Warhammer 40k - Unit Review Library 141 - Blood Angels, Librarian Dreadnought


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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
456 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #141, I am 315 reviews behind!

Not picking randomly at the moment, I am focusing on Blood Angels to get them done before their new Codex comes out!

Blood Angels, Librarian Dreadnought

10th Edition Index

Another Blood Angels Dreadnought! This time, it is the remains of a Librarian that has transitioned to the venerable status of a Dreadnought while keeping his psychic abilities!

At one stage, there was a movement to add a lot of different Dreadnoughts to the Space Marine line. To clarify, a Dreadnought is a mortally wounded Space Marine on life support too valuable to lose, so he gets plugged in to this suit and he continues to serve.

There were Dreadnoughts representing anyone, Venerable Dreadnoughts were ancient Dreadnoughts or Captains. This is the Librarian Dreadnought, understandable a Librarian as a Dreadnought. There was also a Chaplain Dreadnought. You can still play that one from Legends.

There was never a Techmarine Dreadnought... but I always thought there should be!

Anyway...

This Dreadnought is 170pts

Let's check his stats!

Stats

Basically like any other Castra Ferrum Dreadnought.

Movement 6"
Toughness 9
Save 2+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 8
Ld 6+
OC 3

Weapons

Weapons is where this Dreadnought is different!

In Melee it has a Furioso Fist as well as a Furioso force halberd, and for ranged it has a Stormbolter/Meltagun/Heavy Flamer and a psychic shooting attack called Blood Lance!

Ranged:

Blood Lance — witchfire

Range 18", 1 Attack, Hits on a 3+, S10, Ap -3, D6 Damage each
Sustained Hits D3 (When rolling a Critical To Hit of a 6, gain an additional D3 attacks!) So 2-4 Attacks when this happens.
Psychic - This weapon has the Psychic Keyword

Blood Lance — focused witchfire

Range 18", 1 Attack, Hits on a 3+, S12, Ap -3, D6+3 Damage each
Sustained Hits D3 (When rolling a Critical To Hit of a 6, gain an additional D3 attacks!) So 2-4 Attacks when this happens.
Psychic - This weapon has the Psychic Keyword
Hazardous - After using this weapon, roll a dice, on a 1, suffer 3 Mortal Wounds.

Storm Bolter

Range 24", 2 Attacks, Hits on a 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Rapid Fire 2 (At half range of 12, he gets 2x additional attacks)

Meltagun

Range 12", 1 Attack, Hits on a 3+, S9, Ap -4, D6 Damage each
Melta 2 (At half range of 6", add 2 to the Damage of this weapon.)

Heavy Flamer

Range 12", D6 Attacks, Auto Hits, S5, Ap -1, 1 Damage each
Torrent (This weapon automatically hits, just roll a D6 to see how many attacks it gets)
Ignores Cover (Enemies to not get Benefit of Cover against this attack)

Melee:

Furioso Fist

5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S12, Ap -3, 3 Damage each

Furioso force halberd

1 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S9, Ap -3, D6+3 Damage each
Psychic - This weapon has the Psychic Keyword
Extra Attacks (this means he can hit with his Fist and his Halberd, he does not need to choose, great since this is only 1 attack)

Abilities

Shield of Sanguinius

Friendly Adeptus Astartes units within 6" of this Dreadnought get a 5+ Feel No Pain against Mortal Wounds and Psychic attacks!

Wings of Sanguinius (aka Psychic Yeet)

Honestly, I do not know why people have not been abusing the hell out of this...

Use this ability at the end of your Movement Phase and target a friendly Infantry unit. Roll a D6, on a 1, suffer D3 Mortal Wounds. Otherwise, it works.

Select that Infantry unit within 12" and remove them off the battlefield and set them up again anywhere on the board more than 9" away from enemy models.

This is effectively a Deep Strike! Only one Dreadnought can do this in your Army per turn.

Thoughts

Dangerous in shooting, dangerous is combat. Nice buff to units around it and then there is Wings of Sanguinius. Man, I would exploit the hell out of this! Throwing combat or specialist shooting units to another part of the board to catch the enemy off-guard would be amazing!

That makes 15 Blood Angels Reviewed putting them on 78.94% Completed! The total Completed is 14.52% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

FactionDetachmentReview Number
Agents of the ImperiumArmy Rule #2
Astra MilitarumArmy Rule #1
Astra MilitarumCombined RegimentDetachment Rule #1
Space MarinesArmy Rule #3


Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

FactionUnitReview Number
Adeptus CustodesProsecutors#1
Adeptus CustodesKnight-Centura#54
Adeptus CustodesShield-Captain#61
Adeptus CustodesShield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor#70
Adeptus CustodesTrajann Valoris#40
Adeptus MechanicusArchaeopter Fusilave#13
Adeptus MechanicusArchaeopter Stratoraptor#14
Adeptus MechanicusArchaeopter Transvector#15
Adeptus MechanicusBelisarius Cawl#53
Adeptus MechanicusCorpuscarii Electro-Priests#97
Adeptus MechanicusOnager Dunecrawler#110
Adeptus MechanicusSerberys Raiders#55
Adeptus MechanicusSerberys Sulphurhounds#56
Adeptus MechanicusTechnoarcheologist#104
AeldariGuardian Defenders#64
AeldariMaugan Ra#87
AeldariNight Spinner#65
AeldariShadowseer#80
AeldariPrince Yriel#92
Astra MilitarumKasrkin#60
Astra MilitarumTank Commander#90
Astra MilitarumWyvern#81
Black TemplarsBlack Templars Gladiator#102
Black TemplarsHigh Marshall Helbrecht#38
Black TemplarsMarshall#46
Black TemplarsThe Emperor's Champion#63
Blood AngelsAstorath#131
Blood AngelsBaal Predator#2
Blood AngelsBrother Corbulo#132
Blood AngelsCaptain Tycho#133
Blood AngelsChief Librarian Mephiston#134
Blood AngelsCommander Dante#135
Blood AngelsDeath Company Dreadnought#136
Blood AngelsDeath Company Intercessors#137
Blood AngelsDeath Company Marines#138
Blood AngelsDeath Company Marines with Jump Packs#139
Blood AngelsFurioso Dreadnought#140
Blood AngelsGabriel Seth#66
Blood AngelsLemartes#32
Blood AngelsSanguinary Guard#93
Chaos DaemonsBeasts of Nurgle#98
Chaos DaemonsDaemonettes#29
Chaos DaemonsLord of Change#75
Chaos DaemonsNurglings#82
Chaos KnightsKnight Abominant#94
Chaos KnightsWar Dog Brigands#30
Chaos KnightsWar Dog Executioners#31
Chaos KnightsWar Dog Huntsman#77
Chaos Space MarinesAbbadon the Despoiler#50
Chaos Space MarinesHaarken Worldclaimer#41
Chaos Space MarinesKhorne Lord of Skulls#37
Dark AngelsAsmodai#16
Dark AngelsAzrael#17
Dark AngelsBelial#4
Dark AngelsDeathwing Knights#20
Dark AngelsDeathwing Terminator Squad#99
Dark AngelsLazarus#62
Dark AngelsLand Speeder Vengeance#101
Death GuardBiologus Putrifier#5
Death GuardBlightlord Terminators#10
Death GuardChaos Lord#36
Death GuardLord of Contagion#52
Death GuardTallyman#39
Death GuardMalignant Plaguecaster#71
DeathwatchCorvus Blackstar#72
DeathwatchDeathwatch Terminator Squad#112
DeathwatchDeathwatch Veterans#114
DeathwatchFortis Kill Team#116
DeathwatchIndomitor Kill Team#118
DeathwatchKill Team Cassius#120
DeathwatchProteus Killteam#57
DeathwatchSpectrus Kill Team#73
DeathwatchVeteran Bike Squad#84
DeathwatchWatch Captain Artemis#122
DeathwatchWatch Master#124
DrukhariGrotesques#45
DrukhariHaemonculus#8
DrukhariRaider#35
DrukhariScourges#7
Genestealer CultsAberants#47
Genestealer CultsHybrid Metamorphs#58
Genestealer CultsReductus Saboteur#33
Grey KnightsBrother Captain#25
Grey KnightsGrand Master#48
Grey KnightsStrike Squad#51
Imperial AgentsCallidus Assassin#9
Imperial AgentsCulexus Assassin#69
Imperial AgentsEversor Assassin#105
Imperial AgentsExaction Squad#111
Imperial AgentsImperial Navy Breachers#113
Imperial AgentsInquisitor#115
Imperial AgentsInquisitor Coteaz#117
Imperial AgentsInquisitor Eisenhorn#119
Imperial AgentsInquisitor Greyfax#121
Imperial AgentsInquisitorial Henchmen#123
Imperial AgentsInquisitor Karamazov#125
Imperial AgentsLord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus#126
Imperial AgentsRogue Trader Entourage#127
Imperial AgentsSubductor Squad#128
Imperial AgentsVigilant Squad#26
Imperial AgentsVindicare Assassin#129
Imperial AgentsVoidsmen-at-Arms#130
Imperial KnightsCanis Rex#76
Imperial KnightsArmiger Helverin#22
Imperial KnightsArmiger Warglaive#43
Imperial KnightsKnight Castellan#83
Leagues of VotannBrôkhyr Iron-master#27
Leagues of VotannBrôkhyr Thunderkyn#78
Leagues of VotannCthonian Beserks#86
Leagues of VotannSagitaur#3
Leagues of VotannÛthar the Destined#44
NecronsObelisk#11
OrksBattlewagon#34
OrksHunta Rig#28
OrksZodgrod Wortsnagga#89
Space MarinesKayvaan Shrike#23
Space MarinesMarneus Calgar#42
Space MarinesRazorback#21
Space MarinesVanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs#103
Space WolvesArjac Rockfist#68
Space WolvesFenrisian Wolves#91
Space WolvesWolf Guard#74
T'au EmpireBreacher Team#88
T'au EmpireDarkstrider#12
T'au EmpireKroot Carnivore Squad#19
T'au EmpirePathfinder Team#79
T'au EmpirePiranhas#107
T'au EmpireRazorshark Strike Fighter#95
T'au EmpireStealth Battlesuits#67
Thousand SonsAhriman#108
Thousand SonsAhriman on Disc of Tzeentch#109
Thousand SonsExalted Sorcerer#59
Thousand SonsMagnus the Red#49
TyranidsBarbgaunts#6
TyranidsLictor#106
TyranidsRaveners#96
TyranidsScreamer Killer#24
World EatersLord Invocatus#100
World EatersWorld Eaters Chaos Spawn#18
World EatersWorld Eaters Daemon Prince#85

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I think his short range holds him back a lil but boy do I wish I had this model.

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Indeed... He can hack and slash not bad, but I love that Psychic YEET!

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