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Thought I'd dust off my old Blood Angels, see if they can be at all competitive in 8th. I've thrown together a quick 2000pt list that I hope will garner some interest.

HQ
Astorath - 143pts

Terminator Librarian - 174pts
- Combi Plasma
- Force Stave

Sanguinary Priest - 69pts

Elites
5x Terminators - 256pts
- 3x Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield
- 2x Lighting Claws
- Teleport Homer

5x Sanguinary Guard - 230pts
- 1x Power Fist
- 1x Plasma Pistol

5x Death Company - 128pts
- Jump Packs
- 1x Power Fist
- 2x Power Swords

Troops
5x Scouts - 90pts
- 5x Sniper Rifles
- Camo-cloaks

5x Scouts - 55pts
- 2x Shotguns
- Camo-cloaks

10x Tactical Marines - 172pts
- Meltagun
- Rocket Launcher

10x Tactical Marines - 158pts
- Plasma Gun
- Combi Plasma

Heavy Support
Land Raider - 358pts
- Storm Bolter

Devastator Squad - 165pts
- 4x Rocket Launchers.




It's based mainly on the models I have available, although I have a huge pile of heavy and special weapons so the squads' loadouts could be changed fairly easily.


Any thoughts?

No one has any thoughts?

Launchers are pretty good. I've been using 2 launchers and 2 plasma cannons in my dev squad. id run 4 las cannons for the shots tho if i was plaining on seeing alot of heavy suport since Las cannons are top of the list for heavy weapon take down. List looks pretty decent. Are you running 2 ccw on the death company with the power swords and fist (ie a chainsword with the power weaps)? Ive been and the extra chainword attack adds up since ive been useing them with lemartez along with his failed charge rerolls with the DC and the failed to hit rolls. I'd change the lib termie for a chaplain termie for the rerolls for the assult termies in close combat but thats me.

This list has very serious mobility issues. The tacticals are going nowhere without some sort of transport but I dont see any other than the landraider here. Are you expecting to have all the objectives magically land on your side of the board?

Dump the crappy immobile tacticals and get some razorback spam or a stormraven in there to add some movement to this list.

Libby in terminator armor, not going to make his points back, way overcosted.

I am gonna guess you will lack in mobility for a lot of your forces, which will mean they will be out of position half the game, and without transports or many heavy units with high toughness or invuln saves, its not gonna be as durable as it otherwise could be. I think the previous commenter about including razorbacks is right on. Hard to pass up razorbacks. they can absorb some firepower and dish out firepower, and move your tactical units into position quickly.

Lermartes is almost a must include if you wanna DS and charge D.Co. The re-roll failed charges is too good to pass up.

Problem I see with Astorath is that unless you're running multiple D.Co by the time you get the hymn off (which is his fancy gimmick, and mostly why you taking him I assume) they're almost too dead to make the most of it....

Also I'm a huge fan of assault marines.... Take 2 squads take them to 10 guys and drop a priest to heal dead dude and give +1str...

I think devastators are a massive liability in 8th, just like 7th.