's a great picture of a plasma support squad, and several pictures of assault marines. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4563189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Loss Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 There's very little concrete information available right now, I'd hold onto any lore related decisions until Inferno is released next February if I were you. There are bound to be little nuggets of information that weren't circulating prior to FW fleshing out the Legion that may impact how you want to structure your army. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4563233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanista Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Indeedy, The suspense is a killer, but I think get these initial troops done, throw in two Sicarian Venators and then see what happens from there. I need to take my eye of the Dark Angel force I'm planning after the Sons, because I'd like to avoid crossover of units where possible. So much choice is a blessing and a curse really Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4563899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theredknight Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 It's why I'm waiting for the book! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4563901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACK BLΠFLY Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Yeah it's really best just to wait. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4564086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanista Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Waiting means no gaming however, and with a Ullanor Campaign weekend in Feb and no GW finished army to game with currently, I'll have to do something, lol. I'll get these done and then see how the land lies Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4564282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theredknight Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I see where your coming from. I learnt from experience really, built loads of EC and now I have 2 20man tactical that sit in the box not being used lol Still that's the game we play! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4564329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokkorex Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I believe someone at the fw open day said the TS relied heavily on automata from a nearby forge world to prospero, which had some kind of psychically tuned crystals in them. So a praevian with some robots wouldn't be too far-fetched, methinks. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4564460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I believe someone at the fw open day said the TS relied heavily on automata from a nearby forge world to prospero, which had some kind of psychically tuned crystals in them. So a praevian with some robots wouldn't be too far-fetched, methinks. Well that matches with scenes in A Thousand Sons, if true, I wonder if they will use automata of Mechanicum design or if they will have their own uniquely designed ones to differentiate. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327858-the-art-of-war-thousand-sons-organisationfavoured-units/#findComment-4564622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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