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So, im having a game against my little brother on friday. 2000 points.

I usually always loose, and especially against him.. So i thought i'd post my list here, and what he usually fields, so you guys could help me, change some things you felt would do better!

He ususally fields Abaddon, a sorc, thousand sons, some reguler troops that never do anything, and 3 deffies, or some obliterators instead of one of them! And he has a brand new heldrake thats gonna have a go this round. He also has terminators, khorne berzerkers, and plague marines ready if he has the points..

My list, copied from BS.

2000pt Blood Angels

HQ (350pts)

Librarian (100pts)
Blood Lance, Power Armour, Shield of Sanguinius

Mephiston, Lord of Death (250pts)

Elites (475pts)

Furioso Dreadnought (125pts)
Furioso (125pts)
Blood Talon, Blood Talon with built-in Meltagun

Sanguinary Guard (200pts)
5x Angelus Boltgun, 5x Glaive Encarmine

Sanguinary Priests (150pts)
Sanguinary Priest (75pts)
Power Armour (25pts)
Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Jump Pack (25pts)

Sanguinary Priest (75pts)
Power Armour (25pts)
Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Jump Pack (25pts)

Troops (420pts)

Assault Squad (210pts)
9x Assault Marines (162pts), Meltagun (10pts), Meltagun (10pts), Retain Jump Packs
Veteran Sergeant (28pts)
Bolt Pistol, Chainsword

Assault Squad (210pts)
9x Assault Marines (162pts), Meltagun (10pts), Meltagun (10pts), Retain Jump Packs
Veteran Sergeant (28pts)
Bolt Pistol, Chainsword

Fast Attack (290pts)

Baal Predator (145pts)
Heavy Bolters (30pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon
Baal Predator (145pts)
Heavy Bolters (30pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon

Heavy Support (465pts)

Devestator Squad (130pts)
4x Devestator Marine (64pts), 4x Missile Launcher (40pts), Veteran Sergeant (26pts)

Predator (135pts)
Autocannon, Lascannon (65pts)

Stormraven Gunship (200pts)
Twin Linked Assault Cannon, Twin Linked Multi Melta

I have never been able to kill his abaddon yet, so i just hope i bring enough to kill him..! Any suggestions on what i should do, and how i can improve?


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Shamefull bump.. Noone with some thoughts, and ideas? I really wants to win for a change.!

I have a lot of trouble against Chaos as well...especially Nurgle...I play BA and just don't feel like I match up well against them unless the dice gods are with me lol...Last league game I played, a Lord basically singlehandedly wiped out a 10man Assault Squad w/ Sang Priest, 10man Death Co, and 5man Term Assault Squad w/ my Term Reclus Warlord...1000 point game so if you are doing the math that was over 700 points and I managed 1 wound on him...sadface!

As a Chaos player one thing I would fear if I was using Abaddon would be a large unit of TH/SS Terminators.

First of all they will kill Chaos Terminators easily, and Abaddon.

Secondly they will be near enough immune to the MEQ munching Baleflamer on the Heldrake and the pie plates from the Defilers.

Example:

1 x Tycho

10 x Assault Terminators
- TH/SS

10 x Assault Terminators
- TH/SS

10 x Assault Terminators
- TH/SS

5 x Tactical Squad
- Plasma Gun
- Rhino

5 x Tactical Squad
- Plasma Gun
- Rhino

5 x Tactical Squad
- Plasma Gun
- Rhino

10 points left over.

Perhaps a bit extreme, if you don't have that many Terminators just take as many as you have. Also a Stormraven is good for dealing with the Heldrake.

I played my BA against Chaos (Nurgle) recently and the T5 and FNP 5+ really makes it hard to shoot them down, and in case of HTHC you will get your ass handed to you with their Initiative 5. I now run 2 Vindicators against them and they seem to help a lot. Also found the Stormraven Assault Cannon underperforming against the Helldrake, switch it out for the LC and Typhoon, more strength 8 and 9 shots will help a lot against other flyers, and always, always refuse challenges against the Chaos Champions, he killed my sergeants in a heartbeat and the reward was a double six on the special Chaos Chart, tada a Deamon Prince appeared, I mean WTF.