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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.

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 6 of the Challenge. I am a little behind but I needed to prepare. This is the 9th post of that Challenge!

Totals so far: 5/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 0/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 9/79.

Time elapsed: 20%
Progress completed: 11.39%

Fund Raiser - Helping a friend with funding for a Wedding!

This post is part of the current Fund Raiser where a friend has given me an offer to buy a collection of Warhammer models, the money will go to putting down deposits for his wedding arrangements.

After that I have two other hobby debts to sort out. This is all about to change as I had to cough up money from personal cash to the groom and now have real life bills that cannot wait. I will need to use some of my fund to recompensate myself.

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.

The total remaining is $468!
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!
628 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #260, I am 368 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Thousand Sons, Infernal Master

10th Edition Index

An Infernal Master is yet another kind of Sorceror. He specializes in summoning and forming pacts with Daemons. His abilities allow him to use Daemons to attack for him.

Other than that, he is another kind of Sorcerer. More Cabal Points!

He is a bit more pricey than other Sorcerers at 105pts. There is a separate model for him, very cool sculpt at $42.

Let's check his stats!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 4
Save 3+/5++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

Ranged Weapons

Inferno Bolt Pistol

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 2+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (Can be fired while in Close Combat)

Screamer Invocation - witchfire

18" Range, 2D3 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S6, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This attack automatically hits, just roll for the number of attacks.)
Psychic (This attack has the Psychic keyword)

Screamer Invocation - focused witchfire

18" Range, 2D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S6, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This attack automatically hits, just roll for the number of attacks.)
Psychic (This attack has the Psychic keyword)
Hazardous (When using this weapon, roll a dice, on a 1 the user takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Melee Weapons

Force Weapon

4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S6, AP-1 and D3 Damage each.
Psychic (This attack has the Psychic keyword)

Abilities

Cabal of Sorcerers 2

Malefic Maelstrom (Psychic)

While leading a unit, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the Sustained Hits 1 ability. This counts for both Melee and Ranged. This means that rolls of a 6 to Hit, cause an additional hit. Note that it does not benefit Torrent Weapons that Hit automatically.

Glimpse of Eternity (Psychic)

Once per turn, you can change one Hit Roll, one Wound Roll, one Damage Roll or one Saving Throw made for this model to an unmodified 6.

Thoughts

Sustained Hits are for the Bolter version of Rubric Marines since it won't benefit the flamers and this is ironic since he has a Torrent weapon... Well...

The free re-rolls are also cool. The biggest warning sign there is the turning of a Damage roll into a 6. In melee he has a Force Weapon. If he scores a few unsaved wounds, one is Auto 3 wounds plus more. It is often better to increase the quality of an attack than try have more attacks.

It all depends on the target. If they are 1 Wound targets then a Hit or Wound roll would be better to convert.

All in all... not bad.

That makes 6 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 21.42% Completed. The total Completed is 28.38% 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

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Death Guard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor	#256
Death Guard	Death Guard Chaos Spawn	#259
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
World Eaters	Angron	#255
World Eaters	Eightbound	#258
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85