Incoming - Blood Angels - Analysis and Rumors

As Fletch posted a few days back, with just a week before the Tyranids being released we have word from GW on the next 40k army that is due - Blood Angels.


From the GW newsletter -

Incoming! Blood Angels

This April the Blood Angels will be re-launched with an all-new Codex and range of plastic and metal miniatures. One of the oldest and noblest of all Space Marine Chapters, the Blood Angels have stood fast against the enemies of the Imperium since the Great Crusade and it was their Primarch Sanguinius, who laid down his life to aid the Emperor against Horus in the final hours of the Warmaster’s rebellion. The new Codex explores the background and history of these superhuman warriors like never before, and contains new artwork depicting some of their greatest battles and most powerful champions.

The Blood Angels have always been a powerful close combat army and have been made even deadlier thanks to a range of specialist wargear, the ability to field Assault Squads as Troops choices, and more Dreadnoughts than any other Space Marine Chapter, including a Death Company Dreadnought and the fabled Furioso Dreadnought. The Sons of Sanguinius will be deep striking onto a tabletop near you this April – now’s the time to practice painting red.

A few interesting tidbits in here -
Specialist Wargear - what is this? The Blood Angels don't have any specialised wargear that I can think of - unless you count the un-updated equipment they have. I think this is referring to things bigger - Furioso Dreadnaught, Ball Predator, Overcharged Engines and the like.
More Dreadnaughts than any other chapter - So they will be able to field 7+? Currently vanilla Marines can field six using a Master of the Forge. Maybe they will get a similar ability and a HQ like Space Wolves.
Death Company Dreadnought - This is new (I think). Currently they have a Furioso - which is just murder - a Death Company Dreadnaught just sounds unstoppable.

The article also makes special mention of deep striking. From Warseer -

BTW what's with the deep striking on table reference.. A reference of ability to come (good lord, help our souls if it's an army of deep striking insane dreadnoughts and assault marines.) There was a rumour going around of Blood Angels getting a variant on the Heavy Duty Drop stratagem from Planetstrike, giving them the ability to Deep Strike any unit... including vehicles... such as Land Raiders.

Only time will tell if we will be seeing deep-striking Land Raiders. My money is on 'no' but we should be seeing more concrete rumors any day now.