Noctilith Crown rules and more leaks!

Based on Franco from the Thousand Sons Facebook page, the Noctilith Crown rules have been revealed! Remember, this is a rumor, nothing more, and I can't find any official statement to confirm it, so take it a you will. Nonetheless, if true, it would be quite the Fortification for Chaos!

According to Franco,

"So the new Noctilith crown allows all chaos psykers within 6" to re-roll psychic tests and on turn 2 and turn 3, the range is increased by 3". (2=9" and 3=12").
Though it also causes psykers within 6" to suffer perils on any double rolls."

and

"It's auras specifically say chaos units for the invulnerable and chaos psykers for the psychic rules.
And psykers in general for the perils."

Take note that Chaos Psykers do not suffer perils for the double rolls if they are within 6". It's only for non-Chaos psykers. It's a Chaos Fortification, so...cool beans. I think? This will be fun, especially for Thousand Sons! Time to spam mind bullets!

Oh, and I found an image on the same page, thanks to the guys on the Thousand Sons Facebook page.



Updated:

More information! Here's a peek at the stats for the Lord Discordant and Master of Executions!

According to Goatboy and the fine folks at Bell of Lost Souls, the Lord Discordant costs about 150 points base before you buy his weapons. So if you get a baleflamer, he costs 180 points. A budget autocannon option would be 160 points. He'll cost more if you get the magma cutter, but I wouldn't bother changing the helstalker's injector thing if I were you.

And Havocs are now Toughness 5 (that's not a printing error, right?), and can move and fire with heavy weapons without suffering any penalty to their hit rolls!



Here's the stats for the new reaper chaincannon. Awesome, eh? A 24" triple heavy bolter...well, it only fires 8 shots, but that's still a lot of dakka! 4 Havocs firing this would be 32 shots, and if you use Endless Cacophony for Slaanesh Havocs, you would be firing 64 shots. Yeah. That's insane.



Obliterators are still 65 points per model and not the 115 points they were in Shadowspear. Huh? Not sure if that's an error or they really mean for the Obliterator to remain at 65 points per model despite their upgrades. That would be huge.

Cultists are still 5 points per model and they are Mere Mortals. In other words, they no longer get Legion Traits. Makes sense to me. As I use Thousand Sons Cultists/pseudo Guardsmen, my Cultists/Traitor Guardsmen don't benefit from the Thousand Sons Legion Trait anyway, so that's fine with me. Would be great if they drop to 4 points per model, though. On the other hand, it seems that they still have access to Heretic Astartes Stratagems such as Veterans of the Long War, so that seems weird. But World Eater Cultists won't be drowning you in too many attacks now, and Alpha Legion Cultists wouldn't be forcing you to have a -1 penalty when shooting at them either. Nor would Night Lord Cultists cause fear. Heh. Goatboy and Larry (I think?) seem to think that this indicates Guardsmen going up to 5 points per model. Ouch.



Oh, and here are the Prayers to the Dark Gods. This are for the Dark Apostles, and with his two Dark Disciples following him around, you can pull them off on a 2+. They look excellent - there's one that's basically Prescience, and another that's pretty much Weaver of Fates (but it confers a 5++ invulnerable save, not improves it, so pretty pointless for Rubric Marines - then again Dark Apostles are not Thousand Sons Characters). There are a few good ones, actually. Only the Litany of Despair looks lackluster, but can be very good in the right situation when combined with Night Lords to make your opponents' units run away as long as they don't have immunity to morale like Tyranids or Orks. Even the God-specific Prayers are pretty good, buffing the Dark Apostle himself to either become stronger, tougher, heal himself or advance and charge.



What do you guys think? Do you like these changes? Do you think Cultists should go back to 4 points per model? Are Obliterators still only 65 points per model? Is 180 points too much for a Lord Discordant with baleflamer? Till then!