The Blood Angels Codex has become a snowball effect of rumours. If you were to believe the forums, there is nothing that can stop them and they will be the most broken codex ever ... good thing DFG cares not for the rumourhammer of the forums. Aside from the rumours in the forum, there are the rumours we have heard from BoLS which if we take the Guard, Wolf and Nids dexes into account, we can believe about 85% of what we hear, which is good as far as rumours go.
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here is the rumoured table of contents for the emo (I mean) Blood Angels:
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27 combat squads, red fury, furious charge, they shall know no fear
28 Commander
29 Sanguinary Priest
30 Chaplain
31 Librarian
32 Tactical Squad
33 Assault Squad
34 Devastator Squad
35 Death Company
36 Terminator Squad
37 Honour Guard
38 Dreadnought
39 Furioso Dreadnought
40 Scouts
41 Initiate Scouts
42 Bikes
43 Scoutbikes
44 Land Speeder
45 Exalted
46 Techmarine/Razorback
47 Rhino
48 Drop Pod
49 Tantalus
50 Predator
51 Baal Predator
52 Whirlwind/Vindicator
53 Land Raider
54 Commander Cervan Dante, Chaptermaster of the Blood Angels
55 Mikhael Faustus, Sanguinor of the Blood Angels, Exemplar of the Host
56-57 Mephiston, Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels, Lord of Death
58 Erasmus Tycho, Captain of the 3. Company of the Blood Angels
59 Reo Lemartes, Chaplain of the Blood Angels, Guardian of the Lost
60 Victor Nergal, Master of the Forge of the Blood Angels
61 Moriar the Chosen, Death Company Dreadnought of the Blood Angels
62 Hieri Lorenzo, Sergeant of the First Company of the Blood Angels
63 Absolutus, Dreadnought of the Flesh Tearers, Furioso Supremo
64 Gabriel Seth, Chaptermaster of the Flesh Tearers
65 Toledo Astorath, Chaptermaster of the Angels Sanguine
66-72 wargear
73 psychic powers
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Force Organization Chart
Blood Angel FOC is divergant from the Ultramarine one:
-Dreadnoughts are heavy support.
-Furioso Dreads with droppods are fast attack.
-Twin scout entries are both elites, but one is scoring.
-Only dedicated ground transport is the Rhino (Razorbacks are out)
-Assault Squad and Tactical Squad are troops.
-Honour Guard can be troops if fielded with Dante.
-Jump pack units are in every FOC category except heavy support and HQ:
--Assault Squad - troops
--Honour Guard - elites
--Exalted - fast attack
Death Company is 0-1 and doesn't need a slot in the FOC
Units Rules
Tantalus Lander is a dedicated transport for everything in the army except tanks, Land Speeders and Exalted. Its weaponry is: 2 twin-linked assault cannons, 1 twin-linked special weapon.
Land Raider: Redeemer, Crusader and Standard
Terminator sergeants can get close combat wargear. There is a Terminator upgrade to allow shooting in an enemy phase.
Exalted: 4/4/4(5)/4/1/5/1+1/10/3+, jump troops, hit & run, furious charge, no red fury/combat tactics, power armor, stormbolter, power weapon, bolt pistol, no options, no transports.
Quite angelic: masterfully crafted slim armor, jump packs, mechanical wings, masks, long hair.
Named Characters
Erasmus: Furious charge, digital weapons (rending), master crafted combi melta: 18" S:8 AP:1 Assault 1, melta, reroll to hit, 4+ ward save, can chose one set of special rules:
-squad ignores red fury
-red fury and preferred enemy
-rage and feel no pain
Mephiston: 7/7/5/5/3/7/4/10/2+, FnP, Fearless, Eternal Warrior, Fleet, 2 psychic powers per turn.
More potent versions of Might of heroes, Transfixing Gaze and Blood Stasis powers:
The gun of Victor's servitor is 36" S:6 AP:6 Assault6
Psychic Powers
Quickening: Infantry moves as beasts, jump troops and walkers gain fleet.
Blood Stasis: 5" vortex of blood in base contact. Enemy models count as being in difficult terrain, and suffer one wound if they try to move and any of the distance dice shows a 1, Mephiston: can cast it in close combat centered on himself, and enemies attacking with a 1 suffer a wound.
Might of Heroes: one model in squad gets +D3 attacks, Mephiston: can cast it on himself.
Primarchs Grace: Squad may reroll dangerous terrain tests.
Transfixing Gaze: Target model must take a leadership roll off or not able to attack librarian, Mephiston: not able to attack any model.
Living Darkness: A template which blocks line of sight.
Fluff
Background: mainly Blood Angels and 4 successor chapters with one page each:
-Blood Consuls
-Angels Sanguine
-Flesh Tearers
-Angels Vermillion
This is a compilation of what I can find from the Hogs of War and BoLS. What it means can only really be left to the folks who roll the bones and divine the fates, but as I said earlier, if this is a whif of things to come, then the Angels look to be the first SM GT contenders in a long time. I don't day this because of the rumoured abilities of the units above, but because of their FOC. Being able to put Furiosos in DPs and make them FAs gives you the freedom to free up your elites, whicj may be really good for this dex. Also, from the ToC, it appears the Lander is a HS slot and may be able to carry Jump infantry and have the teeth to support itself ... add that to the troops that will undoubtedly be carried in it and basic Libbies that can grant 12" assault and you have the makings of an in your face army capable of taking it to the enemy DZ and tabling their troops ... let's not get too exited until they come out, but I know Captain Obvious is chopping at the bit to get into an aggro Marine Army! What are your thoughts?
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