Chapter Master choice

[paspinall]

Hi All, 

 

So I am running a home grown BA Successor (even in dirty purple not true red ;) ) and am still debating about the choice of Chapter Master, I am running bull BA rules so could make a count as Dante easy enough of course, or I could make an actual Chapter Master; unfortunatly I cant generally use the weapon I want for thematic reasons, the chapter being the sons of Raldoron i want the encarmine blade but oh well, so what Chapter Master builds have people been using ?

[Karhedron]

Biker Captain with TH, SS, Iron Resolve and Angel Artifice and is pretty tanky. T6, 1+/4++/6++ and 8 wounds. That will take quite a bit to chew through and you can use Angel Exemplar to buy him a 2nd BA WLT if you wish. Gift of Foresight is a great all-round WLT as rerolling 1 failed hit, wound and save per turn is very nice. Plus he has 14" move to get wherever he wants to be.

[The Unseen]

Play crusade and get him ranked up enough to use it?

 

Otherwise you could use the Archangels shard relic, aka master crafted power sword unless your fighting chaos

[Adorondak]

I personally use a bladeguard captain with the angel artifice, and the imperium's sword wlt. 7 wounds at t5 with a 1+/4++/4+ vs. Mws, and when the assult doctrine is active, 8 str 5 attacks with +1 to wound on the charge, plus a +1 to charge with reroll. I've also started running him with soul warden to mitigate mortal wounds on the 2 units of bladeguard he runs with. Been a pretty brutal combo for me, there isn't a whole lot I wouldn't charge into with that, especially once the sang priest drops in right behind to buff and heal

[Matarno - Lord of Skyfall]

I run a chapter master with jump pack, storm shield and relic blade. Like @Karhedron mentioned above, the Angel's Artifice relic with Gift of Foresight and Iron Resolve pair of traits makes for an extremely tanky character. Especially if you plan to run with a big squad of Sanguinary Guard (which is a must), this combo is clutch. I have already had two games where using Angels Sacrifice on my chapter master saved the Sang Guard from a pile of scary attacks, and the chapter master can usually tank what he needs to with two potential rerolls in the pocket for failed armor saves.

[Djangomatic82]

I've been using my 8e Slamguinius as a chaptermaster. So JP, TH/SS, Angel Artifice, Rites of War for  12" Obsec bubble and Angel Exemplar: Heroic Bearing to make the Rites of Battle and Chaptermaster ability a 18" bubble around him. He's not as fighty as he used to be, or as tanky as other builds, but his aura coverage and utility is pretty sweet.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Hi All,

 

So I am running a home grown BA Successor (even in dirty purple not true red ;) ) and am still debating about the choice of Chapter Master, I am running bull BA rules so could make a count as Dante easy enough of course, or I could make an actual Chapter Master; unfortunatly I cant generally use the weapon I want for thematic reasons, the chapter being the sons of Raldoron i want the encarmine blade but oh well, so what Chapter Master builds have people been using ?

you can still use a sword encarmine from the SG box set

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

As for my homebrew I'm still trying to decide how I want my CM to be kitted out.

I don't even know if he'll be firstborn or primaris yet.

[paspinall]

 

Hi All,

 

So I am running a home grown BA Successor (even in dirty purple not true red ) and am still debating about the choice of Chapter Master, I am running bull BA rules so could make a count as Dante easy enough of course, or I could make an actual Chapter Master; unfortunatly I cant generally use the weapon I want for thematic reasons, the chapter being the sons of Raldoron i want the encarmine blade but oh well, so what Chapter Master builds have people been using ?

you can still use a sword encarmine from the SG box set

 

 

 

Yeah I am meaning *the* actual sword Encarmine which is unfortunatly only a crusade relic 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

As for what I'll go with for my CM, I'm thinking a combi-bolter probably melta, and either powersword or fist with jump pack if I do a firstborn

 

Primaris, one of the gravis armored captains will likely be the base.

[Leonaides]

I always had good results from a combi-melta/thunderhammer captain before. A last round of hammering or a cheeky meltablast if they withdrew from combat and tried to shoot me to death from safety was always good. Snagged me a librarian, a tech priest lord thingy,dark eldar Lord and a Knight amongst other things with that combo when they killed him.

[Karhedron]

Primaris, one of the gravis armored captains will likely be the base.

For Blood Angels the Heavy bolt rifle variant is probably better. Thanks to Red Thirst, the MC Power Sword is almost always better for us than the Fist.

 

Plus I think the new model looks better than the 8th edition version of Gravis.

[BloodyB]

Chapter masters have always been difficult for me, even more so now. If you want to have primaris, but then you're locked in to a loading or counts as, and that is before all of the cool bits you find for the conversion you want to do. I have been planning a Gravis guy with a standard fist and a guardian spear, a cool Cape as well as a neat hood ornament thing, maybe a halo?

 

For you, a neat looking sword to use as the burning blade should provide the crunch you're looking for, maybe a paragon blade in crusades?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

 

Primaris, one of the gravis armored captains will likely be the base.

For Blood Angels the Heavy bolt rifle variant is probably better. Thanks to Red Thirst, the MC Power Sword is almost always better for us than the Fist.

 

Plus I think the new model looks better than the 8th edition version of Gravis.

well that will mesh with the hvy Intercessors I'll be getting pretty well