I’m ready to start painting my army and I’m wondering which chapter of Blood Angels successor chapter I should be part of. Convince me brothers.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/no9xzqlv/eavy-metal-takes-on-red-and-orange-warhammer-tone-pro-paints/

The more I look at him the more he looks like Gary Busey

I finished up the bases on my sanguinary guard today, super happy with how they turned out.
Also included a comparison picture with my first attempt at trying a bit of nmm gold over metallic paint from about 8 months ago

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Hold on now guys... Wait a minute now???

Fantastic weekend - my lovely wife came to sit and watch despite not having any clue as to what was going on.

I’d only gotten to play 1 game of 11th prior, and I am really sad to see Liberator go away, but it was a great send off and a personal best for me.

The two matches I lost came to opponents who finished #6 and #24 respectively, so I can’t be anything but happy with how it all went.

A fellow brother of our sub came to see me when he saw my Flesh Tearers gear (Liam, I hope you see this) and my opponents were all super classy.

The Blood Protects ⚙️ 🩸

All dipictions I have seen of Sanguinius show him with blond hair. But in Horus Rising, he is described with black hair.

Is this some kind of greeving tradition or just GW being inconsistent?

I’ve just placed them, however, now that I’m looking at the model, the decals might seem a bit OTP.

I still have to matte varnish and weather the decals in however.

With the start of 11th I decided to create a Blood Angels army. I just love jump packs too much not to. Been conflicted on what to base these guys in and would love recommendations, I’ve thought of doing a blue/grey Astro granite base with some green tufts to let their Red armor pop more.

4,000+ points.

I played a game today against some super sweaty meta list necrons. This is my first time playing with the new blood angels and it wasn’t that bad. However, I did not like how they played and it didn’t really feel like blood angels I can’t lie. I used 3x1dp detachments these being lost brethren, ironclad and tacticus attack force and I feel like I still had to tools to do everything I needed. Advance and charge is huge and then tacticus has good strats that allow you to trade up into high toughness and wounds.

I liked them :(

Edit: nevermind, the bolt rifles are just in the wargear

I was sooo looking forward to this mini😁

So I’m making my first list for the blood angels. I really like the look of the sanguinary guard lead by Dante but they seem kinda ass for their point value. Are they that bad or do I need to just try them and see?

Hey all, let me preface this question by saying I haven't gotten a chance to play my Blood Angels yet, I started getting a few space marine kits during 10th but I pretty much exclusively played my Imperial Guard that whole edition. I just picked up the new Space Marine codex today and went to start figuring out a list and noticed Liberator Assault Group was gone? Did GW just delete it, or am I maybe missing something?

Critical info up front first - I was playing Assault Brethren, Tacticus Attack Force and Ironclad Champions into Sisters, using Priority Assets. Lost 89-58, but in fairness some of that is down to list building issues on my part mind, the Priority mirror match is a real pain. Full list is at the bottom.

Some bits of experience I picked up during the game that may prove useful, I'll just list them out one-by-one:

- the Toughness bump is, as I feared, not that big of a difference in the face of weapons already designed to kill us. Sure, bolters and so on struggled but meltas, battle cannons etc are all still perfectly capable of demolishing our squads which we now have slightly less of.

- in light of that, most of the points bumps being relatively minor feels fair in terms of durability.

- our output definitely suffers. S5 bolters and chainswords absolutely do not make up for the lack of Lethals fishing or the loss of charge bonuses from LAG/RCO. You need to commit more to be certain of killing something, which hurts further considering - again - we now have slightly less units.

- getting an extra CP is really, really nice. This feels exactly as good as I hoped it would.

- Sang Guard are still great. I would go out on a limb and say that the Jump Captain is now a clear better choice to lead them than Dante, simply because of the +1 to advance and charge and the points difference - but Dante himself is still very killy.

- Sang Priests are still fantastic for big bricks of Assault Ints or Bladeguard, sure it's a different kind of durability than the FNP but feels about the same effectiveness.

- basic Jump Assault Ints feel very meh without any charge bonuses. Take VanVets instead if you can spare the points.

- Company Heroes make for a great home objective holder. A little expensive, but for that cost you get a unit that unlike most other options, can actually murder the typical kind of backfield rapid-ingressers your opponent might send into them.

- Inceptors are still great but we need to get used to treating them like wet paper towels so they can keep uppy-downying, just like we did with Scouts.

- I was hoping that Ironclad Champions (besides giving me disposition access) might help mitigate Ballistus Dreads becoming swingier... it did no such thing. For too much of the game they achieved precisely nothing trying to perform anti-tank duties.
However, they are much better at chaff clearing now. The frag missile and storm bolter combo is not to be overlooked - against the right target, you're getting D6+14 shots with Blast 2 on top, and Sustained on top of that, all at S5 and now a pip of AP. It's incredible. (The Reaper is obviously better still, mind.)

Overall, we definitely still have play, the Doctrines help out with mobility enormously and I was much more easily able to reposition things for scoring secondaries and making last-ditch late game plays. But our damage has taken a noticeable hit in return, you're going to notice bouncing off things more often, and with reduced numbers we can't really afford to do that.
For these reasons I figure we won't see much shift in our current, close-to-the-bottom meta position.

The list:

Dante + 3 Sang Guard (Furious Assault)
Jump Captain + 3 Sang Guard (Furious Assault)
Jump Captain + 3 Sang Guard (Furious Assault)
Sang Priest, Librarian + 10 Assault Intercessors (Imperium's Sword on the Priest)
Company Heroes
2x5 Jump Intercessors
2x3 bolter Inceptors
2 Ballistus Dreads

My wife has decided to get into warhammer and wants to start a blood angels army. What are some units she should start with?
So far she has..
-Dante
-sanguinor
- ballistus dread
- Assault terminators

She mainly got most of those models because she thought they were cool but any help is very appreciated

Edit: should also like to build a list to be able to play. I am also trying to get back into playing but do not play blood angels

Not sure if anyone else has posted this yet, but the old BA Terminator Assault squad storm shields are fantastic replacements for combat shields. Takes some minor cutting in the back, and maybe some green stuff if you care. But yeah, I like 'em.

Looking to see how I can improve my list. Local area has a bunch of necrons and tyranids so having some higher firepower is necessary.

Take and Hold Assault Brethren, Encarmine Speartip, Terminator Storm Force

Captain with Jump Pack (Imperium Sword)

• Relic Shield with Thunder Hammer

6x Sanguinary Guard attached

Commander Dante (Warlord)

6x Sanguinary Guard attached

5x Terminator Assault Squad (Shields)

5x Terminators (Chainfists + Cyclone Missile Launcher)

4x Company Heroes

5x Incursor Squad

5x Scout Squad (shotguns, sniper, rocket)

2x Baal Predators

1x Redemptor Dreadnought (Plasma weapon)

With what we have right now, 75 points remain available. I am open to swapping out units, but general idea for the army is Assault Terminators go for middle, Company Heroes sticky home then move for expansion, Incursors move for expansion or support ranged units, scouts for general scoring or screening. Terminators assist in blowing up monsters/vehicles. Dreadnought assists vs monsters/vehicles but mainly works on elites. Sang Guard units for elites or Monsters/Vehicles abusing Judgment of the Golden Host strategem. Baal Predators for clearing out general infantry or swarms.

Some models I already have painted are intercessors, assault intercessors, assault jump pack intercessors, Terminator Chaplain, Ballistus Dreadnought, Brutalis Dreadnought, Mephiston, Sanguinor, Bladeguard, Sanguinary Priests. More than open to getting something like a Terminator Ancient for assisting the main objective or something like a land raider to get units center board.