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Made in us
Blood Angel Neophyte Undergoing Surgeries



United States

Here are the lists:

1.

HQ:
Mephiston: 250

Troops:
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x meltas, powerfist: 235
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x meltas, powerfist: 235
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x flamers, powersword: 215
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x flamers, powersword: 215

Elites:
2x Sanguinary Priests, jump packs: 150

Heavy Support:
Stormraven Gunship, Assault cannon, heavy bolters: 200

The concept for this lists is pretty straightforward. Mephiston is used as a psychological threat, but is also used to back up assault squads pushing enemies off objectives. The priests stay unattached and try to "bubble" multiple squads at once for the FNP and FC bonus. Stormraven does ant-flier/ strafing runs when it comes in on backfield objectives.
A side note: I've had great success with this list in the past. Seems like everyone dumps all of their focus on Mephy as my jumpers tend to just sit back and hop from objective to objective and cover to cover. When assaults do come, Mephiston makes a great support for the squad he's nearest, typically thinnking their ranks down before the rest of my squads hit, giving me that little edge I need.

2.

HQ:
Commander Dante: 225
Honor Guard, jump packs, 4x plasma, 4x melta-bombs: 245

Troops:
5x Sanguinary Guard, Powerfist, Infernus Pistol: 225
5x Sanguinary Guard, Powerfist, Infernus Pistol: 225
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x flamers, powersword: 215
10x Assault Marine Squad, 2x flamers, powersword: 215

Elites:
2x Sanguinary Priests, jump packs: 150

A little more "bare bones" on the model count here, the Sanguinary Guard I find are a bit of a gamble but a nice psychological tool. They can score, and with a 2+ 5+FNP when supported by the Priests, except in the case of some stupidly powerful shots, these guys can make some great support for my Assault Squads and some hard hitting objective grabbers. Dante and his Honor Guard have a bit of a "one-hit wonder" role. They drop in from reserve and aim for the opposing warlord and just unleash as many shots as they can on them. After that, they run as far away as they can, and try to get line breaker OR (if it's safe enough) can go tank/light transport hunting. Obviously it's not smart to just dump this squad in the backfield if it's a sure fire way to get them killed. This said, I can use them alternatively to strike a weak flank objective easily, or to use as a distraction and move them around giving support to weakened squads. Plus a "free" Sanguinary Priest ain't bad either.

Thoughts on either? Critiques? Thanks!

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Raging-on-the-Inside Blood Angel Sergeant



Alexandria, VA

Both lists are pretty solid. I prefer List 1. I haven't given up on Meph yet.

I've dumped PFs off my Sgts in my l ist, I find them too expensive and a liability with challenges. You are better off with a Power Axe + meltabombs or just plain meltabombs. YMMV.

I see a lot of people opting to put the Power Weapons on the Priests (WS5) as opposed to the Sgts. But this is up to personal preferences.
   
Made in us
Guarding Guardian





I really like the first list beacuse I have done some games with something like that and I am not sure of the other one. The sangunary guard are some times Good but I haven't found the case where they at least kill there own value.

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Made in us
Blood Angel Neophyte Undergoing Surgeries




North Pole Alaska

List one
Also on the SP attach them to a squad even attached they give off the 6inch bubble of feel no pain goodness

Im torn on mephi he is the macdaddy of all space vampires however for 250 you can dual box libby for 2 div and 2 bio to add more utility to the squads

 
   
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo




Mephiston is not worth 250 in 6th edition. But Dante is not worth 225, either.

I also don't much care for the plasma guard, either. For fast moving AP2 and AP 1, a biker squad with 2X plasma and a MM attack bike is much better. They can get dual 5++ against non-STR 10. Plus, they can assault after hosing people down with plasma. Relentless is cool like that.
   
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator






The Midlands

Both would have been fantastic in 5th, but with the current meta switching to Flyer mad and Terminators, I think both may struggle against these things.

 
   
Made in us
Blood Angel Neophyte Undergoing Surgeries



United States

Thanks for all of the input.
Guess for competition I'll have to go with the (expensive) Las/Plas, Assault cannon Razorback spam I'm seeing everywhere. Slightly cheaper than buying Land Raiders and Terminators.

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