The_Lord_Of_Angels

The real question is, which came first? The crappy lore explanation or the crappy redesign. I'm leaning towards the lore being an afterthought. 10th edition really has killed any enthusiasm I had for 40k...

Fixed it for you.

I can't say I even like the spars, and even been wanting spear options for BA for a while. They look very basic. I agree the armour is lacking details we've come to expect on the SG. Ironically I like the death mask helmets, although I wish they had sculpted hair and/or laurel wreaths. Always thought it odd that space marines, who are equipped to fight in the vacuum of space, would be rocking a mask which defeats the point of wearing environmentally sealed armour. I hate they don't have the single engine jump packs with wings too. Why is that one SG holding an inferno pistol instead of having it wrist mounted? It's these small missing details across the models that makes me wonder if the designer understood the assignment or had any direction at all. Would have loved to have seen flaming CC weapons to tie in 30k BA with 40k. A bit more angelic symbology to restore the balance after the damage Matt Ward did...

I should add the actual company marking for the BA 10th company is a red blood drop in a black circle on the right shoulder. The red and yellow heraldry markings are just for captains, lieutenant's and company banners. Not sure where company heraldry should be placed now, but in 3rd edition, it replaced the chapter symbol on the left shoulder, which is why the Tycho model has his bleeding wing heraldry on the left shoulder.

Not that it really matters, as you can paint them how you want, but going off the old insignum astartes, the 10th company would be an upside down red triangle with a yellow background I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtZYq2BVVjM Just thought I would share as I thought the voice acting and music was really well done.

I remember that mentioned in a 3rd edition codex too. Probably the space marine codex since the blood angels supplement had less pages than a leaflet back then

Those are some lethal looking nipples! Who needs to carry weapons when you can chest bump your enemy to death.