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HQ
• Astorath hte Grim (220)

Troops
• Death Company #1: 4x DC Marine/jump packs, 3x power weapon, power fist, 2x infernus pistol (240)
• Lemartes (150)
• Death Company dreadnaught/heavy flamer (135)
• Death Company #2: 9x DC Marine/2x power weapon, power fist, 2x infenus pistol - rhino/extra armor (305)
• Assault Marine x10/flamer, meltagun, infernus pistol, power fist - Landraider Redeemer/extra armor, multi-melta (460)

Elite
• Chaplain (100)

Heavy Support
• Stormraven/TL lascannon, TL multi-melta, extra armor (215)

Fast Attack
• Landspeeder Typhoon/multi-melta

Deployment is as follows:

* Omega Sword - Astorath, Lemartes, Death Company #1, Death Company dreadnaught - bundled in Stormraven

* Death Sword - Death Company #2, Chaplain - Landraider Redeemer

* Bravo Sword - Assault squad - rhino

• Black Gale - Landspeeder Typhoon

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One problem I see is that you won't be able to start the DC in the LR or the Assault Sq. in the rhino as you didn't buy them for that particular unit.

They hop in 1st turn.

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Much kudos for theme you've got going here, I think the Omega sword is very cool
One thing I will say though is I feel the lack of long range antitank weapons, when combined with your small squad count will make chasing down any fully meched army an arduous challenge. I suppose compunding this issue is the Rage on the DC, if you fall out of your transports early I can see the game quickly coming apart at the seams for you.

I suppose my thoughts then would be to drop Lemartes and maybe even the Chaplain to make room for more long range anti tank, maybe landspeeders. I don't think this strays too far from your core theme but if you can't shoot down their fast units (jetbikes etc) you will be outmanouvered with such a low model count in objective games (I would imagine) and if you can't get the enemy out of their transports it doesn't matter how killy your DC are as they won't have too many targets.

This was my first crack at a Death Company army and I was trying to design a competitive build. There are a lot of newbies to Blood Angels saying a squad of 30 DC with jump packs can win by tabling their opponents. I don't think they have any experience to base their opinion on... Sure it sounds really bad ass but I want to see some batreps with big wins versus top tiered lists. The list I present here is based upon my dual core Stormraven army and my 10+ years playing Blood Angels. Back when I played the 3ed Blood Angels through to the end of 4ed I only ever lost a total of 3 games and to be honest somewhere along the way I lost track of how many tournaments I won. I played hundreds of games with my 3ed Blood Angels and the majority of my wins came after the death of rhino rush... So I think I know what I am doing.

The main problem with a DC heavy army is you can't hold lots of objectives. I took one full assault squad that I can split into two combat squads... That is still quite slim. What i like most about this list is the Omega Sword - Astorath, Lemartes, 4 tooled DC Marines and a Death Company dreadnaught in hte Stormraven. This bundled unit is harder hitting than my Golden Sword. It is though a small unit overall which is definitely a weakness. If Omega Sword does well then I might swap it out with Golden Sword in my primary dual core Stormraven list.

The biggest strengths of Blood Angels harken back to 3ed:

• Superior speed & mobility
• Specialist characters & wargear/options
• Hard hitting assault phases

I think it will be possible to build an army that is basically one big deathstar. To me that is what Blood Angels were always about anyways. It's good to get back to hte basics.

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I'd like to see this in Action myself.

I'm really curious to see, if the low troop count, can keep you in the game. You seem (To me) to be the most experienced BA player on Dakka, so, if anyone can pull it off, it'll be you.

Hope to see a battle report up, with a Death company heavy list, soon.

As Sasori mentioned, you don't have a lot of troops that can take objectives. Death company wont do you any good in that aspect. I've been working on my own BA list for a 1850/1900 list for GenCon. If you plan on using this in a tournament you may want to remove a death co squad and get more assault troops or maybe even some scouts just to add some numbers.