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Greetings brothers. I am not a blood angels player, however my brother is, thus I come to you for advice and experience. If you were to run a DC unit along with a DC dread in a stormraven...i.e. a Deathraven TM ;) which would you prefer and why:

6 DC, jps, 5 ccw/bps, th- 240 pts. (17 attacks, 23 on the charge)

-OR-

9 DC, 7 relentless bolters, 2 pw/bps, th- 240 pts. (20 attacks, 29 on the charge)

I ask because although the second unit seems stronger on paper, this does not account for rage, threat radius etc. Also any other builds you would prefer over either of these? Thanks in advance.

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The one im thinking of doing myself is 10 DC w/ Fist + Bolter, Lemartes and then a DC Dread with talons in tow. A fist is all you'll really need for DC as with the No. of attacks they're putting out with lemartes' power weapon any foe should be killed.

i run em in every list, my setup is -

--Stormraven

-----Extra armor, Assault Cannon, Multi Melta

--10x Death Co.

-----1x Power Fist, 3x Power Weapons, 6x BP/CCW's

---DC Dread

-----Blood Talons

accompanied by either a chappie/reclusiarch/lemartes depending on the points i have, usually a chappie

 

this squad does work, not too much, not too little, just right. It works so well for me that i build every list around it.

Depends on the enemy, a static gun;ine force like the Guard favours a 10 man DC as they can't really get away from you.

 

On the other hand Jump pack DC can get a real mobility advantage and makes it harder to lure them. I don't use DC but if I did I'd go for a JP squad.

I can *never* justify 15pts for a 1W Jump Pack.

I'd tend to agree. Especially in this case since you already spent 200 on thier transportation.

 

yeah, i never put JP's on DC, especially if i have a stormraven, too many points. I'd rather have more death co. :P

Take this:

 

Reclusiarch w/ Jump Pack, Infernus Pistol

30 Death Company w/ Jump Packs, 23 Thunder Hammers, 1 Power Weapon

Scout squad w/ Camo Cloaks, Sniper Rifles

 

;) :P :P

 

With a few Bike squads I'll make sure that DC horde never gets a single turn of CC

heh..

 

Stupidest list/loadout

 

The Sanguinor

30 jpDC + Lemartes with TH & PW on every model. You choose based on CC opponent which weapon to use and it's cheaper than 2 TH per model (without the sanguinor) yet with the same number of attacks courtesy of the Sanguinor's aura.

(+5 DC dreads)

 

Scoring? Meh!

i run em in every list, my setup is -

--Stormraven

-----Extra armor, Assault Cannon, Multi Melta

--10x Death Co.

-----1x Power Fist, 3x Power Weapons, 6x BP/CCW's

---DC Dread

-----Blood Talons

accompanied by either a chappie/reclusiarch/lemartes depending on the points i have, usually a chappie

 

this squad does work, not too much, not too little, just right. It works so well for me that i build every list around it.

 

That works for you, eh? That's very very close to what I was considering running once I have a Stormraven model.

 

The only difference is here:

 

1x Powerfist, 3x Power Weapons --> 1x Thunder Hammer, 1x Power Weapon, 1x plasma pistol

 

Which shaves me 10 points off.

10 DC sans Jump Packs seems to be the way to go in a Thunder Duck with the DC Dread of course. A power weapon, and maybe a Thunderhammer or 'Fist to round out the squad. As noted, the number of attacks generated makes up for the lack of more power weapons. Though maybe one more wouldn't hurt.

 

If you go the Jump Pack route, then Lemartes does seem like an attractive choice, though he seems a bit on the expensive side for what he can do. /shrug

 

One of the things I've read about (haven't tried yet) is the Sanguinary Guard with a Sanguinary Priest+Jump Pack in a Storm Raven. They both cost about the same amount of points, and they both will kill just about anything they come into contact with.

 

It could be really fun using two Storm Ravens- one loaded out with all things Death Company, and the other one with all things Sanguinary and a Libby Dread. Hmmmm... over 1000 points... then you could load out four more Assault Squads with Jump Packs to make an interesting 2000 point list...

i run em in every list, my setup is -

--Stormraven

-----Extra armor, Assault Cannon, Multi Melta

--10x Death Co.

-----1x Power Fist, 3x Power Weapons, 6x BP/CCW's

---DC Dread

-----Blood Talons

accompanied by either a chappie/reclusiarch/lemartes depending on the points i have, usually a chappie

 

this squad does work, not too much, not too little, just right. It works so well for me that i build every list around it.

 

That works for you, eh? That's very very close to what I was considering running once I have a Stormraven model.

 

The only difference is here:

 

1x Powerfist, 3x Power Weapons --> 1x Thunder Hammer, 1x Power Weapon, 1x plasma pistol

 

Which shaves me 10 points off.

 

yeah, it works real well for me, i build every list around that one one unit.

Quick Question for the DC+Stormraven combo.

 

How many people are planning to paint a Storm Raven black to match their DC (or white if playing one of the White DC chapters)?

 

Considering that I'll end up with 3 SRs (one already valk converted, two actual), I'm painting the first one I buy Death Co.

I'd would paint mine white to match my DC but the SR counts as a heavy support opt. So I'm not sure. If left red I can use it for transporting anything without it looking out of place. :)

this is what I'm thinking too. I will mostly use it to transport DC, but I don't want to have to buy 2 so I can have 1 for the DC and one for whoever else.

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