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Commander Dante - 200

Sang Priest Corbulo - 100

10-man Assault Squad - 275
Power Fist

10-man Assault Squad - 275
Power Fist

6-man Vet Assault Squad - 210
Flamer x2
Power Fist
Free Rhino

6-man Vet Assault Squad - 235
Flamer x2
Combi-Flamer
Power Fist
Free Rhino w/xtra armor

Baal Predator - 140
Hvy Bolters
Xtra Armor

Baal Predator - 140
Hvy Bolters
Xtra Armor

Attack Bike - 50
Multi-Melta

Attack Bike - 50
Multi-Melta

Attack Bike - 50
Multi-Melta

5-man Death Company - 25
Jump Packs



I'm open to any criticism as I haven't played the BA in 5th yet. The Vet Assault squad with the extra stuff is because I had a small amount of points left over but couldn't get everything symmetrical. That's the Rhino that Corbulo would ride in.

Either go all mech, or all jump.

Don't go split.

Split = loss.

Those attack bikes are easy to kill and get 1 shot to kill a tank. Imagine it has smoke. Run the statistics. It isn't pretty.

I don't think it's competitive at all, really.

A couple light tanks, a couple jump pack squads, a couple medium tanks...I mean, what about this screams Blood Angels or competitive to you?

All mech, or all jump.

Instead of Attack Bikes, whats a good source of anti-tank for BA? I originally had a devastator squad but took them out when I realized they were going to be sitting in the back all by themselves as the rest of the army surged forward. Took them out, put the bikes in and used the other points elsewhere.

Went minor mech to use the rhinos as screens. With the loss of area terrain LOS blocking, I'm expecting the assault marines to be shot at for at least 2 turns before they hit. Any way around that?

Meltabombs, meltaguns...all the things you can get on assault squads of all types.

Yes, Eldar can fly 24" and get away from your meltabombs.

Everyone else, sucks it up.

There is no way around getting shot but you have figured out how soon you can assault with jump pack marines, yes?

12" Deploy, 12" move, D6" run, 12" move, 6" assault.

It's quite a ways...a good run move and it's a turn 2 assault.

If you go first, that's one turn of shooting.

I'm going to assume then that going full assaulty Corbulo gets dumped in favor of Lemartes.

The regular assault marines can't get meltaguns and only the sarge can get meltabombs...sigh. The only things the assaulters can get are plas pistols at 15 points each, no thanks.

That leaves us with Veteran Assault Squads or Honor Guard to deal with anti tank from melta. The other thing the list seems to be lacking is anti-horde. Flamers can be bought in VAS/HG as well. Would you go flamer+melta in each squad, specialize by flamerx2 or meltax2, or use the combi-weapon option?

Going Mechanized, would you leave Dante out?

2 Troops = bad