4/5 stars. The rules are good.
Background.
One of the smaller cults within the Thousand Sons legion, the Khenetai fused their psychic powers with their blades and accomplished incredible martial feats therein.
Strengths.
Baseline of WS=5 and 2 wounds each mark them out of veteran analogues.
They do not get access to the minor arcana, but instead get a power to yield +1 to all of WS, A, and movement. This is terrific and for the points cost that you are paying here, this is such a strong and tempting deal! The force weapons only add to this amazing deal.
Weaknesses.
For what you are paying, there really aren't any downsides here.
Difference to First Edition.
Improved! Okay, you can argue with me that they used to be WS=6 as baseline, but here in second edition it is entirely understandable that their baseline WS would be reduced. This matters not a jot though given their psychic powers.
To be honest, the main problem here is that they are an elites slot. This slot is already mightily crowded!
Builds.
5 Khenetai, Blademaster with Artificer Armour (160 points).
You don't really need the artificer armour, but it is nice to have. Multiple units of this kind of build are powerful.
Beyond this, I wouldn't advocate much. Maybe a hand flamer is nice for one of them, but I wouldn't expand the unit to 10 to take two of them. Melta bombs are cute, but possibly not needed either - you should have other melta solutions.
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