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He's not saying he just buys a Space Wolf unit and calls it Blood Angels. He's using the current rules to shoehorn them into his army. Either by taking a small Formation, or playing an Unbound army.

He's not saying you can yell "this is for everyone" and then shove Lootas in your drop pods.

He does however have a very arbitrary sense of where he draws the line for what BA could and couldn't have, that he seems very proud of. I wouldn't take the word of John Bracken over any other weirdo posting on Dakka.

As hard as it feels to say this as a CSM/CS player - I have to agree with you. Even though i think, fluff wise of course, that CSM should've access to 'normal' Drop pods, they're not in the Codex or any supplement.

If it were like 'I take Khârn into my Crimson Slaughter Army, even though i can't because of the "no VotLW"-Rule' i'd say it is OK, since it's just the Parent-Codex but taking the seemingly average/good stuff from
dex's that are only fluff wise linked is a tad to far in my opinion.

To be quite honest tho, get the IA 13, get a normal pod and convert it - sure, the Dreadclaw is a FA but also a flyer in hover mode & an assault vehicle rather than a immobilized chunk of metal.