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I want to start playing competatively, starting with a doubles tournament of 1250 points. Here is what I have as an army list so far, feel free to rip it a new hole and re-construct it. So far it is entirely jump pack/deep strike.

Librarian - Infernus Pistol, Jump Pack (Sword of Sanguine, Blood Lance)
2 Sanguinary Priests - Infernus Pistols, Lightning Claws, Jump packs
10 Assault Marines - Power Fist, Infernus Pistol, 2 Meltas
10 Assault Marines - Power Fist, Infernus Pistol, 2 Flamers
2 Baal Predators - Autocannons and Heavy Bolters (possibly hunter Killer Missiles?)

I think I may still have points to spare, though I'm not sure how many as I just took out Dante to add the Librarian and haven't had the chance to recalculate, but I'm guessing around 100 or so points left over

Let me know what you think/changes you would make.

Thanks!

(*Edited due to my horrible spelling)

Its a good list, and its what I tend to run under 1500 points except for the Baals.

I would suggest takeing the special equipment, i.e. pistols and lightning claws, off of the priests. They are one wound IC that give a squad amazing buffs. They are going to die first.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure that you can deep strike Baal's, dont they just outflank?

Yeah they have the scout rule, I was going to deepstrike everything and have the baals out flank, weaken up the oppenent's squads a bit and then assault. I've been reading wayyy to many lists online and way too much feedback, so now what I thought was a good list to start, I have been second guessing. My head is just a jumbled mess of possibilities for a kicka$$ army list haha. The baals just seem fun, plus the rending for tanks and walkers, but who knows. 2 nights with less than 4 hours of sleep have me a bit out of it to say the least.


I've also been thinking of the Sanguinator or Dante and Honour Guard, but its a small list so it probably wouldnt be worth it (in fact, I've been told numerous times to take a Librarian instead of a character, but the characters just seem like way too much fun to pass up)

The only problem with useing the Baals and Deep Striking the rest is that...

On turn one of the game your opponant is going to have all of his units out on the table. Your going to have to Baal predators on his flanks. if you go first, your going to get to shoot your two Baals, he is then going to destroy them.

On turn two your units will start arriving, via deep strike rules.

If your going to deepstrike like this, you really need to deepstrike everything. The easiest way to do this is to just take the maximum ammount of Assult Squads you have points for, give them 2 meltaguns, a power fist and a priest.

Do you think it would be a good idea to take a drop pod or two as well with some meltas in it? Maybe a drop pod full of devastators for some more anti-tank/troop?


And you're absolutely right, didn't even think about it in those terms. I was thinking that the baals would come in and flank at the same time I deepstrike. Its been a long two days haha

(*Edited once again due to horrible spelling and complete exhaustion )

If I was going to use drop pods, I'd probably run my list form the normal Space Marines Codex.

If you drop pod devastators they cant fire on the turn they drop.

In all seriesness though. If you take out the two Baals, add in another squad of Assult Marines and another Priest you'll get a hard to beat, amazing list.

Alright awesome, I just feel really wierd playing all infantry with no tanks or anything haha, I think thats one of the things thats having me want to take the baals or drop pods and such

Just to note though this type of list looses its effectiveness as you go up in points.

Yeah, on another post I had a user telling me that as I work my way up in points, it would be good to take Dante and Honour Guard or Sanguinary Priests, as well as 2 squads of 5 Devs with Missile Launchers


I'd also love some SS/TH Termies, those would be mean with a Character attatched to the squad

I find that Devistators and Terminators dont work well with a Blood Angels army.

Stormravens are gold, and you have some awsome options for Dreadnoughts when the points go up.

Even Terminators attatched to Dante or The Sanguinor?

The only way i'd play terminators in a BA army is if they were attached to Meph.

And since I can't ever do that....

Hmm, alright haha guess it will be loads and loads of troops then lol

If your going to go ahead and buy the peices, I would suggest magnitizing the jump packs on your assult squads. That way at higher points, you can use them in a Razor Spam list.

I thought about that too, AFTER gluing all my guys together lol, I was pretty annoyed with myself. Max amount of points I will play is 2000, and most of the time not even that as I get bored when games drag on for hours and hours lol

If you hold your Baals in reserve and don't scout them then you can still outflank. This will go back to your original concept for your list. I think it could work. Also I would keep the weapons on your priests, they will be I5 on the charge with WS5 so take advantage.

If I did take the baals and held them in reserve, would it be smart to have one with flamers and the other with assault cannons to give me more to work with, or would you suggest both having the same weapons. Both would still have heavy bolter side sponses, but different main weapons. I think this is what I was thinking when putting the list together, having the Baal Predators come in when I deepstrike in. Tactics wise, it would be good in this doubles tournament to distract fire from my teammate's Rhinos, and possibly take out my opponents devastators or heavy weapons teams.

I would go with Baals kitted with AC and HB for the range. The flamer works better with the scout move. Outflanking you should easily be able to get in some shots on side armor.

Alright awesome, I knew there was a way I could make those badass models work in my list haha