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Hey,

Any ideas on how to expand my force, I play ba and my main unit is ten strong death company with reclusiarch dropped in via stormraven, supported by mech tac and assault squads in rhino and razorback. Will post full list later when I have time.
I was contemplating grabbing astorath and another 5 man dc w jumpies to stick in the storm raven and add a dc dread with it, then run the bigger squad in a rhino too.

I have about £60 to spend at the mo.
any thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks




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dc (1500pts)

1500pt Blood Angels 5th Edition Roster (Standard)

Blood Angels 5th Edition (Standard) Selections:

HQ (270pts)

Captain (135pts)
Melta Bombs (5pts)
Power Armour (30pts)
Plasma Pistol (15pts), Power Weapon (15pts)
Reclusiarch (135pts)
Melta Bombs (5pts)
Power Armour
Bolt Pistol
Troops (830pts)

Assault Squad (135pts)
4x Assault Marines (72pts), Infernus Pistol (15pts), Retain Jump Packs
Veteran Sergeant (48pts)
Bolt Pistol, Melta Bombs (5pts), Power Weapon (15pts)
Assault Squad (195pts)
4x Assault Marines (72pts), Plasma Pistol (15pts)
Razorback (65pts)
Pintle Storm Bolter (10pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon (35pts)
Veteran Sergeant (43pts)
Chainsword, Plasma Pistol (15pts)
Death Company (325pts)
8x Bolt Pistol, 5x Chainsword, 9x Death Company Marine (180pts), Hand Flamer (10pts), Power Fist (25pts), 2x Power Sword (30pts), Rhino (50pts), Thunder Hammer (30pts)
Tactical Squad (175pts)
Flamer, Missile Launcher, 9x Tactical Marine (144pts)
Veteran Sergeant (31pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Melta Bombs (5pts)
Fast Attack (150pts)

Bike Squadron (90pts)
2x Space Marine Biker (50pts), Veteran Sergeant (40pts)
Land Speeder Squadron (60pts)
Land Speeder (60pts)
Multimelta (10pts)
Heavy Support (250pts)

Devestator Squad (125pts)
4x Devestator Marine (64pts), 3x Missile Launcher (30pts)
Veteran Sergeant (31pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Melta Bombs (5pts)
Dreadnought (125pts)
Assault Cannon (10pts)
Blood Fist (10pts)
Built-in Heavy Flamer (10pts)
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Thought I'd best post a full list sorry about the formatting

Difficult to say. I can't tell what would be some "must buy"-thing and I'm not sure what fits in your gaming style. But I can give some recommendations of what I would add:

1) Sternguard Veteran squad (possibly in razorback)
- With combi-meltas they will work as tankhunters and with varying weapon profiles, they are pretty nice for picking up some infantry.

2) Try to expand either your Land Speeder squadron by one (keep that one with multi-melta too) or your bike squad. In there you could fit another bike and maybe attackbike with multi-melta.

3) Baal Predator is expensive but extremely useful if used right.

I always try to keep my DC cheap so I prefer not to give them jump packs.

Are you playing 6th edition? That is probably a silly question, but stormravens should never be carrying anything other than terminators with strom shields as the str 10 ap1, on the models it is transporting if it is destroyed will kill of dc, also I don't see a stormraven in your list.

Elites? saguinary priests for FNP, assualt terminators, sternguard veterans, furioso dreads? All good choices.

Mobilization of the DC is a serious problem in 6th. All the choices are imperfect, and the BA just don't have margin for error.

Hmmm had put the wrong list up..

Right list this time, this is pretty much everything I've got, run all vehicles at objectives to muller whatever's holding it, devs and 5 man tac sit back to hold objective and trash vehicles/hordes, storm raven push forward then drop to hover to drop dc where they'll do most damage then tank/flyer hunt afterwards, deep strike land speeder to tank bust.

Was thinking bout librarian and scout squad w sniper rifles to deal with any mcs, or maybe a land raider, generally just thinking what the next expansion is for my force, going to council of war in oct so bit of time to continue expanding afterwards still. Just need a solid list that's still as fun to play as this is.



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raven (1805pts)

2000pt Blood Angels 5th Edition Roster (Standard)

Blood Angels 5th Edition (Standard) Selections:

HQ (260pts)

Captain (130pts)
Power Armour (30pts)
Plasma Pistol (15pts), Power Weapon (15pts)
Reclusiarch (130pts)
Power Armour
Bolt Pistol
Troops (885pts)

Assault Squad (150pts)
4x Assault Marines (72pts), Plasma Pistol (15pts)
Razorback (20pts)
Twin Linked Heavy Bolter
Veteran Sergeant (43pts)
Chainsword, Plasma Pistol (15pts)
Assault Squad (130pts)
4x Assault Marines (72pts), Infernus Pistol (15pts), Retain Jump Packs
Veteran Sergeant (43pts)
Bolt Pistol, Power Weapon (15pts)
Death Company (295pts)
9x Bolt Pistol, 6x Chainsword, 10x Death Company Marine (200pts), Hand Flamer (10pts), Power Fist (25pts), 2x Power Sword (30pts), Thunder Hammer (30pts)
Tactical Squad (220pts)
Flamer, Rhino (50pts), 9x Tactical Marine (144pts)
Veteran Sergeant (26pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter
Tactical Squad (90pts)
4x Tactical Marine (64pts)
Veteran Sergeant (26pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter
Fast Attack (150pts)

Bike Squadron (90pts)
2x Space Marine Biker (50pts), Veteran Sergeant (40pts)
Land Speeder Squadron (60pts)
Land Speeder (60pts)
Multimelta (10pts)
Heavy Support (510pts)

Devestator Squad (130pts)
4x Devestator Marine (64pts), 4x Missile Launcher (40pts)
Veteran Sergeant (26pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter
Dreadnought (125pts)
Assault Cannon (10pts)
Blood Fist (10pts)
Built-in Heavy Flamer (10pts)
Stormraven Gunship (255pts)
Hurricane Bolter Sponsons (30pts), Twin Linked Lascannon, Typhoon Missile Launcher (25pts)
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And yes I'm playing 6th

I have a thread about this under tactics. I will briefly summarize:

Libby > Reclusiarch.

Razors should have Las/Plas or TL HF

300 pts for DC on foot is straight up nuts. That's 30/model for T4 W1 3+ FNP.

Jump pack assault marines need 10 men and get meltas or flamers. 5 man assault teams get flamers and hand flamers and put in a TL HF razorback.

Plasma pistols are garbage. Don't use them.

Tac marines get plasma guns/combi-plasma on sarge. Why? Same firing profile as boltgun. For heavy, I like lascannon or plasma cannon. Leave sissy ML at home.

Bikers get plasma, attack bikes MM. Don't use landspeeders, they are too fragile. MM attack bikes are maybe the single best thing in the codex with FNP changes.

Devs with missile launchers suck because MLs suck. Leave them for 7th. Never take regular dreads with BA. Replace these with predators. My 3000 pt BA list does not have single ML. But it does have a ton of lascannons and meltas.

Thanks for the input sofas guys,
Martel can you link me to the thread please,
Thinking about Libby, scouts and maybe assault termies, or a pread, still deciding

Never tried stern guard, or really thought about them, could be an option, maybe that and a unit of vanguard vets. So many choices

Here it is: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/519388.page

So I've got myself a sniper scout squad, assault terminator squad and a land raider redeemer/crusader, think that should help round off some smooth edges for my space vampires for now

Personally, I think putting Gabriel Seth in a storm raven with a base chaplain and 10 DC would be devastating when it hits the enemy, Ive tried 5 DC + Seth and chaplain before and it was amazing, I didn't even need power weapons, and Seth will almost always win in challenge with his S8 rending chainsword with rerolls to hit, he will have at least 1 instant death ignore armour saves attack against a space marine captain.

Had never thought about using Seth, very nearly bought astorath so I could go all death company, but something stopped me, mostly the fact that he now strikes initiative 1. Boooooo

Frankly I'm impartial to Sanguinary Priests and Sanguinary Guard over Death Company. Reason being that with a Blood Chalice within 6'' you can pretty much turn any Assault Marines/Sanguinary Guard into Death Company, and when you've got 25 Marines with FnP in Close Combat, that's just plain scary.

I'm also picking up mephiston and a couple of meltas to add to pretty much every squad for a bit of anti mech :-)

Recommend some more death company, but on the cheap. Also the baal predator is great.

Define cheap death company, as in make them up to 15 so with the reclusiarch they fit in a crusader and go pillaging?


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Don't ask me how I thought that would class as cheap death company