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Alrighty, so I'm trying my hand at playing some BA and I want to make a fun non competitive army to play with against my friends. They're just getting back into the hobby and I don't think that they'll enjoy getting destroyed over and over again by top of the line builds, so, with my first time playing blood angels, I'm trying to find something that will be decent at best.

I like fast stuff. bikes, jump infantry, and I guess BA tanks are fast too but I don't have very many chassis (we do a lot of counts as where we play, so basically, as long as you have an aproximately correct sized chassis, it can be whatever you want it to be)

I do have however:
all the power armored bodies you could need (and again, counts as means that these could be anything)
7 bikes
3 rhino chassis (so.. could be anything from a rhino to a vindicator)
2 dreadnoughts
all the scouts you could need
10+ terminators
Land raider Chassis
coke can drop pods


And here's my list so far

HQ Jump Librarian 125

Troops:
5 man assault squad with 2 meltas 120
10 man assault squad with 1 flamer 200
5 man death company with jump packs (I know.. but I really really want scoring dreadnoughts)
1 death company dreadnought, blood talons, drop pod 160
5 man scout squad, snipers Camo cloaks 90

Fast Attack:
Baal Predator 115

Heavy support:
2x Auto-Las Preds 2(135)



So my question is this: Have I overlooked anything? Is the army exceedingly bad, and if so, how can I make it just a little bit better? Are there units that are more interesting to play with?

I don't think 2 meltas in a 5 man asm squad is legal. Do the dc have bolters? i think they should.

Also, dc Dreadnoughts don't score.

awwwww really?? :( I didn't think they would, but do yah have the page number for that?

To be honest havent checked the faq but the codex dosnt say anything about them not being able to score. Still I would much rather have him murdering face than siting on an objective.

 Lord PoPo wrote:
awwwww really?? :( I didn't think they would, but do yah have the page number for that?

It's in the rule book, page 123;
"There are a few exceptions, however, when a unit of troops does not count as a scoring unit.... When it is a vehicle..."

It's a shame, I know.

Awe darn.

Well the exception is if you roll the war lord trait on bjorn. Then you have scoring op dread