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As the title suggests, I would like help creating a 400 point Blood Angels army for Adepticon's Combat Patrol:

http://www.adepticon.org/14rules/2014cp.pdf (Here are the rules)



What I have and want to work with:

20 tactical marines (capable of any combination of special weapons)(flamer, meltagun, missile launcher whatever)
20 assault marines (capable of any combination of special weapons)(flamers, meltaguns, any crazy combo on sergeants)
10 devastators (most have missile launchers but I can build other special weapons)
10 scouts (sniper rifles and missile launchers)
5 assault terminators (lightning claws or TH/SS's)(I really want to use these guys but will probably never make it to CC)



What I could in theory use:

Sanguinary priests (although that's a lot of points for one guy in combat patrols)
Death company (lots of points no matter what, and NOT scoring!)
I even have a Death company dreadnaught (legal but again not scoring, and slow)



What I won't do:

Buy more stuff. I don't want to go out and buy any dedicated transports, as I love the look of pure infantry (and my GF would kill me if I spent more money)



HELP ME!!!

Death company are fun, but I've thrown that plan out the window.
Part of me wants to go full assault marines, but there's far too many combinations of how to equip them (and the Sargent) for me to make up my mind. (Double hand flamers? Infernus pistols? Which CC power weapon? Bare bones? Melta bomb?? help!!!)
Part of me wants to play it safe and make a shooty list (devastators, tacticals, scouts). But it's boring and there are better gun lines out there.



Thanks,
Operand

Take a SP with ASM and Plasma guns and Meltabombs thrown in there.

If you want to play a shooty list then take something else other than BA. There are better teams.

Hey Glorywarrior,

What exactly did you have in mind?? This is what I call plasma overload:

Sanguinary Priest (Combi-Plasmagun, Jump pack, Melta Bombs) 90 pts
10 Assault Marines (2 Plasmaguns, Sergeant 2 Plasma Pistols, Melta Bombs) 255 pts

That's 345 points for 11 models, but lots of strength 7 shooting!!

Sanguinary Priest with Jump Pack and Power Axe

8 assault marines, melta gun

7 assault marines, melta gun

Generic, flying, punchy Blood Angels. No creativity needed and exactly 400 points

Or you can swap the Power axe for three melta bombs (one on the SP and one on each sergeant) if you expect lots of vehicles and MCs

What I have seen at most of the 40k world at Adepticon is lack of terrain. That being said you might be at a disadvantage if you don't have any long range and only 2-3 targets with the "Sanguinary Priest with Jump Pack and Power Axe 8 assault marines, melta gun 7 assault marines, melta gun".

This a quick list I put together and did good with for BA.

Tact Squad x10 Flamer/ML(free) Sarg(leader) with PW/MB Razorback(fast vehicle) TLLC
Dev Squad x5 3 ML's

Long range to take out anyone running a speeder list(my friend does and he is going to Adepticon) and to stop anyone with transports. Hide the Razorback for the fist turn(if you can/lack of terrain and all) then move out when you want. Don't give them first kill. Dev's go in cover and hopefully have LOS to most of the field. Tact squad does Combat Squad and one 5 man in the Razorback and the other sits on an objective and supports with long range.

At 400 points there is only so much to choose from.

Good luck.

@bocatt

That looks good, I suppose the AP2 power axe will really help in CC (even if it is unwieldy). Is the Priest really worth it though? for nearly 100 points I can simply get more marines

@Gundor2

Thanks for the input, but as I stated in the beginning I can't go out and buy anything (not even a razorback!). Although, I like the idea of 5 missile launcher Devastators sitting back and blowing away any armor.

10 Assault marines
2 melta
Combat squad these

5 assault marines
Flamer

5 scouts
4 snipers, 1 ml.


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Or maybe mbs instead of flamer....