Monday, April 12, 2010

Those bloody Blood Angels

Yes.. I know..blasphemy talking about the space vampires on a site dedicated to the Ultramarines. But with a flashy new codex and unpainted astartes in boxes or partially put together I couldn't resist starting a Blood Angels army.

I mean who can resist deep striking land raiders and heaven forbid when the storm raven is unleashed. While i am not a big assault guy - I think the assault phase in 40k is just way overpowered and the rules have diminished shooting. Can we say overwatch or enfiliading fire? well be that as it may I have decided to try to build a 1850 BA army. I am going to attempt to use regular blood angels as well as a squad or two of Lamenters in creating the army to add some flavor. However as you all know yellow is a pain to get right.

I will be posting some photos of my newly painted red land raider very soon and my thoughts on my army list as well. I want to have a group of gritty urban based Blood Angels that look like they have been in contiuous combat operations for weeks, no shiny new armor for these boys I encvision them to be covered in grime and their armor being scarred and battle worn.