Editing Gabriel Angelos (section)

==On the Tabletop==
[[File:Gabriel-Angelos Mini.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Gabe has a Mini now! And you might want to convert a helmet onto it because by the Emperor did [[Forgeworld]] [[FAIL|fuck up his face, making him look like polnareff.]]]]
Recently, [[Forge World]] has seen fit to grace the tabletop with Gabriel's presence, based on his Dawn of War III appearance; while his official statline isn't quite as cheesy as the fan-made version below, he's still a force to be reckoned with.

{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Gabriel Angelos:''' || 185 ||6" || 2+ || 3+ || 4 || 4 || 6 || 4 || 9 || 2+/4++
|}

As you can tell, his BS is low for a named Space Marine character but that doesn't matter much since his only ranged weapons are grenades. Instead, he should be in melee at all times, ideally backed up by a squad of other Tartaros Terminators to take advantage of his higher-than normal movement compared to a standard Captain/Chapter Master in Terminator armor. His signature God-Splitter can be used in two modes: the standard mode acts like a basic Thunder Hammer but with the added ability to cause mortal wounds, while the Arcing Swing mode is a dedicated horde-killer that lowers its stats to +2S AP-1 1 D in order to give Gabe the ability to perform a number of attacks equal to the amount of units within 1" of him- and just as importantly, it lacks the -1 to hit that a Thunder Hammer would normally have. Between that and coming with the Chapter Master's ability to reroll failed hits, he's far better at fighting blobs than he looks. Finally, his Retribution rule give him one last "fuck you" to an enemy who removes his last wound in melee by letting him deal d3 mortal wounds to the model that took him out. He also has a little bit of added versatility when compared to other named Space Marine characters due to a quirk in the rules; as the Blood Ravens' primogenitor is unknown, Angelos doesn't need to be restricted to a Chapter-specific Warlord Trait like most named Space Marine characters and can use any of the available Chapter-specific Stratagems or Chapter Tactics, as well as the universal SM Warlord Traits that are normally restricted to the generic Captains/Chapter Masters. In fact he might be the best character you can take. For example, as not-Salamanders the 'Master Artisans' tactic will allow him and army to reroll hits during the Assault and Shooting phases, while letting him take the 'Anvil of Strength' WT to allow [[Anal_circumference|God-Splitter to hit at Str10!]] Iron Hands tactics, while not buffing his damage output will improve the Magpies durability on a +6. However the real reason to choose Iron Hands is that it allows you to use Captain [[Smashfucker]] in the same army as Gabriel.