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

4 months ago

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

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Space Marines		Army Rule #3

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Corpuscarii Electro-Priests	#97
Adeptus Mechanicus	Onager Dunecrawler	#110
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Adeptus Mechanicus	Technoarcheologist	#104
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	Black Templars Gladiator	#102
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Astorath	#131
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Brother Corbulo	#132
Blood Angels	Captain Tycho	#133
Blood Angels	Chief Librarian Mephiston	#134
Blood Angels	Commander Dante	#135
Blood Angels	Death Company Dreadnought	#136
Blood Angels	Death Company Intercessors	#137
Blood Angels	Death Company Marines	#138
Blood Angels	Death Company Marines with Jump Packs	#139
Blood Angels	Furioso Dreadnought	#140
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	Knight Abominant	#94
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Deathwing Terminator Squad	#99
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Dark Angels	Land Speeder Vengeance	#101
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Deathwatch Terminator Squad	#112
Deathwatch	Deathwatch Veterans	#114
Deathwatch	Fortis Kill Team	#116
Deathwatch	Indomitor Kill Team	#118
Deathwatch	Kill Team Cassius	#120
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
Deathwatch	Watch Captain Artemis	#122
Deathwatch	Watch Master	#124
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Eversor Assassin	#105
Imperial Agents	Exaction Squad	#111
Imperial Agents	Imperial Navy Breachers	#113
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor	#115
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Coteaz	#117
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Eisenhorn	#119
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Greyfax	#121
Imperial Agents	Inquisitorial Henchmen	#123
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Karamazov	#125
Imperial Agents	Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus	#126
Imperial Agents	Rogue Trader Entourage	#127
Imperial Agents	Subductor Squad	#128
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Agents	Vindicare Assassin	#129
Imperial Agents	Voidsmen-at-Arms	#130
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Marines	Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs	#103
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Piranhas	#107
T'au Empire	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Lictor	#106
Tyranids	Raveners	#96
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85