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I looove their models, actually just saw them for the first time today So messing around a little bit, of course need asto to get rid of limitation and if want him to not be stuck in a rage squad he has to run solo unless i use some non dc models sad face

HQ:

Astorath The Grim - 220

Elite:
Chaplain - 100

Troop:

x5 Death Company - 190
RazorBack, TL-LC

x5 Death Company - 190
RazorBack, TL-LC

x9 Death Company - 210
Thunder Hammer

x8 Death Company - 240
Thunder Hammer
Rhino

Death Company DreadNought - 125
Blood Talons

Heavy:

Storm Raven - 215
TL-MM, TL-LC, EA

Definitely a mean army, but you don't have any scoring units.

very true indeed
Table the opponent or lose, an army i cant control once they get out of their transports lol

I'm in the process of painting Lemartes and a 10 man death company squad right now, simply amazing models. and no slouch in CC either.

Would you not use assault squads with a meltagun in the razorbacks to save a few points? Stick a few power weapons in the death company to mess up the enemy a big worse.

This list won't work... not even to table the opponent. Against an IG Mech army everything will be bloody puddles before you get half way across the board. Against a shooty Ork army you are more than likely going to be buried under dice. Likewise, Tyranid armies will bury you under weight of numbers. Against my Mech BA army I'll sit back, concentrate fire on your 1 SR till it's a heaping wreck then pound your transports with demolisher cannons, lascannons, TL-plasma guns and TL-assault cannons. By the time you get across the board to me even if you have first turn most of your army is decimated and you have a few raging marines that a screaming obscenities at me while they chase down, but never catch, my fast vehicles.

The temptation for this list is great, I admit I desperately wish this list was viable. You want to use DC as a wrecking ball. Therefore they are best in 1 maybe 2 small groups released at a time of your choosing from an assault vehicle like the SR or the LR. You can't assault from a Razorback or Rhino unless you get out of your transport at the start of your turn, then they are just running across the field and susceptible to lots of enemy fire. All you need to do is negate your feels no pain saves and your sunk.

guess thats also very true lol....
well then, would it be allowed to paint the DC boxes up as assault marines?
red with yellow helmets and probably replace the red striples that are normally there as a yellow or something?

JennyBunny wrote:guess thats also very true lol....
well then, would it be allowed to paint the DC boxes up as assault marines?
red with yellow helmets and probably replace the red striples that are normally there as a yellow or something?

I think its perfectly fine to use DC as normal assault marines.
For as long as you dont actually have any unit as actual DC on the table :'P

JennyBunny wrote:guess thats also very true lol....
well then, would it be allowed to paint the DC boxes up as assault marines?
red with yellow helmets and probably replace the red striples that are normally there as a yellow or something?

I've used alot of the DC bits on my regulard ASM, I even made a unit of Vanguard Vets with some of the running legs. A box of DC and 3 boxs of ASM gets you 2 nice looking sqayds of ASM that feel very blood angel like.

It makes no difference if you have other DC models on the board or not. On p.73 BA codex they have assault marines that are the DC models. To me this makes more sense seemings as we are one of the first chapters so we should have more decorative models.

As for what other people think, you can paint your models how you want. Its your army. We have a guy who runs Raven Guard but takes his army from the BA codex using our rules and characters.

I like the way the DC models look. The only problem I have with them is that if you read any of the Blood Angel novels they say they paint their armor black and paint on the red crosses before battle to indicate they've been inducted into the Blood Angel Hall of Fame (otherwise known as Death Company). While the models look cool there's nothing better than having a red cross that looks like it was recently painted on by hand instead of armor made with it.

That being said you can paint your army however you feel like painting it.

That would look pretty sweet. Kind of like the white hand of sauruman.

Mordechai wrote:I like the way the DC models look. The only problem I have with them is that if you read any of the Blood Angel novels they say they paint their armor black and paint on the red crosses before battle to indicate they've been inducted into the Blood Angel Hall of Fame (otherwise known as Death Company). While the models look cool there's nothing better than having a red cross that looks like it was recently painted on by hand instead of armor made with it.

That being said you can paint your army however you feel like painting it.

A little green stuff can fill in the lines and allow you to put the red crosses on by hand. I love the DC shoulder pads that are not covered in sculpted in crosses, so much so that I bought a load to stick on my assault marines.

I used the one with the chalice and the cross in the back on one of my priests. The shoulder pad was red with the cross in white. It fit in really nicely

optimusprime14 wrote:I used the one with the chalice and the cross in the back on one of my priests. The shoulder pad was red with the cross in white. It fit in really nicely

Very nice. I'll have to try that.

While DC are effective they can't be ran on their own, I would suggest using some as Assault marines to hold objectives and deepstrike and pop tanks if necessary (Mec IG)

tflewis wrote:While DC are effective they can't be ran on their own, I would suggest using some as Assault marines to hold objectives and deepstrike and pop tanks if necessary (Mec IG)

I agree, I run a (10) man DC squad w/ a PF and PW, Lemartes, and a DC dread w/ blood talons as my death star unit arriving by stormraven to the enemy's front line. (point, click, laugh at my opponent as he tries to take them out) HAHAHA good times. Anyway, I started with that and then built up the rest of my army around that. 2 (9) man ass squads, Libby, Priests, a scout squad to camp objectives, and a unit of devistator's with (4) ML for popping tanks. comes to roughly 1500 points.

Sounds like a solid list, I'll try that out sometime

JennyBunny, If you want to run a DC army list, try this one out:

Astorath
(7) DC squad
w/ PF, PW
drop pod
435

Chaplian
(7) DC squad
w/ PF
drop pod
300

Chaplian
(7) DC squad
w/ PF
drop pod
300

(2) DC Dreads
w/ blood talons
(2) drop pods
320

(5) scout squad
w/ (5) combat blades and pistols, (5) camo cloaks, melta bombs
San. priest
145

1500 points of in your face nastiness AND and survivable scoring unit (3+ cover from the cloaks, FNP, and furious charge +1 attack for 2 CC weapons) just in case they do get into trouble.

Are you sure you can put astorath in a drop pod?
I thought the storm raven was the only vehicle that could fit in jump pack models.

liturgies of blood wrote:Are you sure you can put astorath in a drop pod?
I thought the storm raven was the only vehicle that could fit in jump pack models.

Not sure, but you could always deploy Astorath and then deploy the pod close to him, so he could then join that squad.

Yes but that leaves a rather pricey character out on his own for a turn of shooting.