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looking at making a blood angel army for fun. not sure, due to i have no codex at the moment. just wondering if it is possible to have fun with Dante, Astroth, Sanguinary Guard and death company. does anyone have a list with this at the moment.

Hi
So ya personally I enjoy causing carnage and spilling blood all over the battle field. (I play a fluffy and effective list).
I played with sanguinary guard but found them not too effective sadly so i kit bashed and made assault marines out of them with a tac squad and 2 sets of sanguinary guard and death company bits.
I Dont field Dante because he hates me and refuses to kill anything :( For fun i would field Mephiston.
Um I field a librarian 3 assault squads 3 priests 2 baal preds and a vindi.

This was my first list with Death Company:

HQ

Librarian
Unleash Rage
Shield of Sanguinis
100

Elite

Chaplain
100

Troops

Death Company x 7
Power Fist x 2
Land Raider Redeemer
Multi-Melta
440

Assault Squad
Meltagun
Lascannon & TL Plasmagun Razorback
165

Assault Squad
Meltagun
Lascannon & TL Plasmagun Razorback
165

Scout Squad x9
8x Sniper Rifles
Camo Cloaks
154

Fast

Baal Predator
Flamestorm Cannon
115

Baal Predator
Flamestorm Cannon
115

Heavy

Deavastator Squad
3x Missiles
Lascannon
145

Total 1499

martin74 wrote:looking at making a blood angel army for fun. not sure, due to i have no codex at the moment. just wondering if it is possible to have fun with Dante, Astroth, Sanguinary Guard and death company. does anyone have a list with this at the moment.

No it's not is the short answer.

With Dante a single unit deep striking without scatter is fun but 200 + points just to do that isn't.

Astroth lets you take multiple Death Company as troops, which can have a small elite maybe fun army but it's not fun paying nearly a Land Raider cost to get troops which can't claim objectives :(

Sanguinary Guard are fun and killy. Can be expensive depending what extra wargear you put on them and AP2 fire can seriously maul them.

Death Company look fun but I feel the point cost zaps the fun out of them when you realise a 10 man unit with jump packs and the odd power weapon is costing boarding 400 points.

All the units you have taken are killy which is fun but cost a lot of points which means you will have a small elite force which will die quicker than a larger army, and that my friend isn't fun at all.

Assault marines kit bashed with tac squad or sanguinary guard look cool and are killy look awesome and can be effective. Personally I love my assault marines they are fun effective and look great Dante hates me tho :( he wouldn't kill anything and refused to make any of his saves. :( and wouldn't shoot anything either so that was epically uncool. Astorath looks cool but death company are way too expensive points wise and do too little for what they cost. Go with jump pack assault marines with meltas and pf or th for the sgt backed up by 2 or 3 baal preds with assault cannons and hbs and priests makes for fun times and a bloody mess if you know what your doing.

Here's the thing about DC Marines: They are cheap before taking any options. For 4 points more than a Tactical Marine, you get an extra attack, Fearless, Feel No Pain, and Furious Charge. 5 of them with 1 Power Fist cost 125. You need some way of getting them into battle, and that is where I think the average player goes wrong. The cost of a Jump Pack is way too high. I don't have any experience myself, but my guess is that running them in a Rhino or Razorback could add an interesting element to a lot of armies. I also plan to some day use a squad in an army with 3 Stormravens and a DC Dred. I don't know if it will be tournament quality, but it sounds like a lot of fun.

I have had a lot of fun and success with Dante when ran with a melta honour guard with two storm shields. In DoA your opponent has nothing better to aim those low ap high strength shots at then Dante, so having him in a squad containing at least a couple invul saves is the only way to go imo.

With Tactical Precision, Hit and Run, a Debuff to your opponents IC, and the Death Mask (Barely ever works but its good for a laugh to see the look on someones face when their terminators/CC powerhouse unit is WS1 for a turn ). I usually find Dante makes his points back most games.

Astorath isn't really worth it imo, as neither is DC. Just take priests. Sang Guard are pretty nice as long as you know their limits and don't bite off more then they can chew.

The core of your army should be assault marines, but throwing in a couple guard units and Dante is fun and you can still win games.