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I'm still fairly new to Warhammer 30k. I play regularly with the same group of friends since 1 Year. I play Sons of Horus, while he plays Blood Angels. My question or problem is that I always feel like I'm losing and only win games through lucky dice rolls. I feel like my units are much more expensive than his elite units in terms of points/performance. The only thing that works somewhat well are Terminators or Justaerin. But I can't just send Terminators onto the field, can I? I think that would be a bit boring. For example, a 10-man squad of Dawnbreakers with spears, Rent 5, and AP3 costs 275 points with a 2+ armor save. My alternative Reaver Aggressor Squad with Lightning claws costs 475 points with only a 3+ armor save. And the claws are only rending on a 3+ and AP3. So despite investing 200 more points, I lose the duel. Even a 5-man squad of Justaerin costs 275 points and loses against the 10 x Dawnbreaker with the same points. In addition, the Dawnbreakers have jump packs and can simply choose their fights. Example 2: Angel Tears with assault cannons. 10 men cost 390 points. The only thing I could shoot against them, other than a squad of 7 Justaerin, would be veterans, but they are much more expensive to have the same firepower, and would probably not survive the reaction when they enter close combat. My problem is also that he has Jump Packs on almost all of his units and can therefore choose his fights, while I can't get close to him. Of course, he doesn't run his Angels Tears into my Justaerin, but rather shoots down my Marines/Dispoilers/Reavers. I already load everything into Rhinos or drop them, but that doesn't help because Rhinos are often shot down, for example, by the 40 shots from the assault cannons, or when dropping, the interception reaction kills a large part of my army that is not Justaerin. He also has a squad of Crimson Paladins with Raldoron running around where I need my Abaddon Squad. We play 2.6k points, and usually it goes like this: Raldoron Squad>Abaddon Squad with Justaerin; Angels Tears>everything except Justaerin; Dawnbreaker>everything except Justaerin. Any ideas on what I can do as Sons of Horus against Angels Tears and Dawnbreaker with Jetpacks? Thanks and regards

Hello folks! I've been wanting to start wih something nice and smooth. Something about my hobby way or history but in the end I just couldn't get to it properly. So instead I chose to start with where I am at the moment. I own a considerable force of Blood Angels - my first 40k love. I have around 12.000 pts worth of painted models and a solid chunk of those is my 5th Company, the Daemonbanes. It's almost ready barring a few bodies and I plan to showcase them here slowly while I update their paintjob. Speaking of paintjob, here is my latest achievement: Las-Fusil Eliminators. Totally not 5th Company, but Blood Angels definitely: They are the fruit of my pondering on the topic of camouflage and alternative color schemes for a really colorful chapter that Blood Angels actually are. I wanted to keep the flashiness of Blood Angels armor and color-scheme but adapted to necessities of war and fuction They do have some trinkets and ornaments, they do show glimpses of the vibrant Chapter iconography and their own personal heraldry, they do have quite some amounts of red on them. But I think I managed to thread a fine balance between those and the covert-ops feel of the Phobos armoured marines in general and Eliminators in particular. They utilize a neat trick of camouflage activation/deactivation which allowed me to show that they can be both worlds at the same time. Some battle-damage also helps those to blend. If anyone is interested in the effect by the way, I did a short tutorial here on B&C on how I approached the camouflage activation/deactivation effect: