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Hi there guys,

I'm getting back into 40K, last played in 5th edition, and I'm going for Blood Angels. still trying to wrap my head around formations and the (seemingly expensive) supplements.
I always played fluffy armies and want to balance an army of models that I want to have with and army that also can win.

p.s I'm picking up from the forums that flyers are now a bug thing.

HQ
Astorath, Redeemer of the Lost
Mephiston, Lord of Death

Elites

Death Company Squad
9x Bolt Pistol, 9x Chainsword, 10x Death Company Marine, Hand Flamer, Jump Pack, Power Weapon

Furioso Dreadnought
Magna-grapple
Blood Talons
Meltagun and storm bolter

Sanguinary Guard Squad
6x Angelus Boltgun, Chapter Banner, Death Masks, 2x Encarmine Axe, 5x Encarmine Sword, Inferno Pistol, Plasma Pistol, Power Fist, 8x Sanguinary Guard

Troops

Scout Squad
Camo Cloaks, 4x Scouts, 4x Sniper Rifle
Scout Sergeant
Combi-Melta, Teleport homer

Tactical Squad
Heavy flamer, 5x Tactical Marine
Razorback
Twin Linked Lascannon
Tactical Sergeant
Hand Flamer, Power fist

Fast Attack

Bike Squad
Flamer, Meltagun, 7x Space Marine Biker
Biker Sergeant
Bolt Pistol

Heavy Support

Stormraven Gunship
Twin Linked Plasma Cannon, Twin-linked Multi-melta

Vindicator
Overcharged engines

Vindicator
Overcharged engines

Im thinking of putting the death company and astoroth in the storm talon and im not too sure what to do with mephy.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and advice guys.

-Death company are good in small units of 5 with a power fist (considered by many to be the best unit in codex right now)

-Stormraven is cool but a bit expensive for what it does and with the risk it might not come in till turn 4

-There are a couple combos with mephiston, one is to drop pod him in with 9 assault scouts - the idea is the unit he is in soaks up wounds while he destroys things with Str 10

-Overcharged vindicators can be fun

-Sanguinary guard make a nice deathstar (a little expensive, but still used these days) but they need a sanguinary priest for the feel no pain since they don't have an invuln save - some people also put Dante in here

-BA bike squad can be a deathstar if you put a priest in with them (and usually some other imperium allied characters)

-Tactical squads are good, the popular method is to deliver them in drop pods usually with melta pistols + melta gun, or flamer pistols + heavy flamer (this is actually better with assault marines since you can take more of each)

-Don't hear a lot of people using astorath these days

-Furioso dreadnaughts are kinda shelved these days since the space marine version just got upped to 4 attacks base....but I've heard of some people still using them with drop pod and frag cannon



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Oh - and get the latest version of battlescribe (its free) to make your armies - it comes with all the formations and special rules usually and makes your list making life much much easier. When you print your army it even prints out all the special rules for each unit

Jump pack units count as two for transport cap. So you can not fit all that in the storm raven.
Drop pod them in or run all three chief librarians
Mephistion
Ezikle
Tigerius in a conclave with 3 ML 2 libs.
Then add in smash face for a mega death star.
15 warps base. Get invis and gate and you are God like.
A command squad in a drop pod