Blood Angels Captain loadout

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**Slayer-Fan123**

The point would be that he's T5 and harder to ID, but the vanilla codex and Dark Angels do bikers better.

**Dantes_Baals**

I get that much, survivability for the ICs. What would be the purpose of the unit though? Because aside from a single turn of concentrated grav, your combat power consists of a Captain, Priest and a single VetSgt? That's a grand total of 13 attacks, not including regular attacks that can do damage (best case scenario, less if you use PFs or SSs and that's IF you get the charge off ).

**Martel732**

He can go tie up and/or beat up some annoyances in the game. It's not good, but I think it's better than a single libby.

**DarthOvious**

Dantes_Baals wrote:
DarthOvious wrote:
Martel732 wrote:
DarthOvious wrote:
If you're really sticking with a Captain then I would put him on a bike with a storm shield and powerfist.

This works okay with a priest in the unit.

I did actually make a priest on a bike too. Makes the unit pretty decent. I do have 2 libbys on bikes too but I'm wondering how I get them included in a list.

Dual CAD.

I'm legitimately curious as to what the point of a biker captain is. Our command squads can't take bikes so even though the captain gets T5, he has to be put with a unit that is even weaker in CC than the Jumper units. So you either have a seriously half-assed deathstar or a tank for your Grav bikers. Best case scenario, you put him and a priest with combi-gravs and PFs in a bike squad they are a threat for one round of shooting.

A few things. He is toughness 5 with artificer armour and a storm shield and of course the powerist/thunderhammer makes him S8, S( on the charge. With T5 his survival is better than a normal T4 Captain. I know it's not ideal but only Dante himself is more survivable from our army list and he takes up the Lord of War slot.