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So I am new to Warhammer 40000 and I really want to do a blood ravens army, having looked on the Gw website I saw that there are a few different codex's with different rules but none for blood ravens... so I need a bit of advise on which codex to get and also any differences in the way blood ravens are played from vanilla marines.

I would suggest just the vanilla SM codex as they are mostly a codex chapter, maybe run a high number of Librarians as they are supposed to have a high number of them in the fluff.

Blood Raves are more or less a Codex-compliant chapter noted for using a large number of librarians. There has been no definite consensus on what chapter they succeeded from, but most people agree they fit best when played with C:SM rules.

Get vanilla Space Marines (Codex: Space Marines) and use librarians as your HQ units.

C:SM is probably the best choice.
Maybe throw in some GK for the heavy-psyker vibe.

I'd recomend codex DA considering their powerful Psykers.

I would say to use Codex Space Marines and then maybe for coolness build up some Legion of The Damned.

I'm hoping they release an Unknown founding supplement which would include the Blood Raven's, but for now I would say go with with Codex Space marines.

just to add to the suggestions, I'd consider using a Vanilla Marine force, using one of the new chapter tactics (whichever takes your fancy) and then adding an allied space marine chapter (that can be painted like blood ravens, but have a different company number/company insignia)

the allowance for the new SM codex to ally with itself means that you could have a SM Captain (even Angelos is you fancied trying it) alongside 2 librarians

Codex Space Marines. Use the Raven Guard combat doctrine rules. Run librarians.

orkybenji wrote:
Codex Space Marines. Use the Raven Guard combat doctrine rules. Run librarians.

Hm, in my opinion it might be best to run Ultramarines, seeing as Blood Ravens tactics usually involve their squads working in tandem to break through key enemy lines with skilled focus. Which the UM ability would grant them, though at the same time a Raven Guard ally would be rather good too.

I was thinking more of he whole drop pod alpha strike angle that they seem to employ in the games a bit.