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Since a mod short sightedly closed the last blood angels thread before the whole release was finalised, going to need a new thread to keep up for the next few weeks.

Anyway:

First pic of a formation from the new book:



Whilst it is still slightly strange, it puts into context the new blood angels terminator kit somewhat.

Holy *censored* that's awesome

Erm.. That's A LOT of elites lol. Looks like a Macragge type scenario with the full 1st Company fighting the Tyranids.

I wonder what is the maximum number of points one could field with that amount of slots. You could do the Baal Strike Force and the Archangels Strike Force and have all sorts of fun.

Does the Baal strike force grant +1 Int to units in this FOC?

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Does the Baal strike force grant +1 Int to units in this FOC?

No. Baal Strike Force adds the +1I to models in the BSF Formation only.

Awesome! I'll be starting my termie list with Blood Angels and not Dark Angels then!

Too bad it sold out in an hour.

Aren't Terminators still crap though? I guess you'd use a lot of Vanguard/Sternguard instead.

WayneTheGame wrote:
Aren't Terminators still crap though? I guess you'd use a lot of Vanguard/Sternguard instead.

Terminators are crap. But up to 160 Terminators might not be crap.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

WayneTheGame wrote:
Aren't Terminators still crap though? I guess you'd use a lot of Vanguard/Sternguard instead.

Terminators are crap. But up to 160 Terminators might not be crap.

Can't have 160. You can have up to 10 squads total of any combination of stern, vans and termies, and you can have up to 6 dreadnoughts.

14 elites, nuts. My codex arrived but am at work. MSU gallore

endlesswaltz123 wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

WayneTheGame wrote:
Aren't Terminators still crap though? I guess you'd use a lot of Vanguard/Sternguard instead.

Terminators are crap. But up to 160 Terminators might not be crap.

Can't have 160. You can have up to 10 squads total of any combination of stern, vans and termies, and you can have up to 6 dreadnoughts.

100 Terminators might still be okay.

Looking forward to the flesh tearer and 2nd company force orgs. This one is certainly fun. Not amazing but fun.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Too bad it sold out in an hour.

Good job it's available in a load of FLGS, and will be released soft cover in the near future

And digitally..

Forget the cranky ones who don't believe that things are available even when they are. If it's not a book it doesn't exist and those danged digital books are just a fad!

I kinda wanna Furioso spam in Drop Pods now....

Considering that GW tends to do an awful job of formating their digital versions of stuff, I wouldn't exactly consider their existence a boon.

Saves on space though eh?

Hmm, 40 euro for softcover or 60 for the hardcover..

I have to admit. This is tempting, but I wanted to field an elite army of Terminators and that still doesn't seem to be a good idea (also I wasn't hugely fond of Blood Angels, I prefer to make my own chapter).

Maybe some day they will have balance so an all Terminator army isn't going to get stomped.

1st company formation? Awesome.

Blood angels only? Less awesome.

You don't want to know how many Terminators I have.

That's not a formation, it's a detachment.

Does anyone have the pic of the Flesh Tearers one as well?

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Since a mod short sightedly closed the last blood angels thread before the whole release was finalised, going to need a new thread to keep up for the next few weeks.

Anyway:

First pic of a formation from the new book:



Whilst it is still slightly strange, it puts into context the new blood angels terminator kit somewhat.

So does the first company just never deploy with Sang Priests... you'd think they'd have the most with them being vets and all. No Command Squads for some reason too. Wait, why can't Dante be included in the formation? He's the Chapter Master, he can go to battle with whatever company he wants. Ditto with Meph who is even in the picture for the detachment.

Oh well, I dub thee "Sternpod" detachment.

I assume there's the standard second set of warlord traits and relics? Or maybe not. Seems quite simple.

 SilverDevilfish wrote:
So does the first company just never deploy with Sang Priests... you'd think they'd have the most with them being vets and all. No Command Squads for some reason too. Wait, why can't Dante be included in the formation? He's the Chapter Master, he can go to battle with whatever company he wants. Ditto with Meph who is even in the picture for the detachment.

Oh well, I dub thee "Sternpod" detachment.

And things like this are just part of the "GW... almost" mentality. Why isn't Dante included as an option? Why no command squad? There's no reason for it other than they didn't think about it. Sure, most people would be fine with you taking Dante, but technically speaking you can't and the moment someone lets you do it, you're house ruling the game.

With Mephiston, does he count as a Librarian? If so he can squeeze in under that loophole (it can take Librarians, Meph is a Librarian therefore it can take Meph), but last I checked Chapter Master and Captain were two different entries, so if you can take a captain it doesn't necessarily mean you can take a chapter master.

The Storm of Angels benefit is great. Too bad that most of the choices you get from the Elite slot are the crap ones that no one's going to take in a standard BA CAD (the Furioso really being the exception to that). And to add insult to injury, none of the HQs are ones that you really want to take either and you can only field them in TDA.

It's sort of like buying the knife block that comes with the one nice chef's knife and the rest of the batch are weird boning knives that you'll never actually use properly.

The new White Dwarf has been leaked. The photos are of bad quality, especially those showing the new WD-exclusive formations

http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.de/2014/12/wdw-47-desveladahobbitjuegos-y-extras.html

This and the next issue comes with cards! No joke










Fat Dwarf is back?













Mini-games for WFB and The Hobbit









The release list is either not leaked yet or there are no products this week

SO THAT'S WHERE THE CITIES OF DEATH CARDS ARE!

Seriously, it's been over a month.

Something for free? Cards like the old days?

What is this madness? What's next, card terrain?