Dark Angels so far

I managed for the first time to get all my Dark Angels out on parade together today and took some photos. 234 marines towards my whole chapter target.

The whole army

10 squads and command of the 3rd Company

35 scouts of the 10th Company

108 Marines of the 3rd Company

Chapter Command

Librarians

Death wing, 20 so far

Ravenwing 24 marines

7th Tactical Reserve Company. 31 Marines.

Brass Monkeys 2013 part two

More pictures of the weekends fun

Necrons advancing, slowly

Taking more lightening strikes

Tom's Chaos v Ben's borrowed Dark Angels about to start

Dan's many Death Korps v Rob's Death Guard

Mike's Imperial Fists v Gary's chaos

Necrons chop up some Landraiders

More hulks

Death wing face off against chaos

Dark Angels v Death Guard

Slaanesh v chaos

Necrons v Imperial Fists

Death Korps artillery pounding the Ravenwing

The Dark Angels v Death Guard turns nasty

Slaanesh advancing

Imperial fist armour doing its best to hide from the necrons

Nerons swarm over the objective

Daemon prince

Blurry guard

Dark Angels v Tom's Chaos

Slaanesh v Nurgle

Dark Angel snipers pin down chaos marines

Happy New year, and Dark Angels :)

Christmas and all that is over and now it's time to stop eating and exercise again, but first the new Dark Angels codex comes out; which having Dark Angels I amd very excited about.

Having looked through all the rumours online I am concerned that most of the focus is on the Ravenwing and Deathwing, not that I don't like them, just that my force is built around (so far) 2 Tactical companys, scouts and reserve companys. I'm eager to see what thay have done with the options for these and the standard characters in the book. Also please let scouts be a troops choice.

My gaming club (clapham wargamers) has started a new year 40k escalation starting at 600points, first games were last week with my Marines struggling to win. Out of 4 games I had 2 total defeats, one loss that wasn't as bad I was expecting and one very nice victory (space wolves remember not to huddle together with plasma cannons pointing at you)

I'm working on mainly a tactical company for the force, but have also ended up with a useable 600point Ravenwing force I can field.

Ravenwing force, Librarian and Chaplain converted from Dark Vegeance figures

Tactical Marines and commanc, again all from the DV boxset with a couple of conversions

Deathwing, left squad standard DV box and other squad have been changed around a bit

Standard Tactical Marines from the boxset

Chaplain conversion

Non standard Deathwing squad

Slightly changed Tactical Squad, Head swap on sgt and plasma gunner body from the bike squad

I have another tactical squad to paint up, then it will be some new stuff from what ever is released over the next couple of weeks. Likely additions will be Azrael with command Squad, and some more transports

New Chaos Codex

No not brought it yet but had a chance to flick through it and play quite a few games against a friends chaos army.

I was surprised it didn't suffer from 'codex creep' as so often in Games Workshop new editions, a lot of nice fuffy bits; my favourite of these has to be that there's a chance someone will be eaten by a possessed transport.

I'm a tad disappointed that the codex doesn't really allow for much in the way of my two favourite units, Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion. With Iron Warriors yes you can add Imperial Guard allies and there is the daemon engines but I would have hoped for some way to make the Chaos Marines more Iron Warrior-ish; maybe allowing more heavy weapons or Havocs as troops. Same with Alpha Legion, there is not the cultists but nothing to make the troops different, I would have liked infiltrate at least.

Anyway many battles have been fought between my Dark Angels and Chaos recently, and so far it's a 5-0 (I think) win in my favour. I've built a couple of different lists, and by far my most successful is the defensive list made up of many tactical troops, I've learned to love the Razorback and now getting as many as I can, the heavy bolters or Lascannons are always useful.

Here's some pics of recent battles

Dark Angel Devastators

Razorback eye view

Dark Angels Storm Eagle

Tom my Chaos opponent is convinced the Storm Eagle turns up at the worse (or best for me) time everytime I use it. I does me proud screaming onto the battlefield and destroying the Chaos attack just as it seems to be breaking through the lines. So far I have had most success using it as a gunship, at 326points though its a lot of my army to keep in reserve.

2000pts of Dark Angels

 This is my latest new list, a bit more aggressive than normal with Ravenwing and Deathwing in larger numbers (thanks to Dark Vengeance)

Interrogator Chaplian Belphegor and Death Wing

Ravenwing

Deathwing and Ravenwing attack

 The attack by the Ravenwing and Deathwing stalled due to the tight terrain in the centre of the battlefield, this was turn one and they only advanced another 10inches for the rest of the game

Ravenwing make it through the Chaos lines soon to be killed though

Deathwing avenge the Ravenwings death cutting their way through the chaos counter attack

Second game of the day, the Deathwing once again leading the attack

In the second game the deathwing lead the attack again, some how resisting the best efforts of the entire chaos army to kill them.They killed a Chaos Terminator squad, a Raptor sqaud a couple of rhinos, a Chaos marine squad and Khorne beserkers. Their attack was finally stoped by the Chaos Lord turning into a daemon Prince who killed off the rest and tore the redeemer to pieces. Fortunately the battle was over and I won holding three objectives to two.