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The only opposition I've had for my 30k Blood Angels is a friend's Word Bearers.

Been trying to find instances in the fluff where they fought. I know they were both at the Battle of Terra and there's a short bit in Book 6 that mentions the Gilden System but not much in the way of details.

Anything else I should check out?

iirc, there was a contingent of Word Bearers at Signus Prime.

Fragments of the Word Bearers were also still terrorising the Ultramar 500 worlds during the time of Imperium Secondus when Sanguinius and the BAs were on Magragge. There were several punitive strikes from the Ultras, Dark Angels and Blood Angels to push the Word Bearers out of the segmentum for good.

A bit more detail on Gilden's Star, from Space Marine 1st edition:
"The Imperial advance across the Elsinore Waste to attack the city of Rosencrantz during the Scouring of Gilden's Star was punctuated with almost continual skirmishes between Imperial and Rebel armoured patrols. On the outskirts of the Rosencrantz, a Land Raider patrol of No. 1 Company Blood Angels Chapter*, encountered an identical patrol from the Word Bearer Traitor Marines. Surprise was mutual on both sides, and there wa no advantage of terrain; the battle was completely even. What followed has long been considered one of the classic Land Raider vs Land Raider confrontations."

* before the legion > chapter change, back then the fluff was huge pre-heresy chapters > small post-heresy chapters

 Gashrog wrote:
A bit more detail on Gilden's Star, from Space Marine 1st edition:
"The Imperial advance across the Elsinore Waste to attack the city of Rosencrantz during the Scouring of Gilden's Star was punctuated with almost continual skirmishes between Imperial and Rebel armoured patrols. On the outskirts of the Rosencrantz, a Land Raider patrol of No. 1 Company Blood Angels Chapter*, encountered an identical patrol from the Word Bearer Traitor Marines. Surprise was mutual on both sides, and there wa no advantage of terrain; the battle was completely even. What followed has long been considered one of the classic Land Raider vs Land Raider confrontations."

* before the legion > chapter change, back then the fluff was huge pre-heresy chapters > small post-heresy chapters

Please tell me this isn't the actual names of the battle...