A Closer Look At Upcoming Blood Angels For Warhammer 40k
December 4, 2014 by brennon
The leaks have been coming thick and fast for the new Blood Angels Codex that is due to be up for pre-order on Friday of this week from Games Workshop. See what you think of the miniatures so far...
First up we have the all important miniatures for your new Blood Angels. As well as getting themselves a Sanguinary Priest who is looking rather flashy indeed we have the new Tactical Squad that wear a very nice style of power armour more in keeping with their existing heroes. I like the more sculpted chest pieces that keep to the Greek look of their army.
Next up we have some of snaps from the rest of the range. Of course we've got another hardback rulebook on the way with some amazing art from Raymond Swanland but we've also got the new Datacards as well which I've heard are a really good investment for your faction simply because of the various gaming opportunities they open up for you.
There was also this sneak peek inside the new Codex within the magazine showing off the Sanguinary Guard and Dreadnought in all their glory. Nice to see the nipple armour is still there.
Have you been wowed by the new Blood Angels?
That The Sanguinary Priest looks overly styliest for my taste considering that it’s supposed to be generic one and not named character like Corbulo. I liked old one because it was basically just Apochery with BA heraldics. New Tactical Squad does really show that BA ideal of having every armor detailed with idea that form is as important as function. Plus Heavy Flamer is neat option. Granted that least before Tactical Squad was one of least used units that BA had considering Assault Squad being troop choice. It’s really weird that stores have to get 2 codexes on order to… Read more »
I really like the look of the new Tactical Squad. I don’t often use tacticals with my Blood Angels, but really nice to see them being different to standard vanilla marine ones. With 7th edition being more shooty, I find myself leaning more towards the BA tacticals and fitting at least one squad of them in my army lists. The Sanguinary Priest looks quite nice, but if that is the standard priest, he makes my Corbulo look a bit bland. I can’t wait to get the new codex, it’s been a long time coming. I just hope that Assault marines… Read more »
Great, more nipple armour. Bl
BEWARE MY BATTLE NIPS!!!!
Chalice guy is weird :o(
Nipple Armour cosplaying queen Elizabeth I… This is getting a lot worse. But that’s what you get for not renewing the look of your range since the nineties.
Will these new kits also have the 32mm bases?
Defo looks like it from the pics
Looks like something by Nippleodeon tbh
The armour fits what they are supposed to be so I don’t mind so much. Looks like he is trying to infiltrate the Dark Angels though I really dislike the robe on him that way. Let’s see what the next Twighlig…. Blood Angels codex has to offer 🙂
The new Sanguinary priest looks like Boris Johnson, which is bad, obviously…
I appreciate why the nips are there –
It’s distinctive and appreciated by some. Only ruined because of Batman and Robin!
Has a new tactical squad actually be confirmed? Apart from the priest, all of those models look like they could have been put together by a combination of pieces from the current standard tactical squad, the death company box and the sanguinary guard box.
Crap- they missed a mold line on the grail.
I actually like the Sanguinary Priest, with a little conversion he’ll make a nice, characterful Apothecary for my Dark Angels 😉