Blood Angels Dex in April

[WestRider]

From the GW Email Newsletter:

This April the Blood Angels will be re-launched with an all-new Codex and range of plastic and metal miniatures. One of the oldest and noblest of all Space Marine Chapters, the Blood Angels have stood fast against the enemies of the Imperium since the Great Crusade and it was their Primarch Sanguinius, who laid down his life to aid the Emperor against Horus in the final hours of the Warmaster’s rebellion. The new Codex explores the background and history of these superhuman warriors like never before, and contains new artwork depicting some of their greatest battles and most powerful champions.

The Blood Angels have always been a powerful close combat army and have been made even deadlier thanks to a range of specialist wargear, the ability to field Assault Squads as Troops choices, and more Dreadnoughts than any other Space Marine Chapter, including a Death Company Dreadnought and the fabled Furioso Dreadnought. The Sons of Sanguinius will be deep striking onto a tabletop near you this April – now’s the time to practice painting red.

[Hyper Kinetic]

Blood for the Blood God!
er... Wrong Blood Angels

*obligatory DE/Necron codex whining*
*obligatory rebuttal about GW making what will sell well*
*obligatory further rebuttal about BAngels not having a proper codex*
*obligatory further whining about Mahreenz and the Emprah*
*obligatory further rebuttal about Space Hulk*
...
I think that's all out of my system now.

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I am liking the look of that: Assault Squads as Troops choices really fits the army.
Should be interesting to see how they work on the Black Rage.

EDIT
I wonder if they will include some of the other chapters that are based on the Blood Angels, such as the Blood Ravens... That would be interesting and increase the variants and ideas for special characters.

[genesis]

Any news on necrons? I'd like to see the new models..

[ZergLord]

The Blood Angels have always been a powerful close combat army

In their heads, maybe?

[salamut2202]

space marines get another upgrade? good they deserve it. i mean they are so out of date and neglected by gw it's a wonder that anyone plays the. if armies like dark eldar weren't their poster boys than they'd get a fair shot. i mean remember the legion of the damned? that is almost 2 weeks from their last update. very sloppy. they should upgrade these guys much more frequently and dark eldar should be waiting a decade for their updates. and space marines get the short end of the stick too. i mean 24" range ap5 strength 4? what is this!!?? the space marines deserve a bit more than even the popular guys like dark eldar, necrons and tau. every one hates those races becuae they are soooooo broke in comparison.

you may now slap me

[Peepleafity]

*SLAP*
And I agree with you guys.
Send an email to the GW higher ups about that.
It is getting crazy.
SWs, LofTD, BA, (any others I'm missing?) and no DE or Crons!
I mean I may not get DE or Crons if they come out, but I would like choice and SM to wait a year or 2 before they reupdate them...

[salamut2202]

well darkangels with it's 1st and 2nd companies - death and raven wing - cud be getting boost.
EDIT
because of these special companies my friend's dark angels army looks so stupid. it's

-librarian (blue armor)
-terminators (white armor)
-dreadnought (white armor)
-land raider (terminator's transport and there fore white armor)
-4 tactical squads in rhinos (green armor)
-squad of bikes (black armor)
-attack trike (black armor)
-couple of land speeders (black armor)

if you didn't catch that the hq is blue, elites are white, troops are green and fast attack is black. this combined with red weapons-
how is it suppose to look like a uniform army. they are second only to the eldar!

[Hyper Kinetic]

Jan 10, 2010 9:53:00 GMT ZergLord said:

The Blood Angels have always been a powerful close combat army

In their heads, maybe?

To be fair... the Death Company puts Stealers to shame.
And at least their fluff says that they are a powerful CC army

[ErA | zoe)ender]

Wolves vs Angels.

Wolves are barbaric, but they don't go rushing into combat and killing mindlessly. They use cunning and acute senses to take the enemy down. Blood Angels just mindlessly rush into combat... they are the true barbarians.

Sorry I just like backing up that Wolves are better

[mictlan]

Wolves are better because they aren't the true Barbarians?
I'm confused...

[Swarm God]

Jan 10, 2010 7:32:48 GMT Hyper Kinetic said:

Blood for the Blood God!
er... Wrong Blood Angels

*obligatory DE/Necron codex whining*
*obligatory rebuttal about GW making what will sell well*
*obligatory further rebuttal about BAngels not having a proper codex*
*obligatory further whining about Mahreenz and the Emprah*
*obligatory further rebuttal about Space Hulk*
...
I think that's all out of my system now.

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I am liking the look of that: Assault Squads as Troops choices really fits the army.
Should be interesting to see how they work on the Black Rage.

EDIT
I wonder if they will include some of the other chapters that are based on the Blood Angels, such as the Blood Ravens... That would be interesting and increase the variants and ideas for special characters.

Swarms for the Swarm God!

Another Marine dex? Come on now... The rumor is that the Dark Eldar codex is done but they wont have a market for it. So they make MORE space marines. BOOOOO

[ErA | zoe)ender]

Jan 10, 2010 18:36:43 GMT mictlan said:

Wolves are better because they aren't the true Barbarians?
I'm confused...

No; they're better because they're 'freakin METAL VIKINGS IN SPACE!!! \m/

Blood Angels are Vampires in Space.

I for see girls painting sparkling flesh.... >_<

[ZergLord]

It is getting crazy.
SWs, LofTD, BA, (any others I'm missing?) and no DE or Crons!
I mean I may not get DE or Crons if they come out, but I would like choice and SM to wait a year or 2 before they reupdate them...

Actually, BA are one of the armies that really need a new codex. Their current codex (PDF lol) is a joke: they don't have any fancy new toys that vanilla SMs have, their "special" troops are consisting of jump pack Marines who are overcosted (do I need to emphasize how much bad that is?), and worst of all they lack flavour. Everyone calls them Space Vampires, and all I see is a jump pack SM army with some rare units and/or a sp. character painted in red.

Although, I think that new Necrons and Dark Eldar would sell more. I have seen only three, maybe 4 Blood Angel armies in my lifetime.

[Psychichobo]

^Ditto. That dex is pretty dull. When you need a special character in order to get a bleeding Apothecary you know there's something very wrong.
To be fair, we all knew this dex was coming, it's been in the rumour mill for some time now. It's the dex after this that I'm more intrigued about - it'll determine my faith in GW somewhat.

[WestRider]

My feeling has been that the BAs are coming out just to plug a hole in the Release Schedule: Most of the other Dexes that people are awaiting need a LOT of work, and are probably running late. I'd bet that the BAs were just an easy List to slap together to fill in that slot while the Dev Team finishes off the big three abandoned Dexes.

Bell of Lost Souls had a list of supposed Models that were lined up for release in 2010 that suggested Necrons and Inquisition would fill out the 40K releases for the year.