TSons Almost Take Down Adepticon 2024: Top 40k Army Lists

By Andrew Schrank | March 28th, 2024 | Categories: 10th Edition 40k, 40k News & Articles, Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Necrons, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors, Thousand Sons, Warhammer Army Lists

Don’t miss the top army lists from the Adepticon 40k Champs; check out the highest-finishing Warhammer 40k armies from the event.

The tournament is over, and now we can look at which lists managed to secure a place at the top! Check out what these winners brought in their armies with our commentary on their selections.

TSons Almost Take Down Adepticon 2024: Top 40k Army Lists

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Editor’s note: Brandon won Adepticon with a great Tau list that he piloted with expertise. However, this is “old” Tau, and their new update will change a lot for the faction. So his list is below, but our breakdown will be about TJ’s second-place Thousand Sons. We also put one of our favorite top 16 lists, which had a solid variety overall this year.

13th Place: Stephen Crawford – Dark Angels

4th Place: Kevin Leonard – Chaos Daemons

1st Place: Brandon Vallee – T’au Empire (Pre-update)

2nd Place: TJ Laningan – Thousand Sons

TJ’s Thousand Sons did extremely well as a squishy, deadly list that wants to claim the middle of the board and advance up early. For leaders, TJ brought Ahriman for a great +1 wound buff, three Exalted Sorcerers for a 4+ invulnerable, an Infernal Master for sustained hits, and Magnus.

There is also a Daemon Prince with Wings, which is overall a super strong mobile unit with mortal wound output.

Two units of Rubric Marines bring strong bodies with their great warpflamers. A unit of Tzaangors acts as a super squishy melee glass cannon unit for the early game.

A Vortex Beast comes in as a larger model with solid melee power along with some mortal wound output. A unit of Cultists adds some cheap bodies to soak wounds, while three units of Tzaangor Enlightened are efficient mobile ranged units that are only 15 pts per model.