Blood Angels army

[NExOBLIVISCARIS]

So far I have a couple army lists for my Blood Angels and one problem that keeps poping up is Im afraid I will not have enough men to make a decent army. all of my lists are 1500 points and range from having 25 marines and 2 tanks to 40 marines and 3 tanks. Could somebody help me?

[JamesI]

40 marines and 3 tanks at 1500 is pretty good.

 

My 1850 currently runs 43 marines and 4 tanks. This is an improvment from where it was in the mid 30s for marines and 4-6 tanks.

[NExOBLIVISCARIS]

well the 40 marines and three tanks is 40 tactical marines and 3 stormravens if that counts for anything. and the 31 marines is dante 10 sanguinary guard 20 tactical marines and 2 stormravens

[thor1234]

40 marines and 3 vehicles is pretty good, about what i get at 1500 points-2000 points, though I have won games with as few as 20-25 models + vehicles, I think Space Marines can be used in such as way that they don't need so many bodies......

[Brother-Captain Devlonir]

Still though.. 3 stormravens supported with tacticals? No wonder you feel you have a low model count.

 

Stormravens are not a tactical squad carrying vehicle, use Rhinos for that. We all know the Stormraven is shiney, but to use 3 in a 1500 points army just sounds very.. silly.

And at least make it Assault squads then..

 

Sorry, this sounds a bit ranty.. let me rephrase it:

If you try and make a balanced list and not a Stormraven spam list, you will easilly get a higher model count at 1500 points. Go for troops, DC's, Tacticals, Assault Squads (especially!) and possibly even scouts. You will be a lot more diverse and strong than with a Stormraven spam list.

[NExOBLIVISCARIS]

adressing the problem of tactical squads and stormravens i can easily switch out a couple of tac squads for assault squads. the other list i have is 2 stormravens each one with sanguinary guard in it. one has comander dante atached the other has a sanguinary preist and they are supported by either 2 tac squads or a tac squad and a assault squad.

[Morollan]

I've just put together a 1500 point list for an upcoming battle and I have:

Librarian

Chaplain

Sanguinary Priest

10 Death Company

2 x 10 Assault Marines (Foot)

6 Assault Marine (Jump)

1 DC Dreadnought

2 Rhinos

1 Stormraven

 

So that's just under 40 marines including IC's plus 3 'tanks' and a Dread.

[Aarkon]

My 1850 list changes a lot but at most I have only ever had 40 marines in the list. I am building 4 Assault squads without jump packs to use as the core of most of my lists. The least I have taken in 1850 is 30 marines that list also had 10 tanks though LOL. This is the list I am building towards 30 marines with feel no pain is tough enough without being backed up by a virtual armoured company lol.

[Brother Molon Labe]

For me in an 1850 game about 52 marines do the job nicely... No tanks though just Jump Packs

[NExOBLIVISCARIS]

after hearing about your lists I remember i never really play more then 20-25 marines because i liked the lower model count armies such as Deathwing and Grey Knights.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

My current 2k list has less than 30 models total including a dreadnaught and a Stormraven. I don't think you necessarily have to bring that many Marines to do well if you are comfortable playing with a low model count.

 

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[NExOBLIVISCARIS]

yea im very comfortible with low model count cause i played with my Deathwing army against my friend a while ago (who played IG) in a 1kv1k point game with 13 termies a crusaider and a dread

[Brother Nathan]

after watching a 2k space wolf army with less than 20 models rip right through a 2k ork horde army i know that numbers aint everything. Of course i prefer the best of both worlds approach. my 1k army has only 24 models... but what else do we expect, we aint smurfs!

[Corby]

I roll with 22 marines (including 5 terminators) and 7 tanks and 2 skimmers all @ 1750.

[lorider2]

1 on each objective at game end or one less unit of them killed per game than the opponent. I do not think there is a magic number, as 5 in a landraider can often last longer than 15 footslogging.

[Venerable Jazzman]

I'm running about 33-36 Marines at 1500: depending on enemy it's 1-2 from jumpy HG/Vanguard/DC, 2-3 RAS with meltaguns, 2x Devs, 4-6 Razorbacks, 1 Whirly or Vindi.

[Malus the Destroyer]

At 1500+ I have a minimum of 40 Assault Marines with wargear (980 pts) as the basis of my army and add on to it from there.

[undeadfilth]

lol i took 2nd place in a 1500 pt tourny with a 23 model count:P one of each landraider. one had assualt termies, another had 5 dc with reclusiarch and 2 pw, and the last had 7 assault marines with a priest w/ pw. it rocked face^.^ Oh and I had a dc dread with never ending death claws:P

[Zid]

I run around 30 marines (average) 1500+ points. At 1500 I run:

 

1 librarian w/ JP/rage/shield - 125

10x Assault marines - 1x PF/2x Melta - 235 pts

10x Assault marines - 1x PF/2x Melta - 235 pts

10x Assault marines - 1x PF/2x Flamer - Ride in LRR w/ MM/EA - 455

2x Sang Priests - 1x JP/PW, 1x barebones - 140 pts

2x Land Speeders w/ MM - 120 pts

 

thats 1310, and from here I pick and choose. Sometimes I cut 10 pts for a raven, sometimes I cut the AM squad in the raider for a raven w/ Death co. Sometimes I cut stuff to fit 3 Dreads with TLAC's. But my base list almost always has 33 models+.