Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Greetings honored battle brethren! Labor Day Weekend (for those of us in the United States) has come and gone. We had some pretty big events over the weekend, but sadly it was not a good weekend for the get of the Lion. We only have two lists to look at that are marginal X-1 results, but they are X-1 results, so we'll check them out.  We'll start at La Voz Open 2025, a 5-round, 146 player event held in Lugo, Spain. David Sagüés went 3-1-1 with his Wrath of the Rock list, scoring 29th place. You can see David's list on BCP. We'll analyze it below. Ángeles Oscuros LVO Azrael - Warlord Captain in Terminator Armour: Deathwing Assault Judiciar: Ancient Weapons Ravenwing Command Squad: Lord of the Ravenwing Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Infiltrator Squad: 5 stay-off-my-lawn boys Inner Circle Companions: 6 spooky awesome swordy boy...

Hello battle brethren! Another week has gone by, and I'm pleased to bring you news of the lists that did well over the weekend. We have five lists to look at, all of them Wrath of the Rock lists, plus an honorable mention to a Company of Hunters list that went 4-2. Without further ado, let's look at some lists! The first list we're looking at was played by Kyle McCord of Midwest Monstars at The 40k Circuit Breaker - A Warhammer 40k GT, a 5-round, 32 player event held in Indianola, Indiana. Kyle's Wrath list went 4-0-1 and took 1st place! It's always a pleasure to see a Dark Angels list be an event winner. You' can see Kyle's lis t on BCP. We'll discuss it below.  Angels of the Blazing Mace Azrael - Warlord Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 chonky las-missile boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 chonky las-missile boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky...

 Hello, honored battle brethren! It was a somewhat slower weekend, with no huge events and just 23 players using Dark Angels, but we do have some lists to talk about, including an event winner! This week I started using attendance as a measure of what events I'm looking at. My cutoff is 20 players, which seems reasonable. Meta Monday seems to use a different figure, so their results and mine are a little different. Without further ado, let's get into the lists! Our event winner, I'm excited to tell you, is a Company of Hunters lists, piloted by Jan Reisenauer of Hoher Rat zu Terra[BreakingHeads]. He played his awesome list at Hour Zer0 2: Heroes Unchained, a 5-round, 40 player event held in Großweil Germany. You can see Jan's list on BCP. Let's take a look at it below.  Jan's list Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Ravenwing Command Squad: Master of Manoeuvre Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Cen...

Hello honored battle brethren! It is my pleasure to bring you the news of the weekend. The number of events wasn't huge, but three of the events were major ones - Lone Star Open 2025, the Krefeld Major 2025 40K, and WTC Warmaster GT 2025. As you can imagine, a fair few Dark Angels lists did well with that much 40K being played.  Lone Star Open 2025 - 40k Champs was a 6-round, 322 player event held in Allen, Texas. Jay DeCunzo of Y'allHammer went 5-1 and placed 8th. Even more impressively, he went 5-0 for the first 5 rounds! Here's Jay's full list on BCP. We'll discuss it below.  Ancient Weapons of the Dark Age Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Chaplain in Terminator Armour: Deathwing Assault Lieutenant: Ancient Weapons Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 chonky lascannon-missile boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deatnwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Hellblaster Squad: 10 plasma boys Inceptor Squad: 6 flying chonky plas...

Hello battle brethren! It was a weekend with less events than the previous one, but there are still some noteworthy results to discuss. One of our august company went undefeated at a 6-round event, and we had a number of other good results, so let's take a look at the lists that did well, both to celebrate the accomplishments of our brethren and to see what we can learn from their lists. Our undefeated player is James Walsh of Coors Light Saedith, who went 5-0-1 to take 2nd place at ECDC Present: The Big Sky Open 2025, a 6-round, 71 player event held in Great Falls, Montana. You can see James' list on BCP.  We'll discuss it below. Dark Angels - Still D Tier Ravenwing Command Squad: Warlord Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Ravenwing Command Squad: Master of Manoeuvre  Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Centurion Devastator Squad:...