Blood Angels Rumor Roundup

[Gleipnir]

This looks like WD48... So the week after next?

Flesh Tearers formation... Entire formation on a single reserve roll, rage and reroll failed charges, counter attack and fearless
Vanguard & Assault Squad formation, Assault Squads can use the Vanguard Squad as a locator beacon
Tactical Squads in Stormravens coming in as a single reserve...

These are labelled as exclusives...so not in the Shield of Baal book then?

Yup exclusive to WD until they release it again in another format later

[Gleipnir]

For those curious the Exterminatus Formations are;

Blood Angels

Archangels Orbital Intervention Force
-Any combination of 3 Terminator or Assault Terminator Squads, Must be placed in Deep Strike Reserves, one roll for the entire formation, units can Run then Shoot the turn they arrive by Deep Strike.

Archangels Sanguine Wing
-2 Vanguard Veteran Squads(10 models each w/ jump packs), 1 Sternguard Veterans(10 models embarked in Stormraven), 1 Stormraven, begin in Deep Strike Reserves, may choose to re-roll for Reserves, entire formation arrives same turn, Sternguard receive 1 free Stormbolter/combi weapon upgrade per model and Vanguard Vets receive 1 free power weapon or lightning claw upgrade per model.

Archangels Demi Company
- Pretty much half of the 1st company lead by either a Captain in Terminator Armor or a Chaplain in Terminator armor formation receives Stubborn, Scatter distance on Deep Strike is D6 instead of 2D6 and if the warlord is from the detachment can reroll on warlord table. Consists of Captain(can be Karlaen) or Chaplain, 2 Furioso Dreadnoughts, 5 squads in any combination of Terminators, Assault Terminators, Vanguard Veterans, Sternguard Veterans.

The Archangels
- Basically two of the above Demi Companies put together with all the same rules as a Demi company plus the ability to roll Reserve for units from the formation Turn 1, one key difference is they also omitted the terminator armor requirement for the generic captain and chaplain. So basically captain(can be Karlean) a chaplain, 4 furioso Dreadnaughts and 10 squads of terminators, assault terminators, vanguard veterans, sternguard veterans in any combination.

Blooded Demi-Company
- As with the first company this is pretty much half of a Battle Company lead by either the captain with a command squad or a chaplain plus Furioso Dreadnaught. Rest of the formation is made up of a Dreadnaught, 3 tacticals, 1 assault and 1 devastator squad, not a lot for special rules besides Red Thirst and the standard Warlord gets to reroll warlord traits on the Blood angels warlord traits in the blood angels codex.

Strike Force Mortalis
- 1 Chaplain, 3 Death Company squads, 2 Death Company Dreadnaughts and a Stormraven, units gain Crusader, and any model that doesn't have Rampage gains an extra +1 attack if the combat they are in contains more enemy models than friendly models, determined by how many models are locked in combat, does not count for disordered charges.

Dante's Avenging Host
- Dante, Mephiston, 1 Librarian, 1 Sanguinary Priest, 1 unit of Sanguinary Guard, Blooded Demi-Company led by a chaplain(see above), and 3 Stormravens. Must be equipped with jump packs, embarked upon one of the stormravens or embarked upon a Drop Pod purchased at normal cost(you would require at least 1). Can re-roll failed Reserve rolls for units with the Deep Strike special rule(nothing about those units being required to arrive via Deep Strike though, so those units with Jump Packs could be deployed as normal) also scatter distance for units arriving from Deep Strike reserve is reduced by D6, and the big one, All non vehicle units in the formation have Objective Secured. At 2000 points minimum before any sort of upgrades though.

[Gleipnir]

Flesh Tearers

FOC is 1 HQ/1 Troop/1 Fast Attack w/ 1 HQ/3 Troops/3 Elites/5 Fast Attack/3 Heavy Support/1 Fortification/1 Lord of War (Optional) All units must be Blood Angels faction, if is your primary detachment you can reroll on flesh tearer warlord trait table, and each time a unit from the detachment successfully charges an enemy unit with a unmodified roll of 10 or greater that unit gains Rage.

Flesh Tearers Vanguard Strike Force
- 3 tactical squads, 1 assault squad, 1 vanguard veteran squad, 1 furioso dreadnaught, unit get Red Thirst(+1 initative on charging as codex) And while the van vets are alive all units have Stubborn and ignore any penalties for disordered charges including for Red Thirst.

Lysios Relief Force
- Gabriel Seth, 1 Tactical squad, 1 Vanguard Vet squad, 1 Baal predator, 1 predator, 1 stormraven. All units without Jump Packs must begin embarked on a transport vehicle other than Drop Pods, All units begin in Reserve and all units in formation arrive at the same time via same reserve roll. Formation gains Crusader.

The Defenders of the Cathedrum
- 1 terminator squad(although the image shows assault terminators), 1 Death company squad, 2 tactical squads, 1 assault squad, 1 Furioso dreadnaught, the formation gains Counter-attack and Stubborn

Strikeforce Razorwind
- Lysios Relief Force & The Defenders of Cathedrum, units retain all formation special rules plus roll for reserves for the formation on Turn 1, and all non vehicles in 12" of Seth have Fearless

Only 3 new Warlord trait tables, FOC, and relic sets in the book, with the Archangel table/relics reserved for Archangel Formations or Archangel Detachments only, same for Flesh Tearers, with warlord traits and relics restricted to Flesh Tearer formations or the Flesh Tearer detachment in the exterminatus book, Mephrit Dynasty relics and warlord traits again restricted to Mephrit dynasty formations or a detachment created from the FOC in the exterminatus book.

Both the Flesh Tearer formation and Mephrit Dynasty formation from White Dwarf 47 would be eligible for their respective detachment specific options as well though.

Overall impression is the Stormraven tax is heavy on a lot of the formations, that or you are buying Vanguard Veterans

[DWest]

Archangels Sanguine Wing
-2 Vanguard Veteran Squads(10 models each w/ jump packs), 1 Sternguard Veterans(10 models embarked in Stormraven), 1 Stormraven, begin in Deep Strike Reserves, may choose to re-roll for Reserves, entire formation arrives same turn, Sternguard receive 1 free Stormbolter/combi weapon upgrade per model and Vanguard Vets receive 1 free power weapon or lightning claw upgrade per model.

1 weapon upgrade per *model*?! That's a typo, right?

[Gleipnir]

nope its free power weapons and combi weapons for all the models, I don't know if power fists are normally classed as power weapons(I'd say they aren't since they listed separately as such), but it didnt say pair of lightning claws either. My guess is they wanted to offer a unit of Vanguard Veterans a formation that might make them more appealing than Death Company

Everything Necron is pretty much already out there same for the White Dwarf formations albeit fuzzy and the Archangels FOC

[DWest]

I was just surprised, because that works out to 400 points of free gear, on a ~900 point formation.

[fedratsailor]

Archangels Sanguine Wing and the Flesh Tearers FOC imho are going to be the 2 most used from this book. picking mine up in about 10 hours.

[Houghten]

I don't know if power fists are normally classed as power weapons(I'd say they aren't since they listed separately as such)

As far as army lists are concerned, "power weapon" means "power sword, power axe, power maul or power lance."

[Mr. Smith]

You guys are missing the true power of the codex. Toughness 3 dreadnoughts, figure it out and deal with it!