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I have been looking for a way to make special weapons for my blood angels army. I had a couple ideas and i was wondering if fluff would allow me to do this.

So, the Baal predator is a BA only tank right? because BAs didn't share the STCs with the cogs on mars, also if someone could explain to me why thats gone...."unpunished"?

theoretically, Baal preds might not be the only STC there not sharing with the rest of the Astartes?

Such as Man portable Frag cannon ( flamer rules, and stats, but the actual model will hold a bolter/shot gun variant ) For those who cannot think of what a Frag cannon is off the top of there head, its;
"Payload is a pair of double shotted cylindrical adamantine shells, each the length of a battle brother. when fired, the hollow shell disintegrates unto a hail of razor sharp-shards which gout forth from the cannons mouth to shred armored and unarmored foes alike." essential an uber shotgun carried by spacemarines. they sound very "assault-y" which blood angels like

or a Hand frag cannon ( Hand flamer rules and stats, but a boltgun/shotgun variant, i might either make it look like the model 1887 or a sawed off shotgun, ornate and fancy of course)

and also a heavy caliber rifle, for spacemarines ( lascannon rules and stats, but the model will carry something along the lines of a baret 50 cal.)-for this one i remember reading somewhere that spacemarines dont like snipers though, if i could get that confirmed that be awesome. I would like to make a devastator sniper squad, and the sarge would be a spotter. watching heads being split with high caliber rounds of admantium sounds nice

Fluff-wise, I doubt that the Blood Angels, being space marines, would vary too much from the standard space marines weapon set, especially since some of them, like the bolt gun, are considered holy.

That being said, when it comes to the actual models, go nuts! As long as you tell your opponent what each conversion counts as before the game starts, and stay fairly consistent with your conversions, most people will be cool with it.

Well, to get the stats of a lascannon with a solid projectile, it would have to be more along the lines of a main cannon off a tank than a .50.

If you could use boltgun rules for something but give the models a cooler weapon (or a flamer or missile launcher for that matter) and tell your opponent, people should accept that it is only for aesthetics!

as far as we know, Baal Preds are the only STC the BAs are hiding.



and the Mechanicus IS pissed off about it. they often have agents hanging around battlefields where Baal Preds are deployed in the hope of getting a look at it, or recovering a wreck.