Blood Angels' Reclusiarch/Ulrik the Slayer

Last one for today, here is a Blood Angels' Reclusiarch I painted along with my friends Ulrik the Slayer I painted for him.

Blood Angels are one of the few Chapters that still have access to 'good' Chaplains. They get 3 wound Chaplains as HQ and can take 2 wound Chaplains as Elites.

Unfortunately with 6th edition, Chaplains took a bit of a beating with the 'Nerf Maul'.

For starters, their weapons (Croziuz Arcanum) count as power mauls which are only AP4, and on top of that, the primary awesome thing is allowing the squad they join to be both Fearless, and in a turn they charge, they get to reroll misses (Death Company also get to reroll failed wound rolls!!)

The issue is the availability of the Divination school for some armies. Blood Angels Librarians get access to this school and the Primaris power lets you reroll all misses in shooting AND close combat. Its like twin linking all of the squads guns and giving them all UBER Masterworked melee weapons.

When a Librarian can do that (for less than the cost of a Chaplain) and be more killy because they can take Axes or Swords as their Force Weapon, its hard to justify taking a Chaplain.

Special rules dont make up for crappy weapons!