Changehost of Deceit: The 11th-Edition Thousand Sons Daemon Allies Detachment

Three parts: two auras that point in opposite directions, and a mustering permission.

Daemonic Illusions (Aura), granted to your SCINTILLATING LEGIONS units. While a friendly THOUSAND SONS PSYKER unit is within 6 inches of and visible to this unit, models in that unit have a 4+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks.

Mortal Sorcery (Aura), granted to your THOUSAND SONS units. While a friendly SCINTILLATING LEGIONS PSYKER unit is within 6 inches of and visible to this unit, that daemon unit has the Cabal of Sorcerers ability.

Read the second one carefully, because its grammar is unusual and it is the more valuable of the two. The ability is granted to the daemon unit, not to your Thousand Sons unit. What it means in practice is that a daemon Psyker standing close to your own troops becomes another model that can attempt Rituals. Since the army rule caps you at one attempt per model and four Rituals per turn, adding eligible casters is how you actually reach that ceiling, and daemons are a cheaper way to buy caster bodies than more Sorcerers.

Both auras require 6 inches and visibility, and both are reciprocal in the sense that the two halves of your army have to stay near each other to get anything. This is not a detachment where you deploy daemons on one flank and Rubricae on the other. It is a detachment about a combined battle line.

The mustering permission. You can include SCINTILLATING LEGIONS units even though they do not have the THOUSAND SONS Faction keyword. The combined points cost of such units is capped by battle size: up to 500 points at Incursion, 1,000 at Strike Force, 1,500 at Onslaught. And no SCINTILLATING LEGIONS model can be your WARLORD.

That 1,000-point cap at Strike Force is generous enough to make this a genuinely mixed army rather than a small allied contingent, and it is worth planning against deliberately: half your list can be daemons.

Six, which is the 2 DP shape. Two are first-party from the pack and the other four come from the mirror.

• Chronosorcerous Bleed (start of your opponent's Charge phase). Rewritten in full by Faction Pack v1.2, so this wording is first-party: one friendly unengaged THOUSAND SONS PSYKER or SCINTILLATING LEGIONS unit selects one visible enemy unit within 12 inches; when that enemy unit declares a charge, it has -1 to charge rolls. Note that it names both halves of your army, which is characteristic of this detachment. A single pip off a charge roll is worth more than it looks against an opponent who needs a long charge to reach your casters.
• Ethereal Phantasm. Amended by name in Faction Pack v1.2, which changes 9 inches to 8 inches in its Target section. That specific change is first-party even though the surrounding text is mirror-sourced. If you are working from older community coverage, check this range.
• Sulphurous Veil, Deceptive Glamour, Fractal Disjunction and Glimmershift Portal complete the toolkit. Their full text lives in the codex and on the mirror rather than in the pack, and we do not reprint rules text we cannot read in a first-party document.

The honest summary of this detachment's stratagems is that two of the six are pinned down precisely and four are not, which is the price of a detachment the pack chose to amend rather than reprint. We would rather tell you which is which than present all six with equal confidence.

Four, and the eligibility lines are the interesting part.

• Nethershriek Mind-Eater (10 pts). THOUSAND SONS or LORD OF CHANGE model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12 inches and visible to the bearer; that unit takes a Battle-shock test, and if it fails it suffers 3 mortal wounds.

This is the cheapest enhancement in the faction and the only one a daemon character can carry, which makes it the signature pick here. Three mortal wounds on a failed test is a real threat, and the battle-shock test itself is worth something even when it passes, because you learn what your opponent is willing to spend to keep a unit steady. - Diabolic Savant (20 pts). THOUSAND SONS INFANTRY model only, and its benefit is conditioned on the bearer being near friendly SCINTILLATING LEGIONS units. It is an enhancement that only functions in a genuinely mixed list, which is a fair description of the detachment as a whole. - Duplicitous Malediction (15 pts) and Tome of True Names (20 pts) are the remaining two. Both are mirror-sourced.

(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 and move with updates; confirm in the app.)

Key units. Rubric Marines are the THOUSAND SONS bodies that receive Mortal Sorcery and the units the daemon Psykers need to stand beside. Ahriman is a THOUSAND SONS PSYKER whose 6-inch bubble is what switches on the daemons' 4+ invulnerable save against shooting, and Exalted Sorcerers give you a second such bubble, because one aura source cannot cover daemons on both flanks.

The Lord of Change is the Scintillating Legions Psyker that carries Mortal Sorcery outward and is the only daemon eligible for Nethershriek Mind-Eater. No box is linked, because our catalog has no exact entry for it, and the same is true of the other Tzeentch daemon datasheets you would field here. That is a real gap and we would rather name it than send you to an approximate kit.

What it pairs with. No Unique Tag, so every 1 DP detachment is legal for exactly 3 DP.

• [Ritual of Regeneration](/40k/armies/thousand-sons/detachments/ritual-of-regeneration) (1 DP) is the most durable 3 DP shape in the faction and gets its own page. A 4+ invulnerable save against shooting on half your army, plus a heal every time a Ritual lands, and the extra daemon casters make those Rituals more frequent.
• [Sekhetar Cohort](/40k/armies/thousand-sons/detachments/sekhetar-cohort) (1 DP) gives robots the invulnerable save they otherwise lack, and both detachments already demand a Psyker escort within 6 inches, so one positioning habit serves both.
• [Servants of Change](/40k/armies/thousand-sons/detachments/servants-of-change) (1 DP) is legal despite the thematic overlap, because this detachment carries no tag. Daemons and mutants are two different ways to widen a list without competing for the same models.