[40K]Blood Angels News - Angel's Blade and repacked kits

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**BoomWolf**

Gunzhard wrote:
Kirasu wrote:
What I do love about this book is it keys in on what makes blood angels unique and buffs those things. Want to play death company? We got you covered and you can play a full on DC army. Do you like sanguinary guard but struggle to justify them breing able to survive jumping across the board or lasting a turn of shooting when they deep strike down? no, problem, how about we charge out of deep strike.

I think most Blood Angels players want their army to be competitive but also still feel like you are playing blood angels and not red Ultramarines. I think this book is a step towards that. They won't hang with the best of the best, but I think they can play spoiler to a lot of lists now and if not, it will be a lot more FUN to play them either way. I can't wait to get my copy of the book in the mail. (living in the middle of nowhere really sucks!)

I disagree, even tho I enjoy the book I STILL Feel like i'm playing a "worse" red ultramarines. Why? Well because Blood Angels are supposed to be one of the best chapters at lightning assaults that make use of their assault bonuses.

Yet, 997 chapters get Skyhammer Annihilation Force which allows for assault after deep strike AND no disordered charge. Ravenguard get to use their jump packs for assault AND movement and also get a formation that allows them to assault after deep strike with no penalties

Not only does that reduce the attacks it also takes away furious charge and the already terrible bonus of Red Thirst. So we go in the fluff to one of the best assault chapters to one of the worst because the other 997 get to use Codex: SM :p

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The thing is we do have some great lightning assault options in this book, the problem is you need to flush out an entire "red ultramarines" army to get there, leaving you very little precious room for those lightning assault units.

You forget the Archangels core. it lets you play a very different army if that's what you want.
Its not cheap, in fact its even more expensive, but it sure is unique to revolve your army around the first company, rather than settle for first company taskforce most do.

**Gunzhard**

No you're right and in fact that is similar to the lists I've been running lately using the Archangels Strike Force detachment (from Exterminatus)... but it is CRAZY expensive, leaves no room for the 'super formations' and is also very challenging to build a 'balanced' list.

This codex is made for Apocalypse... and it will be awesome for that.

**BoomWolf**

So blood angels need to simply tell themselves they are the ones you turn to when you need to deal with the SERIOUS threat then?

honestly a bit like the cadian MFD then, its great but suffers from being aimed at games too big.