The most Elite Blood Angels List I could think of: 2000/2500 pt BA "Storm Guard"

Dante Rocks the Stormraven!

So I was sitting around yesterday and just decided to make a list utilizing 3 Stormraven Gunships. With their 6 person capacity though, I thought that the best use of them was the Sanguinary Guard w/ attending priest. But I needed scoring units. Commander Dante fits in here. BUT I didn't want to completely waste Dante's Tactical presision rule, so I kinda took another idea from BoLS and added an Honour Guard to go with him.

Here is the list

BLOOD ANGELS "STORM GUARD" LIST

HQ- Commander Dante- 225
HQ- Honour Guard- Jump Packs; Blood Champion; Power Fist, Infernus Pistol; Power Weapon, Infernus Pistol; Melta-gun; Chapter Banner- 295
Elites- Sanguinary Priests (3)- Jump Pack x 3, Hand Flamer x 1- 235
Troops- Sanguinary Guard- Power Fist, Infernus Pistol- 220
Troops- Sanguinary Guard- Power Fist, Infernus Pistol- 220
Troops- Sanguinary Guard- Power Fist, Infernus Pistol- 220
Heavy Support- Stormraven Gunship- Multi-melta, extra armour, Assault Cannon- 215
Heavy Support- Stormraven Gunship- Multi-melta, extra armour, Assault Cannon- 215
Heavy Support- Stormraven Gunship- Multi-melta, extra armour, Plamsa Cannon- 215

Pts: 2000 Scoring Units: 3 KPs: 11

24 models, 3 Vehicles

The idea is to load a Priest and Sanguinary Guard unit into each Stormraven and have Dante go with his Honour Guard. Ideally the Stormravens come in turn 2 and Dante turn 3, but if you can hide Dante well enough turn 2 that is fine as well. You want to try and keep everything close together to get the advantages from the chapter banner, and utilize the assault vehicle rule of the Stormraven as well. This is kinda a homage to the Dante Ball of Death army from the last codex. Keep it packed tight and hit hard.

If you keep it tight enough, you may get overlapping Priest effects, as there is one in each squad including the novitiate. This is key if you lose one. What is really nice is 16 models in the army have 2+/4+ saves with FNP and the remaining 8 have a 3+/4+. That is really good. And they all are Furious Charging. And you have alot of Master Crafted power weapons. Sanguinary Guard further help make up for a lack of numbers slightly with angelus boltguns, as they are assault 2 weapons and +1 AP over a bolt pistol.

Well, when I was done making that list I thought "What would I do with another 500 pts and still keep the list really elite." I couldn't fit another Stormraven, and I didn't want to just Deep Strike a squad normally seeing as I already had 3 storm ravens (Dante doesn't count as normal DS because he doesn't scatter).

Well here is the answer

1- Lose the Hand Flamer on the Sanguinary Priest
2- Add the Sanguinor- 275
3- Add a Furioso Librarian- 175 (Wings of Sanguinus and Might of Heroes. Make sure to take wings, but you can switch Might if you want. I thought Blood Lance was a little useless given the amount of melta above)
4- 60 more points.... Hmm. Landspeeder Tornado- 2 x Heavy Flamer- 60

Pts: 2500 Scoring Units: 3 KPs: 14

The only thing kinda out of place is the Landspeeder, but it actually really helps for against horde type armies. It is really easy to be outnumbered with this list, so if that can Deep Strike in and flame a brood of guants or mob of boyz off the table before being destroyed, then you can concentrate your force on other things.

Sanguinor allows 2 things. Either a more concentrated Ball of Death with another +1 attack on top of the Honour Guard chapter banner OR allows you to spread out a little and have 2 spheres of +1 attack.

The Furioso Librarian is able to come in on a Stormraven and then is a pretty formidable unit himself. Use him to force your opponent off objectives you don't have the numbers to hold.

So there you go. If you try it tell me how it works. I am not doing Stormraven until there is a model, so I really don't know.

OH and I thought this actually may be a good method to go about proxying a Grey Knights army. Low numbers of super elite guys.