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Blood Angel List:
HQ:
Librarian, Jet Pack, Blood Lance, Sanguine Sword, Melta Bombs (130)
TROOPS:
Assault Squad x10, Meltagun x2, Power Weapon (225)
Assault Squad x10, Meltagun x2, Power Weapon (225)
Assault Squad x8, Meltagun x1, Power Weapon (179)
ELITES:
Sanguinary Priest, Jet Pack, Power Weapon (90)
Sanguinary Priest, Jet Pack, Power Weapon (90)
FAST:
Baal Predator, Heavy Bolters (145)
Baal Predator, Heavy Bolters (145)
HEAVY:
Predator, Auto Cannon, Lascannons (135)
Predator, Auto Cannon, Lascannons (135)
TOTAL: 1499

Space Wolf List:
HQ:
Wolf Lord, Frost Weapon, Belt of Russ, Warrior Born, (185)
TROOPS:
Grey Hunters x10, Plasmagun x2, Power Weapon, Mark, Rhino (225)
Grey Hunters x10, Meltagun x2, Power Weapon, Mark, Rhino (220)
Blood Claws x10, Flamer, Power Weapon (165)
ELITES:
Wolf Guard x5, Terminator Armor x5, Combi-Melta x3, Thunder Hammer x2, Storm Shield x2, Drop Pod (275)
FAST:
HEAVY:
Land Raider Redeemer, Multi Melta (250)
Long Fangs x6, Lascannon x2, Missile Launcher x3 (170)
TOTAL: 1490


Army Size: 1500 points
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Game Type: Seize Ground
Amount of Objectives: 4

Roll Off: Space Wolves won the roll off and gave me, the Blood Angels, first turn. He then also stole the initiative and went first.

I've considered it, and giving you a full battle report would take a long, long, so very long time to type up. It would be a 10 page paper of minute detail and sadness Hence, I shall give you highlights and considerations.

So far, the highlight of my Blood Angels army is maneuverability. This army is so fast that I can play cat and mouse with with my opponent. There were multiple times when I lead that LR out of the way on a goose chase while my other assault squads did all of the dirty work. The LR soaked 22, I repeat 22, lascannon shots and 2 melta shots. On my 23 I managed to immobilize it. The thing was F%$king indestructible. 6 turns of predator fire went into that damn thing The Baals destroyed a rhino and the Long Fang squad. . .mediocre results, but they did pull some nasty terminators away from the main fight. The assault squads meltaguns were next to useless. I fired 3 melta shots all 7 turns of this long, long, so very long game. The Sanguinary Priests were awesome! Using my superior maneuverability I was able to assault one GH squad and obliterate it to the last man before they got a swing in. I DS'ed the 8 man squad with Libby and melta slagged a rhino. They fell right where I needed them, but then they got assaulted and mauled pretty badly without the priest in range. They survived only after the other unit joined in. FNP is so awesome, it saved me so many times during the game. Without it using so many Assault squads wouldn't be any where near as good. It was a pretty even match. The units that I forced from their vehicles were obliterated quite decidedly in my favor. But when that beastly Wolf Lord got in CC one of my assault units disappeared almost instantly, losing 5 guys in one round from him alone My rolls that round were very bad, however. The only reason the unit survived for a second go was because of the Priest. My angels soaked 17 wounds from the Blood Claws between armor saves and FNP. But that unit's sacrifice wasn't for not. Between that unit lurking around a rear objective and the predators keeping it stunned and shaken, his lord wasn't able to move around very much.

In the end I won 2 to 1 at the bottom of the 7th. A very close game.

In the future I was thinking about either dropping the meltas from the assault squads or combat squading them into a CC unit and a Melta unit. However, I don't like that idea because the unit sizes would be far to small.

I was the Space wolves player in this battle and it would have been a close tie yet I forgot my guards cant capture points. I think in hindsight I should have deployed my drop pod closer to his assault squads and make more use of their storm hammers and +2 invuln shields.

Another thing I could have done was keep the long fangs in a more defensible position because frankly I put them in the open. I was impressed with my blood fang / wolf lord charge out of the LR because they were able to destroy an assault squad with priest.

I could have also positioned my rhinos farther apart to seperate fire. However on the other hand I felt that for the first time with the army it did well and not quite sure what to change list wise except maybe also removing my meltas from my gray hunters because they didnt get a chance to fire them yet that was because they were hurt when the rhino blew up and furious charges.

All in all pretty balanced battle.

How are you getting a 2++?

G

made use of their 2+ invun saves

i WANT THESE INVULNERABLE SAVES!

Me too!

Shatter.proof wrote:I was the Space wolves player in this battle and it would have been a close tie yet I forgot my guards cant capture points. I think in hindsight I should have deployed my drop pod closer to his assault squads and make more use of their storm hammers and +2 invuln shields.

Another thing I could have done was keep the long fangs in a more defensible position because frankly I put them in the open. I was impressed with my blood fang / wolf lord charge out of the LR because they were able to destroy an assault squad with priest.

I could have also positioned my rhinos farther apart to seperate fire. However on the other hand I felt that for the first time with the army it did well and not quite sure what to change list wise except maybe also removing my meltas from my gray hunters because they didnt get a chance to fire them yet that was because they were hurt when the rhino blew up and furious charges.

All in all pretty balanced battle.

I'm suprised you did not take a rune priest. I think having Psychic abilities has become one of the son of ruses greatest strengths.

Power weapons are your friend, negate Armor and FNP in one go. Remember the priests are IC, place a power weapon in B2B and snuff him out, even if you don't win the assault, you've dramatically weakened the squad he was in.

Storm shields give a +2 invuln save but don't give the +1 attacks in melee except on a charge.

And I'm debating using a rune priest but the wolf lord blood claw squad was impressive on a charge from the land raider.

They give you a 3+ invulnerable, my friend Not a 2+. Otherwise, I think that we would see fields and fields of storm shields

I think he actually means 3+. Termies have a 5+ normally, Storm Shields give a 3+, so the normal save +2. And, um, don't we already see tons of Storm Shields?

Yeah my bad it is a +3 but I mean I didnt even have to save with them during the battle.

I am tempted to move some points around make the lord a rune psyker and make the blood claws into sky claws but I want to play test before I spend the money on models.

I would try to squeeze in a Rune Priest with Tempests Wrath. That may be the easiest way to hinder the BA mobility.

Yeah I hope to have a new battle against his blood angels army with my new list. I'm not sure how it'll do and still working out points. But here is the rough list if you want to see and I'll post results when we have our battle.

Rune priest
Rune priest
Wolf priest (terminator squad)
terminator armor


Grey hunters x9
Mark
Power weapon
Melta
Flamer free (?)
Rhino

Wolf scout pack 150 (?)
Sniper rilfes x8
Mark
Power Weapon x2

Grey hunters x9 135
power
mark
plasma
Rhino

long fangs 6
3 missiles
2 lascannons

Wolf guard x 5
3 combi meltas
5x terminator armor
Storm shields thunder hammers x2

Drop pod 35

1364

If you have one you could throw a Razorback on your Long fangs. Give them twin linked Lascannon. or just stick with the heavy bolter for a tad anti horde fire.

Hmm heavy bolters would be nice and free up some points yet it weakens a big problem I have and that's long range or vehicles. I don't really have any long range anti vehicles but I'm curious how the priests will work and how the scouts might work on the table.

Yeah I am curious about the scouts I think there outflanking ability on them could be really really killer.

I plan to play test this army tomorrow when I get it flushed out for points I mean I'm at like 1390 points and not sure what to fill in the rest with. More troops, or upgrades?

We had a rematch yesterday and quite frankly my new list was destroyed.

We were doing annihilation dawn of war

I got first place and put my two troop transport on the field.
Deep striked the guard pack near the center of the board hoping they would be close to the action.

His baals and predator tanks came on to the field and I believe the first turn they were in they glancing hit my land raider redeemer and immortalized it.

The rest of the battle was nothing spectacular except me long fang squad killing only one baal predator and a few assault troopers.

The battle ended with my long fangs getting destroyed one of my rune priests killed the other in a rhino who was stunned and couldnt deploy. Also there was one lone assault marine sitting infront of my assault ramp so I couldn't deploy my blood claws / wolf priest.

I pretty much lost because I spent too much points on hqs and played way too defensive yet got nothing out of it.

I've pretty much decided to scrap the guard squad completely and I wasn't impressed with my rune priests / wolf priest.

They both didn't seem worth the point cost and were a minor annoyance at best.

I will say though that the rune priests runic weapon is dirty I most have stopped his psyker from using blood lance at least 4 times.

Living lightning =/= good vs tanks.

The rest of the powers seemed lack luster vs jump troups however the 24" deadly terrain with my long fangs did make it impossible to deep strike right on them and destroy them.. so that was a plus.

I'm going to post my hopefully 3rd and best army list in the army list section if anyone wishes to see or help me out.

I chose not to use scouts because I dont seem them doing too much unless I melta suicide squad them and even then maybe I kill one tank if I can get close enough and hit it.

Grim Smasha wrote: The LR soaked 22, I repeat 22, lascannon shots and 2 melta shots. On my 23 I managed to immobilize it.

i hate to say it but i've had worse. My friends landraider toak 30 lascannons 12 krak missiles and 5 multimelta (with the 2D6 AP) and I only got 2 glances. Sometimes there's nothing you can do about it

They're tough cookies. Our second game I managed to immobilize it in the first turn with some fluke luck. Shatter's put something together that should give me a better run for my money. Our rematch's rematch should be taking place tomorrow.

Rematch with revamped total no suck lists should be happening in the near future. Updated battle report will come in.