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I have amassed a sizable Blood Angel army, yet have never played with it (or at all in the last few years), and it has been over a decade since I've played against Blood Angels so this might not be the best idea.

Suppressors as a whole don't really do much. They might if they weren't just limited to 3-man squads, but hey at least they look cool. As Blood angels are getting their new codex I might actually field them. One idea I had cooking was 3 units of Death Company in Jump Packs, with a unit of Suppressors following them. Before the Death company charges, the Suppressors target three different squads. They have enough shots per model that at least one shot should land on all three targets. Then the DC charges those three units. The special rules for the Suppressors would make the targets less likely to fight back, taking some pressure off the DC if they don't wipe the target.

Could this also work if you choose to deep strike some or all of these units?

Doesn’t work. One unit of Suppressors can only affect one enemy unit per shooting phase.

A given unit of Suppressors can only suppress a single enemy unit at a time. You would need three separate units of Suppressors to cover three units of Death Company.

Edit: ninja'd!

Dang. Missed that. Would have been nice though.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Dang. Missed that. Would have been nice though.

Be glad they fixed that in general, though.

Barbgaunts, as first printed, applied -2 to Move/Advance/Charge on anything they hit in the shooting phase, not just one unit.
With 1d6+Blast shots, even hitting on a 4+ natively, one 5-man squad could reliably slow down several units.

Plus one unit of Suppressors was going to be easy cleanup for the "leftover" shooters - especially if people figure out the gimmick. Doing 3 Death Company followed by 3 Suppressors might be more worthwhile - especially if you do some sort of Deep Strike thing to shore up the defenses of the Death Company that (unlikely) miss the charge.

Edit to Add: I'd be more tempted to do two Death Company with Lemartes and Astorath (or Jump Chaplain(s)) and one Sanguinary Guard with Dante (or Jump Captain), 3x3 Suppressors and some pretty tough to displace deployment targets.. i.e. Terminators, Land Raiders, Dreads, Baal Preds, etc.

Just playing around on a first pass -

Astorath
Dante
Sanguinor
Terminator Libby

Ballistus Dread
Ballistus Dread
Brutalis Dread

10x Death Company with Jump Packs
10 Sanguinary Guard
3x Suppressors
3x Suppressors
10 (or 2x5) TH/SS Terminators.

I went with Terminators because they're slightly cheaper (10 vs 2x6) and more fluffy - same with the Terminator Libby.