Random Monday : Index Astartes PDF Downloads for Blood Angels and Flesh Tearers

Monday, July 2nd, 2007, 12:15 amRoys

A couple of Index Astartes PDFs detailing the history and doctrine of two Space Marines chapters in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, namely the Blood Angels - one of the First Founding Legions and the the Flesh Tearers - one of the successor chapters of the Blood Angels.

These two PDFs were (supposedly) released in conjunction with the recent availability of the entire range of Blood Angels miniatures in the UK online store (I always thought the Blood Angels range were available for online purchase but I might be wrong …)

The fluff for the savage Flesh Tearers Chapter is quite interesting - currently there are only 400 (and dwindling) Space Marines (usually a full Chapter has ten companies of 100 men each) left in the Chapter due to losses attributed to the Black Rage inherited from their Founding Chapter, the Blood Angels. Due to the low numbers of active Space Marines, they have no reserves and each Marine is proficient in Assault, Tactical and Devastator duties unlike other more conventional Chapters.


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A Flesh Tearer Space Marine

Download the Blood Angels Index Astartes PDF and/or the Flesh Tearers Index Astartes PDF from Games Workshop UK here.

Really hope that Games Workshop will release the rest of the Index Astartes articles as free downloads in the future, especially the Chaos Space Marines ones when the new Codex and miniatures come out this year or next year (according to rumors)

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6 comments:

  1. gnome, Monday, July 2nd, 2007, 12:37 am

    Gotta love 40k fluff. Excellent find once again munkey!

     
  2. The Download Munkey, Monday, July 2nd, 2007, 2:13 am

    Hey thanks, gnome :)

    GW does seem to a bit more generous nowdays with their stuff, starting with Fall of Medusa V and the recent Nemesis Crown PDFs :)

     
  3. The Elderly, Monday, July 2nd, 2007, 12:13 pm

    never played warhammer but the game concept and spac marines enthrall me…..

     
  4. The Download Munkey, Monday, July 2nd, 2007, 6:09 pm

    me too, I only played warhammer 40K in Dawn of War. Nonetheless, any of these PDFs are precious resources because the damn books that they come from are hopelessly out of print :(

     
  5. gnome, Wednesday, July 4th, 2007, 3:45 am

    And even when not oop they are not as cheap as one might think…

     
  6. The Download Munkey, Thursday, July 5th, 2007, 6:20 pm

    yeah, I agree completely - the damn art of wh40k cost close to SGD 100 where I live, but it’s nice to see Adrian Smith’s art on paper :)

     

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