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Originally Posted by knight-of-nurgle  hi i was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantes of having a chaos marine army dedecated to Tzeentch because i might be thinking of getting some |
well, actual thousand sons squad are jolly expensive pts-wise, but they're one of the best - if not the best anti-space marine troops in the chaos codex!
hard to kill with their nice invulnerable save, ap3 bolters combined with 'slow and purposeful' gives them a big reach, and their sorcerer champions come with pointy death sticks & a choice of nifty psychic powers!
as for tzeentch-dedicated squads;
- termies become godly with a 4+ invulnerable save! again, an expensive unit as the icon isn't cheap, but they're damn hard to knock down with that 2+/4+ save.
- havocs are alot harder to shift... again, you don't need to rely on cover nearly as much. (which will be a HUGE! asset come 5th edition!
) combined with many of their long ranged weapons, it can take quite a bit of effort for any opponent to deal with them unless they commit elites units like deep strikers who can get in close and pump out lots of shots!
- sorcerers with the mark of tzeentch gain more psychic powers + they can also make upto 2 psychic tests/turn! so that means powers like warptime become increadably deadly as you can also use that shiny, pointy death stick too!
basically, while all your squads will become ungodly pts-heavy, your army will be fairly resilient as most of it will have a good invulnerable save!
again, it's a real toss-up as to which chaos army has the better staying power; the T5 of nurgle, or the invulnerable saves of tzeentch? against alot of basic arms like lasguns, bolters or pulse rifles, nurgle wins out as you won't take nearly as many wounding hits... but, against most armies that have been designed to kill space marines, the tzeentch army can take alot of that punishment that would maim even plague marines and still keep coming!
cheers!