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So, i recently got the Death Company Strike Force box set because, you know, I love Blood Angels and especially these crazy, rage fueled lunatics. I've been wanting to break into the Death Company game for a while and when this came out I felt every excuse I had to not buy DC melt away. That being said, now that I have them I can't for the life of me decided HOW to use them. So after cruising the forums and talking to a few of the long time BA players, I've come up with this list. I went with Ravenwing because I already have a pretty large DA collection and this gives me the excuse I need to finish putting together/painting my bikers.

So, here goes,




LBSF -- 935 points total

Core - DCSF

--Chaplain - 2+ relic armor

-- DC Dread - Blood Talons, Meltagun/flamer, Lucius Pattern Drop Pod

-- 3 x 5 man DC w/jump packs, 1 PF, 1 bolter per squad

--Astorath



RWSF -- 740 points

-- Sammel on Jetbike

-- 4 x 3 man bike squads, 2x gravguns, 1 x combi-grav in each

--Ravenwing Dark shroud





Ravenwing Attack Squadron

-- 2x Attack bikes, both MM

-- Landspeeder, HB and MM

1850 on the nose


Astorath and the DC Chaplain each get their own DC squad to tank for. Sammy gets his own as well. That squad will hopefully get a first turn charge off. I'd have to chain them back to Samm to stay in unit coherency but they'd still move 6", have hit and run, ignore dangerous terrain, and add 3+ to their run/charges plus he will have a nice jink save to help tank with. The Ravenwing will run around to grab objectives and shoot stuff the DC won't be great at handling. The RWAS can start on the board or outflank to deal with IK and what not. The Darkshroud is just to make the RW more durable obviously and give the DC time to close. The DC Dread is to help take a little heat off the guys shooting across the board and maybe even survive long enough to charge.

Well, that's it. I'm not sure how well this will work but with all the scout moves and the free DC move I will be able to cross the board extremely fast with the RW offering fire support for the DC. Plus with grav and melta all over the place it will take some of the heat of the DC until they do close. It feels wrong to not have any Black Knights in a RWSF but I wan't the grav and astorath haha. Anyways, I'd love to see what your opinions are on this.

Thanks!

My dream LBSF list includes an IK and a ravenwing support squadron to protect said IK from deep strikers. That's the DA/BA list I would build.

Hmmmm....i have that right now. I have to build the DC but that could be interesting. A Darkshroud with 3 speeders HB/AC camping around a IK?

 ILegion wrote:
Hmmmm....i have that right now. I have to build the DC but that could be interesting. A Darkshroud with 3 speeders HB/AC camping around a IK?

I was gonna use typhoon speeders for Tau suits and general light anti-tank duty. I was gonna be greedy and use the plasma speeder as well.

Haha i'm wary of the Vengeance because of the bad luck I seem to have when rolling for gets hot. I only get over it with Black Knights thanks to twin-linked. That would be nice for tau suits though. I have them magnetized. I'm gonna play around with this and see what kind of list I can come up with to play test.

Well I'm trying to cause as much damage on interceptor as possible. The shroud doesn't help me do that.

You wouldn't be worried about them getting picked off to quickly?

I'll jink them and intercept at full bs. Plus that means they aren't shooting scouts or dc or dc dread or IK.

I thought if you jink you didn't get to shoot at full bs?

On YOUR turn. Which is the "following" turn. DA lose their fancy overwatch but guess what? Vehicles can't overwatch anyway!

Haha holy crap never caught that. Also, the RWSS can overwatch. But still, that full BS intercept, can't shoot in the shooting phase, then at least Overwatch if they are charged. Eh, I like it.

When are playing BA, you read EVERYTHING very carefully. I totally forgot that RWSS could overwatch.