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2012/03/15 02:49:17
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Noble Knight of the Realm
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While I've got a long ways to go yet before my Imperial Guard are finished, I was recently inspired by some battle reports to consider Blood Angels as my next army. Terminators and Assault Marines are my favourite units available to space marines, and I see that with BA one could actually make a list that's ALL terminators and jump troops if one wanted to. So, anyway, I'm pretty much sold on the BA play style. I love HTH-oriented armies, and while guard blobs are fun, I'd like a more elite force.
But my question is related to the BA fluff. What is their story? I don't have their codex and have, perhaps strangely, NEVER encountered a Blood Angels player in real life.
Are they supposed to be some sort of vampires? I noticed the very Bram Stoker's Dracula/Vlad the Impailer-style armour on Astorath the Grim and Mephiston. Astorath certainly looks like a vampire the way the 'Eavy Metal guys painted him.
Yet I've also seen some people (I guess guys who don't like BA) referring to BAs as "emo"?
So I'm interested to hear from BA players what the general culture/story to the BA is. What is cool about their fluff and why should I play this army from a fluff perspective? Thanks!
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2012/03/15 02:59:27
Subject: Re:What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Well, much like Spaces Wolves who have the word "Wolf" in just about every entry in the codex, the Blood Angels have the word "Blood" in about every entry. From my poor, poor knowledge of the codex they have some corrupted geneseed? Means they're doomed to some horrible end, so they try to die before that happens...or something. They're descended from Sanguinius, I know that at least.
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2012/03/15 03:03:08
Subject: Re:What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/15 03:24:00
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Fully-charged Electropriest
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^this...... Was just about to post that.
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2012/03/15 03:37:03
Subject: Re:What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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DR:80+S++G+MB--I+Pw40k03+D+A+++/areWD322R++T(F)DM+ |
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2012/03/15 04:15:43
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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They're italian-space-vampire-super-soldiers who do nothing but rage and whine about how Horus one-handed their silly primarch. He twisted Sanguinius' head off, killing him so hard core that the memory of it was written into the genetic code of his space marines for all time. If they live long enough, all Blood Angels will eventually realize how sad they are and turn to worshipping chaos, but unfortunately most of them get killed by chaos space marines long before they ever have the chance. The few who live long enough start raging out and worshipping khorne. When that happens they get hit with a million tranq darts, tied down with chains, and put into the death company so they get killed before anyone can learn the awful, horrible truth about the blood angels.
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2012/03/15 04:22:40
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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GreatGunz wrote:They're italian-space-vampire-super-soldiers who do nothing but rage and whine about how Horus one-handed their silly primarch. He twisted Sanguinius' head off, killing him so hard core that the memory of it was written into the genetic code of his space marines for all time. If they live long enough, all Blood Angels will eventually realize how sad they are and turn to worshipping chaos, but unfortunately most of them get killed by chaos space marines long before they ever have the chance. The few who live long enough start raging out and worshipping khorne. When that happens they get hit with a million tranq darts, tied down with chains, and put into the death company so they get killed before anyone can learn the awful, horrible truth about the blood angels.
I get the feeling that this guys army has been stomped by the blood angels on more than one occasion.  just kidding.
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/15 04:56:19
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Fixture of Dakka
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GreatGunz wrote:They're italian
Greek.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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2012/03/15 04:56:56
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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2012/03/15 05:53:18
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Warp-Screaming Noise Marine
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DarknessEternal wrote:GreatGunz wrote:They're italian
Greek.
GreatGunz wrote:Italian
Where do you guys get any of that?
Italian cuz of their names?
Greek cuz of...... stuff?
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2012/03/15 06:20:04
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Dakka Veteran
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Corbulo. Dante. Furioso. It's suggestive. Also the ornate armor and craftsmanship and obsession with personal beauty. It's all very renaissance.
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2012/03/15 06:27:11
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Confident Marauder Chieftain
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They're cursed with a fault in there genes that will make them thirst for blood eventually. Even worse then the red thirst is the black rage where they begin seeing the death of thier primarch first hand. They then become unstable and those that succumb before battle are put into the death company where they throw themselves at the enemy with abandon. A death company marine that survives a battle will normally be killed and only a few will be put into stasus to be taken back to baal. The red thirst can affect any squad at any time and can do the same. There is fluff of how a blood angel force was about to be wiped out as its devastator squads all of a sudden decided to attack in hand to hand rather then use their heavu weaponry against an ork horde
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2012/03/15 13:03:10
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Noble Knight of the Realm
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Thanks for the links, I think I have a better idea of the Blood Angels now, but would welcome any other comments from BA players on why they like the BA fluff.
Also, if you don't mind, let me know what you think of the name and paint scheme I'm thinking of.
I'd like to do an Imperial Purple-based paint scheme. I like the name "Lamenters" but of course they are known to have yellow armour, so I am trying to think of a variation ...
Mourners
Knights of Lamentation
Angels of Sorrow
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2012/03/15 13:49:34
Subject: Re:What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I play BA because when I decided to repaint all my old 80s marines, the BA codex was a free download from the GW website
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2012/03/15 19:28:01
Subject: What's the Deal with Blood Angels?
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Fixture of Dakka
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/03/15 19:28:39
"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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a million billion points
prepare to be purged
