Some sexy new things!

As we all know, the Blood Angels were released on April 3rd (Saturday) of this past week.  Other than providing the 40k community with a fast version of the Black Templars, it really is just another Space Marine army.  So do not despair fellow Black Templars players!  I played a game against the Blood Angels last night, and my opponent barely squeaked out a draw in an objective game.  I just didn't have quite the firepower needed to table him at 1750 points, but I was darn near close to it.  Lets just say that I lost 2 Land Speeders and 2 Neophytes the entire game (and two Predators had some damage).  So again, do not despair.  We still can compete.  At least, until BA players learn their codex and pull out the crazy builds.  The one I've worked out I definitely wouldn't like to face, but I'm not going to voluntarily produce that list to my BA opponents just yet.  I should also have a codex review done by the beginning of May.  :)

Another exciting thing about the Blood Angels release was the Death Company models that came out!  I took several nights to very carefully modify, clean, and kit bash the new DC models with BT bits to fit my crusades fluff.  And, while they are not painted yet, they look darn good and are exactly what I needed to give my army some character.  When they are painted, they'll look damn sexy (hopefully)!

That's it for now, I'll try to get a Battle Report of this weeks game with Brandon up in the next few days.  Tonight if ya'll are lucky.  I'll also try and get pics up of the unpainted, but assembled Death Company Black Templars tomorrow.  :D