Warhammer 40k - Review Library 318 - Thousand Sons, Tzaangors

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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 34 of the Challenge.

Totals so far: 64/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 1/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 68/79.

Time elapsed: 85%
Progress completed: 86.07%

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!
658 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #318, I am 340 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Thousand Sons, Tzaangors

10th Edition Index

Every (Chaos) army needs its chaff. The Thousand Sons do not have Cultists... But they have these Beastmen! Yeah, you read that right... there are Beastmen in the 41st Millenium. These are humans that have mutated by Chaos. These ones bird themed of course!

It is 65pts to field a unit of 10 Tzaangors and 130pts to field a unit of 20.
A box of 10 models costs

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 4
Save 6+/6++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 1
Ld 7+
OC 2

Weapons

Standard Wargear: Tzaangor Blades.

1 Model May be equipped with a Herd Banner.
1 (Other) Model may be equipped with a Brayhorn.
Any number of models may exchange their Tzaangor Blades for Autopistols and Chainswords.

Ranged Weapons

Autopistol

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 4+, S3, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while the unit is engaged in melee)

Melee Weapons

Chainsword

3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Tzaangor Blades

2 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.

Abilities

Relic-Hunters

At the end of the Command Phase. Roll a D6 for each Objective that you control that has one or more of these units in range of it. For every 4+, gain 1 Cabal Point.

Wargear Abilities

Herd Banner

This unit can re-roll Battleshock tests

Brayhorn

This unit can re-roll Advance and Charge Rolls.

Thoughts

So Chaff unit... but also Battleline. While I doubt anyone is going to field 120 of them for 780pts in a 2000pts battle... The 10-20 man teams are OC2, though shred like paper.

I think they can probably be used effectively where it counts to do actions and hold objectives, especially when the enemy has other things to worry about.

That makes 26 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 92.85% Completed. The total Completed is 34.71% 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

FactionDetachmentReview Number
Agents of the ImperiumArmy Rule #2
AeldariArmy Rule #4
Astra MilitarumArmy Rule #1
Astra MilitarumCombined RegimentDetachment Rule #1
Astra MilitarumBridgehead StrikeDetachment Rule #2
Death GuardArmy Rule Review #6
Space MarinesArmy Rule #3
Thousand SonsArmy Rule #7
World EatersArmy Rule #5
World EatersBerzerker WarbandDetachment Review #3


Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

FactionUnitReview Number
Death GuardBiologus Putrifier#5
Death GuardBlightlord Terminators#10
Death GuardChaos Lord#36
Death GuardDeath Guard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor#256
Death GuardDeath Guard Chaos Spawn#259
Death GuardDeath Guard Daemon Prince#265
Death GuardDeath Guard Daemon Prince with Wings#268
Death GuardDeath Guard Defiler#271
Death GuardDeath Guard Helbrute#274
Death GuardDeath Guard Icon Bearer#277
Death GuardDeath Guard Land Raider#280
Death GuardDeath Guard Predator Annihilator#283
Death GuardDeath Guard Predator Destructor#286
Death GuardDeath Guard Rhino#289
Death GuardDeath Guard Sorcerer in Terminator Armour#292
Death GuardDeathshroud Terminators#295
Death GuardFoetid Bloat-Drone#298
Death GuardFoul Blightspawn#301
Death GuardLord of Contagion#52
Death GuardLord of Virulence#304
Death GuardTallyman#39
Death GuardMalignant Plaguecaster#71
Death GuardMiasmic Malignifier#307
Death GuardMortarion#310
Death GuardMyphitic Blight-haulers#313
Death GuardNoxious Blightbringer#315
Death GuardPlagueburst Crawler#317
Thousand SonsAhriman#108
Thousand SonsAhriman on Disc of Tzeentch#109
Thousand SonsExalted Sorcerer#59
Thousand SonsInfernal Master#260
Thousand SonsMagnus the Red#49
Thousand SonsMutalith Vortex Beast#263
Thousand SonsRubric Marines#266
Thousand SonsScarab Occult Terminators#269
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Chaos Spawn#272
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Cultists#275
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Daemon Prince#278
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Daemon Prince with Wings#281
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Defiler#284
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Forgefiend#287
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Helbrute#290
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Heldrake#293
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Land Raider#296
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Maulerfiend#299
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Predator Annihilator#302
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Predator Destructor#304
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Rhino#308
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Sorcerer#311
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Sorcerer in Terminator Armour#314
Thousand SonsThousand Sons Vindicator#316
World EatersAngron#255
World EatersEightbound#258
World EatersExalted Eightbound#261
World EatersJakhals#264
World EatersKharn the Betrayer#267
World EatersKhorne Berzerkers#270
World EatersKhorne Lord of Skulls#273
World EatersLord Invocatus#100
World EatersWorld Eaters Chaos Spawn#18
World EatersWorld Eaters Daemon Prince#85
World EatersWorld Eaters Daemon Prince with Wings#276
World EatersWorld Eaters Defiler#279
World EatersWorld Eaters Forgefiend#282
World EatersWorld Eaters Helbrute#285
World EatersWorld Eaters Heldrake#288
World EatersWorld Eaters Land Raider#312
World EatersWorld Eaters Lord on Juggernaut#291
World EatersWorld Eaters Master of Executions#294
World EatersWorld Eaters Maulerfiend#298
World EatersWorld Eaters Predator Annihilator#300
World EatersWorld Eaters Predator Destructor#303
World EatersWorld Eaters Rhino#306
World EatersWorld Eaters Terminators#309

Thank you for reading!

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I mean killing a 120 of these guys is no easy feat. For only 780pt that is IG chaff level and then on the charge they will destroy most SM units. You can just swarm everything on the table.😳

You would be surprised at how quickly 100 models can be killed!

120 T5 models is no push over. Plus you have to see them all to kill them🤣

T4 with a 6+/6++ W1

Oh right T4 is still tough thou😅

Lol

using them at objectives to score those extra cabal points when you really need it will come in quite handy while also using them as a distraction to soak up a bit of fire to protect the rest of your marines might be worth it. they are cheap enough for that.

Especially when I start killing the wizards. 😁

Chaos-Kroots 😁

Also: some of the prettiest models GW has ever made, in my opinion. I love that they can be used for fantasy gaming (although I'm not sure GW have ever published and Warhammer / AoS rules for them).

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