Revised Octo Con List

This is the list I've decided to play at octo con and begun painting. I would like some play testing over the next couple of weeks to get to know the army before octo con.

HQ
Kharn the Betrayer

Demon Prince, MoT, Warptime, Gift, Wings

Troops
9 Beserkers with Skull Champion with Power Weapon

9 Thousand Sons Marines with Champ with Gift in rhino

9 Thousand Sons Marines with Champ with gift in rhino

10 CSM with 2 melta, icon of glory and champ with pwr wep

Heavy
2 x Defiler with 4 DCCW
Land Raider with Demonic Possession

Lots of gift is very handy, just ask Tim lol. Sorry Tim.

I know it was effective vs me, but that was because I rolled two 2s. I'm not actually a big fan of gift. If you start your turn within 6" of something you can't shoot to death with Thousand Sons you're sort of screwed anyhow. Picking a power weapon or fist out of a unit isn't even a big deal because they have a 4+ invulnerable. The game we played had some very exceptional circumstances which might be tainting your impression of the power. I'd play a few more test games is all I'm saying.

I dunno, I've always loved gift, having thousand sons locked in combat with one unit and then gifting another unit on the next turn is very effective for tying them up, don't underestimate spawn, str 3 models have a really really tough time taking them down lol, so a unit of ork boyz if the nob gets gifted is basically useless they're spend a turn or 2 taking down a spawn, guardsmen and nids are in the same boat.

You might think about trying one of the asp sorcerers out with warptime. MoT lets you use 2 powers and warptime+force weapon to instant death HQ's I thought might work pretty good. Plus the relentless bolter blitz then charge would be swanky

I'm assuming the khorn is going into the LR . The possessed option is handy if you're using it for transport purposes, but after you drop your cargo it is going to be a pretty useless 220 points since the guns won't be hitting much.

If you are using the Tsons blitz with the rhinos i would recomend something more like wind or even just plain doombolt. having the gift is cool, but if you can kill an entire squad in one round shooting, gift become pretty useless. If somehow you screw it up and end up in assault anyway then you do have several options in your list for a quick counter-attack that will eliminate the threat.

I was thinking that you prince was pretty pricey. It is usually a priority target among most generals as everyone hates fighting them. they are best made cheap and fast and you can stick em out there and hope they live.

If you lose the possession on the LR and the Gift on the prince it opens up the options to give a rhino to your tank hunting marine squad which won't do very well if it has to chase vehicles on foot. Probably wouldn't gain points from swapping gift on tsons as the best option for them would be Wind which is the same points.

Obviously if you don't like my opinion you can go make out with your cousin because i am always right

haha Greg, ya I'm thinking I'll switch gift for wind on the prince, I think I'll keep possession on the land raider tho, I use it more as a fortress to hold a point and even at BS 3 I'll hit stuff, i mean cmon its TL ffs [2 x 50/50 = 100 lmao, hopefully] and I'd much rather it delivered its payload instead of the usual sit on my side of the table stunned for 2 turns. The marine squad with melta's does have a rhino already. I'm gonna stick with gift for the game against you so I can get a better idea, I mean it was super effective against Tim, taking both his characters so I'd like to give it another run. The big debate is if I should:

Take away:
Both Thousands sons squads
warptime and gift and give the prince wind
1 zerker
demonic possession from the LR

and add in:
2 more squads of chaos marines with rhino and x2 melta's and champ with pwr wep and icon of glory
1 squad of 10 marines with lascannon
extra armor for the LR