Gabriel Angelos

Gabriel Angelos is one of the few non-Sphess Wolf space marines that actually has some hair, not to mention a huge mouth.

Gabriel Angelos is the chapter master of the Blood Ravens (as of retribution). The company first appears in the Dawn of War game. A captain of the Blood Raven third company, and therefore not chapter master, and anyone who does not believe this is so and mistook him for Chapter Master is clearly a frothing juvenile with the attention span of an ignominious son of a rodent, Gabriel Angelos was thought long to be Chapter Master of the Blood Ravens, this had been thus disproved by the long awaited reveal of the Chapter Master, who is a scheming Jew and Heretic called Azariah Kyras. In the many battles that transpired during the Campaign of Chaos Rising, Gabriel Angelos stayed on the Litany of Fury and did very little apart from kill stealing in the final battle. His phoning it in this time made even more egregious since he wasn't stuck in the warp, lazy old codger that he is. This may be a clever ploy however to 'dispose' of a certain HAIRITIC, by sending him on suicide missions while he watches Eldar porn *BLAM!* HERESY!. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras the Jew through the Honor Guard leader Diomedes. However, depending on the Force Commander's actions, Diomedes can be persuaded to see that Kyras is a heretic or can simply be slain.

At the end of the game, Angelos made this speech;

"Brothers, we are victorious! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and defeated the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle yet remains, our chapter is in the hands of a madmen and a heretic, Kyras (The Jew), he who should be the greatest of us, has bargained away his soul to the Powers of Chaos! While we, are branded as renegades and traitors, my brothers, this CANNOT, THIS -WILL NOT- STAND. (Insert Force Commander's fate here) LET NONE FIND US WANTING, BY CHAPTER AND EMPEROR."

The rest of the speech regarding the Force Commander and his men depends on how well you take care or nor going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the Force of Retribution within the Chapter. Maintaining a neutral purity level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone, or finally, at full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord.

Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other Spess Mehreen chapters, Gabe is cool and calm in most situations - like Vance Motherfucking Stubbs. Instead of first killing the enemies and then helping the population, Gabriel manages just as planned tactics that let him do both things at the same time.

Apparently Gabriel had to call the Inquisition after a recruiting excursion to his home planet, Cyrene, when he discovered some heretical (no one really knows) shit going on. The Inquisition launched an Exterminatus to fix it, which resulted in Gabe turning into a mournful bastard and also the only mournful bastard left alive from Cyrene.

Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was Isador Akios, a Librarian that served in Gabriel's company. Isador got lured to Chaos by SIINDRIIII!! and his Chaos Bongo, however, which obviously led the man to treachery and betrayal. Later on Gabe fought one on one against Isador. Isador blamed Gabe for the Exterminatus of Cyrene, but Gabe claimed that he did it for the good of humanity. Isador may have further argued the point, but Gabriel instead decided to cut the bullshit and to perform a time-honored Space Marine cleansing ritual to free Isador from the dark gods; the ritual itself closely resembled emptying a bolter round into Isador's head.

The Midget Goto wrote a series of DOW books (this pleased him) which were about Gabriel's adventures, but since this only provoked Nerd Rage from both fans and Redshirts alike, his stuff is not CANON. Speaking of Novels, one apparently claims that Gabriel was an Imperial Guardsmen before becoming a Space Marine. This is bullshit of the highest order, as the biological implants of a Space Marine can only transplanted into candidates at a young age and many only join the ranks as full fledges battle brothers at something close to 18. That means that Gabe must have been something between 8 - 13 when he became an infantryman in the Guard. Additionally, according to the Midget Goto, he's a 'symbol of hope to the Biel-Tan Eldar'. Despite the Biel-Tan being the most racist and xenocidal craftworld of all.

After losing his pal Isador, Gabriel got very lonely, but luckily Farseer Macha became kind of intrigued with him and his Spess Mehreen badassery, and it is believed that Gabriel and Macha dated. In fact some claim that Gabe Angelos claimed Macha's virginity - this, of course, for great justice - in an effort to create a super Spess Mehreen Psyker that someday may become the first Blood Raven metal figure. He was put under investigation by the Inquisition under the charge of frolicking with that piece of hawt alien ASS, but the case was closed after the Inquisitor in charge of the investigation was "accidentally" shot out from a certain Battle Barge's bombardment cannon.

Gabe has the ability to call devastating and imbalanced Orbital Bombardments on enemy HQs and he has an inquisitorial, demon ass-kicking and/or killing hammer named Godsplitter, given to him by his new Inquisitor friend Mordecai Toth.

In Dawn of War II Gabe is back, now a full-fledged hair-etic, with a bitchin' cape, his old Daemonhammer and several drop-pods of fuck you to share with the Tyranids. He's so awesome that his battle-cry makes everyone around him almost as awesome as he is, and so becomes invulnerable for a few seconds, and he can hit someone so hard that their motherfucking armor shatters. You only get to play him during the final mission in the original DoWII though.

Gabriel in his most Awesome in Retribution

In Dawn of War II Retribution, gabe gets his ass pwnd by Kyrus the previous chapter master who turned to the dark gods during Chaos Rising. After getting said ass pwnd (literally) he got smashed by Kyras's demon fists of fisting). He gets saved by Diomedes (you) via spamming orbital bombardments on Kyrus's face. And lastly Gabriel comes back at the end of the game as the Chapter Master of the motherfucking BLAHD REHVENS. So, let me make this perfectly clear to you: Thule gets cut up by a Warrior beast and has to be interred in a Dreadnaught. Angelos is crushed by the flaming fists of a Daemon Prince of Khorne and just needs several bionic implants.. What? Anyway, this maybe explained by the fact that the aforementioned flaming fists were just flaming fists (in other worlds sterile) while the aforementioned Warrior Beast had all sorts of shit on it's claws THAT COULD MELT POWER ARMOR AND FLESH LIKE SOME REALLY STRONG ACID OR SOMETHING, either that or his Plot armor was just strong enough to survive getting mauled by a Daemon Price.

(Which begs the question how the fuck was he able to kill SIIINNDRIII the Daemon Prince back in DoWI and come back one piece.. wut)

It is said that the retribution 'Epic end' is a combination of the Eldar, Imperial Guard and space marine endings, as well as parts of the Chaos Space Marine ending. Taldeer's soul stone is rescued, the Blood Ravens purify their chapter, Castor gets the head of Kyrus mounted in his already impressive trophy gallery, and Eliphas will regain his badassness and become a Daemon Prince.

He also has a sexy old man voice and several of the most broken (and awesome) abilities in the game. Though he is second to Eliphas in this regard, who with a fully upgraded Sweeping Doom can ROFLstomp an entire army with a single sweep.

ANGRY MARINE?

Rumor has it, Gabriel Angelos is actually an ANGRY MARINE. On the new The Last Stand map, he comes down as the last boss and goes FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU in a way that he's late, you killed/slaughtered all xenos aswell as some other space marines (marines that are speculated to be ultramarines -insert fap effect- as their colors loosely resemble them), and he has to vent off but there's none around except you. Don't mind the xenos, not even if you're one, but killing an ultramarine on his watch is enough for him to go FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU.

Also, this rumor somehow explains why he calls Exterminatus upon 2 planets. Not one, but two. He got a habit of this to vent off enough ANGER to keep his cover as a Blood Raven. God knows how many times he did this before.

Codex: Gabriel Angelos

If you ever wanted to play a cheesy Captain for fun, here's your reasonable statline.

Pts:120|WS:6|BS:5|S:5|T:5|W:3|I:4|A:5|Ld:10|Sv: 3+

Wargear:

• Daemonhammer: This sanctified Daemonhammer counts as a power weapon and ignores a daemon's invulnerable save. This cannot be replaced.
• Plasma Pistol: See Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook. Can be swapped for a Bolt Pistol or Master-Crafted Bolt Pistol for free.
• Artificer Armor: See Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook. This cannot be replaced.
• Iron Halo: See Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook.

Special Rules

And They Shall Know No Fear, Furious Assault, Counter-attack.

My Foe Shall Fall!

Use during assault and can be repeated per turn at will. Gabe swings his daemonhammer with all his might at a single enemy, causing massive damage to his target but his attacks will only be limited to 2 for that turn, this ability also counts as 1 attack. Roll a d6 on the charge, if the result is 1-2: the attack automatically misses, if the result is 3-4: the attack will count as S7 and ignores his opponent's armor save, if the result is 5-6, attack counts as S7 and Gabe's target cannot use armor saves for the duration of the game.

My faith is my shield!

This ability applies only to Imperial allies. Gabriel stands as a shining beacon of the Emperor's faith and fury among his brothers in arms, inspiring them to fight on with greater vigor. All units within 24' of Gabriel gains a +5 invulnerable save. This ability does not apply to units that already have an invulnerable save that are either innate or from wargear.

Redemption

Gabriel fights to redeem his chapter, the Blood Ravens, of the sins of their Chapter Master in the eyes of the Emperor and Imperium and will go through great lengths to see that fulfilled. This ability automatically gives Gabriel the "Feel No Pain" rule. When Gabriel is killed, he also has a chance to be resurrected in combat. Roll a d6 on his death, if the result is lower than 5: Gabriel dies and is removed from the game as a casualty, if the result is 5: Gabriel comes back into the game with only 1 wound, if the result is 6: Gabriel comes back with all 3 wounds.

Taste the Fury of the Blood Ravens and the Emperor!

Gabriel burns with zealotry whenever he is in the field of battle. Whenever he is deployed to the field as reinforcements via deep strike: he and his retinue can assault on the same turn they enter the field.

Chapter Veteran

Gabriel has dealt with all kinds of xenos, heretics, and mutants, in the galaxy, and thus has more than a thousand years of combat experience in dealing with the enemies of man. He always hits everyone in close combat on a +3.

External Links:

• Gabriel Angelos can now be played online via mod