I'm just curious how do you view/play/expirience the Blood Angels and their successors? How often/close is their contact to Sanguinius? How does that show?

All that and more ;-)

I read the book and the RoB and I laughed about the Blood Drinker joke but aside of that you can have tons and more ways to read into what you read there.

I just started a game with a BA myself and I'm not really sure what to do with his curse and when.

And yes I know every single one is different etc.

I don't want to find the one and only right way to do so, because there is none.

I haven't played them myself yet, but I would probably play up the Vampiric angle of them with canibalism and moments of mindless rage. But that's just me.

I play a Sanguinary Priest and another player plays a Librarian, both of them Blood Angels, in the same game. The Librarian is playing up the "battle-raged berserker" angle so much that he comes off as contastly reckless. As in, he pushes powers as much as possible, he offers to use his powers for any situation, always in front of the group's Black Templar (which he's accidentally affected with an Avenger he used on a surrendering horde of previously dominated civillians). And it's just not that he's reckless with his psychic abilities, he has the Frenzy talent and decides to use it as much as possible in battle, which leads. Plus, he's curious to the point of being too curious for a Space Marine, and he's obtained the most Insanity and Corruption Points out of everyone in the table.

On the other hand, my Sanguinary Priest is playing up the "self-restrained to avoid falling into the curse" angle so much that he's almost a part of the background that ocassionally performs first aid on his Battle-Brothers and spends the rest of the battle being generally ineffective. Out of combat, he lets everyone else do the talking and take the initiative, only intervining if he actually knows something the rest doesn't, just to play up the "perfectionist" aspect of the Blood Angels and because he is on his first mission in the Deathwatch, unlike every other Kill-Team member, who are Deathwatch veterans.

So, different as night and day, I guess.

My Vincian is a gentle and soft-spoken angelic figure. In combat he is coldly calculating up to the point where he commits himself. At that point it becomes near suicidal, especially when Chaos is involved.

Alex

Our Flesh Tearer is probably that close >< to being Death Company.

He is temperemental, angry, short fused and all around an ******* to be with. He purposefully makes bad tactical decision because it gets him in combat faster or 'I'm angry at that guy!' - he quite often attack whoever deal the most damage to him to simulate this - which is great roleplay (but annoy the hell out of our more tactically minded Librarian). And that's even when he's not in Frenzy.

He's also supremely arrogant and confident, when he's not in Frenzy, he trash talks like a comic book/ character/80s action movie star during fights. So not only does he have deep anger/rage issue, he's also a glory hound.

That being said, somewhere deep inside of him he knows how close to the brink he is. He quite often avoid dealing with Civilians altogether, cloistering himself (Not that Civilians want to be near him anyway -Starting Fellowship of 15, lowered to 9 after a Energy Critical Wound to the face). When he has alone time, he usually tries and meditate and stave away his impending doom... but as soon as there is blood to be shed or an occasion to look better than others, he can't help himself... which always make him come off like a huge ass.

I can't say he's ever really brought up the Sanguinus thing... at this point, he's pretty much angry because every single fiber of his body know only hate and arrogance. That being said, he has the majority of the 'cool quote' and 'moment of awesomeness' of our combine games as he is always doing crazy stuff and since this is Deathwatch, it (usually) works. While all the Kill-Team member more or less dislike/hate him (they respect him and know he's useful, but jesus, the guy is a jerk), the players themselves all love him.