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Hey Ive Got a Small Blood Angels Army atm, got a Captain, 5 Death Company with Lemartes, 5 Assaults with power fist, 15 Tacs, 5 scouts with heavy bolter, rhino, and a sweet Baal Predator, how would you guys propose to destroy a Dark Eldar army of the same size in points with a fair few Dark Lances??? THANKS!!

Take out DE transports with..... anything really... theyre just flying cardboard boxes. As for the larklances.... use cover!!!

I'd say take lots of guys with missile launchers, cyclone missile launchers, and typhoon missile launchers. The frags kill the guys after the kraks ruin the transports, all from a comfortable distance.

A big question is what the DE list is.

If they are a shooty build of footsloggers then you'll want something like drop pods or lots of missiles - the basic goal being to either try to outshoot them or to get in close enough where you can assault them.

If they have assault tools (like Wyches/Lords/Incubi) you want to shoot them up and not try to get into a brawl with them. Generally if they have assault elements they'll be coming to you.

With only two vehicles there isn't much you can do about the dark lances, they'll keep sawing them up easily. If you have the men and the DE are just going gunline with no Ravagers you might even want to go total footslogging - since a dark lance isn't all that good versus a tactical squad and you can use your heavy weapons to put a hurting on them much better then they will be able to do to you.

If they are gunline with vehicles and Ravagers of their own then your answer is to get more vehicles of your own on the table. Use missiles to blow apart Raiders and shoot the assaulty stuff and assault the shooty stuff.

Master of Red
imo the way for blood angels to deal with dark lances and anti-vehicle
weapons in general is to give every single guy in the army a jump
pack and leave the transports at home. that way you lose a guy or
two to their heavy weapons but the army goes on, whereas if youre
depending on rhinos one lucky hit can deprive a whole squad of
its mobility. Ive been playing marines for a really long time and I
*despise* rhinos because they're so easy for the opponent to kill
and then you're stuck in place for the rest of the game. To me one of
the best things about blood angels is that they arent limited by their
rhinos the way other marine armies are.
AF

AbaddonFidelis wrote:Master of Red
imo the way for blood angels to deal with dark lances and anti-vehicle
weapons in general is to give every single guy in the army a jump
pack and leave the transports at home. that way you lose a guy or
two to their heavy weapons but the army goes on, whereas if youre
depending on rhinos one lucky hit can deprive a whole squad of
its mobility. Ive been playing marines for a really long time and I
*despise* rhinos because they're so easy for the opponent to kill
and then you're stuck in place for the rest of the game. To me one of
the best things about blood angels is that they arent limited by their
rhinos the way other marine armies are.
AF

umm... ok.
Ravager fire 3 plasma cannons at jump pack squad. Squad around 2/3 gone.
Ravager fire 3 plasma cannons at squad in rhino. Maybe a pen on the rhino with a lucky roll. Squad is fine.

Same thing goes for any other scary template. Baal Predator? Squad inside rhino is fine. Vindicator? Squad inside might take 1 wound from exploding rhino, otherwise fine. Medusa/Leman russ? Squad fine.
I dont take transports for the 100% assurance of mobility. I take it so I will not be blown to %&!#. Jump Packs will.

Now if only they could figure out how to fit guys with jump packs inside rhinos... Maybe a rhino that can fly itself

stormraven... job done

zeekill
the whole army deep strikes and melta weapons. kill the ravager on the initial drop. or drop in behind cover if you cant reach it.
AF

:O worried you won't be able to beat The Forlorn Host are we dom? Haha mint.

awesome thanks for the advice!

haha and the DE player himself, im not worried i just want to PWN thats all!!