Librarian Ezio

If the rumours are true librarians in the new codex might just become a viable HQ option. I still like to use one now as I quite like them but I now almost every other blood angels player prefers chaplain, corbulo and/or danta. I'm hoping they make a come back as I love the idea of marines running around making people's heads melt and shooting fire from their hands.

I'll be righting fluff for my librarian soon and will add on to it after every game as I want him to be a key character in my army.

Hope you like the picture and should have more stuff done soon!

Nids!!! Fighting fire with fire!

It is time for another FtW collaborative post and the topic... Bugs!!!

I've only played a quick 2 turn game(I only had 30 minutes)against them and they are quite nasty. The tunneling S6 AP2 blast template made short work of my death company and the sheer volume of smaller bugs is staggering. But in that short game I've come up with some ideas. The scariest threat was the big Nids so I say fight fire with fire in two death company furioso dreads in drop pods. My new list looks like this:

Lemartes
Librarian w/plasma pistol

Tactical squad (10)w/powerfist/meltagun/missile launcher/rhino
Tactical squad (10)w/powerfist/flamer/missile launcher/rhino

Furioso dreadnought w/death company/venerable/heavy flamer/drop pod
Furioso dreadnought w/death company/venerable/heavy flamer/drop pod
Death company (3)w/jump packs

Baal predator w/heavy bolter
Baal predator w/heavy bolter

The mind set behind this is that the librarian forms a gun line with the tactical squads using his hood to try and stop the Nid psychic powers from reducing my Baals to wreckage. He also is quite affective at counter attacking, in the small game he almost single handedly (a couple of assault marines may have helped) reduce 18 gargoles to 1 in a turns combat! The baals are just a great laugh spraying mass amounts of shots into the horde but might need to start considering vindicators. Now the dreads will be something new and I'm hoping they with start beating down the bigger Nids to allow other units to concentrate fire into the hordes.

Hopefully I'll have a battle report to post on Saturday when I get to play this list.

I'm getting somewhere.

With the new codex around the corner I need to get in gear and paint. Here is my week efforts:



The shadow grey highlights are no way near as bright as that on the actual figs.

Now for tactical squad number 2!

I have a Follower!

I've actually managed to get a follower, now I really have to keep the blog up to date. Thank you Sidestreaker, hope you enjoy following the Blood Angels 4th Company.

I love ebay sometimes

I managed to get this old furioso dread on ebay resently for a very good price, I think this will be the last full metal one I'll get (I've got one already) as the Ironclad kit is soo easy to convert and I prefer plastics. I'm going to have to do lots of green stuff filling later as all around the the main body are great big holes!

Cheers

More to come!

Time to expand the collection!

I really want to expand my army to apocolypes scale so I've been slowly been building more stuff. Here are just a few WIP HQ models that I liked. To start this is my Captain of the 4th who was converted from a dark angels captain.



I love librarians as characters but the rules and the way the pdf.codex is written it is very hard to fit one into a standard game. I'm going to do a bit more blend with the highlights on the Librarian as I think it looks to harsh.


The chaplains still need their highlights done but I'm just deciding which grey to use.




This is my veteran sergeant for the honour guard to go with the captain, the rest of the honour guard will follow shortly.


I've also built a tactical squad and rhino and will have more death company painted shortly.

Cheers

Callum

Must have unit?

This is my collaborative post for FTW on my must have unit/s in my army. I say units because for my Blood Angels army I always have two Baal predators. This is because of the sheer scare factor of two twin-linked assault cannons. Combining this with a 50% chance of getting over-charged engines means Baal preds can take the role of a moving pill box with mass horde killing potentual. They also serves a duel role of being able to knock out light armour when needed and with front armour 13 can soak up a lot fire freeing my other units.