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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 8 of the Challenge. This is the 14th post of that Challenge!

Totals so far: 12/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 0/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 15/79.

Time elapsed: 26.66%
Progress completed: 18.98%

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 $304 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!
631 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #265, I am 366 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Thousand Sons, Rubric Marines

10th Edition Index

It was all Arhiman's doing. See, I believe making mistakes runs in the family! Everyone in this unit except for the squad leader - the Aspiring Sorcerer, is dust inside their armor. Their bodies are now walking automotons and their souls bound to that armor.

There is a lore reason for all this. I will not spoil it.

In any case, Rubric Marines are the Battleline unit and staple of the Thousand Sons as much as World Eaters have Khorne Berzerkers and Death Guard have Plague Marines.

The unit is led by a Sorcerer and this contributes another 1 Cabal Point to the Cabal pool very turn.

These guys are 110pts for 5 and 200pts for 10, this is to offset getting an additional Sorcerer and Cabal point on the smaller unit (You can run 6x Battleline datasheets in one army)

Let's check their stats!

Stats

Movement 5"
Toughness 4
Save 3+/5++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 2
Ld 6+
OC 2

Weapons

The Rubric Marines are armed with Inferno Boltguns and Close Combat Weapons.

The Sorcerer is armed with an Inferno Bolt Pistol, Warpsmite and a Force Weapon.

The Sorcerer's Inferno Bolt Pistol can be exchanged by one of the following:

Warpflame pistol
Plasma pistol

Any number of Rubric Marines can have their Inferno Boltguns replaced with Warpflamers

1 Rubric Marine can exchange its Inferno Boltgun with a Soulreaper Cannon.

1 Rubric Marine can be equipped with 1 icon of flame.

Ranged Weapons

Inferno Bolt Pistol

12" Range, 1 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon may be fired while in combat)

Plasma Pistol - standard firing option

12" Range, 1 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon may be fired while in combat)

Plasma Pistol - supercharge firing option

12" Range, 1 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-3 and 2 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon may be fired while in combat)
Hazardous (After firing this weapon, roll a dice, on a 1, this model takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Warpflame Pistol

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S3, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon may be fired while in combat)
Torrent (This weapon hits automatically, just roll for the number of shots it gets)
Ignores Cover (Enemies do not receive Benefit of Cover against this attack)

Warpsmite

18" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-3 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon may be fired while in combat)
Psychic (This attack has the Psychic keyword)
Anti-infantry 4+ (Critically Wounds Infantry on 4+)
Devastating Wounds (Critical Wounds cause Mortal Wounds)

Inferno Boltgun

24" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.

Warpflamer

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon hits automatically, just roll for the number of shots it gets)
Ignores Cover (Enemies do not receive Benefit of Cover against this attack)

Soulreaper Cannon

24" Range, 6 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S6, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Devastating Wounds (Critical Wounds cause Mortal Wounds)

Melee Weapons

Close Combat Weapon

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

Force Weapon

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

Abilities

Cabal of Sorcerers 1 (Sorcerer only)

Bringers of Change

This unit can re-roll 1s to Wound on ranged attacks. If the target of the ranged attack is within range of an objective marker that you do not control, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

Wargear Abilities

Icon of Flame

On ranged attacks, if a Critical Wound is scored, then improve the AP of that weapon by 1.

Thoughts

In a Nutshell this is a very powerful Battleline unit. There are quite a few combos that this unit that can get quite ridiculous.

It has access to an all flamer unit which means that they are great at Overwatch unit.

Solid Battleline units are great for any army as they can hold objectives easier than other units.

That makes 8 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 28.57% Completed. The total Completed is 29.03% 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	Death Guard Daemon Prince	#265
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	Infernal Master	#260
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Thousand Sons	Mutalith Vortex Beast	#263
World Eaters	Angron	#255
World Eaters	Eightbound	#258
World Eaters	Exalted Eightbound	#261
World Eaters	Jakhals	#264
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85