Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

Hello battle brethren! Another weekend has come and gone. That weekend only yielded 2 lists to talk about, but one of them is Toby Bennett's Stormlance Task Force, which he played to go 5-1 at The South-Coast 40k Super-Major, a 5-round, 243 player event with the top players facing off against each other after the 5th round. Toby's list wound up falling to the hellaciously-broken Ork More Dakka! detachment (3 of the 4 top bracket lists were More Dakka! lists, and they took the top 3 spots). The Tobinator took 5th place, doing Black Crow Gaming proud. You can see Toby's list on BCP and below.  Look, it's an innovative list alright, I started with 15 deathwing knights because I'm a lovely person, then I got sad that Aeldari can move block me so I added 15 Jump packs because just leave me alone please and thanks but then everyone started talking about this new bloody Ork list and I had to counter that so in went the triple preds and really this is where we got to. Lion...

  Hello, battle brethren! I know I'm getting to this kind of late, but better late than never! Another week of Grand Tournaments has come and gone, and with it some lists that rose to prominence in the meta. I'm here to bring those lists to your attention and to give them some analysis, so without further ado, let's take a look at what did well last weekend! The first list we're looking at was played at the That 6++ Grand Tournament 2025 event, a 5-round, 53-player event held in England. Christopher Langton of Mind Goblins went 4-1 with a Gladius Task Force to take 5th place. You can see Christopher's list on BCP and below.  da maybe?? Azrael - Warlord Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs - 5 flying choppy boys Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs - 5 flying choppy boys Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky ma...

Azrael would spank them, but they'd probably like that Hello, battle brethren! For the past couple of weeks, we've seen the Chaos Daemons Legion of Excess detachment putting up unreasonably high win rates - 75% since the release of the Astra Militarum codex with an overrep of 5.19 according to Stat-Check.com . I thought it would be useful to all of us to dig into this army so we know how to play into it when we face it.  I looked at a couple of lists that performed well over the last couple weeks as examples for the detachment. The first was the list Eduardo Cortell used to take 1st place at the Fire & Blood GT in Arona, Spain. The other was the list Michael Hooper went 5-0 with at the Manchester 40K Super-Major in Urmston, England. Here are Eduardo's list and Michael's list for your edification.  Post-Dataslate Edit: Of course I would undertake writing this article about a week before a Balance Dataslate dropped. Anything that has changed between then and now wil...

Hello battle brethren! It was a rough weekend for us, with no event wins and a 37% win rate putting us in a 3-way tie with Sisters and Thousand Sons for Tail End Charlie. In spite of this, we did have a couple lists go 4-1 at their events, so at least we have something to talk about. Our first list was played at 2 GT Bilbao in Bilbao Spain, a 5-round, 52-player event. Rodrigo Serna of Lábaro cantabro went 4-1 with a Gladius Task Force and placed 6th. You can see Rodrigo's list on BCP and below. Asurmen está fuerte Azrael - Warlord Judiciar: The Honour Vehement Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs: 5 flying choppy boys Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs: 5 flying choppy boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Desolation Squad: 4 superkrak missile boys and a Vengor sergeant Gladiator Lancer Gladiator Lancer Infiltrator Squad: 5 stay-off-my-lawn boys Inner C...

 Hello battle brethren! It was a busy weekend of events, and some Dark Angels lists rose to the upper ranks in the process. I, your trusty self-appointed chronicler, am here to bring them to your attention and walk you through them. We have quite a few lists to get through, so let's get started! We have an event winner, so I'll start with that. Simon Darre went 4-0-1 with a Gladius Task Force to take the top spot at Warhammer 40K Midtcon Spring 2025 held in Viborg, Denmark, a 5-round, 34 player event. You can see Simon's list on BCP and below.  https://youtube.com/shorts/11GNdYVZebk?si=zV-Nu54VQck3WyLX Azrael - Warlord Captain in Gravis Armor: Artificer Armour Lieutenant with Combi-weapon 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 Incursor Squad: 5 spotty choppy bolter boys Sternguard Veteran Squad: 10 awesome bolter boys Ballistus Dreadnoug...