Thousand Sons MetaRank 19 of 27 in the 11th edition field: 2.1% of recent winning lists, fading. What its winners run, merged down to the models.

What is winning

The detachment builds that won for Thousand Sons at Grand Tournaments, largest share first. Most of them play Priority Assets.

7 builds · 21 winning lists

The list

Take the spine, choose from the flex, and treat the rest as tech. Copies count only the lists that take a unit; the loadout is the one most of them run.

Grand Coven · 11 of 11 lists merged

One list, taken from the copies and loadouts most of this build's lists run, at today's points, not what those lists printed. 10 pts are left for flex, most often Defiler (5/11), Sekhetar Robots (5/11), Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster Greatbows (4/11).

META CONSENSUS (1990 points)

Thousand Sons
Strike Force (2000 points)
Grand Coven
Force Dispositions: Priority Assets

Rubric Marines (115 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Malefic Curse
    ◦ 1x Warpflame pistol
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
    ◦ 1x Icon of Flame
    ◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
    ◦ 3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (115 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Malefic Curse
    ◦ 1x Warpflame pistol
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
    ◦ 1x Icon of Flame
    ◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
    ◦ 3x Warpflamer

Rubric Marines (115 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Malefic Curse
    ◦ 1x Warpflame pistol
• 4x Rubric Marine
• 4x Close combat weapon
    ◦ 1x Icon of Flame
    ◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
    ◦ 3x Warpflamer

Sorcerer (100 Points)
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
    ◦ 1x Pandaemonic Delusion
    ◦ 1x Prosperine khopesh

Sorcerer (100 Points)
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
    ◦ 1x Pandaemonic Delusion
    ◦ 1x Prosperine khopesh

Magnus the Red (455 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Blade of Magnus
    ◦ 1x Gaze of Magnus
    ◦ 1x Tzeentch's Firestorm

Scarab Occult Terminators (425 Points)
• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Inferno combi-bolter
    ◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator
• 2x Hellfyre missile rack
    ◦ 7x Inferno combi-bolter
    ◦ 9x Prosperine khopesh
    ◦ 2x Soulreaper cannon

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (140 Points)
• Enhancement: Umbralefic Crystal
• 1x Force weapon
    ◦ 1x Gaze of Hate
    ◦ 1x Inferno combi-bolter

Tzaangors (75 Points)
• 1x Twistbray
• 1x Autopistol
• 1x Chainsword
• 9x Tzaangor
• 9x Autopistol
• 1x Brayhorn
• 9x Chainsword
• 1x Herd banner

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with Wings (205 Points)
• Enhancement: Eldritch Vortex of E'Taph
• 1x Dark Blessing
    ◦ 1x Hellforged weapons
    ◦ 1x Infernal cannon

Chaos Spawn (65 Points)
• 2x Chaos Spawn
• 2x Hideous mutations

Chaos Rhino (80 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
    ◦ 1x Havoc launcher
    ◦ 2x Inferno combi-bolter

The models

What a winning Grand Coven player puts on the table: the usual number of models per datasheet, and how most of them build it.

18 datasheets · 11 of 11 lists

The sources

The lists behind the numbers above, from the largest event down.

11 lists · largest event first

How this is computed