Editing Tactics - Thousand Sons (section)

===Athanaeans===
Less killing things, more crowd control. This discipline excels at dicking with low-to-medium LD enemies, no matter how tough or numerous they are.
*'''Nightmare''' - -2 Ld malediction with a minor bonus of getting target to fear everything (unless it's Fearless or ATSKNF). As most Athanaeans powers involve enemy Ld in some way this is your psychic equivalent of a Markerlight, used to increase chances for your spells to actually work. Sacrifice takes away Fearless and ATSKNF - good if you plan to assault that target (or it's about to assault you), but most times not worth the risk.
#'''Mindwipe''' - S8 AP2 with 2-4 shots sounds too good, and it is, because it wounds against Ld. Against vehicles it threats anything (including AV 10-11) as AV12, but only deal damage on D3, so don't expect to do anything better than crew stunned, but at leas it would shave off some HPs. The best part is that it can instant death wounded targets on failed Ld test - not as reliable on Wraiths, Dreadkinghts or Greater Daemons (unless you cast Nightmare on them), but Tau and Tyranid MCs with their low Leadership are quite vulnerable to that. Sacrifice adds +1S and increase number of shots, and thus OK.
#'''False Command''' - Not quite the Leash of Slaanesh, but close. On failed 3D6 Leadership test you can move enemy unit during it's movement phase. You can move them out of cover, out of charge/firing range, clump them for some blasts (they can run to spread out or return to cover, but hey, running models cannot shot, so a win-win), just moving heavy weapons and artillery to prevent them from shooting at full BS or at all. Just don't try to pull that on enemy Warlord - he's probably Ld10, and pass that test on normal 2D6, so chances of success are very slim. Sacrifice extends your control to the shooting phase, which mostly means target cannot shoot and run out of the killzone you moved them into.
#'''Puppet Master''' - Use enemies to fire at each other. It's good on vehicles (unless their weapons are hull-mounted) and MCs, not so on infantry, unless you spend one charge to pick the target. Also being witchfire it can miss. Turning that LRBT Battle Cannon against his allies and blowing up nearby Bassilisk squadron with it or taking over Riptide and wiping that Crisis Squad hiding out of your LoS is priceless. Sacrifice version is a bit weird - it makes enemy to hit himself with it's close combat weapon, so it's more about assassinating sergeants and close combat MCs (Independent Characters would just look out sir it).
#'''Drowse''' - Malediction that makes enemy much worse in close combat, and allow anything to charge them without Initiative penalty for not having grenades. Could be much better if you were playing more melee-oriented army. Also as it lowers Initiative it synergise well with Lightning and Nether Surge which both force Initiative tests. Sacrifice nerfs pretty much the same things even further, turning -1 to halving, but also turns off most close-combat oriented rules as well as overwatch - assaulting D-scythe wraithguard and burna-boys is no longer a suicide.
#'''Bedlam''' - Ultimate blob killer. Ork mobs and IG combined squads would murder roughly 1/3 of the models in the squad, which is brutal. Close combat specialist that rely on quality of attacks rather than quantity (Terminators, Incubi, Wraithblades, Lichguard) can lose more than half of the squad, but with their high Leadership, they can pass that Ld test even on 3D6 with near 50% chance. Sacrifice adds extra D6 to the test to all but guarantee success even against Ld10 -  then again you may just safely Nightmare them instead.
#'''Paralyze''' - Very simple but also very strong power, it just shuts the target down for entire turn. To some extent you may do this with cheaper powers, but Paralyze just works without any tests or extra moves. It however, would have harder times to work on really big horde units or Gargantuan Creatures and Super-heavy walkers, and as per new rules Warlord class titan is completely immune to it. Then, why are you playing friendly fandex game against a fagot who fields heavy titans?