Blood Angels

Warhammer 40,000 Blood Angels Game News, Reviews, Editorials & Unboxings.

The Blood Angels are a faction from UK-Based Games Workshop's Tabletop Wargame Warhammer 40,000. The First Founding Chapter, originally known as the Revenant Legion were the IX Legion of the original Space Marine Legions under their Primarch Sanguinius. They are particularly well known for their bloodthirsty nature in battle. They are also one of the most long-lived Chapters, and have a refined aesthetic sense.

The homeworld of the Blood Angels is the planet Baal and its two moons, Baal Primus and Baal Secundus, from which the Blood Angels take their new recruits.

The Blood Angels are known for both their savagery and grace. They seek to maintain ten defining commandments that they feel best exemplify their Chapter's soul. Through meditation, they maintain the Five Angelic Graces of Honour, Humility, Mercy, Restraint, and Forgiveness. In opposition to these are the five Warrior Virtues of Strength, Savagery, Abandon, Rage, and Detachment. Thus are the Blood Angels frenzied killers one moment, while becoming stoic monks who appreciate arts and music the next.

Blood Angels also have a habit of sleeping whenever possible in the sarcophagi used to create them. They apparently believe that it is in this slumber that they are one step closer to Sanguinius and seek to gain insight into the psyche of their forefather.

In battle, they are known to favour Jumpack-equipped Infantry, close combat, and direct assault. The infamous Gunship and Drop Pod-borne planetary assaults of the Blood Angels are both beautiful and savage to behold.