I'm sorry, but after reading through the new codex and the Shield of Baal datasheets and comparing them to my own codex, I can only say that I just don't feel sorry for those who are disappointed with the revised Blood Angels. This is the gist of what some very vocal Blood Angels players have been saying from the time the rumors starting flowing until the release of the codex. "It's lost all its flavor." "Now it's just like the Vanilla codex." "It's worse than the Vanilla codex." "Why didn't we get Centurions or Stormtalons?" "That's the last straw, GW, I quit." I Have Little Sympathy for Angry Blood Angels Players: It has some good wargear, great army-wide benefits, and interesting units. I'll be starting a Tyranid army with the Deathstorm models, Leviathan has some great Tyranid formations, and I love the fluff in the Shield of Baal books.) We were going to hold off on getting the codex until my hobby budget had recovered, but we unexpectedly received a copy as a Christmas gift from a generous friend.īear in mind that I haven't played the army, but from what I've seen, the 7th Edition C:BA is a great codex. Since babysitting money and allowance don't go very far in this hobby, I've been subsidizing it substantially, going as far as paying the entire cost of the "Shield of Baal: Deathstorm" kit as well as the "Leviathan" and "Exterminatus" book sets. that typically hang off a model's base, a single round base of any given size can only come into base-to-base contact with six identical bases:Īs I've mentioned before, my oldest daughter recently started a Blood Angels army. If you were to ignore the weapons, limbs, etc. Out of curiosity, I decided to look at the actual affect of playing 25mm versus 32mm bases on close combat: Many of the latter complaints seemed to focus on the effect of size differences on base-to-base contact. The competitive players, on the other hand, were fretting that other gamers will gripe about their army having non-standard base sizes if they stay with the original 25mm bases (I would have left 40K several years ago if I had to play in such a hostile atmosphere) and complaining about possible advantages that armies on one particular base size will have against armies on another base size.
Although most hobbyists didn't seem eager to re-base existing models, they were generally excited about having the option of using bigger bases. The largest schism was between the hobbyists and the competitive players. I think most people recognize that nothing is forcing them to re-base and most have decided whether or not they're going to adapt the new base sizes for their army. It seems like the controversy that accompanied GW's introduction of the 32mm bases for the Blood Angel Tactical Marines, Death Company, and Sanguinary Guard has died down a bit.
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