Blood Angels Rumor Roundup

[Defenestratus]

I haven't seen a lower level of interest for a new release in a while.

Me included. BA are my second army and I really couldn't care less about their new release for some reason or another.

[energongoodie]

I haven't seen a lower level of interest for a new release in a while.

Me included. BA are my second army and I really couldn't care less about their new release for some reason or another.

I know what you mean.
For me, it's that I like the current book, with a few point costs and pointlessly high initiatives aside, and the trend of 7th books so far has been to reduce flavour and content, in my humble opinion.
Therefore I'm worried it's gonna be bobbins and not excited cause it'll probably be less fun.

I'd love a new model or two though

[40kGamer]

...and the trend of 7th books so far has been to reduce flavour and content, in my humble opinion.

It does appear that 7th edition is the 'take all the toppings off and give people a cheese pizza' edition. Maybe the braintrust at GW studied up on Henry Ford's business philosophy.

[energongoodie]

It does appear that 7th edition is the 'take all the toppings off and give people a cheese pizza' edition. Maybe the braintrust at GW studied up on Henry Ford's business philosophy.

I like your analogy

[40kGamer]

I like your analogy

Thanks mate... I have an unnatural love of pizza.

[Defenestratus]

It does appear that 7th edition is the 'take all the toppings off and give people a cheese pizza' edition. Maybe the braintrust at GW studied up on Henry Ford's business philosophy.

I'm not scared at all what is going to happen to BA. They can't really get more boring to play for me. They're going to have to fix DoA somehow - and I'm sure our vehicles are going to lose their fast status.

I'm just not feeling the excitement I did before the Eldar codex and thats probably because we don't have a giant knight model to look forwards to, the book we have now still feels new and honestly, BA haven't really changed throughout the years.

All we have to look forwards to are new Assmarines, new terminators.... neither of which my army really needs. Result? *yawn*

[Wolfshade]

I am so excited for this, but unfortunately, my new job means that I have to work rather than be on the forum 9-5

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

I look forward to it - IF there are actual models with it, i dont care about the rules as i dont play so a new codex has no interest to me.

[Duo Sonata]

While the idea of a BA warlord table and some unique wargear sounds appealing, if the codex turns out to be a minimalist release like that of the grey knight then chances are some vehicles will lose their fast status and vanguard veterans will become like their Codex SM equivalents...

[Erik Setzer]

I'm looking forward to the BA release as it might mean I'll finally play my Blood Angels again, but I'm not going to go nuts over it.

I guess it helps my expectations for it that I haven't played BA since 3rd edition. For those who weren't around to see that mess, BA transports could move up to 18", back then you disembarked 2", and assault was a straight 6" move, plus you could assault out of Rhinos... so you had a 26" charge range, basically, and it was just disgusting to see assaults in Turn 1 and all the shenanigans. Since then, the Rhino assault has been pretty much removed, and a lot of new options thrown in, with Death Company also changing significantly (I really should probably just remove the arms from my models, dunk the metal bodies in something to remove the primer, and attach new arms with new weapons, then finally paint them).

Blood Angels were actually my first army, before Orks even, but that was in 2nd edition, and then there was the 3rd edition deal with them. I don't mind them being more vanilla than they are now, I'm used to that. They'll at least keep all the options they have plastic models for, so that's a lot of new stuff for me to collect... unless I keep running my BA as they used to be, an army of guys that advances forward firing bolters like crazy and then clubs people with the bolters when they get too close.