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 digital-animal wrote:
I know nothing about BA - but this thread gives me chuckles.

They are Space Marines
They are Red
They are to Vampires what Space Wolves are to Werewolves
They're Primarch had Angelic Wings and good looks, could see the future, died defending the Emperor.
Blood Angels space marines all become incredibly handsome, long lived by human and marine standards, and have flash bakcs of their primarch's death, eventually driving them mad, when they start to actually believe they are the Primarch on the eve of his final battle.
Blood Motiff is to Blood Angels what wolf themes are to Space Wolves
The Sanguinary Priests of the Blood Angels chapter have for generations ingested the blood of the previous generation, all the way back to drinking Sanguinis', their Primarch blood upon his death, to keep it in the family.
Early publications hyped the Blood Angels alleged "red thirst" and hinted at villages worth of people mysteriously vanishing after they arrived. Hinting they may have been unwilling blood donors, but just could have just as easily been executed to seeing some xeno/chaos/inquisistion stuff they shouldn't have.
Some of the Blood Angels wear cool Golden armor that was oblviously inspired by Mordred from Exaclibur, but turned up to 11.
Lord Mephiston is basically Space Dracula Librarian, who is soo hard core he got over the desire to drink blood.
Blood Angels all think they are Sanguinis, are loyal to the point of throwing their lifes down for the Emperor, and anyone who accuses them of being tainted by chaos just becuase their Primarch had wings and could see the future is a filthy heretic who you should punch in the mouth immediately upon uttering such heresy.

New rule: Khorne joins the blood angels
New rule: before and after each game a player blood sacrifice must be made

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
New rule: Khorne joins the blood angels
New rule: before and after each game a player blood sacrifice must be made

Are substitutes accepted? And how about first born?

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
New rule: before and after each game a player blood sacrifice must be made

I dunno, it might be worth shedding a little blood for rerolls

 adamsouza wrote:

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
New rule: before and after each game a player blood sacrifice must be made

I dunno, it might be worth shedding a little blood for rerolls

New rule: shedding blood to shed more blood for a re-roll overules that a dice cant be re-rolled more than once

63-The Blood Angels will get another new dreadnaught type let's call it, oh, the Bloodnaught, yeah that's easy to trademark. The Bloodnaught will look NOTHING LIKE the mega-popular Contemptor and will instead look like an angry washing machine that just waddled in from 1994, because why should GW ever admit they made a bad design choice.

64-In addition to an impractical gun and a powerfist with stubby little fingers that can't really do any damage, it can be armed with a plasma cannon suspended between the aforementioned stubby little legs. Known as the Mighty Rod of Sanguinous, powered by two throbbing brass energy spheres that hang below it, it ejaculates streams of hot white death into the faces of its foes. The Mighty Rod of Sanguinous upgrade kit will kept under the counter and will only be sold to hobbists age 18 and over.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

64-In addition to an impractical gun and a powerfist with stubby little fingers that can't really do any damage, it can be armed with a plasma cannon suspended between the aforementioned stubby little legs. Known as the Mighty Rod of Sanguinous, powered by two throbbing brass energy spheres that hang below it, it ejaculates streams of hot white death into the faces of its foes. The Mighty Rod of Sanguinous upgrade kit will kept under the counter and will only be sold to hobbists age 18 and over.

And it has a nippled sarcophagus too right?

Blood Angels receive new MC character known as Dracula, can only be defeated by SW character known as Van Helsing if Necrons are present.

Thatguyhsagun wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

64-In addition to an impractical gun and a powerfist with stubby little fingers that can't really do any damage, it can be armed with a plasma cannon suspended between the aforementioned stubby little legs. Known as the Mighty Rod of Sanguinous, powered by two throbbing brass energy spheres that hang below it, it ejaculates streams of hot white death into the faces of its foes. The Mighty Rod of Sanguinous upgrade kit will kept under the counter and will only be sold to hobbists age 18 and over.

And it has a nippled sarcophagus too right?

Gold nipples.

That give blood when you bite on them.

New Blood Angels releases will be reasonably priced, and the rules will be balanced and easy to understand.

Lord Castellan wrote:
New Blood Angels releases will be reasonably priced, and the rules will be balanced and easy to understand.

Additionally, the BA Codex will come with FAQs that answer all those questions from the main rulebook, and other codices that keep popping up, eg, how the heck you are supposed to roll To Hit without a given profile (see Psychic Shriek debates in YMDC).

New unit is introduced: the blood angel blood angel

its a blood angel.....
riding a blood angel.....
wielding a blood angel.....
that shoots blood angels.....
that summon blood angels!

There will be gratuitous use of the word blood in its codex entry.

Torga_DW wrote:
New unit is introduced: the blood angel blood angel

its a blood angel.....
riding a blood angel.....
wielding a blood angel.....
that shoots blood angels.....
that summon blood angels!

There will be gratuitous use of the word blood in its codex entry.

You forgot the blood angels that are summoned summon blood angles.

 Stormwall wrote:

Torga_DW wrote:
New unit is introduced: the blood angel blood angel

its a blood angel.....
riding a blood angel.....
wielding a blood angel.....
that shoots blood angels.....
that summon blood angels!

There will be gratuitous use of the word blood in its codex entry.

You forgot the blood angels that are summoned summon blood angles.

blood! blood blood blood, blood blood, blood blood blood blood.

Blood Angels will be revealed to have a sucksession chapter named Blurred Angles.

Their chapter tactics is:
Models with Blurred Angles chapter tactics get Stealth: Angles. Special rule. When the unit with Blurred Angles chapter tactics comes from reserves via deepstrike, you must announce: "The unit X of the Blurred Angles deepstrikes here!". If your opponent confuses them with Blood Angels, the unit scatters only d6.

It will be revealed in Codex:BA that the colour of Blood Angels armour is not actually red - it is in fact a very very very very very slightly darker shade of orange.

Codex:BA will in fact be a blank A4 writing pad with the words 'Go forge the narrative yourselves!' scrawled in Kirby's own hand. Pens filled with the blood of former GW staff will available separately from FW.

All BA vehicles will have a minimum of two go faster stripes added to each hull facing. While not making them any faster, they will cost 5 points each and look as awesome as the ones on your first car. They will also be called Baal Strikes.

 Iapedus wrote:
It will be revealed in Codex:BA that the colour of Blood Angels armour is not actually red - it is in fact a very very very very very slightly darker shade of orange.

Codex:BA will in fact be a blank A4 writing pad with the words 'Go forge the narrative yourselves!' scrawled in Kirby's own hand. Pens filled with the blood of former GW staff will available separately from FW.

All BA vehicles will have a minimum of two go faster stripes added to each hull facing. While not making them any faster, they will cost 5 points each and look as awesome as the ones on your first car. They will also be called Baal Strikes.

Don't you mean Baal Streaks?

I managed to do some research and found the Warlord Traits table for the new Codex


1) Like a True Son of Sanguinus - Your Warlord is stunningly beautiful, with long, luscious locks of blond hair and chiselled features that make men and women (mainly men) cry with lust. Enemy units are at -3 to hit in close combat as they can't bear to harm something so beautiful.

2) Glitter and Glory - The warlord and any unit he is a part of are fabulous. Glitter and perfume obscure them from even the keenest sniper. The warlord and any unit he is a part of add +2 to their cover saving throws (to a maximum of +2).


3) The Scent of Perfume - The warlord and his unit roll two die when determining assault results. This represents the enemy choking on cheap perfume and being unable to stand.


4) Blood in the Air - If an enemy model in a unit is missing a wound, your warlord becomes strangely aroused and attacks in an orgy of unrestrained bloodlust. Your Warlord gains preferred enemy against that unit until it is removed from the game. This represents the Blood Angels blood horniness.


5) Twilight Raiders - Warlord and unit are not affected by the Night Fighting rules. If the opponent is a female player however, your army misses it's first turn as it is too busy staring like a creepy stalker at her to do anything meaningful.


6) Red Rage: It's that time of the stellar month. Warlord is removed from play and cannot be used. They are busy at home watching chick-flicks on Netflix and eating Ben and Jerrys.

All Blood Angel models will be produced in bright red plastic that will be refered to as BloodCast. This will do nothing to change the actual quality of the casting but it sounds cool so they did it. It also makes playing against people who never get around to painting their miniatures slightly more enjoyable.

Smurfcast also planned for Ultramarines models.

Since people swallowed the idea of Deep Striking Land Raiders dropped from overhead...

All Blood Angels units may now deploy via Vertical Insertion. All units gain Deep Strike but every model must take a Dangerous Terrain Test (difficult terrain test for non-walker vehicles). Any model that possesses a Jump Pack or moves as if it possessed a Jump Pack can reroll this test if failed.

If your entire army chooses to deploy via Vertical Insertion, you may use the Blood Drop rule, which allows you to reserve your entire army without forfeiting the game, and Deep Strike them all on your first turn.

Any model which lands on, or scatters over, an enemy model, causes a hit with a strength equal to the model's own Strength score, and an AP equal to the model's armor save. For vehicles, this is treated as a ram against another vehicle, or a tank shock against any infantry model (who cannot choose to move out of the path).


Warhammer Visions will feature an epic battlefield with Blood Angel craters all over it.


This is, of course, a playtest for the next version of 40K, where you simply toss your models at the board and hope to knock off your opponent's models. While dangerous and ruinously expensive, it is the first edition of the game that is not only fully backwards compatible, but actually advantageous to old school grognards with hefty lead models.

Da Butcha wrote:
Since people swallowed the idea of Deep Striking Land Raiders dropped from overhead...

All Blood Angels units may now deploy via Vertical Insertion. All units gain Deep Strike but every model must take a Dangerous Terrain Test (difficult terrain test for non-walker vehicles). Any model that possesses a Jump Pack or moves as if it possessed a Jump Pack can reroll this test if failed.

If your entire army chooses to deploy via Vertical Insertion, you may use the Blood Drop rule, which allows you to reserve your entire army without forfeiting the game, and Deep Strike them all on your first turn.

Any model which lands on, or scatters over, an enemy model, causes a hit with a strength equal to the model's own Strength score, and an AP equal to the model's armor save. For vehicles, this is treated as a ram against another vehicle, or a tank shock against any infantry model (who cannot choose to move out of the path).


Warhammer Visions will feature an epic battlefield with Blood Angel craters all over it.


This is, of course, a playtest for the next version of 40K, where you simply toss your models at the board and hope to knock off your opponent's models. While dangerous and ruinously expensive, it is the first edition of the game that is not only fully backwards compatible, but actually advantageous to old school grognards with hefty lead models.

They now also come with the ability to deepstrike similar to the alien in the alien movie.( coming out of someone's body covered in blood)

Thatguyhsagun wrote:

Farseer Faenyin wrote:There will be a Blood Angel specific Drop Pod that will start the game 'Immobilized' exactly like a current Drop Pod. However it will be Fast, and you will pay an extra 20 points for this awesome rule!

Think someone beatcha to that one:

koooaei wrote:Blood angels will recieve Baal Drop Pods. Baal Drop Pods gain Fast and cost 15 points more.

Fast Drop Pods will only be available in a special dataslate detachment - The Fast and the Furioso. It will be led by a new special character dreadnought - Paulus Ambulario - a great hero of the chapter who was mortality wounded in a tragic landspeeder accident (he had attempted to overcharge his landspeeder's engine to make it even faster and more furioso). Paulus now leads the chapters' Furiosos in fast and furious drop pod assaults. Paulus is a Furioso with the Fast and Furious Charge special rules.

What, too soon?

At this point I really feel that if GW does not have a unit/formation/rule called Blood Drop then they're missing an opportunity.

The Blood Angel codex will receive a "Grey Knights" style codex. Minimal update, and all members of the Inquisition will be removed.

There will be no new models, but all Blood Angel $33 five figure packs will be repacked into $60 10 man packs. There will be at least a dozen posts by people complaining about the increased price, because people suck at math.

81-Blood Angels no longer use flamers, in fact they never did but no one ever thought to mention that, they use Blooders, which shoot streams of boiling blood.

82 - Blooders are only S3 (Heavy Blooders S4, Hand Blooders S2) but leave their targets covered in blood which is kind of gross (check for pinning). Models with the mark of Khorne and Nurgle are immune to the pinning effect. Nids automatically inflict d6 wounds on themselves as they try to munch the delicious blood. Space Wolves are driven mad by the scent of the blood and roll on a d66 table to determine what happens.

Because random weapons with persnickity rules are FUN!

83 - Blooders, Heavy Blooders and Hand Blooders are available from mail order for $12 for a pack of 3 (AUS$72).

Today I heard that a blood squad with bloods can take the blood cannon which causes d3 bloods to enemy bloods.

Which I thought sounded pretty bloody good.

D

What you said:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Today I heard that a blood squad with bloods can take the blood cannon which causes d3 bloods to enemy bloods.

Which I thought sounded pretty bloody good.

D

What i read:

 evildrcheese wrote:
blood blood blood blood blood blood blood bloods blood blood blood blood blood blood blood d3 bloods blood blood bloods.

blood blood blood blood blood bloody good.

D

This just in!

Codex Blood Angels will be the most detailed codex in GW history with complete individual profiles and portraits of all 1000 Blood Angels!

From Brother Tamancha who forgoes carrying frag grenades to carry 3 additional bolter clips, to Brother Sonaa who carries only 2 clips but brings an extra combat knife, this book has it all!

Whether you want to know about Brother Challna's wounded knee or Brother Jaiye's fear of spiders Codex Blood Angels has you covered!

But that's not all! A massive 18-page fold out chart details how each and every Blood Angel interacts with every other one with rules and random charts for whenever they get withint 12" of each other. Will Brother Kali's ongoing rivalry with Brother Jaice spur them to new heights of greatness? Or will the unresolved tension between Brothers Panch and Char hurt morale?

The same day will also see the release of the Dataslate Engines of Baal which covers each and every vehicles in the BA motorpool from the cracked left fender on the Rhino Sandals of Sanguinius to the overcharged turbo laser on the Thunderhawk Angel's Wings!

Rumor has it another dataslate will cover each weapon in the arsenal so now you can choose which bolter to give which marine! Will Brother Sonaja benefit from the improved accuracy of the bolter "Seraphim's Roar" or will the machine spirit of "Blood Fang" suit him better? You decide!

In honour of the OP, i'm going to go with a classic that i've had saved on my hard drive for many a year now:

Unlike the Blue Space Marines, the Red Space Marines flip ALL THE TIME! When they’re not dressing in gold body suits or exchanging bodily fluids with their brothers they’re just flipping out and running forward screaming. Sometimes some of them do a total flip out and become Super Black Red X Space Marines. Super Black Red X Space Marines have SUPER POWERS! – Sneak Preview of Codex Red Space Marines

The Special Edition Collectors Edition Codex: Blood Angels includes a small glass vial with a pewter emblem glued to it, cast in the shape of the Chapter's symbol. The vial is filled with a red glycerine solution, produced by Alchemy Gothic (producers of fine, kitschy dark fantasy and goffickry since 1977). March into battle with your own vial of gene-seed(TM)!

... the SECE version of Codex: Blood Angels retails for $175US and comes wrapped in a glossy black cover with an embossed cover.