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Hi I recently started playing 40k again, haven't played since 03. I spent the last couple of months painting some new blood Angels. I know they aren't the best army in 7th ed but I love there lour and fluff. I'm going to a tournament in a few months and I'm thinking of taking this list. Just want to know what you would drop or take instead thanks.

HQ
Chaplain with crozius, blot pistol and jump pack
Sang priest with combi-grav on a bike
ELITES
Death company (8) jump packs 1 P W. 1 P F
Death company (8) jump packs 1 P W. 1 P F
TROOPS
Scout squad (5) sniper rifles and camo cloaks
Tact squad (5) 1 H F in drop pod
FAST ATTACK
Assault squad (5) 2 meltaguns in drop pod
Assault squad (5) 2 meltaguns in drop pod
Bike squad (5) 2 grav-guns serg with combi-grav
HEAVY SUPPORT
Dev squad (5) 4 lascannons
Dev squad (5) 4 lascannons

The Chaplain will go with 1 of the DC squads and the Sang priest will go with the bike squad. Any ideas what I could drop or ad the make this list better? Any advice or suggestions much appreciated thanks.

It's been awhile since I played Blood Angels, so some of this may not be the most current list building advice... But I'll give it a shot.

Isn't the main purpose of the Sanguinary priest to provide FnP? That ability is wasted on the Death Company since they already have it by default. I would suggest either dropping the pack and running him with the Tac squad, or finding a way to squeeze the extra points in to give him a bike. Giving the grav bikers FnP would make them a much tougher unit to deal with.

I would also suggest consolidating the Dev squads into 2 units with 4 lascannons each. I've found less than 4 shots per squad is too unreliable to deal out any real damage, and with Blood Angels people tend to focus on the units right up in their face like the DC and bikers and leave the guys hiding in the back line alone, so you should be able to get away with just using the sergeant as an ablative wound rather than using 3 bodies per squad like you are now.

You can also drop the power weapons on the Death company, they have so many attacks that the sheer number of hits is what kills 3+ armor and worse, not the power weapons. I would keep the power fists though, the consensus I've seen is 1 PF per 5 models rounding down, so a single fist in your 8 man squads is perfect.

I'm personally a sucker for the landspeeder models and don't like assault squads without jump packs, so I would turn the assault squads both into dual multi-melta speeders, then use the extra points from trimming the devs/DC/assault squads to get another grav biker squad, which should give you 4 fast, resilient, hard hitting units for your opponent to deal with (DC+chaplain, DC squad 2, Grav bikers+SP, Grav Bikers unit 2) and keep the heat off of your supporting units.

All that said I think your original list is solid and should work just fine if it happens to be the models you already own or if you think my ideas are crap, especially if you're not playing in an ultra-competitive meta. Do you know which factions or types of lists you're likely to play against most?

Hay thanks for the feedback on the list. Ya I would consider dropping the 1 dev squad, and putting 4 lascannons in each in the 2 squads. I would all so drop the jump pack on the sang priest and put him on a bike and run him with the bike squad. I still would be left with around 25p so any ideas what I should spend it on thanks? I am open to any ideas anyone would recommend thanks again.

Probably combi grav and 15 point relic for sanguinary priest that gives him an extra warlord trait.

jchamberland27 wrote:
wisdom

Valours edge might be a good relic for the chap, just to give him that extra oomph. He loses the extra str but gets ap 2, good trade I think. BTW, are you sure those death co aren't khorne worshippers in disguise? Units of 8, all angry and they like blood? I'd report them to the closest chaplain ASAP.

Hay thanks for all the advice. I edited the list a bit, but I'm open to any suggestions.