Now that's my kind of magic!
Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!
Now known as the Unit Review Library!
What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!
A New Season of Reviews - A Challenge accepted!
The nefarious trio of World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons are set to get their new Codexes next. Actually, the great FOUR are each getting their favourite Legion's new Codexes but Emperor's Children did not have an actual Index before.
Anyway. I was speaking to my friend @nicolaasmuller about how my Review posts might not make a lot of money for me, but that cumulatively and on average some of them do good and overall there is an average that at least means that there is good movement of income into the Hobby Fund and that it would grow from there.
We were throwing around some numbers and looking at the average of my last 10 Review Posts, 20 Review posts and 30 Review Posts and we could come up with a range of how much I should theoretically be making across a large sample size of completing the remainder of the reviews for the nefarious trio mentioned above.
So Nicolaas says to me something along the lines of: That would be pretty cool if you could do it in like, a month. Maybe do like 2 a day.
Alteration So @nicolaasmuller and I worked out that firstly - due to family obligations, I had missed out on some days not being able to blog at all and having no laptop with me and more on the way... and the fact that he had said 2x posts a day from the start would have made it a 40 day challenge. I shall adjust that number below going forward...
So I explained it would be a little bit more than that but sure... it would be cool... is that a challenge? And yeah... here I am... Challenge accepted. 😎
It is now Day 32 of the Challenge.
Totals so far: 62/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 1/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 66/79.
Time elapsed: 80%
Progress completed: 83.54%
Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear
With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.
I am collecting funds in the following ways:
- Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
- Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
- Selling some of the collection to friends.
At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $295 to pay off!
Every bit counts!
Back to the review.
The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.
I should have started when 10th edition launched!
656 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #316, I am 340 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)
Thousand Sons, Thousand Sons Vindicator
10th Edition Index
I heard the moans and groans from the World Eaters players that they cannot use Vindicators and Death Guard do not have access to their either. That means only the Thousand Sons and Codex Chaos Space Marines gives you access to this amazing warmachine!
I love them, that's why my regular armylist has 2x of them in it.
But this one is for Thousand Sons... so what... Inferno combi-bolters on the sponson? Probably... other that, I bet it does what every other Vindicator does: It goes BOOM!
185pts to field and costs $75 to buy.
Let's check its stats!
Stats
Movement 10"
Toughness 11
Save 2+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 11
Ld 6+
OC 3
Weapons
Standard Wargear: Demolisher Cannon, Armoured Tracks.
This model can be armed with one of the following:
- Inferno Combi-Bolter
- Inferno Combi-Weapon
This model can be armed with a Havoc Launcher.
Ranged Weapons
Demolisher Cannon
24" Range, D6+3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S14, AP-3 and D6 Damage each.
Blast (Get +1 Attack per 5 models in the target unit, rounding down.)
Inferno Combi-Bolter
24" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (Get +2 Shots at half range of 12")
Inferno Combi-Weapon
24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (Get +1 Shot at half range of 12")
Devastating Wounds (This weapon causes Mortal Wounds on a roll of a 6, or Critical Wounds)
Anti-Infantry 4+ (This model scores Critical Wounds against Infantry Models on a roll of 4+ on the Wound roll)
Havoc Launcher
48" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Blast (Get +1 Attack per 5 models in the target unit, rounding down.)
Melee Weapons
Armoured Tracks
3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S6, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Abilities
Deadly Demise D3 - When this model is destroyed, roll a dice. On a 1, this model explodes, dealing D3 Mortal Wounds to each unit within 6" of it.
Siege Shield
When firing its Demolisher Cannon, this model can fire it while in melee with another unit, when it fires while in Engagement Range, it does not suffer any penalties for being in combat with the enemy.
Thoughts
Like I have said... I love this tank. And like I said... it is an Imperial Vindicator but with Inferno Bolters and the Havoc Launcher.
If you need a big gun... with a short range... this is your unit!
That makes 25 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 89.28% Completed. The total Completed is 34.49% Complete! Can I review them all?!
Thank you for reading!
Warhammer Review Library
You can find all my previous links on this post: Warhammer 40k Links Container Post! 13/02/2025
I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons!
Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews
| Faction | Detachment | Review Number |
|---|---|---|
| Agents of the Imperium | Army Rule #2 | |
| Aeldari | Army Rule #4 | |
| Astra Militarum | Army Rule #1 | |
| Astra Militarum | Combined Regiment | Detachment Rule #1 |
| Astra Militarum | Bridgehead Strike | Detachment Rule #2 |
| Death Guard | Army Rule Review #6 | |
| Space Marines | Army Rule #3 | |
| Thousand Sons | Army Rule #7 | |
| World Eaters | Army Rule #5 | |
| World Eaters | Berzerker Warband | Detachment Review #3 |
Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)
Thank you for reading!
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@zakludick
wow demolisher cannons are scary as hell.
Yup! 😁
I really want to get one or two for my imperial fists army✊️
Hehehe. I only have 3.
So that's not enough?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 The Imperium has a lot of enemies... I need enough Vindicators to blow them all up!
🤣