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1850 Blood Angels, Baal strike force.

Looking at a competitive/fluffy list. Any improvement or suggestions are welcome!

HQ:
-Sanguinary Priest - chainsword, jump pack (75pts)

Elites:
- Contemptor Dreadnought - Blood talons, melta gun, heavy flamer (200pts)

- Death company - 10 marines, 7 bolt pistols, 7 chainswords, 2 power weapons, 1 fist (300pts)

- Furioso Dreadnought - magna grapple, frag cannon, heavy flamer, drop pod (165pts)

- Sanguinary Guard - 5 guard, all angelus bolters, death masks, chapter banner, 3 swords, 1 axe, 1 fist (205pts)

Troops:
- Tac squad - 4 marines, 1 lascannon, tac serg with boltpistol/chainsword, razorback las/plas (175pts)

- Tac squad - 9 marines, 1 flamer, 1 heavy flamer, tac serg with bolt pistol/power weapon, rhino with storm bolter 220pts

Fast attack:
- Assault Squad - 4 marines, 2 melta, serg with dual inferno pistols, drop pod (135pts)

-Assault Squad - 4 marines, 2 melta, serg with bolt pistol.chainsword, drop pod (105pts)

Heavy Support:
- Baal predator - heavy bolters/TL assault cannons (135 pts)

- Baal predator - heavy bolters/TL assault cannons (135pts)

Have the list here but I'm not sure how it plays nor do i really know if its that fantastic. I've looked at the other forums and compiled what I have/what people seem to think is good. Havent seen much about the CC contemptor dread before so any opinions on the model would be fantastic. Dont have much in the way of anti flyer but do have a storm raven that im not all too fond of because it has been built atrociously. Anyway, thank you for any kind of feed back or for just stopping by!

I believe your points with your DC are wrong points wise. With what you have down, they should only be 255 (285 with jump packs). I would add another fist into them though, following the typical rule of thumb being that you should have a fist for every 5 DC marines you have.

I don't know any of the special rules for the contemptor, though its weapon loadout looks similar to the DC dread I run which costs 145 if you need a cheaper option point wise.

I take it you are running the priest with the SG. Personally what I would do is get valor's edge on the priest, then switch out the axe with the sg with another sword, thus giving you some ap2 at initiative.

Also, you might want to minimize what you can in your troops, that way you can buff your elites as much as possible. That being said, a second HQ might go good with your DC (Astorath, a chaplin, or libby are good options.)

Try it out before you change stuff though to see what you like, and happy wargaming!

Consider a flamestorm cannon for one Baal. There are some games where it is $$ for sure.

Thanks for the reply guys, very welcoming

Okay, so:

-Reduce second tac squad down to 4 marines and a heavy flamer

-Add a fist in the DC squad (forgot to add they have Jump packs)

-Change one baal to have a flamestorm cannon

Give sang priest valors edge, removed axe for a sword in sang guard.

-I have astorath and really wouldn't mind adding him in the list. so i might proxy the contemptor i have as a DC dread with a storm bolter/heavy flamer/blood talons. Remove the chapter banner from sang guard and power weapon from tac squad serg to fit in Astorath.

Had to make some questionable changes, but it fits the 1850 pt cap.

Looks pretty good. Fluffy but still a bit edgy!

Any more comments are welcome guys, super helpful

For the most part you do want to keep the banner in the SG so you may run a chaplin instead of taking it away to fit Astorath. That way you still get the zealot reroll to hit with your DC.