Pavoni on a Contemptor Osiron would also be decent, as it would boost the Dread's movement significantly. Also I disagree, a Praetor is still a good choice IMO, as you can still upgrade him to be a psyker in addition to a fighty character.

Some things I noticed while playing as TS: Indomitus Terminators with PoTL are line units and troops and lose the support squad rule. Good for contesting objectives with Pavoni movement buffs. Athanaean on Recon/Scout squads have some utility with their nemesis bolters based on some of our skirmish games. Pyromancy (Not Pyrae) turn your HQs and Sekhmet into area denial units, forcing enemy units off an objective by turning it into difficult terrain and getting auto-hits with Pyromantic Combustion. Castellax Achea when used offensively while escorted by a techmarine buffed tac squad 6 inches away become really potent suicide bombers and objective contesting. With Achean Config, you could pile all failed perils into the Castellax Achea closest to an enemy unit, to try and siphon perils wounds away with Adamantium Will. Programmed Behaviour wouldn't be much of a debuff when you can herd them into an enemy objective, while using your units to contest with the Castellax Achea while your reserve line unit is behind them. The enemy player will attempt to destroy the castellax and it will explode on D6, removing even more enemy units on the objective for your reserve line unit to clean up behind them. If the Castellqx survives, you can battlesmith/Thaumaturgy the castellax for the next objective.

This is the one I've been waiting for! Thank you!

Omg thank you briar, this is what I've been waiting for

My Loyalist Praetor that totally isn’t just a modded Ahriman thanks you for this video

With regards to the Achean Configuration, it's worth noting that your psychic robots get a 4+ Adamantine Will, which has been buffed this edition to allow you to use it on Perils of the Warp! This allows them to tank far more wounds than you would expect as you shunt all your problems onto them. Unfortunately, this does not make it, or them, good.

I've been waiting for this one! The 15th will be getting reinforcements

Thank you I'm building 1k sons and for a tournament but didn't have a solid list. This helped.

Sadly Thousand Sons feels like a complete dud to me. The Legion Trait is a Jack of All Trades, Master of None style trait kinda like the Dark Angels Hexgrammaton where for the most part you get something weaker than what other Legions can do but get to chose for each unit individually. Except sometimes you just randomly fail and kill yourself instead. Asphyx Bolters lose Fury of the Legion, so for your basic bolter dudes it might even be a downgrade you have to pay points for (all in on Breachers I guess). Aether is equal to a Plasma Gun (in Rapid Fire range) when it comes to killing Terminators because 4+ Breach is equal in value to Instant Death there. Except Aether just randomly fails. It's better at shooting Vehicles, but the tradeoff is that you're worse vs every other kind of infantry. Sekhmet are cool and probably my favorite unit in the game, but they become insanely expensive because you probably have to upgrade them with Power Fists to fight other elites, and if you're not taking a Psychic Discipline why are you even taking them. Khenetai, they can randomly fail at having their elite melee infantry rule, and they randomly fail at having good weapons. Osiron feels like a Contemptor Dread that has to pay extra to get access to your Legion Trait. Psyker Praetors feels like the only good thing that's left, and it's not gonna carry the Legion when any other Legion can take Librarians. Thematically this is my favorite Legion, but if it feels like you're just getting worse toys than everyone else while you're randomly killing yourself in the process it's probably gonna suck all the fun out of playing them. Not everything has to be good but can we at least not have a fail condition where you die when your legion trait doesn't go off. Simply gonna go with my 2nd or 3rd pick instead.

In regards to The guard of the Crimson King i might be mistaken here, but from what i understand while you can take Sekmet terminators as Troop choices they don´t get the line troops keyword. So you end up with a unit that while it can contest objectives it can´t capture them. So it does reduce the effectiveness of Guard of the Crimson King somewhat.

Anychance this series will continue?, I am still trying to decide which legion to base my armored column idea on and your vids have been super helpful so far

Would love a world eaters HTB next. Great content as always!!

every "strange word" you said, got a really deep signification. Athanéen are the prime ancien greeks, or the greek side of the Troy war, for exemple...

Could someone tell me where to find a picture with a starter "age of darkness" under thousand sons?

The Outer Circle just released a pretty salty (his words!) video on the Thousand Sons now being the third weakest Legion of Horus Heresy (just ahead of Salamanders and Raven Guard). Would you agree on that? I'm not that competitive, but I don't like to play really bad armies, I prefere the midfield.

Probably would of spent more time looking at Archaen Config. The Castellax have adamantium will to save vs psychic powers shrugged. Also the praviens can join their unit so now you have robots with minor arcana. Not broken but it's definitely better. Also take praetor with eidolon of suffering

I have to say the precision shot works really well because in the new horus heresy rules like 40k 8th and on once a model in a unit takes a wound you have to give them wounds until they die so you can precision shot a sargeant or apothecary in a unit then just keep shooting I would use the scouts with nemesis bolters to precision shot a character in a unit or if needed a sargeant or flag holder jf it helps them and then use tactical marines with their special bolters to deal the majority of damage

You said in your power ranking that athenean was not great but make a big deal of it here? Is it only good with GoTCK

You didn't mention it in the video, which makes me question if my reading of the rules is incorrect. From my reading, apothecaries are super valuable as TS, because each infantry (character) model gets a minor arcana. Each apothecary is an infantry (character), therefore apothecaries get their own minor arcana they add to the unit they join. Everything I've read in the book seems to point that there's nothing stopping your raptora sergeant giving an invuln the same turn the apothecary pavoni improves your movement, and your praetor in the squad gives them the athanaen buff. Techmarines getting a similar situation. Is my reading incorrect?

Hey Black Briar, how exactly do detachments work in Horus Heresy. I can’t get my head around primary/secondary detachments. With allies do they have to be a different faction or can they be of the same faction as your main force? Cheers in advance

Landspeeder squadrons cannot use minor arcana, they may be cavalry but they also lack any model with the character subtype, so unfortunately those multimelta character sniper landspeeders won't work. It mentions cavalry in the legion rules for the benefit of bike squads instead

When are we going to get Iron Warriors?

I want to make a praetor with warhawk jetpack and slap a thunder hammer and paragon blade on him with the Eidolon of Suffering WLT, that combined with an assault squad unit with pyrae for hammer of wrath (2) or pavoni for +3 movement, they just charge in, and he gets 10 attacks (as long as you have some other psykers cast near him bumping up his rage (2) to rage (4))

From what I understand, Corvidae is just when you first wound - before armour saves - you get precision shots. So it is kinda bad? Worth taking on something like a lascannon HSS or maybe a Mortalis Destoryer squad with disintegrators or something, but other then that just a bit meh.

Asphynx bolter lose at every range to normal bolter except the 12-18 inch range. Also you lose access to bayonettes and the fury of the legion. So asphynx sucks

You say auto-may-ta, I say auto-mah-ra, let's call the whole thing heresy

So they are not as bad as people say