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[[Image:Gabriel_dow.JPG|thumb|right|Gabriel Angelos.]]
[[Image:Gabriel_dow.JPG|300px|thumb|right|Gabriel Angelos is one of the few non-[[Space Wolves|Sphess Wolf]] space marines that actually has some hair, not to mention a huge mouth.]]
Gabriel Angelos is the Captain of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company. The company first appears in the [[Dawn of War]] game.
{{topquote|Had the Emperor not intended I suffer, then I would feel no pain.|Gabriel Angelos in ''[[Dawn of War#Dawn of War|Dawn of War]]''}}


He is so badass that he has been called chapter master without actually being the chapter master.
'''Gabriel Angelos''', AKA Gabriel Mangelos, is a commander of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[Space Marines]]. He first appears in ''[[Dawn of War]] 1'' as third company Captain, and as of ''DoW 2: Retribution'' he has succeeded that scheming heretic Azariah Kyras as Chapter Master.


Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other [[Space Marines|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|just as planned]] tactics that let him do both things at the same time.
Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other [[Space Marines|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|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.


Apparently Gabriel had to call the [[Inquisition]] after a recruiting excursion to his home planet, Cyrene, when he discovered some traitorous 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.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Q34IEdK-8 He also plays the grand piano], making him one of, if not the only non-[[Noise Marines]] known to play a musical instrument. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zMF53jmbE He's not the only one...]. He also has a tendency to yell "Dick" while throwing dildos at peoples faces ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1Nd_2zIrY&list=PL0D8C3E4B80598B78 especially if those are Chaos Space Marines or Traitors]).


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.
Angelos is nearly universally liked by /tg/ and indeed the Warhammer community as a whole. He's strong, heroic, and noble, while compassionate, intelligent, and perhaps one of the few objectively good people in all of Warhammer while still being grimdark (in fact, he's basically [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Ser Davos Seaworth]] in 40k). And unlike [[Marneus Calgar|some]] [[Kaldor Draigo|others]] he manages to pull this off in a believable manner, is realistically flawed and generally was dragged through hell to accomplish his deeds. While not everyone thinks that Relic did the best job with Warhammer, few will say that Gabriel is a poorly done character. Problem, Ward?


The [[C.S.Goto|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|CANON]].
==Gabe's role in Dawn of War I==
Gabe commanded the Blood Ravens 3rd Company who were tasked with stopping an Ork invasion of the planet [[Tartarus]] led by [[Warboss]] [[Orkamungus]]. After wading through the Orks and assorted Eldar, it's eventually revealed that [[Bale]], a [[Chaos Lord]], was orchestrating everything and planning to recover an artifact called the "[[METAL BOXES|Maledictum]]", which imprisoned a greater daemon of Khorne (It wasn't a Bloodthirster, but probably either its Exalted variant or a daemon prince).


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.
During the campaign he proves to be a pretty reasonable dude, saving civilians and diverting resources to protect them, proving that one does not have to be grimdark 24/7 in the shitpile battlefield of a galaxy to be a famous character. Unlike [[Marines Malevolent|certain assholes]], they care for the innocent, and spend extraordinary effort to rescue people and actually walk the walk when all you are what remains between [[Ork|retarded beligerent fungus]], [[Chaos|spiky faggots on crack with dental issues]] and a horde of innocent men, women and children.


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.
Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was [[Isador Akios]], a Librarian who served in Gabriel's company. Bale's [[Chaos Sorcerer]] lieutenant, [[Sindri Myr]], telepathically subverted Isador against the Imperial forces, which led to him taking the Maledictum when it was unearthed. 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 taint of the dark gods; [[Blam|the ritual itself closely resembled discharging a bolter round directly into Isador's head at point-blank range]].


In [[Dawn of War II]] Gabe is back and now has 1. a bitchin' cape 2. like invincibility or some shit.
After the death of Isador, Gabe got his shit together and faced off against Sindri, now a daemon prince of Khorne (Much to Khorne's dismay, a sorcerer even offering tribute to him). He eventually succeeded in bashing Sindri's head into his spine and saving Tartarus from becoming a daemon world. His last act before leaving Tartarus was to smash the Maledictium with God-Splitter, [[Mordecai Toth|Inquisitor Mordecai Toth]]'s daemon hammer, even after the warnings of [[Macha]] that he'd doom everyone by doing it. In Just as Planned fashion, it did; rather than banishing the bound daemon (which given that God Splitter is an Daemonhammer built to kill daemons would be an expected out come), destroying the Maledictum freed it. Based on the daemon's endgame gloating monologue, all the "blood sacrifice" of wartime death (mostly Angelos's personal handiwork, including Orkamungus, Bale, and finally Sindri) had strengthened the daemon enough for it to escape the shattering intact. Gabriel then had to live with the fact that he was responsible for its freedom and would fight it if it should ever appear again.


== Jesus Christ, if You Have a Soul this Fanfic Will Make You Crazy From All Conceivable Angles==
==Gabe's role in DOWII==
[When I first read this fanfic, it made me angry.  So bad was the grammar, so incoherent was the plot, and so childish was the grasp of important writing conventions that I was lead to fume about it every time I visited 1d4Chan. I prodded at it in my mind, like a persistent canker, wondering if anybody had informed the author that he should never write again, or if perhaps he was simply left alone because he may have been a six year-old. Originally, the whole article was written like this fanfic, but I sat down one evening and fixed the information about Gabriel's life; I was able to rewrite the "factual" stuff to make it readable since informative writing is less complex. For these fanfics, however, nothing could be done. At first I changed the story in small ways to emphasize the existence of redundancies and errors, but this left me unsatisfied, because now it appears that perhaps the author intentionally wrote like an idiot. Now, upon reflection, I've decided to simply insert comments to indicate what I've changed and to speculate on why the author must have chosen to write the way he did. I can only hope this helps future generations -Ed.]
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 armour shatters. You only get to play him during the final mission in the original DoWII though.


''Are you Mad Human!? We must cordinate attack or we will pe''... - [Elipses followed by a dash indicates that the silence has been cut off early -Ed] ''¡It Matters Not Alien! ''[Using punctuation like this leads me to wonder if the original author is maybe literate but just doesn't speak fluent English -Ed.]'' SSSINDRIII and his chaos bongo stand no chance.'' Gabriel Angelos gave a warcry and leaded he's troops running towards what seemed doom, they d Smashed and shotted down anything that came nearby [If I'm not mistaken, that was an ebmarrassingly stupid sentence. The original author used this kind of descriptive terminology to explain Gabriel's combative exploits in his history section, too -Ed.].WE ARE BLOOD RAVENS !  WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR LITERACY !  DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT PUTTING A QUOTATION MARK AT THE END OF THIS SENTENCE OR AFTER PUNCTUATION ! [I added the last two "capslock key broeken" sentences out of spite -Ed.]
==Gabe's role in Chaos Rising==
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 HAIR-ETIC, by sending him on suicide missions. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras (The Blood Raven' Schmuck Master and Chief Dick) through the Honor Guard leader Apollo 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.


''This Mon Keigh '', tought macha'' its either stupid or insane! They have no tactical manouvers at all, no doubt they will perish at the might of the Demon Prince.''
At the end of the game, Angelos made this speech;


But the Farseer was wrong , the Alpha Legion and sindri wich had just acended to Demonhood  where defeated by Gabriel and He's forces due to a very badass tactic that was applied in combat and micro-management [There you are. Motherfucking. Descriptive. In the Grim Darkness, wars are won by badass tactics and micromanagement -Ed.]. ''Eat poop and die!'' cried Angelos as he smashed Sindriii with Godspliter, ''You Demonfag!'' [Gabriel has a bit of a "no swearing" policy on his warship, the Litany of Mothers Reading Over Your Shoulders -Ed.]
"''My brothers, victory is ours! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and banished the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle remains ahead. Our chapter is in the hands of a madman and a heretic. Kyras, he who should be the greatest of us all, 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."


''How is this possible?! He actually did it!''... Macha was left speechless ,But then the issue of the Chaos Bongo came [It came like a three hundred pound gorilla! Oh, man, you should have seen it! -Ed.].
The rest of the speech regarding the Force Commander and his men depends on how well you take care of not going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the 4th Company's Captain and Force of Retribution within the Chapter, partial Purity leads both you and Angelos to be declared Renegades by Kyras. Maintaining a neutral purity or slightly corrupted level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone. At half+ but not at full corruption, Angelos brutally kills you on the spot with his Thunder Hammer. At full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord and palling it up with the Black Legion (as the traitor before you did). He can't do it there and then because you took your ship for a spin in the Eye of Terror.


''Do not destroy the Bongo! ,You will doom us all!''
==Gabe's role in DOWII Retribution==
[[Image:Rt sm gabriel 01.jpg|thumb|right|Gabriel at his most Awesome in Retribution]]
In Dawn of War II Retribution, Gabe gets his ass pwnd by Kyras, the previous Chapter Master who turned to the dark gods during Chaos Rising. After getting said ass pwnd (literally), he got smashed by Kyras' demon fists of fisting. He gets saved by [[Apollo Diomedes|Diomedes]] (the player) via spamming orbital bombardments on Kyras' face, thus proving that [[dakka]] > chaos.


''Ignore that 4,000 year old Virgin Captain!'' [This was probably extremely depressing for Macha to hear. It's bad to still be a virgin after however many hundreds to thousands of years, but when it becomes such common knowledge that even the Mon-Keigh are yelling about it on the battlefield. Well, that's just sad -Ed.] said The Inquisitor Mordecai ''Destroy it before it leads others to ruin!''
Lastly, Gabriel comes back at the end of the game as the Chapter Master of the BLUHD REHVENS. So, lets make this perfectly clear to you: Thule gets cut up by a Warrior beast and has to be interred in a [[Dreadnought]] (because of poison). Angelos is crushed by the flaming fists of a Daemon Prince of Khorne. Chapter Master Angelos is now mostly bionics, which, when combined with his profound dedication to the Emperor and Imperium as a whole, makes him a kind of foil for [[Lugft Huron]]. Anyway, this may be explained by the fact that the aforementioned flaming fists were just flaming fists (in other words, sterile, though chaos infused) 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 fucking AWESOMENESS or raw [[plot armor]] allowed him to live


''You know not what you do! We cannot allow this! Take that Human down!''
<s>(Which begs the question how the fuck was he able to kill SIIINNDRIII the Daemon Prince back in DoW and come back one piece.. wut)</s> ''(Sindri merely tapped a small portion of the Daemon of the Maledictum's power, which while making him significantly more powerful than an ordinary daemon prince, does not hold a candle to Kyras becoming ONE with the Daemon of the Maledictum AND gaining enough favour through mass slaughter to ascend normally, making him quite likely the most powerful new daemon prince since the Daemon Primarchs)''


''NOOOOO!'' Cried Gabriel! And he shattered the Chaos Bongo with the might of he's thunder kickass killing demon hammer!.
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 and rebuild their chapter, Castor gets the head of Kyras mounted in his already impressive trophy gallery, and Eliphas will regain his badassness and become a Daemon Prince.


'' You Retarded FOOL!  You have dammed us all!''
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.


''Damnation and doom can kiss my bolter end.'' Said Gabriel [Absolutely no swearing on the Litany of Mothers Reading Over Your Shoulders! -Ed].
==Old Gabe's return in DoW III==
[[Image:Gabriel-DoW3.jpg|thumb|300px|Angelos in DoW3 in his new shiny armor]]


''Well done Gabriel! I knew you would do the right thing for the imperioum of man ''[It's heresy to not capitalize "Imperium of Man" -Ed.]'', now lets go before the warpstorm engulf us all.'' And Gabriel and he's troops leaded embarked [I can't count the number of times that I've leaded embarked to or on something -Ed.] on a thunderhawk that took them to their fleetleaving Tartarus to the Maledictum and the warp storm to their own fate
For now we don't know much about Gabe's role in DoW III other than that [[Magnus the Red|he's lost his right eye]] and that he's confirmed as Chapter Master and he will be the commander of Space Marines and their Imperial Knights allies in the new story. It also appears he will be donning Tartaros (<s>or Cataphractii...nobody knows</s> its a heavily modified Tartaros, if you look at the chest section from behind its quite clear.) Terminator Armor (that somehow allows him to [[C.S. Goto| ninja flip into enemy formations while dropping Godsplitter on them like he was in fucking Cirque du Soleil]]) [[Blam|He also has a new voice actor...again.]]


''This Mon Keigh was insane!'' she tought Macha had never seen someone so do so much folish acts in a row [As indicated by "She thought Macha had..." the author has clearly introduced some mysterious, new female character into his story. However, just as mysteriously as she arrives, she disapears and is never referred to again -Ed.], but then again had he not surpassed all the obstacles that assured doom? Had he not defeated the Alpha Legion and its Demon Prince? Maybe he was not insane, maybe he was just too badass to be true [Maybe just badass enough to save the president -Ed.]. she didnt know how to feel, if either angry or impressed about it.
He leads the Blood Ravens to the planet of Acheron, battling with the Eldar and Orks in a race for a powerful weapon known as "The Spear of Khaine". Gabe, however, desires not its power as he believes the Spear to be corrupted (and will corrupt any who wields it), and swears that no one will obtain the spear until his dying breath. He then has a heart-to-heart with Macha about smashing the Maledictum.
Then She fleed with her troops to the nearest webway.


[[Wat|He then teams up with Gorgutz and Macha to defeat a bloodthirster. After the fight, he just... leaves them be. He doesn't try to kill them or anything, he just let's them fuck off, I mean yay the eldar maybe, but Orks?]] [[Grimdark|Because apparently Relic forgot what Warhammer is about.]]


''Ohh Eldrad Will surely be Pissed when he gets to know about this.''Tought Macha as she took off her helmet. But then her toughts moved back to Gabriel, such fearless person [He doesn't afraid of anything -Ed.]. He embraced the danger with such determination that the day would end up being he's at the end [It gets really tiring reading even this far. Has anyone ever watched Manos the Hands of Fate? Even with the MST3K commentary? It's like that. Even if you make fun of the movie the entire time, it's just so inextricably boring -Ed.].  
==In books==
{{WTF}}
{{heresy}}
The [[C.S.Goto|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|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 fledged battle brothers at something close to 18 (the only exception is the [[Angry Marines]]; their writefaggotry implies they can recruit from adults too, as well as, presumably, the Space Wolves because they only recruit from people who have already fought gloriously in battle and children don't really do very well with fighting). That means that Gabe must have been something between 8 - 13 when he became an infantryman in the Guard, which is impossible because the conscription age of the guard is usually 13 ([[Cadia]] notwithstanding), and they usually don't conscript unless they're under constant attack and are running out of trained guardsmen to throw at the enemy. 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. He also had a thing with Macha which ended when she had to turn herself into some kind of green warpfire to stop the Necrons at Lorn V and disappeared from the story afterwards.


She didnt know much about her father wich was presumely adoptive, for she was from beil-tan while he was from Ulthwe. She had spend a rough childhood of favoritism during her childhood with her childhood Sister Taldeer wich was Eldrad's real childhood daughter.
Dammit Goto! Just stick to putting multilazers on the multilazers on the multilazers. So that you can shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers. It might be retarded but it can be written off as an in-universe quirk of some idiot with a few spare multilazers lying around. [[Matt_Ward|Completely '''fucking up''' the fluff by re-writing the fundamental motivations and character of entire races]] can not be overlooked in the same way!
Tought Now, she now was among her people at Biel-Tan wich are true warriors that seek to revive the glory of the days when the Eldar had an empire across the stars. From all the Craftworlds they where the one growing back to what they used to be in the past. Strong and flourishing, This made Macha feel like she was with family  at the contrary of her childhood on Ulthwe wich made her childhood sad every time her childhood she remembered [The original author used the word "childhood" a lot in this paragraph. I added the word a few more times because, Hell, it couldn't make this fanfic any worse than it already is! -Ed].


The mission she had just carried was something that the Council of Biel-Tan had done in order to aid their sister craftworld Ulthwe , and something that may lead a catastrophe for the craftworld in the future. They knew of her failure already, for the Eldar are psychic Beings and they communicate as much trought telepathy as they do by speaking [You know, sometimes I think about how embarrassing that would be, to live in a world in which everybody can read each other's minds. I wonder if we'd just become dismissive of obtuse or offensive thoughts, or if we'd have to be explaining ourselves all the time to one another -Ed].
A more recent short story reveals what exactly happened on Cyrene- while there were no explicit signs of corruption present there at first glance, the planet was just about ready to launch a full rebellion against the Imperium; in light of the discovery that psykers were no longer being taken to the Black Ships and that trade with xenos was the norm, the Inquisition declared the situation to be grounds for Exterminatus. The one week of orbital bombardment was actually preceded by an all-out assault on the ground by the Blood Ravens and the Grey Knights, because apparently the Inquisition wanted to be absolutely sure nothing could possibly survive (that, or they were afraid killing too many psykers at once would cause bad things to happen). Gabe had hope he could save his father, a retired guardsman, from the purge, but to his horror he learned that his father was one of the rebellion's leaders and had despised the Imperium ever since Gabriel had been chosen to become a Space Marine. With a heavy heart, Gabriel had no choice [[Grimdark|but to execute his own father]](<s>Doesn't this mean that Gabe is pretty young for a Space Marine? I mean, his father is still alive</s> You don't have to be a space marine to live for centuries as rejuvenate treatments are available for higher ranking Imperials like former officers). No wonder he refused to talk about what happened on Cyrene.


Eldrad was furious when he heard of this news [As was foretold in an earlier part of the story. Foreshadowing anyone? No? Ok -Ed.], he didnt wanted to speak with the council but with the woman that had led the operation and that was Macha. When she came to confront him, Eldrad scolded her like a child in childhood and compared her to the succesful of he's other daughter Taldeer [I did add "childhood" one more time. It just seemed right -Ed.]. Wich had acomplished various achievements, one of them in wich she succesfuly tricked various fractions in Lorn V.
==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.


Once Macha finished enduring the scold by her father she left and decided to relax for as much as little as she could due to Biel-Tan had constant operations and the only time of peace that they knew was when they prepared for war.  It was oxymoron crazyness [Sometimes an oxymoron can be used to convey additional meaning and feelings of conflict. In this case, an oxymoron has simply been used to not make any sense within the explicit context of the writing -Ed.].
{| 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++
|}


She was sad and frustrated, almost crying. Why did all of this had to happen to her , she had only tried to do the right thing but she was never good enought. She tought on her sister and on how easely she accomplished things and of how easy her life whent.
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.
She decided that this was not going to help her on feeling any good until it came to her mind then.


That Mon Keigh on steroids that she has just met! The Space Marine Captain! How strong he had been, how brave and confident he was. Then she noticed it, she felt good when she tought on him , she liked it.
==Codex: Gabriel Angelos==
For that brief Mission on Tartarus Macha had come to admire that Space Marine called Gabriel Angelos, she wanted to be like him but she couldnt afford those toughts for he had he's own porpuse during that time.
If you ever wanted to play a cheesy Captain/Chapter Master for fun based off of Gabe's DoW/DoW2 appearances, here's your statline.


But now that was past, and she had no reason to fight him now. Well except he was a mon Keigh, but screw it [A common thought process among important political figures. "Well, fucking a chimpanzee would destroy my career, but screw it!" -Ed.]! If her sister could hang out with that Assasin then Macha couldnt see the reason of why not go and give a quick look at Gabriel [You know, I'm from that "bad ending" camp of Love Can Bloom readers. I know it's basically well accepted that LIIVI survived and ran away with Taldeer, but ask yourself: what's the most Grimdark possibility? Death and failure. It doesn't really change how stories should be written since the interpretation of greatest mass should probably be the deciding one, but I've completely lost interest in this guy's fanfic here in any case -Ed].
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Gabriel Angelos:''' || 200 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|-
| '''Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos:''' || 260 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}


She was feeling good now, and she dressed quickly with her wargear and with a group of Rangers they whent to the Location of Gabrie Angelos, at Rahe's Paradise [This is not why Macha went to Rahe's Paradise -Ed].
'''Chapter Master''': Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos possesses the rank of Chapter master, and as such, may be accompanied by an Honour Guard squad, in addition, he may call down a single orbital bombardment per game (see Codex: Space Marines).


== This is the Second Part of a Mind-Rendingly Bad Fanfic==
'''Wargear''':
* '''Master Crafted Power Sword (Captain Only)''': Can be Swapped for Godsplitter for 10 pts.
* '''Godsplitter (Only weapon when as Chapter Master)''': Force Weapon that's Master crafted to be usable by those with Pi-Rho psyker levels
* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Is replaced when Gabriel chooses to take Godsplitter.
* '''Artificer Armour''': See Codex Space Marines.
* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)'''
*'''Iron Halo''' (Captain only)
* '''Frag Grenades'''
* '''Krak Grenades'''


Rahe's paradise was really a paradise, it had blue skies, Green plains and crystal rivers [As opposed to death worlds, which have rocky plains, no rivers, and possibly a lacking atmosphere - Ed.]. It was also home of a very strong population of humans of wich the blood ravens replenished their ranks.
'''Special Rules''':
Today they had come to do so, replenish their ranks with even more members and to fill the loss of those from tartarus. Chaplains where setting the Blood trails and Gabriel Angelos overlooked the process.
* '''Independent Character'''
All the kids wanted to become space marines but only the strongest ones in spirit and physically would eventually become one [That is to say they that all the strongest kids would evenually become one single entity. The ultimate kid -Ed.].
* '''Eternal Warrior'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to "borrow" any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Inspiring Presence''': Even before becoming Chapter Master, Gabriel was known for his uncommon leadership capabilities. All friendly units in a range of 18" can use Gabriel's Ld when testing for Morale, Pinning and Fear.
* '''My Foe Shall Fall!''': Gabriel has squared off in combat against some of the most terrifying and powerful foes the Blood Ravens have faced in recent centuries, including colossal Daemons and Tyranid Bio-terrors. Gabriel's close-combat attacks against Monstrous Creatures gain a +1 to I.
* '''My Faith is My Shield! (Chapter Master Only)''': Despite the heresy and treachery that has plagued the Blood Ravens in recent years, Gabriel has never wavered from his faith and maintained absolute loyalty to the Emperor. In combat Gabriel channels his purity through the hallowed wards inscribed into his blessed armour. Once per game, Gabriel may give himself a 2++ Invulnerable save for the duration of a single combat phase, regardless of whether it is yours or your opponent's.
* '''Cybernetic Enhancements (Chapter Master Only)''': After his battle with Kyras much of Gabriel's body had to be rebuilt with so much cybernetics that he would put [[Marneus Calgar]] to shame. As a result he is more resilient than before. This grants him +1 Toughness (already included in profile).


It was a beautiful day, and Gabriel was calm until he recived an invoice call from fellow captain Davian Thule [Then, many historians believe, he became angry. Nobody has yet ascertained why -Ed]. This was about an operation that would be about co-operating with the sisters of battle from the sacred rose. Angelos told the chaplains that he would go take a walk to pray for the Emprah.
{| class="wikitable"
As soon as he got far enough he then resumed he's [In the Grim Darkness where there is only war, "his" has been replaced by "he's" when referring to certain events in order to confuse enemies -Ed] chat with Davian.
|-
He told him that the chapter and the 3rth company had no interest on such operations and had other prioritys [Avoiding a grasp of spelling is also used to obfuscate intended meaning from spies -Ed] right now. The reason of why Thule was very interested was because he had something for a certian sister of battle of that order but again that wasnt gabriel's concern.
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
Gabriel, do you know how a Space Marine its born? [Where does babby come from? How is babby formed? -Ed.]
|-
| '''Godsplitter''' || - || 10 || 1 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Concussive, Strikedown, Anathemic Presence
|}
* '''Godsplitter''': God-Splitter is a powerful Daemonhammer gifted to Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company by Inquisitor Mordecai Toth on the planet Tartarus to combat the Daemon of the Maledictum. Just like every Daemonhammer, Godsplitter strikes with the speed of a lightning bolt. Unlike every Daemonhammer, this weapon strikes with an even greater and truly terrifying power.
** '''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.


How a SM its born? Dear Azariah....  here we go with the geneseed suff. [In the Grim Darkness, it is not essential to indicate who is speaking in a conversation. We already know who is speaking. We already know - Ed.]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Left Hand of Gabriel''' || 12 || 4 || 3 || Pistol, Master Crafted, Precision Shots
|}


No Gabriel I am not talking about the Geneseed way, I am talking about procreation, there may be a time when we run out of planets to gain new recruits and thats why the Emprah made the sisters of battle. [Obviously, the Emperor planned ahead for when all life would be eradicated from every planet in the Galaxy, excluding Ultramar, of course. Fucking Ultramar -Ed.]
* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Blood Ravens Captain Gabriel Angelos used this pistol to slay the traitor Isador Akios, once his closest friend. Angelos discarded the weapon in disgust at the Ruinous Powers and the taint they bring to Man. His battle brothers recovered the weapon and returned it to the chapter armory.
The Emperor Made the sisters Thule because......  '' No Gabriel its not what you are thinking, he created them so  whe a spess merhen and a sister of battle love very much a new spess merhen or sister of battle its born! ''[Sisters of Battle do not give birth to Space Marines.  That is not how Sisters of Battle Work -Ed.]''


Thule, I dont think thats ......  '' I have been speaking to my specialists and they agreed that is possible!. ''[Thule's specialists included a chimpanzee and Faptau, as well as many other similarly noted intellectual investments to the Imperium of Man -Ed.]''
* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)''': This suit of Tartaros Terminator armour was granted for Angelos by the Chapter's Techmarines to honour his ascension to Chapter Master and is designed around his extensive bionics. It has also been inscribed and blessed by the Chapter's Chaplains to signify his victory over the forces of heresy. This is Tartaros Terminator armor that infers the 'My Faith is my Shield' special rule.


....... Davian,finish the preparations for the purge on Kronus ok? [Military personel often ask if "that would be ok" when issuing commands. Morale is important -Ed.] and if you need to talk about an old crush then there are other people you can talk to, I am bussy right now.
== External Links: ==
*[http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=246133 Gabriel Angelos can now be played online via mod]


Gabriel cut the transmission and said, show yourself witch!
==Gallery==
And Farseer Macha appeared [Macha summoning powers -Ed], so we meet again Captain Gabriel  are you not afraid?
<Gallery>
No Because I am fear incarnate.
File:836.jpg|Holy fuck time has not been kind to Gabriel.
File:Img59fc546c7eaf1.jpg|Mind you this came from 3rd party sculptors
</Gallery>


Oh stop with that foolishness , its pretty obvious that you are not capable of recognising danger when you see it.
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You are wrong Eldar.  ''Farseer Macha for you Captain'' said Macha quickly interrupting the captain before he continued.
[[Category:Space Marines Chapter Masters]]
Knowledge is Power , and we  hide it well from everyone but ourselves [Obviously. One would hope, anyway. They'd be like squirrels, hiding knowledge from themselves, only if squirrels had laser guns -Ed.]. Do you have any idea what the Inquisiton would do if they get to know what have we been hidding and know? Fortunately  some of them are tolerant and comprehensive and we are too smart for them [Srsly -Ed].
 
Telling such things to an Alien , isnt that against your belifs?
 
For what I know about you is that with your psychic powers you can read my mind and I have no doubt that you have done it before when my guard was down, besides you do not come in a hostlie plan. Now tell me what you want or I may change my mind and that would mean anhilation for you and your Rangers.
 
How did He know?!, the Eldar Rangers that Macha had brought where hidden and at a very long distance. There was something more about this human than what Macha tought.
 
''I... I wanted to ask you something.. Said Macha as she removed her helmet. How can you embrace such danger and still end up victorious? Some other Space Marine would had fallen already but I have been observing you and.. and you always seem to be at the very gate of doom but you never fall in it..'' [Believe it or not, falling into a gate is rather uncommon. I suppose a pit, on the other hand -Ed]
 
''Hmm.. heh..'' said Gabriel giving a little smile.
 
''Because I want to'' said Gabriel. 'I have faith in myself and in my brothers and as I told you before I am fear incarnate. Fear is nothing more than an obstacle for those ho belive in it. Ofcourse cowardice its very different from not being stupid but that is another matter. I shouldnt be telling you this since you may try to use it against me in the future, but this day and only today I trust you Farseer Macha.'' ''[What is this I don't even -Ed]''
 
''There is something that I sense about you that tells me you are being sincere and your motifs are not of trickery,'' said Gabriel as he took some steps closer to Macha.
She felt warmth on the inside of her chest, a sensation that she hadnt feelt in eons. could this be...
 
''Oh really? what makes you think that.''
 
''Well.. you had been sniffing around my head for quiet some time and I dont like people to do that. Specially when they try to get into my personal matters.'' [Really, the dialogue is the very worst part of this fanfic -Ed.]
 
Macha then felt a great jump, from that warm of her chest to a cold stream on her back.
 
''Why are you so interest on the painful parts of my life, what does cirene matters to you?  Any other Eldar Witch would had tried to sniff on ther parts of information and to be honest I would had never allowed any witch to get inside my mind. But you, you got more interested on the emotional parts, why? why you?'' [Sorry, fellow reader, I couldn't make it further than this. From here on, you're on your own! If you proceed, you are a braver individual than I -Ed.]
 
''Be.. Because I  wanted to see why you are so strong, and brave or insane, and I... I want to be like you, strong and bold. And I always try by giving my best but I always fail and its not fair..
She is always better and it doesnt matter how hard I try... She always beats me effortlesly.''
 
Gabriel felt the weakness of Macha, he felt pity for her but he didnt know how to help her, he didnt even know about what was she talking about , however he was sure about one dam thing. She was really good looking, those beautiful Green eyes, those lips and that red hair.. Gabriel was impacted about that beauty but again he felt bad because seeing all that beauty suffering and at the brink of teardrops, made he's heart pound. He then felt a strange sensation''
 
Snapping back into reality, Gabriel offered a seat on a place nearby, there he tried to calm her and she told him all about her rough childhood, about Ulthwe, Eldrad and Taldeer. And about how she admired him.
 
''That Treacherous Murderous F***! Said Gabriel, worry not about trash like that Macha. You are way better, and you deserve more than what you think.'' Said Gabriel, wich gave macha a faint smile.
''If that operation on Tartarus had been against any other marine except me, or except my chapter it would had succeded without doubt at all. I think you are a very talented and beautiful woman. Dont let you past emmotions cloud you.''
 
''Do you really think so,'' said Macha as she ceased to crie.
 
''Ofcourse I do , Just loose that fear that is worth shit. And once you do then youll notice how things will change.''
 
Macha smiled and thanked gabriel and then without thinking she gave him a hug. Gabriel was not expecting that but he accepted it anyways, perhaps this aliens wherent that bad after all.
He gave her a gentle hug back aswell in order to confort her, and he seemed to feel good about it for some strange reason.
 
What would Azariah Vydia would say id he saw him in this moment.. heck what would Davian Thule say? Gabriel smiled and moments later he recived a kiss on the chick from Macha.
He then felt all funnie.
 
''Thank you Gabriel...''
 
''You are most welcome Lady Farseer , if you ever need help ... well I guess you already know how to find me isnt? However please promise me something.''
 
Macha gave him a smile.
 
''Promise me that you wont cry anymore, someone so pretty shouldnt be sad. Also I dont want to see you or your craftworld having  operations against my chapter anymore pelase, otherwise I will have to anhilate you all.''
 
Macha gave a faint laugh and putted her helmet again, ofcourse andI am sorry for gettin into your mind.
 
Gabriel smiled and gave a sign of its ok.
 
Then Macha left back to her craftworld happily , knowing that she had made a great friend today and above all hoped that one day he would become more than that.  Most of all, though, she was pleased to know that this idiotic piece of fanfiction was over.  Thank goodness.
 
[I added the thanks at the end of this story. If you didn't read the whole thing but happen to be interested in my comments, I can let you know that the conclusion of the story is basically "nothing happens, the end." As an additional bit of information, I also feel compelled to let everybody know that the original title for this fanfic was "Lovers of War," which is actually somewhat clever in the rudimentary approach that it would have two meanings. Of course, there's not really any romance in the story, and I suspect this is probably due to the age of the original author: his comments about giving birth to new Space Marines by mating with Sisters of Battle, and a general lack of sexual tension between two characters who are supposed to be interested in each other implies a strong lack of experience with lust and human attraction. I may be assuming too much, but the original author was probably pre-pubescent or nary at that location in life, and therefore lacked a grasp of the feelings associated between adults of opposite gender.
 
It was also probably a very sad attempt at achieving popularity on par with Love Can Bloom by writing about a completely identical topic. However, unlike Love Can Bloom, this story has nowhere near the obvious time investments, and it is completely devoid of proofreading. It's an example of the copycat tactics of the entertainment industry, really, and the sad thing is that some day this guy could probably get a job writing shows for television. Amirite? -Ed.]

Latest revision as of 08:59, 21 June 2023

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

"Had the Emperor not intended I suffer, then I would feel no pain."

– Gabriel Angelos in Dawn of War

Gabriel Angelos, AKA Gabriel Mangelos, is a commander of the Blood Ravens Space Marines. He first appears in Dawn of War 1 as third company Captain, and as of DoW 2: Retribution he has succeeded that scheming heretic Azariah Kyras as Chapter Master.

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.

He also plays the grand piano, making him one of, if not the only non-Noise Marines known to play a musical instrument. He's not the only one.... He also has a tendency to yell "Dick" while throwing dildos at peoples faces (especially if those are Chaos Space Marines or Traitors).

Angelos is nearly universally liked by /tg/ and indeed the Warhammer community as a whole. He's strong, heroic, and noble, while compassionate, intelligent, and perhaps one of the few objectively good people in all of Warhammer while still being grimdark (in fact, he's basically Ser Davos Seaworth in 40k). And unlike some others he manages to pull this off in a believable manner, is realistically flawed and generally was dragged through hell to accomplish his deeds. While not everyone thinks that Relic did the best job with Warhammer, few will say that Gabriel is a poorly done character. Problem, Ward?

Gabe's role in Dawn of War I[edit]

Gabe commanded the Blood Ravens 3rd Company who were tasked with stopping an Ork invasion of the planet Tartarus led by Warboss Orkamungus. After wading through the Orks and assorted Eldar, it's eventually revealed that Bale, a Chaos Lord, was orchestrating everything and planning to recover an artifact called the "Maledictum", which imprisoned a greater daemon of Khorne (It wasn't a Bloodthirster, but probably either its Exalted variant or a daemon prince).

During the campaign he proves to be a pretty reasonable dude, saving civilians and diverting resources to protect them, proving that one does not have to be grimdark 24/7 in the shitpile battlefield of a galaxy to be a famous character. Unlike certain assholes, they care for the innocent, and spend extraordinary effort to rescue people and actually walk the walk when all you are what remains between retarded beligerent fungus, spiky faggots on crack with dental issues and a horde of innocent men, women and children.

Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was Isador Akios, a Librarian who served in Gabriel's company. Bale's Chaos Sorcerer lieutenant, Sindri Myr, telepathically subverted Isador against the Imperial forces, which led to him taking the Maledictum when it was unearthed. 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 taint of the dark gods; the ritual itself closely resembled discharging a bolter round directly into Isador's head at point-blank range.

After the death of Isador, Gabe got his shit together and faced off against Sindri, now a daemon prince of Khorne (Much to Khorne's dismay, a sorcerer even offering tribute to him). He eventually succeeded in bashing Sindri's head into his spine and saving Tartarus from becoming a daemon world. His last act before leaving Tartarus was to smash the Maledictium with God-Splitter, Inquisitor Mordecai Toth's daemon hammer, even after the warnings of Macha that he'd doom everyone by doing it. In Just as Planned fashion, it did; rather than banishing the bound daemon (which given that God Splitter is an Daemonhammer built to kill daemons would be an expected out come), destroying the Maledictum freed it. Based on the daemon's endgame gloating monologue, all the "blood sacrifice" of wartime death (mostly Angelos's personal handiwork, including Orkamungus, Bale, and finally Sindri) had strengthened the daemon enough for it to escape the shattering intact. Gabriel then had to live with the fact that he was responsible for its freedom and would fight it if it should ever appear again.

Gabe's role in DOWII[edit]

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 armour shatters. You only get to play him during the final mission in the original DoWII though.

Gabe's role in Chaos Rising[edit]

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 HAIR-ETIC, by sending him on suicide missions. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras (The Blood Raven' Schmuck Master and Chief Dick) through the Honor Guard leader Apollo 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;

"My brothers, victory is ours! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and banished the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle remains ahead. Our chapter is in the hands of a madman and a heretic. Kyras, he who should be the greatest of us all, 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 of not going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the 4th Company's Captain and Force of Retribution within the Chapter, partial Purity leads both you and Angelos to be declared Renegades by Kyras. Maintaining a neutral purity or slightly corrupted level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone. At half+ but not at full corruption, Angelos brutally kills you on the spot with his Thunder Hammer. At full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord and palling it up with the Black Legion (as the traitor before you did). He can't do it there and then because you took your ship for a spin in the Eye of Terror.

Gabe's role in DOWII Retribution[edit]

Gabriel at his most Awesome in Retribution

In Dawn of War II Retribution, Gabe gets his ass pwnd by Kyras, the previous Chapter Master who turned to the dark gods during Chaos Rising. After getting said ass pwnd (literally), he got smashed by Kyras' demon fists of fisting. He gets saved by Diomedes (the player) via spamming orbital bombardments on Kyras' face, thus proving that dakka > chaos.

Lastly, Gabriel comes back at the end of the game as the Chapter Master of the BLUHD REHVENS. So, lets make this perfectly clear to you: Thule gets cut up by a Warrior beast and has to be interred in a Dreadnought (because of poison). Angelos is crushed by the flaming fists of a Daemon Prince of Khorne. Chapter Master Angelos is now mostly bionics, which, when combined with his profound dedication to the Emperor and Imperium as a whole, makes him a kind of foil for Lugft Huron. Anyway, this may be explained by the fact that the aforementioned flaming fists were just flaming fists (in other words, sterile, though chaos infused) 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 fucking AWESOMENESS or raw plot armor allowed him to live

(Which begs the question how the fuck was he able to kill SIIINNDRIII the Daemon Prince back in DoW and come back one piece.. wut) (Sindri merely tapped a small portion of the Daemon of the Maledictum's power, which while making him significantly more powerful than an ordinary daemon prince, does not hold a candle to Kyras becoming ONE with the Daemon of the Maledictum AND gaining enough favour through mass slaughter to ascend normally, making him quite likely the most powerful new daemon prince since the Daemon Primarchs)

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 and rebuild their chapter, Castor gets the head of Kyras 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.

Old Gabe's return in DoW III[edit]

Angelos in DoW3 in his new shiny armor

For now we don't know much about Gabe's role in DoW III other than that he's lost his right eye and that he's confirmed as Chapter Master and he will be the commander of Space Marines and their Imperial Knights allies in the new story. It also appears he will be donning Tartaros (or Cataphractii...nobody knows its a heavily modified Tartaros, if you look at the chest section from behind its quite clear.) Terminator Armor (that somehow allows him to ninja flip into enemy formations while dropping Godsplitter on them like he was in fucking Cirque du Soleil) He also has a new voice actor...again.

He leads the Blood Ravens to the planet of Acheron, battling with the Eldar and Orks in a race for a powerful weapon known as "The Spear of Khaine". Gabe, however, desires not its power as he believes the Spear to be corrupted (and will corrupt any who wields it), and swears that no one will obtain the spear until his dying breath. He then has a heart-to-heart with Macha about smashing the Maledictum.

He then teams up with Gorgutz and Macha to defeat a bloodthirster. After the fight, he just... leaves them be. He doesn't try to kill them or anything, he just let's them fuck off, I mean yay the eldar maybe, but Orks? Because apparently Relic forgot what Warhammer is about.

In books[edit]

This article contains something which makes absolutely no logical sense, such as Nazi Zombie Mercenaries, Fucking Space Orangutans, anything written by a certain Irish leper or Robin Crud-ace, or Wizards of the Coast hiring the fucking Pinkertons over a children’s card game. If you proceed, consider yourself warned.

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 fledged battle brothers at something close to 18 (the only exception is the Angry Marines; their writefaggotry implies they can recruit from adults too, as well as, presumably, the Space Wolves because they only recruit from people who have already fought gloriously in battle and children don't really do very well with fighting). That means that Gabe must have been something between 8 - 13 when he became an infantryman in the Guard, which is impossible because the conscription age of the guard is usually 13 (Cadia notwithstanding), and they usually don't conscript unless they're under constant attack and are running out of trained guardsmen to throw at the enemy. 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. He also had a thing with Macha which ended when she had to turn herself into some kind of green warpfire to stop the Necrons at Lorn V and disappeared from the story afterwards.

Dammit Goto! Just stick to putting multilazers on the multilazers on the multilazers. So that you can shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers. It might be retarded but it can be written off as an in-universe quirk of some idiot with a few spare multilazers lying around. Completely fucking up the fluff by re-writing the fundamental motivations and character of entire races can not be overlooked in the same way!

A more recent short story reveals what exactly happened on Cyrene- while there were no explicit signs of corruption present there at first glance, the planet was just about ready to launch a full rebellion against the Imperium; in light of the discovery that psykers were no longer being taken to the Black Ships and that trade with xenos was the norm, the Inquisition declared the situation to be grounds for Exterminatus. The one week of orbital bombardment was actually preceded by an all-out assault on the ground by the Blood Ravens and the Grey Knights, because apparently the Inquisition wanted to be absolutely sure nothing could possibly survive (that, or they were afraid killing too many psykers at once would cause bad things to happen). Gabe had hope he could save his father, a retired guardsman, from the purge, but to his horror he learned that his father was one of the rebellion's leaders and had despised the Imperium ever since Gabriel had been chosen to become a Space Marine. With a heavy heart, Gabriel had no choice but to execute his own father(Doesn't this mean that Gabe is pretty young for a Space Marine? I mean, his father is still alive You don't have to be a space marine to live for centuries as rejuvenate treatments are available for higher ranking Imperials like former officers). No wonder he refused to talk about what happened on Cyrene.

On the Tabletop[edit]

Gabe has a Mini now! And you might want to convert a helmet onto it because by the Emperor did Forgeworld 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.

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 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.

Codex: Gabriel Angelos[edit]

If you ever wanted to play a cheesy Captain/Chapter Master for fun based off of Gabe's DoW/DoW2 appearances, here's your statline.

Pts WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
Captain Gabriel Angelos: 200 6 5 4 4 3 5 4 10 2+/4++
Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos: 260 7 5 4 5 4 5 4 10 2+/4++

Chapter Master: Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos possesses the rank of Chapter master, and as such, may be accompanied by an Honour Guard squad, in addition, he may call down a single orbital bombardment per game (see Codex: Space Marines).

Wargear:

  • Master Crafted Power Sword (Captain Only): Can be Swapped for Godsplitter for 10 pts.
  • Godsplitter (Only weapon when as Chapter Master): Force Weapon that's Master crafted to be usable by those with Pi-Rho psyker levels
  • Left Hand of Gabriel: Is replaced when Gabriel chooses to take Godsplitter.
  • Artificer Armour: See Codex Space Marines.
  • Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)
  • Iron Halo (Captain only)
  • Frag Grenades
  • Krak Grenades

Special Rules:

  • Independent Character
  • Eternal Warrior
  • And They Shall Know No Fear
  • Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens): As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to "borrow" any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
  • Inspiring Presence: Even before becoming Chapter Master, Gabriel was known for his uncommon leadership capabilities. All friendly units in a range of 18" can use Gabriel's Ld when testing for Morale, Pinning and Fear.
  • My Foe Shall Fall!: Gabriel has squared off in combat against some of the most terrifying and powerful foes the Blood Ravens have faced in recent centuries, including colossal Daemons and Tyranid Bio-terrors. Gabriel's close-combat attacks against Monstrous Creatures gain a +1 to I.
  • My Faith is My Shield! (Chapter Master Only): Despite the heresy and treachery that has plagued the Blood Ravens in recent years, Gabriel has never wavered from his faith and maintained absolute loyalty to the Emperor. In combat Gabriel channels his purity through the hallowed wards inscribed into his blessed armour. Once per game, Gabriel may give himself a 2++ Invulnerable save for the duration of a single combat phase, regardless of whether it is yours or your opponent's.
  • Cybernetic Enhancements (Chapter Master Only): After his battle with Kyras much of Gabriel's body had to be rebuilt with so much cybernetics that he would put Marneus Calgar to shame. As a result he is more resilient than before. This grants him +1 Toughness (already included in profile).
Name Range Strength AP Type
Godsplitter - 10 1 Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Concussive, Strikedown, Anathemic Presence
  • Godsplitter: God-Splitter is a powerful Daemonhammer gifted to Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company by Inquisitor Mordecai Toth on the planet Tartarus to combat the Daemon of the Maledictum. Just like every Daemonhammer, Godsplitter strikes with the speed of a lightning bolt. Unlike every Daemonhammer, this weapon strikes with an even greater and truly terrifying power.
    • Anathemic Presence: Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.
Name Range Strength AP Type
Left Hand of Gabriel 12 4 3 Pistol, Master Crafted, Precision Shots
  • Left Hand of Gabriel: Blood Ravens Captain Gabriel Angelos used this pistol to slay the traitor Isador Akios, once his closest friend. Angelos discarded the weapon in disgust at the Ruinous Powers and the taint they bring to Man. His battle brothers recovered the weapon and returned it to the chapter armory.
  • Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only): This suit of Tartaros Terminator armour was granted for Angelos by the Chapter's Techmarines to honour his ascension to Chapter Master and is designed around his extensive bionics. It has also been inscribed and blessed by the Chapter's Chaplains to signify his victory over the forces of heresy. This is Tartaros Terminator armor that infers the 'My Faith is my Shield' special rule.

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  • Holy fuck time has not been kind to Gabriel.

    Holy fuck time has not been kind to Gabriel.

  • Mind you this came from 3rd party sculptors

    Mind you this came from 3rd party sculptors

Famous loyalist members of the Adeptus Astartes
Black Templars: Grimaldus - Helbrecht - Sigismund - Tankred
Blood Angels: Acrion - Astorath - Azkaellon - Corbulo - Dante - Donatos Aphael
Erasmus Tycho - Karlaen - Lemartes - Mephiston - Meros
Moriar - Rafen - Raldoron - Sanguinor - Thalastian Jorus
Blood Ravens: Apollo Diomedes - Avitus - Azariah Kyras - Brother-Sergeant Matiel
Cyrus - Davian Thule - Force Commander Aramus - Gabriel Angelos
Indrick Boreale - Isador Akios - Jonah Orion - Martellus - Tarkus - Thaddeus
Crimson Fists: Alessio Cortez - Alexis Polux - Pedro Kantor
Dark Angels: Asmodai - Azrael - Belial - Corswain - Ezekiel - Lazarus - Luther - Naaman - Sammael - Zahariel
Flesh Tearers: Gabriel Seth - Nassir Amit
Grey Knights: Anval Thawn - Arvann Stern - Castellan Crowe
Hyperion - Kaldor Draigo - Vorth Mordrak
Imperial Fists: Darnath Lysander - Slaughter Koorland - Maximus Thane
Tor Garadon - Vorn Hagen - Fafnir Rann
Iron Hands: Malkaan Feirros - Kardan Stronos
Lamenters: Malakim Phoros
Minotaurs: Asterion Moloc - Hecaton Aiakos - Ivanus Enkomi
Raptors: Lias Issodon
Raven Guard: Kayvaan Shrike - Korvydae - Kyrin Solaq
Red Scorpions: Carab Culln - Casan Sabius - Sevrin Loth - Sirae Karagon
Red Talons: Autek Mor
Salamanders: Adrax Agatone - Bray'arth Ashmantle - Tu'Shan - Vulkan He'stan - Xavier
Space Sharks: Tyberos the Red Wake
Space Wolves: Arjac Rockfist - Bjorn the Fell Handed - Bran Redmaw - Canis Wolfborn
Haegr the Mountain - Krom Dragongaze - Logan Grimnar - Lukas the Trickster
Njal Stormcaller - Ragnar Blackmane - Ulrik
Ultramarines: Aeonid Thiel - Antaro Chronus - Captain Titus - Cato Sicarius
Illiyan Nastase - Marneus Calgar - Ortan Cassius - Remus Ventanus
Severus Agemman - Torias Telion - Uriel Ventris - Varro Tigurius
White Scars: Kor'sarro Khan
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