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1st Battalion

Primaris Captain
- Master-Crafted Stalker Bolt Rifle
- Power Sword
- Veritas Vitae

Primaris Lieutenant
- Master-Crafted Stalker Bolt Rifle

Tactical Squad
- Unit Size: 5
- 4 Bolters
- 1 Lascannon

Tactical Squad
- Unit Size: 5
- 4 Bolters
- 1 Lascannon

Tactical Squad
- Unit Size: 5
- 4 Bolters
- 1 Lascannon

2nd Battalion

Captain [Warlord, Gift of Foresight]
- Angel’s Wing
- Thunder Hammer
- Storm Shield

Librarian [Unleash Rage, Quickening]
- Jump Pack
- Force Sword
- Plasma Pistol

Scout Squad
- Unit Size: 7
- 7 Sniper Rifles

Intercessor Squad
- Unit Size: 5
- 5 Bolt Rifles

Intercessor Squad
- Unit Size: 5
- 5 Bolt Rifles

Sanguinary Guard
- Unit Size: 7
- 7 Encarmine Swords
- 7 Angelus Boltguns

Sanguinary Ancient
- Encarmine Sword
- Angelus Boltgun
- Standard of Sacrifice

Death Company Dreadnought
- Blood Talons
- Heavy Flamer
- Storm Bolter

Summary
- Total Points: 1500
- 13CP (9 after pre-game stratagems)
- 13 Units to Deploy (2 Units in Reserve)
- 45 Models
- 1 Psyker with 1 Deny the Witch
- 5 Characters

Self-Imposed Restrictions
- Set on a pure Blood Angels army; no Knights, no AM.
- Not aimed at making a competitive list; just a viable one.
- Would prefer to maintain two Battalions, as I will already be down 4CP (Armoury of Baal + Death Visions of Sanguinius).

Primaris Captain, Lieutenant and troops form a firebase on my side of the board. Intercessors will attempt to screen the lascannons and Sniper Scouts aim for squishy characters.

Give captain the Death Company keyword, granting him a 5+ FNP, re-roll 1s with his warlord trait. He and the librarian will jump up the board Turn 1, ideally using terrain to stay out of opponent’s LOS. Depending on who starts, Death Company Dreadnought will make a pre-game move + advance with Forlorn Fury. Turn 2, Sanguinary Guard and Ancient deep strike near the Captain and Librarian, who should be in guaranteed charge range. Pop Descent of Angels for the 3d6 charge, and get stuck in. Burn CP like there’s no tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the Dreadnought is either a smoking wreck, or has tanked enough firepower to have its own buffet. I chose blood talons over fists for the rerolls, and the fact that S10 wounds everything on 3s (2s with the Red Thirst). After that, it’ll be a game of attrition. I can only hope I had enough of an impact with my initial strikes to help tide over a victory.

C&C welcome.

DC dread cant use forlorn fury, only INFANTRY. Replace it with a librarian dread, its a psyker, can use wings of sanguinius for extra movement, and its a character with less than 10 wounds, so it cant be targeted if other units are closer. LC on tacs are kinda wasted. You need a dev squad with LC, PC, HB, ML and more models with boltguns as ablative wounds. The sarge can give a model +1 to hit. With a captain nearby its almost impossible to miss, hitting on 2s, rerolling 1s. PC can safely overload, you re-roll 1s. A lieutenant nearby lets you re-roll 1s to wound. With a HB you can use the hellfire shells stratagem. With the ML you can use the flakk missile stratagem. Add a cherub for 2D3 MW with the two stratagems i mentioned before, confirmed by the SM codex FAQ update. Sniper rifles are weak, and next to useless on characters with T5 and more, you only wound them on 5s, and they have AP0.

Librarian dread is gold, throw him up with wings and quickening and give him the fnp WLT.

Also found a baal with the 3 flamers using the lucifer engines for turn 1 fire storm.

I'd also do smaller 5 man scout squads with cc weapons, with the BA trait they can be fairly effective, also saves points for the baal.

Lastly swap out the sanguinary ancient for the standard chapter ancient, they do the same job and is like half the points and if you want to run the d.co dread try get some transport for him (drop pod or big points sink for a storm raven) or he'll be dead before he hits anything.

You can't shoot flamers with the baal pred when you use lucifer engines, you must advance. When you do that, you can't fire flamers, because they are heavy weapons.