Blood Angels Codex: A Brief Overview

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**natpri771**

1. Sanguinary Priests are now HQ choices
2. Death Company are now elites
3. Mephiston is not a lord of war
4. Tactical squads have been beefed up
5. There is a new Blood Angels psychic discipline
6. There is a new Blood Angels force organisation chart, The Baal Strike Force
7. Some new Blood Angels relics and wargear
8. Tycho has not been removed
9. There is a new Blood Angels successor chapter, The Carmine Blades
10. Hopefully, there will be a Flesh Tearers supplement
11. Hopefully, the Wardinator's taint will be removed

**ancraig**

Speculation?

**Rippy**

There is a rumor thread in the news and rumors page that would love this post.

**Talys**

Rippy wrote:
There is a rumor thread in the news and rumors page that would love this post.

Yeah, the one with like 80 pages

**Gunzhard**

Any proof on this dude?

I suppose if you could take 3 priests as one slot it wouldn't be too bad, but I like to run Dante and a Librarian... hmm anyway I'm excited to get my hands on this book!

**natpri771**

This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

**Gunzhard**

natpri771 wrote:
This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

No I do realize the book is there, I have one on order already... but are these rules 'speculation'?

**Toofast**

Who is the Lord of war? Or did GW decide to break tradition again?

**Carnage43**

Toofast wrote:
Who is the Lord of war? Or did GW decide to break tradition again?

Almost certainly Dante.

**Quickjager**

You might not GET a LoW, DE didn't.

**wuestenfux**

How have Tacticals been beefed up?
The spruce has a grav gun and in the pics floating around the squad has two special weapons.

**Carnage43**

wuestenfux wrote:
How have Tacticals been beefed up?
The spruce has a grav gun and in the pics floating around the squad has two special weapons.

Heavy Flamer and Grav weapons is "beefed up" apparently....pffft.

**troa**

natpri771 wrote:
This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

The point of having one thread is to avoid 30 threads starting for various things all related to that one topic. This thread defeats that.

**Talys**

Just to be clear, this is what's on the website:

Spoiler:

In addition, if you buy the $200 version, you get a free, $40 book. Because we know that $60+$40 = $200 (Canadian here):

Spoiler:

Ok fine, I lied, you get a slipcover, a wallet with 7 prints, and it's individually numbered so you get to know that you are one of the 1,500 people in the world who really, really love blood angels (since that's all they printed).

**wuestenfux**

The Baal strike force could be an armored one with lots of fast tanks, Baal Predators in particular.

**Wonderwolf**

Toofast wrote:
Who is the Lord of war? Or did GW decide to break tradition again?

There is hardly a tradition related to Lords of War. The whole concept in 40K is not even a year old, and even in FW/Heresy it is under 3 years old. Not enough time to call anything a "tradition". They are likely still experimenting with it themselves, mining data, floating ideas, etc...

Either way, it's another one of those questions that has already been answered in the main Blood Angels thread.

Hence why duplicate threads are a bit tiresome. They lack all the information of the main thread, or they would be just as long as the main thread in the first place, no?

**SharkoutofWata**

Already posted in the main thread but since this one seems to want some life too, here's pretty much all the rumors and proof of rumors that people have gotten together.

http://dedard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/blood-angels-compiled-mega-post.html

**theharrower**

natpri771 wrote:
This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

Sorry, this is speculation. Where does it say Death Company are Elites and Priests are HQ? I assume you are looking at the slots where the models are? I guess we can assume Lemartes is under Troops and Corbulo is under Elites then? If you would read the main BA thread you would realize all of this has been covered already.

**SharkoutofWata**

theharrower wrote:
natpri771 wrote:
This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

Sorry, this is speculation. Where does it say Death Company are Elites and Priests are HQ? I assume you are looking at the slots where the models are? I guess we can assume Lemartes is under Troops and Corbulo is under Elites then? If you would read the main BA thread you would realize all of this has been covered already.

No, he's looking at the website. When you navigate to Blood Angels and click the Elite section, the Death Company are there, along with Beother Corbulo and the normal Sang Guuard, furioso Dread. Click the troops and there's the new Tac squad and Chaplain Lemartes, Guardian of the Lost. But it has been covered before. Old news.

**theharrower**

SharkoutofWata wrote:
theharrower wrote:
natpri771 wrote:
This Is Not Speculation. Go onto the games workshop webstore and check it out. The reason I didn't post it in news and rumours is because the blood Angels thread is PACKED and new ones are usually ignored (tried it before).

Sorry, this is speculation. Where does it say Death Company are Elites and Priests are HQ? I assume you are looking at the slots where the models are? I guess we can assume Lemartes is under Troops and Corbulo is under Elites then? If you would read the main BA thread you would realize all of this has been covered already.

No, he's looking at the website. When you navigate to Blood Angels and click the Elite section, the Death Company are there, along with Beother Corbulo and the normal Sang Guuard, furioso Dread. Click the troops and there's the new Tac squad and Chaplain Lemartes, Guardian of the Lost. But it has been covered before. Old news.

It's speculation when models that are part of the same unit appear in two different FOC slots and you write a post claiming it's one or the other. I'm just trying to keep the rumor mill honest. That's why I spent so much time compiling everything on my blog. Link here: http://dedard.blogspot.com/2014/12/blood-angels-compiled-mega-post.html?m=1

**Davor**

Funny the Death Company in the Deathstorm supplement they are troops. Unless this is a special case to me DC will be troops and scoring since it doesn't say in Deathstorm that they are not scoring.

Again unless that is a special case. But seeing how it's released one week before the codex, can't see why there would be a major change then.

**Motograter**

Lemartes, death company upgrade character is listed as a troop choice still. So a guy giving a list of what is currently nothing more than guesses makes it speculation I would think

**wuestenfux**

Davor wrote:
Funny the Death Company in the Deathstorm supplement they are troops. Unless this is a special case to me DC will be troops and scoring since it doesn't say in Deathstorm that they are not scoring.

Again unless that is a special case. But seeing how it's released one week before the codex, can't see why there would be a major change then.

Why not. It will give you a reason to play the death storm supplement.

**casvalremdeikun**

wuestenfux wrote:
Davor wrote:
Funny the Death Company in the Deathstorm supplement they are troops. Unless this is a special case to me DC will be troops and scoring since it doesn't say in Deathstorm that they are not scoring.

Again unless that is a special case. But seeing how it's released one week before the codex, can't see why there would be a major change then.

Why not. It will give you a reason to play the death storm supplement.

Or, it is possible that GW has the Death Company coded wrong on their website. Be it that we have more evidence that DC are troops than we do that they are elites, I an putting my money on the website being wrong.