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When Blood Angels deepstrike, proper formation discipline is key. By castling up, behind dedicated CC troops, you can really make his life very difficult. In my attached example, I am using a modified form of this list
http://kirbysblog-ic.blogspot.com/2010/07/thunderbubble-sm-mech-wthss-bubble-wrap.html

By using the bubble effect created by the LSS disruptor beacon, you can virtually eliminate Vanguard vets first turn assaults and Stormraven deepstrikes. If a squad of plain assault marines drops close, move the terminators out of the way and allow the dreadnought to assault them. Yes you lose the shooting, but he will likely tie them up for the remainder of the game.

All the while you can be shooting unimpeded over the heads of the terminators who get some minor cover from the storms. Each turn move the storms flat out side to side, shifting the 6 inch bubble you can't cover from one side to the other. This gives them a 4+ cover and 6's to hit in cc. Any attacks on those units are wasted as they are not going into troops, transports or termies.

By combat squadding the termies and the 2 dreadoughts you should be able to deal with most assault threats and you should be dropping 2-3 AV12 vehicles or 1 combat squad of assault marine w/FNP per turn.

Once you have weathered the inital storm either camp on your objective and gate the termies to go contest, or break your shell and go mobile.

Hope this helps

razor

EDIT Realizing that I spread that formation out a little more than it needed to be. To fit in the pitched battle, you may need to square it off a little, but the storms can still scout to their current positions