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let me go paint a rainbow sangiunor.

maybe i can model big penises on some orks and then claim orks are gay.

besides, eldar are omnisexual

@OP: I play vanilla mostly but will probably play a lot of BA in the future too. I'm not very much attached to the fluff of any particular chapter so I think up my own and play with whichever codex looks to be fun.

the vindicator for the Blood Angels does not pie-plate

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:let me go paint a rainbow sangiunor.

maybe i can model big penises on some orks and then claim orks are gay.

besides, eldar are omnisexual

Make sure that they are all big though, some might under-perform based on inadequacy.

im da biggest, so im da boss!

Terminus wrote:

Nightsbane wrote:Eldar look really dumb and fire their blasts from what look to be expensive sex toys.

*enter Inquisitor*

How do you know how much Eldar sex toys cost?

*drags you off in chains to be tortured and executed for the twin crimes of heresy and colluding with the Xenos*

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Nightsbane wrote:Eldar look really dumb and fire their blasts from what look to be expensive sex toys.

I thought this is Any reason NOT to play blood angels? thread, not All the great reasons to play Eldar

Macok wrote:

Nightsbane wrote:Eldar look really dumb and fire their blasts from what look to be expensive sex toys.

I thought this is Any reason NOT to play blood angels? thread, not All the great reasons to play Eldar

Sure, Eldar are great if this inspired your army:

http://static.open.salon.com/files/coneheads1245765854.jpg

Who doesn't love the coneheads?!

Blood Angels are Marines geared towards assault.
They have jump packs and fast moving transports to reach the enemy front ranks very quickly.
The bad news is that when the reached the enemy front ranks,
they will eventually die.
In fact, there are units out there in the 40k universe that are better in cc than BA. Hands down!
Moreover, BA armies tend to be very low in numbers
and so eventually get outnumbers.
Finally, I believe that games are won by more than just assault.
Depolyment, movement, maneuvering, and shooting are all important.

wuestenfux wrote:
Finally, I believe that games are won by more than just assault.
Deployment, movement, maneuvering, and shooting are all important.

The BA have access too all of those things as well. They are more than just assault. They have access to most of the same shooty units C:SM get. They too have sternguard and Dev squads, and unlike Other SM armies their Rhino based chases are fast vehicles, meaning that they can move and fire better than other SM. The Idea that the BA are a one-trick pony is a falsehood, they are in my opinion better able to adapt much better than other marine armies.

More than a one-trick pony.
However, the lists I've seen so far could consider BA as a 'one-trick pony' army.

Right now people are playing to their new strengths, but since only HQ's and one or two choices are gone (such as thunderfire cannon) people will come up with shooty lists and other variations. The priests alone can cause a massive boost to tac marine survivability. This means you could have basic tactical marines zooming in twice as fast with jump priests behind them ready to FNP them. It comepletely redefines and buffs the rhino rush.

The new BA codex allows to implement a variant of Rhino rush that is more capable of that of the vanilla Marines.

The Rhinos zoom down at full speed with Assault Marines and Priests behind.
Rhino wall or leap frogging depends on the number of Rhinos.
Now FNP gives a new component to this kind of rush, since
the Marines rushing forward are tougher than vanilla Marines.

I like the new BA codex. I had a large BA army from way back before the PDF codex and I'm happy to have the new options and models. I think the gold armour looks great (if nipples and six pack are good enough for the classics like Romans who am I to complain?). I also like the angel wings (bit awkward to pack but then so are my Valkyries). I LOVE the librarian Dred, even if my magna grapple has failed to hit anything yet and he dies on turn 1 as soon as he steps out of his drop pod. Astorath and the Sanguinator are so cool to look at and paint it doesn't matter that I can't afford the points to play them. Last but not least, 10 DC in a LR with Chaplain and a thunder hammer is awesome! Drive up to the nearest enemy CC unit and watch them charge out with 40 attacks, rerolling to hit AND to wound. Ogryn, Termies, Bah.. or should that be BA!


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Did I forget to mention the Stormraven assault transport, which if rumours are correct will be released this summer alongside new Grey Knights models and codex? : )

I'm going to build a DoA list.

No vehicles of any kind whatsoever. Everything that can have access to a jump pack will.

Dollar wise it'll be fairly cheap to collect compared to buying crap ton of vehicles.

$60 for a 275pt LR or $35 for a 250+ pt. Sanguinary Guard squad? Hmmm.

It might not be the most effective list but the model count will be low (I'm estimating about 70 infantry at 2500), easy to transport (can get the cheaper battlefoam infantry trays, and it some ways it'd play similiar to daemons or dw (in that I would always DS the entire army in).

I've also come to love SHP's. Even in tac squads it makes the squads a tactical nightmare to deal with


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General Mayhem wrote:I like the new BA codex. I had a large BA army from way back before the PDF codex and I'm happy to have the new options and models. I think the gold armour looks great (if nipples and six pack are good enough for the classics like Romans who am I to complain?). I also like the angel wings (bit awkward to pack but then so are my Valkyries). I LOVE the librarian Dred, even if my magna grapple has failed to hit anything yet and he dies on turn 1 as soon as he steps out of his drop pod. Astorath and the Sanguinator are so cool to look at and paint it doesn't matter that I can't afford the points to play them. Last but not least, 10 DC in a LR with Chaplain and a thunder hammer is awesome! Drive up to the nearest enemy CC unit and watch them charge out with 40 attacks, rerolling to hit AND to wound. Ogryn, Termies, Bah.. or should that be BA!


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Did I forget to mention the Stormraven assault transport, which if rumours are correct will be released this summer alongside new Grey Knights models and codex? : )

I've heard Jan 2011 for GK's so don't count your eggs just yet.