Blood Angels Death Company Army

Soooo I recently attended the first day of a local 40K tourney called Eastcon. I missed day two due to malaise and malady BUT I did have a blast on the first day messing around with an army I was convinced I could not win with. I went 1, 1, and 1 with an almost pure Death Company army (I did have a scout squad)... Obviously I struggled with objective grabbing (losing one game and tie-ing the other) but when it was kill points... Ooooooo was it fun to slaughter the opponent. It looks like a very point and click army because of rage BUT it really did take alot of thought to play especially in the deployment phase. I highly recommend taking goofy armies every now and then because I think it really does make you a better player.

Anyway... Onto the army: I used the DC models I got in a massive trade a year ago and added quite a bit of fine detailing. Anyway here are the foot troops...
Let us start with 10 CC scouts...



10 DC marines in a rhino (rhino obviously missing here)... 1 with fist, 1 with power weapon


9 DC with jump packs... 1 with fist, 1 with power weapon


5 DC with Jump Packs... 1 with fist, 1 with Power Weapon (these live with Astorath in the Storm Raven)


5 DC... 1 with fist (these live in the Drop Pod)


The Drop Pod... Not completely done but close enough to tick all the boxes... Will finish soon.



DC Rhino (Dread not shown because both the Dread and Rhino's pictures were ruined by crappy lighting... See the Storm Raven pictures for more wacky lighting).


The Storm Raven...

Like the Drop Pod it is not done to the level that I feel entirely comfortable with. I need to highlight the grey highlights at least one more level up.

I also need to add more red crosses and do more fine detailing.

After finishing this model it needs a matte spray to even the black. It does look fairly average right now... Sorry about that.


Til next time gang... Keep messing around with armies that people say will not work! :)

WIP shots... Storm Raven

Well after an age in a box, my long lost Storm Raven has seen the light of day...
I will admit I have been very sloppy when putting on the many coats of mechrite red and chainmail. I will go back and touch the black up once the I have a nice smooth metal and red to wash and highlight.

I know it looks really messy right now BUT I will fix it up.

I have started edge highlighting the black with astronomicon grey. It is a little lighter than I had hoped so I am thinking of adding further highlights of codex before washing all the black down with badab black.

As you can see I built this SR out of a valkyrie and a land raider with bitz from the old rhino, the drop pod and assorted Blood Angel brass etch from Forgeworld. Sure the GW Storm Raven kits look good but I really like the flying land raider feel mine has.

More soon...

Why Death Company and how I plan to use them...

Sooooo a thousand years ago (or so it feels) I worked for GW corporate in the US. I was a member of the Trade Sales team. I worked accounts in Texas, the mid west and (towards the end of my time with the company) the northeast (when trade went regional). Each region was a space marine chapter. I was a proud original member of the Blood Angels team. My boss at the time often commented that I was the rabid fanatic of the team and likened me to a death company marine.

I left the company (only to return a few years later and once again take up the black polo with red undershirt) and resumed GT play. My first GT out of the company (ok three GT’s in one year) saw my badly painted BUT very loved Death Company Flesh Tearer army. I ended up surprisingly high in the standings (21st) given the list had one power weapon, 4 melta guns, a furioso dread and nothing else but marines. (pure PA horde… it was glorious… I had three devastator squads with no heavy weapons and three assault squads with no jump packs) It was a brick of pain that I LOVED to throw at every opponent I could. Sure I lost a lot but having that many marines on the table was something I have been wanting to duplicate ever since.

Anyway… Eventually that army went the way of the dodo and I moved onto other armies. I still have my black polo and my love of the DC frothing manics. Hence my newest silly list.

Enough of my reminiscing, I posted my list in the last post. It revolves around fours squads of DC (some with transports), a DC dread, Astorath and a squad of scouts.

I have messed around with it a few times in fun games but have yet to take it to anything serious. I envision 5 DC with packs to shoot up the center of the board with the dread and Astorath in the stormraven. Hopefully I can stun or stop some anti vehicular fire with the power of the machine spirit fired multi-melta. Even if I get shot down at this point I will be at least half way on the board with a bucket of pain.

The fast rhino filled with dudes on foot will hope to draw some fire. The five guys in a drop pod will also drop in such a way to put the hurt/ pressure on early.

The jump squad will hug cover or run up behind the rhino.

The scouts will either infiltrate close to apply pressure early OR find the nearest cover and go to ground (in objective grabs).

That is the cunning plan… Time will tell if it works… at all…

Obviously I am going to loose games (probably by the truck load BUT I should have fun doing it).

Some of you will remember my poor storm raven (which has been sitting in a box for what feels like forever). It now has Blood Angels Brass Etch attached and has a shiny new black paint coat...

(this photo added later)...

Til next time when I have actual pictures of the DC…

And now for something completely different... DEATH COMPANY!

Sooooo life has taken some very surreal turns the last few weeks and any hopes that I had had about getting the orks done for Eastcon vanished very quickly. Shame. I am very excited to get back to them but I did want to do something different for Eastcon soooo...

Death Company!

I will get to the ideas and fluff behind what I am doing later but for now here is my Eastcon list:

HQ:
1 Astorath
Astorath (220)


TROOPS
Squad Alpha
10 Death Company (200) 1 with a Power Fist (25) 1 with a Power Weapon (15) in a Rhino (50) Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

Squad Beta
5 Death Company (100) in Drop Pod (35) 1 with Power Fist (25)

Squad Theta
10 Blood Angel Scout (140) Sergeant With Power Fist (25)

Squad Delta
9 Death Company (180) 1 with a Power Fist (25) 1 with a Power Weapon (15) With Jump Packs (135)

Squad Epilson
5 Death Company (100) 1 with Power Fist (25) 1 with Power Weapon (15) Jump Packs (75)

Brother Gabriel
Death Company Dreanoughts (125) Blood Talons (0) Hvy Flamer (10)


ELITES
None


FAST ATTACK
None


HEAVY SUPPORT
Rain of Blood
Storm Raven (200) with Multi Melta (0)

1750 points on the nose...
1 scoring unit and lots of DC silliness. Do I expect to win very many games..? Honestly... Not Really. Do I expect to make a mess of a few people's armies? VERY much so! The rest of the people I play should lead my army around the board in a merry dance that will see me loose badly. C'est La Vie...

B

P.S. I did not paint this. In fact it is straight of of an old white dwarf. It is a D.C. Land Raider painted by the always impressive Jason Buyaki. I was his roomate at the time and watched him paint this beast VERY SLOWLY. It is pure awesome! Thought I would share...