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Ok so I actually read every post from all 2 1/2 pages..

First off people that vote BA because of DC. While I give credit where it's due sword breathern are all amazing fighters who have earned the right to wear term armor. That doesn't exactly come lightly. Plus if you go by the BT codex some are even wearing duel lighting claws. So duel TH vs duel LC it's gonna be messy. Also if you read the BT codex page 24 "however such is there faith in the Emperor and their own invulnerablity that they shrug off the most severe wounds" and that's for every bt marine.. So they are gonna be a pain in the arse to kill.

Also for the emperors champ one thing people have yet to say is that there isn't just one.. Every crusade has one.. So a squad of up armored badass marines that have the emperors blessing. That's just a scary group to come up against.

In general the BT have been on a crusade for how long again? Looking for fights against the biggest meanist xenos they can find. So to me each individual marine will have more combat experience. Also they pride themselves on the idea of close combat so much they chain their weapons to themselves.. Never resting until their foe is defeated.. Also their chaplains are freaking nuts! Have you seen how hard it is to kill grimaldus in fluff or on the table? He doesn't like to die. BT are just going to be harder faster and better in close combat.

Finally for the people who say there is no record of the bt slaughtering masses. " I saw a scene of a massacre where the dead lay on the ground In numbers like fallen leaves in a forest." Inquisitor barzanos investigation into the baron nebula crusade.... Or take into account of the rack that every other chapter stiffens up at the name of the bt knowing them for there shear ferocity and unforgiving.


BA can be awesome but in a 1 on 1 I still put my money on the bt.
Please disregard any typos doing this from a iphone