Thousand Sons : Magnus picnic squad [2000 points]

Like flame leaping along a trail of spilled promethium, the Thousand Sons’ magicks feed upon the latent energies clouding the air and race hungrily away through them towards the foe.

The malefic energies of dark sorcery flow together in ever more lethal concentrations into fiery, mutating storms.

For an instant, the chanting voices of the Thousand Sons’ champions achieve perfect synchronisation, words of malign incantation rolling out like the peal of some cursed bell.

With their tainted souls melded as one amidst the empyrean, what one champion of the cabal sees, all their fellows see also.

Plucked from amidst the howling winds of the immaterium and the gibbering of countless damned voices come whispers of invaluable daemonic prophecy.

With the champions of the cabal incanting as one, their sorceries become an unstoppable tidal wave.

By establishing a recursive temporal loop, the cabal are able to lash the enemy with the same terrible moment of loss over and over again.

Such is the aura of latent energy roiling at the cabal’s command, it is as though the daemons of the warp lend their own unnatural power to the champions’ conjurations.

CORUSCATING BEAM (Thousand Sons – Strategic Ploy)

3pc
Use this Stratagem in your Command phase, if a THOUSAND SONS WARLORD from your army is on the battlefield. Select one point on the battlefield and place a marker on that point. At the start of your next Command phase, place another marker on the battlefield within 9" of the centre of that marker and draw a line between the centre of each of the markers. Roll one D6 for each unit that line would pass over or through, adding 1 if the unit being rolled for contains 11 or more models and subtracting 1 if the unit being rolled for is a CHARACTER. On a 4+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. The markers are then removed. You can only use this Stratagem once.

ARCANE SMOKESCREEN (Thousand Sons – Wargear)
1pc  Use this Stratagem in your opponent’s Shooting phase, when a THOUSAND SONS SMOKESCREEN unit from your army is selected as the target of an attack. Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made against that unit, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.

UNWAVERING PHALANX (Thousand Sons – Battle Tactic)
1-3pc  Use this Stratagem in your opponent’s Shooting phase, when a THOUSAND SONS RUBRIC MARINES or THOUSAND SONS SCARAB OCCULT TERMINATORS unit from your army is selected as the target of an attack. Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made against that unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack (to a minimum of 1). If that unit contains 5 or fewer models, this Stratagem costs 1CP; otherwise it costs 3CP.

Enemy Charge phase

SELFLESS AUTOMATA (Thousand Sons – Strategic Ploy)
2pc  Use this Stratagem in the Heroic Interventions step of your opponent’s Charge phase. Select one enemy unit that finished a charge move within Engagement Range of any ARCANA ASTARTES CHARACTER units from your army that phase: one friendly RUBRIC MARINES or SCARAB OCCULT TERMINATORS unit that is within 12" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units can perform a Heroic Intervention. When performing that Heroic Intervention, each model in that unit can move up to 2D6" instead of up to 3" and does not have to finish that move closer to the closest enemy model; instead, at least one model from that unit must end that move within Engagement Range of the selected enemy unit, and no models from that unit can end that move within Engagement Range of any other enemy units (otherwise it does not move).