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Hiya,

Playing with Blood angel army lists and was left with just under 300 points to put into heavy support. I realised that could mean 3 Predator Destructors or 2 Baal style Preds. In a balanced take-all-comers list which do you think would be more effective?

I'm not putting up a list on purpose because I'm sure that would pull any generated discussion into something like 'drop this and this and then you can have 3 Baals!'. I know everyone loves the utility of the BA Baal pred, but is it so good that 2 are better than 3 regular ones? My head still resounds with the fact that my usual instinct of 'more boys less toys' turned out to be woefully misguided where normal dreads/venerable dreads were concerned.

I would do the Baal pred.
Its a tank just for BA.
Under the current rules has a better chance of hurting AV14.

Your having a hard time choosing between 3 Autocannons and 2 twin-linked Assault Cannons?

Plus two more heavy bolters and an additional scoring unit with the capability to tank shock. And more diffused firepower, which is thus harder for enemy fire to suppress and better able to be divided up or concentrated as the situation demands.

Hard call, and will inevitably depend on the rest of the list. If you already have enough anti tank stuff, take the three Destructors.