Expanding The Rest of The 40k Christmas Battleforces to 2000 Points

By Travis Pasch | January 19th, 2023 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Chaos Space Marines, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

Here is what to buy next for the rest of the Warhammer 40k Christmas Battleforces to make a full army of 2000 points for the New Year!

It is the holiday season, and if you’re lucky enough to get one of the 40k battleforces from the goblin in red (or a loved one), you are in for a treat this year. A good new year’s resolution would be to expand that army to 2000 points and get it painted!

Let’s look at what we can add to get you there in what to buy next for your 40k Battleforces. Get the latest on all the new Warhammer Christmas Battleforces for 2022/2023 by clicking below!

Expanding Your 40k Christmas Battleforces to 2000 Points Pt. 2

In this article, we will look at the Imperial Fists, Sisters of Battle, Thousand Sons, and Raven Guard boxes and try to expand them as cheaply as possible.

Bastion Strike Force: Imperial Fists

Tor Garadon 135 points
3 Primaris Aggressors 135 points
15 Heavy Intercessors 420 points
Total points 690 points

This doesn’t give you many points to start, but it has good value for the money. So, considering we’re trying to keep this cheap, we’re going to add a combat patrol and then add some tanks for extra fire support and more Aggressors.

Tor Garadon 135 points
6 Primaris Aggressors 270 points
15 Heavy Intercessors 420 points
1x Primaris Lieutenant in Phobos Armour 80 points
10x Primaris Infiltrators 250 points
3x Suppressors 100 points
3x Eliminators 75 points
1x Primaris Impulsor 110 points
2 Repulsors 560 points
Total points 2000 points

This army is all about shooting your enemy down! Just as the fists would want to, however, it’s not optimized, but because we’re going cheaper, this will have to do. With two Repulsors and six Aggressors, you should have plenty of weaponry to bring most enemies down.

You will suffer a little from a lack of combat, but you’ll have enough basic troopers to capture plenty of objectives.

Court of the Crimson King: Thousand Sons

Magnus the Red 420 points
3 Exalted Sorcerers 325 points
20 Rubric Marines 430 points
Total points 1175

Getting Magnus and 3 Sorcerers really rack up the points in this box. Again, since we’re going the cheap route, we’re going to add a combat patrol (even though some people aren’t too hot on Tzaangors). Then, we really don’t have too many points left, but you could fill out your army from there how you want.

However, we’ll add a couple more specialized units to round out the force.

Magnus the Red 420 points
3 Exalted Sorcerers 325 points
20 Rubric Marines 430 points
10 Scarab Occult Terminators 400 points
20 Tzaangors 160 points
Forgefiend 175 points
Rhino 80 points
Total points 1990

Obviously, you don’t have to go with the Combat Patrol, but this will get you a decent force with a lot of magic, a giant monster in Magnus, and plenty of Tzaangors to hold objectives. Your army will be pretty slow, but that’s T Sons for you!

Sanctorum Guard: Sisters of Battle

Morvenn Vahl 280 points
6 Paragon Warsuits 490 points
5 Celestian Sacresants 70 points
Battle Sisters Squad (10) 120 points
Total points 890

This gets you a decent starting force with almost 900 points, and you guessed it, once again, we’ll add a combat patrol (which means we’ll also have to add more to make full squads). However, after that, we need some serious firepower, so we’ll be adding Exorcists and some more fire support for the warsuits and Vahl so they can run up and get into the thick of it.

Morvenn Vahl 280 points
6 Paragon Warsuits 490 points
5 Celestian Sacresants 70 points
3 Battle Sisters Squads 360 points
Canoness 95 points
3 Penitent Engine 150 points
Seraphim 60 points
Arco-flagellants 39 points
Rhino 80 points
2 Exorcists 330 points
Immolator 110 points
Total points 1994

While the Arco-flagellants are annoying at just three, we did buff up the Penitent Engines with another box and added some serious firepower in the way of 2 Exorcists. This army is fairly combat-oriented as both the starter sets focus on it.

So, you’ll still have some firepower from the back with the Exorcists and some Sisters of Battle to take objectives; however, with so many warsuits, you’re going to want to get that blood for the Emperor in combat!

Ravenstrike Battle Force: Raven Guard

Kayvaan Shrike 135 points
Librarian in Phobos Armour 100 points
10 Primaris Reivers 190 points
2 Invictor Tactical Warsuits 320 points
3 Eliminators 75 points
Total points 820

Once again, this takes you close to the 850 points mark, which isn’t too bad for the price! And for the last time, we’re going to add a combat patrol to fill out the force and add a lot of points for cheap.

Then, we’re going to add some Inceptors for more maneuverability and then fill out with some more trickery, just the way they would want it. Finally, we’ll end with some extra firepower.

Kayvaan Shrike 135 points
Librarian in Phobos Armour 100 points
Primaris Lieutenant in Phobos Armour 80 points
10x Primaris Infiltrators 250 points
19 intercessors 385 points
3x Suppressors 100 points
10 Primaris Reivers 190 points
2 Invictor Tactical Warsuits 320 points
6 Eliminators 150 points
1x Primaris Impulsor 110 points
Total points 2000

There you have it; all the 2022 Warhammer 40k Christmas Battleforces expanded to be an army of 2000 points with your wallet in mind! None of these lists are made to win a GT, more to get a decent force on the table that could do well against most other armies.

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