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He can wreck enemy characters, but no ablative wounds, although on top top of SS termie armor, hopefully on feel no pain, is going to hurt. And the best place for him is in the middle of your battle line.

So how do you keep him alive and doing his job?

i deep strike him in the enemys backline he dies but i usually get more then his points back. he kills whole squads of guard and lasts longer than a land raider

Usually target saturation helps. Have a few podding furiosos and usually they will not bother to shoot at him. You have to be careful of walkers since he can't really hurt them and even though there's a good chance they wont kill him, he is still a 275 pt model tied up by a 150 pt dread. The big thing is you need to do is place him near things that are scarier than he is. For instance orks will be less inclined to shoot at him if there are 2 blood talon dreads standing next to him or guard less likely to first rank fire him if he is surrounded by enough assault marines. Placement like that will keep him alive long enough for him to fly over your opponent's lines where he can start doing some real damage.

But is the real benefit having him do damage or buffing the mass of assault marines?

Re you kidding me? have you seen his saves? Fly him behind your rhino.

To get the most out of him you need to do more than just send him flying into the enemy. Mephiston can do that better and for less points.

Sangy has all sorts of extra powers you can use well. The best use of him is in a Sanguinary Guard army, Dante and one unit of assault marines. The SG are all troops and the one assault marine sarge will be buffed by the Sanguinor automatically. Next his +1 attack bubble will be put to good use with all those 3 attack power weapon wielding SG. Finally he will reroll hits and wounda gainst one enemy character and Dante will make that same character -1 to his statline. This can take a 250+pt Wolf Lord out of the game very quickly.