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Title: 2500 points Angelic army List


Prince Senlaith - July 14, 2005 03:11 PM (GMT)
Admittedly the title makes it sound like a 'R@TE MY L1ST!1!1!' post, and I suppose technically it is. But its for an unofficial army and the community around here is thankfully mature, so on to the point.
I was thinking recently about putting together an army list for the angels, not to playtest with, just to see if I could and whether it would work (and also because I like doing it :) ). So after some working out I created a 2500 points one. This list takes into account the existence of a few things that are not official yet (namely Cherubs, unit blessings, and the ability of angels to take shields), so hopefully they’ll be allowed :) .
Anyway, without further ado, my list:

Angelic Army List

Lords
Cherubim (275) (510)
Level 3 wizard (135)
Eagle Quills (20)
Blessing of Azrael (55)
Dazzling Robes (25)

Heroes
Princedom (100) (150)
Blessing of Metatron (50)

Dominion (130) (170)
Blessing of Sandalphon (40)

Dominion (130) (150)
Eagle Quills (20)

Core
20 Angels (220) (275)
Shields (20)
Full command (35)

10 Angels (110) (130)
Longbows (20)

10 Angels (110) (150)
Shields (10)
Blessing of Michael (30)

15 Archangels (210) (260)
Halberds
Blessing of Raphael (30)
Blessing of Metatron (20)

5 Vengeances (135) (135)

Special
9 Anelai (117) (144)
Flaming Bows (27)

4 Powers (248) (248)

8 Cherubs (160) (178)
Sprite (18)

Total: 2500 pts

Tactics: The big block of angels will hold the centre, flanked by the vengeances and powers on either side. The longbow armed unit will hang back and provide missile support. The small unit with the blessing of Michael (making them stubborn) will follow behind the main unit and intercept any flanking units, using their good armour save and stubborn ability to hold them up and prevent flank charges. The cherubs will fly about and disrupt the enemy. Then Anelai will scout and perform a similar job. The Cherubim I couldn’t resist tooling up to the maximum, so he’ll fly around flank and rear charging, causing terror, killing characters, taking on big enemy units, etc. Everything a big, beefy character should do. The Princedom will join the big angel unit, his blessing of Metatron giving them +1 to hit in close combat. The Dominion with the Blessing of Sandalphon (shoot as many times as the number of attacks on your profile) will join the Anelai or just fly around shooting things. The full-flying Dominion will take out enemy war machine crew and other such targets.

Admittedly, its probably a little early to be designing army lists, but I just had to :) . Anyways, please tell me what you think.

Ironskintribe - July 14, 2005 05:02 PM (GMT)
Even at 2500 points you have too many points in characters. It is general to only have at most a third of your army devoted to characters. I also would discourage against using cherubs as of right now but everything else seems fine. I will say more later as right now my pizza is getting cold.

Eviscerator - July 16, 2005 11:08 AM (GMT)
since we gave all the blessings names i cant remember what they do....

you have eagle quills twice, is that allowed? also can a unit have more than one blessing? (the archangels do)

yeah i would leave out cherubs for now.

Prince Senlaith - July 16, 2005 12:00 PM (GMT)
I'm not sure about doubling up on blessings. I'd like it if we can because blessings are different from normal magic items, but perhaps we could change it, as it could get overpowered, particularly in large battles (say, 3 Cherubim all with the Crystal Blessing of ignore all saves).

As to the unit blessings, currently, angels can take one blessing, and archangels can take two.

You're probably right about the Cherubs, they're just so cute though :(

Grand Seraphim - July 20, 2005 04:31 PM (GMT)
Well, i like the look of the list but apart from the "dipsel scroll" blessing i thought we werent going to have doubling up.

Clavix - July 20, 2005 06:14 PM (GMT)
Not even Demonic Gifts can double up, so ya, it would be way overpowered if we allowed our angels to.

Eviscerator - July 20, 2005 06:20 PM (GMT)
yeah the dispel scroll one should be allowed to have more than one of but no others. i thought it was gonna be one unit blessing per 1000pts or something?

Grand Seraphim - July 31, 2005 06:15 PM (GMT)
I think we should allow some gifts to double up and others not to.

We can just put a multiplier there of how many times you may use the spell per 2000pts.

so x2, maybe for somthing like Eagle Quills but only x1 for somthing like the golden blood one (sorry cant remember the name.)

Others could have x- which would imply you can only have one in your entire army anyway.

This would give the army a bit of variety when it comes to magic weapons.




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