I picked up the blood angels codex and it's pretty badass. It's got almost every option the vanilla marines have plus a whole lot of neat things that nobody else has, so why would people play vanilla marines? Blood angels have death company guys, a better (IMO) set of psychic powers, cooler chaplains, and all their rhino chassis tanks (rhino, whirlwind, predator, razorback) are Fast and only 15 points more expensive. Aside from that difference, they seem to have every single vanilla marine unit except for the thunderfire and master of the forge (blood angels don't get along well with adeptus mechanicus somehow despite their awesome hardware). The thing is that on top of all the old reliable choices they have awesomer versions of all of them, like the coolest jump troops, the badassest dreadnoughts, death company guys, baal predators..
Baal Predator has twin linked assault cannons or a S6 flamer turret and is 115 points without optional side sponsons. it's Fast, and it can make a Scout move meaning it gets a free 18" to start or it can outflank, and it's Fast Attack so heavy support is free for my new favorite 40k vehicle, the Storm Raven, for which there is no model yet
I'm definitely interested in playing blood angels as my grey knights host army and making my Blood Knights better
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