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I was wondering, with the meta heavy in terminator troops, how viable are blood angels?

*laughing*

Seriously?

Blood Angels are at the top, winning their fair share.

*edit* And the meta isn't heavy into terminator troops. There's one codex heavy into terminators (Dark Angels) which isn't a highly represented army, and the "meta" consists of lots of transports and minimal sized units.

Oh, because in my area, it's all GK and DA, so I was wondering, I play a mechanized BA list, which is good, but, I was wanting to know, my w/l/d was 5/7/3 out of 15 games, each loss was against either GK, or terminator heavy dark angels. So, my new question then is, which is more viable:

A) a mechanized list heavy in dedicated transport, a unit of 2 landspeeders with typhoon and melta, a vindicator, attack bike, a baal predator, and whatnot.

Or

B) a list in which all units have jetpacks, no transport, power weapons, lightning claws, sanguinary priest, and a librarian, all troops 10 man, with a melta and infernus pistol in each unit of assault marines.

Your w/l/d is probably because you are going up against more expierenced players.

Mech ba are very viable against ba or da.

3 fast vindicators with a 5+ cover from shield of sang is a nightmare for deathwing or gk.

Shield of sang is a huge force multiplier. Da have crappy ld 9 psychic hoods. Your librarian is ld10. Many gk don't have a libby, and even if they do their infantry is ld9 on psychic tests so a hood largely shuts them down.

Mech ba is here to stay. All jump ba is in a questionable state; I am not sure how to beat purifier spam with doa.

Thank you, I've only been playing a year now, normally, my w/l/d would be better, but since everyone wants to use GK, iv'e become a bit disheartened. Anyways, I was only kidding about the jump pack list, I tried it, it works well against a lot of armies, but, falls flat on it's *** against anything with 2+ armor saves, I guess it's just me jinxing it. I love the mechanized list, because the assault marines, they give a nice 35 point disount on dedicated transport. The fast rule is very nice too, using it in capture control always puts me ahead.

BA are great. They can dish it out and take it, and Blood Lance wrecks mech. Definitely a top tier army.

Blood Angels are amazing right now.

Fast vehicle spam is viable these days.
However, as already said by Schadenfreude, DoA struggles vs. several armies,
it not only Purifiers but also MC heavy lists.