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You have to bring a Stormraven, which sucks, and your assault units are in reserve, which sucks, but other than that, it's okay.

I'd disagree that the Stormraven sucks and it's definitely quite a bit of hard-hitting free stuff to get out of that formation. Yes free transports from the battle company are great, but they don't deal much damage themselves. I'd rather be getting free melta guns, plasma guns, and power weapons than rhinos/drop pods if I had the choice. After all, the drop pod for my sternguard only costs 35 points, but giving them all combi weapons costs me 100 for the 10 man unit.

The Sternguard have to be in the Stormraven, though.

Sounds like I'm fu**ed either way.

What's free in the Sanguine Wing?

I should have been more clear there, I don't mean buying a drop pod for the sternguard in that formation. I mean getting a drop pod for a unit in general like that in the battle company only saves me 35 points (70 if I'm buying 2 for that many models), while the Sanguine Wing is saving me 100 points there.

You get free combi weapons for sternguards and power weapons/lightning claws for vanguard vets. If you're looking for formations to help pad out your army, then check out that list of them on blood of kittens or some other site. Blood Angels have more formations than many other factions and they give fun tricks like free gear and assaulting out of reserves.

Why are you saying you're screwed either way though? You said you don't have access to formations or get to have free stuff to compete with and I'm pointing out why that isn't true.

In a casual game, I think you will do fine.

Played last night. Blood angels vs Dark Angels, 2,000 points each.

What a great game! I probably am more of a casual player, but still want to be reasonably effective in games.

Anyway, my opponent had a Knight and Azrael, among other things. I took 14 Death Company, Mephiston and a chaplain in a LR Crusader, among other things.

My 10 man Assault sqd with JP were abysmal. Next to useless, really. But my DC and Mephiston were far more effective. They charged the Knight after shooting it up a bit with inferno and plasma pistols, scoring a couple of hull points. The first guy to strike was Mephiston with his Sanguine Sword. I landed 4 strength 10 attacks, 2 glancing, 2 penetrating. Rolled on the damage table. Boom! I lost half the DC squad and my chaplain in the explosion. But it was spectacular. Really pleased with Mephiston, especially after his terrible performance last week.

I also dropped my Furioso just a few inches behind his LR Crusader. It didn't scatter (thankfully). My Furioso lumbered out of the pod, levelled its underslung Meltagun at the LR and scored a penetrating hit. I then rolled a 6 on the vehicle damage table. Boom!

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance for Mephiston to take on Azrael in CC as we ran out of time.

I've since added a Predator Annihilator to my line up, but it'll be a while before I get any bikes or land speeders, or anything else for that matter. And I borrowed the drop pod.