Tzeentch is one of the most well-known of the Chaos Gods and is present in a variety of games from Games Workshop making easier to find tutorials online of all types. Using a lighter copper paint, such as Runelord Brass, add highlights to the metallic components. Focus on edges, corners, and any areas where light would naturally catch. This will enhance the metallic shine and add realism to the model. In battle, Tzaangors will often form a fighting formation, known as a Tzaangor warherd. Led by an Exalted Sorcerer, when this formidable bestial formation charges into battle, the air fills with a cawing, hooting cacophony. Cantrips spark from gnarled talons and weapons are discharged through sheer exuberance.

Tzeentch sits at the centre of the Crystal Labyrinth, an ever-changing fortress impossible to understand by a mortal mind. Chaos Space Marines • Havocs • Chosen • Chaos Terminators • Possessed • Greater Possessed • Khorne Berzerkers • Plague Marines • Noise Marines • Rubric Marines • Obliterators • Mutilators • Chaos Spawn • Fallen Angels • Noxious Blightbringer • Foul Blightspawn • Biologus Putrifier • Blightlord Terminators • Deathshroud Exalted Sorcerer • Sorcerer • Scarab Occult Sorcerer • Aspiring Sorcerer • Infernal Master • Daemon Prince The Start Collecting box contains 10 pink horrors, 3 screamers and 3 flamers which is enough to make minimum squads of each. The remainder gives you some versatility as you have a Herald of Tzeentch, an Exalted Flamer and a Chariot of Tzeentch. You can put the Herald on the Burning Chariot to give it a mount or put the Exalted Flamer on (Which makes it a Burning Chariot unit), leave the other one on foot. If you got 2 boxes, make one of each so you have some versatility. That’s all you have to do and you’ll have more than enough for 1k point games.Malign Sorcery and Forbidden Power –Not a Tzeentch specific expansion but they include faction neutral endless spells. As Tzeentch is one of the most caster heavy armies, it can make the most use of them. Malign Sorcery has a ton of utility and is used as far up as the competitive level. Forbidden power isn’t as popular but still has some potentially useful spells within. Every Beasts player wants these guys to be good. With the points drops and the Herdstone changes in the last few years, they’ve seen some play as blenders that run up the field in small units. For me, with no increase of armor save or wounds I am just not sure about these guys. Of the elite Tzaangors, the Skyfires are the most expensive and the one with the longest range, up to 20”.

Tzaangors act as cheap rank-and-file troops for Tzeentch-dedicated forces, though they have several fast, powerful elite units such as the Tzaangor Shamans, Tzaangor Enlightened, and Tzaangor Skyfires. This warband has good ranged options, from the 20” of the Skyfires, the 15” of the Acolytes and most Leaders and the 2” of most Tzaangors, that allows them to soften the enemies before closing the gap and finish them at close distance. Ogroid Thaumaturge –Not as popular as he once was but he’s a heavy hitter who will mutilate many other heroes in close combat, and is hard to take down as he can constantly heal himself.If they survive to end a combat phase, they heal D3 wounds and inflict D3 mortal wounds on nearby enemies. The Shaggoth can also heal them using Summon Lightning during the Hero Phase. This makes them more survivable, for sure. This gives you a nice rounded list of things using stuff you already got. Your pink horrors are your tarpit (And if you got the blue horrors already they’ll last a really long time) while the flamers allow you to reign fire upon your enemeny. The Fateskimmer and Changecaster give you some spells to play around with as well, you can get an idea of how Tzeentch begins to play because it can form the basis of a 2k list, mostly just by adding a Lord of Change and doubling up some of the stuff you have. Once the Agrax Earthshade wash dries, I highlight the bones and beak with Rakarth Flesh again, and then do some edge highlighting with Reaper Polished Bone to get an even lighter shade. I edge highlight both the weapons and the scale mail with Ironbreaker or Rune Fang Steel, whichever happens to be closer to me when I’m looking for paints.I also dot the eye with Reaper Pure White. To create an ethereal underglow effect below the Tzeentch disc, use a green paint, such as Warpstone Glow. Apply this paint carefully beneath the disc, allowing it to blend with the blue skin for a mystical appearance.

This rule simply makes it so if your General is off the board in reserve, you still get a command point during your Hero Phase, basically as if they were on the battlefield like normal. This does not however give them any other benefits like using Heroic Actions or warscroll abilities unless otherwise stated. Rituals of Ruin The much-maligned Cygor gets a buff in the Quakefray, a new Greatfray for this Battletome. Cygors become Priests, the only Priest that BoC have access to. Their prayer does mortal wounds to objective holding units and makes it harder for them to hold said objective. Other Enlightened wield Fatecaster Greatbows, strung with ectoplasmic cords that send ensorcelled arrows on deadly paths. Lastly, some carry Chainswords and Autopistols used in their past lives as human Heretics, for these were the tools by which they first achieved glory before Tzeentch.So, I have 6 Tzaangor Enlightened models from the Aether Wars box set I bought for my steampunk dwarves in AoS and I figured I could use them with my Thousand Sons, but I'm on the fence about building all 6 with Fatecaster Greatbows, all 6 with Divining Spears, or 3 of each. One of the biggest changes for herd generals will be Primordial Call Summoning going away. It was fun while it lasted, but to be honest with the other changes to the faction I don’t think I’ll miss it. Compared to the other chaos factions, the summoning mechanic was more disjointed. Tzeentch likes it when spells are cast, Khorne likes it when stuff dies. Meanwhile, beasts were given points for different seemingly disconnected actions. While bashing the skulls of weaker Ungors as tribute certainly felt flavorful, the idea they all stood in a queue waiting their turn was a bit goofy. It’s a big hit if you liked a big summoning army but it hasn’t been replaced with nothing. With the first ever Codex: Thousand Sons, your tactical toolbox is about to get a lot bigger. As well as new ways to use classic units like Rubric Marines , powerful rules to benefit your Sorcerers , and a dizzying array of psychic powers, this codex shines a spotlight on some of Tzeentch’s most aberrant servants. We thought it was worth taking a closer look at Tzaangors in the new book, alongside the grotesque Mutalith Vortex beast: