Here is my current Blood Angels deathstar I have been messing around with lately:
Lemartes
5x Death Company/jump packs, 4x power weapon, power fist & infernus pistol
Death Company dreadnaught/heavy flamer
Stormraven/extra armor, twin linked lascannon, twin linked multi-melta
Remember that if the gunship moves 12" or less then the DC dreadnaught can disembark for 2", fleet up to 6" & then assault another 6" - that's a grant total of 26"!
This bundled unit has come about based upon playtesting & talking to others. I fondly refer to it as the BBF pattern DC unit. It can drop just about any unit including a large squad of Thunderwolves lead by a Wolf Lord with Saga of hte Bear. That's really saying something too. I am not an advocate of Blood Talons because the good old DCCW can instagib TWC & you have a huge advantage versus other walkers.
The beauty of the Stormraven is you can deliver this unit right where you want it.
My second unit is Astrorath leading a squad of Sanguinary Guard (chapter banner, 2x infernus pistol & power fist) with a Librarian Furioso. The mechanized psyker has Blood Lance & Wings of Sanguinius. The SG unfortunately don't benefit from FNP but they can also cut through just about anything. The BBF patterned DC are the heavy hitters though for sure.
I encourage others to try out these units. They are tons of fun!
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5 comments:
Those things, though, are pretty much a 2k list alone.
Don't you suffer from fragility only deploying 2 things?
If you add up everything including the second bundled unit with Astorath the total is around 1600 points so at 2000 points you still have enough points left over for a sanguinary priest leading a five man assault squad in another Stormraven with a regular dreadnaught. Three stormravens is not bad.
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Hmm, indeed. Interesting. I'd certainly like to test it myself, but I'm not paying the cost of a day's work to convert up up a single Stormraven.
I guess I am lucky to have friends that will let me use proxies to playtest new units. I believe you play eldar so I think you could appreciate what a stormraven brings to the table. In my opinion it's better than a landraider except for the fact that armor 14 is so resilient. The stormraven does reduce a meltagun to 1d6 penetration though. Blood Angels used to be one of the fastest armies in the game (except for dark eldar) and speed is a powerful weapon. You can play Blood Angels again as a very fast army, which is according to their original background. Remember that Gav Thorpe wrote their 3ed codex... It all starts to make a lot of sense... Well to me anyways.
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