"Hi,
I do am a long time reader of your blog.
Playing 40K since two years now, since my friends dragged me in this time and money consuming hobby.
Have been playing SW and with a lot of succes.
But am now moving on to Blood Angels. I am thinking of a fast tank list with Mephiston. As a friend of mine is already playing a DoA army, and i don't want to copy his list.
2000 points BA
Mephiston 250
Sanguinary Priest: Power Sword 65
Terminator Squad: Cyclone Missile Launcher 230
Assault Squad: Meltagun, Powersword Razorback Twinlinked Assault Cannon Searchlight 181
Assault Squad: Meltagun, Powersword Razorback Twinlinked Assault Cannon Searchlight 181
Assault Squad: Meltagun, Powersword Razorback Twinlinked Heavy Flamer 145
Tactical Squad: Meltagun, Plasma Cannon, Combimelta, Rhino
Tactical Squad: Meltagun, Plasma Cannon, Combimelta, Rhino
Attack Bike: Multi Melta 50
Attack Bike: Multi Melta 50
Attack Bike: Multi Melta 50
Predator: Heavy Bolters, Dozerblade, Searchlight 106
Predator: Heavy Bolters, Dozerblade, Searchlight 106
Predator: Heavy Bolters, Dozerblade, Searchlight 106
Would u please evaluate my list. It is shooty, maybe too shooty. "
The Tacticals don't really make sense here other than a way to access Plasma Cannons and they are too expensive just for that. Tacticals bring more anti-infantry firepower outside of combat over ASM but you have a shootynator squad which with some expansion, is going to provide a lot more pewpew than the Tacticals. You lose the AP2 blasts but AP2 blasts aren't all that flash with cover so abound in 5th edition.
With that in mind I'd replace the Tactical squads with two more ASM squads in Razorbacks (twin-linked Assault cannons - you should change the single flamer one to an Assault Cannon as well) and expand the Terminator squad to 10x strong with double CML. This gives you a very durable centre to your army with lots of dakka and quite a few fast vehicles for your attack bikes and mephiston to hide behind. I'd be looking to add a 2nd Priest in there if you can as well to make sure you have your army covered. Furthermore, if you've got enough points to slip in a 6th RBack ASM squad, look to do so so you've got your scoring covered pat.
One thing you need to be careful of is the Dakka Preds though - they are a fine buy, particularly with Blood Angel Fast status but their sponsons can easily be blocked by all the vehicles you have moving forward. If you find this is an issue, switch to Rifledreads instead - you lose some anti-infantry but you have quite a bit of that as it is currently.
